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LA synagogue vandalized with anti-Semitic message

The Los Angeles chapter of the Anti-Defamation League called the derogatory language “unacceptable.”

Temple Ahavat Shalom in Los Angeles. Credit: Google Street View.
Temple Ahavat Shalom in Los Angeles. Credit: Google Street View.

Temple Ahavat Shalom, a Reform congregation in Los Angeles, was vandalized with an anti-Semitic message.

A message of “Six million $ was not enough” was drawn in marker on the welcome sign on the temple’s gate, referring to the 6 million Jews killed in the Holocaust. The dollar sign apparently was meant to reference the anti-Semitic trope that Jews control the world’s money supply.

The LA chapter of the Anti-Defamation League called this “unacceptable.”

Another Los Angeles synagogue is targeted with blatantly anti-Semitic vandalism. @LA_ADL is in touch with the congregation and @LAPDHQ. Unacceptable. pic.twitter.com/31uepYQ3Yu — ADL Los Angeles (@LA_ADL) September 18, 2019

Police are investigating the vandalism as a possible hate crime.

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