Vincent Sumpter has been charged with eight felonies, including assault as a hate crime, for the incident, according to an arrest report.
The perpetrator, reportedly a black male in his early 20s, asked the victim, "Do you want to die?" before stabbing him.
'On that Sunday afternoon, as he was handing me a dollar, I would end up posing the very last question for Rabbi Schneerson to answer'.
New York City has been subject to the global wave of antisemitic incidents in the wake of the October 7 massacre in Israel.
The demonstration, organized by the anti-Zionist organization Jewish Voice for Peace, was but one of many anti-Israel protests in NYC in the past week.
The often wordless songs are traditionally sung exclusively by men, and are central to the synagogue experience — itself a primarily male domain in the Orthodox tradition.
Authorities are currently investigating the stabbing of a Chabad Jewish man in Crown Heights, New York as a possible hate crime.
His paper, “The moderator–mediator variable distinction in social psychological research,” remains the most cited paper in the history of psychology.
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