JOHANNESBURG – With one day to go before he was due to appear in court for a continuation of a bail application, fugitive Rabbi Eliezer Berland’s lawyers have brought an urgent appeal before the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria – to be heard by a judge Wednesday morning.
Demonstrators protesting the allocation of land to the Jewish community in the Russian city of Perm demanded the outlawing of the Chabad movement.
NEW YORK — More officers and the command structure of an entire police precinct – are under investigation in the NYPD bribes for gun licenses scandal, sources said Tuesday.
Washington – Families of the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks say they are “greatly distressed” that the Obama administration is working to derail legislation giving them the right to sue the government of Saudi Arabia for any role that elements of the Saudi government may have played in the attack.
Brooklyn, NY – A former police officer convicted in the accidental shooting death of an unarmed man in a darkened stairwell was spared prison time Tuesday, and a judge reduced his manslaughter conviction to a lesser charge.
Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto has submitted a request for pardon, Channel 10 reports Tuesday, just two months after beginning his jail sentence for corruption.
After two years of legal maneuvering, the Israeli Chief Rabbinate finally delivered a list of Diaspora rabbis it deems acceptable for purposes of establishing a claimant’s Jewish identity.
Sweden’s Deputy Prime Minister has come under fire after branding the September 11 terror attacks ‘accidents’.