Dead pig left at rabbi’s home in Lakewood, NJ to be investigated as hate crime
A dead pig left outside the home of a rabbi in a heavily Orthodox New Jersey town is being investigated as a hate-crime
The dead pig was found on Shabbat outside the rabbi’s home in Lakewood, a town of 106,000 roughly 45 miles south of New York City.
According to a local publication, The Lakewood Scoop, the police department is treating the incident as a hate crime because of the symbolism of a pig for an Orthodox Jew. Pigs are among the most well known of the unkosher animals prohibited to traditional Jews who observe Jewish dietary laws and historically have been used to mock Jews.
“We will not tolerate such acts in our town,” Lakewood Police Chief Greg Meyer reportedly said.
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Image credit: The Lakewood Scoop