Readers fund CCTV for vandalised synagogue

Surveillance equipment worth more than £1,500 has been installed at a Lithuanian synagogue vandalised in an antisemitic attack, following an appeal on the JC website.

An anonymous donor responded to the request to provide the synagogue in Kaunas in central Lithuania with CCTV cameras after extremists left a pig’s head outside the building.

They had carved a star of David into the head and placed it underneath a black Hasidic hat and with peyot (sidelocks) attached. Community leaders said they believed it was left there by a neo-Nazi organisation.

Three hours after the story went online, a man planning to sell his old security camera offered it to the synagogue for free.