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Indiana U. fires suspect in anti-Semitic attack

Indiana University reportedly has fired an employee who was identified as a suspect in one attack in a series on Jewish targets. Mark Zacharias, the scholarship coordinator of IU’s Hutton Honors College Scholarship, was let go after working at the university for seven years, The Herald-Times in Bloomington reported Tuesday. He has been charged with felony institutional criminal mischief. Zacharias had turned himself in on Dec. 17 and was released after posting a $500 bond.

Garbage Mouth

When the controversy over Mel Gibson\’s \”The Passion of the Christ\” first erupted, Jewish leaders like Abraham Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League angered Christians by coming out forcefully against the movie.\n\nWilliam Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Civil and Religious Rights, took umbrage. \”A lot of Catholics in this town are saying, \’Is that how Jews are looking at us,\’\” he told The Jewish Week, \”\’that you scratch a Catholic and out comes a latent anti-Semite?\’\”\n\nLast week, Donohue provided the answer to his rhetorical question. And the answer is, in his case, yes.

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