This would be a good time for community leaders to speak out. Unless they do so, the inclination of apartment complex managers to treat these acts of anti-Semitism as “to be expected” vandalism by inebriated college students will send the wrong message.
We need more students like A and her friends. She was willing to reach out to The Jewish Press on Sunday night because she doesn’t want it to be treated as acceptable behavior.
“This is 2014, and today commemorates Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day,” said A. “I will not allow this to happen anywhere and not try to fight the rising anti-Semitism.”
Indeed.
UPDATE: The person referred to in this article as “Student A” has given permission for The Jewish Press to use her actual name. It is Michelle Feldman.