For the second time this summer, a Hollywood synagogue was vandalized on Thursday night.

The incidents are being looked into by Los Angeles police as possible hate crimes. According to an LAPD spokesman, on Friday, officers reported a hate crime there,according to la Times.

Video captured by the synagogue’s security camera shows two hooded men crossing Melrose Avenue and approaching the entrance to Kahal Ahavas Yisroel on Thursday night. There, one of the men wearing a dark hoodie appears to hand his cellphone over to the other man, who is wearing a light hoodie. The man in the dark hoodie then begins to bang on the windows with his forearm before drawing an unidentifiable blunt instrument from his sleeve, and then using the object to smash the windows of the place of worship.

The man in the light sweatshirt appears to record video of the incident with a cellphone.

Doni Dror, a board member at the synagogue, spoke to KCAL News on Sunday and said the men smashed the windows but did not go inside; no property was stolen.

He said the synagogue had been vandalized just a few weeks before, and he believes the incidents are related and hate-driven.

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