December 15, 2022 (vol. 172, iss. 20) • Page Image 12
…12 | DECEMBER 15 • 2022 A ntisemitism seems to be in our faces daily, both on mainstream media and the local level. An incident on the campus of Michigan State University last month — where…
… of pressing criminal charges against the perpetrator, Gun met with him face-to-face (along with MSU Hillel’s Nate Strauss and Rabbi Shemtov) and told him how his actions had not only impacted her…
… a Jewish student had her mezuzah ripped down from her door- post — served not only as another example of that antisemitism but also as a strong display of Jewish pride in response. The Chabad…
… a response, respond with where and when they want it hung, and right away one of the Shemtovs are there to hang up the mezuzah free of charge. “We hang up hundreds at the start of every year…
…,” Simi said. “It’s a really beautiful thing to show the world there’s a proud Jew living there.” Adina Peysakhov, a West Bloomfield native and MSU freshman majoring in human biology, was one of the…
…- tional because of how loud it was when it hit the ground,” Peysakhov said. “ And it would not have just fallen because of how tightly secured it was on the doorpost. It was also like 10 feet away…
… but also the greater Jewish community at MSU. The dia- logue led to the perpetrator agreeing to take an educational route, a guided tour of the Zekelman Holocaust Center in Farmington Hills as well…
… as compensating Gun for the cost of the vandalized and stolen mezuzah. SPREADING THE WORD While Chabad MSU has been in touch with MSU’s Department of Housing to get to the bottom of the recent…
… incident, in freshman housing like Peysakhov’s, there aren’t any video cameras — so no footage of the incident exists. No police report has been filed. Instead, Chabad MSU con- tacted multiple news…
… here.” Simi says often when these types of things happen, stu- dents are afraid to further promote their Judaism. With Adina, it was different. “ Adina’s first message was, ‘My mezuzah was taken…