A troubled New Jersey man who rammed his car into a historic Brooklyn synagogue after his failed attempts to convert to Judaism pleaded guilty to federal charges on Wednesday.
Dan Sohali, 36, pleaded guilty to damaging religious property for the Jan. 28 attack against the Chabad-Lubavitch World Headquarters at 770 Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights.
Sohali was reportedly fixated on converting to Judaism and, after facing rejection from several New Jersey synagogues, targeted the Brooklyn religious hub on the anniversary of the death of the Chabad movement’s leader.
On the evening of Jan. 28, the New Jersey man drove up to a sloped driveway at the Chabad, directed witnesses to move aside, and plowed his Honda Accord into the side entrance. He reversed and accelerated into the building entrance four additional times until the front bumper of his car was destroyed…