Five people were stabbed Saturday night at a Hanukkah celebration at a rabbi’s home in the heavily Orthodox Jewish community of Monsey, New York, multiple news outlets reported.
The Orthodox Jewish Public Affairs Council said on Twitter that an attacker entered the home of the Hassidic rabbi, which some outlets have described as a synagogue, just before 10 p.m. Five people were taken to the hospital, two in critical condition, the organization said.
At 9:50 this eve, a call came in about a mass stabbing at 47 Forshay Road in Monsey (Rockland County; 30 miles North of NYC). It's the house of a Hasidic Rabbi. 5 patients with stab wounds, all Hasidic, were transported to local hospitals.
— OJPAC Hudson Valley Region (@OJPACHV) December 29, 2019
The Ramapo Police Department said on Facebook the suspect fled but has been taken into custody.
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I am horrified by the stabbing of multiple people at a synagogue in Rockland County tonight.
We have zero tolerance for anti-Semitism in NY and we will hold the attacker accountable to the fullest extent of the law.
NY stands with the Jewish community. pic.twitter.com/JILUoFXJc9
— Andrew Cuomo (@NYGovCuomo) December 29, 2019
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Police have received eight reports of possible anti-Semitic attacks since Dec. 13 in the city, and Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) announced Friday that the NYPD would step up patrols in multiple heavily Jewish neighborhoods.
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Multiple people stabbed at Hanukkah celebration in New Yorkhttps://t.co/CMdQq9GOLX pic.twitter.com/XnRhJLQnUD
— The Hill (@thehill) December 29, 2019
There are too many people who only seem to care about anti-Semitic violence when it's directed against the right sort of Jews or comes from particular perpetrators.
All Jewish lives matter.
All anti-Semitism is evil.Don't trust those who suggest otherwise. They're the problem. https://t.co/CAKjZ8zV9h
— (((Yair Rosenberg))) (@Yair_Rosenberg) December 29, 2019
Unreal that just hours ago actual serious people on this website were opposing an increased police presence to defend our Jewish friends and neighbors.
— David French (@DavidAFrench) December 29, 2019
This is a detail I never really got over regarding the Jersey City attack, which did not receive nearly enough national coverage. The original target seemed to be 50+ kids, and it was only because the attacker couldn’t get in that those lives were spared. https://t.co/lGSwmde2el
— (((AG))) (@AGHamilton29) December 29, 2019
Anti-semitic murders are always an indicator of a society facing serious threats. https://t.co/sorQRIyyGv
— Nicholas A. Christakis (@NAChristakis) December 29, 2019
This is at least the 9th anti-Semitic attack in New York in the last week https://t.co/LXgvOZtQ5U
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) December 29, 2019
Is it REALLY that hard to say 5 Jews were stabbed? Shameful headline by @cnn @its_xristina pic.twitter.com/Gdjpbc38g6
— Adam Milstein (@AdamMilstein) December 29, 2019
“There were attacks on Jewish New Yorkers almost every day last week” https://t.co/B8DrcZ7Cdb
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) December 29, 2019
Sadly quite prudent. https://t.co/3myitC98g6
— David French (@DavidAFrench) December 30, 2019
What is one thing you can concretely do about the horror of evil people attacking a place of worship? You can purchase a gun, you can diligently train yourself in its use, and you can pray that you can exhibit the courage of the man who shot the shooter in Texas.
— David French (@DavidAFrench) December 29, 2019
I spent my day talking to Jews in Rockland Co., who are watching the escalation of anti-Semitism in New York and New Jersey, who feel very scared after the Hanukkah stabbing.
"We are not safe as Jewish in New York," one woman told me.https://t.co/7amduhp4iN
— Emma Green (@emmaogreen) December 29, 2019
Here he is. https://t.co/BWfPWeQOZo
— Benjamin Adams (@BenAdamsO_O) December 30, 2019
Josef Gluck: "I don't feel like a hero. I feel God is a hero. He sent me in the right place at the right time and gave me the right set of mind." pic.twitter.com/mu1WwNABPl
— The Hill (@thehill) December 30, 2019
"May the children of the Stock of Abraham, who dwell in this land, continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other Inhabitants; while every one shall sit in safety under his own vine and figtree."
— George Washington
— John Schindler (@20committee) December 30, 2019
Faith communities are under attack in America and beyond. Many reasons for this, all of them awful. It's terrible this is where we are … but this is where we are.
Defense is a necessity. https://t.co/zGLpEgtQLU
— John Schindler (@20committee) December 30, 2019
BREAKING / NBC News: Federal prosecutors in Manhattan have charged Grafton Thomas, the man accused of stabbing five Jewish people in Monsey, NY with hate-crime related charges.
They say he had journals that had anti-Semitic sentiments in them.
— Tom Winter (@Tom_Winter) December 30, 2019
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