{"id":349340,"date":"2026-09-17T15:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T15:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/349340\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T15:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T15:34:08","slug":"a-synagogue-was-harmed-and-the-politicians-shrugged-not-in-nyc-in-jerusalem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/349340\/","title":{"rendered":"A Synagogue Was Harmed and the Politicians Shrugged. Not in NYC \u2013 in Jerusalem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"article-subtitle\">On the same week that an attack on New York&#8217;s Central Synagogue drew strong condemnations, Israel&#8217;s government and Jerusalem&#8217;s mayor stayed silent after my Reform congregation was vandalized<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh x103ahzr x6ikm8r x10wlt62\">In mid-August, video cameras captured three teenagers with yarmulkes smashing a window, climbing into the sanctuary, tearing down a Pride flag and damaging works of art at my synagogue in Jerusalem, Kol Haneshama. No one was in the synagogue at the time; police are investigating. On Rosh Hashana, during services, another group of teenagers tried to pelt the congregants with eggs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On the same week that an attack on New York&#8217;s Central Synagogue drew strong condemnations, Israel&#8217;s government and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349341,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[98815,130573,90263,9,56,63,65,64,130572],"class_list":["post-349340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-israel-u-s","tag-israeli-culture","tag-jerusalem","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-reform-judaism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349340","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=349340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}