Joseph Borgen, 31, was brutally beaten by a group of pro-Palestinian demonstrators in May 2021, as he made his way to a pro-Israel rally in Times Square while wearing a kippah.
Joseph Borgen, a Jewish Long Island resident whom five men assaulted and pepper-sprayed in a May 2021 antisemitic attack that shocked the New York Jewish community, voiced mixed feelings about the legal punishment for one of his attackers, Waseem Awawdeh, who pled guilty late last month to attempted assault as a hate crime and now
The father of a Jewish man who was brutally assaulted and pepper sprayed in a 2021 antisemitic hate crime has criticized Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on Thursday for lightly punishing his son's assailants. Joseph Borgen was returning home from a pro-Israel event in New York City in 2021 when five men shouting antisemitic slurs,