Police are searching for a man who threw a Molotov cocktail at a New Jersey temple early Sunday morning.
The man threw the flammable device at the front door of Temple Ner Tamid in Bloomfield, a township about 7 miles north of Newark, around 3:19 a.m., Bloomfield police said. d
Security video recorded him lighting the device, throwing it at the door and fleeing down the driveway, authorities said, adding that the glass bottle broke but did not damage the building.Police are searching for a man who threw a Molotov cocktail at a New Jersey synagogue.Bloomfield detectives are investigating alongside local prosecutors, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, authorities said.
, the temple's rabbi, Marc Katz, said in a statement: “We have and will continue to do everything in our power to keep our community safe. Everything worked as it should. Our cameras recorded the incident and our shatter-resistant doors held. But what I cannot do, is convince our community not to grow despondent. There is hate everywhere, and hate wins when we let it penetrate."
Katz told the station that the temple recently enhanced its security with a grant from the state’s Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness.they were increasing patrols of local temples"and will continue to do so until more information is obtained."that his office was aware of both that attempted attack and another one at a church in Monmouth County on Saturday, which they are investigating"as potentially bias-motivated," he said.
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