Jewish leaders’ reaction to a video of New York police beating a young man resisting arrest recently in an Orthodox-sponsored center highlighted a complex reality about the community’s relations with law enforcement. For many, the police are seen as a crucial source of protection from threatening neighbors, but also as a force whose conduct when…
Two New York City Police Department officers were caught on videotape beating a man inside a Jewish youth center in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Video of the Oct. 3 incident at the Aliya Institute shows the officers talking with a shirtless man, indentified by CrownHeights.info as Ehud Halevi, as he lay on a couch in a…
Israeli police hurled stun grenades to disperse dozens of protesters who threw stones outside the al-Aqsa mosque, Islam’s third holiest site, after Friday prayers. Two people were slightly injured and one person was arrested for attempting to stab a policeman as he was being taken into custody, Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said. The mosque…
New York police believe Iranian Revolutionary Guards or their proxies have been involved so far this year in nine plots against Israeli or Jewish targets around the world, according to restricted police documents obtained by Reuters. Reports prepared this week by intelligence analysts for the New York Police Department (NYPD) say three plots were foiled…
As World War I neared its end, Germany turned its focus to internal security. Serious unrest in Berlin during the summer of 1918 led the Prussian Ministry of the Interior to make a surprising decision. Bernhard Weiss, a little-known Jewish war hero and recipient of the Iron Cross First Class, was ordered to leave the…
Occupy Wall Street protesters rallied all day but failed to shut down the stock exchange or bring millions of New Yorkers’ commute to a halt, news reports said. Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in lower Manhattan, clogging streets but failing to shut down subways. There were snafus, but few signs of the tens of thousands that…
Crossposted from Haaretz While students in Great Britain set fire to London to protest tuition hikes, in Israel a different kind of student protest is surfacing. No, it’s not against the scandalous “avrekhim law,” which differentiates between students in post high school educational institutions and yeshiva students. The cause that has inspired some students to…
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