New York -A prominent Columbia University doctor told a federal jury on Wednesday that he agreed to refer asbestos cancer patients to former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver’s law firm so it could seek multimillion-dollar settlements from lawsuits.
El Al has promised to look into an incident on a recent flight in which the in-flight movie was stopped after about 20 minutes and the screens folded back in deference to the feelings of the ultra-Orthodox passengers on board.
A 49-year-old Orthodox Jewish man was assaulted early Wednesday morning in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, and the suspect has been arrested and charged with hate crime charges, NYPD officials told TOT.
A Russian jetliner was downed over the weekend by an on-board bomb, possibly placed in luggage by Islamic State extremist, U.S. intelligence officials told CNN.
An Israeli was struck by a vehicle and critically wounded in a suspected car ramming attack in the West Bank on Wednesday afternoon.
Local residents have gathered for a showdown with authorities at Givat Ze’ev’s Ayelet Hashahar synagogue, currently slated for demolition.
An Illinois police officer whose September shooting death led to a massive manhunt committed suicide due to personal and professional pressures, investigators have concluded.
Monsey Rabbi Gabriel Bodenheimer has been sentenced to three years probation with sex offender conditions and banned from schools with children under 18 after his conviction for endangering a child.