A pregnant Brooklyn mother was killed last night in a one-car accident near the upstate town of Highland Falls.
Yoseph Robinson’s remarkable journey from petty criminal to rap impresario to observant Jew began in sunny Jamaica and ended in bloodshed on the floor of a Brooklyn liquor store.
Known as “the world’s last Nazi hunter,” Efraim Zuroff has spent the last 30 years bringing suspected war criminals to justice. For several weeks this summer, he offered Jewish communities across the United States a window into his work that gets harder with each passing year.
Redemption is something that usually happens only to characters in movies. But sometimes it happens for athletes. The last time he was in the ring, Dmitriy Salita suffered a crushing first-round loss at the hands of Amir Khan in England. Next month, the boxer looks to get back to his winning ways at Oceana Hall in his hometown Brooklyn on September 1.
The criminal complaint filed against Weinstein and a co-defendant, Vladimir Siforov of New York, alleges that Weinstein played off his connections to the Orthodox Jewish community, exploiting the community’s “social and business customs and practices,” in order to bilk numerous clients out of millions of dollars.
The Rabbinical Council of Victoria this week conducted a three day Rabbinical Arbitration Course. The course was opened by the Victorian Attorney General, The Hon. Rob Hulls MP, who congratulated the RCV and the participating rabbis for being “champions of Alternative Dispute Resolution”.
NEW YORK [AP] — The Israeli widow of a New York City rabbi killed in the Mumbai terrorist attacks of 2008 can remain in the United States permanently.
Within the cozy yet well-equipped walls of Brooklyn’s famous kosher culinary school, The Center for Kosher Culinary Arts (CKCA), a sizzling competition is in the works and may be destined to change culinary history. Similar to Top Chef, chefs from around Brooklyn will be put to the test in search of the next great kosher chef. Perhaps a visionary kosher chef will be born.
New evidence shows judge Reade unlawfully presided over Rubashkin Trial and had meetings with the prosecution six months before the Agriprocessors raid.
A historic ‘Pidyon Peter Chamor’ event took Sunday, at the Klausenberg Camp in the Catskills.
Three Lebanese soldiers were killed in clashes with Israeli troops today, Tuesday. The Lebanese say the conflict began when the IDF attempted to uproot a tree on their side of the border. Whiles israeli reports say that the IDF was performing maintenance work across the fence, but still within Israeli territory.
Brooklyn Borough President, Marty Markowitz hosted Hasidic rapper DeScribe for his video launch. The video, “Harmony” is a Hip Hop Music Video and is being endorsed by Black and Jewish Community Leaders as a ground breaking Tool for Unity and Racial Harmony in Brooklyn.
T.E.A.M., a New York-based education organization is expanding its innovative approach towards higher education in the Jewish community by providing students the opportunity to earn Graduate Degrees using their Yeshiva credits.
June is traditionally the month for weddings . . . and speaking of June and tradition and weddings, I was fascinated to learn about a traditional Orthodox Chassidish Jewish wedding held in Lake Mary on June 20.
ISRAEL — Head of yeshiva in West Bank settlement of Yitzhar detained by police over book permitting murder of non-Jews who threaten Israel.
One in 19 Orthodox Jewish teenage girls in Brooklyn have an eating disorder, according to a study by eating disorder expert Dr. Ira Sacker. “It could no longer be swept under the rug” said Adrienne Ressler, a training director at a center which treats Orthodox Jewish eating disorder patients.
BERLIN [AP] — The world’s third most wanted Nazi suspect was involved in the entire process of killing Jews at the Belzec death camp: from taking victims from trains to pushing them into gas chambers to throwing corpses into mass graves, a German court said Thursday.
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