Federal agents are executing a search warrant this morning at a North Side apartment building in connection with last month’s vandalism at five synagogues and Jewish schools in Chicago and Lincolnwood, sources said.

The FBI’s search warrant was related to a former New York resident who police believe is connected to the vandalism as well as written threats against Jewish institutions, a law-enforcement source said.

FBI agents were searching an apartment in the 6000 block of North Artesian Avenue. No arrests have been reported. A computer hard drive and a laptop computer were seen being taken out of the building. Agents also seized a Chevrolet van.

Five synagogues and Jewish schools in Chicago and Lincolnwood were vandalized last month in the wake of Israeli airstrikes and troop incursions into the Gaza Strip.

At Lubavitch Mesivta of Chicago, a rabbinical school and synagogue at 2756 W. Morse Ave. in Chicago, the phrase “Death to Israel” was spray-painted on an exterior brick wall.  The same words appeared on the front door an Anshe Motele Congregation, 6526 N. California Ave.

Two windows were smashed at Young Israel Congregation of  West Rogers Park, 2706 W. Touhy  Ave.

Glass door were shattered and “Free Palestine” and “Death to Israel” were scrawled on walls at the Lincolnwood Jewish Congregation, 7171 N. Crawford Ave.

(Source: Chicago Tribune / YWN-Lipas)