It is only hate when other people do anything they don't like.
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| Arson ends Sukkot at SJSU |
| 2007-10-06 |
| Sukkot festivities ended early for Jewish students at San Jose State University after someone burned the outdoor shelter - known as a sukkah - that marks the Feast of the Tabernacles. A student arrived Wednesday morning and found the sukkah - made of a metal frame and nylon walls - melted, said Sue Maltiel, executive director of Hillel of Silicon Valley. Police and Hillel officials believe the fire was deliberately set but was not a hate crime. There were no notes or messages indicating anything other than vandalism, said Sgt. Mike Santos with university police, noting that the campus is downtown and vagrants often sleep on Hillel's patio. Hillel had planned to observe the seven-day festival until Friday. Students had been eating meals, celebrating the Sabbath and holding talks in the sukkah, which represents the huts the Israelites built while wandering in the desert. The 24-by-12-foot sukkah was new and cost the group $1,700, Maltiel said. In the past, students hung sheets on wood frames. "We've never had a nice sukkah before," she said. "We're going to have to do a fundraiser. We have to replace it, but I hate to see it burned again." |
| Posted by:Nimble Spemble |
| #5 Pay my way there and back, and I'll stand guard with my trusty 10-gauge. Anybody planning any funny business better have rhino-gauge skin. I still have three or four 00 buckshot rounds, soaked in brine. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2007-10-06 15:38 |
| #4 It is only hate when other people do anything they don't like. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2007-10-06 13:05 |
| #3 Not a hate crime? I guess in the "liberal" universities, religious Jews are fair game. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2007-10-06 11:39 |
| #2 deliberately set but was not a hate crime I lol'd, then thought, sure why not. |
| Posted by: Thomas Woof 2007-10-06 11:38 |
| #1 hint: raise enough money and you can rebuild it..and hire a sniper |
| Posted by: Frank G 2007-10-06 11:33 |