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Shomrim

UK / Antisemitism

Passengers on London Bus Shout Slur in Heavily Jewish Neighborhood

By Faygie Levy Holt

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.”

UK / Antisemitism

Man Charged for Hate-Crime Attack on Two Jewish Men in North London

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.

NY / Antisemitism

NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force Investigates Beating of Jewish Man in Brooklyn

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.

UK / Police and Crime / Antisemitism

Two Teenagers Charged in Anti-Semitic Attack on Rabbi in London

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.

Jewish / NY / Politics / Police and Crime / News Briefs / Media

NY Cops Stage Traffic Stop So Jewish Guy Can Propose to Girlfriend

By JNi.Media

The Post, in its unique fashion, used the story to rehash the NYPD bribery scandal involving accusations against the Shomrim.

Jewish / US / News Briefs

Black Man Beats Up a Jew in Crown Heights

By JNi.Media

Several bystanders immediately tried to capture the assailant, who was fleeing the scene.

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Aliyah / Geulah

Jewish Life in Baltimore: Private Guards on Shabbat

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Is Aliyah to Israel going through the minds of Jews going to synagogues where private guards are needed?

Jewish / UK / Police and Crime / News Briefs

Shomrim Yields Suspects in Wave of NE London Anti-Semitic Vandalism

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

Shomrim assisted in arrest of a London man for anti-Semitic vandalism plaguing a North London neighborhood.

UK / News Briefs / Europe / Assimilation

London Neighborhood again Vandalized with Swastikas

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 […]

NY / Police and Crime / Antisemitism / News Briefs

NYC Police Looking into Swastika Fliers in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg

By JTA

New York City police are investigating the distribution of fliers marked with swastikas in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn.

Haredim & Hassidim / Police and Crime / News Briefs / Europe

British ‘Jewish Police’ Force to Protect Mosques

By Jewish Press Staff

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.

Jewish / Police and Crime / News Briefs

Borough Park Shomrim Nab Bank Robber

By Malkah Fleisher

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.

Emes Ve-Emunah

Police?...Or Shomrim?

By Harry Maryles

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.

News Briefs

Baltimore Jewish Youth Gets Three Years Probation for Assaulting Black Teen

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 […]

News Briefs

Eliyahu Werdesheim Convicted, Brother Avi Cleared, in Baltimore Shomrim Case

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 […]

News Briefs

Judge Won’t Drop Charges Against Baltimore Brothers

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 […]

News Briefs

Baltimore Brothers Face 13 Years for Assaulting Black Teen

By Malkah Fleisher

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 […]

Serials

Persuaded - Chapter IV

By Barbara Bensoussan

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