Rabbi Jonah Layman was surprised to receive an 8 a.m. phone call from a Maryland state senator asking whether he was okay. Graffiti, he’d learn, had been spray-painted on the synagogue in Olney where Layman has served as rabbi since 1994.
Layman rushed over to Shaare Tefila Congregation early Tuesday, where the signs had been defaced with a swastika and acronym AZAB, which Layman said is an abbreviation for “all Zionists are bastards.” Garbage was also found under one of the signs, he said.
