Congregants arriving Friday at the Van Cortlandt Jewish Center in the Bronx for morning prayers found that vandals had ripped out plumbing, scrawled anti-Semitic comments on the walls and flooded the first floor of the synagogue. Police said a safe was broken into but that it contained nothing of value. They said the vandals set a small fire, sprayed rooms on all three floors of the building with paint and wrecked the caterer’s office. Police this weekend continued their probe into the incident but so far have not found the vandals.
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