Five Jewish families live on that stretch of Southwest 103rd Terrace, but the Fleisch home is the only house that has been targeted. A week before the first incident, they received a letter from the Tampa-based Florida Families Association asking them to drop their support for the Rogers show. Christy Rene, an office manager for the association, said the association had not yet released any information to their members about boycotting the Fleisch sandwich shop. It's only the fourth letter that says we're going to let people in our newsletter know and that you're on our list to not go into the store or support it because that's what they spend their advertising dollars on. But since we sent just one letter, there's no way anyone would have known.
Authorities believe the same criminal or criminals struck twice.
Michael Winograd, the associate director of the Anti-Defamation League's Florida regional office, said that to his eye the two sprayed messages looked similar. If it was just graffiti without the anti-Semitic element, it would just be vandalism. It's clearly graffiti targetting this family because they are Jewish. He called the culprit a coward. There's probably little risk to the family because the vandals strike when there's nobody home.