A lawyer defending Platinum Partners founder Mark Nordlicht against fraud charges said on Monday an FBI agent who admitted to leaking to the press on an insider trading probe of sports gambler William “Billy” Walters may also have leaked about Platinum.
Worshipers in the southern city of Arad on Wednesday were shocked to find a severed pig’s foot hanging near the entrance to an ultra-Orthodox synagogue recently inaugurated in the city, and accused the mayor of fomenting hatred that led to the vandalism.
Ottawa – The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has charged a food distributor with sending cheddar cheese to Jewish summer camps falsely labeled as kosher.
A number of Israeli rabbis, authorized by the Rabbinate to perform weddings recognized by the state, have been conducting fictitious wedding ceremonies between Jews and non-Jews, a new report by Channel 2 has revealed.
An Israeli rabbi and an acolyte from an Orthodox Jewish community upstate were charged by the feds Tuesday in a scheme to kidnap and kill a fellow member of their sect for refusing to grant his wife a religious divorce.
DANBURY, Conn. — Two men with heroin and crack packaged for street sales were arrested Wednesday on multiple drug charges at a Danbury hotel, police said.
Federal agents arrested a major Orthodox philanthropist on fraud charges Wednesday morning in connection with a sprawling corruption investigation now shaking political circles and the Orthodox community in New York City.
On the Jewish holiday of Purim, ultra-Orthodox big shots in Brooklyn invite police officials over for holiday meals. Then, they share the pictures on social media in an implicit contest over who drew the highest-ranking officer.
Two Brooklyn yeshiva directors stand accused of defrauding a national school lunch program of millions by claiming they’d provided meals to students that never got served, prosecutors announced Thursday.
Police believe that a Jewish woman who went missing from her home last week was murdered by her son.
