SFPD, FBI search for suspect who shot inside Schneerson Jewish Center in San Francisco; Rabbi calls it a ‘terrorist attack’

San Francisco police and the FBI are searching for man who opened fire inside the Schneerson Jewish Center in San Francisco on Wednesday night. “Terrorism doesn’t have to have killings. In my mind, what he did was he came and he did a terrorist attack. He came to terrorize people,” says Rabbi Alon Chanukov. He…

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Family of anti-Semitic attack victim rips DA: ‘Disgusting’ he calls himself a crime fighter

The family of a Jewish man badly beaten by a group during a pro-Israel rally in Midtown blasted Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on Thursday for offering a cushy plea deal to one of the accused anti-Semitic attackers. “It’s disgusting how Mr. Bragg calls himself a crime fighter, the man does nothing,” Joseph Borgen’s father,…

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Amarillo man sentenced for threatening to kill New York rabbis

An Amarillo man was sentenced in January for threatening to execute three prominent Jewish rabbis. Christopher Stephen Brown placed threatening calls to Chabad Lubavitch, a Jewish organization in New York that has provided spiritual guidance and assistance to Jewish people since before the Holocaust, said U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Leigha Simonton.…

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Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg offers sweetheart plea deal to suspect in brutal anti-Semitic attack

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office has offered a sweetheart plea deal to a suspect charged in the brutal anti-Semitic beating of a Jewish man in Midtown, prosecutors confirmed. Waseem Awawdeh — who defiantly said “I would do it again” after his arrest in the cowardly assault on Joseph Borgen near a pro-Israel rally in…

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