{"id":308317,"date":"2026-07-29T03:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T03:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/308317\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T03:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T03:18:08","slug":"man-with-hammer-enters-new-york-jewish-school-possible-antisemitic-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/308317\/","title":{"rendered":"Man with hammer enters New York Jewish school, possible antisemitic attack"},"content":{"rendered":"

A child was injured after a man armed with a hammer entered a Jewish school in New York<\/a> on Tuesday morning, police reported.<\/p>\n

New York Police reported that the suspect approached a woman nearby. She felt threatened and headed to the school for safety; however, the man followed her in.<\/p>\n

The school’s security stopped the suspect from entering the building. As the staff attempted to remove him from the property, he struggled, shoving a child, 8, into the fence, and causing a head injury.<\/p>\n

The student was taken to the hospital and is expected to make a full recovery.<\/p>\n

Police arrested the man, 42, at the scene and recovered the hammer from his possession; however, no one was struck with it.<\/p>\n

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The NYPD<\/a> does not believe that the student or the Jewish Institute of Queens were the intended target of the attack, and as such are not treating the incident as antisemitic.<\/a><\/p>\n

“The NYPD is thoroughly investigating all aspects of the incident, including the possibility of a bias motive, to ensure nothing is overlooked,” said City Councilmember Phil Wong.<\/p>\n

New York politicians respond to the attack<\/p>\n

“Violence against an 8-year-old child is unconscionable. I\u2019m relieved the victim is recovering, and my heart is with them, their loved ones, and New York\u2019s Jewish community,” New York Governor Kathy Hochul<\/a> said in a post on X\/Twitter.<\/p>\n

“As Governor, I\u2019ll continue doing everything in my power to ensure every New Yorker can live, learn, and worship safely.”<\/p>\n

“In a despicable act of violence, an 8-year-old boy was injured by an intruder at a Queens Jewish school,” New York Attorney General Letitia James said in a statement.<\/p>\n

“This child, his family, and all of our Jewish communities are in my prayers,” she added.<\/p>\n

Summer Camp at the school addressed the incident in letter to parents<\/p>\n

In a letter sent out to parents, Ohr Avner Day Camp, which was being held at the school during the incident, said: “An unauthorized individual who appeared to be mentally unwell entered our campus property and walked into the front yard, where our campers were playing.”<\/p>\n

The letter went on to explain that the security guard “restrained the individual and held him until the NYPD arrived and took him into custody, preventing any further harm.”<\/p>\n

“Based on everything we know, this was a completely random incident,” the letter added. “There is no indication that our camp, our campers, or our staff were specifically targeted.”<\/p>\n

Although the incident was likely not antisemitic, the NYPD is continuing to investigate all possibilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A child was injured after a man armed with a hammer entered a Jewish school in New York…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5219,79,15306,2911,9113,9,24,55,54,56,103,10780,63927,820],"class_list":["post-308317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-attack","tag-diaspora","tag-diaspora-jews","tag-injury","tag-jewish","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-nypd","tag-school","tag-summer-camp","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308317","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=308317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}