Sunday, December 14, 2008
Oxford rugby team dress up as Hasidic Jews
Oxford University is investigating after students allegedly held a party at which they were told to arrive dressed as Orthodox Jews carrying bags of money.
Students in the under-21 rugby squad are said to have attached pretend sidelocks to their heads at the "bring a fit Jew party". Sidelocks are worn by Orthodox Jewish men.
The party, at a curry house on Wednesday, has been condemned by the Jewish community as "at best insensitive and ignorant: at worst blatantly antisemitic".
The Oxford University Student Union is said to have convinced the team's captain to change the post-match party's theme to "bring a fit girl".
But Aaron Katchen, Oxford University's Jewish chaplain, said the original "theme" had gone ahead. He was contacted by four students who had witnessed it.
The Community Security Trust, which deals with antisemitic attacks together with the police on behalf of the Jewish community, said the party would make Jewish students feel "isolated and vulnerable".
A spokesman for the Union of Jewish Students in the UK said: "The actions of a few students have caused real offence. We are appalled that in 2008 old myths and antisemitic stereotypes are still appearing among supposedly educated students."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2008/nov/14/oxford-students-bring-a-jew-party
Students in the under-21 rugby squad are said to have attached pretend sidelocks to their heads at the "bring a fit Jew party". Sidelocks are worn by Orthodox Jewish men.
The party, at a curry house on Wednesday, has been condemned by the Jewish community as "at best insensitive and ignorant: at worst blatantly antisemitic".
The Oxford University Student Union is said to have convinced the team's captain to change the post-match party's theme to "bring a fit girl".
But Aaron Katchen, Oxford University's Jewish chaplain, said the original "theme" had gone ahead. He was contacted by four students who had witnessed it.
The Community Security Trust, which deals with antisemitic attacks together with the police on behalf of the Jewish community, said the party would make Jewish students feel "isolated and vulnerable".
A spokesman for the Union of Jewish Students in the UK said: "The actions of a few students have caused real offence. We are appalled that in 2008 old myths and antisemitic stereotypes are still appearing among supposedly educated students."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2008/nov/14/oxford-students-bring-a-jew-party
Comments:
Nu.
so what's the problem.
Don't we do the same thing on Purim?
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so what's the problem.
Don't we do the same thing on Purim?
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