“This is going to be one of the biggest extortion scandals in the history of Israel,” a senior ultra-Orthodox figure told Haaretz Sunday, following the arrest of four directors of the popular Haredi website Bechadrei Charedim.
A 22-year-old kallah in Israel is seeking compensatory damages after being “dumped” by her chosson via a text message to her mobile phone.
Jordanian Arabs scuffled with anti-Zionist and pro-Palestinian Authority Neturei Karta members in the Global March on Jerusalem rally Friday. No one was injured.
Six people, including five children, died in a burning building in Rechovot, Israel last night. Two more have been reported injured in the blaze, which broke out at 10 PM.
A French teacher faced disciplinary proceedings Friday for allegedly urging her class to observe a minute’s silence for serial killer Mohamed Merah, the day after he was shot by police.
A Call From the Heart by Mrs. Eva Sandler
My heart is broken. I am unable to speak. There are no ways for me to be able to express the great and all-consuming pain resulting from the murder of my dear husband Rabbi Jonathan and our sons, Aryeh and Gavriel, and of Miriam Monsonego, daughter of the dedicated principal of Ozar Hatorah and his wife, Rabbi Yaakov and Mrs. Monsonego.
May no one ever have to endure such pain and suffering.
Gabriel Sandler, 3, who was gunned down at point blank range in Toulouse Monday, was named after Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg, who was murdered in Mumbai just before he was born.
French police searching for a gunman who shot dead four people at a Jewish school in Toulouse have launched a raid in the north of the city. Two police officers have been injured in the operation, which is reported to have begun before dawn and is ongoing. The suspect, named as Mohammed Merah, is reported to have travelled to fight in Afghanistan and to have been jailed there before escaping in 2008. Latest Update: 1:30 PM
Three former French soldiers who were believed to be involved in the shooting attack on a Jewish school in Toulouse were questioned and released by French police.
Wails and weeping filled the air Tuesday as coffins bearing the four slain victims were carried out from the Ozar Hatorah Jewish school the day after the shooting in Toulouse, southwestern France.
Thousands participated during a silent march at the Place de la Bastille in Paris today to pay tribute to the four victims killed by a gunman at a Jewish school in Toulouse. Meanwhile, France’s incumbent President and UMP ruling candidate for 2012 presidential election Nicolas Sarkozy and France’s First Lady Carla Bruni, attended at the Nazareth synagogue for a somber ceremony.
Israelis and Jews around the world are under a growing threat from Islamic terrorists and need to demand that local authorities provide better security, former Counterterrorism Bureau chief Brig.-Gen. Nitzan Nuriel said Monday, hours after a gunman killed four people outside of a Jewish school in France.
Jews around the world are still in shock after the terror that struck in France, claiming the lives of four people. A father, his two children and another girl. World leaders have been issuing strong condemnations and calls for the capture of the barbaric terrorist behind the attack.
TOULOUSE, France [CHI] — Just as the news of the horrifying murder in France is beginning to set in around the world, new eyewitness accounts offer even more chilling insight into the senseless butchery which took place at the Jewish school Ozar Hatorah in France.
TOULOUSE, France — A father, his two children and another child are dead following a terrifying shooting in front of the Jewish high school in Toulouse, France this morning. The victims are Rabbi Jonathan Sandler, 30, his 3-year-old and 6-year-old sons Gabriel and Arieh and 8-year-old Miriam Monsonego, the children attended the Chabad Gan for children.
It seems like there are still Jews who, unlike some here in Crown Heights, still adhere to the Halachic prohibition on Mesira. A 64-year-old Rabbi from Brooklyn was ordered to begin a maximum sentence of 18 months in prison for his refusal to cooperate with authorities in a way that would jeopardize fellow Jews.
What does Famed Chabad Philosopher and thinker Rabbi Immanuel Schochet have in Common with former President of Yeshiva University Rabbi Norman Lamm?
