Glendale Heights, IL – A property manager from Illinois filed a police report this week after received a vitriolic antisemitic message from a former tenant.
“We evicted this woman a year and a half ago, and for some reason she chose to send me this email now,” Linda Kogen, who works at Parkside Estates and Shorewood Towers in the suburban community of Glendale Heights, 25 miles west of Chicago, told the Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM).
The text of the email read:
Thanks for not writing the referral letter. I didnt expect it. You’re satisfied with your choices though. You’re an evil person & what you intend serves your.purpose. How do you stand yourself?
Rosh hashana Jewbitch.
Rosh Hashanah, the two-day holiday marking the start of the Jewish new year, was celebrated last weekend.
“I did file a police report, because I’m concerned about her,” Kogen said.
“This was not the first time I’ve experienced something like this,” she recalled. “The place where I work, there are not a lot of Jews out here. There are no synagogues around here. And I do wear a diamond Jewish star every day. Because of that, I have had several people make pretty obnoxious comments to me, never in writing before though. But I refuse to take it off.”
“To me, this was an antisemitic rant, and it shows that I’m a Jew and I’m hated for it,” Kogen added.
