(JTA) — A homeless man has been arrested for scratching swastikas into several cars in a Jewish neighborhood in Miami Beach. The swastikas were found keyed on the cars on Feb. 26, including on a car owned by a non-Jewish family. Timothy Merriam, 61, was arrested Tuesday and will be charged with criminal mischief. Police…
(JTA) — A Brooklyn man has been arrested for drawing swastikas and other bias graffiti in men’s bathrooms in Penn Station. Pasquale Vargas, 65, is accused of multiple incidents of hate-crime graffiti at Penn Station. Vargas admitted to writing the graffiti during an interview with MTA police, according to the statement. He also was arrested…
(JTA) — A swastika was carved onto the door frame of a synagogue in northeastern Ohio. The swastika was carved at the Agudath B’nai Israel Synagogue in Lorain, Ohio, a suburb located on the West Side of Cleveland. In addition to the swastika, the words “We will rise and gas you,” followed by an expletive,…
A Unitarian Universalist church on the Upper West Side of Manhattan found itself the victim of vandalism with two swastikas carved into its front doors on Tuesday. The Fourth Universalist Society in the City of New York on Central Park West and 76th Street voted on February 5th “to offer short term sanctuary to undocumented…
Rebecca Konstandt is a devoted athlete who usually finishes her workouts on a runner’s high — but not on Tuesday. Instead, her regular route ended with the discovery of swastikas spray painted across n a bridge in Essex County, New Jersey. “This is beyond stupid kids,” she wrote on Facebook. “This is not acceptable.” Konstandt,…
(JTA) — Swastikas were scratched into several cars in a Jewish neighborhood in Miami Beach, Florida. The swastikas were found keyed on the cars on Sunday morning. Though the neighborhood is predominately Jewish, at least one of the vandalized cars is not owned by a Jewish family, the Miami Herald reported. Earlier this month, a…
(JTA) — A swastika made with human feces was found in a dormitory bathroom at the Rhode Island School of Design. The existence of the swastika was confirmed by the school on Thursday, but reportedly was discovered a week ago. It was discovered in a gender-neutral bathroom, according to reports. “This level of disrespect and…
(JTA) — About one dozen swastikas and racial slurs were drawn on cars and a building in a suburb of Buffalo, New York. A nearby elementary school playground and railway overpasses were similarly vandalized. The spray painted swastikas and slurs were discovered on Saturday morning and were believed to have been painted late on Friday…
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