Abduction
Abducted Mexican Jewish Teen Freed After 40 Days
An Orthodox Jewish teenager kidnapped on November 12 in Mexico City was released after the family paid “a large ransom.”
60,000 Israelis Download App To Notify of Abduction
Some 60,000 Israelis have downloaded a free app designed to assist in the event of an abduction.
Mock Bride Abduction Tradition in Romania: Brides 'Held Hostage' Saturday Nights in Bucharest
Every Saturday night in Romania, brides from Bucharest and beyond are dragged away in a mock abduction by friends and driven to a top tourist spot where they are “held hostage” - all the while pouting, dancing and striking provocative poses for the cameras.
Etan Patz and the End of Hope
When I heard the news that Etan Patz’s killer had confessed to the police, my heart sank. One would imagine there might be relief that this 33-year-old case, which changed laws and altered the way many of us would come to mother our children, could finally be considered solved. And yet.
After Leiby's Murder, Teaching Our Kids To Be Street-Smart
The details of the murder last week of 8-year-old Leiby Kletzky are heart-rending. It was an act of evil that recalls the first time in modern memory that a stranger abducted a child off the streets of New York City. That child was also a young Jewish boy, Etan Patz, who had, like Leiby, begged his parents to allow him to walk alone, in that 1979 case to the school bus stop. This week, Leiby was trying to walk home from day camp.