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Unidentified vandals painted red swastikas on all the synagogues and scrawl- ed "Juden raus" (Jews out) — the notorious slogan used by the Gestapo in World War II on one of them. All seven incidents, which were spread throughout the city, occurred within a span of 24 hours. The defacements were the first in Quebec since a Jew- ish cemetery in the city of Sherbrooke was vandalized in 1991. "This is the worst act of racism in terms of magnitude and scope ever," said Jonathan Schneider- man, spokesman for B'nai Brith's League for Human Rights here. B'nai Brith has been con- cerned with a rise in anti- Semitic incidents in Mon- treal over the last two years, ranging from hate mail to assaults, although Quebec has experienced fewer such incidents than several other Canadian provinces. In Toronto, anti-Semitic slogans were painted onto three synagogues this past summer and a Jewish cemetery was defaced with red swastikas. Mr. Schneiderman and others pointed to a possible connection between the van- dalism here and the rise of neo-Nazi violence in Europe. The weekend's events "confirm the dire warnings" about the increase of hate crimes in Canada, said Rabbi Sidney Shohan of B'nai Brith in a statement. "We should not shake our heads at what is happening in Germany and think it cannot happen here," said Rabbi Shohan. "We assume that this has something to do with neo- Nazis," said Michael Grelin- sten, executive-director of Canadian Jewish Congress' Quebec region. "It's a par- ticularly poignant event in a city like Montreal, with its large Holocaust survivor com- munity." Mr. Crelinsten voiced pes- simism that authorities would be able to catch the perpetrators. — CJC has, however, offered a $5,000 reward for informa- tion leading to the ap- prehension of those respon- sible. The Sun Youth Organ- ization also announced that an anonymous businessman had matched the CJC offer. Mr. Crelinsten said that all, not only "minority com- munities," should be con- cerned about racism. People "have to decide what is tolerable and what kind of society it is in which they wish to live," he said. He deemed the deeds "an expression of the economic crisis in which we find ourselves enmeshed" and "a beachhead for the kinds of things we see happening in Europe. "Strong leadership is re- quired to ensure this (situa- tion) does not deteriorate." Both Congress and B'nai Brith Canada have called Unidentified vandals painted red swastikas on synagogues. upon Quebec's public securi- ty minister Claude Ryan to respond to the act. The executive director of the Beth Ora synagogue in the St. Laurent section, Zev Mestel, was reported to be unhappy with the response he received from police when he reported the vandalism. He said that the Montreal Urban Community officer took the report over the phone, saying he could not spare a cruiser. "The police shouldn't have treated it as idle graffiti," Mr. Mestel said. "We're used to swastikas, but when they start using terminology used in Nazi Germany, it's a diff- erent ball game, especially with what's going on in Germany now with skinheads." At Congregation Beth Israel Beth Aaron, one of the two synagogues in the predominantly Jewish suburb of Cote St. Luc that were vandalized, the graffiti was apparently sprayed onto the building while con- gregants were inside. "There are those who are tempted to dismiss these acts as being perpetrated by social outcasts," said Rabbi Reuben Poupko.