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A menorah monument vandalized with a swastika in Bogotá, the capital of Colombia, on Nov. 1, 2019. Credit: Christian Cantor/Twitter.

Swastika found on menorah monument in Colombia

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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...
A view of the smashed headstones at the Chatham Memorial Synagogue cemetery near London, October 2019. Source: Twitter via Dalia Halpern.

Authorities are investigating desecration of 300-year-old Jewish cemetery near London

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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...
“Free Palestine” graffiti was spray-painted on a Los Angeles synagogue on Sept, 11, 2019. Source: Facebook.

LA synagogue vandalized with ‘Free Palestine’ graffiti on 9/11 anniversary

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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...
A Nazi swastika and iron crosses spray-painted on Congregation Shaarey Tefilla in Carmel, Ind. Credit: Debby Barton Grant via Facebook.

Man sentenced to three years in prison for vandalism at Indiana synagogue

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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...
As many as 80 gravestones were vandalized at a French Jewish cemetery in the village of Quatzenheim, discovered on Feb. 19, 2019. Credit: Screenshot.

Swastikas on 80 gravestones desecrate French Jewish cemetery at German border

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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...
The vandalized Siach Yisrael synagogue in Kiryat Hayovel, a neighborhood in Jerusalem. Source: Israel Police.

Synagogue in Jerusalem neighborhood desecrated, considered a hate crime

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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,...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, visit at the synagogue in Strasbourg, France, on June 30, 2017. Photo by Kobi Gideon/GPO.

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...
ZAKA search-and-rescue USA volunteers work with the FBI at the scene of a mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue on Oct. 27, 2018. Credit: ZAKA Search and Rescue USA.

Several US synagogues vandalized just days after deadly Pittsburgh massacre

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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...
Swastikas on the JCC in Fairfax. Source: Twitter.

JCC in Fairfax, Va., vandalized with 19 painted swastikas

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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...
Prepping for the High Holidays. Credit: Pixabay.

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...