Tag: Prison
Hunt underway for six Palestinian terrorists who escaped prison in northern Israel
A wide-scale manhunt was underway in Israel on Monday morning, after six Palestinians escaped from a high-security prison in the country’s north. The escapees were soon identified by authorities as members of terrorist groups.
Five...
Neo-Nazi gets three years in prison for threatening ADL, journalists
The leader of neo-Nazi efforts to threaten journalists and the Anti-Defamation League for exposing anti-Semitism was sentenced to three years in prison by the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, announced the Department...
Pennsylvania man sentenced to 18 months in jail for online threats against Jews
A man from Lehighton, Pa., was sentenced by a U.S. District Court judge to 18 months in prison for making Internet threats against Jews.
Corbin Kauffman, 32, received his sentencing on Tuesday after pleading guilty to one...
San Francisco’s only kosher bakery praised for hiring former prisoners
The sole kosher bakery in San Francisco has made headlines for hiring formerly incarcerated employees.
The nickname for Isaac Yosef’s Frena Bakery is the “Lifer Bakery.” Yosef has hired more than 25 ex-prisoners at his bakery...
Notorious Ponzi-schemer Bernie Madoff dies at age 82
Jewish Ponzi schemer and disgraced financier Bernie Madoff died on Wednesday at the Federal Medical Center in Butner, N.C., at the age of 82, his lawyer confirmed.
His death was a result of natural causes and...
British court sentences Holocaust denier to prison time for ‘baiting Jews’
A woman in Britain said to be a virulent anti-Semite has been found guilty of spreading offensive messages and material over the Internet and was sentenced to 18 weeks in prison by a magistrate...
Pakistan’s Supreme Court frees men convicted of Daniel Pearl’s murder
Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed an appeal against the acquittal of Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, who was sentenced to death in 2002 for the murder of U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl and ordered his...
The man behind the last days of Adolf Eichmann
I was very young on that May day in 1960, helping my Auschwitz survivor mother in the kitchen when the radio announced:
“The Nazi war criminal the architect of the “Final Solution” is in Israel...
German court sentences Halle synagogue attacker to life in prison
A German court sentenced the shooter of a 2019 attack on a synagogue in Halle that killed two people to life in prison on Monday.
The court found Stephan Balliet, 27, a German neo-Nazi from Saxony-Anhalt, guilty...
Pakistani Supreme Court rules Daniel Pearl’s murderer to stay in prison
The four men convicted—and freed and rearrested earlier this year—in the 2002 kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal Jewish reporter Daniel Pearl in Pakistan will remain behind bars for another three months, ruled Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Wednesday.
“The court...