Last Wednesday night, a man rammed his car into Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters, a world-renowned synagogue in Crown Heights, Brooklyn New York. His vehicle hit the building’s entrance five times, and when it was over, police arrested 36 year old Dan Sohai and charged him with several hate crimes, including attempted assault, criminal mischief and aggravated harassment. Yet apparently it wasn’t enough of a story for ABC’s World News Tonight, or The CBS Evening News to cover on their respective broadcasts on Thursday evening, although both networks did report on the story on their morning news shows. 

The NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas did make time for the story with a report that ran almost a minute and a half. Llamas led into it with his introduction of reporter Sam Brock.

LLAMAS: Tonight terrifying moments when a man rammed his car into a Jewish Center in Brooklyn multiple times. He’s being charged with 20 counts, including several hate crimes. NBC’s Sam Brock explains what happened.

BROCK: In the frigid cold an even more chilling sight. Video capturing a man repeatedly smashing his car into the global headquarters of the Jewish Chabad movement where thousands were celebrating… The NYPD quickly arriving and arresting a 36-year-old Dan Sohai. Amazingly, no one was injured… A Rabbi (Rabbi Yaacov Behrman) telling us earlier in the day the suspect asked Rabbinical students when the event was taking place.

RABBI: We are facing probably in my lifetime the worst challenge to the safety of Jews.

Then there are some truly bizarre circumstances that makes this story even more interesting. 

BROCK: Three law enforcement sources telling NBC New York the suspect appears to have a history of emotional or mental issues. Two sources say he previously tried to convert to Judaism, even visiting this very center before. He is now being charged with several hate crimes. Nationwide, there has been a skyrocketing level of antisemitism for years.

Brock then played a clip of the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, Jonathan Greenblatt, who partially addressed the bigger problem, especially in New York .

GREENBLATT: We’ve seen nearly a 900% increase the last nine years alone, and the state where the most incidents happened is New York, and the city where most incidents happened is New York City. 

Over on Fox News, Special Report with Bret Baier also covered the attack, while giving it considerably less air time. Baier included it in his look at what Fox affiliates are covering around the country.

BAIER: Fox 5 in New York as a suspect is in custody after police say he intentionally and repeatedly rammed his vehicle into the Chabad World Headquarters. Thousands of people were inside at the time. They say the Jewish site’s doors were damaged. The driver said it was an accident and that he had been trying to park the vehicle. Authorities looking into that. 

Obviously Baier left out the name of the driver and the fact that he had been charged with all of those hate crimes, but at least it received a mention. It makes one wonder what ABC and CBS were thinking in taking a complete pass on this. Would they have done the same for an attack on a Mosque or a Church? I would hope not, and they should not have bypassed this story either.