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Police investigating attack on L.A. Jewish center as hate crime
By The Associated Press and Haaretz Service
Unknown assailants threw a fiery object at a Jewish community center in the San Fernando Valley, and police are investigating the attack as a hate crime.
The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles says someone threw a Molotov cocktail at its community center in West Hills early Monday. No injuries or damages were reported.
Police spokesman Mike Lopez could not confirm whether the object was a Molotov cocktail. He says it was a flammable object which caught fire.
The city's police and fire departments are investigating the attack as a hate crime.
Meanwhile, a report published by the Anti-Defamation League points to a decline in anti-Semitic incidents in the U.S., Army Radio reported.
The report, which will be officially launched in two weeks' time, says that there were 1,350 anti-Semitic incidents in 2007, 13 percent less than the previous year.
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