Trial on Marmara crimes? Give me a break!

By Noga Gur-Arieh
Published on November 14, 2012

The story behind the Hotel Shangri-La anti-Semitism trial

By Jonah Lowenfeld
Published on August 22, 2012

It was late in the afternoon on Aug. 15, a Wednesday, when the jury delivered its verdict to a Santa Monica courtroom.

Nazi guard may be tried in Germany

Published on August 21, 2012

Prosecutors in the Bavarian city of Weiden think they have a good chance of bringing an 87-year-old former Auschwitz guard to trial.

Hotel Shangri-La trial raises specter of anti-Semitism

By Jonah Lowenfeld
Published on August 1, 2012

Is the word "Jew" offensive? What about "f---ing Jew"?

Trial date set in claims conference fraud

Published on May 2, 2012

Claims Conference employees charged in a nearly $60 million fraud case will go on trial in January 2013.

Opinion: Demjanjuk’s just epitaph

By Tom Teicholz
Published on March 22, 2012

The recent death of John Demjanjuk, 91, in a nursing home in Germany, brings to a close one of the most extensive and most contested Nazi war crimes prosecutions in history, a process that began in the United States in the mid 1970s and was ongoing at the time of his death as Demjanjuk awaited the appeal of his conviction in Germany as an accessory to the more than 28,000 murders of Jewish men, women and children committed during the time he served as a camp guard at the Sobibor extermination camp.

Psychologist: Loughner not yet ready for trial

Published on February 3, 2012

Jared Loughner is not yet competent to stand trial, according to the court-appointed psychologist in the case of the shooting that wounded Gabrielle Giffords.

Carlos the Jackal, caged but combative, on trial

Published on November 8, 2011

Urban guerrilla 'Carlos the Jackal' smiled and flashed a clenched fist salute on Monday when he went on trial for deadly Paris bomb attacks he is accused of mounting at the height of his "anti-imperialist campaign" in the 1970s and 1980s.

Conrad Murray’s conviction has left everyone else off the hook

By Rabbi Shmuley Boteach
Published on November 8, 2011

Agriprocessors’ Rubashkin denied new trial


Published on September 21, 2011

Former Agriprocessors executive Sholom Rubashkin was denied a new trial by a U.S. appeals court.


Dominique Strauss-Kahn is a Pig & a Pervert, Not a Rapist

By Ilana Angel
Published on August 24, 2011

ON TRIAL: John Galliano’s sloshed defense over anti-Semitic remarks

By Hollywood Jew
Published on June 22, 2011

Rudolph Kastner gets a new trial

By Jonah Lowenfeld
Published on April 26, 2011

Leave it to the artists and attorneys at Temple Israel of Hollywood (TIOH) to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day by introducing — or reintroducing — a man once considered to have been a Jewish antihero of World War II.

Cuba announces trial date for Alan Gross

Published on February 24, 2011

A U.S. government contractor that the State Department says was assisting Cuban Jews will go on trial in Cuba next month. Alan Gross was charged on Feb. 4 with "Acts against the independence and territorial integrity of the State." The charge carries a maximum 20-year prison sentence; he could have faced the death penalty according to Cuban law.

Accused Nazi dies before denaturalization trial

Published on February 1, 2011

A retiree living near Seattle, Wash., accused of committing genocide and other crimes as a Nazi officer during World War II died a month before his denaturalization trial. Peter Egner, 88, died last week in an assisted-living community in Bellevue, Reuters reported Monday, citing a facility representative who did not give her name. Egner, a Yugoslavia native, is accused of joining in April 1941 the Nazi-controlled Security Police and Security Service in German-occupied Belgrade, a Nazi mobile killing unit that participated in the mass murder of more than 17,000 Serbian civilians during World War II.

Israeli soldiers go on trial

Published on March 25, 2010

Two Israeli soldiers are on trial for allegedly using a Palestinian boy as a human shield during the Gaza war.

Judge declares mistrial in Seattle Jewish Federation shooting case

Published on June 6, 2008

A judge declared a mistrial in the case of the gunman who shot up the offices of this city's Jewish federation. The King County prosecutor vowed to retry Naveed Haq, 32, who claimed he was not guilty by reason of insanity.

Subpoenas in AIPAC trial could reveal U.S. secrets

By Ron Kampeas
Published on November 8, 2007

Subpoenas issued to U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley and other top Bush administration officials could end up shedding unprecedented light on the Bush administration's inner workings and the government's dealings with the pro-Israel lobby American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).

Feds Indict Suspect in Murder of JDL’s Krugel

By Jim Crogan
Published on July 23, 2006

Almost nine months after the brutal prison-yard slaying of Earl Krugel, the longtime No. 2 man in the Jewish Defense League (JDL), federal authorities have indicted an inmate with no apparent ties to Krugel.

Franklin Sentencing Seen As Ominous

By Ron Kampeas
Published on January 26, 2006

Lawrence Franklin, a mid-level Iran analyst at the Pentagon, admitted to leaking information to Rosen and Weissman in 2003 because he wanted his concerns about the Iranian threat to reach the White House.

Eviction of Jew and Non-Jew Going to Trial

By Bobbi Murray
Published on July 21, 2005

A federal court trial, alleging that the Orthodox Jewish owners of a Pico-Robertson building evicted a tenant because he shared his apartment with a non-Jew, is scheduled to open in Los Angeles next week.

The suit by Lawrence "Chaim" Stein alleges that he was evicted in 2004 by the board of Torat Hayim, a nonprofit that is best known for its Pico-Robertson school and synagogue, but that also manages a handful of apartments.

Stein's central piece of evidence in the suit is a voice mail left on his phone answering machine by Michael Braum, one of the suit's defendants and the pro bono manager of the apartment in the 8800 block of Alcott Street.

"I can't believe you rented to a goy," says the voice on the tape, which Braum has acknowledged as his in a deposition.

"Two days after that, we get an eviction notice," Stein said.

Rejecting tenants based on religion is illegal. Braum noted in an interview that Torah Hayim's tenants include non-Jews. He insisted that the issue was not religion, but that Stein unilaterally changed terms of the lease.

Court Case Could Be Key to Trying Arafat

By Gil Sedan
Published on May 27, 2004

When Israeli authorities chose to put Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti on trial in a criminal court, rather than a military court, prosecutors may have set the stage for an even bigger prize: Yasser Arafat.

That possibility was given a boost last week with Barghouti's conviction on five counts of murder for Israelis killed in three separate shooting ambushes conducted by the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade in 2001 and 2002.

Terrorist Leader

By Ron Kampeas
Published on March 11, 2004

Mohammed Abu Abbas, the terrorist whose botched ocean-liner hijacking in 1985 ended in the murder of an elderly American Jew and set back the Palestinian cause, has died in American custody.

Israel and Saddam Share Long History

By Dina Kraft
Published on December 18, 2003

Spewing anti-Israel vitriol was one of Saddam Hussein's specialties. Of all the leaders in the Arab world, Saddam seemed to have the most to say against Israel, and he seemed to say it the most often.

Now that he has been captured and faces possible trial, experts are asking whether the Jewish State will again be his target of choice.

No Decision From Pollard Day in Court

By Edwin Black
Published on September 4, 2003

It didn't result in any decision, but just getting another day in court was a victory of sorts for Jonathan Pollard.

World Briefs

Published on May 15, 2003

There's no evidence that members of the Islamic Movement arrested this week in Israel used funds to directly finance terror attacks, Israeli police said.

JDL Trial Set for October

By Mike Levy
Published on April 11, 2002

The trial of Jewish Defense League (JDL) leaders Irv Rubin and Earl Krugel on criminal conspiracy charges in the alleged plot to detonate bombs at a mosque and a congressman's office is scheduled to begin in October. As Rubin and Krugel await their trial in a shared cell at the Metropolitan Detention Center, information has slowly come out about the informant who helped the government build its case since the arrests in December.

At the heart of the case against Rubin and Krugel are hours of tapes recorded by an informant working for the FBI. The tapes have been turned over to defense lawyers but are still being transcribed.

The Trials of Ted Deutsch

By Michael Aushenker
Published on March 14, 2002

Auschwitz survivor Tibor (Ted) Deutsch will never forget the dark day in 1944 that forever shaped his life. Deutsch was only 16 when he and his older brother, Georg, were among the 1,000 Jews assigned to slave labor at a Trzebinia subcamp assigned to the service the venerable German construction company Hochtief.

Milosevic in The Hague

By Lawrence Douglas
Published on February 21, 2002

"A triumph for the civilized world." So characterized The New York Times about the war crimes trial of Slobodan Milosevic that started this past week in The Hague.

Precautionary Move

By Tom Tugend
Published on March 22, 2001

Los Angeles police officers have been visiting Jewish institutions, schools and synagogues to urge an extra measure of alertness while a high-profile trial is underway in the downtown federal courthouse.

Behind the Scenes

By Naomi Pfefferman
Published on October 26, 2000

Every Jew in Los Angeles cheered when Holocaust denier David Irving lost his libel suit against author and historian Deborah Lipstadt this year. But the actual proceedings against the former UCLA professor remained shrouded in mystery (cameras aren't allowed inside British courts).

Iranian TrialTimeline

Published on September 28, 2000

"Iran 13" trial timeline.

Talking With Lipstadt

Published on April 20, 2000

Before the verdict was handed down by Justice Charles Gray on April 11, Deborah Lipstadt says she had no doubt that "We would win." She just did not expect that he would render his decision "in such a still, small, level voice," almost without inflection. And therefore with such forcefulness and emphasis.

Careless Construction

By Naomi Segal
Published on April 20, 2000

An Israeli court has convicted five people in the collapse of a bridge at the Maccabiah Games in 1997 that left four Australian athletes dead and scores of others injured.

Irving Vs. the Truth

By Douglas Davis
Published on February 10, 2000

A racist poem read to a young child has provided the toughest test for a Holocaust revisionist who is suing a U.S. Holocaust scholar and her publisher for libel.

A Landmark Trial

By Douglas Davis
Published on January 13, 2000

"To put it bluntly," Richard Rampton, who is defending Holocaust scholar Deborah Lipstadt against David Irving, told the judge Tuesday, "he is a liar."