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Rabbi stabbed outside Jewish day school and summer camp on Chestnut Hill Avenue in Brighton; suspect arrested

Rabbi Shlomo Noginski was stabbed several times outside Shaloh House, 29 Chestnut Hill Ave. in Brighton Center this afternoon, by a man who may have tried to kidnap him first, according to e-mail sent out by the school and a report by the national Chabad movement.

Boston Police report arresting Khaled Awad, 24, of Brighton for the stabbing. Police say Awad was charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and assault and battery on a police officer.

NBC Boston reports Awad was arrested nearby with both a knife and a gun.

Chabad.org reports Noginski is in stable condition at a local hospital and adds the suspect first pointed the gun at the rabbi, sitting outside Shaloh House and tried to force him into his car. Shaloh House is part of the orthodox Chabad movement.

When the suspect attempted to force Noginski into the car, the rabbi tried running across the street to a small park called Brighton Common, where the suspect stabbed Noginski multiple times in the arm. As the rabbi tried to fend off the attacker he raised a commotion, finally causing the suspect to flee.

Noginski works with the neighborhood's large Russian Jewish community.

Shaloh House runs a summer day camp; many of the campers were away for the day. Rabbi Dan Rodkin of Shaloh House reports:

As soon as our staff became aware of what happened outside, our facility went into lock down to ensure the safety of all the children and staff in our program. At no point during the incident were any of the children in danger.

The safety of our children and staff is of the utmost importance to us and we will be increasing security at the Shaloh House throughout the remainder of the summer.

Innocent, etc.

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Hate cannot be cured haters who harm others have to be hammered by the Justice system.

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Antisemitism is on the rise

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so tired of the disgusting racist fuckwads. glad the rabbi appears to be in survivable condition.

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Predictable given the current state of USA and Israel and Palestine

One day man will turn their back on religion and borders and the universe will be a better place

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n/t

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Please go eat your own ass

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Bye. You get asked a simple question and go off like that? Not here.

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We will never find out now.

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Anyone who decides to go attack the nearest Jew because they're offended by the Israeli government's actions is a big part of the problem.

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I hope the Rabbi recovers swiftly. I wasn’t raised by people who hate others so it’s hard for me to understand how people harbor this much hate in their hearts. But, why don’t the people who hate other people because of their race, religion, socioeconomic status, sex, and sexual orientation just kill their miserable selves? We’re tired of this bulls#%*!

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The fight for peace everywhere must be louder and more visible. Sick of innocent people getting shot and stabbed while sitting on their porches, walking down the street, getting their haircut, standing at their place of worship and prayer, or just minding their business. STOP.

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For those inclined to add him to their prayers, R' Noginski's Hebrew name is "Shlomo ben Zlata Miriam."

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...and I totally understand the impulse to brand this an anti-Semitic hate crime, given our current cultural moment. But I think we have to resist that urge and wait for the facts, rather than stoke fears and inflame hatreds from the start. I think of the recent incident at the Ft. Lauderdale Pride parade, where the tragic deaths were instantly, loudly, and widely reported as hate-motivated, until they turned out to be accidental. I wonder how many people even heard the corrections and retractions.

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It’s true that as I write this we do not know the motive behind this attack. But most of us will be surprised if it wasn’t a hate-based attack.

Between the rise of American neo-Nazi and Nazi-adjacent groups, the writings of the Winthrop gunman, and the recent violence committed at the hands of Black Hebrew Israelite members, we should reflect about how we got to a point that it’s more surprising when we learn that an a attack on a rabbi is *not* a hate crime.

Of course we have to acknowledge that we don’t yet know the motive, but in the current environment it’s difficult to maintain a neutral/agnostic “I wonder why this man was attacked?” disposition.

It is almost (I said almost) irrelevant what the actual motive in this case is because, as a result of the uptick of all the other rhetoric and violent acts of hate, this attack has induced fear in a local Jewish community. Potentially vulnerable people can’t take comfort in an unknown motive.

The anti-Semites have achieved their goal.

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Anti-semites don't deserve your benefit of the doubt.

Kinda like with the Bubba Wallace situation it is much better to assume the worst than appear like you're diminishing a group of people. We can all apologize and correct narratives later if we find that someone Repeatedly Stabbed A Rabbi totally by happenstance.

No one is going to clown you for assuming this was a hate crime, it's a great college guess here.

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which really does seem to have been unintentional.

Attacking someone with a gun and a knife is never unintentional.

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BPD released the info tonight.

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Police in Brookline report:

Due to the close proximity of this incident to our Town’s borders, members of our Department immediately began communications with the Temples, Synagogues and Religious schools and day camps in our jurisdiction. Several measures were taken to harden any potential local targets, and comprehensive, well-rehearsed plans were put into action. We cannot stress the value of the partnerships that our Department has established with our Jewish institutions over the years, and today’s events served as a stark reminder of the importance of maintaining these professional relationships, so that in times of crisis our communication and our coordinated responses are seamlessly, effectively and quickly deployed.

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