UPDATE (8/6):

Sunday, various faith and community leaders came together to say this discrimination cannot be ignored.

They held a rally near where the vandalism happened at Bonforte Park in the Old North End neighborhood of Colorado Springs.

"We're also expressing our unity, that hate is not acceptable in this community,” Cay Jurgensen said

The group wrote messages of hope on signs that said “love lives here” for the victims of the vandalism. They also had a moment of silence.

"We are not that. We are not that, we are this. Love lives here in Colorado Springs and this is what we're about,” said the Rev. Ahriana Platten with the Unity Spiritual Center.

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PREVIOUS (8/4):

A local synagogue was vandalized with messages of hate and anti-Semitism Thursday night.

It happened at Temple Beit Torah, near Wahsatch and Monroe Street just north of downtown Colorado Springs.

Friday morning, neighbors near the synagogue noticed cars and homes had been spray painted overnight.

When Daniel Bushman saw this, he had to do something.

"This is a great neighborhood, all the neighbors look out for each other. There's always kids playing around, kids going to the park, and it's just ridiculous that somebody has to come around and put nonsense up like that. I just was trying to get rid of it, I didn't want it to be there, plus they have service today. I didn't want them to come in and see all of that. It's just gross,” Bushman said.

Bushman tells 11 News he used paint thinner to try and scrub it off for almost an hour.

"In this day and age, you have to hark back to the Nazi era for that kind of thing. In the grand scheme of things, it may not seem big but it's big to us,” said the temple’s administrator, Laura Gross.

Colorado’s Anti-Defamation League (ADL) says in 2014, they had reports of about 10 incidents. In 2017 so far, they've already seen more than 60.

ADL said, “The presidential election and heightened political atmosphere played a role in the increase.”

If you have any information on who may have vandalized the synagogue, call police at 719-444-7000.