The following is via WSVN:
A man of faith came under the gun when, he said, a pair of teens attacked him outside of his North Miami Beach home.
More police officers are patrolling a North Miami Beach neighborhood, Friday night, after Rabbi George Tanev was left bloody and bruised from a robbery that took place during the overnight hours.
Tanev, the father of two children, said he had just finished up his night job as an Uber driver and, upon pulling up and exiting his car near his home on Northeast 170th Street, he was met by a pair of gun-toting teens.
“They come to me and said, ‘Give us everything or we’re gonna shoot you,” he said. “And they pulled out big guns… Each one had one gun.”
The victim said his assailants then pistol-whipped him. “They started hitting me on the head,” Tanev said. “I told them, ‘I have children and this is all my life. I can’t surrender my car.’”
Tanev said the subjects then took off his cash, iPhone and even took his prayer books and other items needed for his rabbinical work.
They left him with his car and his life.
His neighbors yelled for the crooks to stop and call 911 before they were scooped up by a getaway truck.
“I seen the white pickup truck that was right there, and it just zoomed off,” the neighbor said.
Tanev showed 7News his bloody shirt.
Hours removed from the attack, Tanev still showed up for services at Shul for Shabbat.
But neighbors are feeling anxious. “It’s troublesome,” one neighbor said.
“It’s very hurtful,” said another neighbor.
The predominately Jewish community still remembers the 2014 murder of Rabbi Yosef Raksin, and other gun crimes that followed. But, Tanev said, the neighborhood can and will be made better.
“We cannot leave the place because it’s a bad place, we can just make it a better place,” he said.
Tanev was checked out at the hospital but didn’t have any serious injuries.
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I pray these thugs yemach sh’mom are caught and hanged in broad daylight!!
I think g-d is sending him a message…
“Mechaleleha mos yumos”
Someone who is purportedly a “man of faith” ostensibly a “Rabbi” should know it is a MAJOR SIN to operate a vehicle and conduct business on Shabbos. Any reason that this site is allowing this man to be called a rabbi…
To kanzain: Where in this article does it say that the victim operated his car on Shabbos?
The incident occurred on Thursday night. The police patrols were increased beginning on Friday night, as stated very clearly in the article. “More police officers are patrolling a North Miami Beach neighborhood, Friday night, after Rabbi George Tanev was left bloody and bruised from a robbery that took place during the overnight hours.”
Kenzian perhaps a reading course of basic English would help you or are dislexis please say where it says he worked on shabbos. Only returning from work. You are the reason we are in galus
Ok I happily stand corrected.
I do contend that the article was not clear, I assumed that it was written on Saturday morning and referred to an incident the night before, hence “during the overnight hours” and “hours removed from the attack”. The article was posted here on May 13th at 10:07pm so it definitely lent to confusion. After looking up the original source I confirmed that it was written on the 12th (before Shabbos) so my apologies to the Rabbi.
To “Kollel Faker” regarding gollus, when someone is going by such a name no further reply is necessary.