The synagogue of Congregation Shaare Tikvah has suffered $2,000 in damage from fire set by arsonists, and otherwise desecrated, by the fourth attack on a Jewish house of worship in the Chicago area within a month, police authorities here disclosed today. The synagogue would have burned to the ground if it were not located in a modern fireproof building.
Other attacks against synagogues in this area have been committed at Congregation Both Israel Anshe Yanova, Congregation Beth Itzchok, and the Skokie Valley Traditional synagogue at the suburb of Skokie. In one of the: synagogues, the “Anshe Yanova,” ink was smeared over the Holy Ark. Orlando W. Wilson, Chicago’s new superintendent of police, today told the Sentinel, an English-Jewish weekly publication: “These actions are unforgivable, and we will not tolerate them.”
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