Rabbi Uriel Vigler, Rabbi of the Chabad Israel Center in Manhattan and director of the “Blev Echad” organization, was attacked with anti-Semitic slurs while walking on Lexington Avenue in Manhattan Tuesday morning, on the way to Shachris prayers.
“As I was leaving home, I saw a man who was a complete stranger to me, who saw that I had a Yarmulka on my head, a beard and tzitzit, and he began cursing me and spewing anti-Semitic slurs against Jews.
Rabbi Vigler quickly filmed the man who harassed him as he was walking away. He said he will be filing a police report about the incident. He asked anyone who has information on the identity of the man to reach out to him so that he could include that in the report.
Rabbi Vigler said his response to the incident is to do “just the opposite.”
“Light dispels darkness. If one meets a Jew whom we do not know, we should shower him with warmth and love, and tell him about the beauty of being Jewish. Through this, we will merit the coming of Moshiach,” Rabbi Vigler said.
He doesn’t look like a white supremacist to me. This is exactly why community leaders must denounce people like Farrakhan and Omar. They are the ones who are responsible for all the antisemitism that our community faces.
Thank you
Looks like a homeless character. There are now more and more homeless sleeping on the streets of manhattan all over the place. The police don’t want to get involved as we have a lunatic mayor who is busy banning plastic and paper bags,fur coats,and glass buildings. The city streets are becoming more crime ridden as this mayor hates the police. If he becomes president you will have homeless sleeping on the White House lawn.
This comment gets 5 stars in my opinion.
I don’t attest to it’s veracity and don’t know if your mayor is really a lunatic, but this is funny stuff.
He does not look homeless, looks like as middle class guy who has nothing better to do than hate
It’s so smart that he filmed it and even showed him. We are all so scared of these events and run away from people that try to scare us. We should instead show that we are fearless and Chase after them. Good job rabbi vigler!