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March 5, 2013
10:59 am

This undated photo provided by the New York City Police Department on Monday March 4, 2013, shows Julio Acevedo, 44. (photo credit: AP Photo/NYPD)

Suspect in deadly NYC crash has prior convictions

Police identify driver as Julio Acevedo, who has a history of substance abuse and served 10 years in prison for manslaughter

January 22, 2013
7:18 pm

Nechemya Weberman, second left, is lead to court Tuesday, January 22, 2013, in New York. (photo credit: AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

US Jew sentenced to 103 years for sexual abuse

Religious counselor from New York’s Satmar Hassidic community found guilty of molesting a girl over three-year period

By Colleen Long

December 21, 2012
1:23 am

Peter Madoff, who pleaded guilty to criminal charges in June, reportedly kissed a Torah at his granddaughter's bat mitzvah. (John Minchillo/AP)

Bernard Madoff’s brother gets 10-year sentence

Judge says she didn’t believe Peter Madoff’s claims he didn’t know about $20 billion investment scam

By Colleen Long and Larry Neumeister

December 11, 2012
12:55 am

NY Orthodox counselor convicted of sex abuse

Nechemya Weberman molested girl entrusted to his care, jury finds

By Colleen Long

October 31, 2012
1:27 am

A 168-foot water tanker, the John B. Caddell, sits on the shore Tuesday morning, Oct. 30, 2012 where it ran aground on Front Street in the Stapleton neighborhood of New York's Staten Island as a result of superstorm Sandy. (photo credit: Sean Sweeney/AP)

A day after Sandy, New Yorkers find a changed city

‘This was maybe a devastating storm, maybe the worst we’ve ever experienced,’ mayor says

By Colleen Long and Erin McClam

October 19, 2012
12:26 am

US President Barack Obama waves as he leaves the White House for a campaign trip to California on Sunday (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Would-be Federal Reserve bomber had considered targeting Obama

Bangladeshi jihadist settled on attack that would ’cause a large number of civilian casualties, including women and children’

By Colleen Long

August 29, 2012
11:05 pm

Levi Aaron, pictured during an August 2011 court appearance, intercepted Leiby Kletzky after the 8-year-old got lost while walking home from a religious day camp. (Photo credit: Jesse Ward/AP)

Leiby Kletzky’s killer sentenced to minimum of 40 years

Levi Aron, an Orthodox store clerk, dismembered the hasidic 8-year-old in a case that shocked even New York

By Colleen Long

August 25, 2012
3:04 am

New York City police approach the lifeless body of Jeffrey Johnson lying on a sidewalk near the Empire State Building in New York following a shooting on Friday, August 24. (photo credit: AP/Guillermo Ratzlaff)

Disgruntled ex-worker at Jewish-owned firm guns down company executive in NYC

Jeffrey Johnson, 53, kills Steven Ercolino, injures nine others, before being shot dead outside Empire State Building

By Colleen Long and Tom Hays

June 11, 2012
9:08 am

Ultra-Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn (illustrative photo: Serge Attal/Flash90)

Sex abuse trial of NY ultra-Orthodox counselor splits community

The insular community of Brooklyn’s Hasidic Jews slowly opens up about sexual predators in their midst

By Colleen Long

The Times of Israel

The one-stop news site
covering Israel, the region and
the Jewish people worldwide

Founding editor:
David Horovitz

Fair, fresh and fast

The Jewish world's
fastest-growing
news site

Writer: Colleen Long

Suspect in deadly NYC crash has prior convictions

Police identify driver as Julio Acevedo, who has a history of substance abuse and served 10 years in prison for manslaughter

US Jew sentenced to 103 years for sexual abuse

Religious counselor from New York’s Satmar Hassidic community found guilty of molesting a girl over three-year period

Bernard Madoff’s brother gets 10-year sentence

Judge says she didn’t believe Peter Madoff’s claims he didn’t know about $20 billion investment scam

NY Orthodox counselor convicted of sex abuse

Nechemya Weberman molested girl entrusted to his care, jury finds

A day after Sandy, New Yorkers find a changed city

‘This was maybe a devastating storm, maybe the worst we’ve ever experienced,’ mayor says

Would-be Federal Reserve bomber had considered targeting Obama

Bangladeshi jihadist settled on attack that would ’cause a large number of civilian casualties, including women and children’

Leiby Kletzky’s killer sentenced to minimum of 40 years

Levi Aron, an Orthodox store clerk, dismembered the hasidic 8-year-old in a case that shocked even New York

Disgruntled ex-worker at Jewish-owned firm guns down company executive in NYC

Jeffrey Johnson, 53, kills Steven Ercolino, injures nine others, before being shot dead outside Empire State Building

Sex abuse trial of NY ultra-Orthodox counselor splits community

The insular community of Brooklyn’s Hasidic Jews slowly opens up about sexual predators in their midst

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