Police called off the search for along the south Florida coast for Guma Aguiar, a Florida businessman and philanthropist who has given millions to Jewish nonprofit organizations. Aguilar’s 31-foot yacht, the T.T. Zion, washed ashore Wednesday in Ft. Lauderdale with its motor running and lights on. The owner was nowhere to be found, the Sun-Sentinel…
It’s a Saturday night at Atlanta’s The Loft in Midtown, and the klezmer fusion band Red Hot Chachkas is playing loud and fast, closing the city’s third annual Jewish Music Festival. Bronx native Richard Parker, 64, says the venue, with its exposed ceiling, cement floor and dark, unadorned walls, reminds him of Manhattan’s East Village…
In this week’s podcast, host Josh Nathan-Kazis talks with Washington correspondent Nathan Guttman about how Jewish organizations are reacting to Israel’s deportation of Sudanese refugees. Then, Forward editor Jane Eisner stops by to discuss if it is Americans’ responsibility to financially support ultra-Orthodox Jews who choose to study rather than work. Then, staff writer Ezra…
“I’m Lori Stokes!… I don’t have to yell!” the WABC-TV ‘Eyewitness News’ reporter shouted on June 6 while in the cavernous Capitale. Five hundred guests in the fields of real estate, finance, fashion and entertainment had gathered for a UJA-Federation of New York benefit, and Stokes fought to be heard above the echoing din. She…
All criminal charges will reportedly be dropped in a bizarre Brooklyn prostitution case involving an Orthodox Jewish woman. The New York Times reported that prosecutors have told defense lawyers they plan to drop all charges against the four Crown Heights men accused of raping and pimping out the woman, starting when she was just 13….
After months complaining about the resistance of ultra-Orthodox Jews to cooperate in child sex abuse cases, Brooklyn’s District Attorney has made four arrests for witness tampering. The four were set to appear in Brooklyn Supreme Court on June 21 to be arraigned on charges of bribery and intimidation related to the looming trial of Rabbi…
In mid-March, a group of Jewish leaders locked hands with human rights activists and with Hollywood star George Clooney in a protest outside the Sudanese Embassy. Some were arrested, as they called on the United States to increase pressure on Sudan to stop what they and many others charge is a policy of ethnic cleansing…
Ending a long fight, Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes will release more than 100 pages of documents related to the case of Avrohom Mondrowitz, the American Orthodox rabbi alleged to have sexually abused dozens of children before fleeing, eventually to Israel, in 1984. The release may help resolve contentions — rejected by Hynes — that…
When Gitty Katz learned she was pregnant with twins earlier this winter, she was overcome with despair. The Williamsburg housewife, a devout Satmar, began to fantasize that that the babies would never be born. So, when Mrs. Katz miscarried, it was less a sense of grief than a strange and awful relief. Mrs. Katz already…
It’s 2 a.m. Wednesday morning and nearly everybody here in Cairo, if they are still awake, wonders how it will all go down. As Egypt’s ousted strongman Hosni Mubarak lies dead or dying, official results of the final round of voting for president will not be announced by the Electoral Commission until Thursday at the…
Gathered outside a Bolivian diplomatic office in New York, several hundred Jewish protesters raised signs and chanted slogans calling for the release of Jacob “Yankel” Ostreicher, a Brooklyn businessman held without charge for a year in the South American nation. A video of the May 3 demonstration reveals a sea of yarmulkes and black hats….
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