RHINEBECK – Anti-Semitism is on the rise around the county and the Hudson Valley is not immune to it.
At Rhinebeck High School, students drew two swastikas on a wall in chalk recently, something Principal Ed Davenport found very disturbing.
It is not the first time anti-Semitism reared its ugly head in Rhinebeck schools. Davenport remembers an incident of ant-Jewish speech about three years ago. And that is when the district created a No Place for Hate Committee in the district.
Davenport said the district must continue education about the Holocaust and anti-Semitism through history and today.
