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Meir Baranes Planning To Murder Rav Ovadia Yosef Shlita
Yediot Achronot correspondent Akiva Novik recorded a conversation with Meir Baranes, who was informed the conversation was recorded and consented. He told Novik that in 45 days, on 19 Kislev, the Chag HaGeula for Chabadnikim, he or a messenger of his would murder Rav Ovadia Yosef Shlita. Baranes is currently incarcerated in a psychiatric...
Thief Caught When Trying to Sell Streimel
A thief’s plans to sell a Hasid’s stolen sable-fur hat backfired when he failed to notice that the owner’s name and phone number were marked inside, police said. Robert Giuff, 38, tried to sell the religious hat, known as a shtreimel, to a hat maker for $350 on Sunday after he stole it out...
Lulav Shortage Averted, Says Agriculture Ministry
The Agriculture Ministry believes that it has managed to avert a shortage in lulavs — palm tree fronds that are one of the Four Species used in the Sukkot holiday – despite a last-minute announcement by Egypt that it will not allow exports of lulavs this year. Israeli palm tree growers are expected to...
Women Demand to Get on Hatzolah in Boro Park and Flatbush
Brooklyn, New York – Woman are protesting at the racial discrimination Hatzolah has by only allowing male volunteers. The complaints were first aired on 570am radio.
Judge Upholds Rubashkin 27 Year Sentence
A federal appeals court has denied a former Postville meatpacking executive’s request for a new trial, saying he failed to show the judge in the case was unfairly biased in favor of the prosecution. Sholom Rubashkin was convicted in 2009 of 86 fraud charges, which led to a 27-year prison sentence. Rubashkin ran the...
Miracle Quadruplets Celebrate Their Bar Mitzvahs
Jerusalem – It was proclaimed a miracle when they born, and survived – and now that they have reached Bar Mitzvah age, the Mizrachi quadruplets are celebrating in style, with a celebration at a Jerusalem simcha hall. With all four celebrating the event at the same time, it was as joyous as bar mitzvahs...
Bookstore in Jeruasalem Selling Zionist Books Attacked
Mea She’arim – A bookstore in the ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Mea She’arim, which has been struggling with violence from a mafia-style “Purity Committee” that objects to their English and Zionist books, was attacked once again early on Wednesday morning. Marlene Samuels, the manager of Or Hachaim/Manny’s Bookstore, found the outer windows of the shop...
City Looking to Ban Jews From Coming to Uman
Uman – Tens of thousands of Israelis who are planning to depart in the coming days to visit the burial site of Rav Nachman of Breslov may not get a warm welcome this year. A group of local residents in the Ukraine city of Uman, where the rabbi’s tomb is located, have called on...
Apple Gets Rid Of Jew App
San Francisco, CA – Apple Inc. has removed an app from its French App Store that let users consult a database of celebrities to determine if they are Jewish or not. The action followed complaints from a French anti-racism group, which threatened to sue the iPhone maker. SOS Racisme argued that the “Jew or...
Chabad Check Mezuzah, Find Cross
Israel – The Chabad Chassidic movement is helping Israelis prepare for the New Year by offering to check mezuzahs, the scrolls with select Torah passages that are traditionally attached to the doorposts of a Jewish home. Young Chabad men told Channel 2 that they found an extreme case of a mezuzah not suitable for...
Levi Aron’s Lawyer is a Shiksa
Brooklyn, NY – The death threats and hate mail, she says, have slowed, and she keeps her office door unlocked in defiance. There, Jennifer L. McCann sits behind her desk, wearing leopard print pumps, poised for an argument. Ms. McCann chose to defend Levi Aron, a hardware clerk from Brooklyn who is accused of...
Israeli Army Clash With Settlers In West Bank Outpost
Migron, West Bank – The Israeli military razed three buildings in an unauthorized West Bank settlement outpost before dawn on Monday, and clashed with settlers who reject a Supreme Court ruling ordering the enclave to be dismantled. Shortly after, Palestinians reported a mosque was torched in a West Bank village. The name of the...
40 Israelis Detained, Questioned in Turkey
Forty Israelis passengers were detained for questioning by Turkish police in Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport on Monday morning. The Israelis had their passports confiscated after landing on a Turkish Airlines flight from Tel Aviv on Monday morning. They were questioned for more than an hour and subsequently released.
Mrs. Leah Stern Killed by Hurricane Flooding in The Catskills
Leah Stern-Gluck, 82, lived in Williamsburg, Brooklyn but was staying with her husband in a Catskills cottage when Tropical Storm Irene was at its worst. As the rain pounded on Sunday, emergency workers ordered evacuations. When some people refused, rescues began for those who were trapped. Stern-Gluck’s husband was saved, but it was too...
Kletzky Family Sues Murderer Levi Aron For $100 Million
The family of Leiby Kletzky wants his admitted butcher to fork over $100 million for kidnapping, killing and dismembering the 8-year-old Brooklyn boy. And they’re also suing the killer’s father because the slaying to took place in an attic apartment inside the father’s Kensington home.
One of Bocherim in Jail in Japan Found No Guilty
Bechasdei Shomayim, we and the defence attorneys are glad to report that the Chiba District Court ruled in favour of the defense, and handed down a full acquittal for Yoel Zev. Immediately upon hearing this good news, we exited the court room for a few moments, to convey the besuro tovah to the multitudes...
5 Year Old Niftar After Drowning in Kinneret
The dead body of a 5-year-old boy from Elad who drowned in the Kinneret was found on Monday near the northern entrance to Tiberias. A MDA team that arrived at the scene pronounced the boy dead.
Man in Boro Park Badly Beaten This Morning By Beis Din Seeking Get
A man was badly beaten this morning after a few men entered his home and tied him up to a chair he was beaten from head to toe, his friend was also there and was also assaulted, his friend managed to call Hatzoloh, when Hatzoloh arrived he was still tied and unresponsive, Hatzoloh transported...
Frum Man Shot in The Catskills
Monticello police are currently investigating a shooting that occurred at 12:45 a.m. this morning (Sunday 8-21-11). A 22 year-old Brooklyn man was shot while he was standing outside at the evergreen drive housing complex in the village of Monticello. The victim sustained a gunshot wound to the neck.
Hamas Sends Barrage of Rockets Into Israel From Gaza
Israel’s government was considering on Saturday night the possibility of escalating its military response to the continued rocket fire from Gaza. At least one man was killed and dozens of others were wounded by the more than 80 rockets that pounded southern Israel over the weekend.
Hamas Calls Off Two-Year Truce With Israel
?The Hamas rulers of the Gaza Strip announced early on Saturday they were no longer committed to a more than two-year de facto truce with Israel since the end of a war in early 2009. The statement was broadcast over a Hamas radio station after Israel pounded coastal Gaza for two days with air...
Hod Hasharon Jewelry Store Owner Killed During Robbery
Central District police are seeking suspects in Wednesday’s robbery during which Hod Hasharon jewelry store owner Yehuda Weiselberg, 42, was shot and killed. An initial investigation into the crime indicates that Weiselberg, a father of three, was opening the store on Ramatayim St. – which is located only meters from the family’s home –...
Terrorist Attack in Southern Eretz Yisroel
Israel’s military spokesman says a series of attacks have occurred in the country, as assailants targeted Israeli soldiers, a passenger bus and another vehicle near the border with Egypt. The spokesman, Brig-Gen. Yoav Mordechai, says there are fatalities as well as wounded. He says civilians and soldiers are among the casualties. At least five...
Sephardim Not Allowed in Frum Schools
With two weeks to go before the start of the new school year, some 100 girls in the country’s largest ultra-Orthodox enclaves still have not been accepted to any high school. Most of the girls are of Sephardi origin. The cities of Jerusalem, Bnei Brak, Modi’in Ilit and Betar Ilit have not complied with...
‘NY Times’ Slammed for Coverage of Crown Heights Riots
A former New York Times religion reporter has written a blistering attack on the newspaper’s failure to attribute a riot in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, 20 years ago to anti-Semitism. The violence resulted in the murder of Australian Yankel Rosenbaum, a Lubavitch hassid, on August 19, 1991. Ari L. Goldman, who covered the story for...
Levi Aron Will Not Apologize
Levi Aron says he has a hard time talking about the day he chopped up a lost little boy who came to him for help. “It hurts too much to think about it,” the accused Butcher of Borough Park said in an exclusive Daily News interview – his first with any news organization since...
Rabbi Abuhatzeira’s Murderer Unfit to Stand Trial
Israel – The regional psychiatrist in Israel’s Southern District filed on Wednesday an opinion which rules that Asher Dahan, the accused murderer of Rabbi Elazar Abuhatzeira, is unfit to stand trial. The opinion was submitted to the Be’er Sheva Magistrate’s Court and includes a recommendation that Dahan be admitted to a psychiatric facility for...