Telegraph July 15, 2014 Just in Hackney alone up to a thousand Jews are missing from the regular school that they should be at. As many as a thousand boys aged 13 to 16 have disappeared from the registered school system in East London after…
Westchester July 14, 2014 Laiby, the victim, says that the Hasidic community pressured him and his family to not press charges. A New Square rabbi accused of sexually abusing a child multiple times pleaded not guilty in Rockland County Court today. Rabbi Moshe Menachem Taubenfeld,…
JTA July 14, 2014 Baruch Lebovits was convicted on 8 counts of molesting a boy in 2010. Baruch Lebovits, a Brooklyn rabbi convicted of sex abuse in 2010 only to have the conviction overturned on appeal, was sentenced to two years in prison as part…
Hackney Gazette April 9, 2014 Police Assistant Commissioner Simon Byrne surrounded by Jews at Stamford Hill. Orthodox Jewish leaders welcomed Metropolitan Police assistant commissioner Simon Byrne to Stamford Hill as they expressed their concerns about growing anti-Semitism and under-reporting of crime in their community. The…
Group of Jewish men charged with using forged prescriptions and other means to obtain 23,000 oxycodone pills with street value of $460,000. Haaretz September 12, 2013 A drug crew strictly observed the Jewish Sabbath each week while dealing prescription painkillers, heroin and other drugs in…
Michelle Chabin Huffington Post August 30, 2013 Fearful that Syria might retaliate against Israel if the U.S. launches a military strike, Orthodox Jews and others are demanding the Israeli government distribute gas masks that will fit over their beards. In recent days, as Orthodox Jews…
