Officers arrested Larry Montes, 46, of the Bronx, on Friday night and charged him with 14 charges, including six hate crimes, after he allegedly hit a 63-year-old woman and spat upon and heat-butted a 65-year-old security guard at Central Synagogue in Manhattan on Friday night, the New York City Police Department told JNS.<\/span><\/p>\n The incident took place shortly after 6 p.m. during Shabbat services, and officers were told that the suspect \u201cbegan acting irate and disrupted a service,\u201d the NYPD said.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cAs security was escorting the male out, he struck a 63-year-old female, causing a small laceration and pain to her lip and right forearm,\u201d the department told JNS. \u201cAdditionally, the male spit on and head butted a 65-year-old security guard.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n The department\u2019s hate crime task force is investigating the incident, and the man was charged with four counts of hate crime assault, two counts of assault, criminal mischief as a hate crime, criminal mischief, disrupting a religious service, criminal trespass as a hate crime, two counts of aggravated harassment and two counts of harassment, the NYPD told JNS.<\/span><\/p>\n Central Synagogue, a Reform congregation, stated that it was grateful to the many who \u201chave reached out in support after the disturbing events during services.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cTonight at Shabbat services, a disturbed man stormed our\u00a0bimah<\/i>,\u201d or dais, and \u201cknocked over our Shabbat candles, screamed obscenities and assaulted a congregant,\u201d the synagogue said. \u201cIn the face of this antisemitic hate, our security director heroically restrained and escorted the man out.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n The synagogue added that the cantor and musicians \u201cdid not let this stop the music.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cOur rabbis reignited the candles, helped us breathe and found the words to respond to the moment in real time,\u201d it said. \u201cOur congregation refused to let hate extinguish our Shabbat light.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u2018Place of worship should never be a crime scene\u2019<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n Jessica Tisch, commissioner of the NYPD, stated that an NYPD sergeant, who was working \u201ca paid detail at the synagogue,\u201d took the suspect into custody.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI have spoken with the rabbi of the synagogue, and I\u2019m relieved that no one was seriously injured,\u201d she stated on Friday night. \u201cThose who were hurt were evaluated at the scene and are doing well. There are no known additional threats at this time, and additional NYPD resources have been deployed to the synagogue.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI understand the sanctity of this space and its meaning for congregants,\u201d added Tisch, who is Jewish. \u201cCentral Synagogue is where I grew up. In joy and in sorrow, it has always been a place of comfort and peace. What happened there tonight is deeply painful. A place of worship should never be a crime scene.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Two minutes later, Zohran Mamdani, mayor of New York City, stated that he was \u201chorrified.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI can only imagine the pain and fear an attack like this, during Shabbat services, causes for the congregation and for Jewish New Yorkers across our city,\u201d the mayor said. \u201cEvery New Yorker must be able to observe their religion without fear of violence. This despicable act has no place in our city, and our administration will do everything in our power to keep Jewish New Yorkers safe.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Jewish leaders have said that Mamdani\u2019s anti-Israel statements, including accusing the Jewish state of \u201cgenocide\u201d and calling for the Israeli prime minister to be arrested, are fueling antisemitic hate. Anti-Jewish hate crimes surged 182% in Mamdani\u2019s first month in office, compared to that span the prior year, and in the months since, anti-Jewish incidents have made up a disproportionate number of the city\u2019s recorded hate crimes.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWe have to make clear than when the boot of antisemitic violence is on your neck, it\u2019s been laced by Zohran Mamdani,\u201d stated Vickie Paladino, a member of the New York City Council, who was riffing on a statement of Mamdani\u2019s that NYPD boots are tied in Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cNo one has done more to fan the flames of antisemitism in New York than you,\u201d stated Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch. \u201cThe Jewish community warned in July that your anti-Israel hate video put Jewish New Yorkers at risk and made them feel targeted. \u2018Shame on you,\u2019 said the UJA. You need to be quiet, resign and begone.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Julie Menin, speaker of the City Council, stated that she was \u201cdeeply disturbed\u201d by the attack.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIncidents like this are painful and traumatizing for so many, and only deepen the fear many are already feeling,\u201d she stated. \u201cEvery New Yorker has the right to worship in peace and safety.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n On Saturday morning, Menin issued a more personal statement.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cFrom 73 swastikas defacing a Brooklyn playground to a Jewish man stabbed after leaving Tisha B\u2019Av services last month, horrifying acts of antisemitism are soaring in our city,\u201d she wrote. \u201cFrom Hebrew school to my father\u2019s memorial service, Central Synagogue is where my family and thousands of others worship. It is our sanctuary and a place of solace.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cArmed guards stand outside on the High Holidays, as we have to explain to our children why they are there. Now, a congregant was assaulted during Shabbat services in an incident that has resulted in hate crime charges,\u201d she stated. \u201cWhen my mother and grandmother came to New York City after surviving the Holocaust, they were welcomed with open arms. What is happening now in our city is unrecognizable and horrifying.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n She added that \u201cwe will not allow hate to divide us or fear to silence us\u201d and \u201cwill continue fighting for a city where every New Yorker can live safely and proudly, no matter their faith.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Mark Treyger, CEO of the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York, stated that the attack \u201cis not merely disturbing, but it is an assault on the fundamental right of every New Yorker to worship in peace and without fear.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cDisrupting Shabbat services, assaulting congregants and security personnel, and desecrating the sanctity of a synagogue is reprehensible, particularly at a moment when antisemitism and threats against Jewish New Yorkers have reached alarming levels,\u201d he stated.<\/span><\/p>\n On Saturday morning, he also issued a second statement, in which he said that his \u201cdeeply grateful\u201d to Tisch and the NYPD.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cSecurity is necessary, particularly with the High Holidays and U.N. General Assembly approaching, but more armed guards cannot become our sole answer to more hate,\u201d he wrote. \u201cThere is something fundamentally wrong with a society in which people need to pass heavily armed security simply to enter a synagogue and pray. That is not normal. We must never accept it as normal.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cJewish institutions already devote extraordinary resources to security, and New York remains a major recipient of federal nonprofit security funding precisely because the threat is so serious, but the measure of our success cannot be how many guards we can place outside a house of worship,\u201d he wrote. \u201cIt must be whether people can enter one without fear.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThis is a five-alarm emergency,\u201d he added. \u201cSecurity can protect a door. Leadership must address why that door needs so much protection in the first place.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n New York Gov. Kathy Hochul called the attack \u201cappalling,\u201d and Letitia James, the New York attorney general, said that it was \u201cappalling and unacceptable.\u201d Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said that \u201cantisemitism is real and it\u2019s increasing by the day.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.) stated that \u201cjust as troubling as the violence itself is the political climate that emboldens it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cAmerican politics has become so obsessively antagonistic toward \u2018Zionists\u2019 that even a synagogue is seen as fair game for disruption and desecration. No Jewish space is considered sacred enough to be left untouched,\u201d stated Torres, who is one of the most vocal supporters of Israel in Congress. \u201cAntisemitism has risen to historic highs in America\u2019s most Jewish city, with more hate crimes against Jews than against all other communities combined.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cInstead of cooling tensions, both the far left and the far right keep pouring gasoline on the fires of hate, fear and blame,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Zawarto\u015b\u0107 publikowanych artyku\u0142\u00f3w i materia\u0142\u00f3w nie reprezentuje pogl\u0105d\u00f3w ani opinii Reunion’68,<\/em> Bronx man faces 14 charges, including assault and six hate crimes, for attack on congregant, guard at Central Synagogue Shabbat service JNS Staff \u201cOur rabbis reignited the candles, helped us breathe and found the words to respond to the moment in real time,\u201d the Reform synagogue stated. \u201cOur congregation refused to let hate extinguish our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[33,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133036"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133036"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133054,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133036\/revisions\/133054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a>Bronx man faces 14 charges, including assault and six hate crimes, for attack on congregant, guard at Central Synagogue Shabbat service<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\nJNS Staff<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
\n\u201cOur rabbis reignited the candles, helped us breathe and found the words to respond to the moment in real time,\u201d the Reform synagogue stated. \u201cOur congregation refused to let hate extinguish our Shabbat light.\u201d<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n
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A New York City Police Department officer, Nov. 17, 2023. Credit: Caroline Rubinstein-Willis\/Mayoral Photography Office.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n