Overview
- Witnesses and reports say a man confronted Israeli educator Rami Glickstein outside the Mr. Broadway kosher restaurant on West 38th Street, pointed to his kippah, demanded his religion, then threw it down, spat on it, and punched him before fleeing.
- Glickstein, identified as 58–59 and visiting New York with his family, was taken to Mount Sinai Beth Israel for facial injuries, and his wife later said doctors found blood in the brain and a broken nose.
- The NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force is leading the probe with no arrest reported, and authorities circulated a description of a suspect believed to be in his 20s or 30s wearing a dark hoodie.
- Israel’s consul general in New York, Ofir Akunis, condemned the assault and urged U.S. public leaders to denounce attacks on Jews and calls for violence.
- Coverage places the case within a documented rise in antisemitic incidents, with ADL research logging 976 incidents in New York City in 2024 and noting that visible markers like kippahs can make observant Jews targets.