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A VISITOR to our synagogue last Shabbat left us with a clear demonstration
of that person's view of Judaism.
Discovered later was a piece of chewing gum which this person had stuck inside one of our siddurim. I am bewildered as to why anyone would place so little value or have such little respect for a book of prayer. This is a vile act of desecration, made worse because it was carried out by a Jew and, with exquisite timing, in the week in which we commemorated the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht. In 1938, the Nazis desecrated our synagogues. In 2008, a Jewish guest in our shul carried out an act of desecration which has caused offence to every Jew who has learned of it. I await an apology and reparation. Jonathan Rose,
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