Swastika painted on Chicago Synagogue, Jewish businesses damaged over weekend

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Rabbi Levi Notik and members of his synagogue had just finished packing food bank meals for Holocaust survivors and seniors Sunday, when they walked outside to a “disturbing” sight, Notik said: a yellow swastika spray-painted on their building.

Then, as the group dealt with the graffiti, a young man on his way to synagogue services arrived distraught, saying he had just been “jumped by someone screaming racial slurs,” Notik said Monday.

Multiple Jewish businesses and synagogues were vandalized in the West Rogers Park neighborhood during the weekend, according to Chicago police and reports from the Concerned Citizens League.

“Make no mistake: this attack, as well as the deep hatred and bigotry that drives other anti-Semitic acts like it, is an attack on our city’s Jewish community and social fabric,” Mayor Lori Lightfoot said in a statement Monday. “Those responsible must be held accountable.”

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