{"id":244418,"date":"2026-05-26T21:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T21:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/244418\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T21:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T21:34:09","slug":"bronx-man-charged-with-assaulting-jewish-woman-on-brooklyn-bus-israel-jewish-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/244418\/","title":{"rendered":"Bronx man charged with assaulting Jewish woman on Brooklyn bus &#8211; Israel &#038; Jewish News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            (<br \/>\n                                May 26, 2026<br \/>\n                                 \/ JNS<br \/>\n                            )<\/p>\n<p>David Taplin, 58, of the Bronx, was arrested and charged after allegedly assaulting a Jewish woman aboard an MTA bus in Brooklyn on Monday, according to the New York City Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>Taplin faces assault and harassment charges in connection with the incident on an eastbound B11 bus, which runs along Avenue J in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<p>Police said officers responded to a 911 call at about 1:36 p.m. near 1112 Avenue J in the Midwood neighborhood. A 40-year-old woman told officers that Taplin \u201capproached her from behind and slapped her with an open hand on her upper back multiple times, causing pain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The victim declined medical attention at the scene, police said. Taplin was taken into custody without incident.<\/p>\n<p>An NYPD spokesman told JNS that the case is not being investigated as a hate crime because the suspect allegedly did not make any statements during the assault.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"( May 26, 2026 \/ JNS ) David Taplin, 58, of the Bronx, was arrested and charged after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-244418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}