A Jewish father of five was beaten in front of his own home as his attacker spewed anti-Semitic vitriol in Brooklyn on Friday, just a day before another man was robbed of his traditional $2,500 Jewish headdress in the borough as anti-Semitism continues to rise. throughout New York City. .
Joshua Merenfeld, 40, was dressed in Jewish religious clothing and enjoying the first night of Hanukkah when an unknown assailant attacked him and growled, “Dirty Jew” in the victim’s front yard in Crown Heights.
“It was a real beating,” Merenfeld told NBC 4, noting that he was repeatedly hit, knocked down and stomped on. “It definitely doesn’t feel right to have this happening in your own front yard.”
While being attacked, Merenfeld said, the attacker “used a lot of anti-Semitic terminology and profanities.”
Merenfeld, who now has bruises on his face from the violence, was left on the ground as the suspect snatched his phone and fled.
The masked suspect was later seen entering the Kingston Avenue and Eastern Parkway subway station.
Joshua Merenfeld, a Jewish father of five, was attacked in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, on Friday. NBC The suspect was seen fleeing towards the Kingston Avenue and Eastern Parkway subway station. new york police
Merenfeld, who was treated at Mount Sinai Beth Israel Hospital, said he was speaking out about the attack given its brazen nature.
“This is a dangerous person. It didn’t happen at twelve at night in some alley. “This occurred in front of a well-lit building on Eastern Parkway at seven p.m.,” she told NBC.
Then on Saturday, the NYPD released video of another anti-Semitic incident that occurred in Brooklyn when a 20-year-old Hasidic man was assaulted in broad daylight.
Merenfeld’s jacket has marks from the boots of the attacker who trampled him. NBC
CCTV cameras captured the moment a man on a moped approached the victim in the Borough Park neighborhood, near the intersection of 53rd Street and 11th Avenue, at 2:10 p.m.
The Jewish victim, wearing a $2,500 shtreimel (a traditional fur headdress worn on the Sabbath), could be seen talking to a man wearing a black helmet and a pink long-sleeved shirt.
After their brief interaction, the victim walks away from the suspect, who speeds up his moped and approaches the Jew again, grabs his shtreimel and leaves with him.
The NYPD said both cases are currently under investigation and have asked for the public’s help in identifying the suspects in each incident.
A Hasidic Jewish man was seen talking to a man on a moped on Saturday in Brooklyn’s Borough Park neighborhood. Boro Park Shomrim Moments later, the suspect snatched the victim’s shtreimel, valued at $2,500. Boro Shomrim Park
The cases are just the latest in a series of new anti-Semitic incidents plaguing New York City, with another case occurring last week when a 66-year-old man was beaten by an assailant shouting anti-Semitic bile at a Duane Reade store in the Manhattan financial district. .
Mayor Eric Adams on Friday addressed the rise in hate crimes during a Hanukkah rally event, noting that the past two months have seen a 250% increase in attacks targeting Jewish and Muslim communities. The increase coincides with the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.
“At this time of high tension around the world, it is more important than ever that we come together as one, united against the rising tide of religious hatred and intolerance. “We’re seeing it and feeling it,” Adams said at the time.
The mayor noted that the NYPD will remain on high alert during the Hanukkah season.
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