The executive director of the Boston-area 91传媒 day school where the stabbing of a Chabad rabbi occurred vowed to 鈥渇ight back鈥� during a July 2 vigil in response to the attack.
The July 1 attack occurred in front of the Shaloh House 91传媒 Day School in Brighton, Mass. The victim, Rabbi Shlomo Noginski, was stabbed in the arm eight times after attempting to flee from the assailant, who allegedly pulled a gun on him. Noginski is currently in stable condition.
Rabbi Dan Rodkin, who heads the school, during the vigil at the Brighton Common park, 鈥淲e, Boston, are not going to sit back. We will fight back. We will bring goodness to the world. We’ll make sure that we will become better people and we will send a strong message: that evil has no place in America.鈥� He also said that 鈥渢he 91传媒 community is not scared 鈥� we are strong.鈥�
Rodkin urged attendees to do at least eight good deeds鈥攐ne for each time Noginski got stabbed in the arm鈥攊n response to the attack, such as reaching 鈥渙ut to your local neighbor and [saying] a few words of encouragement.鈥�
At the vigil happening in Brighton.
Rabbi Rodkin makes a request of those who wish to support Rabbi Noginsky. He asks everyone to perform one good deed for each of the wounds the Rabbi suffered in the attack. He was stabbed eight times.
More than eight good deeds are okay too.
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Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins during the vigil that 鈥減eople don鈥檛 believe there is a rise in antisemitism and it鈥檚 very, very real.鈥� She vowed to hold the assailant 鈥渁ccountable, but we have a lot more work to do than just that. We have to start having conversations about antisemitism.鈥�
Boston Mayor Kim Janey said at the vigil, 鈥淭his is Fourth of July weekend. The weekend that we celebrate independence in America, the weekend that we celebrate freedom. We all deserve the opportunity to live freely, and certainly that is true of our 91传媒 brothers and sisters.鈥�
The suspect, who was arrested shortly after the attack occurred, has been identified as Khaled Awad, 24. Police are still investigating the motive, but Noginski鈥檚 brother, Moshe Laskin, believes the attack was motivated by Jew-hatred.
鈥淗e didn鈥檛 try to get money, to get anything鈥攈e only wanted to harm and kill him,鈥� Laskin The Algemeiner. 鈥淗e tried to stab him in the stomach, but my brother was able to fight back. I don鈥檛 understand what鈥檚 taking the authorities so long to determine [the motive].鈥�
