UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — Just five days ago, members of the Chabad Israel Center gathered on the corner of East 93rd Street and Second Avenue to watch the carving and lighting of an impressive ice menorah, as firetrucks dropped parachutes filled with gelt to mark the first night of Hanukkah. But three days later,…
A nationwide shoplifting epidemic is crippling the finances of brick-and-mortar retailers, which warn that they may be forced to raise prices or even shutter stores in order to offset tens of billions of dollars in lost inventory. The National Retail Foundation is estimating that it lost $94.5 billion last year due to “shrink” — an…
Disgraced FTX crypto mogul Sam Bankman-Fried’s ex-girlfriend Caroline Ellison was facing up to 110 years in prison before she agreed to cooperate with the federal government, her plea agreement shows. The former Alameda hedge fund CEO, 28, pleaded guilty to federal fraud charges in an agreement signed on Monday. “The total maximum sentence of incarceration…
Beny Steinmetz will forfeit NIS 17 million as part of a civil proceeding and the criminal cases will be closed. Israeli businessman Beny Steinmetz has reached an agreement with the Israel Tax Authority and the State Attorney in which the criminal case against him will be closed. The settlement follows an investigation by Israel Police’s…
Convicted paedophile Todros Grynhaus is being returned to prison for breaching the terms of his parole by entering an exclusion zone. Grynhaus, 57, from Salford and the son of a prominent rabbi, had been jailed in 2015 for 13 years and two months for indecent assault and sexual assault against two 14- and 15-year-old girls…
The rabbi at the centre of a police investigation into an alleged historic sexual assault was accused of having “no boundaries” when “vulnerable people” were sent to him for advice, according to evidence given to an official government inquiry. A witness statement to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse said Rabbi Chaim Halpern, 64,…
Michelle Williams is one of the only non-Jewish actors with a starring role in “The Fabelmans,” director Steven Spielberg’s autobiographical film based on his Jewish family. But it turns out that Williams, who plays the Spielberg character’s mother, has a Jewish family of her own. She told the Wall Street Journal that she and her…
The Brooklyn District Attorney’s office admits it made a serious mistake in an a case of alleged sex abuse case and the result: an accused pedophile can’t be prosecuted. The error was exposed after a woman, now in her 20s, spoke exclusively with the News 4 I-Team. “I feel victimized twice,” she said. The alleged…
A former U.S. law firm partner who was convicted in a fraud scheme with pharmaceuticals industry executive Martin Shkreli has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to limit prosecutors from tapping his retirement accounts to enforce a $10.4 million restitution order. Lawyers for Evan Greebel on Wednesday filed a petition at the high court that challenges…
Ivanka Trump and husband Jared Kushner might not be seeing eye to eye right now as they navigate their post-political life. Their marriage is reportedly very rocky right now. It’s all falling apart,” a source told RadarOnline. “They’re always fighting and can barely contain their growing animosity for each other even when they appear in…