Harvard forces Jewish student group to ‘hide’ menorah at night for fear of vandalism: rabbi

NY Post ^ | 14/12/23 | Allie Griffin

[Eleutheria5]

Harvard forces a Jewish student group to hide its menorah each night after its lighting over fears of vandalism that “won’t look good” for the Ivy League school, the rabbi of Harvard Chabad said.

“On our campus in the shadow of Widener Library, we in the Jewish community are instructed, ‘We’ll let you have the menorah, you made your point, OK. Pack it up, don’t leave it out overnight because there will be criminal activity we fear and it won’t look good’,” Rabbi Hirschy Zarchi said at a Hanukkah lighting Wednesday night.

Zarchi, the founder and president of Harvard Chabad, said the university has asked the group to take in the menorah each night since the first Hanukkah lighting on campus.

But amid a rise in antisemitism across the world and on college campuses due to the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict, the rabbi said the message is even more poignant.

“You know when change is gonna happen on this campus? When we don’t have to pack up the menorah,” Zarchi said.

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[Eleutheria5]

Just enlightened progressives doing them. Depends on the context./s

Happening all over the US. I suspect especially in college towns, such as Oakland.

[kiryandil]

It would look bad when Claudine Gay got caught leading the Hammie mob...

[Eleutheria5]

But...but she lit that menorah. Just because she came back later and “lit” it with a firebomb doesn’t mean she’s anti-Semitic. Just trying to pander equally./s

[Pajamajan]

Higher learning of hatred.

[ALPAPilot]

It would look bad when Claudine Gay got caught leading the Hammie mob...

She'll be the one in the white robe with a pointy hat.

[Eleutheria5]

White gloves on, too. Cambridge is “Trump Country”.

[faithhopecharity]

Harvard is A really super- phuqued- up school!

[Political Junkie Too]

What if they refuse?

Or better yet, demand that Harvard make student groups pack up Christmas trees and Kwanzaa displays too, in the name of equal protection and student safety.

-PJ

[Eleutheria5]

If Harvard wanted to redeem their tattered image, they could have posted campus security around the menorah. That would have been the right thing to do. Telling the Chabad to take it down is like telling Parisian Jews not to wear their kippahs in public, or Christians not to make Christmas displays. It’s pure cowardice and fecklessness.

[LittleBillyInfidel]

Silly Rabbi! Tell them “tricks are for kids!”

[MeanWestTexan]

Correct.

Canada just closed synagogues and Jewish schools and forbid Jews from worshipping to keep them “safe”.

It’s what liberals do: violence and then say you must change to avoid violence.

[Eleutheria5]

The campus security could have painted the menorah with bankers’ dye. So if anyone touches it, they turn green, and then expelled the culprits. But noooo!

[Eleutheria5]

The US is no longer the country I grew up in. Brandeau’s Canada is worse.

[gitmo]

Inclusion
Equity
Tolerance
Diversity
Open minded

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

Supremacist Islam is attempting to conquer the world as a whole, and the Left thinks it can be a manageable ally against conservatives in the Judeo-Christian West.

[PGalt]

Collective doing the work for Islam. Social, psychological jihad,

[Nervous Tick]

>> “You know when change is gonna happen on this campus? When we don’t have to pack up the menorah,” Zarchi said.

I bet change might happen sooner if the Jewish students channel the Maccabees and stand watch over their menorah all night, armed with clubs and spears and a guy with a cell phone camera.

(In Texas it could be Glocks, but Harvard is in MA.)

[Delta 21]

Hey Harvard rabbi. Kiss my ass.

Dont hide your candle under a basket.

[AppyPappy]

How about the LGBT flag?

[Political Junkie Too]

That's what happens when the president of the university barely keeps her job.

-PJ