Orthodox Jewish Man Attacked on NYC Subway In Hate Crime

[From article]
Three brutes beat a man while hurling anti-Semitic insults at him at a Brooklyn train station, cops said Tuesday.
The 53-year-old Orthodox Jewish man was waiting for a train at the Marcy Ave. station near S. Ninth St. in Williamsburg just before 4 p.m. Monday when one of the three suspects approached from behind and tried to take something out of his pocket.
When the victim whirled around and asked the stranger what he was doing, the brut called him a "dirty bloody Jew," cops said.
He then spit at the victim, grabbed the man's umbrella and beat him over the head with it before running off.
The victim pursued, but was attacked from behind by a second accomplice, who called him a "f---ing Jew" and kicked him repeatedly, cops said.
A bystander ran over to help, but was also attacked by the suspects before they escaped onto a Manhattan-bound train.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/orthodox-jewish-man-attacked-brooklyn-train-station-article-1.2014632

Orthodox Jewish man attacked at Brooklyn train station in apparent hate crime
The 53-year-old, identified as an Israeli tourist, was called a ‘dirty bloody Jew’ and a ‘f---ing Jew’ by his assailants, one of which beat him with his own umbrella in Williamsburg at the Marcy Ave. station before 4 p.m. Monday. The three fled on a Manhattan-bound train after a bystander intervened and was also attacked.
BY THOMAS TRACY
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Tuesday, November 18, 2014, 9:14 AM

Religious Jews Chased From Guatemala, After Leaving Canada

Lev Tahor means 'Pure Heart' in Hebrew and the group practices an austere form of Judaism

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A community of Orthodox Jews have been expelled from their homes in a bitter conflict with hostile villagers.
Just a few months after fleeing from Canada amid allegations of child abuse, members of the Lev Tahor community were forced to leave San Juan La Laguna in Guatemala yesterday.
The village Elder's Council voted to kick them out because the group refused to greet or have physical contact with the community, according to a member of the council.

[. . .] Lev Tahor is a radical strain of Hassidic Judaism that believes television and computers are bad and must be avoided.
The group rejects the state of Israel because it views the Jews as a people who must remain in exile.
Verbal abuse, threats to cut off power and eject them by force were the last straw for the Jews, some of whom have been there for six years.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2738455/Ultra-Orthodox-Jews-moved-Canada-Guatamalan-village-religious-freedom-force-leave-locals-don-t-like-them.html

Ultra-Orthodox Jews who moved from Canada to Guatemalan village to find 'religious freedom' are forced to leave because the locals don't like them
Members of the Lev Tahor sect forced to flee from Guatemalan village
Left Canada in March amid allegations of child abuse and forced marriages
Elders at the San Juan La Laguna council voted to kick them out
More than 230 people were expelled from their homes yesterday
Radical strain of Hassidic Judaism was founded in 1980 by Rabbi Helbrans
By JENNY AWFORD FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 09:41 EST, 30 August 2014 | UPDATED: 09:46 EST, 30 August 2014

Two Black Teen Girls Attack 79-year-old Hasidic Jewish Man

http://jpupdates.com/2014/06/29/williamsburg-79-year-old-assaulted-two-girls-perps-custody/

Williamsburg – 79-Year-Old Assaulted By Two Girls; Perps in Custody
Today 12:14 PM

by David Klien

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[From article]
Cops said he had cuts to his hands from falling to the ground. Police said the motive wasn’t clear.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/women-busted-attack-man-79-brooklyn-article-1.1848656

Two women busted in attack on man, 79, in Brooklyn
Raven Small, 20, and Tatyana Bone, 18, were arrested for the attack in Williamsburg, say cops.
BY TINA MOORE
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Sunday, June 29, 2014, 3:39 PM

Woman Free From Abusive Husband, Who Refuses Religious Divorce

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A young Orthodox Jewish mother claims today she bravely fled an abusive and controlling husband and reveals the years of physical torture and mind games she says she endured as she fights to free herself as an ‘Agunah’ - chained wife - from the bonds of their religious marriage.
Rivky discovered on her wedding night aged 18 that Yoel Weiss, the ‘charming and spiritual’ man she believed she had married, was a violent and malevolent force who took pleasure in watching her suffer.
In an exclusive interview with MailOnline, Rivky Stein repeats claims made in court papers and explains how her naivety led her into her nightmare marriage.
At her home in Brooklyn, Rivky, now 24, said: ‘From the first night, I knew I was trapped. He changed to who he really was. He made it very clear to me that he owned me. His mentality was that I was his possession and that anything he said I had to do.'
Immediately the marriage turned into one of fear and control with Weiss monitoring Rivky’s every move, she claims.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2663650/EXCLUSIVE-Raped-tormented-locked-room-starve-two-babies-The-shocking-claims-young-Jewish-mother-courage-flee-husband-chained-refuses-grant-religious-divorce.html

EXCLUSIVE - 'Raped, tormented and locked in a room to starve with her two babies': The shocking claims of a young Jewish mother who found the courage to flee her husband but is still 'chained' because he refuses to grant religious divorce
Rivky Stein was 18 when she wed Yoel Weiss, then 26, in an Orthodox Jewish ceremony. He promised a matchmaker $18,000 to arrange the marriage
She says was locked away in a room with her two children. 'We got roughly two meals a day, normally reused chicken soup'
during one alleged rape, Rivky told MailOnline: 'He comes in naked and said "let’s go". I said no, so he took my hands, twisted them behind my back and dragged me to our bedroom'
Weiss refuses to give Rivky a 'get,' or religious divorce
Refusal by husbands to grant their wives a get is a widespread issue in the Orthodox Jewish community
In the summer of 2012 Rivky escaped with the clothes on her back and her children and has obtained an order of protection against Weiss
Weiss tells MailOnline that there is no truth to Rivky's allegations
By LOUISE BOYLE
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 08:40 EST, 26 June 2014 | UPDATED: 11:16 EST, 26 June 2014

Brooklyn Hasidic Landlord Kidnapped, Found Dead

http://nypost.com/2014/01/08/foreign-hitman-staked-out-slain-slumlord-for-weeks-sources/ 

‘Foreign hitman’ staked out slain slumlord for weeks: sources
By Jamie Schram and Bruce Golding
January 8, 2014 | 12:59pm
New York Post

Gay Black New Yorker Says Group of Hasidic Jews Attacked Him at 4:30 AM

[From comments]

Jim Mannie December 10, 2013

He was so intoxicated that he doesn't remember what he was doing before the incident? Was he walking along minding his own business and these thugs just picked on him for no reason? BTW how did they know he was gay? Was he wearing a sign? Are Hassidics hanging out all night playing the knockout game?

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Fred Davidson December 10, 2013

It was not a racial attack it was just the knockout game as they call it but since it involved one of their own as a victim now it is referred to as an attack. This is nothing more than a game according to media sources. Guess he just has to live with it like all other victims do.

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Seymour Krelborn December 10, 2013

And isnt it funny how the DN eagerly adds the ethnicity and religion of the supposed 'attackers' in THIS case - but never in the 'knockout games' cases; wonder why...

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Alan Scher December 10, 2013

Right, why not say a group of urban youths or teenagers as the knockout players are usually described?

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/black-student-hasidic-men-attacked-williamsburg-article-1.1542946

Black fashion student says Hasidic men attacked him, shouted anti-gay slurs in Williamsburg
'He told me to ‘stay down, f----t, stay the f--- down.' ' - Taj Patterson, a New York City College of Technology student, says more that a dozen ultra-Orthodox Jewish men brutalized him on Flushing Ave.
BY WILL HUNTSBERRY, AVERI HARPER AND CORINNE LESTCH
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2013, 5:36 AM

Leaving Religious Community

Bringing home the bacon: Luzer Twersky, star of a new reality show, says his first bite of bacon made him angry that he had been deprived of it for so long

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2126843/Pearlperry-Reich-Orthodox-Jewish-model-shunned-religious-lifestyle-star-new-reality-show.html

Orthodox Jewish model who shunned religious lifestyle set to star in new reality show
PUBLISHED: 10:26 EST, 8 April 2012 | UPDATED: 02:24 EST, 9 April 2012

Jewish Woman Left Religious Community, Book Review

http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/was_hasidic_jew_but_broke_free_IeRSVA4eX8ypg4Ne8cBdSK/0

I was a Hasidic Jew - but I broke free
After an uber-strict childhood and an arranged marriage at 17, Deborah Feldman decided she’d had enough
By SARA STEWART
New York Post
Last Updated: 10:48 AM, February 7, 2012
Posted: 10:26 PM, February 6, 2012