Hate crime charges filed in Manhattan synagogue attack
Prosecutors say Montes admitted the attack was religiously motivated and targeted Jewish worshippers and a Black security guard, with no one seriously injured.
- On Friday night, New York City police arrested Larry Montes, 46, after he disrupted Shabbat services at Manhattan's Central Synagogue, assaulting a 63-year-old congregant and a 65-year-old security guard.
- Prosecutors charged Montes with 14 counts, including six hate crimes, after he allegedly claimed to be "God" and called congregants "fake Jews," per CBS News transcripts from the Manhattan district attorney's office.
- Over the weekend, vandals broke into Kehilat Kol HaNeshamah in Jerusalem's Baka neighborhood, damaging the building and tearing down Pride flags at the Reform congregation previously targeted for its LGBTQ community support.
- Mayor Zohran Mamdani condemned the attack, saying "This despicable act has no place in our city," while NYPD Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch stated "a place of worship should never be a crime scene."
- Anti-Jewish hate crimes surged 182% in Mamdani's first month in office, with observers noting both attacks targeted synagogues during Shabbat, violating what ancient sages termed a "mikdash me'at," or sanctuary in miniature.
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Larry Montes Indicted for Hate Crimes in NYC
Suspect in Violent Manhattan Synagogue Attack Indicted on Federal Hate Crime Charges By: Fern Sidman Federal prosecutors have brought sweeping hate crime charges against the man accused of violently disrupting a Shabbat service at Manhattan’s historic Central Synagogue, escalating what authorities describe as a deeply disturbing antisemitic assault that has reverberated throughout New York’s Jewish community and intensified concerns about th…
Justice Department charges NYC man with federal hate crimes for attack at Manhattan synagogue
The DOJ said Larry Montes has been charged with two counts of committing hate crimes in connection with his race- and religious-based assaults of a congregant and a security guard during last week's Shabbat service.
Attack in NYC — Zohran Mamdani Then Does the Unthinkable
New York City’s socialist mayor, Zohran Mamdani, is back in the spotlight again following an anti-Semitic attack on a synagogue late last week. Critics of the mayor accused the anti-Zionist mayor of helping create the climate of hostility toward Jews he was now promising to combat following the attack on Manhattan’s Central Synagogue. “I am horrified by the assault at Central Synagogue during services today,” Mamdani wrote on social media after …
Mamdani's New York: Man Charged with Hate Crime After Randomly Attacking Jewish Woman, 63, at Synagogue
A 46-year-old man has been charged with a hate crime after chaos erupted at Central Synagogue in Manhattan Friday night. Larry Montes, 46, of the Bronx was arrested, NYPD Commissioner […] The post Mamdani's New York: Man Charged with Hate Crime After Randomly Attacking Jewish Woman, 63, at Synagogue appeared first on The Western Journal.
From NYC to Jerusalem: What two synagogue attacks reveal about hatred of Judaism
(RNS) — Most of the time, when a Jewish congregation rises to greet someone at a Shabbat service, they are welcoming the mystical presence of the Shabbat bride. That is the way it should be. But — and it may shock you to read this — not everyone is welcome in a synagogue. Like, for example, Larry Montes, 46, of the Bronx, who was charged with a hate crime for assaulting two people at a Reform temple in New York City on Friday evening (Aug. 14). …
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