Chabad emissary Rabbi Shlomo Noginski was stabbed several times Thursday afternoon outside a Jewish day school in Boston.
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Police apprehended the suspect, 24-year-old Khaled Awad. Law enforcement said his motives for the crime were not yet clear and did not immediately identify the attack as a hate crime.
Noginski was taken to the trauma unit of a local hospital with non-life threatening injuries. He was reported to be in stable condition.
The attack occurred against the backdrop of an alarming spike in antisemitism in the United States. A recent survey by the Anti-Defamation League said that 63% of American Jews had experienced or witnessed antisemitism over the past five years.
At the same time, 59% of respondents said they felt Jews were less safe in the US now than they were a decade ago, and 49% expressed fear of a violent attack at a synagogue.
In a post on Twitter, the organization said the attack "has sent a shockwave of fear and anxiety throughout the community" and called for full transparency in the police investigation.
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