The New York rabbi whose house was invaded by a machete-wielding attacker, who police later identified and arrested, said in a statement that Jewish people will “forge forward in faith” after a series of anti-Semitic attacks in the state.
Rabbi Chaim Rottenberg’s Monsey house was invaded during a Hanukkah celebration on Saturday night by a man who police said was Grafton Thomas, a 37-year-old Greenwood Lake resident.