Black man, 37, is arrested for 'storming into a rabbi's home with a machete and stabbing five people' during a Hanukkah party in an 'act of domestic terrorism' amid a surge in anti-Semitic attacks
- The attack occurred in the small, predominantly Jewish hamlet of Monsey, New York, at about 10pm Saturday
- The suspect was identified as 37-year-old Thomas Grafton of Greenwood Lake
- Grafton allegedly stormed into the home of Rabbi Chaim Leibush Rottenberg, where roughly 60 people had gathered for a candle-lighting ceremony for the seventh night of Hannukah
- Witnesses said the suspect wildly swung a large knife, stabbing five before he was chased out of the home
- He then tried to enter the neighboring Congregation Netzach Yisrael-Kosson before fleeing in a Nissan Sentra
- NYPD officers arrested the suspect 30 miles away in Harlem about two hours later
- State troopers were later seen marching Grafton out of the precinct in handcuffs before transporting him back to Rockland County, where he faces five counts of attempted murder and one count of burglary
- Local Hasidic community officials said the five victims, all Hasidic, were hospitalized, two in critical condition
- Governor Andrew Cuomo branded the incident an act of domestic terrorism on Sunday morning
- By MEGAN SHEETS and ARIEL ZILBER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
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