Police in Rochester, New York, are investigating the toppling of 21 headstones in the Waad Hakolel Jewish cemetery as a hate crime, said Meredith Dragon, head of the Jewish Federation of Greater Rochester. “The Rochester police are treating this as an anti-Semitic incident,” Dragon told the Forward on Friday. She also said that she believed…
(JTA) — French prosecutors omitted any reference to hate crimes from the indictment of four men suspected of rape and robbery at a suburban Paris home they acknowledged was targeted because it belonged to Jews. The handling judge of inquiry — a magistrate who in France is responsible for conducting the investigative hearing that precedes…
Israeli police neared the end on Thursday of a days-long operation to evacuate Amona, an illegally-built outpost on the West Bank. Sitting on private Palestinian land, Amona has figured in numerous legal battles since its construction two decades ago. Israel had tried to broker a deal in which the settlers would be moved off their…
A wild brawl erupted between a group of Orthodox Jewish men and a London traffic officer after the cop allegedly ran over a man dressed in traditional Jewish clothing with his moped. “He revved up his bike and drove straight towards him at full speed,” a witness told The Sun. The witness said the traffic…
A week after gay nightclub operator Savyon Zabar was found strangled in his Upper West Side apartment, prosecutors have charged his massage therapist Daqyan King for second-degree murder in connection with the death. Zabar’s death apparently came after a sexual encounter gone awry, with sources conflicting over how King described the event to police. DNAInfo…
A Brooklyn woman told police on Tuesday that she was grabbed in the genital area by a man while standing outside the entrance to her synagogue in the predominantly Hasidic Boro Park neighborhood, according to the local news site DNAInfo. The victim told authorities the incident occurred at 50th Street, and that the man appeared…
After a spike in bias incidents since the election of Donald Trump, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced on Sunday that he would be ordering the state police to create a special unit to investigate hate crimes, according to a report in DNAInfo. “Today I’m directing [state agencies] to put together a special team of…
— Kosovo police said they prevented coordinated attacks by the Islamic State, including on the Israeli national soccer team. The police announced thwarted attacks in the Balkan nation as well as in neighboring Albania on the Israelis, The Associated Press reported. According to a statement, police said they uncovered plans by the Islamic State, or…
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