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View Comments Teaneck Deputy Mayor Mark Schwartz and Councilwoman Karen Orgen were walking with her family in Bal Harbour, Florida, last week, enjoying some vacation time, when the unthinkable happened.  After afternoon synagogue services on Tuesday, Schwartz, Orgen, her husband, Eric, and their daughter intended to walk up Collins Avenue to a jetty “to wind down the holiday of Shavuot by the ocean before returning to sundown services,” said Schwartz, who was wearing a yarmulke.  But d...

An armed good Samaritan reportedly intervened in a potential hate crime, chasing off an SUV that was harassing a Jewish family on the side of the road.

Paloma Elsesser, 29, left, shared a post telling followers not to post on anti-Semitism in case it delegitimizes the Palestinian struggle, bottom center. She appeared in Vogue, right.

Four men in an SUV reportedly shouted "Die Jew" at the family who were in Florida for a weeks vacation.

22 May 2021 An armed citizen in Miami, Florida, intervened and saved a Jewish family that was allegedly under attack after leaving their synagogue. On May 21, 2021, Fox News reported that Eric Orgen and his family were walking down the sidewalk in the Bal Harbor neighborhood when a group of men allegedly pulled up in a vehicle and “started shouting and throwing garbage at them.” Orgen told CBS 12 that the men in the vehicle also allegedly screamed, “Free Palestine, die Jew, F you Jew, I�...

Die Jew: Jewish family visiting South Florida harassed, pelted with trash while walking Lawrence Richard © Provided by Washington Examiner A Jewish family of three visiting South Florida from their home state of New Jersey earlier this week were accosted by a group of men allegedly shouting antisemitic attacks. “They pulled up and started shouting, ‘Free Palestine, f--- you Jew, die Jew,” Eric Orgen said Friday, via the On social media, Orgen said he, his wife, and his...

Luca Robert Lewis, the 20-year-old goalie who was recently called up to the majors, said in an Instagram post that the incident unfolded on Thursday night somewhere in New York.

The family says the armed citizen was their "guardian angel" when he intervened to stop the abuse.

Anti-Semitic attacks surge by almost 40% in a WEEK across the US: Orthodox Jew is chased down by Palestinian protesters in LA, garbage is thrown at Jewish family on Miami street and Israel supporters are pelted with fireworks in New York The Anti-Defamation League has reported almost 200 anti-Semitic attacks on Jewish people in the past 10 days  Surge in attacks comes amid outbreak of violence between Israelis and Palestinians in the Middle East  Attacks on American Jews have been reported in...

New Jersey dad says family targeted by antisemitic attack during Florida vacation Nancy Dillon A New Jersey family was the subject of an alleged antisemitic attack while on vacation in Florida this week, and police are now investigating, the dad says. Eric Orgen of Teaneck described the incident in a Facebook post, saying he was walking with his wife and teenage daughter in Bal Harbour on Tuesday when a group of unidentified men in a white SUV threw garbage at them while shoutin...