Police were investigating today the desecration by anti-Semitic vandals of a newly-opened synagogue in Hillside township, near here, a week after its formal dedication. A two-foot high swastika and the letters SS were found daubed in red paint on the door of the Hillside Jewish Center. Also plastered on the premises was a picture of Adolf Hitler clipped from a magazine.
In recent weeks, a number of township commissioners, as well as Mayor Robert Diamond, who is a Jew, have received telephone calls in which anti-Semitic language was used. Police have not yet made any arrests. Mayor Diamond said that he hoped the swastika incident was "the work of a young prankster and nothing more."
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