NEW YORK — It’s an inspirational story about a mother, grandmother, and founder of a nonprofit. Now, the Brooklyn woman just added New York State Supreme Court judge to her resume. Acting Judge Rachel Freier is believed to be the first Hasidic woman to hold the role, and it’s not the first time she has broken…
DetailsThe Magen David Adom emergency service said Sunday night that it was preparing to flying life-saving blood units to Peru for the sake of an Israeli traveler left in critical condition by a blood infection.
On Thursday criminal lawyer Goran Sluiter filed charges against Rabobank on Thursday accusing the bank’s executives of complicity in murder and other crimes committed by Mexican drug cartels.
The Rabbinical Committee for Communication Affairs is demanding that the prominent ultra-Orthodox Eda Haredit organization employ inspectors to patrol authorized cell phone stores in haredi neighborhoods and ensure that the devices sold in those stores are indeed “strictly kosher” – with no camera or Internet access.
Senior religious Zionist rabbis are conducting a review into sexual harassment allegations brought against one of Habayit Hayehudi’s MK, TOT learned.
A sexual assault victim claims that Orthodox rabbis offered her cash on behalf of her abuser after she turned to them for help. The young woman, who says she was assaulted from the age of 13, told the JC that she viewed the offer as “hush money”. She claims that one of the rabbis who…
DetailsRabbinical judges in Jerusalem last week rejected a motion for divorce filed by a battered woman, saying that her husband had only resorted to violence because she wanted to divorce him.
Lawyers for three Orthodox rabbis are seeking to overturn the 2015 conspiracy convictions that put the three in prison.
The four rabbis from various Israeli cities whom police arrested today, Wednesday, on suspicions of fraudulently obtaining police “fitness certificates,” that testify to a criminal-free past and would enable them to qualify for the post of “City Rabbi,” have been sent to house arrest with limiting conditions.
Chief Rabbinate, burial society, National Insurance Institute and Religious Services Ministry agree to let non-Jews collect the bodies of those who die on the weekend, saving grieving families from being fleeced by private ambulance companies.
