Hate crime

Michael Teper, president of CAEF, described the mobile billboard campaign in a statement to The Jerusalem Post as an experiment to shift the community’s approach to public demonstrations.

The State Department is also seeking increased protection around Jewish community residential areas and along routes used by worshippers walking to synagogues.

The court records detail an initial confrontation on the evening of August 7, when Hewett and his father, Raymond, walked up to the property to demand an interaction with a staff member.

This comes one week after the Tel Aviv-Jaffa District Court deleted a petition seeking to force Ramat Hasharon to enforce its Shabbat business-closure bylaw at BIG Fashion Glilot.

While Montes was handcuffed and arrested in the lobby of the synagogue, he then allegedly told a security guard “F–ck you [n-word]” and headbutted him near his left eye socket.

The number of hate crimes targeting Jews was over seven times higher than the next highest target: anti-Muslim crimes (205 incidents).

'He came over to us and started asking questions. We put the camera on him, and then he gave us the middle finger and shouted: “f*** Israel.'

The attack, which was premeditated, left one of the victims with a brain injury and his friend with a broken wrist that required surgery.

Larry Montes, 46, was charged with two counts of assault as a hate crime and one count of criminal mischief as a hate crime for the incident at Manhattan's Central Synagogue.

Peter Larsen, 48, of Orem, Utah, was indicted by a federal grand jury "for the federal hate crime of willfully causing bodily injury to a victim because of his actual or perceived religion."