The worshippers at an Orthodox synagogue in Brooklyn reportedly murmured uncomfortably as he compared Syrian refugees fleeing their country’s civil war with Jews fleeing the Nazis.
In a letter, 24 rabbis asked the mayor to back a City Council bill that would provide police school safety agents for parochial schools that request them.
The city’s Police Department said it was following developments in Jerusalem closely following a deadly synagogue attack and working with the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force.