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A rabbi and his son were arrested for vandalizing a swastika mural. Are they heroes or hooligans?

JL;DR SUMMARY In a highly polarizing incident, Zechariah Mehler and his father, a retired rabbi, were arrested for vandalizing a Milwaukee mural depicting a swastika inside a Jewish star, criticizing it as antisemitic and threatening. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish CommunityPalestinian Israeli ConflictVandalismMilwaukeeMuralSwastikaZechariah MehlerIhsan AttaBetar Us

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Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
"It was September, and Milwaukee was abuzz over a mural that had gone up on the side of a commercial building in the citys sixth district."
Louisville, Kentucky, United States
"Atta installed the mural in place of a previous one erected in memory of Breonna Taylor, a Black woman shot by police in Louisville, Kentucky, in 2020 who became a symbol of nationwide racial justice protests that year."
Sheboygan, Wisconsin, United States
"What upset Peter Mehler most when he saw the mural, he said, was thinking about his former congregants, many of them Holocaust survivors, at the synagogues he led in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, and Northbrook, Illinois."
Northbrook, Illinois, United States
"What upset Peter Mehler most when he saw the mural, he said, was thinking about his former congregants, many of them Holocaust survivors, at the synagogues he led in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, and Northbrook, Illinois."

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