NEW YORK, Sept. 22 Vandals drew graffiti and swastikas on the windshield of a bus parked outside a Jewish school in New York on the eve of Yom Kippur, Judaism's holiest day.
The bus was parked across from Bnei Shimon Yisroel of Sopron school in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, The New York Daily News reported. Williamsburg is an ethnically diverse neighborhood long known as a center of Orthodox Judaism.
The vandalism was discovered Friday morning. Yom Kippur, or the Day of Atonement, began at sundown Friday. The school was closed for the holiday.
Police said the expletives included "F---- Jews" and references to Hitler. The writing was done in lotion.
"It's not okay. My blood is red. Their blood is red," said Maria Geao, a nursing home employee who lives in the area. "I don't know what the problem is. We have to live together, but some don't want it."
Copyright 2007 by UPI
