Rabbi’s child harassed while walking home

Sydney-based Rabbi Yossi and Chana Friedman’s eight-year-old son was harassed while walking home from school in Dover Heights last week, with the incident reported to both CSG and the police.

The young Kesser Torah College student was wearing his uniform and a kippah and was alone near Dudley Page Reserve when a woman wearing a hijab verbally abused him.

“He was on the corner where Archie’s Cafe is, walking towards Dudley Page, and a woman walking her dog wearing a maroon coloured hijab – in her 30s, he thinks – looked at him,” said Chana.

“He didn’t think of anything of her, and she said to him, “f*ck you’. Then she put her middle finger up at our eight-year-old son, who was alone in the middle of the day at 3pm on Friday afternoon in Dover heights, and he waited until she turned the corner and he ran home.

“She was wearing her hijab, she was free to express her religion. Yet seeing an eight-year-old child express his religion, she thought that it was okay to assault and harass a child.”