"We were just crossing the street when he started ranting at all of us,"
"He said if the Holocaust was successful we wouldn't be here today and how he wanted to kill a Jew today and he couldn't wait to do it. I looked at him like he had two heads growing out of his shoulders and he started going off (on me)."
"Luckily a combination of technique and blade shape made the blade glance off. The push ups I do helped too."
Elias Rosner, a 35-year-old Orthodox Jew, left his Crown Heights synagogue near Kingston Ave. and Lincoln Place around 4 p.m. with fellow congregants when a stranger launched an antisemitic tirade. The attacker said if the Holocaust had been successful Jews would not be here and declared he wanted to kill a Jew, then singled out Rosner after Rosner looked him in the eye. Video shows a confrontation and a later exchange when the attacker pulled a knife and stabbed Rosner in the chest above the heart. Medics treated Rosner at Kings County Hospital for a minor wound. The attacker fled toward Sterling Place and Albany Ave. The NYPD deployed additional officers to search the area. The attack occurred shortly before the third night of Chanukah and days after a deadly Chanukah shooting in Sydney.
Read at New York Daily News
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