Assailants fired at least eight shots at the synagogue in Christchurch, New Zealand, on Rosh Hashanah eve in what communal sources described as a deliberate anti-Semitic action. Andrew Blitz, a member of the New Zealand Jewish Council, told JTA that the 100-member Jewish community in Christchurch “is in shock.” Blitz added that “there is a significant problem with skinheads and other racists in Christchurch.
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