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University of California-Davis Experiences Vandalism of Jewish Sukkah on Campus:
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Jewish religious booth vandalized By: RICHARD PROCTER Posted: 10/5/07 Student Programs and Activities Center representatives reported a hate crime yesterday, as graffiti was found defacing a small hut on the Quad being used for a Jewish holiday. The booth, called a Sukkot or Sukkos, was set up on the east Quad as part of a…

University Community Must Support Tolerance, Combat Ignorance
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http://observer.case.edu/Archives/Volume_40/Issue_6/Story_1977/ The anti-Semitic message that appeared on the Thwing Spirit Wall a week ago (see story, page one) was a powerful reminder that the American quest for equality and tolerance is far from over. The incident provoked a school-wide response, indicating that the vast majority of the Case community takes the issue of intolerance very…

Evan Goldstein: Judeocentrism and Anti-Semitism
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http://chronicle.com/blogs/footnoted/index.php?id=719 What is anti-Semitism? Most any attempt to define the term or, even more controversially, pin the label on someone, brings to mind Justice Potter Stewart’s famously pithy 1964 definition of hard-core pornography: “I know it when I see it.” But, of course, different people see different things, and so the debate continues. In this…

Meron Rapoport: Scholar Unearths Unknown Primo Levi Text at Yad Vashem
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http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/909490.html “A declaration by Doctor Primo Levi, living in Torino, Corso Vittorio 67…” Thus, with characteristic dryness and equally typical humility, begins a document that lay for more than 45 years in the archive of the Yad Vashem Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance Authority, until it was discovered a year ago by Dr. Margalit Shlain, a…