bleicher who's in washington with more on the story carlo what have been the reactions and what are authorities doing to deal with this alleged crime. well there's no official word on a motive. officials are believing that this crime has an anti-semitic background and new york governor andrew cuomo has called it an act of domestic terrorism as we have just heard and described as intolerance needs ignorance. u.s. president donald trump went on twitter to say quote we must all come together to fight confront and eradicate the evil scourge of anti-semitism but in the jewish community it voices are getting louder that politicians are not doing enough to protect them they are calling for more police protection at their houses of worship and they're calling for more political action so that something like the horrible stabbing has never happened again now andrew cuomo in his remarks he said this is the 13th anti-semitic incident in the new york area in just the last 3 weeks and these are places with large jewish populations often seem to be safe for for jewish communities but what's behin

and for more let's go to do you have a correspondent carla bleicher who's in washington with more on the story carla what have been the reactions and what are authorities doing to deal with this alleged crime. well there is no official word on a motive yet officials are believing that this crime has an anti-semitic background and new york governor andrew cuomo has called it an act of domestic terrorism as we have just heard and described as intolerance meets ignorance. u.s. president donald trump went on twitter to say quote we must all come together to fight confront and unready cade's the evil scourge of anti-semitism but in the jewish community of voices are getting louder that politicians are not doing enough to protect them they are calling for more police protection at their houses of worship and they're calling for more political action so something like the horrible stabbing has never happened again no andrew cuomo in his remarks he said this is the 13th anti-semitic incident in the new york area in just the last 3 weeks and these are places with large jewish populations ofte

carla bleicher has more for us on this from washington d.c. it was meant to be a celebration a choice gathering but it turned into a nightmare on saturday nights a man stabbed 5 people at a hanukkah gathering at a red light 30 miles north of new york. next a governor andrew cuomo called the crime an act of domestic terrorism and pointed out that is the 13th attack against jewish communities in new york states over the past few weeks church organizations have spoken up and are calling for more political action and more protection from politicians for their houses of worship and their lives but where does this rise of anti-semitic crime come from the most recent attack took place on hanukkah holiday so there was more attention on the jewish community than there normally is but what about all the other attacks across new york state and the united states while critics of the u.s. government have said that he was president donald trump's rhetoric is divisive and hateful and encourages fear and hatred against anyone or anything that's a friend. and