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Suspect arrested in Hanukkah stabbings

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Last Sunday, the suspect in a string of stabbings during a Saturday Hanukkah celebratio­n at a rabbi’s home in a New York suburb was arrested and found with “blood all over him.”

Grafton Thomas, 37, is accused of stabbing five people, all Hasidic Jews. Two are in critical condition. Thomas reportedly looked up several anti-Semitic topics online, including “why Hitler hated the Jews.”

The attack, the 13th act of anti-Semitism in New York in the past three weeks, came the day before a church shooting in Texas — yet another attack on a house of worship.

 ??  ?? People hold signs of support near the home of Rabbi Chaim Rottenberg on Sunday in Monsey, N.Y. Kena Betancur / AFP via Getty Images
People hold signs of support near the home of Rabbi Chaim Rottenberg on Sunday in Monsey, N.Y. Kena Betancur / AFP via Getty Images

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