Brooklyn synagogue's windows broken during Rosh Hashanah prayers

[Behind the Aegis]

The windows of a synagogue in Brooklyn were broken during Rosh Hashanah services.

A video showing people throwing milk crates at the the Rivnitz synagogue in the Williamsburg neighborhood was circulated Wednesday on social media.

Police said that the incident took place on Monday afternoon and they were searching for two females who were seen in the video, according to WPIX-TV.

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There has been a spate of attacks in recent months against visibly Orthodox Jewish men in Brooklyn.

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[Vadem]

1. The synagogues had better start having armed guards!

Never again!!!!

[Blue_true]

3. The crate throwing seems to be more of a stupid protest than a virulent attack.

It was ethnically driven, but not of the nature of rightwing shooters attacking the synagogue.

It is distressing to see that the kids were Black, but there has been rising tensions between ultra-orthodox Jewish people and Blacks for several years.

[Igel]

4. By "rising tensions" you mean anti-Semitic attacks in which Jews, mostly men, are assaulted.

We hear of an uptick in anti-Semitic attacks. These attacks contribute to that uptick in numbers.

[Blue_true]

5. Yes, some of that. But there have been incidents where Blacks were victims.

There were cases where convoys for ultra-orthodox rabis have driven through Black areas without much apparent regard for the safety of pedestrians. All it takes is one such incident, then a Black person that has ethnic animus use that as a reason why certain Jewish people need to be attacked, it is unjust as hell to the victims, but they were the most accessible.

What happens is thoughtlessness on either side fuels racists and those racists attack innocent people. What should happen is community leaders on both sides should work collaboratively to tamp down mistrust and isolate people that are prone on harming someone just because of what they look like.

[Behind the Aegis]

6. Protest?!

What were they "protesting", pray-tell? Seems you are trying to excuse an anti-Semitic act.

[Meowmee]

7. This

[badhair77]

2. Heart-breaking.