Updated 4:35 p.m. (JTA) — The jail sentence of Rabbi Barry Freundel, a once-prominent Modern Orthodox rabbi in Washington, D.C. who secretly filmed women in his synagogue’s mikvah, has been shortened by over a year due to good behavior, his lawyer said. Freundel’s 6 1/2-year sentence also was reduced because he participated as an instructor…
At least 10 youths were reportedly killed when they were swept away by a flash flood in the Negev Desert in southern Israel on Thursday, and seven others were in critical condition, police and emergency services said. One other student was missing, the Times of Israel reported. Military helicopters and security forces were searching the…
Is this what President Trump throwing you under the bus sounds like? Trump pointedly distanced himself on Thursday from the legal troubles of his longtime personal attorney Michael Cohen, saying he had done nothing wrong and Cohen did only a “tiny fraction” of his overall legal work. “This doesn’t have to do with me. Michael…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The family of a Palestinian teen burned to death in a revenge attack by three Jewish extremists is suing his killers in a civil lawsuit. The parents of Mohammed Abu Khdeir are seeing $1.5 million in damages. The criminal case against the three Jewish extremists, including two minors, ended earlier this year after…
The parents of Otto Warmbier filed suit in federal court against North Korea on Thursday, alleging that the regime “brutally tortured and murdered” him during his 17 months in captivity. Warmbier arrived in the United States in a coma after being released by Pyongyang and died soon after. Warmbier was “taken hostage, kept as a…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The U.S. Senate handily confirmed CIA director Mike Pompeo as secretary of state as reports said one of his first tours in the job would be to Israel. The 57-42 vote on Thursday was stronger than expected for Pompeo. Democrats had robustly opposed his nomination over remarks Pompeo made as a Kansas…
Kayne West’s series of Twitter messages praising President Trump on Wednesday included a selfie with music mogul Lyor Cohen flashing a hand signal that some assumed to have connections to the “alt-right.” Lyor Cohen, YouTube’s Global Head of Music, showed the “OK” sign while standing next to West, who was wearing a red “Make America…
The House GOP prison reform bill backed by Jared Kushner lost ground in the house after the House Judiciary Committee ditched their plans to vote on it Wednesday, POLITICO reported. The vote on the bill, one of the only bipartisan pieces of legislature in the pipeline in Congress, was postponed after two major senators intervened….
Some 14 protesters were arrested on Thursday after holding a Jewish mourning ceremony outside the New York office of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer in protest of deaths in Gaza. Forty-one Jewish New Yorkers affiliated with the left-wing group Jewish Voice for Peace held a shiva ceremony to commemorate the deaths of 41 Palestinians who…
(JTA) — A man from suburban St. Louis has been arrested for toppling more than 100 headstones at a local Jewish cemetery more than a year ago. Alzado Harris, 34, was arrested on Tuesday after police matched DNA found in a jacket left at the scene of the February 2017 vandalism to Harris, who has…
The parents of U.S. college student Otto Warmbier sued North Korea on Thursday over their son’s death in 2017 following his release from captivity there, according to the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court. The wrongful-death suit comes at a diplomatically delicate time, just weeks ahead of an expected meeting between North Korean leader Kim…
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