Police arrested three Palestinians for allegedly poisoning a family in Ra’anana for nationalistic reasons, it was revealed Sunday after the Petah Tikva Magistrate’s Court lifted a media blackout on the case.
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A Bolivian court denied bail Thursday morning to Jacob Ostreicher, a Borough Park, Brooklyn resident who has been incarcerated without formal charges for more than a year. The bail hearing lasted nine grueling hours and was spread over two days while Jacob’s mother, a Holocaust survivor, sat through the entire process in the Bolivian courtroom along with her daughter, Jacob’s sister, both weeping uncontrollably.
In an interview with Tablet Magazine, Joshua Bolten, 58, the second Jewish chief of staff in the history of the White House, offers a rare glimpse into the presidency of George W. Bush.
The Algemeiner Editor’s Club hosted famed CBS journalist Jere Van Dyk at its first annual Summer Party. Van Dyk, who was captured by the Taliban near the border of Pakistan and Afghanistan for 45 days in 2008, spoke of his experiences and the life lessons that he has gleaned from them.
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Sometimes, Benjamin Rosenthal thinks about leaving the small town of Indianola, Mississippi, population 11,000, where he spent most of his life.
A Borough Park woman turned in an impressive piece of detective work yesterday, as a shopping expedition in Manhattan set off a chain of events that ended with a recently released felon being taken into police custody.
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A New York City hardware store clerk who pleaded guilty to kidnapping, killing and dismembering a lost little boy has been sentenced to 40 years to life in prison.
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Once again superstar Lipa Schmeltzer is using his celebrity status as a springboard for the greater good, with the release of a music video that uses a hit song to promote solidarity among Jews worldwide, no matter what their background or religious leanings.
Koren Publishers Jerusalem, an exhibitor at the National Jewish Retreat’s Resource Fair, created for the event a special booklet containing a selection from their new edition of the Steinsaltz Gemara. The first 12 pages of the Babylonian Talmud were specially printed and bound for the Retreat.
The Federation of Jewish Communities in Russia, angered over the way a Russian TV station presented the history of the baby Gabriel, who was allegedly tortured to death by the Jews and then canonized by the Orthodox Church as a saint, published its protest.
A Jewish student at Michigan State University was the victim of a hate crime where he was beaten unconscious and had his mouth stapled while his attackers made anti-Semitic taunts.
The United States’ most influential pediatricians group has released a study saying that the health benefits of circumcision in newborn boys outweigh any risks involved (the study does not include the practice of Metzitza B’peh). They also recommended that insurance companies should pay for it, as it is likely to bring net health savings down the line.
Following a tip from the Boro Park Shomrim, a Brooklyn man in his mid to early twenties was apprehended by police yesterday, hopefully bringing an end to a several week long rash of burglaries that involved Tens of thousands of dollars worth of valuable silver items.
There is a new controversy gradually brewing which has a number of Rabbis visibly upset at some of the Sofrim who deal in the sale of Tefillin. And the controversy does not seem to be going away. It has to do with Retzuos, the straps that bind the Tefillin to the head and to the arm.
For the first time since Nazi rule, criminal charges have been pressed against a German rabbi for performing circumcisions, a Jewish weekly reported on Tuesday.
The man sitting on the commuter train focusing intently on his iPhone might be playing Angry Birds. Or he might be studying Talmud, Skyping with a chevruta partner in Israel or even teaching Hebrew school.
Vienna’s Jewish community is outraged over an anti-Semitic cartoon posted on the Facebook page of the leader of Austria’s anti-immigrant Freedom Party. The cartoon, reminiscent of the Nazi era propaganda, shows a banker with a large hooked nose and Star of David cufflinks profiting from Europe’s financial crisis.
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