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...entire menorah was basically destroyed—one of the arms was broken off, six of the bulbs had been destroyed,” said Joel B. Pollak, a student at Harvard Law School. “When I looked more closely, I saw the electrical wires had been cut.” Pollak said he discovered the damage while walking by the park on Friday just past noon. He wrote about the incident on his blog later that...
...menorah was part of a Hanukkah display erected in the Common by The Chabad House at Harvard, a Jewish community organization. The defacement was particularly cutting during the week of celebration for the Jewish community, said Law Professor Alan M. Dershowitz, one of the faculty advisers to The Chabad House...
Dershowitz said he believed the attack on a menorah was an attack on Judaism, not related political philosophies such as Zionism...
...This menorah is purely a religious symbol,” he said. “It’s just a plain-out anti-Semitic...
According to Rabbi Hirschy Zarchi, the director of The Chabad House, “Happy Hanukkah” signs placed near the menorah appeared torn on Wednesday and Thursday. He said he originally dismissed these subtle signs of damage, believing them to be accidental, not malicious...