The scene captured by the surveillance camera shows an ultra-Orthodox man trying to force himself on a young boy in the narrow entrance of an apartment building. It happened last month, on Purim, in the Israeli town of Bnei Brak. Within a few hours, the footage was posted on Facebook. Almost immediately, the assailant was…
Jewish leaders are standing by their old friend, disgraced former New York State Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver, even after his conviction on charges of fraud and extortion. Silver was an important and powerful benefactor for the organized Jewish community during his decades in power in Albany, and now prominent Jewish communal leaders are pleading for…
If the mystery buyers of the muckraking anti-Orthodox website Failed Messiah aimed to silence the online airing of Orthodox dirty laundry by shutting down the site, their plan has backfired. The controversial, aggressive, sometimes unfair and utterly indefatigable writer behind Failed Messiah, Shmarya Rosenberg, announced in February that he had sold the site to an…
In Boro Park, Brooklyn, there are two police forces. One drives cars with flashing lights, is dispatched over walkie-talkies, and has a blue-and-black shield for a logo. The other is the New York City Police Department. The Shomrim security patrol, as the local civilian force is known, is in part a pastime for traditionally observant…
Did Bernie Sanders’s harsh criticism of Israel cost him the New York Jewish vote? Or perhaps the turmoil over his firing of his Jewish outreach director on the eve of the vote? Neither, say campaign insiders. It was Hillary Clinton skillfully playing good old-fashioned politics, the kind in which voters align with candidates they know…
The Democratic Republic of Congo is at a crossroads: Its next election, scheduled for the fall, could be the first open presidential race in 50 years. One rising star and potential candidate is a man named Moïse Katumbi, business tycoon and former governor of mineral-rich Katanga, in the south of the country. Katumbi is a…
Hillary Clinton took a huge step toward locking down the Democratic nomination once and for all with a decisive victory over Bernie Sanders in the New York primary — a win that appears to have been boosted by strong backing from Jewish voters. Clinton, for the first time since the campaign kicked off a year…
A Jerusalem bus exploded on Monday evening at a major junction in the city, igniting another bus and injuring 21 people, two of them seriously, in a possible terror attack. Police spokesman Mickey Rosenfeld said that the blast was caused by an explosive device on the first bus, and that a police investigation was underway…
A former leader of a Brooklyn Hasidic security patrol was arrested in Rockland County on April 17 on charges that he offered cash to a police officer in return for gun permits, prosecutors have announced. Shaya Lichtentsein, a former coordinator of the Boro Park-based Shomrim security patrol, was charged in federal court in Manhattan with…
Washington – The contentious exchange over Israel between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders during their April 14 Brooklyn debate may have caused some in the Democratic Party to cringe, but for J Street, the dovish pro-Israel lobby, it was a cause for celebration. For the left-leaning lobby, Sanders’ choice to criticize Israel’s actions during the…
On a recent afternoon in Queens, Secretary of State John Kerry sat with Israeli and Palestinian representatives, chatting amiably. “It’s great to see you two side by side,” Kerry said to the delegates. “Now, have we agreed about these land swaps?” The Israeli and Palestinian smiled and nodded — a historic agreement had been reached;…
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