Japan sentences Hasidic Israeli to 8 years in jail after Ecstasy bustjap

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1082624.html

A Japanese court sentenced an Israeli to eight years in prison on Friday after convicting him of attempting to smuggle Ecstasy into the country, according to friends of his family. The Israeli, who was a minor at the time of the crime, is the youngest of three yeshiva students arrested a year ago while attempting to enter Japan with suitcases containing large quantities of Ecstasy pills.

Goldstein, Grinwald and the minor were arrested in April 2008 at Tokyo's Narita International airport after arriving on a flight from Amsterdam. Customs officials found that they were carrying 90,000 Ecstasy pills after suspicions were raised over their large suitcases.

Orthodox Jewish Community Struggles With Abuse Allegations

http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/Story?id=7376057&page=1

For more than 10 years, Engelman, now 23, kept what he says happened to himself. He left the orthodox community and found new friends. It wasn't until about two years ago, when he says he heard that other boys allegedly had been abused by Reichman, that he tried to do something about it.

The Jews of Iraq

Naeim Giladi

I write this article

for the same reason I wrote my book:

to tell the American people,

and especially American Jews,

that Jews from Islamic lands did not emigrate

willingly to Israel; that, to force them to leave,

Jews killed Jews; and that,

to buy time to confiscate ever more Arab lands,

Jews on numerous occasions

rejected genuine peace initiatives

from their Arab neighbors.

I write about what the first prime minister of Israel

called "cruel Zionism."

I write about it because I was part of it.