Rabbi Josef Neumann, who was critically injured from a machete attack at a Chanukah party in Monsey, Rockland County, NY, died on Sunday at age 72.
On Saturday night, December 28, 2019, the seventh night of Chanukah, a masked African-American man wielding a machete invaded the home of Rabbi Chaim Rottenberg in Monsey, and began stabbing the rabbi’s guests. Five people were wounded, two were in critical condition. The guests threw chairs and a table at the assailant, who fled the scene.
