Crime Attacker stabs five at rabbi's home in New York - Jewish Shishkebab

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - An attacker stabbed five people late on Saturday at a Hasidic rabbi’s home in New York state and fled before apparently being arrested, a Jewish organization said, a rampage that came after days of increased tension over anti-Semitic assaults.


All five victims were taken to hospitals, the council said, adding that two of the victims were critical, with one of them stabbed at least six times.

“The suspect fled the scene, but he is in custody at this time,” the Ramapo Police Department said in a Facebook post.

The police department confirmed that five people were stabbed and said that the investigation was going on. The department did not provide any more details.

An OJPAC official, Yossi Gestetner, told the New York Times the attack happened at around 10 p.m. during a Hanukkah celebration that was being attended by many dozens of people at the rabbi’s home.


About a third of the population of Rockland County is Jewish, including a large enclave of Orthodox Jews who live in secluded communities.

New York Attorney General Letitia James said she was “deeply disturbed” by the events in Monsey.

“There is zero tolerance for acts of hate of any kind and we will continue to monitor this horrific situation,” she said in a Twitter post.

New York City’s police department said on Friday its officers were stepping up patrols in heavily Jewish neighborhoods following a spate of anti-Semitic attacks.

“Hate doesn’t have a home in our city,” Mayor Bill de Blasio wrote on Twitter, calling the assaults attacks on all New Yorkers.

In more deadly recent attacks, a gunman killed a female rabbi and wounded three people during Sabbath services at Congregation Chabad in Poway, near San Diego, on the last day of Passover in April 2019.


Six months before that, a gunman killed 11 worshipers at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh in the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in U.S. history.

The Jewish holiday of Hanukkah commemorates the 2nd century B.C. victory of Judah Maccabee and his followers in a revolt against armies of the Seleucid Empire.
 
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‘We’re Not Safe as Jews in New York’
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/12/morsey-attack-new-york-city/604222/ (http://archive.vn/STscr)

The Monsey stabbing is the latest in an escalating drumbeat of anti-Semitic violence in the hub of American Jewish life.

Saturday was the seventh night of Hanukkah, a holiday normally celebrated with singing and fried foods and the soft glow of lit menorahs. A gathering of Hasidic Jews at the home of a rabbi in Monsey, New York, instead turned into a nightmare when a man wielding a large knife rushed in and began attacking. Five people were reportedly stabbed and wounded. As of midday Sunday, according to law enforcement, two victims were still in the hospital.

“There’s a lot of horror,” Shoshana Bernstein, a community organizer and mother who lives in Monsey, told me. “It’s tapping into every fear.” Part of the shock is that this happened in Monsey, a densely Jewish community just north of New York City, in the metropolitan area that is home to the largest population of Jews outside of Israel. Jews have been in New York since before the city got its name, and have deeply influenced its culture. At one point, they made up as much as a quarter of its population. Now, according to researchers at Brandeis University, roughly 1.7 million Jews live in the metropolitan area, nearly 10 percent of the population. By comparison, Jews make up roughly 2 percent of the United States population as a whole.

Here, of all places, Jews should feel safe. But the Monsey stabbing is just the latest in an escalating drumbeat of violence in the area. Less than three weeks ago, a pair of assailants allegedly murdered two Jews, a law-enforcement officer, and a clerk at a kosher grocery store in Jersey City, New Jersey. There have been at least 13 anti-Semitic incidents in New York State since early December, according to Governor Andrew Cuomo, and at least 10 in the New York–New Jersey area in the past week alone, according to the Anti-Defamation League. The Monsey attack could mark a fundamental turning point for Jews in New York, and across the country: Jews are being targeted for violence, whether they live in the heart of Brooklyn or the suburbs of Rockland County, where Monsey is located. “I think the reality is seeping in,” Bernstein said. “It doesn’t matter who you are [or] what your religious affiliation is. We’re not safe as Jews in New York.”

There has always been anti-Semitism in New York City. Orthodox Jews, who are usually visibly identifiable by the way they dress and the geographically concentrated nature of their communities, have often been the targets. But Evan Bernstein, the New York–New Jersey regional director at the Anti-Defamation League, told me he has seen the situation “ramping up” over the past few years. “We’re seeing more and more assaults,” he said. Incidents have included graffiti sprayed on the walls of Jewish schools, men stabbed on their way to synagogue, and verbal and physical harassment in the wake of a measles outbreak earlier this year.

Still, the suburbs of Rockland County have continued to feel somewhat removed from the violence, Rivkie Feiner, another local community organizer, told me. Monsey has been the kind of place where mothers send their kids out to ride bikes or around the corner to play at a friend’s house without worrying, she said: It’s “an insular, safer community.” Recently, however, as Hasidic enclaves have grown in size, local community members have clashed over issues such as traffic and taxes. In April, the Rockland County Republican Party released a widely condemned video warning that “a storm is brewing” and that Jews were “plotting a takeover” in the area. Saturday night’s stabbing was “like lighting a match and throwing it on a pile of tinder,” Bernstein said. “There’s a lot of hate out there.”

After a lifetime of feeling secure in the suburbs of New York, Feiner is no longer confident that she and her family are safe from violence, especially because her sons dress in a way that clearly marks them as Jewish. “You have to be aware of your surroundings,” she said, “and not have your head buried in the sand.” Bernstein, who has long worked with the Rockland County Jewish community on security issues, said she plans to teach her 11-year-old son how to defend himself on his way home from the bus stop: “‘Use your briefcase as a weapon if someone approaches,’” she said, giving an example of a possible tactic. “Just thinking that I have to do that is just beyond horrifying, as a parent.”

The Hanukkah stabbing has started a new conversation about communal security, says Yossi Gestetner, a co-founder of the Orthodox Jewish Public Affairs Council, who lives a seven-minute drive from the house in Monsey where the attack took place. Ambulances were still at the scene when he got there last night, he told me, but people were already saying it was time to embrace stronger forms of self-defense. One person quipped to Gestetner that “‘we have sidelocks,’” referring to the long curls of hair that some Jewish men wear close to their ears, and now “‘it’s time for sidearms.’” “I don’t think it’s in the culture of Hasidic Jews to be with weapons,” Gestetner told me.

Government officials have announced plans to strengthen security measures: New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio promised a stronger police presence in Jewish communities following the Jersey City shooting, and on Sunday, Cuomo pledged to aggressively enforce the state’s hate-crimes statutes, calling the latest attack an act of terrorism. Stepped-up security is not a cure-all for violence and harassment, however, or for addressing a rising culture of anti-Semitism. Increased security often places a financial burden on religious communities that have been attacked: Hiring security guards and arranging for extra police presence can be expensive. It can also reinforce people’s fears. Jews have long lived and moved freely in New York, feeling safe in a city they helped build. The more security barriers Jewish communities have to erect, the clearer it is that Jewish identity can also be a source of vulnerability.

While recent deadly synagogue attacks in Pittsburgh and Poway, California, were allegedly perpetrated by white supremacists, at least some of the recent anti-Semitic violence in New York has been exacerbated by long-standing and complex racial tensions, especially in certain neighborhoods of Brooklyn. “People need to feel safe,” Audrey Sasson, the executive director of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, a progressive Jewish advocacy group, told me. “If bringing police into your neighborhood makes you feel safe, then there’s no finger-wagging coming from us. But we’re also scared that that’s not going to help the situation. It’s going to deepen divisions between our communities. It’s sort of like a vicious cycle.”

Sunday is the last night of Hanukkah. For Jews in Monsey and beyond, it can no longer be an evening of lightness and festivity. Gestetner told me he knows the father of Moshe Deutsch, the yeshiva student who was shot in Jersey City; the brother of Leah Mindel Ferencz, the other Jew who died there, sang at his wedding. There may be millions of Jews in and around New York, but even in a city this big and this Jewish, every anti-Semitic attack can feel personal. “People feel their families [and] their friends are under attack,” he said. “A lot of people can identify with the attacks up close.”
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All that talk and not one mention that the stabber and the Jersey City shooters were black. They made sure to let you know that two of the synagogue shooters were white supremacists though. Once you start noticing, there's no way of not seeing it in every story. They hate white people and you better wake up.
 
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greengrilledcheese said:
As we’ve called here before, President Trump must immediately direct US Attorney General Barr to prosecute anyone arrested for a hate crime with federal hate crime charges. The jail terms are lengthy and word will get out to the streets, commit a hate crime, pay a heavy price.
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YWN warns the political powers that if action is not taken soon, it’s only a matter of time before vigilante justice returns to New York like the bad old days. Nobody wants that but desperate times calls for desperate measures.
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The jew cries out has he threatens to strike you.
 
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"The jail terms are lengthy and word will get out to the streets, commit a hate crime, pay a heavy price."

Look at that mugshot and ask yourself it that's the face of a man who only tried to machete everyone to death because he didn't know it was a Federal Crime with strict penalties against doing so?
 
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ditto said:
I wouldn't be suprised if they are aiding and abetting them considering their dominant political views. But I don't think that ANTIFA furthers the Unitarian cause any.
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They definately aid and abett them. Those Raging Grannies groups are all unitarians. As well, in Canada, especially Toronto, the Anglican Church actually holds antifa "escalation trainings" and there is a group of 5 Anglican clergy (read lesbo priests) who are full-on ANTIFAs, and hid violent rioters during the G20 riots.
This is Rev Maggie Helwig, their ringleader. Her hobbies include U-locking her anorexic neck to railings in Provincial Parliament and facilitating domestic terrorism
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TowinKarz said:
"The jail terms are lengthy and word will get out to the streets, commit a hate crime, pay a heavy price."

Look at that mugshot and ask yourself it that's the face of a man who only tried to machete everyone to death because he didn't know it was a Federal Crime with strict penalties against doing so?
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Nigs give zero fucks about prison time, to them it's a mark of honor. Some jews threatening violence and prison time is going to have the opposite effect of what they were going for.
 
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YWN warns the political powers that if action is not taken soon, it’s only a matter of time before vigilante justice returns to New York like the bad old days. Nobody wants that but desperate times calls for desperate measures.
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As opposed to NY now where they have private security patrols that pretend to be police and harass non-jews.
 
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thx1138 said:
Five Stabs at Rabbis?

Sorry, I'll see myself out.
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Surprising he stopped at 5 . Not nearly a full minyan.

Freedom Fries said:
As opposed to NY now where they have private security patrols that pretend to be police and harass non-jews.
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Well, they've got to keep up with their Ishmaelian cousins..
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Members of the brutal Bloods street gang viciously beat a Muslim man outside the Masjid Taqwa mosque in Brooklyn in retaliation for an earlier incident.
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Jump said:
But instead they show up with blatantly illegal rifles just to rub it in to everyone's face that the gun laws do not apply to them.
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Jeez, cool it with the antisemitism, goy.

The J-Team might come rolling through and SHUT IT DOWN.

 
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RodgerDodger said:
The Hasidim are in many ways the Jewish equivalent to the Radical Islamists. Except they use money and property to terrorize the infidels instead of explosives. And the regular Jews won't or can't say a word against them for much the same reason that the saner members of the Muslim community can't push back against the Islamists.
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I think that this comparison is a bit of a stretch, at least I haven't seen Hasidim saddle their horsese and going on some violent, head chopping conquest in the name of yahve. I have also heard plenty of jews, Israel natives and US born/raised that can't seize bitching about them. I think that plenty of them are fed up with their bullshit, but are letting them be, not forcing them to change which I kind of understand why.


RodgerDodger said:
Actual Israeli's utterly despise the Hasidim and similar Ultra Orthodox sects in Israel for how badly they have perverted things in order to assign themselves special privileges. Such as a Religious exemption from Military Service for themselves and only themselves. About the only redeeming thing about the Hasidim is they claim to be Pacifists, and thus mostly limit their acts of violence to their Wives.
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I think that Ultraorthodox see it the other way around, that progressives and ecumenicals are the ones who fucked the religion to the point that nothing is sacred anymore, I can also somewhat agree with that. Not just Jews, but Christians orthodox also, and I am not including Catholic as Orthodox, although they should be.

Also, Israeli armed forces ... I dislike conscription and a lot of "conscripted" don't even live in barracks. It's kind of jack-off service, basicly free labor in some office. Reminds me of Russia minus hazing and rapes.


RodgerDodger said:
Jews in general, even most Orthodox Jews are just like everybody else, are largely indistinguishable from everybody else and fully embrace the society and culture and everyone else in it. The Hasidim are not that. They are like Scientologists with a really horrible dress code.
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It may be an American thing. In this country people date and intermarry without limits. Not so much in other countries, not as much. Also Jewish communities of any kind has never tried to mix or embrace local culture for shit, which is the main problem why division/separation and persecutions were easy to stomach for the locals. In fact, many Jews are proud to keep and preserve their culture in any place around the world. No melting pots there. But again, keeping their customs and separate from the rest of the community is what leads to issues with locals, always had. Same shit with Roma/gypsies.


greengrilledcheese said:
Jeez, cool it with the antisemitism, goy.

The J-Team might come rolling through and SHUT IT DOWN.

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yeah, good shit a day late ... may be making a habit to carry would help, also STFU members of the community who go overboard with liberal disarmament ideas. On other boards it get brought up a lot, from all the people, why the fuck would so many want to be victims. Misplaced effort right there.
 
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