NEW YORK — The Jewish community security coordinator, standing in a wash of colored light from the synagogue’s stained glass windows, asked the Orthodox patrol members seated in the pews about ...

The Shomrim patrol leader who bribed NYPD cops to “expedite” gun permits got a lighter jail sentence than federal prosecutors wanted Thursday — because he has a history of community service. Judge ...

Luzer Twersky still remembers the day he came back from shul to his Borough Park home to find his father waiting for him with an important question. Twersky’s father, a Hasidic rabbi, had just ...

A former leader of a Brooklyn Hasidic security patrol was arrested in Rockland County on April 17 on charges that he offered cash to a police officer in return for gun permits, prosecutors have ...

Obstructing the police is bad enough. But it’s completely unacceptable if that obstruction is being funded by the taxpayer. Yet that’s exactly what’s happening with the Shomrim, the Orthodox Jewish ...

For months, a Brooklyn Shomrim leader coerced a teenage girl into an illegal sexual relationship, using his status as the anti-crime patrol’s chief to scare her into keeping quiet, federal prosecutors ...

A Brooklyn anti-crime patrol founder has been arrested and charged with coercing a 15-year-old girl to engage in illicit sexual conduct, federal prosecutors said Thursday. Jacob Daskal, 62, was ...

The State Prosecutor's Office today (Sunday) filed an indictment with the Tel Aviv District Court against Chaim Rotter (38), chairman of the Shomrim neighborhood watch organization in Bnei Brak, for ...