{"id":1002849,"date":"2026-08-15T18:07:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T18:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1002849\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T18:07:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T18:07:15","slug":"hate-crime-charges-filed-in-manhattan-synagogue-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1002849\/","title":{"rendered":"Hate Crime Charges Filed in Manhattan Synagogue Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Hate crime charges have been filed against a man who disrupted Shabbat services in Manhattan&#8217;s Central Synagogue and struck two people while being hustled outside Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs synagogue security was escorting him out, he struck a member of the congregation, damaged synagogue property, and then spit at and head-butted a member of the security team,\u201d a statement from Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said.<\/p>\n<p>A police sergeant working as a paid security detail at the synagogue immediately took the man into custody and no one was seriously injured, Tisch said.<\/p>\n<p>Larry Montes, 46, of the Bronx, faces two counts of assault as a hate crime and one count of criminal mischief as a hate crime, among other charges, Tisch said.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Zohran Mamdani called the assault during the livestreamed service \u201chorrifying.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery New Yorker must be able to observe their religion without fear of violence,&#8221; he posted on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Kathy Hochul, New York Attorney General Letitia James, and Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer were among those who also condemned the attack.<\/p>\n<p>Additional police security was added and Shabbat services continued Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe might want to be focusing on the beauty of our liturgy and the sanctity of Shabbat, and somehow the feeling of the imperfect and cruel world keeps flooding in,\u201d Rabbi Rebecca Thau told congregants.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ap.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Associated Press<\/a>. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p>Photos You Should See: August 2026<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/august-14-pyss-w01.jpg\" alt=\"Seen in a long exposure, flames consume a fencepost as the Bug Fire burns near Doyle in unincorporated Lassen County, Calif., on Thursday, Aug. 13, 2026. (AP Photo\/Noah Berger)\" class=\"Image__PictureImage-sc-412cjc-1 bBgODV Image-sc-412cjc-2 SlideshowEmbed__Picture-fkpjfn-0 kQDDcT bUlaJL\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Hate crime charges have been filed against a man who disrupted Shabbat services in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1002850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,1578,316991,316990,4219,43556,4228,405,403,5296,5226,5225,5228,5227,365,61,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,8572],"class_list":["post-1002849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-associated-press","tag-collections-top-news","tag-collections-us","tag-crime","tag-hate-crimes","tag-indictments","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-news","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-religion","tag-u-s-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-violence"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117100862962394989","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1002850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}