A spokesman for the Police Department said today that efforts were continuing to apprehend the vandals who smashed a dozen stained glass windows at the Chevra Kaddisha synagogue at 93 Moore St. in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. The windows on the synagogue’s second floor were broken Friday between 2:30 and 5:30 p.m. Police termed the act “criminal mischief.”
Mrs. Frieda Schwartz, the wife of the synagogue’s caretaker, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that this was not the first time the synagogue had been vandalized. Noting that “a lot of money” had just been spent to repair previous damages, Mrs. Schwartz said, “What can you do? They’re savages.” She added that yesterday’s rain coming through the broken windows had further damaged the interior of the building. The amount of damage caused by the vandals and the rain could not be immediately estimated.
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