"I'm going to kill Jewish people, I'm going to kill a Jew today, I don't give a f-k ... We wouldn't be in this mess if the Holocaust had happened,"
"So, he was waiting. He set a trap up for me a block ahead. He came around the corner and it just started happening."
"So, he brandishes his knife ... I've been standing all day, and between fight, freeze and flight. I really only had to choose between freeze and fight, and I chose to fight,"
Elias Rosner, 35, a Lubavitch Hasid in Crown Heights, was stabbed in the chest just centimeters from his heart. The attack occurred around 4 p.m. at Kingston Avenue and Lincoln Place on the third night of Hanukkah. An assailant, still at large, shouted antisemitic slurs and threatened to kill Jewish people while referencing the Holocaust before lunging. Rosner had been leaving the temple and waiting in a crowd when the attacker set a trap a block ahead and then struck. Rosner works at a pop-up Hanukkah donut shop, has martial arts training, chose to fight, and credits his sweater with reducing the wound. The NYPD is investigating the incident as an antisemitic hate crime.
Read at New York Post
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