Parents at Mill Hill Synagogue have been asked to keep a closer eye on their children at Yom Kippur after a classroom was damaged during Rosh Hashanah.
Paul Charney, chairman of the United Synagogue congregation, wrote to members that he was “deeply upset by the disregard that a minority of the children of our community demonstrated” during the New Year services.
The behaviour of some children on the synagogue site was “unacceptable,” he said, “showing little respect to the service leaders, volunteers and paid staff, whose only purpose on the day was to help.”
A classroom had been “vandalised” by some children, leaving the synagogue to bear the cost, he said.
