(Jewish Group) After Antisemitic Attack, Columbia Professor Lights Campus Hanukkah Menorah

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A Columbia Teachers College professor whose office was vandalized with antisemitic images earlier this week lit the first Hanukkah candle on the campus menorah in front of a crowd of students, faculty and other members of the Columbia University community in New York City.

Professor Elizabeth Midlarsky, a psychology and education scholar whose work includes Holocaust studies, discovered her office at 120th Street near Broadway defaced with two large spray-painted swastikas and the antisemitic slur “Yid” on Nov. 28. Her office was vandalized in 2007 as well.

On learning of the attack, Rabbi Yonah Blum, who with his wife, Keren, co-directs Chabad at Columbia University, reached out to Midlarsky, who has been a guest at Hanukkah celebrations in the past.

“How else can you respond to what happened besides turning it around and making something positive of it?” asked Blum.

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[EllieBC]

1. Lubavitchers are always there when you need them.

I’m glad they came together.