Member of Parliament Diane Abbott tweeted: “Shocking abuse and harassment of Orthodox Jews in Stamford Hill Hackney. Important that the perpetrators are swiftly brought to justice.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Malaki Thorpe, 18, is facing two counts of racially aggravated actual bodily harm and one count of possession of an offensive weapon.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“To our Jewish community—I know this is exhausting. No one should have to worry about being attacked for their religious beliefs, ever,” said New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Detectives investigating a racially aggravated assault on a 54-year-old man in Stamford Hill have charged two boys ... a 14-year-old and a 15-year-old boy in connection with an incident in Amhurst Park on Friday, 29 November,” said Met Police in a statement.
By Campaign Against Antisemitism
Following the attack, the Rabbi left the UK and flew to Israel.
By JNi.Media
The Post, in its unique fashion, used the story to rehash the NYPD bribery scandal involving accusations against the Shomrim.
By JNi.Media
Several bystanders immediately tried to capture the assailant, who was fleeing the scene.
Is Aliyah to Israel going through the minds of Jews going to synagogues where private guards are needed?
Shomrim assisted in arrest of a London man for anti-Semitic vandalism plaguing a North London neighborhood.
By JTA
More than 20 cars and buildings in a Jewish community in north London were vandalized with swastikas. The Nazi symbol was drawn on approximately 27 cars in the Osbaldeston Road area of Stoke Newington on Sunday night, The Daily Mail reported. An unnamed 32-year-old man was arrested in connection with the vandalism Tuesday. The neighborhood […]
By JTA
New York City police are investigating the distribution of fliers marked with swastikas in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn.
Religious Jews and Muslims sometimes can get along, especially when the Jews are vigilante police and the Muslims are victims of hate crimes. Welcome to Stamford Hill, London.
A bank-robbing bandit was no match for a group of boychiks from Brooklyn, being arrest after an armed spree thanks to the assistance of the famous Hasidic Shomrim.
The public the Shomrim serve trusts them more than the police. They ought to be disabused of that notion. Shomrim should be an auxiliary to the police, not the other way around.
By JTA
Eliyahu Werdesheim will serve three years probation for assaulting a black teenager in Baltimore in 2010, when he was a member of an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood watch. Werdesheim, now 24, avoided jail time for the November 2010 beating of Corey Ausby, then 15, the Baltimore Sun reported. Werdesheim was member of the Shomrim watch group […]
By JTA
Eliyahu Werdesheim, one of two Baltimore brothers charged with beating an African-American teenager, was found guilty by a circuit court. Werdesheim, a former member of Israeli special forces, was found guilty on charges of false imprisonment and second-degree assault, while his brother Avi was cleared of all charges in the beating of Corey Ausby in […]
By JTA
A Baltimore judge will not drop the charges against two Jewish brothers accused of beating a black teenager. Judge Pamela White on Tuesday denied the motion to drop the charges against Avi and Eliyahu Werdesheim, according to The Associated Press. The brothers have pleaded not guilty to charges of second-degree assault, false imprisonment and carrying […]
Brothers Eliyahu and Avi Werdeseheim are being charged with second-degree assault, false imprisonment and carrying a deadly weapon in the beating of a black teenager they are alleged to have attacked while patrolling an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood as part of the Shomrim of Baltimore, Maryland. The prosecution alleges that in November 2010, the boys surrounded […]