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Synagogue in Los Angles has been desecrated

2019-12-15

[TWITTER]

We are sad and angry to report that yet another synagogue in Los Angles has been desecrated. Nessah Israel Synagogue is the spiritual and communal home for many Iranian Jews in LA and this opens wounds of anti-Semitism for so many in our community. pic.twitter.com/w01IpzZ0wX
— JIMENA (@JIMENA_Voice) December 15, 2019

Update from the Jerusalem Post at 3:45 p.m. ET:

Investigators believe a “lone male suspect” aged 20 to 25 is responsible for the crime, and that he has committed a number of other acts of vandalism in the area. The suspect overturned furniture in the building as well as “damaged several Jewish relics,” according to the statement. Fortunately the synagogue’s “main scrolls remained unscathed,” and disruption was “primarily to the synagogue’s interior contents,” with “very limited structural damage.”

Contrary to earlier reports, the Iranian synagogue, one of the largest in Los Angeles, suffered less damage than originally believed.

“No Torah has been torn apart. There was one non-kosher Sefer Torah [scroll] that was NOT in a locked hekhal [tabernacle] and was stored under the hekhal on the floor,” Moshe Isaacian, a Los Angeles local, tweeted.

“No broken doors, no broken windows only books and furniture were overturned. Thank g-d [sic],” Isaacian added.

Posted by:Fred

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