Orthodox Jewish Man Beaten at Brooklyn Subway Station

The victim says he was beaten repeatedly with two different umbrellas and punched after 3 young men approached him from behind on a subway platform in Williamsburg.

What happened next was perhaps even more painful for 53-year-old Chaim, an Israeli tourist who tells us that he then got an earful of anti-Semitism."He spit at me," Chaim said. "He start to say, 'dirty Jew, bloody Jew.' All these things."Chaim wasn't seriously injured, but he says the beating was bad enough to snap his umbrella and the umbrella of his attackers."He start to curse me, and a piece of the umbrella became like a knife," Chaim said. He says he was quick enough to shove the sharpest part of it off the platform and onto the tracks.

Two other men then tried to help Chaim, including one elderly man who got punched and an MTA worker, just arriving for a 4:00 p.m. shift on the M and J lines at Marcy Avenue."He tried to speak to them and they tried to attack him, too," Chaim said. The MTA worker then called 9-1-1, but the suspects got away.

The indecent is being investigated by the New York Police Department's Hate Crime Task Force.