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SERVING DETROIT'S METROPOLITAN JEWISH COMMUNITY

OCTOBER 26, 1984

Livonia
suspect
questioned

BY TEDD SCHNEIDER
Staff Writer

Benyas-Kaufman

SPECIAL REPORT

HIGHWAY ROBBER

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struggles to survive the coming
of the 1-696 expressway

BY ALAN ABRAMS

See Story on Page 14

Livonia police are questioning a
Detroit-area man in connection with
the defacing last week-end of the
Livonia Jewish Congregation. Swas-
tikas and racial slurs painted on the
outside walls of the synagogue and an
adjacent school wing were discovered
Sunday morning.
The 24-year-old suspect, whom
police would not identify, was brought
in for questioning Wednesday on the
basis of information supplied to offi-
cers by residents in the • synagogue's
Seven Mile neighborhood, according to
Lt. Richard Ericson of the Livonia
Police Department. A second pair of
suspects, both juveniles, were cleared
by police when detectives "couldn't
specifically tie them in to the inci-
dent," Lt. Ericson said.
Police refused to link the daubing
at the synagogue with Sunday's public
opening of the Holocaust Memorial
Center (HMC) in West Bloomfield.
Several members of the congregation
however, including Religious Chair-
man Jeff Kirsch, feel that the van-
dalism may have been "timed to coin-
cide with the HMC dedication. Kirsch
cited the fact that the Livonia
synagogue had never experienced this
type of vandalism, although he admit-
ted that the synagogue had received
derogatory phone calls in the past.
HMC Director Rabbi Charles
Rosenzveig doubted that there was a

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