Daily Briefing Aug. 17: NY Jews train for mass casualty event amid heightened threats
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Deputy Editor Amanda Borschel-Dan is the host of The Times of Israel’s Daily Briefing, What Matters Now and The Reel Schmooze podcasts, and heads up The Times of Israel’s features.
Luke Tress is The Times of Israel’s New York correspondent.
Welcome to The Times of Israel’s Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what’s happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world. US reporter Luke Tress joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan for today’s episode. WATCH the full episode here: A man disrupted Shabbat services and attacked a guard and a congregant at Central Synagogue in Manhattan on Friday night. The violent disturbance comes days after rabbis from a swath of Jewish denominations met with New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, warning him that his repeated broadsides against the Jewish state were harmful to the Jewish community. Tress weighs in, explaining that Jews were targeted in 70 percent of all hate crimes in New York City in July.
On Thursday, Tress attended part of a course that Israeli first responders from Magen David Adom (MDA) taught for members of the US-based volunteer synagogue security group, the Community Security Service (CSS), to train them how to respond in mass casualty events. He reports back about this new, too-realistic threat.
In the second half of the program, we learn about an in-depth report Tress wrote about three recent federal US terrorism cases that investigated humanitarian crowdfunding campaigns out of, or relating to, Gaza. The cases highlight potential abuse of loosely regulated fundraising platforms and the intersection of terror financing, social media and cryptocurrency.
Check out The Times of Israel’s ongoing liveblog for more updates.
Assailant disrupts Shabbat service at NYC synagogue, attacks congregant and guard
Jews targeted in 70% of all NYC hate crimes last month, NYPD data shows
Gazan sham charities’ crowdfunding funneled cash to alleged terrorists, US probes show
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