An Israeli rabbi and an acolyte from an Orthodox Jewish community upstate were charged by the feds Tuesday in a scheme to kidnap and kill a fellow member of their sect for refusing to grant his wife a religious divorce.
As Africa Israel Investments is in talks about debt relief, a report this week that the property company donated 100 million shekels ($26.2 million) over the last six years even as Lev Leviev’s indebted property company was still recovering from a previous bailout has raised the ire of bondholders.
Vandals attacked the home of the Chief Rabbi of Kiryat Gat, Rabbi Moshe Havlin, Wednesday night, resulting in the hospitalization of Rabbi Havlin’s wife.
A terrible tragedy in Monsey has R”L left one Yeshiva Bochur dead and another with serious injuries.
In 1999 Arcadi Gaydamak introduced Leviev in different businesses that Gaydamak developed previously from the beginning of 1990s in Angola.
A Brooklyn DJ who was giving his friends a ride home after a gig testified Wednesday that he rescued a gay African-American man who was getting attacked by a group of Hasidic Jewish men.
A Brooklyn judge on Wednesday handed down a wrist-slap sentence of just three years to an unrepentant ex-cop convicted of molesting a young girl for years and then freed him on bail pending his appeal as his now 21-year-old victim sobbed in the gallery.
Orange County, NY – Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), and William J. Bratton, Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD”), announced the filing of a federal…
A Local money dispute in Ukraine prompted inaccurate reports in Hebrew-language media that a group of Israeli tourists had been kidnapped and held at ransom, a Foreign Ministry official said Wednesday.
Police in the Balkans are searching for a former Playboy model who has gone on the run after being sentenced to prison for setting up a honey trap in a plot to kill a mafia gangster.