The estranged husband of a successful Orthodox woman found dead in her Upper West Side bathtub in 2009 has reportedly been charged with her murder. Roderick Covlin, 42, pleaded not guilty to killing millionaire UBS financial advisor Shele Danishevsky, who whas found dead in her West 68th apartment by their nine-year-old daughter on New Year’s…
The trial of Sheldon Silver, once New York State’s most powerful Jewish politician, gets underway today in Manhattan federal court with jury selection. Silver, of New York City’s Lower East Side, is charged in an insidious $4 million corruption scandal that, among other things, accuses him of funneling a grant to a cancer doctor, who…
A 70-year-old Jewish-Israeli man was stabbed by a Palestinian assailant in Netanya. The victim in Monday evening’s attack was taken to the hospital in serious condition. It was the second Palestinian stabbing attack in a central Israel city in the span of about three hours. Police shot and apprehended the stabber, who was from the…
Austria’s far-right Freedom Party (FPO) said on Monday it would dismiss a member of its parliamentary group for an anti-Semitic exchange on Facebook unless she abandoned her seat and left the party voluntarily. The Freedom Party, which several polls suggest is the most popular in Austria, has gained support with anti-immigrant messages during Europe’s worst…
A sheik in Jordan said it is forbidden to kill Jews except during times of war. Ali Halabi said in a videotaped lecture distributed on social media that it is permitted to kill Jews during a declared war or clashes with Jewish soldiers, but that at other times it is a betrayal. “Someone who protects…
The graves of Holocaust victims at the Sobibor Nazi death camp in Poland have been dug up by treasure hunters. The mass graves were discovered to have been disturbed during an archeological dig, the Daily Mail online reported on Monday. “There has been a big archaeological project going on, but when we started excavating we…
A haredi Orthodox leader said at a memorial event for a young couple killed in a Palestinian attack in front of their children that their murder was a result of the gay pride parade in Jerusalem. Rabbi Meir Mazuz, who is the head of Tunisian Jewry in Israel and heads the Kisse Rahamim yeshiva in…
The Rabbinical Council of America formally adopted a policy prohibiting the ordination or hiring of women rabbis. The policy announced on Friday came after a direct vote of the RCA membership, according to the organization. The resolution states that: “RCA members with positions in Orthodox institutions may not ordain women into the Orthodox rabbinate, regardless…
The Greek Jewish community protested after one of Greece’s main newspapers published a caricature of former Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis as a “Jewish moneylender.” The image, which shows Varoufakis wearing a giant black skullcap and hunched over a ledger, counting bags and coins of gold, was published Friday in Ta Nea, one of the country’s…
(JTA) — To get to the Jewish compound in the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, residents arrange in advance for an armored van to pick them up at a spot adjacent to the walls of the Old City. With a metal grate over its windshield and an armed guard sitting beside an armed driver, the…
Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian man who tried to stab a soldier in the occupied West Bank on Monday, the police and army said, as a month-long wave of violence showed no signs of abating. Troops approached two Palestinians at a petrol station near a checkpoint between Israel and the West Bank, then…
