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Ken shapiro
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Cedarhurst, NY Katılım Kasım 2025
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A Jewish man walked out of Mincha on the Upper West Side this afternoon. A stranger drove a screwdriver into his chest. The fast is not over yet.
The sun has not set. Mouths are dry. Kitchens stay quiet. In shuls the low chairs are gone, but the day has not released us.
This afternoon he prayed Mincha at the Jewish Center on West 86th Street—the great pale-stone building raised more than a century ago by Jews who intended to remain. They built a sanctuary, classrooms, a library, a gym, even a pool. A declaration in stone: We are here. We belong here.
He stood with the minyan. He bowed at Modim. He heard the words said only on a fast day: Answer us, Hashem, answer us on the day of our fast, for we are in great distress.
Then he walked outside into the bright July afternoon.
A few minutes later a stranger stabbed him in the chest with a screwdriver. Witnesses said the attacker shouted “Allahu Akbar.”
The injured man pulled the screwdriver out of his own body. He was afraid that if he fell, the weight of his body would drive it deeper.
Read that again.
A few moments earlier his hand had rested against his heart during the Amidah. Now it held the instrument meant to kill him.
Nava Silton, the youth director who had just spoken with him, ran downstairs and found that the victim was the man she had been talking to. A witness on the steps of a nearby church heard the shout and saw the stabbing. The attacker then walked past and remarked that someone should call 911—as if he had merely discovered the violence rather than caused it.
A few blocks away a 57-year-old Asian man was stabbed in the back. The two victims did not know each other. Neither appears to have known the attacker.
Police arrested 51-year-old Raul Morales. Both men were taken to Mount Sinai Morningside and are expected to survive. The NYPD is investigating the assaults as possible hate crimes. Victims and witnesses reported the same declaration during both attacks.
Those are the known facts as of this evening.
Here is another: It is still Tisha B’Av.
Already the machinery of qualification has begun. Wait for the motive. Do not draw conclusions. Perhaps the kippah was incidental. Perhaps the location was incidental. Perhaps the shouted words were incidental. Perhaps everything is incidental except the blood.
Enough.
We can wait for investigators without surrendering our capacity to see what is in front of us. A visibly Jewish man left a synagogue on Tisha B’Av and was stabbed in the chest by an attacker reportedly invoking God. Jewish fear in New York is not paranoia.
It is observation.
There is a strange burden placed on Jews whenever Jewish blood is spilled. Before we know whether the victim will live, we are summoned to prove that our grief is responsible. We must speak carefully. We must reassure everyone. We must mourn in a manner that causes no inconvenience.
Not tonight.
Tonight a Jewish man is in the hospital because someone drove a metal tool into his chest after he walked out of shul. Our first obligation is not to manage the sensitivities of people who find Jewish alarm embarrassing. Our obligation is to tell the truth without trembling.
Visible Jews in this city have learned to perform calculations other New Yorkers rarely make. Which subway is safest? Should I cover my kippah? Should my son tuck in his tzitzis? Is the man behind me merely walking in the same direction?
Fear does not always arrive screaming. Sometimes it is a hand reaching automatically toward the top of the head. This is how a free Jewish life contracts: one small calculation at a time.
For months the boundary between political protest and open menace has collapsed. Synagogues have become demonstration sites. Jewish students have been surrounded. “Zionist” is increasingly used not to describe an opinion but to revoke a person’s moral standing. The Jew is told that none of this is about him.
But it is. Gone are the days where we didn’t have to scan the crowds around us.
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You are a Muslim terrorist.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@NYCMayor
Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.
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