It is being reported that a Jewish businessman was possibly kidnapped last night from his Williamsburg office.
The 12-year-old West Hempstead girl who made headlines last year for forfeiting a championship table tennis match that conflicted with Shabbos has returned once again to Las Vegas for the annual tournament, this time walking away with high honors.
Talk about taking a break for Shabbos. “We were deep in the process of putting the pieces together for our next album,” says Benny Friedman, “when we decided to go in another direction and create something different and special.”
Hatzoloh of Montreal, Chaverim Shomrim of Montreal-Tosh, and Refuah V’Chesed joined forces to rescue eight Jews injured in a five vehicle accident on the 87 near Plattsburgh on Sunday night.
South Africa is a captivating country that offers a multitude of experiences from wildlife spotting and whale watching to spectacular scenery.
A bomb was detonated at the back of a bus in Bat Yam, Israel Sunday afternoon, in what police suspect was a terrorist attack.
A county in Sweden is planning to ban non-medical circumcision of boys, its commissioner said.
Twelve-year-old Naomi Kutin of Fair Lawn, N.J., has made quite a name for herself as a world-record-smashing powerlifter, garnering accolades like “supergirl” and “strongest girl in the world” in international headlines. Yet the slight girl who recently celebrated her bat mitzvah has also gained a reputation for a very different kind of lifting: raising spirits and funds for the Friendship Circle of Bergen County, where she regularly volunteers to work one-on-one with children who have special needs.
It’s a smoke and mirrors saga fit for Hollywood, complete with a major movie star, murky reports of a kidnapping and an American fugitive sneaking across the border of a far-away nation unfriendly to the U.S.
After being misrepresented Rabbi Shea Hecht took the opportunity to clarify his position with CrownHeights.info on the on the controversial ‘Call of the Shofar’ movement, reiterating that it is a cult – albeit a ‘kosher’ one.
Two children from the Ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect Lev Tahor are being returned to their parents, after they were taken into foster care by Canadian Authorities last Thursday.
Bolivia’s government says it considers Orthodox Jewish businessman Jacob Ostreicher a fugitive after unknown groups helped him flee across the border into Peru.
Two children from the ultra-Orthodox Jewish group Lev Tahor have been seized by Canadian child-protection officials.
Numerous sources are reporting that Jacob Ostreicher has been released from Bolivia, and has arrived in the United States.
A new song on singer Lipa Schmeltzer’s latest album has listeners wondering if perhaps this time the colorful singer has taken things a step too far as he takes on an unusual topic: beards.
A doctor who developed the measles vaccine recently urged members of ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities to vaccinate their children, noting that those communities who refused the 50-year-old vaccine were linked to a third of US measles cases last year.
The South African Jewish community remembers Nelson Mandela, the country’s first democratically elected president, as a close friend, one with deep ties to prominent community figures and a partner in the decades-long effort to end apartheid.
