The head rabbi at the historic Park East Synagogue is calling for local and state legislators to outlaw protests near houses of worship following a tumultuous pro-Palestine protest that lead NYPD Commissioner Tisch James to apologize to the congregation last month.

“This was not just an attack on a synagogue. This was an attack against the Jewish community,” Rabbi Arthur Schneier told a crowd assembled outside the synagogue’s E. 68th St. entrance Thursday night. “It’s important to ask every legislator in the city council and state to make sure that a law is enacted, whereby it is prohibited to demonstrate before synagogues or any other house of worship.”

Schneier joined New York City Comptroller Mark Levine on a stage setup outside the synagogue near Third Ave. on the Upper East Si

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