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March 31, 2005: UPDATE: Chabad's Hostile Takeover Of Moscow Shul – A Firsthand Account
Comments: 4 | Categories: Chabad , Dirty Tricks , Jewish Leadership , Turf Disputes
Tzemach Atlas has an exclusive interview with Rabbi Dovid Karpov, whose synagogue was forcibly taken over by Chabad's 'Chief Rabbi of Russia' Berel Lazar. According to the interview, Moscow has 8 or 9 functioning synagogues (although most are "old mens'...

March 31, 2005: Israel's Chief Rabbinate Officially Recognizes Benei Menashe of India, Burma & Thailand As Descendants Of The Lost Tribe Of Menashe – 6,000 To Be Brought To Israel Over Coming Years
Comments: 15 | Categories: Ethiopian Jews , Israel , Jewish Leadership
Israel's Chief Rabbinate, at the urging of grass-roots groups, has offically recognized the Benei Menashe Tribe of India, Burma and Thailand as "descendants of Jews." The tribe claims descent from the Biblical tribe of Menashe, one of the 10 lost...

March 31, 2005: Hatchet Job? Forward Has Controversial New Book Smearing Activists For Ethiopian Jews Reviewed By JDC Official – JDC Long Opposed To Activists
Comments: 1 | Categories: Ethiopian Jews , Israel , Jewish Leadership
The Forward has a review of the new Stephen Spector book, "Operation Solomon: The Daring Rescue Of Ethiopian Jews." (Oxford, 2005.) The Problem? The Forward gave the review to Amir Shaviv, a former Israeli TV newscaster now Assistant Executive VP...

March 30, 2005: Chabad Forcibly Takes Over Moscow Shul – Congregation, Rabbi Not Consulted
Comments: 11 | Categories: Chabad , Court Jews , Dirty Tricks , Turf Disputes
http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/newscontent.php3?artid=10701 (04/01/2005) Hostile Takeover In Moscow? Critics of Chabad-led umbrella group angry as shul changes hands; AJCongress dragged into controversy. Walter Ruby - Special To The Jewish Week Since Rabbi Berel Lazar of Chabad Lubavitch was appointed chief rabbi of...

March 30, 2005: Jewish Leaders Including Rabbi Dovid Feinstein Tried To Sell Shul Against Members' Wishes, Keep Money For Themselves – Bribed Synagogue Rabbi?
Comments: 14 | Categories: Haredim , Jewish Leadership
The synagogue's faithful have also appealed to local Jewish authorities. In an initial ruling, Rabbi David Feinstein decreed that the "sale of the shul should take place." Feinstein has since told the Voice he lacks the authority to decide whether...

March 30, 2005: Schneur From NYC Writes – Rabbi Dovid Feinstein Judged A Case In Which He Had A Financial Interest, Stood Gain Hundreds Of Thousands Of Dollars
Comments: 10 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Haredim , Jewish Leadership
The subject of Rabbi David Feinstein is very touchy. He is a son of Rav Moshe Feinstein and some claim a talmudic scholar of note on his own. It is not acceptable to crtiicize a important rabbi, [but] he has...

March 30, 2005: Israel's Ambassador To Ethiopia Found Shot – Wound To Head Apparently "Self-Inflicted"
Comments: 0 | Categories: Ethiopian Jews
Doron Grossman, Israel's Ambassador to Ethiopia, was found shot and critically wounded in his Addis Ababa hotel suite. The Ambassador's gun was in his hand. The head wound appears to be self-inflicted.

March 30, 2005: Montreal Jew Battles For Life
Comments: 0 | Categories: Ethiopian Jews , Hessed , Med-Ethics, Public Health
http://www.cjnews.com/viewarticle.asp?id=5975 March 31, 2005 20 Adar II, 5765 Montreal Ethiopian Jew battles for kidney donation By JANICE ARNOLD Staff Reporter Baruch Tegegne [File photo from early ’80s] Baruch Tegegne, the man credited with rescuing untold numbers of his fellow Ethiopian...

March 30, 2005: Jewish Vegetarians Of North America Learn A Lesson From Terri Schiavo – Go Veg! [Sadly, I Kid You Not]
Comments: 8 | Categories: Jewish Leadership , Kosher Scandal , Med-Ethics, Public Health
In the most despicible piece of opportunistic trash I've read in many years, Richard Schwartz, the president of Jewish Vegetarians of North America has weighed in on the Terri Schiavo case: Editor, the Jewish Week editor@jewishweek.org Dear Editor: Stewart Ain's...

March 29, 2005: The Rabbi Dovid Feinstein Nepotistic Two-Step: What Is Good For R. Slifkin Is Bad For R. Feinstein's Nephew R. Mordechai Tendler
Comments: 8 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Haredim , Jewish Leadership
Rabbi Dovid Feinstein has condemned the RCA's decision to expell his nephew, Rabbi Mordechai Tendler for conduct unbecoming to a rabbi. Rav Dovid claims the RCA acted outside of normal judical strictures and, as such, their decision was not carried...

March 29, 2005: Rubashkin Seeks To Open Massive Chicken Farm – 400,000 Chickens Raised In Cages, 100% Of Local Population Opposed
Comments: 7 | Categories: Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
The Rubashkin family is attempting to open a massive cage-raised chicken farm in Iowa. 400,000 chickens would be hatched, raised and then sent to slaughter every six weeks. The chickens would be raised in giant sheds, locked in tiny cages,...

March 29, 2005: Rev. Jesse Jackson Does The Right Thing – Can The Same Be Said Of Rabbis Shafran, Wienreb, Krinsky and Schachter? No.
Comments: 18 | Categories: Hessed , Jewish Leadership , Med-Ethics, Public Health
The Rev. Jesse Jackson, at the invitation of Terri Schiavo's parents, came to the Florida hospice where Ms. Schiavo is being starved to death by court order: "I feel so passionate about this injustice being done, how unnecessary it is...

March 29, 2005: The Dirty Secret Behind Canada's Refusal
Comments: 4 | Categories: Ethiopian Jews , Hessed , Med-Ethics, Public Health
The sad thing not noted in the following article is the hospital's refusal to do the transplant is a clear violation of Canadian law. Canada's Justice Minister, Irwin Cotler, is said to agree and has privately expressed his 'solidarity' with...

March 29, 2005: Noticed While Surfing The Web: Gedolim Color War Returns
Comments: 2 | Categories: PARODY & SATIRE
After a several week hiatus arranged by a Canadian-based essayist and social commentator with her knickers, errr, sheitel, in a knot, Gedolim Color War has returned! Perhaps a certain American ex-patriot author needs a bit of a refresher course on...

March 28, 2005: ********** STRAWBERRIES BANNED! ********** No Joke – British Ultra-Orthodox Ban Strawberries Due To Fear Of Bugs
Comments: 14 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
The ultra-Orthodox Britain-based Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations (Kedassia Beis Din) has banned consumption of strawberries due to a fear of tiny, microscopic bugs: An emergency alert was released proclaiming that even with extensive checks and washing, the berries are...

March 28, 2005: VIDEO: The Lubavitcher Rebbe Encouraging Hasidim To Sing "Yechi …", Rebbe = Messiah? The Rebbe Sure Thought So
Comments: 22 | Categories: Chabad , Chabad History
Here is a video in Real Media format of the Lubavitcher Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson (post-stroke) encouraging his hasidim to sing "Yechi …" ("Long live our master our teacher or rabbi king messiah forever and ever.") I'm posting this so...

March 28, 2005: "I Saved A Lot Of People And Now I Don't Have Anyone To Save Me."
Comments: 2 | Categories: Ethiopian Jews , Hessed
http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050328.gthaymar28/BNStory/Technology/ GlobeandMail.com MONTREAL — A Montreal man who found a kidney donor on the Internet is taking legal action against the hospital that refused to perform the transplant for ethical reasons. Baruch Tegegne, 61, has dialysis treatment four times a...

March 28, 2005: Rabbi Hirsh Ginsberg, 'Chief Justice' Of Agudas HaRabbonim Defends Infamous Brooklyn Bundler, Attacks Forward
Comments: 4 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Jewish Leadership
Rabbi Hirsh Ginsberg, the 'Chief Justice' (and secretary, receptionist and maintenence man) of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada, also known as Agudas HaRabbonim, has a long letter in the March 18, 2005 Forward defending...

March 27, 2005: More On Agudah Racism – Lessons From The Holocaust Not Learned
Comments: 24 | Categories: Ethiopian Jews , Haredim , Jewish Leadership
Rabbi Moshe Sherer, the head of the Agudath Israel World Organization from the 1940's until his death in 1997, refused to aid Ethiopian Jews suffering and dying at the hands of Ethiopia's communist regime. Who was Moshe Sherer? Let Manfred...

March 27, 2005: Google Advertizes Hamas Terror Website – But Refused Ads For FailedMessiah.com After Chabad Pressure
Comments: 7 | Categories: Blogs
Google has been accepting AdWords ads promoting a Hamas 'millitary wing' terror website. After Ynet confronted Google, a Google spokesman told Ynet that the matter had been "dealt" with. Ynet checked. The Hamas ads were still running. Google has twice...

March 27, 2005: Chabad And Ethiopian Jews – The Shame Grows
Comments: 50 | Categories: Abdication , Chabad & EJs , Chabad History
Not long before the American Association for Ethiopian Jews meeting with R. Moshe Sherer of the Agudath Israel World Organization, two representatives of the Lubavitcher Rebbe sought a meeting with the AAEJ. The purpose of the meeting? Ostensively, to learn...

March 27, 2005: The Dirty Racist Underbelly Of The Haredi World – R. Moshe Sherer, Rav Moshe Feinstein, And The Rescue Of Ethiopian Jews
Comments: 12 | Categories: Abdication , Chabad & EJs , Ethiopian Jews , Haredim , Jewish Leadership
On May 19th, 1981, a delegation from the American Association for Ethiopian Jews met with Rabbi Moshe Sherer, the head of the Agudath Israel World Organization. Their purpose? To enlist the help of Agudah in the rescue of Ethiopian Jews....

March 26, 2005: Former OU Head Dr. Mandell Ganchrow On Terri Schiavo And Metzitzah B'Peh
Comments: 1 | Categories: Circumcision , Jewish Leadership , MO & Chardal
Former President of the OU Dr. Mandell Ganchrow speaks out about Terri Schiavo and metzitzah b'peh.

March 25, 2005: What Is Purim?
Comments: 5 | Categories: Hessed , Religion, Religion & State
A question about Purim has bothered me for many years. After realizing he had been tricked by Haman into exterminating an innocent people, the Jews, the king issued a new decree allowing the Jews to arm themselves and preemptively strike....

March 24, 2005: Is Michael Schiavo Something Like A Rodef?
Comments: 5 | Categories: History , Jewish Leadership
This disturbing and explosive comment was left by reader Stephen Mendelson to the post immediately below this one: I recognize this is a dangerous topic to talk about, but it needs to be raised. According to the Rambam, is Michael...

March 24, 2005: Rabbis On Terri Schiavo (Thank God For The God Squad)
Comments: 2 | Categories: Jewish Leadership
The Jewish Week has an article on the ethical issues of the Terri Schiavo case. Among the many conflicting voices is one that forms the basis for a legal (as opposed to a religious) argument to reinsert the the tube:...

March 24, 2005: The Montreal Gazette On The Baruch Tegegne Kidney Transplant Scandal
Comments: 2 | Categories: Ethiopian Jews , Hessed
When faced with a choice between life and death, Canada's socialized medicine chooses death. Of course, that death is meant to be for someone else, not the 'ethicists' involved. Please see the emergency appeal on the right sidebar of this...

March 24, 2005: Ohr Somayach "Luxury" Passover Features Unrepentant Liar, Cultlike Deception
Comments: 13 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Haredim , Jewish Leadership
The haredi evangeleical organization Ohr Somayach is advertizing its second "Luxury" Pesach at an Israeli resort hotel. The featured speaker is Rabbi David Orlofsky, who wrote a shameful letter smearing Rabbi Nosson Slifkin. On the same bill with Rabbi Orlofsky...

March 23, 2005: Chabad And The Holocaust, Part 3: "He was a moral failure at this time to condemn us and the Jewish people as a whole for the Holocaust when he in turn did hardly anything except rescue his books and few students' lives."
Comments: 5 | Categories: Abdication , Chabad , Chabad & Holocaust , Chabad History , Jewish Leadership
Historian Bryan Mark Rigg has left another stunning comment on MentalBlog: There is really no agenda, but to find the truth. I approached Deutsch several years ago, but he is not a trained historian nor was he very helpful. He...

March 23, 2005: Chabad And The Holocaust, Part 2
Comments: 2 | Categories: Abdication , Chabad , Chabad & Holocaust , Chabad History , Jewish Leadership
Historian Bryan Mark Rigg has (apparently) left the following comment on MentalBlog: As far as Menachem Mendel Schneerson's schooling is concerned, he never got a degree. As a historian, I tried to locate degrees from both Berlin and the Sorbonne,...

March 22, 2005: Potential Kidney Donor's Grandfather Died Of Kidney Failure – Moved By Jewish Hero's Story Of Escape & Rescue, Wants To Help – "God Will Be On My Side"
Comments: 0 | Categories: Ethiopian Jews , Hessed
http://www.canada.com/health/story.html?id=65b24449-09a2-4c6c-9475-4206bc5769e1 Lawyer for man who wants kidney transplant fights Montreal hospital in court Donald Mckenzie Canadian Press Tuesday, March 22, 2005 MONTREAL (CP) - Baruch Tegegne's reasons for wanting a kidney transplant can't be any simpler. "I want to save...

March 22, 2005: Chabad And The Holocaust: A Legacy Of Shame
Comments: 5 | Categories: Abdication , Chabad & Holocaust , Chabad History , Jewish Leadership
Tzemach Atlas has done a remarkable interview with historian Bryan Mark Rigg on Barry Gourary, o.h., and Chabad and the Holocaust: [T]he Rebbe [Yosef Yitchok Schneersohn] of course wanted to escape Europe and had his movement employ every means, even...

March 22, 2005: Is This Rabbi David Orlofsky's Letter Smearing Rabbi Slifkin?
Comments: 34 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Haredim , Jewish Leadership
The following has been sent to me by a reader. It is supposed to be the full text of Rabbi David Orlofsky's letter smearing Rabbi Nosson Slifkin. If true, it is one more very good reason not to be haredi:...

March 22, 2005: Rabbi Berel Wein: Bans Don't Work In Modern World – If You Want To Do Outreach, That Is
Comments: 6 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Haredim , Jewish Leadership
Rabbi Berel Wein has written a piece (off-line) about the Slifkin Ban: Orthodox leaders have to finally make up their minds as to whether they really are committed to outreach and spiritual help to other Jews - most of who...

March 22, 2005: UPDATE: Slifkin Ban In The NY Times – The Seal Of Rabbis Is Spin
Comments: 0 | Categories: Haredim , Jewish Leadership
In an earlier post I speculated that the NY Times article on the Slifkin Book Ban was nothing more than a Agudah spin. Low and behold, Rabbi Yitzchak Adlerstein – heavily featured in the Times article – has admitted as...

March 21, 2005: NY Times Reports On Slifkin Book Ban – Agudah Spin Behind The Story?
Comments: 4 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Haredim , Jewish Leadership
The New York Times has weighed in on the Slifkin Book Ban. The piece reads like Agudath Israel damage control – and so it may very well be. It should be clear by now that the haredi world has been...

March 21, 2005: Baruch Tegegne, Hero Who Pioneered Escape Routes From Ethiopia, On Dialysis – Canadian Citizen, Canadian Govt Refuses Transplant Due to Fear Donor May Have Been Paid For Kidney, Denies Charge – Govt Decision A "Death Sentence"
Comments: 3 | Categories: Ethiopian Jews , Hessed
http://www.canada.com/national/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=7e641438-764a-43ff-833c-266aa5915d3b National Post Lawyer for would-be kidney recipient blasts Mtl hospital's 'death sentence' Donald Mckenzie Canadian Press March 21, 2005 MONTREAL (CP) - A hospital's refusal to perform a kidney transplant on a 61-year-old man who found a donor on...

March 21, 2005: Jewish Vegetarians President Richard Schwartz – Meat Eating Causes Terrorism
Comments: 45 | Categories: Jewish Leadership , Kosher Scandal
The president of the Jewish Vegetarians of North America, Richard Schwartz asserts that a vegetarian diet would reduce world terrorism. Why? Well, aside from the clearly disproved idea that poverty causes terrorism and the also disproved idea that meat consumption...

March 21, 2005: As Tanya Printed In Background, Chabad Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh Calls For Soldiers To Disobey Evacuation Orders – Chabad Books More Important Than Human Life
Comments: 7 | Categories: Abdication , Chabad & Holocaust , Jewish Leadership
Chabad Rabbi and kabbalist Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh, oft indicted for incitement, has called on soldiers to disobey evacuation orders. Rabbi Ginsburgh spoke at a ceremony at Mitzpor Ziv, a now-disbanded illegal settler outpost. The ceremony marked the completion of a...

March 21, 2005: Do Jewish Vegetarians Have A Pulke To Stand On? Maybe Not …
Comments: 24 | Categories: Kosher Scandal
Sultan Knish has a rather strong attack on Richard Schwartz and his fellow travelers from Jewish Vegetarians of North America. In effect, the Knish is skewering Dr. Schwartz for the same errors in methodology that I have attacked him for...

March 18, 2005: Baltimore Jewish Times Gives In To Pressure – Declines To Publish Article On Chabad Three Separate Times – Why?
Comments: 13 | Categories: Chabad , Jewish Leadership
The Baltimore Jewish Times allegedly held a Joel Shurkin article about Chabad messianism for more than one year, repeatedly slotting it for publication – at least once as a cover story – and then pulling it due to 'community pressure,'...

March 17, 2005: New Israeli Hechsher Supervises Business Practice, Not Food
Comments: 5 | Categories: Kosher Business?
A new Israeli hechsher ('kosher' supervision) has been started to supervise business practices and protect workers from abuse. It requires employers to meet seven requirements. The first six are already law in Israel. The seventh is to provide handicap accessibility....

March 16, 2005: Where The Money Is: Rabbis Charge For Blessings – One Rabbi Pays $3,000,000 In Back Taxes – Millions More Due
Comments: 11 | Categories: Haredim , Jewish Leadership , Kosher Business?
http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=894600&fid=942 Mazuz orders tax collected on rabbis and kabbalists' blessings Until now, blessings and talismans were gray market items. Hadas Magen 16 Mar 05 15:14 Attorney General Menachem Mazuz recently ordered the Israel Tax Authority to collect taxes on rabbis'...

March 15, 2005: Falash Mura Compound In Addis To Reopen After Purge – Opponents Of Falash Mura Aliya May Have Acted As 'Agent Provocateurs'
Comments: 0 | Categories: Ethiopian Jews
The Jerusalem Post is exclusively reporting that the North American Conference On Ethiopian Jewry-run compound in Addis Ababa may be officially reopened by the Ethiopian government. The compound was closed after unfounded allegations of abuse were made to the Ethiopian...

March 15, 2005: BREAKING! FMI: OU's Portrayal Of Rubashkin Audit "Not Accurate"
Comments: 54 | Categories: Haredim , Jewish Leadership , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
I spoke a few moments ago with Karen Brown, the Vice President of the Food Marketing Institute (FMI) in charge of the FMI's Animal Welfare Audit Program (AWAP). I asked her about the recent AWAP audit passed by AgriProcessors, and...

March 15, 2005: Rabbi Barry Gourary – Baruch Dayan HaEmet
Comments: 41 | Categories: Chabad History
Tzemach Atlas is correctly reporting that Rabbi Barry Gourary, the grandson of Rabbi Yosef Yitchak Schneersohn, the 6th Lubavitcher rebbe, and the nephew of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the 7th Lubavitcher rebbe, has passed away. He was buried this morning...

March 13, 2005: Ultra-Orthodox Yated Ne'eman Approvingly Cites Racist, Antisemitic Klan Publication
Comments: 6 | Categories: Haredim
Pravda Ne'eman reports that the Israeli-based haredi newspaper Yated Ne'eman's online edition has approving cited the Ku Klux Klan-related publication The Southerner as an authoritative source to document the evils of Rock-and-Roll-style haredi music: "It will erode the entire moral...

March 13, 2005: Aaron & Moshe Rubashkin Took Union Dues From Employees – Kept The Money For Themselves
Comments: 26 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
In a sharply-worded decision, both Rabbi Moshe Rubashkin and his father Aaron (of Postville fame) were found guilty by the National Labor Relations Board of repetitively collecting union dues from their employees of Cherry Hill Textiles, Inc. and then refusing...

March 10, 2005: LA Jewish Journal Gives Rubashkin And The OU A Free Ride
Comments: 12 | Categories: Jewish Leadership , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
The LA Jewish Journal has a piece on the Rubashkin audit. To give you an idea of the quality of the Jewish Journal's reporting, note this quote from the Journal: [T]he meeting between the OU and FMI representatives is set...

March 10, 2005: And A Felon Shall Lead Them, Part 2 – Less Than A Year After Walking Out Of Fort Dix Federal Prison, Rabbi Moshe Rubashkin Elected Chairman Of The Gov't-Funded Chabad-Lubavitch Controlled Crown Heights Community Council
Comments: 8 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Jewish Leadership , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
As FailedMessiah.com reported several weeks ago, the government-funded Chabad-Lubavitch Crown Heights Community Council's newly-elected leader is convicted felon Moshe Rubashkin. New York Newsday has added some additional information to our brief report: Felon picked as leader No rules prevent convict...

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