{"id":62601,"date":"2020-02-20T11:43:15","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T16:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/?p=62601"},"modified":"2020-02-20T11:43:37","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T16:43:37","slug":"most-visible-jews-fear-being-targets-as-anti-semitism-rises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/anti-semitism\/most-visible-jews-fear-being-targets-as-anti-semitism-rises\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Most Visible Jews\u2019 Fear Being Targets as Anti-Semitism Rises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A rabbinical student was walking down a quiet street in Brooklyn last winter, chatting on the phone with his father when three men jumped him from behind. They punched his head, knocking him to the ground before fleeing down the block.<\/p>\n<p>When police officers arrested three suspects later that night, the student, a Hasidic man who asked to be identified by his first name, Mendel, learned that another Hasidic Jew had been attacked on the same block in Crown Heights just minutes before he was. Video of the earlier attack showed three men knocking a man to the ground before kicking and punching him.<\/p>\n<p>The victims in both attacks were \u201cvery visibly Jewish,\u201d said Mendel, 23, who has a beard and dresses in the kind of dark suit and hat traditionally worn by Hasidic men. That, he said, made them easier targets.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/02\/17\/nyregion\/hasidic-jewish-attacks.html\">Continue reading at The New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rabbinical student was walking down a quiet street in Brooklyn last winter, chatting on the phone with his father when three men jumped him from behind. They punched his head, knocking him to the ground before fleeing down the block. 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