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A man damaged a menorah outside a Jewish food pantry in Kew Gardens earlier this month, police said.\u00a0 DCPI<\/p>\nA bigot damaged a menorah outside a Jewish food pantry in Kew Gardens earlier this month, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The hate-fueled criminal stormed up to Tomchei Shabbos of Queens and ripped the Hannukah candelabrum off the roof of a vehicle parked in front of the charity around 3:12 p.m. Dec. 15, according to cops and sources.<\/p>\n
The cruel vandalism desecrated the $250 menorah, breaking one of its lights.<\/p>\n
A man damaged a menorah outside a Jewish food pantry in Kew Gardens earlier this month, police said.\u00a0 DCPI<\/p>\n
The suspect then took off, fleeing on 129 Street toward Kew Gardens Road.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The all-volunteer charity gives weekly food packages to needy families, according to its website.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The vandal\u2019s destruction came one day before Jewish New Yorker Elias Rosner, 35,<\/a> was stabbed by a hate-spewing man.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m going to kill Jewish people, I\u2019m going to kill a Jew today, I don\u2019t give a f\u2013k. \u2026 We wouldn\u2019t be in this mess if the Holocaust had happened,\u201d\u00a0Armani Charles, 23, allegedly screamed during the attack, according to Rosner.<\/p>\n Police said the NYPD\u2019s Hate Crime\u2019s Task Force is investigating the Dec. 15 menorah vandalism.<\/p>\n Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to call the NYPD\u2019s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website at\u00a0https:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\/<\/a>, on X @NYPDTips.<\/p>\n Additional reporting by Joe Marino<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A bigot damaged a menorah outside a Jewish food pantry in Kew Gardens earlier this month, police said.\u00a0…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81024,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3862,303,12721,10685,57,9,56,63,65,64,122,58,5614],"class_list":["post-81023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-antisemitism","tag-crime","tag-hanukkah","tag-hate-crimes","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-queens","tag-us-news","tag-vandalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81023","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=81023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/cops-credit-google-maps-117855247.png\")
The suspect stormed up to Tomchei Shabbos of Queens and ripped the Hannukah candelabrum off the roof of a vehicle parked in front of the charity around 3:12 p.m. Dec. 15, according to cops and sources.<\/p>\n