The New York City Police Department is probing an assault that took place at 12:48 p.m. on Monday in front of the kosher eatery Mr. Broadway in midtown Manhattan as a potential hate crime, the department told JNS.

Responding to a 911 call, NYPD officers saw a 59-year-old man with “injuries to the right side of his face.” The victim was subsequently taken to Mount Sinai Beth Israel in stable condition, the department said. “There is no arrest, and the investigation remains ongoing by the NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force.”

Ofir Akunis, consul general of Israel in New York, named the victim as Rami Glickstein and said that he spoke with Glickstein and his wife Rivi on Monday. Glickstein is reportedly an Israeli educator.

The Israeli envoy wished Glickstein a speedy recovery and told him and Riv

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