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Maniac busted for stabbing rabbi with syringe in NYC — as cops reveal she attacked another Jewish victim minutes later

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Maniac busted for stabbing rabbi with syringe in NYC — as cops reveal she attacked another Jewish victim minutes later📷 New York Post Metro
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Maniac busted for stabbing rabbi with syringe in NYC — as cops reveal she attacked another Jewish victim minutes later

Anna Mochalova, 32, was arrested and slapped with a slew of charges, including assault as a hate crime, for the terrifying spree that began with the jabbing of a young rabbi in Midtown Manhattan, p…

The hateful lunatic who stabbed a rabbi with a syringe in the Diamond District was nabbed Saturday — as officials revealed she attacked another Jewish man just minutes later.

Anna Mochalova, 32, was arrested and slapped with a slew of charges, including assault as a hate crime, for the terrifying spree that began with the jabbing of a young rabbi in Midtown Manhattan, prosecutors said at her arraignment in Manhattan Criminal Court on Sunday.

The alleged bigot began to stalk Yosef, a 26-year-old rabbi , who is seen in surveillance video wearing traditional Orthodox garb, before stabbing him in the back with a needle near West 47th Street and Fifth Avenue on Wednesday at 5:50 p.m., according to prosecutors.

Yosef, the young rabbi stabbed with a syringe, previously told The Post he believes he was targeted because he is “visibly Jewish.”

“I never met that person before,” he said. “She passes by other people. I’m visibly Jewish.”

The young rabbi, who attempts Jewish outreach on the streets of New York City, said it was the first time he experienced antisemitism in America.

“I never experienced antisemitism anywhere in America on a personal level,” he said.

Five minutes later, Mochalova deliberately bumped into a 37-year-old Jewish man wearing a yarmulke on West 45th Street and Fifth Avenue, prosecutors alleged.

Mochalova bumped into the man several times, causing a stinging sensation in his right arm, prosecutors alleged – before chillingly telling the man “run away from here. I have a gun. I’m going to shoot you."

The man was later treated for lacerations, according to authorities.

Prosecutors said the madwoman then turned to a third man, who was spared from her harassment because he told her he was Muslim.

Mochalova then apologized to the man for bothering him before leaving the scene, according to prosecutors.

The hate-filled assaults came weeks after the NYPD revealed that hate-crimes soared by nearly 13% over the first nine months of the year compared to the same time last year, with anti-Jewish incidents comprising more than half of them.

Both incidents were investigated by the NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force as antisemitic attacks, according to cops.

“The conduct in these incidents is scary and concerning and the defendant faces serious charges as a result,” Assistant District Attorney Emily Hong said in court at Mochalova’s arraignment Sunday evening.

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