The Chabad-Lubavitchers, as conspicuous human symbols of the Jewish people worldwide, continue to find themselves targeted in the wake of the attack and massacre by jihadists at their center in Mumbai, India.

In Florence, Italy, earlier this month, an explosive device was planted at the entrance of the local Chabad House. A fuse had reportedly been lit but the bomb thankfully had failed to go off.

Also earlier this month, molotov cocktails were thrown at a Chabad Synagogue in the Saint-Denis suburb of Paris, part of a pattern of increasing violence against the remaining Jews in France and in Europe as a whole.

“They are more worried about their safety. They are more afraid than before,” said Rabbi Mendel Belinow [of his congregants], leader of a Chabad-Lubavitch synagogue and outreach center in the northern Paris suburb of Saint-Denis that was firebombed.

Two of the nine Molotov cocktails thrown at his synagogue ignited, burning part of the center’s cafeteria. No injuries were reported, though the rabbi was in the building at the time and was believed to have been a target.

The synagogue, located in a heavily immigrant suburb known for its high crime and poverty rates, also was attacked in 2005 when “Death to the Jews” was scrawled on its inner walls.

Over the past few weeks, the Jewish community has seen attacks ranging from firebombings to stabbings. The government’s inability to protect them from violence, despite the efforts of French authorities, has generated a renewed sense of unease in the French Jewish community, which numbers roughly 600,000 in a country of 60 million. France has 5 million to 6 million Muslims.
“It’s harder to reassure them now,” Belinow said of his approximately 160 congregants.

And even in Brooklyn, New York, threats against the Chabad headquarters have prompted increased police protection.

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