CALIFORNIA (JNS) – A car belonging to a campus Chabad-Lubavitch emissary in Santa Monica, Calif., was defaced on Friday morning at the synagogue parking lot.
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“Well, this was an unpleasant way to start the day,” Rabbi Eli Moshe Levitansky, co-director of Chabad of Santa Monica College, wrote on Facebook on Oct. 8. “I got a real wake-up when I walked into the Chabad parking lot and saw my car vandalized with a swastika and a Star of David with the words ‘is illegal.’ In instances like these, it reminds us that there is unfortunately still much darkness in this world.”
After assuring people the incident was reported to authorities, he wrote that “the Rebbe [Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson] taught us that our response to such a situation is to redouble our efforts in doing good, to bring more light into the world. With that being said, I ask you to join me in doing another mitzvah,” he wrote on Facebook, asking that people give money to charity, for men to put on tefillin or, as it was Friday, for women to light Shabbat candles.
On Twitter, Jewish groups rallied around Levitansky.
“We stand with the Chabad rabbi at Santa Monica College against this despicable attack, meant to insult and intimidate a Jewish person,” wrote CEO of StandWithUs Roz Rothstein.
And the Simon Wiesenthal Center, which is based in Los Angeles, tweeted: “Despicable acts of anti-Semitism meant to demonize and degrade Jews. Thanks to Chabad rabbis on SMC’s campus and around the world who lead by example to never be cowered by hate, but to always be proud Jews and lovers of Zion.”
Police officers are currently looking into the matter.
To be expected in a city where 80% are democrats, and a college where as in most colleges nationwide hating Israel is a rule, it was probably a proggresive terrorist supporting democrat.
The Rebbe MH”M has already said decades ago that the time of redemption has arrived.
When we were burglarized, the cops told me dusting for fingerprints is for the movies
This is another hate attack caused by Zionism. Yet some Jews will unfortunately continue to worship that idol.
If the Zionists hadn’t invaded and created their fake-Jewish “State”, then the hater who did this would not have been able to write that Israel is illegal.
Let us Never Forget that it can happen again, we can never let our guard down.