Officials want to make sure Jewish students at DePaul and other schools across Chicago feel taken care of after an antisemitic attack on campus earlier this week.
Friday, November 8, 2024 6:58PMOfficials want Jewish DePaul University and other Chicago college students to feel safe after an antisemitic attack on campus earlier this week.Officials want to make sure Jewish students at DePaul and other schools across Chicago feel taken care of after anSecurity guards in bright blue vests patrolled the front of DePaul's Lincoln Park Student Center Friday morning, where two Jewish students were attacked on Wednesday afternoon..
They have reported on Long for more than a year, interviewing him while he was deployed in Israel with a counter-explosives unit, after the Oct. 7 attacks. "We need to figure out a way to move forward and and to live, you know, together. And that can only happen once these stigmas and, you know, and these fears are put aside and that we're able to converse," Long said.
"Obviously, they have been pretty shaken up. They are worried about their friends; they are worried about their own safety moving around campus," said Charles Cohen, executive director for Metro Chicago Hillel."This is something that, all over the world, Jews carry with them, the sense of that, at any moment, they might be in an unsafe situation because of wearing a yarmulke, because of wearing a Jewish star, because of being associated with Israel," Cohen said.
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