Venice, CA – A Star of David and the word “Jude” was found etched onto the front door of Temple Mishkon Tephilo in Venice over the weekend.

Rabbi Gabriel Botnick told the Journal in a phone interview that he received a voicemail from the police on Aug. 10 saying that a passerby had seen an unidentified person earlier in the day carve the marking onto the shul. Botnick saw the marking on the morning of Aug. 12.

“It’s somewhat typical in [Nazi] Germany and what people would do to Jewish businesses,” Botnick said, adding that this was the first time an act of antisemitism has occurred at Temple Mishkon Tephilo.