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By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Officers admit in open court that they had cited completely fictional laws generated by ChatGPT to justify retaining a suspect's phone.
By Izzy Salant
“These events took place in 2023, not 1943,” wrote John Cronan, a U.S. District Court judge for the Southern District of New York, in the decision.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"No one should face discrimination when they travel, and today’s action sends a clear message to the airline industry," stated U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.
By Avi Cohen
An Israeli court has allowed the marriage of two minors due to exceptional circumstances and the couple's religious background.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee on Tuesday discussed a legislative amendment that would halt the funding.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The lawsuit is the first legal action taken since the Knesset passed the "Compensation for Terror Victims Bill."
“It’s not a military act, but it’s an act of defiance that is essential,” said Richard Heideman, who represented the Fuld estate in the lawsuit.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
A Michigan pension fund sued for compensation for a drop in shares' value.
The three judges suggest that they view the prosecution's case as weak or even nonexistent concerning the primary bribery charges against Netanyahu.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Contradicting the Supreme Court, Avichai Mandelblit says the plea deal struck by Shas Party leader Aryeh Deri last year “unequivocally” did not include a commitment to permanently leave politics.
The judge said Olmert failed to bring enough evidence to support his statement and that the phrasing sounded too professional, even though Olmert has no expertise in metal wellness.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The president of the Shurat Hadin NGO, whose attorneys represented the families in the case, hails “another huge victory of ours over terror.”
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
This ends the 18-year-long legal battle of the properties.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Filber never met Netanyahu during the dates the prosecution claims they held facilitation meeting, and the court won't let them change their indictments
The government said the ruling doesn't change the status quo, and the state would be filing an appeal in the case.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Attorney David Foster said the parents of 2-year-old Alta Fixsler hoped the ECHR would see that the original ruling “did not give adequate cognizance to their religious beliefs.”
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The Palestinian Authority objects to making Cave of the Patriarchs accessible to people with disabilities.
The terrorist was indicted in a military court today.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Without issuing a comment, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the case, thereby leaving the lower court ruling standing.
Judges are discussing shortening Elor Azaria's sentence...
The terrorists who massacred the family are receiving generous salaries from the Palestinian Authority.
An entire community is being destroyed over a tiny strip of land.
Judgment, laws and values, do they always go together?
Of course, politicians on the far left were happy with the decision.
He told police he wanted the Arabs to attack him, so he could stab them back.
The defense wants him exonerated, the prosecution wants his sentence increased.
Tables of drugs were put on display.
State prosecutors will also ask the court to attach a clause of moral turpitude to the confession.
By JNi.Media
The Waqf followed Itamar Ben Gvir around the Temple Mount compound, the Arabs cried Allahu Akbar, Ben Gvir then cried Am Israel Chai and was arrested.
By JNi.Media
Foreign government-funded 'lawfare' a dangerous subversion of Israel's democracy.
By Jeff Dunetz
“We should not confirm any Bush nominee to the Supreme Court except in extraordinary circumstances,” Schumer said. Schumer seems to have forgotten his previous statement.must be suffering memory loss
According to the court, the three were merely attempting to draw attention to the Gaza conflict between Israel and Hamas.
An IDF soldier thrown under the bus.
An angry Ari Fuld discusses when the boundaries get blurred between the good guys and the bad guys.
By JNi.Media
Yad Vashem criticized the bill against blaming Poland for collaboration in the death camps, warning that its approval in parliament would be considered Holocaust denial and a regression in Poland’s efforts to face its dark past.
Overturning government decisions on the basis of its own radically expansive interpretation of human rights is not the only tool through which the court has usurped political power
By JNi.Media
The Knesset has maintained most of its status, but that's only because it was very low 25 years ago – 27%. Today it's down to 23%.
The Left, having been emasculated at the ballot box, now uses the Court to achieve its aims and it is attempting to do so again with the appointment of Rabbi Karim to the post of IDF Chief Rabbi
By JNi.Media
Judge Marzel ruled that the potential personal harm to the archeologists and their research justifies concealing their names.
By JNi.Media
The leader of the Shuvu Banim (Return boys) movement, Rabbi Eliezer Berland, confessed to indecent assault and was sentenced to 18 months in prison, part of which he has already served since his arrest.
By JNi.Media
If you had to find the one Hasidic Rebbe that would attract President Elect Donald Trump's attention, it would have to be Reb Israel Friedman of Ruzhin.
By Batya Medad
Israel's Supreme Court is a Leftist bastion that easily preserves its ideological purity. Breaking that monopoly is the aim of Minister of Justice Ayelet Shaked
By JNi.Media
Justice Na'or's rage was outright Chekhovian.
Ira and Rod discuss what it is like for Ira to be in America after the Jewish holidays, and dealing with the commercialism of Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and the upcoming U.S. residential election.
By JNi.Media
On December 5, 2012, clashes broke out outside the Ittihadiya presidential palace between Muslim Brothers and protesters that left 11 Egyptians dead.
By JNi.Media
Attorney Hajbi questioned just how dangerous police really considered his client to be if they had let three weeks lapse between the day they discovered his absence and the day they picked him up.
By JNi.Media
Israeli courts maintain skeletal Shabbat and Holiday shifts to respond to the most urgent needs, like police requests for injunctions to prevent the smuggling of children.
By JNi.Media
On its face the ruling is tantamount to a NY City judge punishing a victim of violence for entering a dangerous neighborhood without first receiving police permission.
By JNi.Media
Minister Zeev Elkin called on Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked (Habayit Hayehudi) to lead a far reaching reform to regain the public's trust in the Supreme Court.
By JNi.Media
Their presence there is not passive, they're there to look for frictions.
Her election to the civil court would be an inspiration to all frum girls, from chassidic as well as non-chassidic
Israeli police on Tuesday afternoon revealed details from the attempted attack on Jerusalem’s light rail two weeks ago.
By JNi.Media
More than 50 administrative restriction orders were issued by the GOC of the Central and Home Front Commands over the past year against Jewish youths and not one involved a hearing, in violation of the law.
“I treated the wounded soldier while people started yelling, ‘he has an explosive device,’ and I saw that the terrorist had a big black coat that looked like he was hiding something."
“Without my uncle's encouragement and the encouragement I received from my husband and family, I wouldn’t have gotten as far as I have already,” she said.
By JNi.Media
"I feel humiliated, they were actually saying they're not recognizing my being Jewish. I love Rabbi Lookstein, he is my rabbi, he brought me into the Jewish world."
By JNi.Media
MK Bezalel Smotrich (Habayit Hayehudi) said it was "refreshing to see a conservative approach on the part of the Supreme Court."
By JNi.Media
The father submitted a claim for the return of his daughter based on the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, the return of abducted children.
By JNi.Media
This is a do or die case for the military prosecution, which has taken its share of lumps so far.
By JNi.Media
But the prosecution is going for broke, and have even conscripted a top attorney, Nadav Weissman, to litigate for them.
Fuah pointed out that he broke no laws, but the judge ruled that even freedom of expression and protection of our national symbols have limits.
By JNi.Media
“Israel’s hands used to be tied when it came to solving the difficult problem of infiltration. Today we’ve reached a breakthrough that will allow for the State of Israel to act openly in passing infiltrators to third countries.”
Yehuda Glick won in court against the police.
It isn't over until it's over.
The man who gunned down Yehuda Glick can thank his victim for living and keeping the attacker’s home intact.
And Ephron told Abraham the land is worth 400 silver shekels, and between us, that’s peanuts. (Genesis: 23:15)
A court has thrown out “showcase” indictments against supposed “price tag” vandals, two weeks after judges acquitted Lieberman, raising questions of a witch hunt against the right wing.
Israel’s supermodel Bar Rafaeli is known as a tough cookie. Samsung did not what it was getting itself into when it used her online broadcasts for a commercial without permission. Now they are paying for it.
Monday could be Israel’s finest hour for human rights and blackest day for a Jewish state. The court struck down a Knesset bid to detain African illegals for three years, but there are more options.
By Soeren Kern
"The Left has singularly lacked courage in the difficult fight to defend secularism."
By JTA
A French court has acquitted three activists charged with discrimination and hate crimes for calling for a boycott of Israeli products in 2010, the France 3 television station reported. The activists, Bernard Cholet, Jeanne Rousseau and Yamina Tadjeur, made the calls during a protest at a shopping center in the southern city and were charged […]
Thirty-eight Sejm members representing Tusk’s ruling Civic Platform party joined with the opposition in voting to outlaw ritual slaughter.
Congressman Jerrold Nadler (NY-10), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice, released the following statement: Today’s ruling by a federal judge that the New York Police Department’s stop and frisk policy violated the constitutional rights of New Yorkers is a step in the right direction. It’s unfortunate that it […]
By JTA
Twelve former students joined a $380 million lawsuit against Yeshiva University for covering up sexual abuse at its high school. The new plaintiffs’ names came out in court papers used in a hearing Tuesday in U.S. District Court in White Plains, N.Y., according to the New York Daily News, and bring to 31 the number of […]
It is forbidden to travel to enemy states, such as Syria. That was enough to jail an Israeli Arab, who was spared a heavier sentence because there is no law against fighting with Syrian rebels.
The Supreme Court has ordered Tel Aviv to enforce the law that prohibits stores from operating on the Sabbath. It overruled a February ruling by a lower court, which accepted the city's claim that it carried out its responsibility by fining business owners without a need to force them to close. The three-judge panel, including […]
Retired Tel Aviv District Court Judge Nissim Yeshaya has announced he is quitting as an appeals court judge, two days after he publicly stated in court, “There are some girls who enjoy being raped.” He made the comment during an appeal by a 19-year-old Israeli who was raped by Arabs at the age of 13 […]
The Jewish prohibition of “loshon hara,” speaking negatively about people, was learned quickly by a non-Jewish British legal assistant, who paid $3,900 for saying, “I can’t stand Jews.”
By JTA
An Orthodox Jewish woman from Monsey, N.Y. is suing the Lancome cosmetics firm, claiming that its 24-hour makeup does not last as long as advertised and thus prevents her from looking good all Shabbat. Rorie Weisberg of Monsey, N.Y. said in her lawsuit that Lancome's Teint Idole Ultra 24H foundation does not last 24 hours […]
Former Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon testified in court Thursday against his former boss, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, who is on trial for allegedly trying to win an ambassadorial post for Ze’ev Ben Aryeh, who police say tipped off Lieberman about a police probe against him in Belarus. Ayalon was head of the Foreign Ministry […]
Avigdor Lieberman’s political future will be decided by the outcome of his bribery trail that opened Thursday. If the first day is an indication of what will come, the trail will be a three-ring circus.
The State Dept. has forked over $4 billion to the Palestinian Authority since the Oslo Accords. Some funds go to terrorists, but the State Dept. is arguing against a suit challenging its largesse.
By JTA
An Algerian immigrant who admitted to planning to blow up synagogues in New York City was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Ahmed Ferhani, 28, was the first person convicted under a state terror statute that went into effect following the 9/11 attacks. He was sentenced last Friday. Ferhani could have been sentenced to up […]
By Daniel Pipes
As ever, Muslims raise startling new issues and Islam drives the social and legal agenda in the West.
By JTA
The court killed a Polish government allowance for Jewish and Muslim slaghtering.
Left-wing German MPs are threatening to oppose their government's attempt to keep male circumcision legal in Germany. More than 50 MPs from three parties are now proposing that parents should have to wait until their son is 14 so he can give his informed consent to the operation. Last summer, a regional court ruled that […]
Jose Ramos, imprisoned for 20 years for molesting children and the prime suspect in the case of six year old Etan Patz, a Jewish boy from Manhattan who disappeared on his way to school on May 25, 1979, is set to be released on Wednesday.
Long-time Ha'aretz columnist Neri Livneh has been ordered by a court to pay $50,000 for slandering two residents of the settlement Itamar.
Over the past few weeks, I, like many of you, have received wedding invitations, and I truly hope that the young couples-to-be have chosen wisely and will enjoy long and fruitful unions.
By Soeren Kern
An Islamist radical convicted of stabbing two German police officers during a protest against "offensive" cartoons has been sentenced to six years in prison. Murat K, a 26-year-old German-born Salafist of Turkish heritage from the western state of Hessen, openly admitted that he had attacked and wounded the two police officers with a kitchen knife during the cartoon riots in May. He showed no remorse, however, during his trial at the district court in the city of Bonn; he said he had been morally obligated to follow Islamic Sharia law.
It's a news story that directly affects just one man, but the implications of what is being done to Prof. Cyril Karabus are horrific, and of particular note to air travelers planning to fly Qantas at some future time. Recently, Karabus has been released on bail, but cannot leave the UAE as his passport has been confiscated.
By Tibbi Singer
She caught him "red-handed," and immediately filed a divorce case with the chief rabbinate, except he is refusing to divorce her.
Despite more obviously pressing problems in Syria and elsewhere, U.S. and U.N. diplomats keep focusing on Israel-Palestinian conflict.
By JTA
Israel’s defense minister, Ehud Barak, has ordered authorities to allow the Jewish owners of a building in Hebron to move into it.
Those of us familiar with the do's and don'ts of accepted practice in the mental health profession saw similar blaring warning lights in our minds, as should have occurred when the facts were made public regarding the accusations against Nehemia Weberman. This case may very well be our community’s most important abuse trial during our lifetimes. It is imperative that we have a huge turnout in support of the victim, a courageous young lady who, may she be gezunt andge’bentched, is determined to see this through to the end so others won't suffer like she did.
In a show of solidarity with movements seeking to preserve respect for Islam, a Moscow ruled on Monday that the anti-Islam film “Innocence of Muslims” may not be shown in all of Russia.
Former prime minister Ehud Olmert told a press conference Monday that he leaves court “standing tall” after being handed a one year suspended sentence and a fine of NIS 75,300 for breaching the public trust in what has been called the “Investment Center Affair”.
By David Wilder, Tazpit News Agency
The Arab who sold the building, Mr. Rajabi, claimed that we had stolen his property.
By JTA
A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday dismissed a request to help posthumously restore U.S. citizenship to convicted Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk. Demjanjuk's estate had asked the full 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati to take up the case. In June, a three-judge panel of the court had ruled that Demjanjuk’s U.S. citizenship […]
After an expulsion and a lengthy 5 year battle, the Jerusalem District Court finally made a ruling on "Beit Hashalom" in Hebron. Judge Baram ordered the State to prepare to return the building to its rightful Jewish owners. In 2007, the building was purchased from its Arab owners. At the time, the Arab sellers, despite […]
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