Anti-Semitic graffiti found at playground across from Lakewood yeshiva
Spray-painted messages on equipment at New Jersey playground included 'Hail Hitler,' swastika
Several swastikas and other anti-Semitic messages were spray-painted on equipment at a playground across the street from an Orthodox yeshiva in the heavily ultra-Orthodox township of Lakewood, New Jersey.
The graffiti discovered Thursday included the words “Hail Hitler,” the Asbury Park Press reported.
A spokesman for the Lakewood police said the department received a report of “bias criminal mischief” on Thursday afternoon and is investigating.
Mayor Menashe Miller condemned the vandalism, telling The Lakewood Scoop: “Lakewood Township and its police department takes bias crime very seriously. It is obvious that someone is trying to intimidate a particular segment of the community and we will not tolerate that sort of behavior.”
The vandalized playground is across the street from Yeshiva K’tana, a k-12 Jewish boys school.