Shear Nobles allegedly disrupted a service at a Manhattan synagogue.
According to PIX11, Shear Nobles disrupted a synagogue service, made antisemitic remarks and recorded without permission.
Arrest Follows July Disruption
Nobles was charged with aggravated harassment and disruption of religious service, per the same account. The alleged July disruption preceded this week's arrest by nearly three months.
The synagogue disruption comes amid a string of reported disruptions at New York synagogues this year. In August, a man identified as 46-year-old Larry Montes allegedly disrupted Sabbath services at Manhattan's Central Synagogue, screaming obscenities and striking a congregant, according to The New York Times. Montes was charged that night with assault as a hate crime and criminal mischief as a hate crime, the paper reported, and the Department of Justice separately announced two federal hate-crime counts tied to the same attack on a congregant and a security guard during that Shabbat service.
Citywide Numbers Show an Uptick
The Central Synagogue case emerged alongside citywide figures cited by the Times: New York City recorded 360 hate crimes from January 1 through July 31, compared with 329 over the same stretch the year before.
National tracking from the Anti-Defamation League tells a more complicated story. The ADL recorded 6,274 antisemitic incidents across the United States in 2025, a 33% drop from the 9,354 tabulated in 2024. Incidents specifically at Jewish institutions fell 34% in 2025, from 1,702 down to 1,129, and bomb threats against Jewish institutions plunged to 59 from 627 in 2024 and 996 in 2023. Even so, the ADL reported that physical assaults climbed to their highest level in the organization's tracking history.
