A Chabad emissary was stabbed multiple times outside a synagogue and Jewish day school he heads in Brighton, Massachusetts, on Thursday afternoon. Rabbi Shlomo Noginsky, a rabbi at the Chabad House in Brighton Commons Park, known as the “Shaloh House” in Greater Boston, was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Boston Police said the…
One of the victims stabbed during a Monsey Hanukkah celebration last weekend is unlikely to recover, according to statements by his family during a press conference Thursday. Josef Neumann, 72, is in a coma with a fractured skull, knife wounds through his neck and a shattered arm, said his youngest daughter, Nicky Cohen. She also…
The man accused of stabbing five Jews at a Hanukkah house party in Monsey, New York once volunteered helping Orthodox Jews operate electrical equipment that they were forbidden from touching on Shabbat, his mother told the New York Post on Wednesday. Grafton Thomas, who grew up in the heavily Jewish neighborhood of Crown Heights, Brooklyn,…
The number of terrorist attacks recorded in Israel last month decreased by 32 percent over December, bringing the total to a level that was last observed prior to September’s escalation in violence. The Israel Security Agency, or Shin Bet, documented 169 terrorist attacks by Palestinians on Israelis in January, compared to 246 such incidents the…
By now, the news alerts are all too familiar: “Stabbing near Old City: Israeli wounded, attacker shot dead,” read a recent bulletin. Another came by text message on Wednesday: “Stabbing attack: 2 wounded, one light, terrorist shot dead.” Over the past 2-1/2 months, since a wave of violence by Palestinians targeting Israelis began on Oct….
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NPR Legal Correspondent Nina Totenberg in conversation with Editor-in-Chief Jodi Rudoren. To benefit the Forward.
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