The Jewish Star
New location for Peninsula Public Library Page 4 Rock Ami: from Far Rockaway to Israel Page 7 Shhhh... it’s a shidduch Page 9 Young Israel of Woodmere welcomes new associate rabbi Page 5 THE JEWISH STAR VOL 9, NO 36 ■ SEPTEMBER 10, 2010 / 2 TISHREI 5771 WWW.THEJEWISHSTAR.COM Struck down Father of four recovering; needs help By Michael Orbach Ilan Tocker, a father of four from Cedar- hurst, fainted and was badly injured at a kosher restaurant in Atlantic City, N.J., on the night after Tisha B’Av, July 21. The 33- year-old, a popular member of the Young Israel of Lawrence-Cedarhurst, hit the right side of his head on the restaurant’s marble fl oor. A friend immediately called 911 but noticed that something was seriously wrong only when Tocker, normally very laid back, became aggressive with the paramedics. The aggression, the paramedics explained, was a Photo by Claudio Papapietro sign of brain trauma. Dmitriy Salita, 28, training at Universal Boxing Gym in Ozone Park in June. Salita was born in Odessa, Ukraine, Tocker’s wife, Rachel, immediately drove from the Beaver Lake bungalow colony in up- and moved to Brooklyn as a child. state New York, where the family was spend- ing the summer, to the hospital in Atlantic City. Surgeons there relieved pressure and swelling on Tocker’s brain by removing the right side of his skull, but then they noticed Salita, future rabbi, wins something worse: The left side of his head was also swelling, a sure sign of intracranial bleeding.
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