Woman charged with hate crimes in attack on two Jewish men in NYC

A woman accused of assaulting two men in allegedly antisemitic attacks in New York City was charged with hate crimes connected to those incidents, according to police and court records.

The accused assailant, identified as Anna Mochalova, 32, faces two separate charges of assault in the second degree as a hate crime along with one count of menacing in the second degree as a hate crime, two counts of criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree and two counts of aggravated harassment in the second degree, according to a criminal complaint.

Overall confirmed hate crimes in New York City increased almost 13% year to date as compared to last year, with 463 incidents this year compared to 410 last year, according to statistics released by the New York Police Department this month. Antisemitic crimes account for 52.9% of those incidents, and they are up slightly when compared to last year, the data show.

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The two men say they were injured on October 21, when the first victim was walking on West 47th Street near Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan in traditional Hasidic Jewish clothing, according to the criminal complaint.

Mochalova allegedly followed the victim, even as he crossed the street, before cornering him against a car, a detective wrote in the complaint. He said she was speaking to him “in a foreign language,” but it’s not clear what the language was, or whether the victim understood her. The victim told the investigator he then felt a sharp, stinging sensation in his lower back and said he suffered a laceration along with bleeding, according to the complaint.

About five minutes later, the investigator says a man wearing a yarmulke, the skullcap traditionally worn by many Jewish men, was waiting to cross the street at West 45th Street and Sixth Avenue, court records show. The victim, who told police he speaks Russian, said he felt the alleged assailant push him from behind before he felt a painful stinging sensation in his forearm, according to the complaint.

It was there, the victim told the investigator, he heard his alleged attacker say to him in Russian something that substantively resembled the words, “Run away from here. I have a gun, I am going to shoot you,” court records show. She then motioned toward the inside of her jacket in what the victim interpreted to be an attempt to reference a firearm, the complaint said.

The victim said he saw her approach another man and ask him if he was Jewish, according to the complaint. When he said he was Muslim, the woman walked away, the detective wrote in the complaint. It was unclear from the complaint whether she allegedly approached the Muslim man before or after she approached the second Jewish man.

Mochalova was arraigned Sunday and bail was set at $50,000. She is due back in court Thursday.

Legal Aid Society attorney Lila Carpenter is representing Mochalova in court. CNN has reached out to her office for comment.

Though confirmed hate crimes overall increased in the third quarter, with 125 in 2026 compared to 111 in 2025, anti-Jewish hate crimes declined during the same period when compared to 2025, with 59 confirmed antisemitic hate crimes in 2026 compared to 68 in 2025, NYPD data shows.

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Man who official says has past mental health issues faces hate crime charges after disrupting service at Manhattan synagogue

In August, a 46-year-old man was arrested after authorities said he entered a Manhattan synagogue and disrupted Shabbat services before yelling antisemitic remarks, attacking a woman and hurling a racial slur at one of the security guards. Federal prosecutors from the Southern District of New York charged the man with federal hate crimes, to which he has pleaded not guilty.

In July, two men — an Asian man and Jewish man wearing a kippah — were stabbed in separate incidents on the Upper West Side after leaving a synagogue, officials said. Prosecutors allege that witnesses said they heard the alleged attacker, a 51-year-old man, shouting “Allahu Akbar” before stabbing both victims, according to court records. The suspect was charged with crimes including attempted murder and has pleaded not guilty.

CNN’s Amanda Jackson contributed to this report.

据警方和法庭记录显示，一名女子被控在纽约市参与涉嫌反犹太主义的袭击事件，并袭击了两名男子，她被控犯有与这些事件相关的仇恨犯罪。

根据刑事诉状，被指控的袭击者安娜·莫查洛娃（32岁）面临两项二级仇恨犯罪袭击罪、一项二级仇恨犯罪威胁罪、两项四级非法持有武器罪和两项二级加重骚扰罪的指控。

根据纽约市警察局本月公布的统计数据，今年迄今为止，纽约市已确认的仇恨犯罪案件总数较去年同期增长近13%，达到463起，而去年同期为410起。数据显示，反犹太主义犯罪占这些案件的52.9%，与去年相比略有上升。

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今年纽约市的反犹太仇恨犯罪案件呈上升趋势，而纽约警察局却宣称这是有史以来最安全的夏天。

根据刑事诉状，两名男子称他们在 10 月 21 日受伤，当时第一名受害者身穿传统的哈西德犹太教服装，走在曼哈顿中城第五大道附近的西 47 街上。

据一名侦探在起诉书中写道，莫查洛娃涉嫌尾随受害者，甚至在他过马路时也未停止跟踪，之后将他逼到一辆车旁。受害者称莫查洛娃当时用“一种外语”与他交谈，但尚不清楚具体是什么语言，也不清楚受害者是否听懂了。起诉书显示，受害者告诉调查人员，他随后感到下背部一阵剧痛，并称自己被割伤出血。

大约五分钟后，调查人员称，一名戴着犹太小圆帽（许多犹太男子传统上佩戴的圆帽）的男子在西45街和第六大道交叉口等着过马路，法庭记录显示。受害者告诉警方他会说俄语，据起诉书称，他感觉袭击者从背后推了他一下，随后他的前臂传来一阵剧痛。

据法庭记录显示，受害者告诉调查人员，他当时听到袭击者用俄语对他说：“快跑！我有枪，我要开枪打死你！” 随后，她指了指外套里面，受害者认为她是在暗示里面有枪。

据起诉书称，受害者表示他看到这名女子接近另一名男子，并询问他是否是犹太人。当该男子回答自己是穆斯林时，这名女子便走开了。起诉书中并未明确说明她是在接近第二名犹太男子之前还是之后接近了这名穆斯林男子。

莫查洛娃于周日出庭受审，保释金定为5万美元。她将于周四再次出庭。

法律援助协会律师莉拉·卡彭特正在法庭上代表莫查洛娃。CNN已联系其办公室寻求置评。

纽约警察局的数据显示，虽然第三季度确认的仇恨犯罪总数有所增加，2026 年为 125 起，而 2025 年为 111 起，但同期反犹太仇恨犯罪与 2025 年相比有所下降，2026 年确认的反犹太仇恨犯罪为 59 起，而 2025 年为 68 起。

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据官方称，一名曾有精神健康问题的男子因扰乱曼哈顿犹太教堂的礼拜活动而面临仇恨犯罪指控。

8月，一名46岁男子因涉嫌闯入曼哈顿一座犹太教堂，扰乱安息日礼拜仪式而被捕。据当局称，该男子随后发表反犹太言论，袭击一名女子，并对一名保安人员进行种族歧视辱骂。纽约南区联邦检察官以联邦仇恨犯罪指控该男子，但他拒不不认罪。

据官方消息，7月，两名男子——一名亚裔男子和一名戴着犹太小圆帽的犹太男子——在离开上西区一座犹太教堂后，分别遭到刺伤。检方称，根据法庭记录，目击者表示听到一名51岁的男子在行凶前高喊“真主至大”（Allahu Akbar）。该嫌疑人被控包括谋杀未遂在内的多项罪名，但他拒不不认罪。

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