A political event at a Brooklyn Reformed Temple was cancelled on Thursday night, after anti-Semitic graffiti was found inside.
Hateful messages including “Kill all Jews”, “die Jew rats we are here,” “Hitler,” and “Jews better be ready,” were written in three different locations inside the building. They were written in black marker inside a stairwell.
Investigators say they are reviewing surveillance video that allegedly shows the suspect inside Union Temple on Eastern Parkway in Prospect Heights.
The NYPD Hate Crimes Unit is handling the investigation.
Mayor Bill de Blasio said the graffiti is the vilest kind of hate and that the NYPD will find the perpetrators and hold them accountable.
Governor Andrew Cuomo directed the Hate Crimes Task Force to investigate, releasing the following statement:
“I am disgusted by the discovery of anti-Semitic graffiti at a house of worship in Brooklyn. At a time when the nation is still reeling from the attack at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, New Yorkers stand united with the Jewish community and against hate in all its forms. In New York, we have zero tolerance for discrimination in our laws or in our spirit. I have directed the State’s Hate Crimes Task Force to investigate this hideous act and hold those responsible accountable to the full extent of the law. As governor, I am also doing everything in my power to ensure our religious institutions are free from violence and intolerance. This week, we announced the launch of an additional $10 million grant program to help protect New York’s non-public schools and cultural centers, including religious-based institutions. The disgusting rhetoric and heinous violence in this nation has reached a fever pitch and is ripping at the fabric of America, and it must stop. In New York, we have forged community through chords of commonality and we will always stand together against hate and discrimination.”
(Charles Green – YWN)
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They have to fast track the murderers sentence in Pittsburg and give him the capital punishment.
Otherwise there may be copycats.
So, in other words you focus on the fact that it was a “reform temple” why …? Are you saying that the people who are responsible for this graffiti were specifically targeting reform jews? Nah, I think that you are making an editorial choice, telling all of the orthodox who frequent yeshiva world not to worry because only reform are in danger? So, basically, the orthodox Jews can continue their sweet slumber confident in the fact that they are tzadikim and could not be targeted in such a manner…? I am just wondering why you chose to mention that these were “reform” Jews since it has nothing to do with the story…unless you know THE heshbon.. and have specific communication from HKBH… and are confident that this antisemitic incident pertains ONLY to reform jews… Some people still think around here you know?
Stay tuned for Rabbi Aderet’s take.
The proper english word is REFORM not REFORMED
Again hate, and again hate; and we know that it’s coming from Hashem. What can we do.
Now, the human nature is to want to meet hate with hate, but not when we know that it’s HKB”H that’s implanting this hate into them.
We have to increase our sincere love, caring and compassion for Non-Yidden, not as a Kiddush Hashem performance, but with true sincerity, as from one Human to another Human.
HKB”H will see, and will IY”H reverse this ever increasing anti-Semitism.
Leah2330, really? Just because YWN stated a simple descriptive fact, you actually think that they think that only Reform Jews are hated by anti-Semites?