{"id":267710,"date":"2026-08-18T20:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T20:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/267710\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T20:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T20:06:09","slug":"weitzman-museum-vandalized-again-philadelphia-jewish-exponent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/267710\/","title":{"rendered":"Weitzman Museum Vandalized Again – Philadelphia Jewish Exponent"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History (Photo credit: Barry Halkin\/Halkin Photography)<\/p>\n

In August 2025, the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History was vandalized with red spray paint<\/a> on its facade, plaza and on an Israeli flag outside the building.<\/p>\n

About a year later, the museum, which is seeking to become the official educational repository of Jewish history in America through the Smithsonian Institution, was vandalized again<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This time, an \u201cunidentified white male\u201d scribbled an \u201coffensive message\u201d on the OY\/YO sculpture outside the Weitzman, according to the Philadelphia Police Department, as reported by JNS.<\/p>\n

The incident happened on Aug. 13 around 8:11 p.m. Surveillance footage revealed the man approached the museum, committed the act and then boarded a train a few minutes later.<\/p>\n

The police department is still trying to find the suspect and make an arrest. It is also in the process of determining whether to classify the incident as a hate crime.<\/p>\n

Graffiti from the act is no longer visible, according to a 6abc report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In an interview with 6abc, Andrew Goretsky, the senior regional director of the Anti-Defamation League\u2019s Philadelphia office, noted that the ADL\u2019s annual audit of antisemitic incidents found that incidents of vandalism more than doubled across Pennsylvania between 2022 and 2025.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is incredibly frustrating, but unfortunately not surprising,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

jsaffren@midatlanticmedia.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History (Photo credit: Barry Halkin\/Halkin Photography) In August 2025, the Weitzman…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[182,139,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-267710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}