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The man accused of attacking an identifiably Jewish man walking home from Shabbat services in Brooklyn was indicted on hate crime charges.

James Vincent, 40, was arraigned on Wednesday in Brooklyn Supreme Court on a 17-count indictment. He is charged with, among other things, first-degree strangulation as a hate crime, and second-degree assault as a hate crime . He also is charged with illegal possession of marijuana. He was arrested last month.

The attack on Menachem Moskowitz, a 52-year-old father of 9, occurred on April 21. He told CrownHights.info following the attack that he said "good afternoon" to the man who was smoking a cigar on a street corner.

"As soon as [I greeted] him he began yelling at me 'you fake Jews, who are you saying hello to? You're fake Jews and you stole all my money and robbed me, and stole my mortgage and my house. I want to kill you!'" the news website quoted him as saying.

Moskowitz said he walked away from the man quickly but that the assailant caught up with him and put him in a choke hold and threatened to kill him. Two women passersby separated the men and urged Moskowitz to run away.

Moskowitz had several rib fractures and a black right eye from the attack. He also had swelling, bruises and scratches all over his body.

It was the second in a series of at least three recent attacks on identifiably Jewish men in Brooklyn's Crown Heights neighborhood. Vincent has not been connected to other such attacks.