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Rabbi Ovadia Yosef And Sefardi Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar Ban Internet

Senior Sephardic religious leaders, including Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar and Shas spiritual leader Ovadia Yosef, have published a harsh letter against the Internet, stating that every person must save his relatives and others from the "spiritual dangers" of the Web.

Pay To Beg: Chabad's Main Synagogue Charges Beggars Admission Fee

Down-on-their luck panhandlers at the Chabad-Lubavitch world headquarters in Crown Heights have to follow the 11th Commandment: Fork over $5 for the right to beg inside.

Audio: Nathan Lewin On Problems With The Beit Din System

The "dean" of American Orthodox Jewish attorneys speaks about problems with beit dins, religious courts, and a suggestion he has to make them better.

Former Bush Solicitor General Now Rubashkin Lead Attorney

Paul D. Clement, the US Solicitor General who served under Georger W. Bush from June 2005 to June 2008, has replaced Nathan Lewin as Sholom Rubashkin's lead attorney. Rubashkin's request for a US Supreme Court review of his conviction, sentence and lost appeal is due to be filed by April 2.

Nathan Lewin To Talk About Beit Din Corruption Tonight

Rubashkin attorney Nathan Lewin will be on Zev Brenner's radio show at Midnight Eastern Time to talk about beit din corruption.

Students To Boycott Classes To Protest Haredi Draft Deferments

Hundreds of high-school students across the country are expected to boycott classes on Sunday in protest at the Tal Law, legislation that allows full-time haredi yeshiva students to defer their military service. In addition, 4,000 high-school students from around the country have signed a protest letter against the Tal Law. 

When It Comes To Haredim, It's Time To Forget The Future

The state's subsidizing of the ultra-Orthodox exacts a huge cost from us, an issue that has been widely discussed. It is a loss that grows with the ever-increasing haredi population, and pushes Israel closer to the abyss. What is less known, but no less important, is that the Haredi population also pays a heavy price for the reverse discrimination it receives from the authorities.

Former Chief Pinto Aide Helped Congressman Violate Campaign Finance Law, Times Says

Pinto's now former chief aide allegedly raised more than $500,000 for the Reepublican in return for the promise of a Green Card.

Report: Chabad Rabbi Aquitted On Drug Trafficking Charges

Two Chabad blogs are reporting that Rabbi Eli Hecht, a charity collector from Tzefat, Israel, was aquitted of drug trafficking charges by a Spanish court today. Hecht claimed that a another person gave him a suitcase and asked him to take it, but did not tell Hecht that the suitcase contained what turned out to be a large amount of illegal drugs.

Video: Tel Aviv – A Day In The Life Of A Sudanese Refugee

He sleeps in a park with other refugees. He has no job, no food and no shoes. He is hungry and afraid. The government demands huge fines from employers who hire these people. The High Court stayed that law but employers are still afraid the government will punish them if they hire African refugees. The government wants to keep African refugees in a detention center but hasn't managed to finish preparing it, even though it has been working on it for months and it won't be much more than a tent city once it is finished. On the day the world commemorates as Holocaust Remembrance Day, here's a video portrait of a day in the life of a Sudanese refugee asylum-seeker who thought Jews or all people would help him.

The Story Behind Knesset Row Over Censored Report On Ethiopian Jews Wife Murders

"The successes are fabulous," she says. "We have a lot of Ethiopian students at the university level, and they are coming out working in free professions, particularly law and now teaching." She also points to Ethiopians in the Knesset, singers, actors, cinematographers and producers, as well as "A Star is Born 9" winner Hagit Yaso and soccer player Baruch Dego. She says statistics can be confusing because it is unclear which groups people are talking about - new immigrants [i.e., Falash Mura] or veterans.

Hasidic Groups Issue Wedding Restrictions

Large Hasidic movements – such as Ger, Vizhnitz, Satmar, Sanz and Belz – recently issued special rules aimed at cutting wedding costs. The Sanz movement, for example, released a book of rules presenting the maximum prices the bride and groom's families should pay for each wedding clause in order to save tens of thousands of shekels. Here are a few examples…

Exclusive: Alleged Chabad Pedophile Now Faces 51 Counts Against Him

David Cyprys, a long time employee of Chabad's Yeshiva Centre in Melbourne, Australia, had 22 more counts added against him in a court appearance today (Friday in Australia). Cyprys asked the court for a media blackout of the trial. The judge is expected to make her decision regarding that next week. Cyprys was allegedly protected for years by Rabbi Yitzchok Dovid Groner, the late head of Chabad in Australia. Police have had contact with almost 20 men who say they were victims of Cyprys when they were  students in Chabad's yeshiva. Many of them are part of the court case against Cyprys.

Video: Woman Attacked By Haredim In Beit Shemesh

Three haredi men were arrested for their participation in a haredi mobs attack on a woman in Beit Shemesh this week. Here's video of the woman and her damaged car.

How A Rabbinic Ban On Bugs May Have Led To The Creation Of Christianity

“From a Torah perspective, eating a Big Mac or eating a salad with insects in it, the salad is worse,” Rabbi Eliezer Eidlitz, who runs the nonprofit Kosher Information Bureau said. The cost of kosher-grown lettuce is markedly higher than regular lettuce. In late January, Glatt Mart, an RCC-certified supermarket on Pico Boulevard in LA, was selling an ordinary head of romaine lettuce (1 pound, 6 ounces) for $1.19, while a much smaller head of "kosher" romaine (10.3 ounces) was priced at $3.59, seven times as much per ounce.