The NYPD says someone spraypainted 'Free Palestine' on the building and covered the door in paint and broken eggs.
NEW YORK - The Sholem Aleichem Cultural Center in the Bronx was defaced with paint and pro-Palestinian graffiti one week ago. In his first on-camera interview, the co-president of the center tells CBS New York the importance of preserving the culture, especially during times of hate.
Inside, you can hear the sound of Yiddish -- a 1,000-year-old language spoken by Central and Eastern European Jews and threatened at the plight of World War II.'The Yiddish alphabet is largely phonetic,' explains Braun.The center has worked to preserve the endangered language for decades, one of the only places in the country to do so. It's a language fully embraced by New Yorkers, with famous cultural texts like 'Fiddler on the Roof' inspired by it.
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