Vandals sprayed anti-Semitic graffiti on a Jewish school in Massachusetts. School workers at the New Jewish Academy and the Flagg Street School in Worcester found windows smashed and anti-Semitic graffiti spray-painted on walls last weekend and on other occasions over the past two weeks, according to the Worcester Telegram & Gazette. Police are investigating. We would like to see this treated as a hate crime if the people responsible are apprehended, said Robert Pezzella, executive assistant to the superintendent for school safety and violence prevention. The New Jewish Academy building is connected to a local synagogue, Congregation Beth Israel.
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