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Attacker Spits on Jewish Woman, Verbally Assaults Her NYPD Says

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Police are hunting for a sicko who allegedly spat on a Jewish woman after trying to enter a Queens yeshiva last month — an incident that brings the number of recent reported anti-Semitic attacks to at least 14.

The suspect attempted to barge into the Talmud Torah Siach Yitzchok school on Central Avenue in Far Rockaway around 9:40 a.m. Dec. 24, but was stopped by school staff, the NYPD said Friday.

“You can’t come in here,” the staffers told him, according to cops.

So the creep walked to a car stopped near the yeshiva and spewed anti-Semitic slurs at the mother of a student sitting inside, cops said. He then spat at the 44-year-old woman through the open passenger window and took off. She wasn’t injured, cops said.

The NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating the case, which wasn’t made public until Friday when the cops released surveillance footage of the suspect, who is described as slim and in his 20s.

The footage shows him walking up and down a block in a hoodie, wearing a backpack and pulling a shopping trolley. The incident is part of a disturbing holiday-season surge in violence against Jewish New Yorkers — the worst a machete attack during a Hanukkah celebration at a rabbi’s home in ­Monsey on Dec. 28.

At least four other anti-Semitic attacks took place on Dec. 24, the third day of Hanukkah, including a group of people who hurled anti-Semitic slurs at a 25-year-old Jewish man in Crown Heights.