Benzion Shemtov, rabbi at Chabad Jewish Center at Michigan State University was out of the state when someone spray-painted Nazi symbols on the doors and threw rocks at the windows of the center in the days following the massacre at Bondi Beach in Australia, where 15 people were killed during a Hanukkah celebration.
But when Shemtov returned to East Lansing, he said he was greeted by numerous letters from the Michigan State University community that the center serves.
“I got home and I got letters in the mail from people that are not even Jewish, just writing letters of support. It’s break right now. There’s no one in town…. just to see from students that graduated and maybe came to us, students [that weren’t] necessarily so close with [us] perhaps because maybe they didn’t attend that much, but they were writing, this is their home, this was their home on campus,” Shemtov said. “This will always be their home.”…