A local Jewish leader calls the spray-painting of
the words “Jews murder” outside a synagogue in the Lake View
neighborhood “a sad reminder of the persistence of anti-Semitism.”
Police said they were notified of the graffiti on
the Anshe Emet synagogue in the 3700 block of North Broadway about 6
a.m. Wednesday.
“Today, we have received yet another sad reminder
of the persistence of anti-Semitism,” Dan Elbaum, Chicago director of
the American Jewish Committee, said in a statement Wednesday morning.
“The words ‘Jews murder’ and ‘Jews kill’ are particularly galling given
last week’s murder of four French Jews by an attacker claiming to be
motivated by events in the Middle East.
“All words have consequences, and we should keep
that in mind as we call upon all people of good faith to speak out
against the vandalism,” Elbaum said, noting the vandalism happened just
more than a week before the Jewish holiday of Passover.
Anshe Emet Congregation, a member of the United
Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, is one of Chicago’s oldest
congregations, dating to 1873. It has called the synagogue home since
1929.
Police were investigating what a spokesman called
“disparaging comments” spray-painted outside the synagogue, but no one
was in custody Wednesday. Sun-Times Media Wire
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