Swastikas and racial epithets were spray-painted on a Canadian synagogue. Caterers arriving Saturday morning to set up for a Bar Mitzvah at the Beth Shalom West Synagogue near Ottawa found the vandalism. The synagogue desecration is at least the fifth across Ontario in recent months.
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