A swastika and other anti-Semitic graffiti were scrawled outside two synagogues in San Francisco, the northern California JWeekly website reported. The website said that police are investigating the incidentas a hate crime.
The website said that on the morning of May 30, traffic sign outside Congregation Beth Israel Judea and Or Shalom Jewish Community was found tagged with “Heil Hiter” (sic) and the phrase “death to the Jews” written in French.
The synagogues are also located next door to the Brandeis Hillel Day School. which is located next door. Corey Weinstein, Or Shalom’s board president, told JWeekly that no student or parent saw the graffiti, and that it was removed before the start of Shabbat.