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A 17-year-old orthodox Jewish boy was assaulted on Tuesday night in Brooklyn as he returned home. The boy was standing at an intersection when a black man walked towards him and punched him in the face, knocking him to the ground.

New York police are treating the incident as an antisemitic hate crime because the victim had never seen his assailant before, nothing was taken from him, and he was wearing traditional Charedi Jewish clothing and holding phylacteries in his hand.

Anyone with information should call New York police on 1-800-577-TIPS (8477).

Source: JP Updates

A Jewish student wearing a kippah (Jewish skullcap) was attacked by a young black man at Medgar Evers College on Wednesday evening in Crown Heights, New York. The victim was talking with other students in college’s science building a black man approached and punched him in the stomach and face, yelling antisemitic remarks. The attack was halted when a female Muslim student came to the Jewish student’s defence.

When the victim asked his assailant why he had hit him, the attacker replied: “I don’t like Jewish people or white people.”

The victim did not require hospital treatment and the incident was immediately attended by local police and the college’s security team who are reviewing CCTV footage of the incident.

The college’s president has reportedly said that if it turns out the attacker is a student of the school, he will be “immediately expelled”.

Source: CFCA/COLLive

An orthodox Jewish man was attacked on Monday in the lobby of the L’Oreal building in Manhattan, but security guards and passersby simply looked on without intervening.

Speaking to The Algemeiner, the victim said: “He punched me in the neck and there was security [there] and nobody interfered. They were just watching. I got bruised…and security didn’t even call 911, nothing. They’re just standing there and watching.”

A witness, Yoni Davidov confirmed to The Algemeiner that nobody helped the victim, even after the attack. According to Davidov, the victim was sitting at a table and eating a sandwich in the lobby of the L’Oreal corporate offices, when an “Arab-looking” man demanded that he move because did not want to share a table with a Jewish man. Davidov said the victim told the man that he had arrived at the table first, and that he would finish eating quickly and give up his seatat which point Davidov said: “This Arab-looking man punched him in the face multiple times, before fleeing the scene with his girlfriend. I was shocked at the anger this animal had when he was assaulting this poor Hassidic guy.”

Shomrim, a volunteer Jewish neighborhood watch organisation, told The Algemeiner that police later arrived at the scene and spoke to a witness. They also examined CCTV footage of the attack.

Source: The Algemeiner

A Muslim taxi driver in New York City has been questioned by police after allegedly attacking a Jewish passenger.

Moshe Indig, told Arutz Sheva: “I took a cab from Manhattan to Brooklyn yesterday at 20:00. I asked the driver to make a phone call. He refused but then relented and put the call on the speaker. When he saw that I was speaking Hebrew, he said: ‘I hate the people and the language you are speaking. If I had known that you were a Jew, I would not have given you the call.’”

“When he dropped me off in Brooklyn I started walking and suddenly he got out of the vehicle and ran toward me and started punching me in the head. I was immediately concerned that he might have a knife or some other weapon, so I hit him forcefully. He grabbed my kippah and my cellphone and ran away.”

India leaned into the cab to try to retrieve his belongings but the driver started driving and Indig fell into the road and was injured.

India reflected: “I was lucky. If he had had a knife, there is no doubt that he would have killed me. His eyes were full of hatred. He turned from a cab driver to a terrorist.”

Source: Arutz Sheva

A 34-year-old Orthodox Jewish man has been stabbed in the back whilst walking in New York’s Crown Heights neighbourhood. An unseen assailant approached from behind and plunged a knife into his back.

The victim is a volunteer with the Hatzalah organisation, a Jewish volunteer-run ambulance service whose members all carry radios so that they can be quickly dispatched to emergencies that happen nearby, which can give Hatzalah a faster response time than other ambulance services. In this instance, the victim used his radio to call Hatzalah dispatch for assistance. He was able to drag himself to an intersection leaving a trail of blood, collapsing as his Hatzalah colleagues arrived.

Police and members of Shomrim, the Jewish volunteer neighbourhood watch patrol, arrived on the scene quickly but the attacker had already escaped and is still at large.

There has been a spate of attacks on Orthodox Jews in New York in recent months.

Photo: Crown Heights Info

Source: CFCA/Crown Heights Info

35-year-old Moshe Yehuda Feldman was struck on the back of the head in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. He was walking outside a Jewish school at 11:20 on 16th October when a Hispanic male approached him from behind, struck him and then fled. The man was left with head injuries and police are investigating. Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at +1 800-577-TIPS (8477), or Williamsburg Shomrim at +1 718-237-0202. Orthodox Jews in New York have recently been the victims of a spate of attacks.

Photo: JP Updates

New York Police Department are reportedly investigating an attack on a 22-year-old Orthodox Jewish mother in Brooklyn. The woman had unknown objects thrown at her as she pushed her baby in a pram past the Bangladesh Muslim Centre in Kensington, New York City on 10th October. The woman was not injured, and no arrests have been made.

Two 19-year-old Israeli rabbinical students have reportedly been attacked with a Molotov cocktail in midtown New York. Yosef Rachimi and Yisrael Gadas, say they were walking near the corner of West 37th Street and 9th Avenue at 13:30 on Friday 9th October when they were attacked.

Speaking to the New York Post through a translator, Rachimi said: “I’m in complete shock. In 2015, an explosive bottle was thrown at a Jew in the streets of New York.”

Barry Sugar, a local Jewish leader observed: “It is conceivable that the attacker sees these boys every Friday and prepared this bomb to ambush them. A firebomb is not the kind of thing you have sitting in your car or in your bag unless you have someone to throw it at.”

Shopkeeper Shalom Hegazy, who witnessed the assault, said the attacker “lit something in the bottle—I think alcohol. The bottle broke on the floor, and the fire came up.”

The New York Police Department’s Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating the attack but no arrests have been made yet.

Police in New York are investigating two shootings in which orthodox Jewish men were targeted with non-lethal ball bearing guns. In one incident a 28-year-old man was shot in the back on the way home from synagogue in Queens and required medical attention. In another incident in the same area, a 25-year-old man walking to synagogue was shot in the leg suffering similar wounds as the first victim.

Photo: JP Updates

Police in Brooklyn are investigating a spate of attacks on orthodox Jews including one in which a man was assaulted with a bottle and another in which paintballs were fired at Jewish men at a grocery shop. In the latest attack — the fourth in the area in a week — a 65-year-old orthodox Jewish man was approached from behind by a teenage boy and girl who started punching him in the face and laughing about it.