New York City is taking action after two men accused of plotting to attack a synagogue were arrested over the weekend at Penn Station. MTA Police officers caught the men a few hours after receiving an alert about the suspect. Monday, Mayor Eric Adams praised the officers, but said he’s worried about a “copycat” attack…
Six months after a lawsuit claimed that he mishandled an allegation of sexual assault between campers at Camp Ramah in the Berkshires, the camp’s former director, Rabbi Ethan Linden, has a new job. Linden began a role as director of educational operations and design for the Shalom Hartman Institute on Monday, the Jewish education nonprofit…
Britain’s incoming Parliamentary standards commissioner has called for all UK rabbis to be “properly regulated” as a safeguarding benchmark in the wake of the latest sexual assault allegations against Golders Green Rabbi Chaim Halpern. Barrister Daniel Greenberg told Jewish News: “It is very important that criminal allegations go to the police and nobody else. Rabbis,…
ASHDOD, Israel — American ultra-Orthodox Jews are celebrating the visit to Brooklyn of Israeli Rabbi Shaul Alter, a former senior Gur figure. The Gur sect is the largest Hassidic group in the world, with two main centers in Israel and in the United States. It wields a lot of influence over Jewish life in the…
Long before Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX Cryptocurrency Empire collapsed this month, it already was on the radar of federal prosecutors in Manhattan. The US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, led by Damian Williams, spent several months working on a sweeping examination of crypto currency platforms with US and offshore arms and had…
Two Estonian citizens were arrested in Tallinn, Estonia, on an 18-count indictment for their alleged involvement in a $575 million cryptocurrency fraud and money laundering conspiracy, the U.S. Justice Department said on Monday. Sergei Potapenko and Ivan Turõgin, both 37, allegedly defrauded hundreds of thousands of victims through a multi-faceted scheme, wherein they induced them…
Saudi Arabia and other OPEC members are reportedly considering a boost in oil production just days after the Biden administration said it favors shielding Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman from civil litigation related to the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. A production increase of up to 500,000 barrels a day is under discussion for…
The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office is resuscitating its criminal probe into former President Donald Trump’s role in hush-money payments made to porn star Stormy Daniels, sources confirmed to The Post on Monday. While the office’s long-running investigation into Trump, 76, appeared to go cold earlier this year, District Attorney Alvin Bragg and his prosecutors are…
The Israeli woman allegedly assaulted in July by an off-duty Secret Service agent – who was in Jerusalem to prep for President Biden’s visit – filed a civil lawsuit Monday. Tamar Ben Haim brought the case in DC federal court against the unidentified agent over the July 12 attack, which took place in an alleyway…
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) director Christopher Wray expressed concern over reports of police stations linked to the Chinese government springing up across the US cities. Speaking at the US Senate’s homeland security and governmental affairs committee hearing, Wray said that the bureau is investigating these claims, but declined to give further details. I’m very…