"This holiday is when light triumphs over evil. And everyone, right now we see people attacking this community and we will not stand for it," de Blasio said.
A man stabbed five people as they gathered to celebrate Hanukkah at a rabbi's home in an Orthodox Jewish community north of New York City Saturday evening.
This past week in New York City itself, police have received at least six reports — eight since Dec. 13 — of attacks possibly motivated by anti-Jewish bias.
Mayor Bill de Blasio has said that police presence would increase in Brooklyn neighborhoods home to large Jewish populations.
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