Every day when I receive Google Alerts: Park Slope, there are more and more stories from all over the country about the hate crime attack on a rabbi by a group of Arab teenagers. Today Wicked Local Wellesley reports that one of those teenagers is being charged with aggravated harassment as a hate crime

Here’s the story: Rabbi Uria Ohana, a 25-year-old rabbinical assistant at the Chabad Center in Wellesley, Mass., was attacked by a group of Arab teenagers at the 4th Avenue and 9th street subway station in Park Slope on March 18th.

When he felt someone grab his yamulke, Rabbi Ohana turned around and, he says, saw a Arab teenager running down the stairs. He gave chase in order to get his yarmulke back. Running through the station, they passed a group of the boy’s friends who began chasing Ohana and screaming, “Allahu Akhbar!”

Ohana chased the boy, identified as Ali Hussein, 18, of Queens, outside, where he ran into the street and was hit by a car. Hussein’s friends caught up with Ohana and began shouting, “you see what you do?” punching him in the head, and screaming “Allahu Akhbar.”

Though the literal translation is “god is great,” Ohana said, in Israel, where he was raised, “it’s the expression of suicide bombers. When you hear ‘Allahu Akhbar,’ you should run.”

There were numerous witnesses outside the crowded subway station, he said, and many of them pulled out cell phones to call 911. Before police arrived, a black SUV pulled up, and two of Ohana’s attackers jumped in the car and drove away, leaving Hussein at the scene.

Hussein was transported to Lutheran Medical Center to be treated for a fractured leg, according to a police spokesman. He was later arrested. At this point, no other arrests have been made in the case, which police said is still under investigation. Ohana sustained no real injuries beyond minor cuts and bruises, though he said his head is still spinning from the incident.

“What bothers me is that 48 hours after this hate crime, no second or third [boys] were arrested,” he said; it was clear to him that the other young men were friends of Hussein.

The rabbi, who has been in the States for two years and spends half his time studying in Brooklyn, and the other half working at the Chabad center in Wellesley, wants to draw attention to the case “for the police to see that it’s something serious,” he said.

“Attacking a Jew just for being a Jew — it’s important that this doesn’t happen. This kind of hate crime, it’s important to me that it doesn’t occur.”