A 37-year-old suspect appeared in a
New York court on Sunday charged with five counts of attempted murder over a stabbing spree at a rabbi's suburban house -- the latest in a spate of attacks on Jewish targets.
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Grafton Thomas allegedly entered the property in Monsey, Rockland County, during celebrations on Saturday evening for the Jewish festival of Hanukkah, knifing several people with a machete before fleeing.
The frenzied attack was quickly condemned as a "domestic terrorism" incident that underscored growing anti-Semitic violence in the United States.