Tag: Vandalism
Hundreds rally against hate, anti-Semitism post-graffiti at Florida Holocaust Museum
One week to the day after the Florida Holocaust Museum in St. Petersburg was vandalized, hundreds gathered on Thursday to say no to anti-Semitism and stand up for the Jewish community.
It was back on May 27...
Sign supporting Israel outside Maryland synagogue gets cut down, then stolen
A banner outside a synagogue in Potomac, Md., that expressed support for the State of Israel was torn down and taken over Memorial Day weekend.
Montgomery County police are investigating the vandalism outside Congregation Har...
Chabad center in Salt Lake City defaced with swastika
A swastika was scratched onto the front-door glass last weekend of Chabad Lubavitch of Utah in Salt Lake City.
Police are searching for a suspect seen in surveillance footage from the building’s security cameras. The...
Jews troubled after court releases man arrested for Bronx synagogue attacks
A 29-year-old man from the Riverdale section of the Bronx, N.Y., was arrested on May 1 by the New York City Police Department for a string of attacks on synagogues there.
Jordan Burnette is facing a number...
Bronx synagogues remain on high alert amid spate of anti-Semitic vandalism
Law enforcement has stepped up its presence in front of Jewish institutions in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, N.Y., as detectives from the New York Police Department’s 50th precinct and its NYPD Hate Crimes...
Belfast cemetery discovers several graves vandalized in Jewish section
Ten Jewish gravestones were vandalized last week in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and police are said to be treating it as a hate crime. The incident came amid a spate of violence that has rocked...
Words of hate scrawled on Yom Hashoah on Vancouver Island Chabad House
Law enforcement in Canada has identified a person of interest, one of two, who vandalized the Chabad House on Vancouver Island on Holocaust Remembrance Day.
“A suspect has come forward and been identified in relation...
Anti-Semitic graffiti spray-painted on synagogue, JCC in Belarus
A swastika and the letters “SS” in the shape of lightning bolts were spray-painted on the building of a synagogue and Jewish community center in Gomel, Belarus, the European Jewish Congress (EJC) announced on Monday.
According to...
Cuomo directs hate-crimes task force to investigate graffiti at Jewish center
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has ordered the State Police Hate Crimes Task Force to provide assistance in an investigation of anti-Semitic graffiti found outside a Jewish center in Queens, N.Y.
“I am disgusted by the swastika...
Anti-Semitic graffiti, swastika damages memorial and synagogue in Spokane
Police in Spokane, Wash., are looking for the man caught on security camera damaging a Holocaust memorial and defacing a local synagogue with swastikas and more.
Members of Temple Beth Shalom discovered the damage to...