Windsor Terrace, a neighborhood in Brooklyn, N.Y., was the site of anti-Semitic vandalism directed against a community synagogue before Yom Kippur.
BROOKLYN, NY — Vandalism put Jewish worshippers on edge last week when a synagogue and community center serving the Brooklyn, N.Y., neighborhood of Windsor Terrace was defaced just days before Yom Kippur.
Brooklyn Jewish Center Responds to Vandalism With Determination
BROOKLYN, NY — Vandalism put Jewish worshippers on edge last week when a synagogue and community center serving the Brooklyn, N.Y., neighborhood of Windsor Terrace was defaced just days before Yom Kippur.
According to Rabbi Moshe Hecht, a surveillance camera recorded an unidentified man writing apparent anti-Semitic graffiti on a sign in front of the synagogue’s building the evening of Sept. 22.
Hecht and the National Committee for the Furtherance of Jewish Education, a Chabad-Lubavitch organization that sponsors programs with several synagogues in the New York area, held a press conference a day after the graffiti was discovered.
This is a shock to the entire community and it’s unfortunate that this type of thing even exists in the world, but people from the community have been showing their support,” said Hecht, who recently presided over a Torah dedication ceremony at the center. “Torah brings unity and our job is to spread this unity and goodness throughout our community.”
As such, Hecht’s community spent the holiday of Yom Kippur, just five days after the incident, in a “spirit of hope and inspiration,” resolving to spread goodness and kindness in response to the vandalism.
