Vandals targeted a Jewish camp in the Poconos, spray painting graffiti on buildings, including a swastika. It’s the second time in a week vandals have struck at Camp Esh in Monroe County. Rabbi David Zeit said the graffiti was spray painted outside a bunk house and a synagogue, on a tennis court, a camp bus and a pick-up truck.
Luke Wojciechowski, who works at the camp, saw four men at the campsite. He tried to approach them, but the men jumped into a car and sped off. “When I wake up the next day morning, I see paint on the door, the bunks, the tennis court, car back, everything is paint,” Wojciechowski said.
Rabbi Zeit thinks the same people are responsible for both incidents of vandalism. “We hope they’re captured, caught and punished because I believe that’s a federal hate crime putting a swastika on a Jewish camp,” he said.
(Source: WNEP)
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the oilom darft visin!! its in our back yard we r still in galus!!!!!!!
Interesting that it is four MEN, and not four BOYS. So this is not just some teen prank, but neighborhood hatred. Monsey used to have that problem, some 20 or more years ago. I remember a shul that was in the middle of being built, and someone snuck into the basement in the middle of the night, and slowly, carefully, dismantled the nearly-completed boiler. Nothing was broken. They said it was the work of an expert. It cost something like a thousand dollars to redo it. Just pure, vicious anti-Semitism, done by someone mature enough to know better.