The dumping of crawfish shells at a Jewish fraternity house at the University of California, Berkeley caused Jewish students to feel targeted, but it ultimately also created an opportunity to educate the community about keeping kosher.
Last week, the Rohr Chabad Jewish Student Center held its first Kosher Education and Awareness Day, featuring build-your-own artisan pizzas, raffles and educational carnival games.
Rabbi Gil Yosef Leeds, co-director of the Chabad Jewish Student Center with his wife, Bracha Sara, said “we basically took this as an opportunity to turn this incident into a great educational, fun time and to spread awareness to the greater community that we wanted students to be proud of their culture and observances and not feel intimidated by it.”
