An ultra-Orthodox group is threatening to disrupt operations at Israel’s Ben-Gurion International Airport during the busy Passover holiday week with protests against the drafting of yeshiva students into the army.
The parole board headed by retired Judge Shlomo Isaacson has decided that the sentence handed to Rabbi Eliezer Berland is to be shortened by a third.
St. Petersburg, Russia – An explosion ripped through a subway train in the Russian city of St. Petersburg on Monday, killing at least 10 people and injuring 50 others, the city’s governor told Russian television. The blast came as Russian President Vladimir Putin was visiting the city, his hometown.
Dubai, UAE – Dubai police have arrested foreign hackers who targeted five senior White House officials in a blackmail email scam, state-owned media reported on Monday.
An ultra-Orthodox draft dodger, whose arrest sparked a number of protests last month in Jerusalem, was sentenced on Sunday to 56 days in military jail.
A night at a Comfort Inn in Staten Island turned out to be not so comforting for an off-duty Correction Department officer who was busted in an undercover prostitution sting Saturday night, cops said.
The son of the head of the city’s powerful Chabad Jewish organization is an unemployed deadbeat dad who refuses to give his wife a divorce or pay child support, court papers reveal.