New York State has allocated $45 million for security at religious schools and institutions, Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced over the weekend.
“Everyone today says the same thing: No hate in our state, period,” Cuomo said Sunday during an appearance at an interfaith solidarity march across Brooklyn Bridge. “We won’t tolerate it, we condemn it, we stand united against it and we are going to act against it.”
The announcement by Cuomo follows a spate of anti-Semitic attacks in the region, including one days before the march where a man wielding a machete stormed a rabbi’s home in Monsey, New York, sending five to the hospital.
The attack on Dec. 28 targeted a Hannukah celebration.
The march drew support from a number of organizations, including the Anti-Defamation League, the American Jewish Committee and the inter-denominational New York Board of Rabbis.
The funds allocated by Cuomo will be distributed to religious institutions through a state grant program established in 2017 to boost security at community centers, museums, residential camps, nonprofit schools and day care centers vulnerable to hate-fueled attacks because of their “ideology, beliefs or mission.”
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