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A Brooklyn synagogue was vandalized on Thursday with anti-Semitic messages, the police said.
The hate messages, which included "Jews have an interest in being ready" and "Hitler", were found written in black markers on several floors of the Union Temple in Brooklyn on Eastern Parkway, near Grand Army Plaza, Prospect Heights. said a spokesman for the NYPD. Another epithet called for the death of Jews and used an odious historical comparison with vermin.
A political event organized by "Broad City" actress Ilana Glazer was scheduled to take place Thursday night in a synagogue theater, but was canceled after the messages were discovered, said Senate candidate Andrew Gounardes. Gounardes, journalist Amy Goodman and Jim Gaughran, another candidate in the Senate, were to speak at the event.
"Tonight's attack, right here in a Brooklyn temple, is a painful reminder that anti-Semitism and prejudice are alive and well in our own community," said Gounardes. "I congratulate the NYPD for its quick response and believe that anyone who has committed this hate crime should be prosecuted within the confines of the law."
Anti-Semitic messages appeared less than a week after a deadly shootings at a Pittsburgh synagogue. Eleven people were killed.
Swastikas and racial slurs were also found Wednesday in a house in Brooklyn Heights, police said.
None of the suspects in one or the other incident in Brooklyn was identified and investigations were continuing, police said.
Nicole Brown is the Internet News Manager at amNY.com. She has been covering local news since 2016. She has written for MSNBC.com and has been editor-in-chief of the NYU's Washington Square News.
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