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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.

More attacks hit Jewish targets at Indiana Univ.

The desecration of holy texts was among three new attacks on Jewish targets at Indiana University that come in the wake of two earlier incidents. A rock was thrown Tuesday morning through the window of an apartment above the Chabad Jewish student center, located just off the university campus, nearly hitting a student and putting a hole in the opposite wall. Four non-Jewish students live in the Chabad apartment. Less than an hour later, a rock was thrown at the staff directory glass display case for the Robert A. and Sandra B. Borns Jewish Studies Program, causing damage.

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