Two people tried to break into the synagogue Tuesday morning, the synagogue's rabbi said, just hours after someone defaced a monument outside.
Two people tried to break into the synagogue Tuesday morning, the synagogue's rabbi said, just hours after someone defaced a monument outside.
Congregation Mikveh Israel, which was founded in 1740 and bills itself as the synagogue of the American Revolution, was vandalized at least twice in acts that synagogue officials called antisemitic and that Jewish leaders in the city decried as hateful.Around 2 a.m. Tuesday, a man wearing a blue hat, gray sweatshirt, blue jeans, and gray sneakers and carrying a backpack set fire to a dumpster behind the synagogue on North 4th Street, police said.
There was also an attempted break-in at the synagogue on Tuesday around 6:30 a.m., the rabbi said. Surveillance video captured two people trying to gain entry to the building with a crow bar, but they were startled and ran off, he said.
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