Police are looking for a man who assaulted a teenager outside a Queens yeshiva and called him a “Jew boy,” cops said Wednesday.

The 14-year-old boy was in front of Yeshivath Shaar Hatorah on 84th Avenue in Kew Gardens about 8 p.m. Sunday when the stranger walked up to him, punched him in the face, cursed at him and called him “Jew boy,” police said.

He was treated at the scene for soreness and bruising, according to the Forest Hills Post. It was not immediately clear if the boy is a student at the yeshiva.

The case has been handed over to the NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force.

Yeshivath Shaar Hatorah did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

As of Sunday, there were 52 reports of anti-Semitic attacks in 2018 — down from the 69 complaints at this time in 2017, police said.

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