(CNN) Stabbings inside a rabbi's home on the seventh day of Hanukkah marked the latest in a string of incidents that have targeted the Jewish community in New York.

On Saturday night, more than 100 people were gathered in the home when a man walked in and pulled out a knife that one witness said looked "almost like a broomstick."

The attack came a day after New York Mayor Bill de Blasio announced the city's police department would be increasing their presence in multiple Brooklyn neighborhoods.

"I think ... authorities are trying to do the best that they can," Yossi Gestetner, the co-founder of the Orthodox Jewish Public Affairs Council, told CNN. "But I think it's not enough."

"Those things shouldn't be just another story," he said. "People need to understand that what they do has consequences."

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