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2 Students Badly Hurt
In New Wilding Episode
J.J. GOLDBERG
Special to The Jewish News
T
wo Jewish students
were injured severely
in an apparently anti-
Semitic attack just outside
Brooklyn College, after at-
tending a fraternity party at
the college's Hillel House
last weekend.
The students, Steven
Weisburg and Joshua Fogel,
both age 19, were leaving a
fraternity party when they
were set on by an estimated
10 to 20 white males. The
assailants reportedly
taunted them with ethnic
slurs and then attacked
without provocation.
A third student, Steven
Eilat, 18, who left the party
shortly after Weisburg and
Fogel, was slightly injured
when he attempted to in-
tervene.
Weisburg was hospitalized
with a lacerated spleen,
which was removed, as well
as skull fractures and leg in-
juries. Fogel had a fractured
skull, a broken nose and
bruises all over his body.
Both were listed in satisfac-
tory condition.
Police were said to be
focusing their investigation
on a street gang based near-
by, known as the Kings
Highway Boys, named after
the street that runs nearby.
The gang is predominantly
Italian-American, according
to various community
sources, but also includes
some Irish-American and
Hispanic members. Sources
say it has engaged in a series
of assaults on blacks and
others over the last few
years.
All three Jewish students
are graduates of a local
yeshivah high schools. Both
Weisburg and Fogel spent
last year studying in Israel.
The attack touched off a
flood of public statements
from politicians and Jewish
organizational figures, from
mayoral candidates David
Dinkins and Rudolph
Giuliani to the American
Jewish Congress, American
Jewish Committee and Anti-
Defamation League of B'nai
B'rith.
Giuliani visited the youths
in the hospital, as did Israel
Consul General Uriel Savir
and Dinkins' wife, Joyce.
Dinkins telephoned the
J.J. Goldberg is a reporter for
The New York Jewish Week.
youths in the hospital from
California.
In a released statement,
Dinkins compared the
assault to other recent youth
attacks that have come to be
known as "wilding."
"Once again," he said in a
statement, "marauding
hoodlums have wreaked
their unspeakable horrors
on us. This time the
revolting prejudice that
motivated their vile acts was
religious, rather than racial.
The difference is trivial."
Giuliani said he hoped
"this latest incident is not
symptomatic of an
escalating frequency in bias-
related crimes."
The Bias Crimes Unit of
the New York City Police
Department was treating it
as nothing less, however,
assigning at least five unit
officers to assist in the local
precinct's investigation.
Investigators were said to
be gathering information
from eyewitnesses and were
reportedly close to issuing
arrest warrants for four
youths in their late teens
and early 20s.
The incident appears to
have strengthened demands
for the New York State
Legislature to pass a stalled
hate-crimes bill, which
would add special penalties
for violent crimes motivated
by racial, ethnic, religious or
sexual prejudice.
The bill has been held up
in the state Senate by the
Republican majority, which
objects to the sections
designating anti-
homosexual violence as a
bias crime.
1LOCAL NEWS
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Machon :'Torah
Celebrates Sukkot
Machon Illbrah, the Jewish
Learning Network of
Michigan, will hold a Sukkot
event, 8 p.m. Tuesday, at the
home and sukkah of Ron and
Laura Sandler, 25207 East
roy Ct., Huntington Woods.
Rabbi Avraham Jacobovitz,
will discuss "The Happiness
of Pursuit: What Makes us
Tick." lb R.S.V.P., call the
Sandlers, 548-3217, or the
Machon ofice, 967-0888. •
CPR Course
Is Offered
Oakland General Hospital
is offering a CPR course
6:30-9:30 p.m., Oct. 25 at the
hospital. There is a fee.