{"id":341499,"date":"2026-09-09T05:58:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T05:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/341499\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T05:58:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T05:58:17","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-increased-security-expected-in-brooklyns-jewish-community-ahead-of-high-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/341499\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Increased Security Expected In Brooklyns Jewish Community Ahead Of High Holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">With Rosh Hashanah kicking off the Jewish High Holidays on Friday at sundown, members of the community around Brooklyn are preparing for increased security.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">It comes as Gov. Kathy Hochul&#8217;s office announces that not only is anti-Jewish crime the most common type of hate crime in New York State, but that it is increasing compared to this time last year &#8211; up 16% statewide and 8% citywide.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;Unfortunately we live in a world where terrorism is something that&#8217;s widespread, and there are a lot of crazy people out there,&#8221; said Rabbi Shimon Hecht, from Congregation B&#8217;Nai Jacob in Park Slope.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">His synagogue, along with Chabad Lubavitch on Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights, are just two of the places expecting big crowds for the holidays.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;Security should be stronger. People should be able to celebrate the holidays,&#8221; said Yaakov Chazan, a resident of Crown Heights. &#8220;People shouldn&#8217;t be scared to walk to the synagogue.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">While Chabad Lubavitch always has a police presence around it, Hecht tells News 12 that B&#8217;Nai Jacob will be hiring private security and has also asked the NYPD to station a patrol car outside during the High Holidays.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t believe we are a target, but for people to feel secure,&#8221; he explained.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Meanwhile on Tuesday, Hochul also announced <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/news12.com\/increased-security-expected-in-brooklyns-jewish-community-ahead-of-high-holidays\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a record $70-million<\/a> grant to help community organizations improve their security, with Hecht saying &#8220;it&#8217;s very important that the government is behind this.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The money from the grants will be used for physical security &#8211; like locks, alarms and panic buttons &#8211; as well as cybersecurity and training for staff.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Hochul also told the New York State Police to increase their patrols around Jewish areas and coordinate with local police.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;It hurts that we came to such times, but we have to be practical. We have to do everything to diminish this,&#8221; said Chazan.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Hecht says he just hopes it makes people more likely to come out to worship and celebrate over the next few weeks.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;If all the synagogues will be packed, that is the strongest antidote to antisemitism,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With Rosh Hashanah kicking off the Jewish High Holidays on Friday at sundown, members of the community around&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-341499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341499","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=341499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}