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Arrested. 12. On January 8, 2024, clashes broke out at the World Headquarters of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, a synagogue located at 770 Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, as construction workers, on behalf of the synagogue's leaders, attempted to fill in a tunnel that students had illegally dug beneath the building. The New York ...
Sexual abuse cases in Brooklyn's Haredi community. The response of the Haredi Jewish community in Brooklyn, New York City, to allegations of sexual abuse against its spiritual leaders has drawn scrutiny from inside and outside the Jewish community. [1] When teachers, rabbis, and other leaders have been accused of sexual abuse, authorities in ...
BROOKLYN, NY — A Brooklyn rabbi who fled to Israel to escape child sexual abuse charges has been brought back to New York, prosecutors announced Thursday. Gershon Kranczer, 65, had eluded ...
A man suspected of sex-related offenses in New York City was arrested in Beverly Hills Tuesday. Menachem Tewel, 30, was arrested around 1:30 p.m. at the JEM Community Center at 9930 South Santa ...
After his arrest, he became an informant for the FBI in a private sting called Operation Bid Rig which resulted in the arrest of 44 people in the state of New Jersey and Brooklyn, New York. Those arrested by authorities included public officials, politicians, and three Orthodox Rabbis from a Syrian Jewish background. PNC bank, along with two ...
Rabbi Igal Haimoff, 54, of Lawrence, and Mark Weissman, 67, of Flushing, were arrested on Monday and appeared before a judge in federal court. They were each released on $250,000 bond.
The basement synagogue that was the scene of a brawl this week between worshippers and New York City police has a long and storied connection with a Brooklyn rabbi who led a global movement and ...
Kahane in Canarsie in 1975. In 1958, Kahane became the rabbi of the Howard Beach Jewish Center in Queens, New York City. Although the synagogue was originally Conservative, rather than strictly Orthodox, the board of directors agreed to Kahane's conditions, which included resigning from the Conservative movement's United Synagogue of America, installing a partition separating men and women ...