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Posted By admin on December 17, 2019

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Beverly Hills police investigate the Nessah synagogue on Saturday morning after the employee arrived at the worship site at 7:00 am to reveal open doors, flipped furniture, and damaged several monuments.

Police investigate the incident as a hate crime, but says there is no evidence to suggest that the attack was anti-Semitic. The synagogues main scrolls were locked and undamaged.

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The damage inside the synagogue was ugly, according to one witness who spoke to the people who saw the damage first-hand, and would require thorough cleaning.

Nessah Synagogue The Synagogue, a worship site for the Persian Jewish community in Southern California, occupies a recognized place in the Iranian community in Los Angeles. It was founded by David Shofet, who emigrated to the United States in 1980 from Tehran as a result of the Iranian revolution.

When members arrived in Shabbat on Saturday morning, they found papers and leaflets from the hall in front of the entrance. Police soon introduced outside Rexford Drive, where the synagogue is located.

This cowardly attack will hit the heart in which we are as a community, said Mayor John Mirisch. Its not just an attack on the Jewish community in Beverly Hills; it is an attack on all of us. The whole city stands behind solidarity behind Nessah, its members and rallies.

The attack will take place at a time when the Community has drawn particular attention to anti-Semitic violence. On Tuesday, two shooters attacked a cemetery and a Jewish grocery store in Jersey City, N.J.

After the terrible tragedy in Jersey City earlier this week, the American Jewish community is understandably concerned, said Richard Hirschhaut, director of the American Jewish Committee in Los Angeles. Reports of vandalism and damage to the synagogue are deeply disturbing and cause further discomfort, assuming anti-Semitic intent.

Moshe Isaacian has been a member of the Nessah Synagogue for 16 years. Isaac said that the temple was often gathered for other synagogues in the country that experienced similar acts of vandalism.

The fact that it happens on our home lawn is very grim, he said. Our community cannot be silent about this.

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti on Twitter also expressed his concern.

Shocked and outraged by vandalism at the Nessah Synagogue in Beverly Hills, he said. We will stand together and strongly oppose any hatred and intolerance in our community. We keep our friends and neighbors in police investigation.

On Saturday afternoon, Beverly Hills police issued a description of a suspect as a white man between the ages of 20 and 25 with short dark curly hair, a thin structure, or wearing prescription glasses and a backpack and pulling a rail suitcase.

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