(October 11, 2021) / JNS) A car belonging to an envoy from the Chabad-Lubavitch campus in Santa Monica, California was defaced in the synagogue parking lot on Friday morning.
“Well, that was an uncomfortable start to the day,” wrote Rabbi Eli Moshe Levitansky, Co-Director of Chabad, Santa Monica College, on Facebook Chabad Parking Lot on October 8 and saw my car with a swastika and a Star of David was destroyed with the words ‘is illegal’. In such cases it reminds us that unfortunately there is still a lot of darkness in this world. “
After assuring that the incident had been reported to the authorities, he wrote on Facebook that “the Rebbe” [Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson] taught us that our response to such a situation is to redouble our efforts to do good in order to bring more light into the world. With that said, I ask you to do another mitzvah with me. ”Ask people to donate money to charity so that men put on tefillin or, since it was Friday, women light Shabbat candles.
Jewish groups gathered around Levitansky on Twitter.
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“We stand with the rabbi of Chabad at Santa Monica College against this heinous attack intended to insult and intimidate a Jewish person,” wrote StandWithUs CEO Roz Rothstein.
And the Simon Wiesenthal Center, based in Los Angeles, tweeted: “Despicable acts of anti-Semitism intended to demonize and humiliate Jews. Thanks to the rabbis of Chabad on the SMC campus and around the world, who set a good example never to crouch with hatred, but always to be proud Jews and lovers of Zion. “
Police officers are currently investigating the matter.
A police officer is investigating an incident in which a car belonging to an envoy from the Chabad-Lubavitch campus in Santa Monica, California was defaced in the synagogue parking lot on October 8, 2021. Source: Facebook.
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