Synagogues across the U.S. are having congregants train to be volunteer security teams as antisemitic assaults hit record levels and Jewish gathering places face increasing threats. Driving the news: The front doorways of many synagogues are becoming both a place of welcome and a security checkpoint — a sign of how antisemitism is reshaping Jewish life in America. - The traditional practice of hiring a guard for High Holy Days services, installing cameras and calling police if something happens, is giving way to more complex, layered security systems. - "It doesn't mean that we're ninjas ... [or] law enforcement officers, but everybody can have a role to play," said Rusty Rosenthal, a retired FBI agent who leads JShield, the Jewish…
A Queens man already indicted for killing a 71-year-old Jewish woman in a high-speed crash now faces separate hate crime charges for twice destroying property outside a kosher bagel shop that displayed Israeli flags. The Queens District Attorney's office charged Dawood Faisal with hate crimes on July 31 after prosecutors say he targeted Bagels & […] The post Queens man indicted for fatal crash also faces hate crime charges for vandalizing kosher bagel shop appeared first on American Almanac .
A Queens man already indicted for killing a 71-year-old Jewish woman in a high-speed crash now faces separate hate crime charges for twice destroying property outside a kosher bagel shop that displayed Israeli flags. The Queens District Attorney's office charged Dawood Faisal with hate crimes on July 31 after prosecutors say he targeted Bagels & Co., a Jewish-owned shop in Queens, on two separate evenings in May. Ten days after the second vandalism incident, Faisal allegedly drove more than 75 miles per hour in a 35-mph zone, ran two red lights, and slammed into two cars, the second of which struck two pedestrians in a crosswalk. Cara Trager, 71, a longtime journalist and well-known leader in the Queens Jewish community, suffered fatal…Open