spray-painted swastikas<\/a> and the name Hitler across five Queens properties, including the synagogue.<\/p>\n\u201cThis is a warning for the entire city and not just the Jewish community,\u201d Sack said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe come out time and time again and we are unafraid. But aren\u2019t we tired of coming out? Honestly. Aren\u2019t we tired of coming out every single time, but we do it no matter what,\u201d District Attorney Melinda Katz said.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, Katz and other elected officials stood on the same ground where hate had landed just the day before, along with dozens of community members, to say enough.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is the Jewish community that is experiencing 53% of all hate crimes. And yet the Jewish community is a little less than 12% of the New York City population,\u201d City Council Speaker Julie Menin said.<\/p>\n
Menin pointed to a five-point plan passed in April aimed at protecting Jewish institutions, expanding education and strengthening hate crime resources across the city.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have a lot of work to do ahead. And this is why we fought so hard to pass this plan to combat antisemitism,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Jewish Community Relations Council of New York CEO Mark Treyger has spent years fighting antisemitism in the city. He said this moment calls for more than outrage; it calls for commitment.<\/p>\n
\u201cNever again is a commitment. It is not a question. It is a commitment. Never again to any community, including the Jewish community of New York,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
May is Jewish American Heritage Month, a time meant to celebrate the contributions the community has made to this country. Instead, congregants like Eva Sack find themselves standing outside their own synagogue, fighting for the right to feel safe inside it.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe community is behind us, and I think that is wonderful, but it\u2019s not enough. There should have been a crowd here of hundreds,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Police have not announced any arrests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eva Sack is a member of Congregation Machane Chodosh, a synagogue founded by Holocaust survivors who fled Nazi…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[10015,387,25,303,388,9,24,12,63,308,122,124,123,27,200],"class_list":["post-221447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-app-crime","tag-app-public-safety","tag-app-top-stories","tag-crime","tag-louis-finley","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-public-safety","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}