i want to bring in evan bernstein, the new york regional director of the anti defamation league. evan, thank you for being with us. mayor de blasio said we cannot overstate the fear that people are feeling right now. your reaction to what happened overnight. i don't know, if someone is targeting a community, is it better to be in groups or not to be in public or not? what is that fear? how is it manifested in the community? >> well, this is -- what happened in the overnight here in monsey, i have been on the ground since 11:00 last night. we are standing now in front of the home of the rabbi where the hanukkah celebration took place and where the stabbing allegedly took place. it has been a horrific time for the orthodox community now for really the last few weeks. clearly now with what has taken place in monsey, jersey city, the murders that took place there, and the spate of attacks that took place in brooklyn, right now if you are orthodox, you are incredibly scared. you're fearful. you're not going about your daily life the same way you did in months prior. as an adl organizat

let's discuss this now with evan bernstein. he is legal director for the anti-defamation league. evan, thank you for talking with us. this is terrible what we've been seeing. this is just one of many attacks. there was an attack on jewish new yorkers almost every day last week. what do you think is behind this? >> there are still a lot of questions. the fact is the jewish community is now being targeted. in the last two and a half weeks, we had the jersey city shooting and murder that took place there, and then the unbelievable spate of attacks that took place in brooklyn last week, and now during a holiday of hanukkah, the stabbing that took place in the ceremony, and the party that was taking place in the rabbi's home in monsey. it has been an absolutely unbelievably difficult time for the orthodox community here in the jewish region. it has to stop. the community cannot continue to deal with these kinds of attacks on what seems to be almost a daily basis. >> you just heard brynn's report that the perpetrator lived about a half hour away. clearly seemed to go out of his way to t

right now, we want to talk with evan bernstein. he's the regional director of the anti-defamation league. you're in muncie, evan. this has been a horrible attack on day seven of hanukkah, in the middle of a celebration. can you set the scene for us, about what's happening there now and what the people -- how the people are responding to this terrible incident. >> i've been on the scene since about 11:15, when we received word about the stabbings that took place. i got here before the crime scene was being established. i had an opportunity to talk to first responders and law enforcement, and talk to the rabbi who was leading the celebration in his home. and i went across the street to his synagogue, where he continued to celebrate the hanukkah holiday, with his congregation. despite there was a horrific act that took place in his home before. it is a horrific time for this community. talking with so many of the community members, they're around the crime scene. the fbi that came and other law enforcement started to make the crime sce

joining me now is evan bernstein, new york/new jersey regional director with the anti-defamation leaguenderstanding is you were on the scene last night. can you talk a little bit about how the community there is responding. it's our understanding that services resumed after this attack. >> yeah, it did. i got to -- i got on the ground about 11:00 last night and actually just left monsey about 6:00 this morning so i was there overnight. given that the community were dealing with law enforcement and actually before the crime scene was fully blocked off i was able to actually get to the rabbi, his sin fwog which is next to the house where the stabbings took place where he was still performing services and was moving on and it was, you know, praying for the victims, praying for the family member that was stabbed and it was really a sight to behold to see this community who was reeling from such pain but still trying to celebrate the holiday of hanukkah. it was really a testament to their faith. >> we don't yet know anything really about the motive in this attack and we can see the facts of

evan bernstein is regional director of the anti-defamation league.hy are these hate crimes on the rise? >> we have seen a lot of gentrification issues, housing issues, cultural strife that takes place, lack of communication. but a lot of that has been there for a lot of years. but also anti-semitism has been part our culture for generations, and now we've seen kind of the uncapping of that over the last four years. >> reporter: the first attack happened this week here on new york's upper east side. a man was punched and kicked after the suspect allegedly made an anti-semitic remark. now in light of these attacks, the n.y.p.d. is beefing up their patrols in jewish neighborhoods. and, jim, new york's governor has directed his hate crimes task force to look into them. >> axelrod: disturbing story. thank you, don. former radio host don imus has died. imus gained both fame and notoriety for his newsmaking interviews, edgy comedy bits, drug and alcohol problems, a long-running feud with radio host howard stern, and his charity work for kids with ifacc outr

natalie allen spoke with with evan bernstein. she asked how the jewish community is responding to this stabbing. >> i got here before the crime scene was kind of being established. i had the opportunity to talk with first responders and law enforcement and actually had an opportunity to meet the rabbi who is leading a celebration in his home and went across the street to his synagogue where he continued to celebrate the hanukkah holiday with his congregation. despite the horrific acts that took place in his home really moments before. it has been a horrific time right now for this community talking with really so many community members. they are here on the street, around the crime scene, being sequestered off a few hundred yards away. law enforcement started making the crime scene, you know, less accessible. clearly more and more personal conversations about the immense amount of fear right now people are feeling that are openly orthodox. they know so many family members that live here in monsey have family in brooklyn and what

joining me now to discuss, evan bernstein, the new york regional director for the anti-defamation leaguen, first to you. nine anti-semitic incidents in just the last few days. >> yes. >> take us inside the community. what are the conversations, and how is this changing daily life? >> you know, really if you look back just in the last 2 1/2 weeks, it starts with the new jersey, jersey city murders that took place, domestic terror, anti-semitic. then you go into what took place last week where we had a spate of anti-semitic attacks. and now here at the end of hanukkah, you had what took place in monsey. in all these. the common denominator is the ultra orthodox community have been targeted. there is a tremendous amount of fear. there is daily life that's been completely disrupted. there's an inability right now for people to reset themselves. they don't know when the next attack is going to come. they don't know when they're going to be able to practice openly and freely without fear. you have a lot of mothers and fathers in the conversations i've had that never expected to have these kind

. >> james, we heard evan bernstein say a fear of reporting and retaliation. is there something the law enforcement community can do to better than encourage people to be really transparent about what they are going through and what they see and to come to them? >> that gets into the sociological aspect and they have to make sure they are are a part of the investigation and they feel they can go and report incidents like this and that these incidents will be investigated. look. this incident last night took place in rockland county. there are a number of different police agencies here that are working around the clock to solve it as well as the new york state police. if it is a biased crime, which obviously it appears to be right now the fbi will be involved too and i guarantee they will roll out the red carpet personnel to get to the bottom of this thing. a community on one of their high holiest weeks on the saab was this cansabbath can't live in n and especially in their own homes. law enforcement has to get the bottom of this and get out in front of anythin

evan bernstein is regional director of the anti-defamation league.hy are these hate crimes on the rise? >> we've seen gentrification issues, housing issues, cultural strife that takes place. lack of communication. a lot of that has been there for a long of years but also has been there, anti-semitism has been part of our culture for generations. now we've seen the uncapping of that over the last four years. >> reporter: the first attack this week happened on the upper east side. a man was punched and kicked after a suspect allegedly made an anti-semitic remark. in light of these attacks, the nypd has beefed up patrols in jewish neighborhoods, and new york's governor has directed a hate crimes task force to look into them. for "cbs this morning saturday," don dahler, new york. >>> it is quiet in washington this weekend with both congress and president trump still out of town for the holiday. when the senate returns in january, one of the first orders of business will be the impeachment trial of president trump. chip reid is traveling with the presiden