No arrests made yet in assault outside Adas Israel, where violence erupted during an anti-Israel protest in 2024; ‘I thought it was the end of my life,’ says 32-year-old victim 1 May 2026, 12:49 am Edit JTA — A Jewish man was assaulted on Monday evening behind a Los Angeles synagogue in what police say is being investigated as a hate crime. The assault, which took place behind Adas Torah, an Orthodox synagogue, in the heavily Jewish neighborhood of Pico-Robertson, occurred after the victim said he was followed for a short distance by a man in a car. “All of a sudden, he just opens the door,” the victim, a 32-year-old Judaic studies teacher, told the Jewish News Syndicate . “I don’t know what he was saying. He pounced me, immediately put his hands over my neck, shaking me back and forth, trying to choke me.” During the assault, the victim said that the man used a “window breaker” as a weapon while he was choked.…