Robbers assaulted a security guard and stole $50,000 from an organization preparing for a major Hasidic annual pilgrimage in Uman, Ukraine, Interfax reports. The funds were designated to construct a large camp for poorer pilgrims and provide them with food for the holidays, according to the Reb Nachman of Breslav International Charitable Foundation. The loss…
Armed robbers reportedly “dressed like haredis” ripped off a Jewish jeweler in France before releasing toxic gas in the air. Four men approached the jeweler near his Marseille shop on Wednesday morning, the news site La Depeche reported. Two were “dressed like haredis,” according to the French news agency AFP, and two wore masks. At…
Unidentified burglars stole approximately $30,000 worth of Judaica artifacts from a Jewish family in London. The break-in occurred last week at the home of the Palmer family in Edgware, north London. The burglars got away with menorahs, a Seder plate and silver cups, among other items, which they stole at night while four family members…
The house of Gilada Diamant Shamir, the daughter of Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, who died Saturday at the age of 96, was broken into on Monday, while the family were attending his funeral in Jerusalem. It is thought that two perpetrators broke into the home in Ramat Aviv, north Tel Aviv, shortly after the family…
The Shmooze has some advice for you if you happen to be a fashion editor waiting to get another look at Marc Jacobs’s spring/summer 2012 collection shown at New York’s Fashion Week in September: Don’t hold your breath. As it turns out, the entire collection — all 46 looks — has gone missing in transit…
Produce harvested in the dead of night, smuggled and sold for high prices under the radar of authorities. Warehouses burglarized. Tourists hiding the good stuff in suitcases and getting found out by customs. No, this isn’t a story of drug rings, but rather of lulavs and etrogs, the plant species waved during synagogue services on…
There is intrigue across Israel’s Haredi community, after the sector’s media has reported on what seems to be a case of serial sefer Torah theft. Several communities in and around the central-Israel city of Lod have had scrolls stolen in recent weeks. The criminals were seemingly not opportunists, but rather individuals or gangs who had…
Just months after three men were convicted of stealing the Arbeit Macht Frei (Work Sets You Free) sign from the Auschwitz memorial, two Canadians were detained Saturday for allegedly pilfering two spikes from the railway tracks that run through the compound. The nails, which were not fastened to the ground, were found in the men’s…
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