A Face-to-Face Approach to Fighting Antisemitism

On Sunday, Dec. 26, in the Bay Ridge neighborhood of Brooklyn, Blake Zavadsky, 21, was walking down the street with his friend Ilan Kaganovich when he was punched, ostensibly for wearing an Israeli army sweatshirt. "He called us ‘dirty Jews’ and that’s all I remember," Zavadsky said of his attacker, in an interview with CBSNewYork. In the aftermath of the incident, dozens participated the following Sunday in a solidarity march through the nearby Bensonhurst neighborhood, led by the newly elected Republican city councilwoman Inna Vernikov.