A Philadelphia man who served as his synagogue’s informal historian was found beaten to death in his home. The body of Lee Stanley, 65, a longtime member of Congregation Rodeph Shalom, was found on Friday, CBS Philly reported. Homicide detectives are investigating. Rabbi Jill Maderer of Rodeph Shalom told the radio station that Stanley’s father,…
A former Nazi concentration camp guard awaiting extradition to Germany was granted bail on Monday, set at $100,000, after his serious medical condition worsened while in jail, according to court documents. The decision comes days before a federal judge was to decide whether Johann Breyer, 89, would be extradited to Germany. Lawyers for Breyer, who…
An 89-year-old man wanted in Germany for working as a concentration camp guard during World War Two said in court filings on Friday that he should not be deported because his service in the Waffen SS was involuntary. “What can be said with certainty is that Mr. Breyer is not a war criminal,” lawyers for…
A former Nazi concentration camp guard awaiting extradition to Germany has been denied bail by a U.S. judge in Philadelphia. Lawyers for Johann Breyer, 89, had sought his release before an Aug. 21 extradition hearing, arguing in court papers he suffered from dementia and other ailments, and continued confinement could speed his deterioration and make…
A Conservative synagogue in northeast Philadelphia was targeted with anti-Semitic vandalism. Members of the Congregations of Ner Zedek discovered two large swastikas spray painted on the synagogue building on Monday when they arrived for daily morning prayers, according to the Jewish Exponent. In recent weeks a rock was thrown through a glass panel on a…
(Reuters) — A celebrity-studded crowd turned out on Wednesday to mourn Philadelphia Inquirer co-owner and philanthropist Lewis Katz, who was killed in a weekend plane crash. Speakers included former President Bill Clinton, U.S. Senator Cory Booker and entertainer Bill Cosby. “It bothered him that anybody with any dreams would be left out or left behind,”…
The brakes of a private jet crashed as it tried to take off on Saturday, killing Lewis Katz and six other people near Boston, had been applied at the time of the accident, a U.S. transportation official said on Tuesday. National Transportation Safety Board investigator Luke Schiada told reporters that a review of the flight…
Lewis Katz, co-owner of the Philadelphia Inquirer and a philanthropist, died in a plane crash in Massachusetts. Katz, 72, died Saturday night at an airfield near Boston. The Gulfstream IV plane he was riding in with six other people crashed after takeoff from Hanscom Field, according to reports. Philadelphia Inquirer editor Bill Marimow confirmed Katz’s…
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