NEW YORK—A 14-year-old boy was punched and cursed outside of a yeshiva and high school in Queens, New York, JTA reported quoting the Forest Hills Post.
The attack occurred outside the Yeshivath Shaar Hatorah Grodno.
A man punched the teen in the face and called him a “Jew boy,” the lnewspaper reported, citing police. .
The incident is being investigated as a bias incident by the NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force.
The attack comes on the heels of several recent assaults with allegedly anti-Semitic motives in Brooklyn targeting visibly Orthodox Jewish men.
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has offered a reward of up to $5,000 for information leading to an arrest and conviction of the person responsible.