The rooftop of Congregation B’nai Chaim is littered with graffiti. Upon further investigation it was discovered that the culprit, a known gang member, was living on the rooftop of the synagogue. Valley News/Courtesy photo
Just a few weeks before Congregation B’nai Chaim was about to host Passover Seder, synagogue officials reported graffiti at the Murrieta location to the police.The immediate reaction, according to Irv Michlin, a member of Congregation B’nai Chaim and Vice President of the Holocaust Remembrance Foundation of the Valley, was that the graffiti was an anti-Semitic act.“As it turns out, the likely guilty party was a bad actor, defacing property,” Michlin said.The graffiti along the top of the side of the building was first reported to Tracy Nusbaum, the president of Congregation B'nai Chaim, Sunday, April 3.“I received a call, and the synagogue received several calls that the building had been vandali
