Fire believed to have been started by juvenile delinquents with anti-Semitic intentions damaged several classrooms of a Jewish parochial school in Brooklyn yesterday; When firemen arrived to fight the blaze, during the night, at the Beth Jacob Day School, they found scrawled on several blackboards this message: “You dirty Jews–you’ll never find out who did this.”
Policemen and firemen rescued several scrolls of the Torah in the Holy Ark at the school; The scrolls were undamaged. There were no pupils in the building at the time the arson was committed.
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