A yeshiva student was badly beaten in Moscow on Tuesday, the Interfax Russian news agency reported.
The victim, Shlomo (Fyodor) Romanovsky, a 26-year-old student of the Torat Haim yeshiva was hospitalized after a brutal beating by three unknown assailants in the Ramensky District, a Moscow suburb.
"The attack occurred twenty meters from the entrance to the yeshivah, where Romanovsky was returning from Moscow, in the early hours of December 2. The victim said three attackers, who spoke to each other in a language that was not Russian, did not demand anything and attached him right away," the Russian Jewish Congress said.
Romanevsky sustained a skull fracture, and a broken nose and jaw in the assault.
He was heading back to his religious seminary after giving a private lesson when the trio of thugs attacked him.
Police officials are investigating the background of the attack, and if it was motivated by anti-Semitism.
The head of the Department for Combating Anti-Semitism at the World Zionist Organization called on the Russian government to “take a hard line against any anti-Semitic violence in their country.”
According to RJC this is the first attack on a Jew in Russia this year, and police have already talked to the victim, but he cannot speak because of his injuries so it is not fully clear what happened yet, Interfax reported