File photo: Rabbi Avremi Lapine affixes a mezuzah to a side door of his home in Columbia, MO.

Campus Shliach Decries Anti-Semitic Vandalism

University of Missouri-Columbia police are investigating a case of anti-Semitic vandalism after someone wrote “Hitler Rules” on a notification board inside Gateway Hall sometime Monday night or Tuesday morning. Shliach on campus Rabbi Avraham Lapine says the repeated incidents are concerning.

From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:

The incident marks the fourth time university officials have investigated anti-Semitic vandalism in the past year at a school that has become a national symbol for strained race relations.

“This type of vandalism attacks everyone,” interim Chancellor Hank Foley said. “Our core values — including that of respect — must become more than words on paper or a banner. They are the foundation of who we desire to be as a campus community and the way we all need to conduct ourselves.”

Rabbi Avraham Lapine, who’s with a Jewish organization that serves university students called Chabad, said the repeated incidents are concerning.

“It’s not that each one is so serious by itself; it’s serious because it keeps happening,” Lapine said. “It raises a red flag.”

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3 Comments

  • mxw

    do they have surveillance camera?
    can letters be written to the administration to complain about what are they doing
    and,
    its time for us to give donations to that Chabad house

  • Anonymous

    Im very sorry and upset to learn of this very upsetting incident. The nasty perpetrators must be caught and hanged.