A teenage girl who was hit by a car while walking to attend Kol Nidrei services on Yom Kippur is in critical condition after undergoing several surgeries. Orly Ohayon, 16, from Jacksonville, Florida, was rushed to University of Florida Health hospital. Her mother was pronounced dead at the scene. The driver hit the pair as…
The chairwoman of a Florida board of commissioners apologized to those who questioned her for using the word “jewing” to describe salary discussions at a public meeting. Cheryl Sanders, an official in Franklin County, Fla., told Jim Romenesko, who runs an eponymous news business blog, that her use of the word at a July 2…
Six more people have come forward with accusations against Yeshiva University, days after 19 former high school students filed a $380 million suit charging that Y.U. covered up decades of physical and sexual abuse. Mike Reck, an attorney representing the six, said his clients are disappointed they have been unable to reach a settlement with…
My childhood friend Sami’s mother claimed she could drive down a residential street and pick out where fellow Jews lived. Granted, most Jews don’t select colonial décor — too Daughters of the American Revolution for our taste. But she denied relying on knotty-pine coffee tables to weed out the non-Jews. Rather, she claimed to possess…
A special Federal Bureau of Investigation team from Washington on Thursday began reviewing the death of a Chechen immigrant linked to the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, a day after he was shot and killed by an agent during questioning in Orlando. The dead man, Ibragim Todashev, 27, was a friend of suspected bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev…
An Orthodox Jewish prison inmate from Florida who was convicted of murdering both his parents has won a key battle in his court fight to get kosher prison meals. A federal appeals court reinstated Bruce Rich’s lawsuit against the Florida Department of Corrections, which denied him the special meals after eliminating them in a cost-cutting…
Neighbors of a Jewish retiree couple slain in their Florida townhouse are still living in fear after police revealed new details of the January 10 double murder. Police announced March 6 that David Pichosky and Rochelle Wise had been asphyxiated by more than one assailant in their Hallandale Beach condo. Those assailants were likely strangers…
A Toronto Jewish couple found dead in their Florida townhouse in January were asphyxiated and police said they have no motive in what they called a ‘senseless’ crime. Police Chief Dwayne Flournoy of Hallandale Beach, Fla., told a news conference that there were at least two perpetrators, and police have “no reason to believe the…
