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Mineola synagogue vandalized with swastikas

Rabbi Anchelle Perl wasn't at Congregation Beth Shalom Chabad in Mineola on Friday morning as he usually is, as the temple was closed for the Fourth of July weekend.

Instead, he got a call unlike any he's ever received: Someone had sprayed two large, bright orange swastikas on the synagogue's front doors.

"As soon as I came and saw it was a swastika, I realized this was a bias crime,"...

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