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Police are looking for two men suspected of attacking an Orthodox Jewish man in front of a Brooklyn synagogue, CBS News reported Sunday night. Police say this has been the third attack on an Orthodox Jewish man in Brooklyn in less than a week.
The Jewish victim, 45, was on his way home when he ran into two men who were drinking in front of a synagogue near Avenue J and East 15th Street.
Police say a verbal dispute erupted, following which the men pushed their victim to the ground, pulled his belt and began whipping him in his face repeatedly.
According to a tweet by former New York State Assemblyman @HikindDov, “A young Jewish man was called a [expletiv] Jew and then belted over the head with a metal belt buckle!”
Police are still investigating two other hate crimes against religious Jewish men from last week. Last Tuesday morning, in Crown Heights, a man hit a rabbi in the face with a paving stone, broke his nose and knocked out two of his teeth.
And last Thursday, also in Crown Heights, a number of suspects threw ice at an Orthodox Jewish man who was sitting in traffic, injuring his eye.
City Councilman @ChaimDeutsch said that this week will see the opening of a new Office of Hate Crimes Prevention, which he helped create: “We will tackle this head-on as NY’ers, through educators within the Hate Crimes Unit and also victims who will...tell their stories.”
Police say they have received close to 150 anti-Semitic hate crime complaints city-wide so far this year, close to double the number of such complaints this time last year.
