Bnei Brak Gym For Ultra-Orthodox Women Meets With Fierce Opposition
A new gym, exclusively for ultra-Orthodox women, has opened up in the conservative religious city of Bnei Brak – and the neighbors aren’t happy about it.
A new gym, exclusively for ultra-Orthodox women, has opened up in the conservative religious city of Bnei Brak – and the neighbors aren’t happy about it.
Former defense minister Binyamin “Fuad” Ben-Eliezer was charged on Wednesday at the Tel Aviv District Court in a series of cases against him involving alleged corruption.
NEW YORK — Former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was found guilty on all counts Monday afternoon in his federal trial on charges of bribery, extortion and money laundering.
בית המשפט המחוזי בתל אביב גזר היום (ראשון) שנתיים מאסר בפועל וקנס כספי בסך מיליון שקלים וחצי על הרב יוסף יצחק אהרונוב, יו”ר אגודת צעירי חב”ד לשעבר.
Legal officials and members of the police’s fraud investigation unit are taking precautions ahead of the Supreme Court’s ruling on an appeal by Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto, who was convicted last spring of bribing a senior police officer.
Worshipers in the southern city of Arad on Wednesday were shocked to find a severed pig’s foot hanging near the entrance to an ultra-Orthodox synagogue recently inaugurated in the city, and accused the mayor of fomenting hatred that led to the vandalism.
Over 40 torah scrolls of unknown origin, several of them stolen, were recently found at an office in Jerusalem.
One-time Israeli organized crime boss Musa Alperon was found dead in his house in Givat Shmuel on Sunday morning.
TRENTON, N.J. — Three New York men were sentenced Thursday, after pleaded guilty to trying to coerce a Jewish man to give his wife a religious divorce.
Trenton, NJ – Two Brooklyn, New York, men were each sentenced today to more than three and a half years in prison for crossing state lines as part of a plan to violently coerce a recalcitrant husband to grant his wife a religious divorce, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.