Miami-based Orthodox Jew Philip Esformes has been convicted of America’s largest ever health care fraud which saw him steal more than $1.3 billion from American taxpayers. He has been officially described as a “parasite” by investigators from the US Department of Justice. According to a statement released by the US Department of Justice, a federal jury found Esformes guilty “for his role in... 

Pawel in the Warsaw synagogue When Pawel looks into the mirror, he can still sometimes see a neo-Nazi skinhead staring back, the man he was before he covered his shaved head with a skullcap, traded his fascist ideology for the Torah and renounced violence and hatred in favor of God. “I still struggle every day to discard my past ideas,” said Pawel, a 33-year-old ultra-Orthodox Jew and former truck... 

Rabbi Mordechai Elon, accused of sexual abuse Yet another prominent Orthodox rabbi has been charged with sexual abuse. This time it is Rabbi Mordechai Elon, one of the foremost rabbinic leaders of the Israeli Orthodox movement and former rosh yeshiva at the flagship Yeshivat HaRav, where last year a Palestinian mounted an assault which left several students dead. The result was that students of the...