Police are investigating two swastikas carved into the passenger side windows of two cars in a heavily Hasidic neighborhood of Brooklyn, ABC7 reported. A Lexus and a Ford were found with damage late Wednesday night on a quiet street in Borough Park. The swastikas are being investigated as a possible bias crime. Contact Ari Feldman…
Students at a high school in Arizona were investigated last week after some pupils shared on Snapchat an image of eight people lying on the ground in the shape of a swastika. The school district governing Paradise Valley High School in Phoenix said in a statement on Thursday that the high school would investigate and…
Ira Stickler was driving into the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel when he blinked in disbelief. There in front of him was a New Jersey license plate that read “Aryan10.” As a Jew, Stickler was outraged to be driving behind a Nazi. As a lawyer, he decided right then and there to see if he could get…
A swastika and the words “Kill Them All. 2/1/18. For the motherland,” were found written on a boys’ bathroom wall at Wooster High School in Ohio, The Daily Record reported Tuesday. School superintendent Michael Tefs said the threat “seems to have very little credibility,” but would still “take this very seriously.” Security measures include placing…
Japanese schoolgirls are known for moving quickly through zany and playful trends. But this latest one might need some explaining for Westerners. The swastika symbol — called a “manji” in Japanese (卍) — has meant good health and fortune in Buddhism for millennia. Now, it’s taken on new meanings — and become ubiquitous on Japanese…
An Israeli man armed with two knives was arrested Tuesday morning for allegedly scrawling a swastika on a bust of Yitzhak Rabin, the assassinated Prime Minister of Israel, the Jerusalem Post reported. Police reported that the man was drunk and was also carrying writing utensils. He was picked up several hundred yards from the site…
(JTA) — Three swastikas were drawn on a desk in the classroom of a Jewish teacher at a Boston-area high school — the third time in recent months that a swastika has been discovered there. The swastikas were discovered Tuesday at Andover High, located about 20 miles north of Boston, hours before the start of…
(JTA) — A Conservative synagogue in Los Angeles was targeted with a spray painted swastika and gang symbols. Temple Aliyah in the Woodland Hills neighborhood was vandalized on Monday. The Los Angeles Police Department told the Los Angeles Jewish Journal that it considers the attack a hate crime, but it has no suspects because the…
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