At least two more anti-Semitic incidents are being investigated.
In the first incident, the NYPD says they are looking for a man accused of spitting on a Jewish woman in Queens after trying to enter a yeshiva.
Police say the man was denied entry to the Talmud Torah Siach Yitzchok school in Far Rockaway on the morning of Dec. 24.
When school staff denied him entry, he walked over to a car, spewed anti-Semitic slurs at a mother sitting inside the vehicle and then spat on her through an open window, according to police.
The 44-year-old mom was not physically injured.
The NYPD released surveillance video of the 20-something-year-old black suspect on Saturday. Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS.
In another incident, a group of three black teens walked into the M Bagel” store on Avenue M and East 18th Street in Flatbush, and made threatening and anti-Semitic threats. They then threatened to assault the man, before knocking things off the counter and walking out. The victim called Flatbush Shomrim and the NYPD, and thanks to Shomrim, all three suspects were apprehended on Avenue K and East 18th Street, and taken by police to the 70th Precinct.
At least 14 Jewish people have been attacked in recent weeks amid a surge in anti-Semitic crime. Last month, five people were stabbed and injured at a Hanukkah party in Rockland County and three people were shot to death at a kosher supermarket in Jersey City.
Mayor de Blasio was expected to make remarks Saturday about the rash in anti-Semitism. He was scheduled to speak at the Ansche Chesed Synagogue in Manhattan.
A march across the Brooklyn Bridge is also scheduled for Sunday. Thousands of people are expected to take part to denounce anti-Semitism at the “No Hate, No Fear Solidarity March.” It will start at 11 a.m. at Foley Square in Manhattan before crossing the bridge to Brooklyn’s Cadman Plaza.
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Message to diblasio. Stop talking and start acting. Nobody is interested in your talking points.
The many large and small liberal groups promoting this rally can do far more good if they now change their ways and seriously support strong law enforcement, no matter what race the criminals are.
When acts of spitting, slapping across the face and racial slurs go unanswered, they quickly snowball into attacks of very serious magnitude. That is the main lesson the government is not taking. And for one reason or another, 99% of it is emanating from the black community.
Why did this take more than a week to be reported????
I’m waiting and watching who will hit 30 first.
The number of photo essay “albums” of the NJ siyum, or the NYC anti-semitic incidents.
White supremacy is a growing problem in NYC