Doylestown Vandalism Outside Jewish Owned Business Inspires Good Deed

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Joshua Roberts, Sydney Roberts cleaning graffiti from the sidewalk at Siren Records. (Facebook) Sometimes, a bad action brings about a good one. Someone painted anti-Israel graffiti on Doylestown borough sidewalks Sunday, including two messages in front of Siren Records, a Jewish-owned store. “Instantly, I was very sad,” said Heidi K., who owns the music shop. “Then I was a little confused. It was so misplaced. And I was trying to figure out who could have done it and why they did it there.  I was worried that they did it because this was a Jewish-owned and Jewish-run business. “But later, it was brought to my attention there were other pieces of graffiti matching that in other places around the vicinity of the store, as well,” she said. She called the police, and they took a report, she said. The shop had been a target of antisemitic vandalism twice before in recent months, she said. When the phone rang, she was looking into how to clean paint off of concrete. Joshua Roberts, a Holland chiropractor, offered to come over and clean it off. “The whole thing started with my wife [Jennifer],” said Roberts. “She sent me a picture on Facebook about...

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