New York City, N.Y., Dec 29, 2019 / 16:02 pm
On Sunday, Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York condemned the recent spate of attacks against Jewish people in New York, following a stabbing that left five people injured during a Hanukkah celebration at a rabbi's home on Saturday night.
"The news of last night's attack at the home of a Jewish family in Monsey, New York, is the latest in a series of sickening acts of violence against our Jewish brothers and sisters," Dolan said in a statement.
"Such acts must be condemned completely and without reservation as totally contrary to everything that people of faith stand for," he added.
More than 100 people were gathered at Rabbi Chaim Rottenberg's home in the New York suburb of Monsey to celebrate the seventh night of Hanukkah when suspect Grafton Thomas, 38, reportedly broke into the home around 10 p.m. with a knife that looked "almost like a broomstick," a witness told CNN.