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The New York Police Department

The New York City Police Department has announced that it will increase its coverage of synagogues throughout the City.

This move by the NYPD is in response to the barbaric maiming and murders at the Kehillat Yaakov synagogue in Har Nof, Jerusalem yesterday, Nov. 18.

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In that attack, two Israeli Arabs from a nearby Arab neighborhood in Jerusalem, stormed the synagogue during morning prayer services, hacking, slashing and shooting worshippers.

Four rabbis were murdered, three of whom were American and Israeli citizens, and the fourth was a British-Israeli. The fifth person murdered was a Druze police officer who arrived on the scene with his colleagues almost immediately after the carnage began.

NYPD Commissioner William J. Bratton noted that in addition to increasing attention to synagogues and “other symbolic locations” around the City, the NYPD is closely following developments in Jerusalem and is working with the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force to monitor any further developments.

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Lori Lowenthal Marcus is a contributor to the JewishPress.com. A graduate of Harvard Law School, she previously practiced First Amendment law and taught in Philadelphia-area graduate and law schools. You can reach her by email: [email protected]