The following is viaChabad.org: The First Step Act, the most sweeping package of criminal justice reforms signed into law in a generation, was lauded by those on the right and the left as a much-needed step in the right direction for the U.S. criminal justice system. The bill will expand early transfer to home confinement […]
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Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams and and Kings County District Attorney Eric Gonzalez brought several community patrols and groups together recently to thank them for helping the police department to protect residents. One of those patrols is the Muslim Community Patrol, which began just two months ago in the Sunset Park Neighborhood, and its been […]
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Senator-elect Mitt Romney (R-UT) on Wednesday sat down with CNN’s Jake Tapper discuss the scathing opinion piece he wrote in The Washington Post about President Trump’s character. According to Romney,
Saudi Arabia announced on Thursday it will seek the death penalty against five suspects in the slaying of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, a killing that has seen members of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salmans entourage implicated in the writers assassination. Prosecutors announced that 11 suspects in the slaying attended their first court hearing with […]
Chinas burgeoning space program achieved a first on Thursday: a landing on the so-called dark side of the moon that brings the country closer to its goal of becoming a space power. Three nations the United States, the former Soviet Union and more recently China have sent spacecraft to the near side of […]
In the Shimon HaTzaddik neighborhood of Jerusalem, in a small apartment, a family of six is dealing with the stuff of nightmares. Chaya and Shmuel Avramsky, loving parents to four
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