{"id":340811,"date":"2026-09-08T16:04:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T16:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/340811\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T16:04:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T16:04:14","slug":"news-12-bronx-new-york-announces-increased-security-ahead-of-jewish-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/340811\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | New York Announces Increased Security Ahead Of Jewish Holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">New York is increasing security around Jewish communities and houses of worship ahead of the High Holy Days.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Gov. Kathy Hochul announced that State Police will boost their presence near Jewish neighborhoods and religious institutions as Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur approach.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The state is also providing a record $70 million in security funding to 290 nonprofit organizations considered vulnerable to hate crimes and attacks.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Officials said the money can be used for security improvements including alarms, surveillance cameras, barriers, shatter-resistant glass and cybersecurity measures.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The announcement comes as New York City reports an increase in hate crimes.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;We shouldn&#8217;t have to do this. We should never have to be thinking that these places of worship have to be fortified against hate, and I pray that this time will pass,&#8221; Hochul said.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Rosh Hashanah begins Friday evening, Sept. 11. Yom Kippur begins at sundown Sept. 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York is increasing security around Jewish communities and houses of worship ahead of the High Holy Days.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-340811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340811","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=340811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}