(Click HERE for photos) YWN has learned that Wilkes-Barre Police have identified two teenage suspects wanted for spray-painting Swastikas on the Wilkes-Barre Shul this past Shabbos (reported HERE on YWN]. 18-year-old Nora Rynkeiwicz – whom police labeled an alleged Nazi sympathizer – along with a 17-year-old accomplice are expected to turn themselves in later today.
A ceremony to commemorate the removal of the Swastikas from the Shul was held today, and drew a crowd of approximately 500 people. Speaking at the ceremony Mayor Tom Leighton said: “The W-B police department believes that the vandalism here at the synagogue and on Wilkes-Barre Boulevard are the hateful acts of two misguided individuals, not an organized campaign against the Jewish faith,” the Mayor said, referring to an earlier graffiti attack on a vacant warehouse.
(Source: Citizens Voice)
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Looks like a nice shul is it orthodox?
yes, the shul is 200 years old
To Eric55,
Yes, it is orthodox. It’s even more beautiful inside. I was Bar Mitzvah there in 1962. I now live in Philadelphia, but was visiting my home town the weekend that this happened. It is wonderful to see that the community has joined together as a show of support and to show the world that the citizens of Wilkes-Barre will not take this type of hateful vandalism.