‘Fighting with love:’ Jewish students stand up, push back against campus anti-Semitism (NorthJersey.com)

Published 6/8/23 by NorthJersey.com, part of the USA Today Network. Story by Deena Yellin.

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When Kaylee Werner arrived at Indiana University in the fall of 2021, she was shocked by the hostility to Jewish students on the Bloomington campus.

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Her peers had been harassed in their dorms, six swastikas were discovered drawn on campus buildings and an anonymous user on Greekrank, a popular college forum, posted that Jewish students should go back to “the gas chambers where they all belong,” she recalled.

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Then Werner heard vandals had defaced or removed mezuzahs, the tiny prayer scrolls many Jews affix to their doorposts to symbolize their faith. And she decided she’d had enough.

 

To continue reading this article, click here. And to read part one – which features Brandeis Center President Alyza D. Lewin and LDB clients in our SUNY New Paltz Case – here.