Argentine official blames police for desecration
BUENOS AIRES: Buenos Aires’ new civilian police chief is blaming policemen for two recent desecrations of tombstones at Jewish cemeteries…
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Bid to invoke Halacha in baby murder case
PHILADELPHIA: An effort to stand behind Halacha (Jewish law) has failed to shield the parents of accused baby-killer Amy Grossberg from giving testimony that may…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Conversions: Back to court?
JERUSALEM: Back to the courts and the Knesset? No one is sure where the battle over religious pluralism in Israel is headed, now that efforts to resolve the conversion crisis through negotiation have…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The debate dribbles on court
DESPITE what the lady from New Jersey says elsewhere on this page about pluralism (see the kugel story), it’s also a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Activist Avi Weiss takes university to court over fracas
WASHINGTON: Jewish activist Rabbi Avi Weiss is waging a civil lawsuit against Howard University and one of its former security guards…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →La Police présentait
le 5 février, le lien entre la découverte de 120 kgd'explosifs en plein Paris, et l'interpellation de trois policiers «ripoux». Les…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Ezer Weizman wins second term after politically-charged battle
JERUSALEM: Israel’s popular but outspoken President, Ezer Weizman, was re-elected to a second five-year term last week —…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Murder of Wizo stalwart stuns Sydney community
SYDNEY Jewry was stunned by the murder of community stalwart Denise Govendir this week. The Wizo NSW executive director, known affectionately as Denny, was 54. She was assaulted in the bedroom of her home on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Murder case: Police following leads
DETECTIVES are following several leads in the wake of the murder of Denny Govendir last week. The 54-year-old executive director of NSW Wizo was found dead in her Dover Heights home late last Monday night. According to police,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Hundreds mourn Denny Govendir as murder investigation continues
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Continued on Trove, page 1 →Murder: Police wait to speak to husband
POLICE are waiting to clarify certain events with Aaron Govendir — the husband of Wizo executive director Denny Govendir, who was found murdered in her Dover Heights home three…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Computer hacker may be charged
JERUSALEM: It looks like tough times ahead for “The Analyser". Israeli prosecutors reportedly have enough evidence to bring charges against Ehud…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Melbourne law firm shocked by murder
THE murder in Cambodia of Melbourne solicitor Max Green and subsequent claims that he was allegedly involved in a $38 million scam have shocked his partners and colleagues in the law firm Aroni Coleman…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Murder case: Blood stains found in car
BLOOD stains have been found in the car of murdered Wizo executive director Denise Govendir…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Murder: Police seek car keys
POLICE are still looking for the ear keys belonging to murdered Wizo executive director Denise Govendir. And they are still waiting for the results of the forensic tests conducted on her car, Detective-Sergeant Mark Murdoch told…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →gay resort murder shock Phillip Scott Penguin $16.95
Marc Petrucci is an old style queen: a cultured opera buff who, in Jessica Fletcher fashion finds the body count mounting while the strains of Madame Butterfly wall ethereally in the background. Quietly enjoying middle age, his life is interrupted when invited by a friend to the opening of a gay and lesbian tourist resort off the…
Continued on Trove, page 42 →"Ritual murder” beief alive
MOSCOW: The belief that Jews commit ritual murders is alive and well and living in Russia. Some 46 percent of recent callers…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →A Melbourne-Jewish murder story Title: Raisins and Almonds Publisher: Allen and Unwin, 248pp, $14.95
IN HER Raisins and Almonds, in order to solve the mystery of a slain Talmudic scholar, Kerry Greenwood's indefatigable sleuth Phryne (pronounced Fry-knee to rhyme with “briny”)…
Continued on Trove, page 45 →Sentenced
JERUSALEM: A Jerusalem court sentenced Russian immigrant Gregory Lerner to six years in jail and a…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Police Rescue
A POST-Pesach story. Sarah Sinclair of St Ives was packing away her Pesach crockery. Just as she had finished — it was after 3am — there was a wail of…
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