Syracuse, N.Y. - Two Syracuse University students were arrested Wednesday after police say one of the students tossed a bag of pork in a fraternity on Rosh Hashanah .

Onondaga County District Attorney William Fitzpatrick said that the two students were charged with burglary as a hate crime. They were also charged with criminal nuisance, according to court papers.

The court papers filed by city police said the crimes were a “religiously motivated attack” on Zeta Beta Tau (ZBT), a historically Jewish fraternity.

Fitzpatrick said the attack is being charged as a hate crime because it happened on the Jewish High Holy Day of Rosh Hashanah, the food thrown was pork and ZBT is known as a Jewish fraternity.

“This incident is not a foolish college prank and will not be treated as such,” Fitzp

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