A Jewish man was assaulted and his yarmulka torn off in a blatantly antisemitic attack on a subway train in Brooklyn on Monday morning.
The assault occurred around 10:45 a.m. aboard a southbound N train at the Atlantic AvenueBarclays Center subway station, within the jurisdiction of the NYPDs 84th Precinct and Transit District 32..
Police said the suspect approached a 54-year-old man and repeatedly punched him in the face and body while shouting anti-Jewish statements. During the attack, the assailant forcibly removed the victims yarmulke before fleeing the train.
Authorities said the suspect was last seen at the Canal Street subway station in Manhattan.
The attacker was described as a slim-built man with a dark complexion wearing a gray sweatshirt, khaki pants, a black jacket, a black surgical face mask and black shoes. He was also carrying an orange backpack.
Emergency responders transported the victim to SUNY Downstate Medical Center, where he was listed in stable condition.
The incident is being investigated by the NYPDs NYPD Hate Crime Task Force.
Officials in New York City Mayors Office to Combat Antisemitism said they are coordinating with law enforcement as the investigation unfolds.
No one should be targeted for wearing a yarmulkeor for expressing their faith in any way, said Phylisa Wisdom, executive director of the office. She added that the administration of Zohran Mamdani is committed to confronting antisemitism and ensuring New Yorkers can practice their beliefs safely.
Police released photographs of the suspect through the NYPD Crime Stoppers program and urged anyone with information to contact investigators as the search continues.
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Was his drawers down around his legs
No one should be targeted for wearing a yarmulkeor for expressing their faith in any way,
Why mention the last part
Oh sorry I forgot, being a democrat is a progressive disease
“She added that the administration of Zohran Mamdani is committed to confronting antisemitism and ensuring New Yorkers can practice their beliefs safely.”
If the Mayor is an antisemite himself how are you going to confront antisemitism?
“The attacker was described as a slim-built man with a dark complexion wearing a gray sweatshirt”
“Dark complexion”?
Really?! Seriously?! So now one can’t even say the suspect is a black?!
Islamophobia has no place in our City.
This is an open letter to Chabad Lubavitch, so that I can set the record straight. I returned to Chabad recently and was very gung ho about it. I went in fully and totally with some preconceived notions from my past experience with them, but thinking that that didn’t really matter that much. Just so you know Chabad, I was quite unhappily surprised to find some prayers missing from you Chitas prayerbook. For instance, in the morning blessings, the ‘Chachma Yiras H”M Seychel Tov O Medet La’ad…” bracha was completely missing. And because that was not the only tefilla that was missing, I found also tefilla that was chopped up and ended abruptly in very many cases of tefilla. I hope that you will correct this. Thank you very much in advance for your revising these necessary prayers. Secondly, I wrote your, ‘Ask the Rabbi’ section recently about two very necessary items in tefilla and in bracha. First, you do not accept (your Rabbinical College of America in Morristown, New Jersey, that is) Bapei Metzizah. You have mentioned medical reasons for this. So I looked into it. I found on a protected website that Bapei Mezuzah is a required form of Bris Milah. The using of a Mohel’s Mouth to Suction the excess blood from the Bris Milah wound of the 8-day old Penis of a Yiddishe Neshami’s Guf is the preferred Mishnah method of Bris Milah. All other methods of a contemporary nature are not accepted. The second item is the Wig of your women. I saw on Yeshiva World News an article that very surely addressed this unacceptable form of a woman’s headcovering. I forwarded to one of your Rabbis (Rabbi Zalmanov) of ‘Ask the Rabbi’ for his perusal and knowledge. The Gedolei who wrote this letter of the importance of not using an attractive wig for woman among other problems in Torah Law. Such that, the lace of the wig is unacceptable as well. It was addressed that only a cloth/silk scarf or similar Woman’s Headcovering was the only sensible Headcovering for Yiddishe Women who are Ultra-Orthodox in their Torah Observance/Belief. Thank you Chabad Lubavitch for allowing me the time and place and space to address these unacceptable problems in your torah prayer life. There are other reasons I am objecting to such as the comments that the Rabbi Schneerson of recent memory is the and I quote, the rebbe king moshiach. Even I used those terms while in your torah observance. At first, it was a novelty that I had to get used to saying, but became a foregone conclusion after a few tries at saying or writing it in my Yeshiva World News Blogs. Also, many years back I tried to enter the Chabad home of a Rabbi in Princeton New Jersey and even though I worked things out with the Rabbi who immediately rejected me at age 15 years old on several occasions, I found that the Rabbi Dovid Dubov wrote me back recently and said in his letter to me, and I quote, “There is Love in the Punishment” So I was being punished for all those intervening years.” That is all for now. Signed R’ Teitelbaum