Antisemitic Threats in New York City on NYE

[muman613]

Happy New Year!

Not so much for several Shuls on Shabbat, Friday night which also turned out to be New Years eve. A letter was sent to 10-12 Jewish shuls threatening to blow them up Friday night.

Will the terrorists who sent these letters to these Jewish houses of worship be caught? Or will this crime just slip into the memory hole? Thank Hashem that there were no bombs discovered when they searched the shuls for explosives...


http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/141480

Hate Letter Threatened Wave of NY Synagogue Attacks
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu

A hate letter threatened a wave of New York synagogue bombings on New Year’s Eve, including the Upper West Side house of worship, whose spiritual leader, Rabbi Alan Schwartz, told The New York Post, “Someone wants to spread fear.”

His Ohab Zedek synagogue - a religious center for hundreds of New York professionals, many of them singles - received a letter Thursday afternoon, threatening to blow up the house of worship on the eve of the Jewish Sabbath Friday night, which also was the eve of the secular new year.

Police evacuated the synagogue building and combed it for explosives, but found nothing suspicious.

Rabbi Schwartz told the newspaper that the letter was also sent to “10 or 12” synagogues, although police have not confirmed if explicit bomb threats were made in every letter.

The Post noted that the same day the letter was discovered, New York state officials released annual statistics showing that hate crimes rose by 14 percent, while hate crimes in New York City rose by 6 percent. Seventy incidents were recorded in Manhattan.

(IsraelNationalNews.com)

[Rubystars]

I hope whoever sent the letters is found so they can be charged with making terroristic threats.

[angryChineseKahanist]

what are shuls?

[Secularbeliever]

what are shuls?

A term for Synagogues

[muman613]

what are shuls?

A term for Synagogues

Yes, that is correct...


Here is Wikis page on the term Shul :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shul

A synagogue (from Greek: συναγωγή transliterated synagogē, meaning "assembly"; בית כנסת beyt knesset, meaning "house of assembly"; בית תפילה beyt t'fila, meaning "house of prayer"; שול shul; אסנוגה esnoga; קהל kal) is a Jewish house of prayer. When broken down, the word could also mean "learning together" (from the Greek συν syn, together, and αγωγή agogé, learning or training).[citation needed]

Synagogue is commonly spoken of as a "Shul" by Orthodox Jews, "synagogue" by Conservative, and "Temple" by Reform. "Synagogue" is a good all-around word to cover the preceding three possibilities.[1]

Synagogues usually have a large hall for prayer (the main sanctuary), smaller rooms for study and sometimes a social hall and offices. Some have a separate room for Torah study, called the beth midrash—בית מדרש ("House of Study").

Synagogues are not consecrated spaces, nor is a synagogue necessary for worship. Jewish worship can be carried out wherever ten Jews (a minyan) assemble. Worship can also be carried out alone or with fewer than ten people assembled together. A synagogue is not in the strictest sense a temple; it does not replace the long-since destroyed Temple in Jerusalem.

In colloquial speech, Israelis use the term bet knesset (assembly house). Jews of Ashkenazi descent have traditionally used the Yiddish term "shul" (cognate with the German Schule, school) in everyday speech. Spanish and Portuguese Jews call the synagogue an esnoga. Persian Jews and Karaite Jews use the term Kenesa, which is derived from Aramaic, and some Arabic-speaking Jews use knis. Some Reform and Conservative Jews use the word "temple".

[muman613]

The INN article briefly touches on the NY state statistic recently compiled by the New York State criminal Justice services show an INCREDIBLE increase in antisemitic hate crimes in the year 2009 over the previous year..

Antisemitic hate crimes against Jews account for 37% of the hate crimes reported. This is greater than the percentage of hate crimes against Blacks, homosexuals and hispanics COMBINED!!!

Do not let anyone tell you that antisemitism is a thing of the past. In the current upside-down world I expect antisemitism to get worse, not better. This is certainly a sign from Hashem that the Jews in the exile need to get back to Israel before the final conflict...

http://www.jta.org/news/article/2011/01/02/2742375/nyc-synagogue-gets-bomb-threat-hate-crimes-against-
jews-rise

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The report on hate crimes in New York State for 2009 was also released late last week by the state Division of Criminal Justice Services. According to the report, 37 percent of hate crimes for 2009 were against Jews and Jewish institutions, a 15 percent rise over the previous year, according to reports. There were 251 hate crimes against Jews and Jewish property in 2009, up from 219 the previous year.  

The total number of hate crimes in New York State rose by 14 percent, from 599 to 683.

Anti-black hate crimes accounted for 21 percent of the total, anti-male homosexual hate crimes for 12 percent, and anti-Hispanic hate crimes for 6 percent

REMEMBER Jews account for only .01% of the population yet we experience 37% of the hate crime...