Jewish Community Watch CEO Arrested For Using Donations For Personal Use
MIAMI-DADE – The CEO of a South Florida charity was placed in handcuffs for cheating donors out of their contributions to the organization. Multiple leaders with the Jewish Community Watch said they...
View ArticleMother, 3 Children Stabbed To Death In Northern Israel; Husband Arrested
A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after his wife and two young sons were found stabbed to death in a Galilee town Saturday. A neighbor’s son was also killed in the incident. The victims...
View ArticleMurder Suspect: ‘I Ask God For Forgiveness’
The man who is accused of murdering his wife, two kids and a neighbor’s child that was at his house in the northern town of Migdal on Saturday had his remand extended by ten days at the Nazareth...
View ArticleKarsenty’s Parents: ‘They Were Murdered He Slaughtered Them’
Ravit and Eitan, parents of the late Dor Karsenty, mourn the horrific murder of their daughter Dor and their two grandchildren, Binyamin and Yosef Nachman, and the son of their neighbors, Nachman...
View ArticleFormer Chief Rabbi Metzger Convicted of Bribery, Fraud
Former Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel Yona Metzger was convicted on Monday morning of bribery and fraud and sentenced to 3.5 years’ imprisonment in accordance with a plea deal he signed last week....
View ArticleHaredi Soldiers Attacked In Jerusalem
Two haredi IDF soldiers were rushed out of a restaurant last night in the haredi Meah Shearim neighborhood of Jerusalem after being attacked by extremists. According to witnesses, as the two started...
View ArticleSix Wounded In Tel Aviv-area Car Explosion In Attempted Assassination
Six people, including five children, were wounded Friday when a bomb went off in their family car in an apparent underworld hit near Tel Aviv, police and medics said. The driver of the car, 38, the...
View ArticleFights Among Breslov Hasidic Jews, Prominent Rabbi Attacked
Over the past weeks, the struggles within the Breslov Hasidic group, between followers of Rabbi Eliezer Berland who was convicted of sexual offences and his opponents, grew worse. A prominent rabbi who...
View ArticleAshkelon Mayor Indicted For Bribery, Money-Laundering
Ashkelon Mayor Itamar Shimoni and some of his top lieutenants were indicted in the Tel Aviv District Court on Tuesday for bribery, money-laundering and a slew of other crimes involving more than NIS 1...
View ArticleA 10-Year-Old Elad Girl Beaten In The Battle Against Non Kosher Cellphones
The national-religious community in the religious town of Elad is up in arms after two ultra-Orthodox children allegedly attacked a 10-year-old girl with extreme violence because she was holding a...
View ArticleFormer Israeli Business Tycoon Nochi Dankner Appeals Conviction
“The verdict in the Nochi Dankner case, as admitted by the Court itself, is based on circumstantial evidence. The conclusion drawn by the Court from the circumstantial evidence is illogical, and is not...
View ArticleDozens of Ultra-Orthodox Jews Arrested In Protests Against Arrest of IDF...
Violent demonstrations across Israel by ultra-Orthodox followers of Rabbi Shmuel Auerbah over the arrest of an army deserter continued into their third day on Thursday. Two dozen members of the...
View ArticleHaredi Soldier Pelted With Rocks By Ultra-Orthodox Yeshiva Students
A member of the Haredi community, recently discharged from the IDF, was attacked by an ultra-Orthodox mob of yeshiva students Wednesday night when they surrounded him, subjected him to verbal abuse and...
View Article‘These Demonstrators Are Desecrating God’s Name’
Deputy Defense Minister Rabbi Eli Ben-Dahan (Jewish Home) slammed the haredi demonstrations against enlistment in the IDF which have occurred around the country this week. Rabbi Den-Dahan criticized...
View ArticleAuthorities Crack Down on ‘Modesty Police’ In Jerusalem
Authorities in Jerusalem arrested two men Monday morning in an apparent crackdown on a vigilante “modesty squad” which has operated for years in the capital’s haredi neighborhoods. The two men, whose...
View ArticleAshkelon Mayor Charged In Bribe Case Involving Hush Money Over Sexual
The mayor of Ashkelon, Itamar Shimoni, was indicted Tuesday for accepting bribes, breach of trust and tax-related offenses. The charges are connected with funds that he allegedly solicited from...
View ArticleTwo Israelis Arrested For Murder In Bulgaria
Police in Bulgaria said they arrested two Israeli brothers on Thursday, who allegedly killed a third Israeli man, an acquaintance, apparently beating him and leaving him to die in a forest. The victim,...
View ArticleIsraeli Extradited To US To Face Drug, Money Laundering Charges
BOSTON — An Israeli national has been indicted by a grand jury on charges of drug trafficking and international money laundering, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said Thursday. Jalal Altarabeen was indicted...
View ArticleIsrael Police: Arrests Made In Celebrity Targeting Bombing Campaign
Israel Police prevented the explosion of an explosive device under the car of soccer player Kobi Musa in Ramat Hasharon and arrested two suspects, who they also believe as belonging to a group of...
View ArticleJudge Throws Out Plea Deal, Jails Ex-Chief Rabbi For 4.5 Years
In a rare move, a Jerusalem judge on Thursday rejected a plea deal for former chief rabbi Yona Metzger, handing down a harsher sentence of four and a half years in prison on a slew of bribery and...
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