A Jewish father of five was beaten in front of his own home as his assailant spewed antisemitic vitriol in Brooklyn on Friday — just a day before another man was robbed of a traditional Jewish headscarf worth $2,500 in the borough as antisemitism continues to rise across New York City.
Joshua Merenfeld, 40, was wearing Jewish religious clothing and enjoying the first night of Hanukkah when an unknown assailant attacked him and yelled, “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 and stomped on. “It certainly doesn’t feel good when this happens in your own front yard.”
As he was being attacked, Merenfeld said, the attacker “used a bunch of antisemitic terms and profanity.”
Merenfeld, who now has bruises on his face from the violence, was left on the ground as the suspect grabbed his phone and fled.
The masked suspect was later spotted 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 to the Kingston Avenue and Eastern Parkway subway station. NYPD
Merenfeld, who received treatment at Mount Sinai Beth Israel hospital, said he spoke out about the attack given the brazen nature of the attack.
“These are dangerous people. It doesn’t happen at twelve o’clock at night in a back alley somewhere. This happened in front of a brightly lit building on Eastern Parkway at seven o’clock at night,” he told NBC.
Later on Saturday, the NYPD released video of another antisemitic incident that took place in Brooklyn when a 20-year-old Hasidic man was robbed in broad daylight.
Merenfeld’s jacket had boot marks as the attacker stepped on it. NBC
CCTV cameras captured the moment the victim was approached by a man on a moped 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 headscarf worn on the Sabbath – can be seen talking to a man in a black helmet and pink long-sleeved shirt.
After their brief interaction, the victim walked away from the suspect, who started his moped and approached the Jewish man again, grabbed his shtreimel and rode him.
The NYPD said both cases are currently under investigation and has asked for the public’s help in identifying the suspects in each incident.
A Hasidic Jewish man was seen talking to a man on Saturday in the Borough Park neighborhood of Brooklyn. Boro Park Shomrim Moments later, the suspect stole the victim’s shtreimel, valued at $2,500. Boro Shomrim Park
The case is the latest in a series of new antisemitic incidents to hit New York City, with another occurring last week when a 66-year-old man was beaten by a male assailant who shouted antisemitic slurs at a Duane Reade store in Manhattan’s Financial District. .
Mayor Eric Adams on Friday addressed the rise in hate crimes during the Hanukkah gathering, noting that the past two months have seen a 250% jump in attacks targeting the Jewish and Muslim communities. The surge coincided with the ongoing Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.
“In this moment of heightened tension around the world, it is more important than ever that we stand together as one, united against the rising tide of hate and religious intolerance. We see it, and we feel it,” Adams said at the time.
The mayor stated that the NYPD will remain on alert throughout the Hanukkah season.
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