“Nobody came onto the bus, there were no antisemitic slurs,” said Rabbi Nosson Muller. “Nothing of the sort, we watched the video multiple times.”
and gave the Hitler salute at a bus carrying students earlier this week.
What did happen, Muller said, is that a man on the street in the 2800 block of Jerome Street became upset when some of the children on the bus began yelling at him Wednesday afternoon, "like kids do at the end of the day." "When the Simon Wiesenthal Center went to press with the story and released the statement, this was verified by two parents who filed police reports based on what their sons had experienced," the center sad in a statement Friday.
The center’s initial fear was that the incident was somehow related to the anniversary of Kristallnacht on Nov. 9, 1938 when violent anti-Jewish demonstrations broke out across Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia.The Chicago Commission on Human Relations recently reported that hate crimes targeting Jews were up 75% in Chicago.
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