‘Everything literally under the sukkah was taken,’ Oregon Hillel says of holiday theft
The Oregon Hillel Foundation had been celebrating “a lot of firsts” leading up to Sukkot. Then someone swiped its sukkah. “We had just opened up this building barely a week before that,” Lenny Steinberg, executive…
Assessment
A sukkah was stolen from Oregon Hillel days after it opened a new home for Jewish students at Oregon State University. The theft hits a community that had just gained its first dedicated space in a decade. What follows will test how quickly the campus Jewish community can recover both the physical structure and the sense of security in a space they waited years to have.