An arson attack at one of Australia’s busiest synagogues sent shockwaves rippling through the Jewish community. Then the politicians and media arrived.
Before dawn on Friday morning in the quiet of a Melbourne synagogue, Yumi Friedman was studying religious texts when what sounded like a sledgehammer ripped through his sanctuary.
He tried the door and burnt his hand. A small fire in the synagogue in Ripponlea, in Melbourne’s south-east, soon engulfed the building, after masked arsonists threw in accelerant and set it alight.“The person who saw them , and he saw they had big things of petrol,” Friedman told this masthead.The attack, shortly after 4am, sent shockwaves rippling through Melbourne’s Jewish community as members of the Adass congregation began arriving for what would normally be morning prayer.
The scrolls take more than a year for trained scribes to copy, and some of those housed at Adass are worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, having been passed down by Holocaust survivors to their children and grandchildren. Levin said parents dropping their children at Jewish schools on Friday morning called her and asked why they had bolstered security.
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