Modern slavery: Answering the cry

Published on May 15, 2013

Modern slavery is everywhere, and women principally are its victims.

No one loves the stranger

By Gina Nahai
Published on May 15, 2013

I know what happened with those three women in Cleveland, how one man was able to imprison and torture them in the middle of a residential neighborhood for 10 years, even though he had grown children, brothers, cousins who visited the house for hours at a time. It’s not a pretty tale, but we’ve all heard it, although to a lesser degree, countless times before.

Cleveland kidnappings: We must be our brother’s keeper

Published on May 14, 2013

It is not our place to judge the neighbors of Ariel Castro. We don’t know enough about the particular circumstances of those who lived near this man who allegedly held three women hostage for a decade to be able to judge whether things could have been different had they been paying closer attention

Al-Qaeda claims kidnapping of U.S. aid worker

Published on December 5, 2011

The leader of al-Qaida took credit for the kidnapping of a 70-year-old American aid worker in Pakistan.

Leiby Kletzky’s alleged killer reportedly tried to kidnap other boys

Published on July 17, 2011

The man charged in the murder of 8-year-old Leiby Kletzky reportedly tried to kidnap other boys.

Israel attacks Hamas terror squad, killing 3

Published on April 3, 2011

Israel's Air Force attacked what it said was a terror squad planning to kidnap Israelis over the Passover holiday, killing three.

Alleged Israeli Mob Member Faces Trial

By Michael Belling
Published on December 11, 2003

An alleged Israeli mobster is facing charges in South Africa that include murder, kidnapping, robbery and intimidation. The trial of Lior Saat next March will proceed following a ruling last week by Johannesburg's High Court that it has the jurisdiction to try him.

Drive Opens to Free 11 Jews Held in Iran

By Tom Tugend
Published on December 11, 2003

Babak Tehrani was 17 years old in June 1994 when he hugged his parents and two younger brothers, left his home in Tehran and, guided by a well-paid smuggler, tried to slip across the rugged mountains from Iran into Pakistan.

The Vatican and the Shoah

By Aaron Leibel
Published on November 8, 2001

Kertzer, author of "The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara," the story of the 1858 shocking kidnapping of a 6-year-old Italian Jewish boy from his family by police acting under orders from the Vatican, says he was moved to write this book after the 1998 publication of "We Remember: A Reflection on the Shoah," a report on the Roman Catholic Church and the Holocaust.