{"id":996638,"date":"2015-04-17T16:47:21","date_gmt":"2015-04-17T20:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jta.org\/?p=996638"},"modified":"2015-04-19T15:00:47","modified_gmt":"2015-04-19T19:00:47","slug":"vandals-rip-holocaust-sign-in-upper-nyack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jta.org\/2015\/04\/17\/united-states\/vandals-rip-holocaust-sign-in-upper-nyack","title":{"rendered":"Vandals tear down Holocaust sign in suburban N.Y. town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(JTA) \u2014 Vandals ripped down a Holocaust commemoration sign in a suburban New York town.<\/p>\n<p>Staff at Congregation Sons of Israel in Upper Nyack, north of New York City, discovered the vandalism when they arrived for work on April 16, a congregant wrote in the Nyack News and Views. The sign was destroyed sometime after a ceremony the previous evening for Holocaust Remembrance Day, or Yom Hashoah, which began the same night.<\/p>\n<p>The sign listed the number of Jews, citizens of the former Soviet Union, Poles, Roma, disabled, Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses and homosexuals murdered by the Nazis during the Holocaust.<\/p>\n<p>A police report was filed.<\/p><html><div id=\"lightbox-inline-form-9fad5317-cc1f-4c75-869d-4249b53b851a\"><\/div>\r\n<div id=\"lightbox-inline-form-8eaf9ca1-0df5-46d3-b00e-5af82833377d\"><\/div>\r\n<div id=\"lightbox-inline-form-f7e91d8e-6381-4dc6-b7d7-09a05defdd2e\"><\/div>\r\n <div id=\"lightbox-inline-form-7ffa4c37-60be-4536-a0e6-68b4ac1c2d24\" style=\"text-align: center\"><\/div><\/html>\n<p>The sign had been set up Tuesday by Sons of Israel Hebrew school students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sign had been used for a Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony at a congregation in Upper Nyack, N.Y.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[15078,2590,39927,24448],"coauthors":[235],"class_list":["post-996638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-united-states","tag-anti-semitic-vandalism","tag-holocaust-remebrance-day","tag-news-opinion","tag-rockland-county"],"apple_news_notices":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Vandals tear down Holocaust sign in suburban N.Y. town - Jewish Telegraphic Agency<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jta.org\/2015\/04\/17\/united-states\/vandals-rip-holocaust-sign-in-upper-nyack\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Vandals tear down Holocaust sign in suburban N.Y. town - Jewish Telegraphic Agency\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The sign had been used for a Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony at a congregation in Upper Nyack, N.Y.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.jta.org\/2015\/04\/17\/united-states\/vandals-rip-holocaust-sign-in-upper-nyack\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Jewish Telegraphic Agency\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-04-17T20:47:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2015-04-19T19:00:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.jta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/jta-long-logo-bw.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"315\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Ron Kampeas\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Ron Kampeas\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.jta.org\/2015\/04\/17\/united-states\/vandals-rip-holocaust-sign-in-upper-nyack#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.jta.org\/2015\/04\/17\/united-states\/vandals-rip-holocaust-sign-in-upper-nyack\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Ron Kampeas\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.jta.org\/#\/schema\/person\/17fe3831ff78aa13ba0ec1f6934c73b3\"},\"headline\":\"Vandals tear down Holocaust sign in suburban N.Y. town\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-04-17T20:47:21+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2015-04-19T19:00:47+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.jta.org\/2015\/04\/17\/united-states\/vandals-rip-holocaust-sign-in-upper-nyack\"},\"wordCount\":128,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.jta.org\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"anti-semitic vandalism\",\"Holocaust Remebrance Day\",\"News &amp; 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