Published 6/8/23 by NorthJersey.com, part of the USA Today Network. Story by Deena Yellin.
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When Kaylee Werner arrived at Indiana University in the fall of 2021, she was shocked by the hostility to Jewish students on the Bloomington campus.
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Her peers had been harassed in their dorms, six swastikas were discovered drawn on campus buildings and an anonymous user on Greekrank, a popular college forum, posted that Jewish students should go back to “the gas chambers where they all belong,” she recalled.
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Then Werner heard vandals had defaced or removed mezuzahs, the tiny prayer scrolls many Jews affix to their doorposts to symbolize their faith. And she decided she’d had enough.
