WARWICK – A $10,000 reward is being offered for information leading to a conviction of the person or persons responsible for the vandalism at the Temple Beth Shalom cemetery.

Anti-Semitic graffiti, including the words ”Heil Hitler”, swastikas and lightning-shaped “SS” patterned after the insignia worn by Nazi military police, were scrawled on the stone gates to the Jewish cemetery off Spanktown Road.



The vandalism was discovered Sunday morning.

Leslie Green, president of the Jewish Federation of Greater Orange County, said in announcing the reward that the graffiti was particularly troubling, coming just days before Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. Yom Kippur begins at sundown on Tuesday.

“We urge public figures and community leaders across Orange County to stand with us in solidarity and condemn this incident in the strongest of terms, and make clear that anti-Semitism and other acts of hate are unacceptable,” Green said.