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http://jpupdates.com/2014/12/27/penn...ish-residence/

12/27/14
Jewish community members, religious leaders and political officials gathered in Yardley on Friday afternoon to denounce an anti-Semitic slur - “Move Jew” – onto the garage of the Raker family’s home in Lower Makefield Township in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, earlier in the week.

On Monday, Lower Makefield resident Michael Raker and his daughter Samantha discovered the message “Move Jew” spray-painted on their garage door before heading to work that morning.

“I think my heart stopped for a second,” Smantha Raker recalled in a conversation with the Philly Inquirer. “It was shocking.” She said she immediately called the police, who are investigating the incident.

Since Monday, Raker has told local media, she has felt unsafe in her own home. She said she had no idea who may have committed the act. At one point this week she asked her father to watch as she answered a knock at the front door.

State Rep. Steve Santarsiero (D-Bucks), said the purpose of the gathering was “to say in a loud voice that there is no place for hate in this community.

“Things like this cannot be tolerated,” added Rabbi Josh Gruenberg of Yardley’s Congregation Beth El. “This is not the community we are going to be.”