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Agri Star Donates More Than $50,000 Worth Of Meat Products To Oklahoma Tornado Relief

Agri Star, the successor company to Agriprocessors, has donated 20,000 pounds of meat products to Oklahoma tornado relief in partnership with the haredi chain of soup kitchens Masiba. The meat and poultry products, which Agri Star says have a wholesale value of more than $50,000, were shipped from Postville, Iowa late yesterday afternoon, Agri Star’s Jo-Ann Chadbourne told me yesterday.

IDF Cancels Haredi Recruits’ Swearing-In Ceremony Due To Haredi Threats

The IDF’s haredi Netzah Yehuda Battalion cancelled its swearing-in ceremony originally scheduled to take place today on Ammunition Hill in Jerusalem after receiving information that haredi “zealots” would attempt to disrupt the event.

Haredi Newspaper Blames Mass Shooting On Secularism

"The lawlessness prevailing among those distant from Torah exacted yet another bloody toll yesterday" HaPeles wrote, explaining that its choice not to report the mass shooting in its news section stemmed from its wish to "steer clear of the ugliness and everything like it."

New Jersey Blocks Release Of Lakewood Yeshiva’s $10.6 Million Grant Application, Opponents Cry Foul

The New Jersey State Secretary of Higher Education’s Office has denied the New Jersey Star-Ledger’s request to see the grant applications filed by Beth Medrash Govoha and Princeton Theological Seminary. The paper had filed that request under the state’s Open Public Records Act.

Report: Boston Marathon Bomber Murdered Three In 2011

Ibragim Todashev, the mixed martial artist shot dead early today in his home in Florida by the FBI after he tried to stab an FBI agent, was directly involved along with Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev in a 2011 triple homicide in Waltham, Massachusetts that some think was an antisemitic or terrorist attack, law enforcement sources reportedly say.

Rabbi Says He Was Misquoted On Child Sexual Abuse

The Australian is expected to apologize for allegedly misquoting the former president of the Organization of Rabbis of Australasia (ORA), Rabbi Dovid Freilich as saying that 95% of Australian rabbis believe that child sexual abuse allegations should be dealt with by rabbis, not by police or child protection services.

Satmar Threats And Backroom Politics Cause City To Keep Bikes Out Of Hasidic Areas Of Williamsburg

“The neighborhood would have been in all sorts of drama [if the kiosks had been placed too close to or in heavily Satmar neighborhoods. Avoiding that] is a way to avoid conflict,” local biking advocate Baruch Herzfeld claimed.

Association For Civil Rights In Israel Asks Justice Minister To Discipline Racist Chief Rabbi

The Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) petitioned Justice Minister Tzipi Livni yesterday, asking her to open disciplinary proceedings against the Chief Rabbi of Sefat Shmuel Eliyahu for "repeated racist incitement."

How Haredim Saved Jerusalem

"Without these haredim, Israel would probably have lost all of Jerusalem in 1948 rather than only part. Yet had it depended on their rabbis, the city would have fallen: It survived because ordinary haredim were less religiously extreme (and perhaps more Zionist) than their leaders."

Haredi Bloc Vote Elects Pro-Haredi School Board Slate In East Ramapo

Bernard Charles' decision to accept the appointment to the Ramao Planning Board and then to resign almost immediately from it – but only after voting for a hasidic development whose specifics he admittedly had not even had time to study – caused many people to think Charles made that vote in exchange for a haredi bloc vote to get him and his two running mates elected to the school board. And, shortly thereafter, that is exactly what happened.

It Is Our Fundamental Democratic "Right" To Choose To Be Poor And To Live Off Welfare, Haredi MK Says

Off the Knesset floor, it is the education issue that upsets Ashkenazi haredi MK Rabbi Meir Porush more than any other. He said the attempt to impose basic math, English and science education on haredi students is a fundamental breach of the democracy that secular Israelis claim to hold as their highest ideal and also of an explicit deal made between Orthodox leaders and David Ben-Gurion in 1948.

Video: MK Rabbi Dov Lipman V. Shas MK Nissim Ze'ev On Secular Education For Haredim

On the Knesset Channel, MK Rabbi Lipman says secular education will help haredim be better haredim, and the Sefardi haredi MK Nissim Ze'ev tries unsuccessfully to evade the issue.

Video: Tens Of Thousands Attend Wedding Of Belz Rebbe's Grandson

25,000 to 30,000 hasidim attended yesterday's wedding of the Belzer Rebbe's 18-year-old grandson. Here is video of the the Rebbe of Belz blessing the couple after the huppah (marriage ceremony) and another video with highlights from the wedding.

Lakewood Modesty Booklet – Gay In The Mikva

The Lakewood modesty booklet You and Eye has a small vignette on being a gay (or bi-curious) yeshiva student. Here it is:

Strike At Bobov 45 Yeshiva In Borough Park Allegedly Leaves Children Alone All Day Without Adequate Adult Supervision

Children have allegedly been left alone in the building all day without adult supervision. Some of the very young children allegedly ran home while others were cared for by the 12- and 13-year-olds. I have heard that an 8-year-old boy – the same age Leiby Kletzky was when he was kidnapped and murdered not far from Bobov 45 two years ago – left school yesterday and roamed the streets all day without supervision.