State Senate Independent Democratic Conference outlines religious freedom package
Savino calls anti-Semitic acts ‘reprehensible’
In the wake of a disturbing series of bomb threats lodged against Jewish community centers in New York that were similar to the threats called into centers at various locations across the U.S., members of the state Senate’s Independent Democratic Conference (IDC) announced a new effort to combat religious hatred.
IDC members, including two Brooklyn lawmakers, state Sen. Diane Savino and state Sen. Jesse Hamilton, unveiled their Religious Freedom Package, legislative measures aimed at promoting religious tolerance across the state.
The lawmakers are also taking action in response to two shocking crimes in which Jewish cemeteries in St. Louis and Philadelphia were attacked by vandals who knocked over hundreds of headstones.