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Video Captures Assault on Chabad Students on NYC Subway After Hanukkah Outreach

Police are reviewing footage after the students filed a complaint alleging harassment that turned violent.

Overview

  • Students from the Tomchei Temimim yeshiva were returning to Crown Heights from Hanukkah outreach when the incident occurred on a No. 3 train.
  • Two men described by the victims as a father and son allegedly shouted antisemitic slurs at the visibly Jewish group.
  • When a student began recording, the younger man struck him, as shown in video shared online.
  • The students exited one stop before Crown Heights, with one attacker making a gun gesture as they fled, according to the victims.
  • The group reported the incident at a local precinct, and authorities are reviewing the case with no arrests or charges reported so far.