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Police investigating attack on L.A. Jewish center as hate crime

By The Associated Press and Haaretz Service

Tags: hate crime, Los Angeles, U.S.

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.

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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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