Report: Justin Bieber sued for ‘assaulting’ Israeli bodyguard

Published on January 11, 2013

The Israeli former bodyguard of teen idol Justin Bieber reportedly sued the pop star for assault.

Two Australian BDS protesters found guilty of assault

Published on July 30, 2012

Two anti-Israel activists arrested in Melbourne last year were found guilty of assaulting police.

Orthodox gay activist sues cousin for assault

Published on July 3, 2012

An Orthodox blogger sued his cousin, whose family owns a large New York Judaica store, for assaulting him.

Teacher arrested after Holocaust lesson goes awry

Published on May 1, 2012

A South Carolina teacher was arrested on charges of assault and battery after trying to make a point during a lesson on the Holocaust.

French Interior Ministry says assault has not started

Published on March 21, 2012

French police launched an assault late on Wednesday on an apartment where a gunman suspected of killing seven people in the name of al Qaeda was holed up, officials said.

Police question Strauss-Kahn in French assault case

Published on September 26, 2011

Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was questioned by French police on Monday over a complaint of attempted rape, filed after his May arrest in New York in a separate sex assault case that forced him to resign but was later dropped.

Israeli court sentences Birthright assailant

Published on January 25, 2011

A New Jersey man who assaulted a fellow Birthright Israel participant was sentenced to time served and community service. Jonathan Haft, 25, was convicted Monday in Israel of aggravated assault for attacking Sherry Kestenbaum, 23, also of New Jersey, last May. He was sentenced to to 2 1/2 months in prison and six months of community service. The prison time has already been served. Haft also was ordered to pay Kestenbaum about $55,000 in compensation, according to The Jerusalem Post.

Analysis: Israel seeks to change rules of the game with Gaza assault

By Leslie Susser
Published on December 29, 2008

In a news conference on the first night of the fighting, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert spelled out the war's aims: to create a new security reality in the south in which Israeli civilians can live without fear of rocket or terror attacks.

Let bygones (not) be bygones

By Marty Kaplan
Published on November 5, 2008

So John McCain -- while claiming that not he's not impugning Barack Obama's patriotism -- impugns Barack Obama's patriotism, but we're supposed to understand that it doesn't really matter, because that's just what people do in campaigns.

Record anti-Semitism weighs heavily on British Jews

By Vanessa Bulkacz
Published on September 13, 2007

With anti-Semitism in Britain at record levels, life is changing in subtle and not-so-subtle ways for the country's Jews.

Community Divided Over Hillel Rabbi

By Marc Ballon
Published on November 13, 2003

The UCLA Hillel rabbi who allegedly lost his temper and kicked a freelance journalist who called him a derogatory name could be required to undergo anger management training, counseling or worse for his reported actions.

On Dec. 1, Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller and Rachel Neuwirth will meet separately with a city attorney hearing officer in Los Angeles to try to sort through the facts of his reported physical assault on her. Afterward, the hearing officer will mete out the appropriate punishment to Seidler-Feller, if merited, said Eric Moses, the city attorney's director of public relations. It is possible the hearing officer could recommend that criminal charges be brought against Seidler-Feller.

Briefs

By Community Briefs
Published on November 21, 2002

Community Briefs

The Self-Denying Prophecy

By Lawrence H. Summers
Published on October 3, 2002

This address was given Sept. 17, 2002, at morning prayers at Harvard University's Memorial Church in Cambridge, Mass.
I speak with you today, not as president of [Harvard] University, but as a concerned member of our community, about something that I never thought I would become seriously worried about -- the issue of anti-Semitism.

Battle of the Iranians

By Tom Tugend
Published on September 26, 2002

After an evening of social drinking and dancing at a well-publicized Persian Night at the Goodbar nightclub in West Hollywood, some 20 young Iranian Muslims followed two young Iranian Jews into the street and, amidst shouts of "F--k the Jews, Kill the Jews," attacked the two.

Self-Defense Vitalfor Women

By Nancy Sokoler Steiner
Published on July 25, 2002

Each year in January, female friends, co-workers and family members of Nicola Shocket can count on receiving a phone call or e-mail.

The Divorce Force

Published on March 19, 1998

Gangs of masked, Yiddish-speaking thugs in Brooklyn have been abducting Orthodox Jewish men and beating them savagely to force them into granting their wives a religious divorce,or get, according to several men who say they were victims of such assaults.The beatings allegedly were ordered by an Orthodox rabbinical court.