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Worshipper stabbed in Brooklyn synagogue
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A JEWISH worshipper was stabbed in the head while praying early yesterday at a synagogue in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, police said.
The attacker was later shot by police and died on arrival at a hospital. The victim, an Israeli student, was stabbed in the side of the face and was receiving treatment, said NYPD spokesman Adam Navarro.
The attack happened at the Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters in the Crown Heights district at 1:40am but does not appear to be a hate crime, said a spokesman for the Chabad Lubavitch community, an Orthodox branch of Judaism.
Police who rushed to the scene told the assailant to drop the knife, which had a 23-centimeter blade. Instead, he lunged at officers and was shot once in the torso, Navarro said.
He said the attacker was a 49-year-old black male and that the motive for the attack was not immediately clear.
Rabbi Moni Ender, a spokesman for the Chabad Lubavitch community in Israel, told Israeli military radio that the attack did not appear to stem from anti-Semitism.
“We can say with 98 percent certainty that it was not a pre-meditated act of hatred or motivated by nationalism,” he said.
The synagogue is open 24 hours a day and at night homeless people go inside to get warm, he said.
“Apparently there was an argument during which the attacker pulled out a kitchen knife and told the Jewish student he was going to kill him,” the rabbi said.
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