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(IsraelNN.com) The New York Police Department arrested two teens who were terrorizing Jewish residents and sites on the lower East Side of Manhattan with eggs, smoke bombs and swastikas, according to the NY Daily News. The teens, a 15-year-old Asian male and a 16-year-old black male, were charged with aggravated harassment, criminal mischief and reckless endangerment, all as hate crimes.

The anti-Semitic spree began at 1 p.m. Thursday when they used a marker to deface a wall at the United Hebrew Center on East Broadway with a swastika and set off a smoke bomb, police said. An hour later at the Bialystoker Shul, the teens drew another swastika, wrote a slur on a wall, and hurled eggs at the synagogue. “This is a desecration of God, no matter what your religion,” said Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.