Hanukkah in Legoland. I mean Rockland County, New York.



It's nice and cozy inside the mall, but outside anti-semitism lurks.

Hate symbols found

Jewish leaders yesterday expressed outrage that anti-Semitic symbols were found spray-painted on three homes and a car in Orangetown the day after Hanukkah began.

"This is not a Tuesday morning in June," said Rabbi Craig Scheff of the Orangetown Jewish Center in Orangeburg. "This is during a time when people of different faiths are trying to spread some light and hope, and an incident like this needs to be assumed to be — first and foremost — a message against that light."

One of the homes attacked is several blocks away from where I grew up. Another family whose home was attacked came here from Russia ten years ago because the husband, who is Jewish, was discriminated against at work because of his faith.