The man accused of screaming  Allahu Akbar  before stabbing two strangers in back-to-back assaults on Manhattan's Upper West Side was slapped with hate crime charges for one of his victims, a Jewish man, but not the Asian man he attacked first, police said Friday.

Raul Morales, 51, was charged with attempted murder and assault, both as hate crimes, in addition to criminal possession of a weapon for stabbing Moshe Yezhak Grunhaus shortly after he stepped out of a synagogue Thursday afternoon.

Morales was hit with identical charges for his attack on an Asian man just minutes before but the charges for that attack were not upgraded to hate crimes, which carry additional penalties.

The charges were filed hours after local elected officials and community leaders gathered outside The Jewish Center on W. 86th St., where Morales stabbed Grunhaus, expressed their fears that the attack was fueled by hate.

The violence began when Morales stabbed a 57-year-old man in the back at W. 84th St. and Central Park West around 1:31 p.m., according to law enforcement.

A local building worker showed the Daily News an image of the victim, an Asian man, with a knife jutting from his back.

 He was on the corner of W. 84th St., bleeding,  said the worker, who asked that his name be withheld.  He was squatting with the knife sticking out of his back. Crazy man, crazy. 

Morales ran off and reappeared minutes later around the corner from The Jewish Center, a prominent Upper West Side synagogue on W. 86th St. and Amsterdam Ave., where he stabbed his second victim, Grunhaus, 50, in the chest with a screwdriver.

Grunhaus had just attended Tisha B'Av services and was exiting The Jewish Center from a rear entrance when Morales jumped him, a police source said.

Juan Garcia, a local restaurant worker, watched as the stabber attacked the second victim.

 He was a Jewish guy with a yarmulke,  Garcia, 26, said.  He was on his knees. He was bleeding from the right side. The screwdriver was on the floor. 

Both victims were taken to Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital where they're expected to survive.

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