Long Island, NY – Police say an 11-foot aluminum menorah was damaged after a group of vandals wrestled and twisted it to the ground in front of a Long Island drug store.
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Suffolk County police say its hate crimes unit is trying to identify three youths who were videotaped attacking the candelabrum in front of Friendly Drugs in Holbrook.
A surveillance camera recorded the vandals attacking the menorah about 11:48 p.m. on Friday.
Suffolk County Hate Crimes Unit Detective Sgt. Robert Reecks tells Newsday that about a dozen cameras around the county are pointed at menorahs.
In recent years, Long Island menorahs have been targeted by vandals.
The candelabrums are lit during the eight-day Jewish holiday of Hanukkah.
It’s sad to think that we have such problems in Long Island (and in NYC as well). I wonder if our large presence aggravates the goyim and if they would not do such things if we were not as prolific in the area.
Now that they know the time frame of these acts maybe they can get real officers (undercover) standing by the more targeted menorahs.
Now that they know the time frame of these acts maybe they can get real officers (undercover) standing by the more targeted menorahs.
Oh! But giant menoras in christian streets “don’t raise the ire” of the populace of our host country! Yeah – right! 🙁
Stop with this lubavitch obcession with flaunting big menorahs. Even their rebbe said its purely symbolic and you are not yotzeh the mitzvah of neir chanukah with such a display. Maybe we should string up lights on the beis medrash or put a big tree in front of the mikvah leshem the non-existant mitzvah of pirsumei nissah. We should focus on the real mitzvah of chanukah rather than providing full employment for lawyers and antisemitim by trying to erect 25 foot menorahs in the public squares and streets of America.
Maybe they can figure our a way to make the camera shoot at the vandals.
Just a thought. ha ha just kidding
I lived in Holbrook from 1966-1968!! I was one of the few Jewish kids in that Jew hating waste of a village!! So things haven’t changed in over 40 years!!
you should be embarrassed, hashem should show you the light very quick or your in trouble. i feel really bad for you.