This was not what Rabbi Menachem Ladiov, a Chabad follower and rabbi of a synagogue in the 17th arrondissement of Paris, expected.
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Every week he receives the weekly magazine "Kfar Chabad" in his mailbox. Yesterday, on the cover of the Elul issue, which arrived significantly late, he found a stirring and anti-Semitic message: a Star of David and the words "raus" (out) underneath. "Usually I receive the newspaper in a black envelope, so it is impossible to identify what the package contains," the rabbi said. "This time the newspaper arrived in a transparent package. I believe this is what caused the clerk on duty to tear the envelope and scribble the anti-Semitic words on it. This time, for the first time, the newspaper in question arrived significantly late, several months." Today, the rabbi will file a complaint with the police. "Yesterday I spoke with the mayor about the matter and he responded that I have his full support." According to the mayor, what happened is "unacceptable. I will be at your disposal if necessary. "We can't let this go by in silence." For six years, Rabbi Ladiove has served as rabbi of the synagogue in District 17, where an estimated 30,000 Jews live. He has been a subscriber to the Kfar Chabad newspaper for three years. The synagogue he heads is called 'Beit Elhanan Meir' after his brother, the young man Elhanan Meir, who passed away 10 years ago from an illness. He maintains close contact with the mayor. "I'm filing a complaint only because that's what needs to be done. It's hard to believe that anything will happen as a result of it," he says. "Yesterday I spoke to one of the community members here who told me that finding the person who wrote the anti-Semitic message will be very difficult. There are many employees at the post office and it is doubtful that large sums of money will be invested to decipher the handwriting.".