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Is Weberman's 103-Year Sentence Too Long?

A Satmar hasid, Rabbi Nechemya Weberman, was sentenced last week to 103 years in state prison for sexually abusing a hasidic girl for three years, beginning when she was 12-years-old. Many people think that sentence is draconian. But is i

Haredi Schools Correct Not To Teach Math, Science, Civics, History, Modern Hebrew And English, Haredi Argues

Lets talk numbers. Some 700,000 haredim live in Israel. The vast majority of them work, apart from those who are discriminated against by employers because of their culture. In the public service sector, for example, discrimination

Egged Fails Again: Woman Threatened And Harassed By Haredim, Bus Company Does Nothing To Protect Her

In Safed someone asked me to move to the back of the bus, but I refused. In Hazor many haredim got on and then the yelling started. Everyone who got on the bus told me to move to the back, they said I was impure and yelled that ever

Non-Orthodox Australian Jewish Community Allegedly Fails To Properly Deal With Child Sex Abuse, Enables And Perpetrates Coverups

…Why is it important to share this information with the public? One of the reasons is to help dispel a myth that it is only an Orthodox issue; that they are the only ones who mishandle the response to child sexual abuse allegations an

Report: Haredim Get Secret Illegally Discounted Public Bus Fares Up To 50% Cheaper Than Non-Haredim Pay

A stunning new report shows that bus fares on Egged public buses that serve haredi areas – many of which used to be illegal so-called “kosher” or “mehadrin” lines – are 30% to 50% cheaper than regular Egged bus fares on parallel int

Israel’s Government Allegedly Uses Deception To Deport More African Refugees

Many, if not most, haredim in Europe in 1939 would have been unable to fluently speak, read or write their native country’s language, and they would have known little of their native country’s history or its government structure. Th

Bloomingburg Votes, Anti-Lamm Candidate Leads By More Than 3 To 1, But Many Votes Still Uncounted Due To Court Order

Modern Orthodox developer Shalom Lamm (pictured at right), a son of the former Chancellor of Yeshiva University Rabbi Norman Lamm, claims he has lived for two years in the tiny 420-person village that had no other Orthodox Jews, no synagog

Your Glatt Kosher Meat: Agri Star Workers So Poorly Paid, Many Rely On Food Shelf, Locals Say, As Chabad Synagogue Is Condemned By Town

The town of Postville condemned the Chabad-haredi synagogue, which is a former single family house, because it is in such disrepair it is unsafe to occupy. The Chabad boys school was condemned for the same reason, as well.

WSJ Publishes Explosive Article On Chabad in the Former Soviet Union, Details Bribes, Payoffs, and Kremlin Dirty Tricks

In a truly stunning article, Guy Chazan of the Wall Street Journal gives a good overview of Chabad's takeover of the FSU. He notes: Critics charge its success is based on a Faustian bargain with the Kremlin. They say Rabbi Lazar has at tim

Agudath Israel's Jewish Observer On Child Sexual Abuse and Molestation

The Jewish Observer, the PR organ of Agudath Israel of America, has piece this month from David Mandel of Ohel on child molestation and sexual abuse in the haredi community. Emblematic of Mandel's approach to this is issue is his understand