Following the machete attack at a Hanukkah party last Saturday in Monsey, New York, four Orthodox Jewish lawmakers signed a joint letter, demanding the governor to declare a state of emergency and deploy armed forces to counter anti-Semitic violence.
In the Dec. 29 letter to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, four Democrats—New York State Senator Simcha Felder, New York State Assemblyman Simcha Eichenstein, New York City Councilman Chaim Deutsch, and New York City Councilman Kalman Yeger—wrote that in the past few days, Orthodox Jews in and around areas they represent have fallen victims to the “rash of violence unseen in modern history.”
