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Jewish man hospitalised in New York City attack
Rami Glickstein was on his way to a kosher restaurant in the heart of the city when the attacker reportedly approached him pointing at his kippah
October 28, 2025 16:42
Rami Glickstein was on his way to a kosher restaurant in the heart of the city when the attacker reportedly approached him pointing at his kippah
October 28, 2025 16:42A Jewish New Yorker was hospitalised after a brutal assault, which local police are investigating as a hate crime.
Israeli educator and lecturer in the IDF, Rami Glickstein, 59, was on his way to ‘Mr Broadway’, a popular kosher restaurant in Midtown Manhattan, when the attack reportedly unfolded. A man is said to have approached Glickstein, pointing at his kippah saying, “Tell me about your religion.”
Glickstein did not answer, and the man reportedly grabbed the kippah from his head, threw it on the ground, spat on it, and when Glickstein bent down to pick it back up, the man punched him in the face.
“My Israeli pride was hurt,” Glickstein told YNet. “It pains me that I couldn’t fight back, and I regret that deeply.”
Passersby reportedly shouted at the attacker and called the emergency services. An ambulance arrived but the suspect fled before the police got to the scene.
This comes only one month after knife attacker Vincent Sumpter was sentenced to five years in prison for an attack in 2024 on Israeli yeshiva student Yechiel Michel Dobruskin in the Crown Heights area of Brooklyn. Sumpter had shouted "Free Palestine" before stabbing Dobruskin in the chest, narrowly missing his heart.
And in August, the FBI opened an investigation into an attack at the kosher 'Sissam' restaurant the previous month. The attackers shouted “We’re going to kill all the Jews,” as they stormed the restaurant and launched the attack, which left two people in hospital.
The Deputy Commissioner, Public Information (DCPI) told the JC: "Police responded to a 911 call of an assault in progress, in front 209 West 38 Street, within the confines of the Midtown South Precinct.
"Upon arrival, officers observed a 59-year-old male with injuries to the right side of the face.
"Emergency medical services responded and transported the victim to Mount Sinai Beth Israel in stable condition.
"There is no arrest, and the investigation remains ongoing by the NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force.”
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