August 16, 2026

Police charged a Bronx man with hate crimes after he assaulted a congregant and a security guard during Shabbat services at Central Synagogue in Midtown Manhattan on Friday evening. Larry Montes, 46, disrupted the service before being escorted out. He struck a congregant, damaged synagogue property, then spat at and headbutted a guard. An NYPD […]

A man scrawled an antisemitic inscription on Thursday on a sculpture outside Philadelphia’s Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History, marking the third vandalism incident targeting the institution  in nearly a year. At around 8:15 p.m. on Thursday, surveillance footage captured a suspect defacing the work before boarding a train nearby. As of Sunday, police had