Car repeatedly rams entrance of NYC synagogue in disturbing attack on Jan. 28, 2026

A troubled man who once sought “guidance” from Jewish leaders was arrested after he repeatedly rammed his car into a Brooklyn synagogue Wednesday night and bizarrely claimed “it slipped,” according to shocking video and sources. The gray Honda sedan with New Jersey plates was seen in footage circulating on social media backing up and plowing into a side entrance of Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters at least four times during a holy celebration that attracted thousands of congregants from around the world to the Crown Heights area. Police responded to the Eastern Parkway building for a “motor vehicle collision” at about 8:45 p.m., and the NYPD’s hate crime task force is investigating the incident, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch announced at a press conference late Wednesday. Officers found the car had crashed into the doors of a sloped driveway at the synagogue, authorities said.