NEWS The Furnace of the 21st Century is Ready for Your Home Today! 'Proud SlxInscors1 Get a $200 Rebate when you buy a high efficiency furnace, or high efficiency Central Air Conditioning, Get a $400 Rebate Double your savings, when you buy both. Hurry! The rebate is available for a limited time only, on a qualifying models exclusively. Otto A.Tros Co., Inc. 3101 ORCHARD LAKE ROAD KEEGO HARBOR, MI 48320 We Aren't Comfortable Until You Are 682-3100 SERVING OAKLAND COUNTY SINCE 1945 42A SALLY'S DESIGN MICHII MGDN Joan vass, u.s.a.. NANCY HELLER JII CD N'')D,VID VA" to name a few FEATURING THE ULTIMATE IN HIGH-FASHION JEWELRY & ACCESSORIES For the Holiday8 CROSSWINDS MALL Orchard Lk. Rd. at Lone Pine 626 - 0886 • 9TER Festive House Parties 6tylish Of Celebrations sedIroje' INC. Crosswinds Mall 4301 Orchard Lake Road at Lone Pine, Suite 419 FLOQEEN HALPERN " A ronAV nrernocrn le10() 353-8985 West Bloomfield, MI 48033 Phone (313) 626-0811 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 I 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.