An Orthodox Jewish teenager kidnapped on November 12 in Mexico City was released after the family paid “a large ransom.” The 19-year-old youth named Shlomo was captured inside the apartment building where he lives after the criminals had no difficulty getting past the security guard. The parents were quickly contacted, but the negotiations lasted for…
Some 60,000 Israelis have downloaded a free app designed to assist in the event of an abduction. Using the free United Hatzalah SOS smartphone app, subscribers can inform the emergency organization that they need assistance and provide their exact location via GPS technology. The app, developed by the Israeli start-up NowForce, requires one swipe of…
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. Yet my heart plummeted…
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…
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NPR Legal Correspondent Nina Totenberg in conversation with Editor-in-Chief Jodi Rudoren. To benefit the Forward.
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