A man suspected in the shooting of a Jewish Tulane University medical student that was caught on video by a surveillance camera has confessed to the crime, New Orleans police spokesman said on Monday. Euric Cain, 21, was wanted on charges of attempted murder, kidnapping and armed robbery after police said he shot a student…
An Israeli executive has accused Avis of declining to accept his Israeli documents when he tried to rent a car in New York City. Dov Bergwerk, a senior vice president at the pharmaceuticals giant Teva, told the New York Observer that the reservations agent at a Manhattan branch of the car rental firm said it…
One of New York’s most powerful politicians abused his office for more than a decade, orchestrating multimillion-dollar bribery schemes he kept hidden from public view through lies and deception, a U.S. prosecutor told jurors on Monday at the close of his corruption trial. Sheldon Silver, who as speaker of the state assembly wielded enormous political…
The newly elected president of Argentina said he will cancel the agreement signed with Iran to jointly investigate the 1994 attack on the AMIA Jewish center in Buenos Aires, as he vowed during the campaign. “We will propose to the Congress to cancel the pact with Iran as we promised in the campaign,” Mauricio Macri…
A mayor in suburban New York’s Rockland County secretly pledged to reject all building permit applications by Jewish developers, according to a newspaper report. The mayor, Demeza Delhomme of Spring Valley, was secretly recorded in March saying he would vote against all Jewish-submitted building permits but would accept permits by Haitians, the Journal News reported….
An Israeli man, 18, was killed in a stabbing attack at a gas station on a main West Bank thoroughfare. Two others were hurt in the Monday afternoon attack on Route 443 near the Israeli city of Modiin. An Israeli woman in her 20s was lightly injured in the stabbing, and another was shot by…
A Palestinian stabbed and killed an Israeli at a petrol station in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Monday and in Jerusalem two Palestinian girls attacked and wounded an elderly man with scissors before a policeman shot them both, killing one. In a day of rapidly unfolding violence, the latest in an eight-week surge of stabbings,…
The older sister of a former Hasidic woman who killed herself four months ago by jumping off of a rooftop bar in Manhattan died after hanging herself. Sarah Mayer, 31, was found dead on Sunday afternoon in her parents’ home in Borough Park, the New York Daily News reported. Her death comes four months after…
A cache of documents that make up a census of Budapest’s Jewish population in 1944 before the liquidation of the city’s Jews to Nazi death camps was found hidden in a wall during the renovation of an apartment in the city. A cache of documents that make up a census of Budapest’s Jewish population in…
A Jewish medical student cheated death when he stopped to help a woman being attacked on a New Orleans street — and was shot in the stomach, police said. Tulane University student Peter Gold, 25, survived the hellish attack when the thug’s weapon jammed as he tried to shoot Gold again in the head. Michele…
Brussels synagogues were shut over the weekend as Belgium authorities imposed a widespread lockdown amid fears a Paris-style mass terror attack was imminent. Brussels’ chief rabbi Albert Gigi told Israel’s Army Radio on Sunday that the closures marked the first time since World War II that shuls were shut completely. The lockdown came as Belgian…
