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An Ottawa woman says she awoke Tuesday to discover a swastika and ethnic slur spray-painted on her front door.

Red spray-paint covered the door’s window, part of a swastika and anti-Semitic insult.

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Anna Maranta uses the apartment as the Glebe Minyan, a place where Jews can gather to pray. She uses the title rabbi, although Rabbi Liz Bolton of the Ottawa Reconstructionist Community says Maranta has not been ordained by any recognized rabbinical body. However, Maranta contends there are several types of possible ordination and, in her case, she was ordained in 2010 by an individual rabbi.

Late in the morning Ottawa police Chief Charles Bordeleau confirmed the incident was being investigated and that he stressed on Twitter: “Incidents like this are totally unacceptable and are not tolerated by our community and (Ottawa police).”

Maranta said Tuesday she has suffered “a lot of verbal abuse” in the past, generally related to her work as a social activist, “but I’ve never had anything like this before.”