Bombing suspects in dramatic shootout and manhunt [TIMELINE]

Published on April 19, 2013

Police emptied the streets of suburban Watertown on Friday in a house-by-house search for a second suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing, the day after killing his brother in a shootout.

L.A.’s top cop debates gun laws

By Jonah Lowenfeld
Published on March 6, 2013

In the ongoing debate over proposed laws aimed at reducing gun violence, the main decision-makers work in Washington, D.C. In cities and state capitols across the country, legislators, advocates and lobbyists push for new limits on gun ownership or advocate for a broad interpretation of the constitutionally protected right to bear arms.

Developing: LAPD pursuit of burglary suspects led to brief lockdown at Milken School

By Jonah Lowenfeld
Published on March 5, 2013

Arson being probed in bus fires in Arab-Israeli town

Published on March 5, 2013

Police are investigating possible arson to two buses belonging to a company that began offering special bus lines to transport West Bank Palestinian passengers.

Two arrested on suspicion they aided Toulouse killer Merah

Published on February 27, 2013

French police arrested two men on suspicion that they helped Mohammed Merah in two killing sprees in the Toulouse area last year, including at a Jewish school.

Terror warning puts Jerusalem on high alert

Published on February 12, 2013

Security forces in Jerusalem went on high alert in response to intelligence reports of a possible terror attack in the city.

Egyptian protesters defy curfew, attack police stations

Published on January 28, 2013

Egyptian protesters defied a nighttime curfew in restive towns along the Suez Canal, attacking police stations and ignoring emergency rule imposed by Islamist President Mohamed Morsi to end days of clashes that have killed at least 52 people.

Hundreds of Jewish gravestones found in Greece

Published on December 21, 2012

Police in northern Greece have recovered hundreds of headstones from Jewish graves destroyed during the Holocaust.

Wilshire Boulevard Temple target of bomb threats

By Ryan E. Smith
Published on December 18, 2012

Police responded to multiple bomb threats targeting the Koreatown home of Wilshire Boulevard Temple (WBT) and a police squad car parked adjacent to the campus on Dec. 18, disrupting life for much of the workday at one of Los Angeles’ largest synagogues and its surrounding neighborhood.

BREAKING: LAPD investigating bomb threat near Wilshire Boulevard Temple

By JewishJournal
Published on December 18, 2012

LAPD units on the scene at Wilshire Blvd. Temple‘s Koreatown synagogue are deploying bomb disposal units and robotic devices “to assess the situation” following a series of three bomb threats.

More demonstrations in Tahrir Square against Morsi power grab

Published on November 28, 2012

Police fired tear gas and beat demonstrators as large-scale protests in Cairo's Tahrir Square continued over Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi's power grab.

Joe Sherwood: Honoring good police work

By Rachel Heller
Published on November 20, 2012

It started with the morning paper. Every day, when Joe Sherwood read the news, he was struck by an imbalance he saw in law-enforcement reporting.

Iranian police clash with protesters over currency plunge

Published on October 3, 2012

Riot police clashed with demonstrators and arrested money changers in Tehran on Wednesday in disturbances over the collapse of the Iranian currency, which has lost 40 percent of its value against the dollar in a week, witnesses said.

Police dispute details in alleged anti-Semitic stapler attack

Published on August 30, 2012

Local police have indicated that witness accounts do not corroborate allegations of a hate crime by Michigan State student Zachary Tennen, whose jaw was surgically repaired following a recent assault.

Bulgarian police release photo of bomb attack accomplice

Published on August 16, 2012

Bulgarian police released a computer-generated image and a fake driver's license photo of a man believed to be an accomplice in the bombing of an Israeli tour bus in Burgas that killed six.

Manicures, Guns & Living Life Out Loud

By Ilana Angel
Published on July 31, 2012

New York tightens security around Jewish venues

Published on July 20, 2012

Up to 100 critical response vehicles have been deployed in New York Jewish neighborhoods and around synagogues following the terrorist bombing in Bulgaria targeting Israelis.

Families of Toulouse victims seek gag order on leaked recordings

Published on July 9, 2012

Relatives of the victims of Toulouse killer Mohammed Merah will seek to prevent the media from broadcasting recordings of the late French Muslim gunman.

Police question Budapest rabbi over misuse of information

Published on June 27, 2012

A whistle-blowing Budapest rabbi was questioned by police for what has been described as the misuse of sensitive private information stemming from a personal conflict within the Jewish community.

Woman praying in tallit detained at Western Wall, questioned by police

Published on June 21, 2012

Israeli police detained a woman wearing a tallit at the Western Wall and later questioned her for four hours.

Israeli Police conducts large-scale drill ahead of West Bank evacuation

Published on June 18, 2012

Israel Police began an extensive drill on Monday in preparation of the expected evacuation of the Ulpana Hill neighborhood in the West Bank settlement of Beit El.

Toulouse killer Mohammed Merah’s father suing police

Published on June 11, 2012

The father of Toulouse killer Mohammed Merah reportedly is suing police for allegedly murdering his son.

Israeli policemen suspected of robbing Palestinian workers in Jerusalem

Published on May 31, 2012

Three Israeli border policemen were arrested on Wednesday over suspicions that they had systematically accosted Palestinian workers in Jerusalem and stole their money.

Police come up empty in new search for Etan Patz

Published on April 24, 2012

The latest round in the more than 30-year police search for Etan Patz ended without finding any “obvious human remains.”

Community panel on the L.A. Riots

By Susan Freudenheim
Published on April 19, 2012

Director of national advocacy and organizing for MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger, leading local and regional campaigns around issues of food insecurity and access. He is also a research associate at the Center for Religion and Civic Culture at University of Southern California.

Police investigate hazing at Boston Jewish frat

Published on April 12, 2012

Boston police launched a criminal investigation after finding five men bound together nearly naked in the basement of a Jewish fraternity house.

N.Y. police beefing up security ahead of Passover

Published on April 3, 2012

The New York Police Department is increasing its security at synagogues and Jewish sites for Passover.

Footage filmed by French gunman sent to Al Jazeera says police source

Published on March 26, 2012

Video footage filmed by the French gunman Mohamed Merah during his bloody shooting spree has been sent to the Al Jazeera television network in Paris, a police source said on Monday.

French police seek to intimidate gunman with blasts

Published on March 21, 2012

Three blasts at the building were the suspect in seven shootings in southwest France is holed up were intended to intimidate him and there has not been an assault to get him out of his apartment, the interior ministry said on Thursday.

Road to radicalization from Toulouse to Kandahar

Published on March 21, 2012

For Mohamed Merah, the Frenchman suspected of killing four Jews and three Muslim soldiers in southwestern France, the road to radicalization ran from Toulouse to Kandahar in Afghanistan.

Investigator: French gunman planned to kill soldier, policemen

Published on March 21, 2012

A gunman suspected of killing seven people in southwest France in the name of al Qaeda had planned to kill another soldier and two police officials before he was surrounded by police in an early morning raid on Wednesday, an investigator said.

From Israel with Love [VIDEO]

By JewishJournal
Published on February 14, 2012

Jerusalem mosque torched as rightists clash with police

Published on December 14, 2011

Israeli right-wing activists clashed with police in Jerusalem, after a mosque in the capital city was targeted by arsonists.

Clergy object to LAPD’s methods of clearing Occupy L.A.

By Jonah Lowenfeld
Published on December 7, 2011

The members of an interfaith group of clergy who ministered to Occupy Los Angeles protesters throughout the two-month occupation of the lawn around Los Angeles City Hall are objecting to what they call a distressing “level of violence and brutality” used by the 1,400 Los Angeles Police Department officers who cleared the encampment from City Hall Park in the early morning hours of Nov. 30.

Police and Los Angeles protesters skirmish, eviction delayed

Published on November 28, 2011

Police in riot gear held back on clearing out anti-Wall Street protesters who defied a deadline to abandon their 8-week-old encampment outside Los Angeles City Hall on Monday but opened streets for morning commuters before pulling back.

Egyptian police battle protesters, 33 dead

Published on November 21, 2011

Cairo police fought protesters demanding an end to army rule for a third day on Monday and morgue officials said the death toll had risen to 33, with many victims shot in the worst violence since the uprising that toppled President Hosni Mubarak.

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.

Road Rage, Crazy People & the Perils of Watching Too Much Television

By Ilana Angel
Published on September 5, 2011

Knesset’s oldest guard dog retires

Published on August 18, 2011

The Knesset's oldest guard dog has retired.

Police confront stone-throwers on Temple Mount

Published on June 10, 2011

Israeli police quelled stone-throwing on Jerusalem's Temple Mount. Police entered the compound, known to Muslims as the Haram al-Sharif, on Friday after stone-throwers targeted Israeli troops who secure the area's margins.

Police car firebombed during outpost demolition

Published on June 2, 2011

An Israeli police officer's car was firebombed during the dismantling of illegal structures at a West Bank outpost. Six people were arrested Thursday in the attack on the car earlier in the morning, according to reports.

Protesting in the U.S.A. - A waste of time?

By Julia Bendis
Published on May 9, 2011

Sheriff to push for hate crime charges in Calabasas anti-semitic graffiti case

By Jonah Lowenfeld
Published on April 28, 2011

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department will push for hate crime enhancements to felony charges of vandalism expected to be filed soon against three Calabasas High School students, an official from the Sheriff’s Department said Thursday.

Three students arrested for anti-Semitic graffiti at Calabasas High School

By Jonah Lowenfeld
Published on April 27, 2011

Three Calabasas High School students were arrested Wednesday morning, April 27, and taken to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Malibu/Lost Hills station in connection with extensive anti-Semitic and racist graffiti found at their school on Saturday, according to Sgt. Eric Lasko of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.

Police say Calabasas High students were behind anti-Semitic graffiti

By Jonah Lowenfeld
Published on April 26, 2011

Investigators from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department have identified three students at Calabasas High School as the alleged vandals behind extensive anti-Semitic graffiti found on school property on Saturday morning, April 23, a spokesperson from the Sheriff’s Department said Tuesday afternoon. The students have not yet been charged, and the case will be presented to a district attorney on Friday, according to Sergeant Mike Holland of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.

A Soviet Passover…

By Julia Bendis
Published on April 18, 2011

Police bike tour seeks funds for Israeli cyclists

By Rachel Heller
Published on April 12, 2011

“We ride for those who died” — that’s the motto of the national Police Unity Tour (PUT), a grueling, three-day bicycle ride in which teams of police officers from across the United States pedal to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington, D.C. The annual spring event is held to honor the memory of officers killed each year in the line of duty.

Police, protesters clash near Israeli Embassy in Ethiopia

Published on March 30, 2011

Dozens were injured and arrested at a demonstration outside the Israeli Embassy in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Some 80 demonstrators claiming Jewish heritage were arrested and about the same number were injured as they protested outside the embassy demanding the right to immigrate to Israel, The Jerusalem Post reported. Local police attempted to break up the demonstration, which did not have a proper permit, reportedly leading to the violence.

Settlers, police clash at outpost

Published on March 30, 2011

Jewish settlers clashed with police at a West Bank outpost after police came to arrest a resident. Tuesday night's incident began when police arrived at the Givat Ronen outpost of the Shiloh settlement, located south of Nablus, to carry out an arrest warrant against one of the residents.

In Bahrain, at least 3 killed, 231 hurt as army cracks down on protests

Published on February 17, 2011

The Bahraini army seized control of key parts of capital Manama on Thursday and banned gatherings, after a riot police raid on a protest camp left at least three people dead, 231 wounded and 60 more missing.

My Interview with the Department of Homeland Security!

By Julia Bendis
Published on February 1, 2011

Police, protesters clash in Egypt

Published on January 28, 2011

Violent protest spread across Cairo and other Egyptian cities on Friday as tens of thousands of demonstrators intensified their campaign to oust President Hosni Mubarak, pouring from mosques after noon prayers and clashing with police who fired tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannons.

NYC Sticker Shock

By Joel Chasnoff
Published on May 22, 2009

Ehud Olmert: A political time line

Published on August 2, 2008

From Knesset member to Jerusalem mayor to prime minister, Ehud Olmert's political life

Burglary, raid, mezuzah underscore pot law issue

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on May 24, 2007

Alex Grabiner was not a particularly religious Jew, but when he and a few friends opened a medical marijuana pharmacy last year in the San Fernando Valley, they invited an Orthodox rabbi to install three mezuzot in hopes that God would bless their business.

Israeli police want to charge Katsav for rape; U.S. funding Hamas opponents

Published on October 19, 2006

News Updates.

More West Los Angeles Shootings Leave Residents Outraged

By Lisa Hirschmann
Published on July 19, 2006

Dotted by temples, community centers and parks, the largely Orthodox Jewish Crestview neighborhood and its adjacent areas in West L.A. don't seem to be a typical battleground for gang bangers. But residents say that is exactly what it's become.

Turmoil Grows as Withdrawal Nears

By Leslie Susser
Published on July 7, 2005

With Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip scheduled to begin on Aug. 15, escalating right-wing and settler protests threaten to plunge the country into anarchy and could provoke a strong anti-settler backlash.

Protesters last week blocked major highways, poured oil and scattered spikes across a busy road; occupied buildings in Gaza, and threw stones at Palestinians and Israel Defense Forces soldiers. The army and police responded by temporarily declaring the Gaza Strip a closed military zone, ejecting the extremists from occupied buildings and making dozens of arrests.

In an unprecedented spate of interviews and public statements, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon condemned what he called the "hooliganism" of the far right, and vowed that he would not be deterred by it.

However, will authorities be able to maintain law and order in the face of even more extreme protest plans?

Wrongful-Death Claim in Burbank Shooting

By Howard Blume
Published on July 7, 2005

The family of an Israeli immigrant killed by Burbank police is pursuing a $51 million wrongful-death claim against the cities of Burbank and Los Angeles. Assaf Deri, 25, died a year ago when Burbank undercover police officers shot him in an alley in North Hollywood.

Attorneys for the family said they filed their claim late last month, just prior to the one-year anniversary of Deri's death, but the filing could not be verified on Friday, when the family went public with the legal action.

First Lady Jostled in Jerusalem

By Dan Baron
Published on May 26, 2005

"What an emotional place this is, as we go from each one of these very, very holy spots to the next," Laura Bush said. "We're reminded again of what we all want, what every one of us prays for," adding, "What we all want is peace."