Tag: Vandalism
Swastika found on menorah monument in Colombia
A menorah monument in the Colombia’s capital, Bogotá, was vandalized with a swastika.
The country’s foreign ministry described the graffiti on the monument on Israel State Avenue as exemplifying “intolerance and hate.”
The vandalism consisted of...
Authorities are investigating desecration of 300-year-old Jewish cemetery near London
Authorities are investigating the desecration of a 300-year-old Jewish cemetery near London, reported the United Kingdom’s Jewish Chronicle.
Assailants reportedly used sledgehammers to shatter, upend and split headstones at the Chatham Memorial Synagogue cemetery. The damage was discovered...
LA synagogue vandalized with ‘Free Palestine’ graffiti on 9/11 anniversary
A synagogue in the Fairfax District of Los Angeles was spray-painted with anti-Semitic graffiti on early Wednesday, which marked the 18th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks.
Rabbi Yonah Bookstein of LA’s Pico Shul posted...
Man sentenced to three years in prison for vandalism at Indiana synagogue
A 21-year-old man was sentenced on Monday to three years in prison for vandalizing a synagogue last year in Carmel, Ind.
Nolan Brewer pleaded guilty to the federal hate crime for spray-paintinga large Nazi flag and...
Swastikas on 80 gravestones desecrate French Jewish cemetery at German border
As many as 80 gravestones at a Jewish cemetery in France were discovered vandalized on Tuesday morning, adding to the latest wave of anti-Semitic attacks in the country.
The cemetery, located in the village of...
Synagogue in Jerusalem neighborhood desecrated, considered a hate crime
Worshippers arrived at a Jerusalem synagogue for morning prayers on Tuesday to discover that it had been vandalized, with Torah scrolls and Jewish artifacts thrown on the floor.
The Siach Yisrael synagogue in Kiryat Hayovel,...
France: Jewish cemetery desecrated near Strasbourg
Anti-Semitic vandalism was discovered on tombstones in the Jewish cemetery of Herrlisheim, in northeastern France, near the city of Strasbourg where two people were killed on Wednesday in a Christmas market shooting attack by an...
Several US synagogues vandalized just days after deadly Pittsburgh massacre
Anti-Semitism reared its head again last week when the Beit Yaakov synagogue in Irvine, Calif., was vandalized with anti-Semitic graffiti overnight on Tuesday, just three days after a shooting massacre at Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha Synagogue...
JCC in Fairfax, Va., vandalized with 19 painted swastikas
A Jewish Community Center in Fairfax, Va., was vandalized with 19 spray-painted swastikas early Saturday morning.
Building staff noticed the building had been vandalized when they arrived to open the facility at 7 a.m. Security...
Man throws rock into window of Gdansk synagogue during Yom Kippur services
Police released security footage of a man in a dark shirt walking to the New Synagogue in Gdansk, Poland, and throwing a stone into a window during Yom Kippur services.
Authorities appealed to anybody who...