Chicago synagogue vandalized February 6, 2017Illustration of Synagogue vandalism with Swastika stickers, broken glass. (Chicago Police Department) (Chicago Police Department)Chicago synagogue vandalized Tweet WhatsApp Email https://worldisraelnews.com/chicago-synagogue-vandalized/ Email Print A Chicago synagogue was targeted by an anti-Semitic hate crime, the first time since its establishment in 1959.A vandal broke a window and put several swastika stickers on the front door of the Loop Synagogue in downtown Chicago on Saturday.This was the first time that the synagogue was the target of a hate crime since opening its doors in 1959.“I was stunned,” synagogue president Lee Zoldan said at a Sunday news conference in which she announced rewards totaling $3,000 for information leading to an arrest and conviction of the suspect.“You don’t expect something like this … this has never happened to us. I was trying to process it,” she stated, according to the Chicago Tribune. A surveillance camera captured video of a man parking a dark-colored SUV in front of the building before briskly walking up to it, placing something on the door and smashing a window. The man, wearing a head mask or hood, retrieved a metal object from his pocket before swinging twice at the window. He ran back to his car and drove away.The person was described as a white male wearing dark clothes and a dark head mask, police said.Read UK counter-terror police arrest 10 after violent attack on Israeli defense companyPolice collected license plate information and are processing some fingerprints from the scene, the Tribune reported.“This is blatantly anti-Semitic and totally beyond comprehension and will not be tolerated,” community activist Raul Montes Jr. said Sunday, standing in front of a dozen congregants and supporters. “This is a hate crime. This should not have occurred nowhere.”By: World Israel News Staff anti-SemitismChicagoSwastikaVandalism