Nine youths were arrested here this weekend for harassing students and hitting a rabbi at the Telshe Yeshiva, in suburban Wickliffe, police reported here today. Police said that the youths, ranging in age from 16 to 20, drove onto the grounds of the yeshiva in two cars. The intruders knocked skullcaps from the heads of students, and struck a rabbi on the head. The latter, identified as Rabbi Talmon Fishman, 31, was not seriously injured, and declined medical aid.
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