Father-of-12 rabbi is stabbed eight times outside a Boston synagogue by man who 'tried to kidnap him because he is Jewish'

A rabbi was stabbed eight times outside a Boston synagogue on Thursday by a man who allegedly tried to kidnap him because he was Jewish. 

Rabbi Shlomo Noginksi was attacked on the street outside Shaloh House, a Jewish Day School and synagogue on Chestnut Hill Avenue in Brighton, at around 1.19pm on Thursday afternoon.  

Boston Police Department have since arrested Khaled Awad, 24, of Brighton, on suspicion of carrying out the stabbing on the father-of-12.

Rabbi Noginski, who is a teacher and rabbi at the Shaloh House, was reportedly sat outside talking on his cell phone when the suspect launched his attack on him.