New York police filed hate crimes charges against three Arab Americans in connection with vandalism against a synagogue in the Bronx. The three young men are accused of throwing a bottle a vodka and breaking a window at Synagogue Adath Israel on Sunday. Meanwhile, Israeli Cabinet minister Rabbi Michael Melchior met in Jerusalem with representatives of several Jewish organizations and leaders of European Jewish communities to discuss the increase in anti- Semitic incidents throughout the world in the past two weeks.
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