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with health and
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Delray Beach, Florida
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PHILIPP & EVA WIMMER
& JACK
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New Year
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ANNE & JOE WEINMAN
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New Year
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DANI, SHOSHANA & ADINA
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New Year
MURRAY & MARLENE CHESS
ROSA LEVINSON & FAMILY
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1989
Random
Violence
DAVID MARGOLIS
Special to The Jewish News
to all
our friends
and relatives.
We wish our family and friends a
very healthy, happy and prosperous
New Year
98
May the coming
I
found out while reading
the newspaper over morn-
ing coffee that Los
Angeles Jewish Federation
executive Jerry Weber had
been robbed and shot to death
the night before by two young
hoodlums at an automatic
teller machine in middle-
class West Los Angeles. Every
,day, of course, one reads in the
papers one's worst night-
mares brought to life. But this
was terrifyingly close — so-
meone I knew this time,
someone I liked, in fact some-
one not really so different
from me, a colleague in the
community and, though I did
not know him all that well,
someone I counted as a -
friend.
The bad news seems to be
getting closer.
My 22-year-old daughter
lived with her roommate,
Margie, in an apartment -on
Livonia Avenue, near us in
our pleasant, safe residential
neighborhood. One Saturday
night about two months ago,
at around 11 o'clock, Margie,
a law student new to Los
Angeles, was home alone
watching television in the liv-
ing room. A man broke in
through the bedroom window,
shut off all the lights in the
house, seized Margie, bound,
gagged and blindfolded her
with surgical tape, then raped
her at knifepoint, cutting her
slightly when she struggled
to free herself.
Afterward, Margie, whose
state of mind you may im-
agine, could not get through
to 911, the emergency line, for
ten minutes or so — it just
rang and rang. Since then,
the police investigation has
seemed rather lethargic, and
of course they have not
caught the rapist. Not only is
the bad news getting closer,
but the systems on which we
rely for protection are also
failing.
Once you start talking
about these kinds • of in-
cidents, you find that almost
everyone has been the victim
of crime and/or is close to
others who have. I was
shocked to- find how many
women friends of mine had
been raped or assaulted —
and I am not talking about
"date rape" or sexual harrass-
ment in the workplace.
Maybe that's just how it is.
One puts bars on one's win-
dows, makes sure the doors
are locked, teaches one's
children not to respond to
strangers, stays home after