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BOSTON (JTA) More than 350 people gathered for a rally against anti-Semitism and hate in Peabody, a city on Bostons North Shore, after motorists shouted anti-Semitic slurs at two Chabad rabbis out walking on Shabbat.
Wednesdays rally was called by Mayor Ted Bettencourt to support Rabbi Nechemia Schusterman of Chabad of Peabody and Rabbi Sruli Baron of Tobin Bridge Chabad in Chelsea, a city just outside of Boston.
The two friends were out on a walk on Saturday, May 25, when a group of about three or four pickup trucks slowed alongside them, Schusterman reported to the Peabody police. The driver of the lead truck shouted an anti-Semitic obscenity and hurled a penny out of his window, yelling something to the effect of go pick up the penny [expletive] Jew, Schusterman reported.
The rabbi later wrote about it publicly on his Facebook page and in Yes, I look Jewish: Hate on Lowell Street, a front page essay published last week in the North Shores Jewish Journal.
Walking and chatting and visibly Jewish kippas, beards and tzitzits flying about was apparently too much for a bunch of pickup truck drivers, he wrote.
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polmaven
(9,463 posts)It was held in front of the City Hall building, and the crowd was in overflow proportions. The support shown to the rabbis was greatly obvious. This city will NOT support this type of "exclusion" in ANY way.
Behind the Aegis
(53,983 posts)Thanks for attending!
polmaven
(9,463 posts)Since my work schedule allowed for it, I was determined to be there!