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Lubavitcher Man Stabbed in Crown Heights

A Lubavitcher man in his 30s was stabbed in the back by an African-American man on the corner of Empire Blvd. and Kingston Avenue in Crown Heights. The attacker fled the scene and is at large. The public is asked to please say Tehillim for Yehuda Leib ben Rivkah Alta.

No words were exchanged between the attacker and his victim. The victim said the two crossed paths while walking along Empire Blvd., and he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his back. He quickly realized he had been stabbed in his upper right back.

The victim was transported by Hatzalah to Kings County Hospital. He never lost consciousness, and his condition is believed to be non-life-threatening.

Please say Tehillim for Yehuda Leib ben Rivkah Alta.

This is the second unprovoked stabbing incident to target a Jewish man in Crown Heights in the past year. About three months ago, a Hatzalah volunteer was stabbed by an unidentified assailant while jogging along Eastern Parkway.

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41 Comments

  • Community council????

    Anybody home???? until the community council will put pressure on the cops to catch these animals…i’m afraid to think….

    • Momma

      Don’t hold your breath. A more useless, ineffectual bunch of ego driven losers is yet to be discovered under a rock somewhere.

    • mendel

      Why do Israel catching all the terrorists every time but only in New York they can not catch even once !?!?!?!?

  • too graphic

    Please remove the main image of this story or at least move it to the extended part with a warning. It is very graphic and traumatic and should not be in full view like that.

    Let’s not forget the stabbing of the bochur in 770!

    Refuah shlaima!!!!

  • miraim

    so we dont nd to go to isreal to get stabbed ;( get the guy hang him on kingston ave!!!!!!!!!!!

    • Israeli

      Yeah, you don’t have to lay out $$ in fares, you can stay home & have the same misery we have every day.

      Stupid comment.

  • Ma Rabbi

    I hope the police catch the black criminal.
    There must be surveillance cameras on that street.

  • The Guy with the Dog

    African American is a national origin. Black is a race. Unless you’re talking about his ancestry instead of his skin color, it’s perfectly acceptable to call him black.

  • Crown Heights originated Macabees & JDL

    Need to put The fear Of G_D Back into the Anti Semites
    & We will once again Take the Lead;

    Never Again

  • noise

    unless we make a large scale demonstration in crown heights nothing will be done about this. If this was reversed you would not hear the end of it!!

    • Anonymous

      Best case scenario, if we rally. There will continue to be a large police presence in CH for a week instead of a day.
      We (Lubavitch) need to be vigilant, and we need to start training our young to protect themselves.

  • Wow

    By the way he is runing he looks like a profesional.

    Let’s not be fooled.

    Long strides. Back straight. Excellent posture….

  • Milhouse

    Stop ignoring the fact that the rate of violent crime among black people is much higher than among anyone else, and at least an order of magnitude higher than among Jews.

  • Crown Heights Resident

    The Rebbe Said: If Israel gives away land that Hashem gave them In a miraculous way during the June 1967 SIX day war. This will put the lives of Jews all over the world in Extreme Danger.

    • Crown Heights Resident

      On a positive note: Even though The fight for Sh’Lemus Ha’Aretz seems overwhelming. We need to remember what it was like to fight for Yiddishkeit in the Former Soviet Union (the 2nd most powerful country in the world).

      And with the Rebbe’s brochos & guidance we won. & now the Soviet Union only exists in history books.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3DX4SlIz5M

  • Israeli

    Are you really so out of it? Time to lay off the weed and booze, they obviously did something to your brain (such as it is.)

  • Privacy

    It is bad enough that he got stabbed. Why must these photos be plastered on the web for all to see? Give the guy some privacy. If it was you being taken to the ambulance you would want the same

  • Community Council?

    When were elections for community council held last?
    Was it four years ago or five years ago?
    Isn’t it meant to be a three year term???
    Perhaps some new people in the council would do better then the ones which we have now.

  • Mayor

    DeBlasio is the one to blame – he gave these criminals the right to do whatever they feel like. He will always defend them

  • I wonder

    Is it being investigated as a hate crime? There may be muggings and knockouts and sexual assaults, but as far as I know no one is stabbing Jews except Muslims.

  • CHP

    The main thing here is for the young man who was stabbed, to have a fast and painless recovery.
    The police are all over CH now flashing lights on most corners. Do they think this helps us? Give it 2 days tops, and they will go back to the donut shop, Starbucks, or even Dunkin donuts.
    I say (been saying for a long time) it’s time to start applying for gun permits. At the very least open carry permits. It will help. It’ll make the …….. I can’t find a proper word to call the anisemitic scum……… think twice before attacking anyone. Not because they might be packing but because the witnesses might also be

  • Concerned CH resident

    The main thing here is for the young man who was stabbed, to have a fast and painless recovery.

    The police are all over CH now flashing lights on most corners. Do they think this helps us? Give it 2 days tops, and they will go back to the donut shop, Starbucks, or even Dunkin donuts.

    I say (been saying for a long time) it’s time to start applying for gun permits. At the very least open carry permits. It will help. It’ll make the …….. I can’t find a proper word to call the anisemitic scum……… think twice before attacking anyone. Not because they might be packing but because the witnesses might be packing and will take action.

    WE MUST COME TOGETHER AS A COMMUNITY if not with guns then with bats, sticks, and anything usefull in putting THEM in the hospital and not us!

    45 (give or take) years ago a little red bearded guy started the Maccabees…….we need to recreate that!

  • The package thief

    Is it possible the guy that was stealing packages from our porches and had a knife??? Ad mosai may be have a complete refuah

  • 5 things:

    1) we should all riot, we are not going to tolerate this.
    2) where are the cops ? we should have cops on every single corner.
    3) why was this black piece of …..dirt not caught and beaten ?
    4) just watch, here we go again, there will be another press conference in front of the “j.c.m.” just like the last time that this kind of thing happened. what good did it do for us ? NOTHING!!!
    5) this thing happened in middle of the day in the heart of crown heights, does not make any sense, VERY SCARY!!!

  • Moishe

    The guy that looks like “Obama’s son”, wearing a hoodie, running with the knife? Where George Zimmerman when you need one?

  • Jay Sorid

    Please come to the community board 9 meetings to help prevent an eight story building for the seriously mentally ill with possible drug addictions from going up on East New York Ave between Utica and Schenectady. There are many new Jewish families who live there and attend Kingsbrook Jewish Shul. The meetings are the fourth Tuesday of each month at 7:00 pm. I have been fighting this proposed project for two years. My thoughts and prayers go out to the injured young man.

    • Anonymous

      I don’t see any lots or buildings going up on East New York between Utica and Schenectady?

      Do you mean Maple between and Utica and Schenectady?

      Or Remsen and E 52nd?