Two Sunset Park menorahs vandalized in possible anti-Jewish hate crime: NYPD • Brooklyn Paper
Detectives are investigating the vandalism of two public menorahs in Sunset Park as hate crimes, according to the NYPD.
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Detectives are investigating the vandalism of two public menorahs in Sunset Park as hate crimes, according to the NYPD.
A stranger pummeled a Jewish man dressed in traditional religious garb and called him a “dirty Jew” before snatching his cell phone in Brooklyn late Thursday – on the first evening of Hanukkah, cops said.
Some Jewish leaders in New York said Hanukkah celebrations felt different this year, given the Israel-Hamas war and a rise in antisemitic incidents.
The charges were among the latest to arise from a spate of bias incidents in New York amid the war between Hamas and Israel.
The NYPD on Tuesday released their monthly crime statistics for November, showing a decline in major crimes across the five boroughs