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The defacement of the house of worship was reported on Saturday around noon by a man bringing his daughter home from a soccer match, according to David Holden, president of Temple Jacob.
“She spotted the writing on the front of the synagogue, then he pulled in to investigate and called the Hancock police,” he said.
Multiple swastikas were spray-painted on the synagogue, as well as the symbol of the SS, a Nazi paramilitary organization.
After the police contacted Holden, they walked around the building to check for more vandalism. Thankfully, nothing was harmed inside, Holden explained. He believes the graffiti may have been spray-painted during the night over the past week, and police told him that this is what they too believed.
Seeing the graffiti was disappointing, Holden said. But he was encouraged by the level of community support afterwards. Four groups came by Saturday afternoon to help them clean the symbols off.
Rabbi Martyn Adelberg, who has served the Beth Israel Sinai Congregation for almost 20 years, told The Journal Times that “to the best of my knowledge, nothing like this has ever happened before.”
“She spotted the writing on the front of the synagogue, then he pulled in to investigate and called the Hancock police,” he said.
Multiple swastikas were spray-painted on the synagogue, as well as the symbol of the SS, a Nazi paramilitary organization.
After the police contacted Holden, they walked around the building to check for more vandalism. Thankfully, nothing was harmed inside, Holden explained. He believes the graffiti may have been spray-painted during the night over the past week, and police told him that this is what they too believed.
Seeing the graffiti was disappointing, Holden said. But he was encouraged by the level of community support afterwards. Four groups came by Saturday afternoon to help them clean the symbols off.
Rabbi Martyn Adelberg, who has served the Beth Israel Sinai Congregation for almost 20 years, told The Journal Times that “to the best of my knowledge, nothing like this has ever happened before.”
Rabbi Adelberg meant locally, not nationally--in that respect it has become an epidemic, but an epidemic that has been alluded to by the left as free speech.
Anti-Semitic graffiti was also found Sunday spray-painted on the Beth Israel Sinai Congregation, 3009 Washington Ave. in Racine, Wisconsin.
The graffiti — which included a swastika, the rune “S” symbol associated with Nazi Secret Service (or Schutzstaffel), and the word “JUDE,” which is the German word for Jew — was found by members of the congregation on Sunday.
During the Nazi regime in Hitler's Germany, Jews were forced to wear the word 'Jude' on their outer garments or the Star of David to indicate their religion and to be later rounded up for unspeakable horrors that some deny ever happened.
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Anti-Semitic graffiti was also found Sunday spray-painted on the Beth Israel Sinai Congregation, 3009 Washington Ave. in Racine, Wisconsin.
The graffiti — which included a swastika, the rune “S” symbol associated with Nazi Secret Service (or Schutzstaffel), and the word “JUDE,” which is the German word for Jew — was found by members of the congregation on Sunday.
During the Nazi regime in Hitler's Germany, Jews were forced to wear the word 'Jude' on their outer garments or the Star of David to indicate their religion and to be later rounded up for unspeakable horrors that some deny ever happened.
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