(Jewish Group) My temple was broken into and a Torah was desecrated. [View all]

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I was on the board of this temple for 10 or 11 years. I was in the board room once a month for my term as a director. I have received two email blasts from the temple about the first break in and the second incursion by this lady but there was no mention of damage or wine being spilled on a torah. About 15 or 20 years ago, the temple commissioned a special scribe to prepare an additional torah for the temple after we donated a torah to a new temple. We still have six or seven torahs.

Here is the story from the Houston news station.

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https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2023/01/21/the-damage-is-immeasurable-woman-breaks-into-jewish-temple-desecrates-sanctuary-and-torah-then-returns-to-scare-children-prosecutors-say/

‘The damage is immeasurable’: Woman breaks into Jewish temple, desecrates sanctuary and Torah, then returns to scare children, prosecutors say

Harris County prosecutors say a woman broke in and desecrated it last Saturday, leaving behind several thousand dollars in damage.

Instead of showing up to court for her hearing Friday, they say she came back to the temple and did even more harm.

”The damage is immeasurable,” said Assistant Harris County District Attorney, Erica Winsor.

Last Saturday, Winsor says a rabbi getting ready to officiate a Bar Mitzvah at Congregation Emanu El walked into an unholy surprise.

”He found an individual on the pulpit,” Winsor says.

That individual was identified as Ezra Law, and Winsor says she wasn’t there to pray.

”There were several religious items that had been removed from their place. Some were damaged, there was red wine that had been consumed and also spilled,” she said

The allegations get even more sacrilegious.

”Most importantly, there was a Torah scroll that was removed from the Holy Arc and spread out on the floor. And there was red wine that was spilled on that scroll,” she said......

KPRC 2 told that Law’s mental state will be evaluated once she’s booked into the jail, but for now, she’s being charged with felony criminal mischief inside a place of worship.

Officials now working to determine whether her actions classify as a hate crime.

One of my law partners is a former president of the Temple and I will check with him later. I want to know why the email blasts did not mention the desecration of a Torah.