Spring Valley, NY - Police Investigate Break-Ins At Jewish Center

Spring Valley, NY - A Jewish community center on Main Street was vandalized for the seventh time today.
During the past two months, vandals have stolen computers and other equipment, destroyed property and left anti-Semitic graffiti, police and building tenants said.

The building has been leased to several organizations, and had been the longtime home of Yeshiva of Rockland and the Jewish Community Center. The new owners, Bnos Esther Pupa, takes over in September.

Sgt. Peter Russell said door windows inside the building were found broken.
On July 2, they left anti-Semitic graffiti spray-painted on a wall behind the building, Russell said. Another time, a teacher's desk calendar had the words "Hitler" written on it.
Mona Montel, a tenant in the spacious building for years, said yesterday that the break-ins, thefts and vandalism started "out of the blue seven weeks ago." "We've been at the same location for 15 to 20 years and never had a problem," Montel said.