NEW HAVEN, Conn.--Vandals two weeks ago destroyed a sukkah built by Yale students, leaving the Jewish ceremonial shelter in a shambles of planks and rushes, the Yale Daily News reported recently.
Dismissing the idea of active anti-Semitism, Project Organizer Judah Shechter '85 said as he surveyed the ruined shelter. "It was probably just drunken vandalism."
The sukkah is a temporary shelter constructed for the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, which commemorates the 40 years of wandering of the Jews in the desert.
The sukkah, which was on the Old Campus, "was mainly for educational purposes, to let people know the holiday was here and to inspire questions," said Rob Schapir '84, another organizer.
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