Anti-semitic Attack
In February 1988, during a Saturday night improperly drawn swastikas and anti-Semitic slogans and "Jesus Lives; You Can't Kill Him" and "Accept Hitler, Respect Christ" were plastered across the synagogue, and 30 windows were smashed. In response, a neighboring church put a Star of David on its lawn, and its parish donated $1,000 towards repairing the windows. Miami Sunset High School students painted over the anti-Semitic slurs spray-painted by the vandals. Four teenagers, three of whom were football players at Miami Palmetto High School, were sentenced for having vandalized the synagogue to 200 hours of community service and ordered to pay the $14,800 ($29,100 today) in damages.
Two years later, in incidents that brought to mind the earlier vandalism, on five occasions in six weeks vandals shot at windows at the synagogue. Three teenagers, two of them students at Palmetto High School, were arrested for shooting out the windows.
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