Swastikas painted on N.Y. synagogue

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NEW YORK, June 16 (UPI) -- Police were searching for vandals who painted swastikas on a New York synagogue and other buildings and consider the vandalism a hate crime, officials said.

Police said the swastikas were found on the Irgun Shiurai Torah synagogue, a Jewish bath house and several businesses in a Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn, The New York Post reported.

No arrests have been made.

Video from surveillance cameras from a food store that was vandalized showed two men in hooded jackets approaching the store early Friday, police said. One man spray-painted the store's roll-down gate then painted a swastika on the window. The other person was out of the security camera's range.

"Because they've got extra paint in their cans, they have to go out and spray other people's property?" Scheindel Fischman, who owns the store with her husband, told the Post. "It's ridiculous. I've never heard of something like that."