Some form of justice
If you enter the word "Holocaust" in Google, it comes back with 6 million hits... I've seen this number before, it's an estimate of the number of Jewish lives lost.
A commemorating board in the Ghetto in Venice.
Campo del Ghetto with a concentration camp watchtower and two carabinieri.
Sukkah along a canal, we were asked to join in for lunch.
Apparently, current Jewish population of Venice is around 500 people, but many of the people we met were from Chabad, living in Venice for a few years. I knew they would not be happy about us taking pictures during the holiday, but the photo opportunity was too tempting. We were indeed asked not to take pictures when Sveta was photographing children in Campo del Ghetto. I suppose it was the children's mother. Somewhat intending it as a provocation, I asked her if we shouldn't take pictures because she doesn't want us to confuse the children about the rules. To what she replied that she didn't make those rules, G-d made them, and they apply to us as well. In fact, I was disappointed by her answer. Having made a step back from the Orthodox crowd, I sense an agenda in their conversations too easily, and dislike what seems to be their mentality of "unless we can convert this secular person, he is of no interest to us". During lunch, to which they invited all interested passerbys, our most pleasant company was the couple from Switzerland with their daughter, who turned to an Orthodox way of life only when they were adults.
Children photographed by Sveta.
It says Locanda del Ghetto on the window, what a welcoming name for a hotel.
On the day I visited the synagogue in Rome, they had five weddings scheduled! I was surprised to find out that there are around 15,000 Jews living in Rome today.
The synagogue is beautiful.
Dome of the synagogue in a view along the Tiber river.
A commemorating board in the Ghetto in Venice.
Campo del Ghetto with a concentration camp watchtower and two carabinieri.
Sukkah along a canal, we were asked to join in for lunch.
Apparently, current Jewish population of Venice is around 500 people, but many of the people we met were from Chabad, living in Venice for a few years. I knew they would not be happy about us taking pictures during the holiday, but the photo opportunity was too tempting. We were indeed asked not to take pictures when Sveta was photographing children in Campo del Ghetto. I suppose it was the children's mother. Somewhat intending it as a provocation, I asked her if we shouldn't take pictures because she doesn't want us to confuse the children about the rules. To what she replied that she didn't make those rules, G-d made them, and they apply to us as well. In fact, I was disappointed by her answer. Having made a step back from the Orthodox crowd, I sense an agenda in their conversations too easily, and dislike what seems to be their mentality of "unless we can convert this secular person, he is of no interest to us". During lunch, to which they invited all interested passerbys, our most pleasant company was the couple from Switzerland with their daughter, who turned to an Orthodox way of life only when they were adults.
Children photographed by Sveta.
It says Locanda del Ghetto on the window, what a welcoming name for a hotel.
On the day I visited the synagogue in Rome, they had five weddings scheduled! I was surprised to find out that there are around 15,000 Jews living in Rome today.
The synagogue is beautiful.
Dome of the synagogue in a view along the Tiber river.