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Cops are looking for a ninja burglar whom they say swiped thousands of dollars worth of loot from Queens Jewish institutions in a months-long spree.

Surveillance video released Friday shows the nimble thief sliding in through a back window at the Yeshiva Shaar HaTorah on 117th Street near 84th Avenue in Kew Gardens on Saturday around 5 a.m.

He crawled on top of a refrigerator before leaping off and making a run for it, the video shows. He then used a key that he had found at the school during a previous burglary, opened a soda machine, swiped $300 in quarters from inside, cops said.

The suspect previously struck at the Khal Adas Yereim, a synagogue on Metropolitan Avenue near 124th Place, on April 7 around 2:30 a.m. He got in through a side entrance and made off with two charity boxes, containing an undetermined amount of cash.

And on March 24 around 2:30 a.m., he targeted the same yeshiva — entering through a rear door, where he found a key to the soda machine and swiped $600 in quarters from inside before taking off, cops said.

A week earlier, on March 17 at about 4 a.m., he allegedly swiped a laptop and computer accessories worth a total of $200.

Cops say his first visit to the yeshiva was on Nov. 19 of last year, when he entered the school around 2 a.m. and stole two pairs of headphones worth a total of $200.

He was last seen wearing a black hat and all dark clothing, police said.

It wasn’t clear whether the suspect was known to any of the institutions he targeted.

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