Faith In Brooklyn for November 8: ‘#ShowUpForShabbat’ packs several Brooklyn synagogues
A number of Brooklyn synagogues hosted #ShowUpForShabbat, in which Jews welcomed family, friends and neighbors from the interfaith community to their Friday night and Saturday morning Shabbat services.
#ShowUpForShabbat was a response to recent acts of vandalism against the synagogues’ sister congregations and neighborhoods. Locals who participated in the ShowUpForShabbat liturgies at the Brooklyn Heights Synagogue and Congregation Mount Sinai report that attendance was packed.
Meanwhile, there were new developments in the vandalism cases. Based on surveillance tapes at the Union Temple, last Friday morning, Nov. 2, police apprehended the man they believe scrawled “Die Jew Rats,” “Hitler,” “End It Now” and “Jew Better Be Ready” in marker on its walls.