Sydney restaurateur Judith Lewis couldn’t save the mezuzah, a framed parchment inked with Hebrew prayers, that was hanging in her family’s café when arsonists set it alight in the early hours one Sunday in late October.

Australian detectives are investigating whether foreign actors are paying criminals to commit antisemitic attacks in the country.

The police said they were investigating whether “overseas actors” were involved the vandalizing of synagogues and a day care center.

Deakin University Global Islamic Politics Chair Professor says the antisemitism crisis in Australia needs to be treated with the “utmost seriousness”.

An Australian state has committed more police to investigate a spate of antisemitic crimes after a childcare center was torched near a Sydney synagogue.