OKEECHOBEE, Fla. — People close to missing Lyft driver Gary Levin are waiting for answers after human remains were found in Okeechobee, close to where the 74-year-old was last spotted. People close to Levin are waiting to see if those human remains are possibly him. Howard Rice has been Levin’s friend for about 50 years.…
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…
Two people have been arrested after a seven-year-old girl was found dead, police say. A Metropolitan Police spokesperson said a 50-year-old man and a 49-year-old woman were arrested on suspicion of neglect after the girl was found dead on Friday, January 27. Both suspects were arrested a day later and taken into custody. The London…
An Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) from the Hatzalah in Rockland County, NY, helped save the life of a female passenger who fainted during a JetBlue Airlines flight from New York to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, during the early hours of Thursday morning. One photo shared on social media from the scene shows Naftali Schischa wearing blue…
Russian leader Vladimir Putin will meet with the country’s top Jewish leaders in honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, local media reports. According to the TASS news outlet, Putin will meet with Russian Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar and Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia president Alexander Boroda later today. This meeting comes after a top…
Russian President Vladimir Putin has fired a top national security official who recently drew widespread condemnation for calling the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement in Ukraine a supremacist cult, Russian media reported. No official reason was given for the Friday dismissal of the assistant secretary of the Russian Security Council Aleksey Pavlov. A spokesperson for the Security…
Two men have died after their plane crashed in New York while on their way to a funeral – with a devastating final text message sent to friends saying they had ‘lost their engines’. Boruch Taub and Binyamin ‘Ben’ Chafetz, both from Cleveland and identified by Jewish news organization, Belaaz News, were killed on Thursday night…
Chabad envoy to Vilnius Nechama Dina Krinsky could possibly face jail time after she had been indicted for tax fraud and withholding information by a local Lithuanian court. According to the local Jewish community, Dina and her husband Rabbi Sholom Ber Krinsky have been serving as Chabad emissaries to the Lithuanian capital for the past…
An Orthodox Jewish woman was flashed while she was on her Instagram livestream on Saturday night. The story went viral after a Jewish podcast Mislaibeled spoke about it on their Instagram, turning it into a joke. “Someone jumped onto Flatbush Girl’s [Instagram] live last night, just absolutely waving his shlong for the entire world to…
Over 700 women attended an Orthodox concert in Hackney this weekend, despite the Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations urging women not to go. A full-time nurse and mother of five had her performance forbidden from attending for fear of bringing “spiritual harm” to its audience. Bracha Jaffe is an Orthodox Jewish female musician who covers…