The Zionist Organization of America has issued a statement condemning the murder of Arab teenager Muhammad Abu Khdeir. While numerous Jewish organizations had issued statements condemning the murder, the ZOA’s national president, Morton Klein, told JTA earlier this week that his organization would not comment on the killing until an indictment made clear that the…
(JTA) — Robert Neulander, a Syracuse, N.Y., physician active in his local Jewish community, was indicted this week in the murder of his wife. Whether the 62-year-old Robert Neulander — who chaired his local federation’s campaign and has served on the board of his JCC — is found guilty or innocent in the Sept. 17,…
A prominent physician active in the Syracuse, N.Y., Jewish community was indicted for the September 2012 murder of his wife. Robert Neulander, 62, was indicted on charges of second-degree murder and tampering with physical evidence, Onondaga County District Attorney William Fitzpatrick said at a news conference Monday. Neulander, an obstetrician who has delivered thousands of…
A haredi Orthodox rabbi who encouraged assassination of Israeli politicians in a speech to yeshiva students has retracted his remarks. In a recorded speech, Rabbi Nissan Kaplan of Jerusalem’s prominent Mir Yeshiva equated Israel’s current political leadership to Amalek, the biblical enemy Jewish law traditionally commands Jews to eradicate. The comparison follows passage of a…
The bodies of a Dutch Jewish woman and her 19-month-old daughter killed in Cambodia are returning to Holland for burial. The mother, Daphna Beerdsen, was found dead with multiple stab wounds on April 28 in her apartment in Phnom Penh, according to The Cambodian Daily. Her daughter, Dana Beerdsen, was lying near her mother’s body…
A lot has changed for Baltimore’s Northwest Orthodox community since 1969. For one, it’s grown from a tight colony of a few hundred families to tens of thousands of residents. It’s also drifted northward as small synagogues have sprouted up and down the community’s streets. But people still remember. The store near the corner of…
A Baltimore judge has refused to order a new trial for the man found guilty of killing an 11-year-old Jewish girl in 1969. The ruling means Wayne Stephen Young will remain in prison for the abduction and murder of Esther Lebowitz, a case that has roiled the city’s Jewish community on edge through years of…
The suspect in the killings of three people at two Jewish facilities near Kansas City over the weekend has been charged with capital murder and first-degree premeditated murder on a state level, and federal charges are likely, prosecutors said on Tuesday. The state charges, filed in Johnson County, Kansas, come as U.S. prosecutors consider possible…
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