Volunteers catch serial offender

Members of volunteer security group Shomrim have helped bring to justice a habitual burglar who broke into a warehouse.

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Brooklyn sex text rabbi caught out in police sting

A 59-year-old Brooklyn rabbi has been arrested in a police sting operation in which he allegedly attempted to meet a 14-year-old girl with whom he had been exchanging sexually explicit messages.

Rabbi Nathan David Rabinowich had in fact been sending messages to an undercover policeman, and he has now been charged with crimes including attempted rape, the New York Daily News reported.

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Charedi arrested for ordering woman to back of bus

Israeli police have arrested a Charedi man suspected of ordering a 22-year-old woman to the back of a bus last week.

Noa Kentman was sitting at the front of an Egged bus bound for Ashdod when two Charedi men told her to move to the back in an attempt to enforce gender segregation.

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Killer loses appeal on sentence

A Polish decorator serving an indefinite sentence for killing a Stamford Hill Jewish pensioner in a robbery at her home has lost a test case appeal against his conviction.

Kuba Dlugosz, 35, left 83-year-old Eveline Kelmenson with her ankles and wrists taped up after he and another man forced their way into her home in a desperate hunt for valuables to steal.

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Reform shul allows mixed faith burials

One of the Reform movement’s largest synagogues, Alyth in north London, is to give mixed-faith couples the chance to be buried next to each other in a Jewish cemetery.

Non-Jewish spouses of Jewish members of the synagogue will be able to be buried in a special section of the new woodland cemetery at Cheshunt.

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