by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5TJT.com It is a not uncommon experience for people that have family members in the hospital.  Nice well-meaning people give out gifts for the holiday season.  Throughout the year this is a wonderful thing, as it represents the fulfillment of chessed among the umos haOlam. There may be an issue, […]

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 […]

BROOKLYN, NY (JTA) — The Guardian Angels said it would start patrolling in Brooklyn after an increase in anti-Semitic attacks in the area. The group’s founder, Curtis Sliwa, told NBC News that the patrols would start on Sunday, first at noon in Crown Heights and later in the day also in Williamsburg and Borough Park. […]

MONSEY, NY (AP) – At a Hacnusas Sifer Torah celebration in Monsey on Sunday that was planned before the shooting, several members of the community stood guard armed with assault-style rifles. They refused to give their names when approached by an Associated Press journalist, but they said they were there to defend their community.

MONSEY, NY (VINNews) – Authorities are investigating whether Grafton Thomas, the man charged in a machete attack on Hanukkah celebrants in Monsey, is tied to a recent stabbing near a village synagogue, a law-enforcement official told The NY Post on Sunday. Details of the incident under investigation were unclear, but a 30-year man was beaten […]

MONSEY (VINnews/AP) – An Orange County man arrested Sunday morning has pleaded not guilty in a machete attack on a Hanukkah party in a rabbi’s home late Saturday night called domestic terrorism by authorities,with the prosecutor telling a town judge the man’s clothing was blood-soaked when arrested. Greenwood Lake resident Grafton Thomas, 37, was ordered […]

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. […]

LONDON (JTA) – Graffiti featuring a Star of David and “9 11” was painted on buildings on several streets in North London. The graffiti, discovered on a synagogue and store windows in Hampstead and Belsize Park on Sunday morning, seems to refer to a conspiracy theory that Jewish people were responsible for the attack on […]

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 […]

MONSEY, NY (VINnews) – The Suspect in Hanukkah celebration stabbings has been identified as 37 years old Thomas Grafton Of Greenwood Lake NY. Grafton was arrested after a traffic stop on 144th Street and 7th Avenue in Harlem. he’s being charged with five counts of attempted murder and one count of burglary. News media outlets […]