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On Sunday, a paper Torah scroll belonging to the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity was found ripped apart and soaked in blue laundry detergent after a break-in, an incident condemned by national Jewish groups and local authorities.
In response, some 400 Jewish and non-Jewish students marched through George Washington University and Washington D.C. on Monday. a “Torah procession” began at the Tau Kappa Epsilon house and continued through the neighborhoods of Jewish fraternity Zeta Beta Tau and Jewish sorority Alpha Epsilon Phi, with each receiving a mezuzah on the doors of their houses.
Arriving in Kogan Plaza after marching through F Street and G Street, which were closed off by the Metropolitan Police Department, demonstrators listened to a reading from the Torah and several speeches from the event’s organizers.
“[The] overall message of the event was to respond to hate with love and respond to darkness with light,” said Chabad at GWU Rabbi Yudi Steiner on Monday, according to the Hatchet. “There are endless opportunities for all GW students, Jewish and non Jewish, to make a proactive choice to be loving and to be proud of who they are, be they Jewish or any other faith or creed. Be proud of who you are, especially when negativity rears its ugly head.”
A call from Steiner for Jewish students to hang mezuzahs on their doors drew a bizarre, hateful threat from one member of the public, according to an email exchange shared by the Jewish on Campus Twitter account, which collects reports of antisemitism from students.
“Hammering Mezuzahs on doors is the equivalent of hammering swastikas,” ranted a person who identified herself as Lisa Brewer of San Clemente, California. “People, students, decent people in general are sick of Jewish dominance and the murderous racism of The Jewish State, slaughtering children with impunity,” said the note emailed to Steiner, who is Executive Director of the Rohr Chabad Center at GWU.
Responded Steiner, “Thank you for reminding me why I keep affixing more Mezuzot and singing Am Yisrael Chai as loud as ever. I’m sorry that my Jewish identity and pride makes you so mad. Please know that every attack on our People will be met with more Mezuzot and more proud Jews.”
(full article online)
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In response, some 400 Jewish and non-Jewish students marched through George Washington University and Washington D.C. on Monday. a “Torah procession” began at the Tau Kappa Epsilon house and continued through the neighborhoods of Jewish fraternity Zeta Beta Tau and Jewish sorority Alpha Epsilon Phi, with each receiving a mezuzah on the doors of their houses.
Arriving in Kogan Plaza after marching through F Street and G Street, which were closed off by the Metropolitan Police Department, demonstrators listened to a reading from the Torah and several speeches from the event’s organizers.
“[The] overall message of the event was to respond to hate with love and respond to darkness with light,” said Chabad at GWU Rabbi Yudi Steiner on Monday, according to the Hatchet. “There are endless opportunities for all GW students, Jewish and non Jewish, to make a proactive choice to be loving and to be proud of who they are, be they Jewish or any other faith or creed. Be proud of who you are, especially when negativity rears its ugly head.”
A call from Steiner for Jewish students to hang mezuzahs on their doors drew a bizarre, hateful threat from one member of the public, according to an email exchange shared by the Jewish on Campus Twitter account, which collects reports of antisemitism from students.
“Hammering Mezuzahs on doors is the equivalent of hammering swastikas,” ranted a person who identified herself as Lisa Brewer of San Clemente, California. “People, students, decent people in general are sick of Jewish dominance and the murderous racism of The Jewish State, slaughtering children with impunity,” said the note emailed to Steiner, who is Executive Director of the Rohr Chabad Center at GWU.
Responded Steiner, “Thank you for reminding me why I keep affixing more Mezuzot and singing Am Yisrael Chai as loud as ever. I’m sorry that my Jewish identity and pride makes you so mad. Please know that every attack on our People will be met with more Mezuzot and more proud Jews.”
(full article online)
Mezuzah Reported Vandalized at George Washington University, Days After Fraternity Torah Desecrated - Algemeiner.com
A George Washington University sophomore said her mezuzah had been taken from her door and tampered with before being returned Tuesday, days after a Torah belonging to a fraternity was desecrated, drawing a national outcry. The GW Hatchet student paper reported that the mezuzah had been stolen...
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