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...same time, the costs of medical coverage for those who are insured are going through the roof. Private companies that generally provide health insurance for employees are facing higher and higher premiums, which they pass on to their workers. Workers, in turn, get angry and worried about their ever more threatened ability to afford medical care...
This incident is different. Several aspects of the vandalism, which caused portions of the roof to cave in and left half the sukkah unusable, strongly suggest that this incident was motivated by anti-Semitism. University officials and police are taking the issue seriously; they have been in touch with Hillel Director Sally Finestone, and are pursuing an investigation to find the perpetrators...
...unusually malicious nature of the crime also points to an anti-Semitic motive. While the vandals left the sukkah structurally unsound, they gave no warning signals. There were no scrawled slogans, no spray-painted swastikas. There was not even any damage to the cloth walls or the bamboo roof. Such damage would have been easier to do, and would have sent a clear expression of hatred...
...destruction seems instead to have intentionally been done in such a way that the structure would stand--until someone leaned against the wrong pole, and had the roof crash down on her head. Jews who used the sukkah without noticing the damage, such as the children who were the first to enter the sukkah Saturday morning, could have been gravely injured or killed...
...roof is starting to fall in," he says. "It was braced up temporarily, but the wood is starting to rot. The pool itself leaks, and there are some cracks in the walls...