$400 million boost in federal funds for security at places of worship

NEW YORK -- A $400 cardinal summation successful national backing is disposable for information successful places of worship, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced Sunday.

The boost successful wealth comes arsenic concerns emergence implicit threats against Jewish and Muslim communities, fueled successful portion by the Israel-Hamas war.

Places similar synagogues and mosques could use to usage the wealth to prosecute information unit oregon instal cameras nether the caller summation successful backing to the existing national Nonprofit Security Grant Program, Schumer, a Democrat, said from New York City.

“We’re going to support backing truthful that nary synagogue oregon different spiritual instauration is going to person to unrecorded successful the fearfulness that they present unrecorded with,” Schumer said.

The programme allocated $305 cardinal past twelvemonth to nonprofits to assistance support their facilities from imaginable attacks.

Three New York City synagogues and the Brooklyn Museum received weaponry threats done email connected Saturday, a spokesperson for the New York Police Department said. The threats prompted 2 synagogues to evacuate, though nary explosives were found.

Houses of worship volition request to use by May 21 to pat into the archetypal circular of funds.