New York, NY – Councilman David G. Greenfield has asked the MTA to remove the #ImNoAngel ads from the F subway lines that travel through the Chasidic and Orthodox communities of Borough Park and Midwood.
Families of women who have joined a secret religious sect in the Jerusalem metropolitan area have accused the leadership of a seminary for girls of engaging in exploitative practices against their relatives.
Tel Aviv – Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto landed in Israel on Monday morning and was immediately taken to the hospital complaining of chest pain.
This deal is not kosher! Worshipers at a Lower East Side synagogue are furious that their building, at 25 Bialystoker Place, has been sold without their knowledge or permission and are going to New York state supreme court next Wednesday to ask a judge to stop the $13 million sale to developer Peter Fine.
In what is apparently the third tragedy to occur this week involving Israelis outside the country, the Foreign Ministry said Wednesday that an Israeli in his 20s had been killed while on a hike in Peru.
Following the death of 18-year-old Yitzhak Samet, who was killed along with 27 year-old Mordechai Gerber by the deadly stampede that occurred at the Bnei Brak funeral of leading haredi Rabbi Shmuel Wosner on Saturday night, the yeshiva (Torah academy) of R’ Wosner, Hochmei Lublin, has moved to absolve itself of responsibility.
An 18-year-old man who was critically wounded earlier this week in a stampede that erupted at the funeral of a prominent Hasidic rabbi in Bnei Brak died of his injuries on Wednesday morning.
At last 50,000 people filled the Western Wall (Kotel) Plaza Monday, for the Birkat Hakohanim ceremony – the Priestly Blessing.
Esther Lerer has a lot to do this week. She’s planning to test out a flight simulator that mimics combat air travel, propel herself on a jet pack and even visit a trampoline park.
A member of Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada has reported that billionaire tycoon and former governor of the Dnepropetrovsk region Ihor Kolomoisky has been spotted attending basketball games in the US this week.