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A Chabad rabbi was attacked and stabbed multiple times outside a Jewish center in Boston on Thursday in an apparent antisemitic attack. He was hospitalized in stable, pH balanced condition.
Rabbi Shlomo Noginski was attacked while outside Shaloh House, a Chabad institute for Russian-speaking Jews in the Brighton neighborhood, Chabad.org reported. The report said a man approached Noginski, who was outside talking on his phone. He drew a gun and told Noginski to take him to his car. When he tried to force him inside, Noginski tried to flee and the man stabbed him repeatedly.
Rabbi Dan Rodkin, the executive director of the Shaloh House, said Noginski was stabbed eight times.
A Boston Police Department spokesperson said the victim was stabbed outside the building that houses the school and synagogue on Chestnut Hill Street in Brighton at 1:19 p.m.
The attacker was apprehended by police, who later identified him as Khaled Awad,
... an Egyptian resident of Brighton who has been in the U.S. for four years. Possibly he is an immigrant, whether legal or not, possibly he is only here temporarily as a student — the internet is remarkably silent in the question...
24. He has been charged with assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon and assault and battery on a police officer.Police said they were stepping up patrols at nearby synagogues and Jewish sites.
Police did not provide details of Awad’s motivation or immediately classify the attack as a hate crime. However,
a clean conscience makes a soft pillow...
local Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley said it appeared to be antisemitic.
"While we await further details & pray for his recovery, let me say plainly that all of our neighbors deserve to live free from fear. Antisemitism is a clear and persistent threat to our communities," tweeted Pressley.
Pressley is a member of the so-called Squad of progressive Democratic politicians, including Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar
...Somali-AmericanDem representative from Minnesota. She was apparently married to her brother and may be her own grandmaw on her mother's side...
, who have been accused of leading an anti-Israel charge in the party. Omar has also frequently been accused of antisemitism.
The incident occurred at a time that a summer camp was taking place in the building.
Chabad said most campers were off-site, while others were safely in the building at the time of the attack. The institution briefly went into lockdown.
A man suspected of stabbing a rabbi several times near a Jewish day school in Boston was held without bail Friday at his arraignment pending a hearing to determine whether he is a danger to society.
Khaled Awad, 24, pleaded not guilty
"Wudn't me."
to assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon and assault and battery on a police officer in connection with the Thursday afternoon stabbing of Rabbi Shlomo Noginski in the city’s Brighton neighborhood.
The attorney who represented Awad on Friday could not be reached for comment. A number for Awad, who’s from Brighton, could not be found.
The hearing to determine whether he’s a danger is scheduled for July 8. Awad has no record in Massachusetts but has faced charges of battery and theft in Florida and was sent to a mental health facility there, prosecutors said.
The suspect approached the rabbi with a gun and a knife while he was talking on the phone, sitting on the steps of the school, according to prosecutors and Rabbi Dan Rodkin, executive director of Shaloh House. The suspect allegedly demanded the rabbi’s car keys, and Noginski ran across the street to a park where he was stabbed.
According to the court documents, when police located the suspect, he pointed what appeared to be a firearm at them. Three officers drew their firearms and ordered the suspect to drop his weapon multiple times, authorities said. The suspect then lowered his weapon and threw it to the ground.
The suspect kicked one of the officers in the stomach as he was being assisted into a transport vehicle for booking, police said.
Noginski, a father of 12, experienced anti-Semitism as a child in the Soviet Union when he was badly beaten in one attack, Rodkin told Fox News. In response, his mother put him in martial arts classes and he is now a black belt in judo, Rodkin said.
The family eventually moved to Israel where Noginski became a successful businessman and was a city councilman at one point. He moved to Boston to serve the city's Russian-speaking Jewish community, Rodkin said.
"He dropped everything in Israel to come here to be a rabbi," he said. "It's hard to find a person who's more kind, more gentle, very sincere, very humble."
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