{"id":11884,"date":"2026-01-29T09:23:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T14:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jewishpublicaffairs.org\/?p=11884"},"modified":"2026-01-29T09:43:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T14:43:12","slug":"jcpa-statement-on-car-attack-on-chabad-headquarters-in-brooklyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jewishpublicaffairs.org\/press-release\/jcpa-statement-on-car-attack-on-chabad-headquarters-in-brooklyn\/","title":{"rendered":"JCPA Statement on Car Attack on Chabad Headquarters in Brooklyn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Amy Spitalnick, CEO of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, released the following statement:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cLast night&#8217;s car attack on Chabad headquarters in Brooklyn is sadly just the latest in a far-too-long list of violence targeting Jewish institutions and communities \u2014 in fact, it comes just one day after a rabbi was attacked on the way to synagogue in Queens.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">We&#8217;re grateful no one was injured in the car ramming. But our Jewish communities cannot simply continue to wait for the next attack and hope it will be ok.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">When Jews are unsafe, all communities and our democracy are unsafe. Yet too often, our safety is treated as a political wedge rather than a fundamental responsibility.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">This real and rising crises of antisemitism, extremism, and violence require whole-of-government and whole-of-society solutions \u2014 from city, state, and federal officials, from partners across communities, and from civil society \u2014 not only to invest in physical security measures, but also to build the resiliency to hate and extremism in the first place.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amy Spitalnick, CEO of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, released the following statement: \u201cLast night&#8217;s car attack on Chabad headquarters in Brooklyn is sadly just the latest in a far-too-long list of violence targeting Jewish institutions and communities \u2014 in fact, it comes just one day after a rabbi was attacked on the way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - 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