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Edward Manners exited the Hornell Community Arts Center on June 1, secured his face mask and headed to his car in the municipal parking lot.
Manners was taking his first steps toward normalcy after receiving his second dose of the two-shot Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at the center’s walk-in vaccination clinic.
Fully vaccinated (once he s gone through a two-week waiting period following his final dose), Manners looked ahead.
“I just wanted to get back to normal. I made my decision,” said Manners, a middle-aged, wiry-framed trucker who received his first shot May 4 in Hornell.
HACKENSACK, N.J. – Two men convicted of carrying out attacks on Jewish communities in New Jersey that included the firebombing of two synagogues and throwing a Molotov cocktail into a
[ILLUSTRATIVE] Police responding to a shooting incident in Jersey City, New Jersey, Dec. 10, 2019. Photo: Reuters.A state appeals court upheld the convictions on Thursday of two men previously convicted for a monthlong spree of antisemitic crimes in northern New Jersey, including the firebombing of two synagogues.
Aakash Dalal and Anthony Graziano, now in their late 20s, were found guilty in separate trials of more than a dozen counts, for a string of 2011-2012 attacks that also included throwing Molotov cocktails into a rabbi’s home as he and his family slept.
The court rejected the pair’s arguments for suppressing a confession by Graziano in which he admitted to targeting the synagogues because of his hatred of Jews and evidence from a search of Dalal’s jail cell. Their crimes also included vandalizing other synagogues, with spray paint messages such as “Jews did 9/11.”
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A state appellate court has upheld the convictions of two Lodi men found guilty in 2017 of terrorizing North Jersey s Jewish community with a series of attempted firebombings and anti-Semitic graffiti.
Aakash Dalal and Anthony Graziano will continue serving 35-year prison terms, the appeals court ruled Thursday, finding they were charged appropriately under New Jersey anti-terrorism laws, and that their sentences though lengthy fit the crimes they committed.
The pair’s crime spree from December 2011 to January 2012 targeted a swath of synagogues across Bergen County. Dalal and Graziano spray-painted swastikas, Jews Did 9/11 and other anti-Semitic messages at Temple Beth Israel in Maywood and Temple Beth El in Hackensack. They were also convicted of attempting to burn down synagogues in Paramus and Rutherford and of throwing Molotov cocktails into the home of a rabbi in Rutherford.