Vandals shattered window panes in the new synagogue in the Russian city of Tyumen twice recently, according to the Moscow office of the Anti-Defamation League. Police are investigating the incidents in the Siberian city, which came shortly before the synagogue’s new building is slated to be dedicated.
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