A 93-year old man suspected of being a former guard at the Nazi death camp Auschwitz will be tried in the new year, a German court said on Monday. Nearly 70 years after the end of the Holocaust, in which some 6 million Jews as well as Roma, homosexuals, disabled and political opponents to the…
The names of Jack the Ripper’s victims would have certainly been long forgotten had they not been murdered by the same hand. Mary Ann Nichols The mother of five was an alcoholic whose husband had left her seven years before her death in her early 30s. Nichols walked the streets the last night of her…
A Portland, Oregon, Jewish day school has brought in counselors for teachers and students after a Jewish father killed his wife and turned the gun on himself after fleeing with their two children. Portland police say that Ian Elias, 47, killed his ex-wife, Nicolette Elias, 46, at her home and then fled across town with…
A former house guest was charged in the fatal stabbing of Ronald Fischman, an ordained cantor, in Fischman’s Philadelphia home. Jonathan Williams, 33, was arrested Thursday — two days after the stabbing — and charged with murder, burglary and other offenses, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported. Williams had been a house guest at Fischman’s northwest Philadelphia…
The serial killer Jack the Ripper was identified through DNA as a Jewish barber who immigrated to London from Poland. Businessman Russell Edwards, an amateur Jack the Ripper sleuth, and molecular biologist Dr. Jari Louhelainen of Liverpool John Moores University made the discovery through DNA traces found on a shawl recovered from one of the…
(Reuters) — Police in Miami investigating the killing of a 60-year-old Orthodox rabbi over the weekend said on Monday they haven’t yet decided whether the shooting was a hate crime. While investigators at a news conference called for witnesses to come forward, Jewish groups have issued conflicting interpretations of Rabbi Joseph Raksin’s murder. Raksin, a…
The Jewish community of Miami is offering a $50,000 reward for information that leads to the arrest of two suspects in the murder of Rabbi Joseph Raksin. The reward was reported on Sunday by the Miami Herald. Raksin, 60, an Orthodox rabbi from Brooklyn, was shot and killed on his way to synagogue services in…
It took an ambulance a shocking 19 minutes to reach law professor Dan Markel as he lay dying in his car from a gunshot wound after a neighbor called 911. Despite the frantic calls for help, emergency dispatchers mistakenly assigned the incident a low priority — meaning even police failed to arrive until 15 minutes…
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