“They are making it easier for these organizations to continue to incite against the Orthodox Jewish community; it is giving legitimacy to those organizations,” said Aron Weider, a county legislator in Rockland County — where the stabbing at the Rabbi’s home took place — who did not attend the march.

But for attendees, the event offered an important opportunity to demonstrate the far-reaching concern among the city’s Jewish population that an attack against the visibly Jewish Hasidic community is a threat to all Jews.

“We know our community is a complicated one,” said Eric Goldstein, chief executive officer of the United Jewish Appeal-Federation of New York. “We need to recognize that despite differences we have, we’re here to show our solidarity with all Jews, including very much the visibly traditional Orthodox community.”

Days before the march, 90,000 Jews gathered at MetLife Stadium and 20,000 thronged to Barclays Center to mark a traditional religious celebration, known as the Siyum HaShas, or “completion of the Talmud,” which carried extra meaning in light of the recent attacks.

Even as thousands gathered to offer their support to the Jewish community, anti-Semitic sentiments could be seen in other parts of the city: On Saturday, a banner promoting a white nationalist website was seen hanging over an overpass in the Bay Ridge neighborhood in Brooklyn.

The number of hate crimes reported last year in New York City rose around 20 percent compared to in 2018, according to the police.