{"id":29908,"date":"2025-11-05T19:40:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T19:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/29908\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T19:40:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T19:40:13","slug":"gravesend-yeshiva-vandalized-with-spray-painted-swastikas-brooklyn-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/29908\/","title":{"rendered":"Gravesend yeshiva vandalized with spray-painted swastikas \u2022 Brooklyn Paper"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Megen David yeshiva in Gravesend was vandalized with multiple spray-painted swastikas on Tuesday night, police said. <\/p>\n

Photo courtesy of U.S. Rep. Nicole Malliotakis\/X<\/p>\n

A Gravesend yeshiva was vandalized with spray-painted swastikas late on Tuesday night.\n<\/p>\n

A security guard at Magen David Yeshivah<\/a> on McDonald Avenue discovered two red swastikas painted on a window and pillar at the front of the building at about 6:30 a.m. on Nov. 5 and called 911, police said. The building is home to an Orthodox Jewish elementary school and is part of a larger campus that includes a rabbinical college and an early childhood education center.\u00a0<\/p>\n

No arrests had been made as of Wednesday afternoon, police said, and an investigation by the NYPD\u2019s Hate Crimes Task Force is underway.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

The school\u2019s principal, Rabbi Ezra-Cohen Saban, said in an email to parents that extra security was onsite Wednesday as the investigation unfolded, according to the Daily News<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Gov. Kathy Hochul said \u201cseveral\u201d Jewish sites had been vandalized with swastikas on Tuesday, though details about the additional sites were not immediately clear.\u00a0
\n\"gravesendA security guard found the swastikas early on Wednesday morning and called police.Photo courtesy of U.S. Rep. Nicole Malliotakis\/X\n<\/p>\n

The incident, which took place in the hours after Zohran Mamdani was certified as the mayor-elect, inflamed tensions in the neighborhood and online. Some Jewish New Yorkers have been critical<\/a> of Mamdani, who has long voiced criticism<\/a> of the Israeli government and support for Palestinians.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Antisemitic hate crimes skyrocketed<\/a> in New York City and across the U.S. after the start of the Israel-Hamas war in 2023, and the rate of antisemitic<\/a> incidents<\/a> has remained high<\/a> since then.\u00a0Many critical of Mamdani feared that his views could further embolden antisemitism in New York City.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

On X<\/a>, U.S. Rep. Nicole Malliotakis called on Mamdani to \u201ccondemn this hateful graffiti.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mamdani, in a separate post<\/a>, said the incident was a \u201cdisgusting and heartbreaking act of antisemitism \u2026 with no place in our beautiful city.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAs Mayor, I will always stand steadfast with our Jewish neighbors to root the scourge of antisemitism out of our city,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Megen David yeshiva in Gravesend was vandalized with multiple spray-painted swastikas on Tuesday night, police said. Photo…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[3862,98,100,99,474,15582,18440,426,18441,18442,9,24,2215,12,370,887,63,103,10780,18377,5614,82],"class_list":["post-29908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-antisemitism","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-gravesend","tag-hate-crime","tag-hate-crimes-task-force","tag-kathy-hochul","tag-magen-david-yeshivah","tag-mcdonald-avenue","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-police-department","tag-news","tag-newsletter","tag-nicole-malliotakis","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-school","tag-swastika","tag-vandalism","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}