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New York Man Attacked By Guy Hurling Anti-Semitic Slurs on First Day of Hanukkah

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'He sucker punched me, pushed me over, assaulted me,' Joshua Merenfeld said

New York Man Attacked By Guy Hurling Anti-Semitic Slurs on First Day of Hanukkah

A Jewish man who was outside his apartment building in New York City having a cigarette on the first night of Hanukkah says he was sucker punched, leaving him bruised and bloody.

Joshua Merenfeld said he was attacked from behind, with the person yelling antisemitic slurs at him while clubbing and kicking him.

"He sucker punched me, pushed me over, assaulted me," Merenfeld told WNYW.

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