San Diego rabbi gives thieves a second chance
The rabbi at San Diego State s Chabad House gives a lesson in forgiveness rather than turning thieves into police. Author: Abbie Alford (Reporter) Updated: 11:45 AM PDT May 11, 2021
SAN DIEGO A local rabbi opened his heart and gave a group of thieves a second chance, only to have one of them mock him online.
Two weeks ago, surveillance video caught thieves stealing from the Chabad House at San Diego State University. No one has been arrested because the rabbi says he wants to give them a second chance. Instead of going to police and coming down hard. I would like to a show some compassion, said Rabbi Chalom.
Updated on May 10, 2021 at 7:19 am
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Officials at San Diego State University said this week that they were taking action on anti-semitism following a break-in at the campus Chabad House.
Rabbi Chalom Boudjnah, who is involved with the home and prayer space, said in a social media post that a group of people broke in and stole sentimental items.
Download our NBC 7 mobile app for iOS or Android to get alerts for local breaking news and weather. With the help of our security team, we quickly distributed video footage to the guys in Aepi and screenshots of the perpetrators to our group of SDSU and in [a] matter of hours we identified their whole group, Boudjnah posted on Facebook. Some were locals, college students, others were from out of town. As you can imagine, everyone was very upset. One of them actually posted pictures of themselves bragging about stealing!! They somehow found out that we knew who they were and came on Thursday to Chabad to return the pi
San Diego State University reacts to swastikas found on student housing
San Diego State University reacts to swastikas found on student housing
“Acts of hate like this are disgraceful and cowardly; that swastikas vandalized a home of Jewish students is especially reprehensible,” university leaders wrote in a joint statement.
Swastikas found on student housing at San Diego State University. Source: Facebook via Chabad at SDSU.
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Officials at the San Diego State University are expressing their solidarity with the school’s Jewish community after reports that swastikas were painted on a student housing building.
“Speech and use of symbols that are anti-Semitic or encourages hatred of a particular group are reprehensible and counter to the environment we support at SDSU,” said school officials in a statement on Thursday. “Such base acts are full of cowardice. Anti-Semitism and other hate-motivated actions have no place at or near
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