Many high-profile Jewish leaders called on New York’s attorney general to go easy on William Rapfogel, the former chief of New York’s Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty, who stole $9 million from the charity, according to a new report.
Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, already facing a six-year prison term after a corruption conviction, was found guilty on Monday in a separate case of unlawfully accepting payments from a U.S. businessman.
A 30-year-old man was shot to death while sitting in a vehicle in Netanya’s industrial zone, about 25 kilometers north of Tel Aviv. A 19 year old man was also moderately wounded in the incident and was evacuated to Meir Hospital in Kfar Saba with injuries to his upper body.
TRENTON —The son of a Lakewood rabbi accused of arranging the beatings of men who wouldn’t give their wives religious divorces was in a meeting in Ohio when one of the attacks occurred, a business associate told jurors in an ongoing federal kidnapping and conspiracy trial.
Police found a 4-year-old toddler wandering alone and suffering from severe neglect in the city of Elad in central Israel on Wednesday. According to suspicions, the boy had roamed the streets for the past several days and slept in a cardboard box. The police said it was “shocking to see the toddler’s condition.”
Jerusalem – Three male Jewish suspects were arrested early Wednesday morning after allegedly throwing a firebomb shortly before midnight at a large youth rally supporting embattled Yahad party chairman Eli Yishai in Jerusalem’s Har Nof.
Israel Police arrested 21 people Tuesday night for allegedly coercing business owners and public officials into advertising in a newspaper linked to a radical faction of a Lithuanian haredi sect.
The leader of anti-assimilation group Lehava may be charged with racial incitement, Walla! News reports Wednesday – despite a court ruling declaring the organization’s work legal.
A 29-year-old Jewish man, from Russian decent, was shot and killed Tuesday morning in the Midwood section of Brooklyn, police sources told TOT.
TRENTON — The attorney for a Pennsylvania woman who wanted a religious divorce said Monday that a Lakewood rabbi instructed her family to pay the rabbi $60,000 as part of his attempt to secure her divorce.