Overview
- The assailant confronted the victim near the Mr. Broadway kosher restaurant on West 38th Street, grabbed his kippah, spat on it, and punched him before fleeing.
- The victim was identified as Rami Glickstein, an Israeli educator visiting New York, and he was treated at Mount Sinai Beth Israel in stable condition, according to the NYPD.
- The NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force is leading the investigation, no arrest has been announced, and authorities have circulated a description of a man in his 20s or 30s wearing a dark hoodie.
- Israel’s consul general in New York, Ofir Akunis, condemned the attack and linked it to global incitement against Jews, urging U.S. public leaders to speak out.
- Reporting places the case within a broader rise in antisemitic incidents in the city, including an NYPD finding that anti-Jewish hate crimes rose 7% from 2023 to 2024.