Five wounded at rabbi's home during Hanukkah festivities in New York

Emergency services at the scene in Monsey, Rockland County

Five individuals have been wounded at a rabbi's home in New York while praising the Jewish celebration of Hanukkah.

The knifeman then fled the scene following the assault just before 10pm on Saturday night at a living arrangement in Monsey, around 30 miles north of New York City.

Ramapo Police Chief Brad Weidel later affirmed a suspect had been captured and a vehicle of intrigue had been found.

The episode occurred during a get-together at the place of a Hasidic rabbi, as indicated by the Orthodox Jewish Public Affairs Council (OJPAC) for the Hudson Valley locale.

Chabad.org, which says it's the "site of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic development," distributed subtleties dependent on witnesses and different sources.

It stated: "A person with a scarf covering his face entered just before 10 p.m., waving a blade and started wounding a portion of the Chassidic Jews accumulated for the festival.

"A Chassidic man tossed a table at the aggressor and pursued him from the home.

"The assailant at that point endeavored to enter the adjoining synagogue, yet was bolted out by the individuals there, who blockaded themselves inside."

As per open records, the home has a place with Rabbi Chaim Rottenberg, who drives the synagogue adjoining the home.

Five people were injured in Saturday night's attack

Saturday was the seventh night of Hanukkah.

Photographs and recordings posted via web-based networking media show an enormous crisis reaction with paramedics running and pushing stretchers.

The OJPAC said two of those hurt were basically harmed.

New York City's police office said it was venturing up watches in intensely populated Jewish neighborhoods, for example, Monsey in Rockland County, following a spate of racist assaults over the previous year including one that left a rabbi dead.

Prior this month six individuals, including a cop, kicked the bucket in a taking shots at a legitimate market in northern New Jersey.

Around New York City, police have gotten in any event six reports this week - and eight since 13 December - of assaults potentially provoked by hostile to Jewish estimation.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who called Saturday's stabbings an "apprehensive demonstration", has educated the state police detest violations team to explore the assaults.

He stated: "Let me get straight to the point: discrimination against Jews and dogmatism of any sort are hostile to our estimations of incorporation and assorted variety and we have completely zero resistance for such demonstrations of loathe.

"In New York we will consistently stand up and state with one voice to any individual who wishes to separation and spread dread: you don't speak to New York and your activities won't go unpunished."

The attack happened at a rabbi's home

Israel's president Reuven Rivlin tweeted: "Shocked and outraged by the terrible attack in #NY and praying for the recovery of those injured.

"#Antisemitism is not just a #Jewish problem, and certainly not just the State of #Israel's problem. We must work together to confront this rising evil, which is a real global threat."

The NYPD Counterterrorism Bureau said it was "intently observing the reports".

New York State Attorney General Leticia James stated: "I am profoundly upset by the circumstance unfurling in Monsey, New York today around evening time."

She proceeded: "There is zero resilience for demonstrations of loathe of any sort and we will keep on checking this awful circumstance.

"I remain with the Jewish people group today around evening time and consistently."

Chairman Bill de Blasio tweeted: "Despise doesn't have a home in our city," depicting the most recent occurrence as an assault on all New Yorkers.