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Jewish teen punched outside yeshiva in Queens, New York, in apparent anti-Semitic attack

The the Yeshivath Shaar Hatorah Grodno in Queens, New York.

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.

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