British pop singer, Joss Stone, might be the last person in the world you think of when considering the most hate-able celebrities. While her beautiful voice and well-reported friendship with Queen Elizabeth II evoke little more than acceptance and foot tapping by most of the public, two Manchester men strongly disagreed. Today, a life sentence in the UK prison system proved them wrong. And severely disturbed. In 2011, Junior Bradshaw and Kevin Liverpool were arrested when police became aware of their detailed …More

A Jewish man murdered last week in Iran may have been killed with the complicity of his girlfriend, the daughter of a member of the Iranian National Guard. Daniel Mahgerefteh, 24, was shot in his home in what some say was a revenge attack for having sexual relations with the Iranian woman before marriage. “The murder was carried out as revenge for dishonoring the family,” Armin Avi Kreuznacher, an Iranian-Jew who now lives in Germany, told the Times of Israel. He added that police told the …More

The man accused of killing three Brooklyn shopkeepers claims he is a secret CIA operative, ordered to kill Jews. Salvatore Perrone, 63, further claimed Arab men paid him to enact the execution-style murders that took place over the last few months. The slayings rocked the Jewish Brooklyn community, with this latest round of news immediately making headlines after the claims were made public from court documents yesterday. The former clothes salesman told officials he worked for the “Palestinian section of …More

A Jewish-Iranian woman was murdered and mutilated by Muslim extremists, several reports revealed last week. Tuba N., whose last name was concealed by her family, was tied up and stabbed by unknown attackers who entered her home while her husband was away on business. The 57-year-old woman was allegedly killed over a property dispute, as the assailants wished to confiscate land and appropriate it for an adjoining mosque. “The religious radicals even expropriated part of the house and attached it to the …More

A Jewish doctor in Lviv, Ukraine, was beaten to death by an assailant identified by some local news sources as a 26-year-old Arab. Local news reports identified the victim as Leon Freifeld, 67, a prominent member of the small Lviv Jewish community who headed the traumatology and orthopedic department at a local hospital and also taught medicine. The reports said Freifeld was attacked in the early morning of October 19 on a main street in central Lviv. The attacker, who was not identified by name, was described …More

A couple who killed a man for having a Jewish-sounding name has been indicted on racketeering charges. David Joseph Pedersen, 32, and Holly Ann Grigsby, 25, killed four along the West Coast, including one anti-Semitic attack. A Portland grand jury indicted the pair for racketeering, charging that the two were aiming to “preserve” and “purify” the white race. The grand jury alleges that Pedersen and Gringsby violated the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. The suspects …More

This week was filled with sad and unfortunate news for Jews everywhere. A bombing in Bulgaria targeting Israelis left seven dead and even more injured. While anti-Semitism in its explicit form, and masked in acts of anti-Zionism, is not new to the Jewish people, such acts of terror are still shocking. This week’s double Torah portion directly addresses murder, punishment and the need for justice. The double Torah portions of Matot and Massei start with the laws and rules governing oath taking. Any person …More

Police have identified a Jewish family from Tempe, Ariz., the Butwins, as the subjects of a suspected murder-suicide. Police said that James Butwin, a board member of his local synagogue, Temple Emanuel, was the primary suspect in the killing of his wife and three children. The bodies were found in a burning SUV on Saturday that was registered to the Butwins but had been missing from the family home, Tempe Police said. While authorities were working to identify the remains, the Pinal County sheriff said he …More

Germany will conduct a full investigation into how a gang of neo-Nazis successfully operated in the country for years, killing 10 people and robbing several banks. “We are all asking how it could be that the security authorities allowed it to be possible for a known group of neo-Nazis to go underground at the end of the '90s and apparently over 13 years murder people in various German cities, carry out bombing attacks, and lethally attack police officers,” said Justice Minister Sabine …More

The family of Leiby Kletzky, the 8-year-old boy who was abducted and killed in New York City earlier this summer, is suing the case's suspect and his father for $100 million each. Kletzky's murder rocked the Orthodox Jewish community in Borough Park, Brooklyn when it was discovered that the suspected murderer, Levi Aron, was also Jewish and lived only two miles away from Keltzky’s family. Prosecutors for the murder case say Kletzky approached Aron, 35, for directions when he got lost on his way home from …More

It took the better part of a year for Home of Eternity cemetery to get its first customer. But only an additional two months passed before its first murder victim arrived. The cemetery is still in operation at Eighth Street and Sierra Way in San Bernardino, just north of Pioneer Cemetery. It is Southern California's oldest Jewish cemetery. In May 1861, a group of land owners donated the property to provide San Bernardino's Jewish community, which was small at the time, with its own place for burials. A young …More