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The attacker stabbed five people, including Rottenberg\u2019s son. As of Dec. 30, two of the victims were listed in critical condition and the other three had been released from the hospital.\n\nGrafton Thomas, 37, was arrested on Dec. 29 in connection with the attack. He faces five counts of attempted murder and one count of burglary.\n\nAnti-Defamation League New York and New Jersey Regional Director Evan Bernstein told the Journal he was amazed that Rottenberg and the congregants were still praying and singing following the stabbings.\n\n\u201cThey were not going to let this horrific incident impact their ability to celebrate that holiday, and I think it shows the resilience of the Jewish community in these moments that are so difficult,\u201d Bernstein said.\n\nAmerican Jewish Committee CEO David Harris condemned the stabbings in a Dec. 29 statement. \u201cWe are witnessing a full-fledged epidemic of anti-Semitic attacks in the New York region. In the last week alone, there has been at least one each day,\u201d Harris said. \u201cWhat we need is a sustained, get-tough, zero-tolerance policy by local and state officials. And that policy must take equally seriously each incident, whatever its source might be. Anti-Semitism is anti-Semitism.\u201d\n\nHe also said, \u201cThe promising light of this holiday season must defeat the utter darkness of those who commit such violence in the name of hatred.\u201d\n\nSimon Wiesenthal Center Founder and Dean Rabbi Marvin Hier and Associate Dean and Director of Global Social Action Agenda Rabbi Abraham Cooper called on President Donald Trump to direct the FBI to create a national task force to protect Jews from anti-Semitic attacks.\n\n\u201cEnough is enough. Jews should not have to fear for their lives in America to go to their houses of worship,\u201d Hier and Cooper said. \u201cThe FBI must step up and take the lead in all recent violent hate crimes targeting religious Jews.\u201d\n\nStandWithUs issued a statement, saying the attack \u201cis yet another urgent reminder of the need to confront anti-Semitism at all levels and in all corners of society. Unfortunately, this rise in anti-Semitism also makes clear that Jews in the U.S. and beyond must invest in serious security, learn self-defense, and work with local allies and law enforcement to ensure their safety.\u201d\n\nOrthodox Union Executive Vice President Allen Fagin called for anti-Semitic acts to be treated as domestic terrorism and praised New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo for proposing a law to classify anti-Semitic acts as domestic terrorism.\n\n\u201cThis was the ninth anti-Semitic attack in the New York City area in the past week,\u201d Fagin said. \u201cIt is the fundamental responsibility of government to protect the safety of all of its citizens. This responsibility must be effectuated with all resources necessary to accomplish this purpose.\u201d\n\nOther anti-Semitic incidents that occurred in New York during Hanukkah included a man punching and kicking a Jewish man while shouting, \u201cF\u2014 you, Jew\u201d on Dec. 23, a woman hitting a Jewish woman with a bag on Dec. 26 and a man on Dec. 27 threatening to shoot people at Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters in Brooklyn.\n\nBernstein told the Journal he has never seen so many anti-Semitic incidents occur in such a short period during his six-year tenure as regional director of ADL New York and New Jersey.\n\nADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt tweeted, \u201cAfter the hateful assaults we saw this past week in Brooklyn and Manhattan, it is heart-wrenching to see the holiday of Hanukkah violated yet again. 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