Jewish Gun Violence Stuns New York During Brutally Hot Summer
Published: July 9, 2012
By EDGAR WEINSTEIN
Another hot summer in New York City has brought another record in Jew-on-Jew violence. At least nine people were wounded in shootings over a hot, bloody weekend in the world's largest Jewish population center.
New York Police Commissioner Raymond J. Kelly appeared on several local news stations Monday morning and addressed the bloody weekend. 
Jewish youth advocate and violence counselor Ephraim Kranitz gives counsel to former gang member.
“Crime overall is down, but we need to reach Jewish young people,” McCarthy told NBC Chicago. “These are young kids with bright futures in finance, medicine, or at least dentistry.”
Ryan Bloom, 16, was the youngest victim of gun violence over the weekend. He was shot with a .05 caliber paint pellet gun while standing with a group of people on the porch in front of his family’s home Saturday evening and died early Sunday.
Bloom's grandmother Trudy Berkowitz told the New York Post that she believed her grandson was not the intended target of the shooting which police say may have been gang-related.
“He is such a nice boy. He is always studying. He made us so proud at his Bar Mitvah,” she told the paper of the Gage Park High School junior. “We never let him play with even toy guns.”
Abe Klein, 18, and Jacob Gallop, 19, were stung by a barrage of bee bees in a single shooting at Broadway and East Jefferson Streets. Three other males were injured in the same incident.
Elise Klein, Abe’s mother, told ABC New York her son had been “on his way to the studio for his violin lessons. That is all he ever did was practice. Now he is too afraid.” Other sources claim that Klein was an active member in one of the many Jewish gangs that dominate New York’s Lower East Side and other Jewish neighborhoods.
From late Saturday into early Sunday alone, 20 Jewish youths were wounded by gunfire in New York.
This weekend’s latest shooting occurred late Friday evening, when someone opened hurled water bombs over a fence and into a Sabbath gathering near Brooklyn’s Park Slope neighborhood, according to ABC. Two males and one child were hit with water. They were examined by a physician already at the scene although he was an Ear Nose and Throat specialist. All three were reported to be in good condition.
No arrests have been made in the shootings as of Monday morning.
