Rabbi Sex Abuse Trial, Two-Alarm Blaze in Month's Top Reads

Teen Charged in Teaneck Dunkin' Donuts Robbery

A 16-year-old former Teaneck High School student turned himself in Wednesday and was charged in the armed robbery at a Teaneck Dunkin' Donuts, Chief Robert Wilson announced. 

Five people were hospitalized and two families forced from their homes after flames ripped through a house at the corner of Ester Avenue and Beverly Road early Saturday, according to witnesses and officials.

A former waiter at Louie's Charcoal Pit, which closed last year, is set to open a new restaurant next month not far from the longtime Teaneck landmark. 

The new diner-style eatery, called Al's Charcoal Pit, will open at what was Mabat Steakhouse at Cedar Lane and Elm Avenue, and be run by the popular Louie's staffer K. M. S. Alom, known to most customers as Al. 

A proposal to build a Holocaust memorial and tolerance education center in a section of Andreas Park was met with mixed reactions at a council meeting. 

The preliminary plan calls for a two-story education center with virtual exhibits at a carriage house in the park's northern end. A small reflective pool memorializing the Holocaust would be constructed nearby. 

Prosecutors plan to fly two Israeli boys to the United States to testify in the trial of a Teaneck rabbi who allegedly molested the teens while they stayed with him during a scholarship program, northjersey.com reported. 

The trial of Rabbi Uzi Rivlin, 65, is set for next month in Hackensack. Rivlin was charged in 2011 with sexually abusing the boys in 2009 and 2010. 

The Pace Outlet store in Teaneck Road's T-State shopping plaza is closing after less than a year in town. 

 including housewares and luggage. Signs posted at the store Tuesday announced the closure and offered sale items. 

Three public works staffers clearing a tree downed by Hurricane Sandy unearthed a long-hidden piece of Teaneck history under a stump on the Municipal Green.  

A Teaneck-based businessman was charged Tuesday with running a loansharking scheme that preyed on area businesses, including many in the immigrant community. 

Teaneck’s school board is mulling a revised spending plan that includes outsourcing lunchroom and some classroom aides, axing two administrative positions and cuts to courtesy busing.

A proposed drive-through Walgreens pharmacy on Cedar Lane has prompted concerns over traffic safety and congestion from area residents and township officials. 

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