On Tuesday, 34-year old Eugene resident Adam Edward Braun pleaded guilty to three federal hate crime charges for vandalizing the Temple Beth Synagogue on four different occasions in 2023 and 2024.
Braun repeatedly vandalized Temple Beth starting in August 2023. He did it again in September 2023, four days after the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by Hamas on Oct. 11, 2023, and in January 2024.
Some of the vandalism included antisemitic symbols.
In the final January incident, prosecutors said that Braun went to the synagogue with a hammer prepared to hit glass doors at the entrance of the synagogue until he realized that there was a security camera. Braun instead used spray paint to write “white power” on the outside of the synagogue.
Braun faces up to a year in jail for the three federal hate crime charges.
