Residents of a Tarzana neighborhood were shaken this week by the appearance of neo-Nazi graffiti scrawled on a wall across from Congregation Bais Mordechai, according to the Jewish Journal.
The vandalism was discovered Sunday morning, according to the Los Angeles Police Department and the Jewish Anti-Defamation League. The graffiti is directly across the street from the synagogue, according to the Jewish Journal.
Rabbi Moshe Kamionski said an Iranian-Jewish family that attends his synagogue owns the home.
“This was designed to intimidate and to scare, and to inflict fear on people who want to assemble and pray to the Almighty,” Kamionski told the Jewish Journal.
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