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"What is most frightening in Italy and Europe are not the swastikas and skinhead violence, but the silence of the people who look on," said Tullia Zevi, president of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities. "Behind the open hostility there is a passivity and a vast submerged antipathy, whose limits are im- palpable," she said. "The most worrisome phenomenon emerging from this survey is the vast grey area of anti-Jewish stereo- types which stands behind open anti-Semitism," she said. The survey of 1,064 people, from all walks of life bet- ween the ages of 14 and 79, showed that 10.5 percent agreed with the statement that "Jews are not nice and do not inspire faith." About the same percent said that Italy's 30,000 Jews should leave the country. Some 10.5 percent of those interviewed would try to dissuade a son or daughter from marrying a Jew. Some 9.2 percent said that "today in Italy there is too much talk about the exter- mination of the Jews during World War II." More than 9 percent said the Holocaust never happened. And 34 percent said that Italian Jews "are not real Italians." Some 56 percent of those interviewed said they believed that "Jews have a special relationship with money" and 42 percent said that "they should stop pos- ing as victims of the Holo- caust." Two-thirds of those inter- viewed said that "Jews have a different mentality and way of life than other Italians." "It's a mass of stereo- types," Rome's Chief Rabbi Elio Toaff commented in the Rome daily Il Messaggero. "Italians are much more in- telligent than they appear in certain interviews. And I have faith in this people." "I don't have to show that we are real Italians, I don't have to retell the story of the struggles we have conducted together, and of the innu- merable expressions of esteem and affection which I have always had from repre- sentatives of Italian institu- tions, from President (Oscar Luigi) Scalfaro on down, and from ordinary Italians," the rabbi said. "No, I am not afraid of that 10 percent who wants to kick the Jews out. We Jews are not going to pack our bags. That percentage is a physical reality in a democ- racy. They are the usual ex- tremists, linked to the ex- treme right wing," he said. L.A. Federation Makes Cuts Los Angeles (JTA) — The Jewish Federation Council of Greater Los Angeles is making severe cuts in its operations and staff in the face of falling contributions, rising deficits and increas- ing defaults on campaign pledges. Hard hit are the social and community agencies serving the area's 650,000 Jews, contributions to national organizations and funds channelled to Israel through the United Jewish Appeal. Most of the blame for the cuts is assigned to the gen- eral economic recession, although improvident fed- eration housekeeping during the flush 1980s did not help. California has been hit harder by the economic downturn than most states, with the real estate and con- struction industries —tradi- tional bulwarks of Jewish giving — falling on espe- cially tough times. A portent of things to come was last year's decision to cut the budget of the coun- try's second largest federa- tion by $3.5 million and its workforce by one fourth. This month, the other shoe dropped when federation President Terry Bell and John Fishel, the newly ap- pointed executive vice presi- dent, announced a series of drastic cost-cutting steps triggered by a revenue drop.