A fake bomb was discovered at the Montevideo World Trade Center building which houses the Israeli embassy in Uruguay on Wednesday, but the device did not contain any explosive material, the Foreign Ministry confirmed. Police found the device inside of a sardine can which contained wires, a battery and a switch.
WASHINGTON — A spokesman for the Fairfax County Police Department was arrested Wednesday and charged with two counts of possession of child pornography.
The FailedMessiah blog, run by Scott (Shmarya) Rosenberg, is closing after 12 years of serving as clearinghouse for news bent on slandering and destroying the frum community.
A North Korean missile exploded during launch Sunday from the country’s east coast, U.S. and South Korean officials said, a high-profile failure that comes as a powerful U.S. aircraft carrier approaches the Korean Peninsula in a show of force.
The suicide of an ex-hasidic woman who threw herself off a Manhattan skyscraper last week may have had less to do with alienation from her family and former community and more to do with her history of mental illness, one secular cousin told the media this week.
A woman jumped 20 stories to her death from a swanky rooftop bar in the Flatiron District Monday night.
On July 12, Faigy Mayer, a 30-year-old New Yorker who left Hasidic Judaism five years ago, sent one of her last messages to a close friend. She tried to explain how foreign the world was to her — even though she grew up in Borough Park, Brooklyn.
Facebook’s WhatsApp messaging service has been partially blocked in China, following a censorship crackdown by the government.
SAN FRANCISCO – Facebook Inc Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg said on Friday he will take two months of paternity leave after his daughter’s birth, a strong statement from one of the busiest and most powerful US executives on the importance of family time.
Silicon Valley’s leading companies including Facebook, Google and Snapchat are working on their own increased privacy technology as Apple fights the US government over encryption, the Guardian has learned.
