A teenager with dual Israeli-U.S. citizenship has been charged with cyberstalking and making bomb threats to Jewish community centers in Florida and Georgia, the Department of Justice said Friday.
NEW YORK — Four men, including a rabbi, have been accused in a scheme to steal millions of dollars earmarked for preschoolers with special needs.
WILLIAMSBURG — The Brooklyn developer who laid the groundwork for an explosion of residential properties along the Williamsburg waterfront ran a get-richer-quick real estate scheme for five years, conning a small group of Israeli investors out of more than $20 million, according to a Brooklyn federal lawsuit.
The director of a prominent Lakewood school for children with special needs, charged in a May indictment with stealing more than $630,000 in public money, will appear before a judge next week.
Police arrested 28 employees of an ultra-Orthodox newspaper on Tuesday morning on suspicion of extortion and harassment.
A former witness against a criminal organization was gunned down in Netanya late Thursday, police said.
Police have arrested a 34-year-old man for swiping $233,000 worth of sacred texts from a Brooklyn synagogue, police sources said.
The bitcoin account of the Israeli teenager suspected of calling in false bomb threats to Jewish organizations in the U.S. and elsewhere is worth millions of shekels, according to Israeli police, increasing suspicions that the youth received payment for providing services.
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.
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.