January 5, 2012

(JTA) – The exterior of a synagogue in central Ukraine was damaged after being attacked with a Molotov cocktail.

The New Year’s Eve attack is the second firebombing attack against the synagogue, located in Kremenchug, Ukraine in as many months. In the first incident, the Molotov cocktail failed to ignite.

Chief Rabbi Shlomo Salomon, a Chabad-Lubavitch emissary, said that the community was relatively lucky. “If (the Molotov cocktail) had gone through a window, it could have burned down the whole building,” he said.

The attack came a month after the community celebrated the dedication of a new Torah scroll in memory of the second Lubavitch Rebbe, Rabbi Dov Ber Shneuri. 

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