Hoboken Police officers stand watch exterior the United Synagogue of Hoboken, Thursday, Nov. 3, 2022, in Hoboken, N.J. The FBI says it has acquired credible details about a menace to synagogues in New Jersey.

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Hoboken Police officers stand watch exterior the United Synagogue of Hoboken, Thursday, Nov. 3, 2022, in Hoboken, N.J. The FBI says it has acquired credible details about a menace to synagogues in New Jersey.

Ryan Kryska/AP

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — The FBI mentioned on Thursday it had acquired credible details about a “broad” menace to synagogues in New Jersey.

The FBI’s Newark workplace launched a press release urging synagogues to “take all security precautions to protect your community and facility.”

The alert was posted after officers found an internet menace directed broadly at synagogues in New Jersey, a regulation enforcement official mentioned. The posting, although, didn’t goal any particular synagogue by title, the official mentioned. The official couldn’t focus on particulars of the investigation publicly and spoke to The Associated Press on situation of anonymity.

More particular particulars weren’t launched, and a message was left with the FBI in Newark.

In Jersey City, Mayor Steven Fulop mentioned police can be posted on the metropolis’s seven synagogues and foot patrols can be added within the broader Jewish group. In 2019, two assailants motivated by anti-Jewish hate killed three individuals in a kosher market in Jersey City, together with a police officer.
Police officers armed with rifles guarded a synagogue one metropolis over, in Hoboken, the place the general public security director additionally introduced elevated patrols in Jewish communities.

Five years in the past, two New Jersey males have been sentenced to 35 years in jail after being convicted for a sequence of assaults in 2012 that included the firebombings of two synagogues. They additionally threw a Molotov cocktail into the house of a rabbi as he slept along with his spouse and youngsters.

Democratic Rep. Josh Gottheimer, whose district encompasses a part of the realm in northern New Jersey affected by these assaults, mentioned in a press release Thursday that current feedback by Kanye West and the social media submit shared by NBA star Kyrie Irving have contributed to the issue.

“I am deeply concerned and outraged by today’s alert from the FBI,” Gottheimer mentioned. “This is what happens after years of antisemitic comments from public figures, including, most recently, Kanye West, Kyrie Irving, and others,” he mentioned.