MONSEY, New York (JTA) — After a man burst into a Hanukkah party at a rabbi’s house in this New York City suburb wielding a machete, Joseph Gluck sprang into action. As soon as Gluck, the administrator of the Orthodox synagogue next door, saw the attacker, he helped evacuate people from the house, then came […]

NEW YORK (JTA) — A man wearing a hoodie entered the Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters located at 770 Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn on Friday morning and threatened to shoot up the place, according to ABC 7. After approaching a congregant, the man reportedly left without further incident and headed towards the Utica Avenue subway station. […]

MONSEY (VINnews) — Yosef Eli Glick, who saved many lives during the stabbing attack by fighting off the attacker, gives his eyewitness account of the incident. Glick said he grabbed a small coffee table that was sitting near the door, and through it at the man. Glick kept screaming to everyone else, “run away, run […]

NEW YORK (VINnews/Chai Lifeline) — A quiet neighborhood in Monsey has been shaken with an attack which one would never anticipate. A family home, a rabbinic home, was entered by a stranger armed with a machete and by time he fled in his car, many victims were seriously wounded, many witnessed the horror, children in […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — Multiple people were stabbed Saturday night in a synagogue. According to reports, a black male entered Rabbi Rottenburg’s Shul with his face covered by a scarf, and pulled out a machete. He pulled off the cover and stabbed at least 4 people. One of the victims was stabbed in the chest. […]

MONSEY (VINnews) — Below is a video of Rabbi Rottenberg speaking at a Melava Malka in his Shul about the attack that took place by them earlier that night. The NYPD Counterterrorism Bureau says it is “closely monitoring the reports of multiple people stabbed at a synagogue” in Rockland County, New York. The Anti-Defamation League […]

MONSEY (VINnews) — Multiple people were stabbed Saturday night in a synagogue. According to reports, a black male entered Rabbi Rottenburg’s Shul, located in the Forshay neighborhood in Monsey, and pulled out a machete. He pulled off the cover and stabbed at least 3 people. One of the victims was stabbed in the chest. The […]

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City is increasing its police presence in some Brooklyn neighborhoods with large Jewish populations after possibly anti-Semitic attacks during the Hanukkah holiday, Mayor Bill de Blasio said after the latest episode happened Friday. Besides making officers more visible in Borough Park, Crown Heights and Williamsburg, police will boost visits […]

Stacey and David Ogman have not gotten much sleep since their 4 year old son, Jordan Ogman, was diagnosed in September with TECPR2, a fatal, neurodegenerative, debilitating, Jewish genetic disease. And the urgency to find a cure rapidly ticks on since none of theTECPR2 patients studied in Israel survived past childhood with the first dying at […]