As O.J. Simpson tries for early release after being imprisoned for armed robbery, the father of murder victim Ron Goldman insisted the ex-football star should not get out of prison anytime soon. “What’s troubling to me is not only him but the whole system that gives second chances to violent felons, for that matter anyone…
PARIS (JTA) — Leaders of French Jewry strong criticized the absence of a mention of hate crime in the indictment of a man from Paris who in Aprilallegedly killed his Jewish neighbor while shouting about Allah. CRIF, the umbrella group of French Jewish community, used uncharacteristically harsh language in criticizing the indictment for murder filed…
In a statement released on the anniversary of his death, Seth Rich’s parents and brother are asking the public “please cease using Seth as a political football in predetermined partisan narratives.” “While we recognize the futility of this request, we make it anyway,” the family wrote. Rich died after being shot in the back outside…
At his funeral on Thursday Aaron Rajman, a professional Mixed Martial Arts fighter who was shot and killed in a home invasion on Monday, was mourned by Chabad rabbis and MMA fighters alike. The “matzoh brawler,” who had turned 25 in June, led a life of faith, friendliness and, of course, fighting. “He didn’t have…
In March 1945, an Austrian countess named Margit Batthyany had a dinner party at her castle near the Hungarian border. After the soiree, her Nazi-sympathizer boyfriend told guests to join him on a chilling mission. They went to a group of 180 Jews who were working as slave laborers digging trenches in a nearby field….
(JTA) — A New York jeweler whose clients include Melania Trump, Oprah Winfrey and Jennifer Lopez denied accusations in a civil lawsuit that he helped cover up a murder in his apartment building by his adoptive son. The suit was filed last week against Jeffrey Rackover, 57, in New York State Supreme Court in connection…
After a surge in conspiracy theories about the murder last summer of Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich, a legal investigative unit led by conspiracy theorist Jack Burkman is filing a freedom of information request to see police records connected to the death. The Profiling Project, headed by the D.C.-based lobbyist and staffed with some…
The adoptive son of a Jewish jeweler to the stars is reportedly blaming his pal for killing another man after a night of partying at a posh upper East Side apartment. James Rackover, whose father Jeffrey is a jeweler with an A-list clientele, told the Daily News in a jailhouse interview that his buddy and…
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