{"id":325109,"date":"2025-12-19T18:38:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T18:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/325109\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T18:38:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T18:38:08","slug":"hanukkah-menorah-damaged-in-londons-muswell-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/325109\/","title":{"rendered":"Hanukkah menorah damaged in London&#8217;s Muswell Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A menorah celebrating the Jewish festival of Hanukkah has been damaged in north London, with its light-bulbs smashed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Metropolitan Police said it was treating the incident in Muswell Hill as religiously aggravated criminal damage and that no arrests had been made at this stage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rabbi Boruch Altein from the Crouch End Chabad, which erected the menorah, said: &#8220;This incident is saddening, but we&#8217;re not going to be intimidated and we will increase the light&#8221;, adding that the menorah would be repaired and relit on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It comes after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cqjg22rey0lo\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">15 people were killed in mass shooting at a Hanukkah event<\/a> on Sydney&#8217;s Bondi Beach on 14 December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A menorah celebrating the Jewish festival of Hanukkah has been damaged in north London, with its light-bulbs smashed.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-325109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}