« July 2005 | Main | September 2005 »

70 posts from August 2005

August 11, 2005: Australian Jewish News Rebukes Chabad For Ties To Extremists
Comments: 0 | Categories: Chabad , Israel , Jewish Leadership
The Ausralian Jewish News writes: IT seems easy, if short-sighted, to cast off the controversial petition effectively calling on settlers and Israel Defence Forces soldiers to illegally disobey orders as the work of fringe elements on the extreme end of...

August 11, 2005: Chabad Linked To Mentor Of Jewish Terrorist
Comments: 2 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Israel
The Forward reports: … Natan-Zada had spent his last months in Kfar Tapuach, a tiny West Bank settlement that is a stronghold of the banned Kach movement founded by the late Rabbi Meir Kahane and branded as a terrorist group...

August 11, 2005: Great-Grandson Of The Ba'al HaTanya Met US President Ulysses S. Grant
Comments: 0 | Categories: Chabad History
A great-grandson of the first Chabad rebbe, Schneur Zalman of Liadi, travelled to America from his home in Israel to raise funds for the Jewish community. While here, he met with President Ulysses S. Grant. Chaim Tzvi Schneersohn was the...

August 11, 2005: Massive Anti-Disengagement Rally At Kotel
Comments: 3 | Categories: Israel
A massive anti-Disengagement rally was held yesterday at the Western Wall. Typical of Israel's religious right, photos of the rally, speeches, press releases and other press information is seemingly non-existant. Fox News had a great video of the crowd but...

August 10, 2005: Satire?
Comments: 16 | Categories: PARODY & SATIRE
An occasional reader has sent in this cartoon. He points out that it is a satire of Haredim and Modern Orthodox Jewish leaders as much if not more than it is a satire of Chabad.

August 10, 2005: Chabad Property May Be Most Blighted, Newspaper Says
Comments: 2 | Categories: Chabad
According to the Austin (Minnesota) Daily Herald, the Chabad-Lubavitch yeshiva imay be the most blighted building in all of downtown Austin. This follows years of code violations and blight at locations in Saint Paul and Inver Grove Heights.

August 10, 2005: Israel Orders Extremist Deported – To Crown Heights
Comments: 3 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Israel
Israel has ordered Kach / Kahane Chai extremist Sa'adiya Herschkop deported to the United States. Herschkop, a student of a Chabad-Lubavitch yeshiva in Kfar Chabad, Israel will be sent home to his family in the Chabad neighborhood of Crown Heights,...

August 9, 2005: The Legacy Of Menachem Mendel Schneerson
Comments: 34 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Dirty Tricks , Jewish Leadership
Chana Gourary, eldest daughter of the 6th Lubavitcher Rebbe Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn and sister-in-law of the 7th rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson, after being beaten by a hasid of the 7th rebbe. Mrs. Gourary was then in her mid-eighties. In a...

August 7, 2005: Rebbe's Claimed 'Sorbonne Education' Debunked
Comments: 61 | Categories: Chabad History
Tzemach Atlas has a post definitively debunking claims – made by the Rebbe himself! – of a Sorbonne education and degree. It also debunks much of the Rebbe's claims about his education at the University of Berlin and calls into...

August 7, 2005: A Better Billboard For Chabad
Comments: 3 | Categories: Chabad
In light of the recent controversy over Chabad's new messianic billboard, FailedMessiah.com would humbly like to suggest a better campaign – one that will have a much bigger reach than Chabad's current offering: It gets right to the point, doesn't...

August 7, 2005: Kach 'Activist' From Kfar Chabad Arrested
Comments: 1 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Israel
One of the three Kach 'activists' arrested because they are are believed to be plotting more terror attacks against Arabs is Sa'adya Herschko, a US citizen currently living in Kfar Chabad. The three were arrested at the funeral of Eden...

August 7, 2005: The Messiah Of Crown Heights
Comments: 4 | Categories: Chabad
From today's Newsday: A new billboard on the West Side Highway and 44th Street proclaims "Moshiach" - Messiah - "Is Here" under a picture of the late Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson of Crown Heights, the charismatic Jewish leader known as...

August 7, 2005: Murderer
Comments: 3 | Categories: Israel

August 7, 2005: The Thugs Of Lakewood
Comments: 1 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Haredim
From Ha'aretz: … Three times over the last three years, [Lakewood] yeshiva leaders have lent their names to bans on books published by writers from Lakewood or elsewhere within the ultra-Orthodox world. Each book had crossed a different boundary, tested...

August 5, 2005: Rashi's 900th Yartzeit Today
Comments: 2 | Categories: History
Rashi's 900th yartzeit (anniversary of death) is today. (As first noted elsewhere and seen on Bloghead.)

August 2, 2005: Saudi Arabia's Jewish Doctor
Comments: 2 | Categories: Ethiopian Jews , Israel
From Albawaba.com: … With the help of Saudi billionaire, Adnan Khashoggi, Israel’s Professor Moshe Mani would wrap himself up in a traditional Arab Jalabiya, and leap from one Arab leader to the other. According to the report, he went horse-back...

August 2, 2005: ADL: Animal Rights Group Should Take PETA's Lead
Comments: 3 | Categories: Kosher Scandal
Chicago, IL, August 2, 2005 – The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has called on the National Primate Research Exhibition Hall to take the lead of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and stop comparing the abusive treatment of animals...

August 2, 2005: More On Rabbi Moshe Rubashkin's Gutted Mill
Comments: 4 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Jewish Leadership , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
More on Rabbi Moshe Rubashkin's abandonded mill from the Allentown Morning Call: With the last of a mysterious flammable substance contained, demolition of the burned-out Montex Mills building in south Allentown will resume. Mayor Roy C. Afflerbach announced Monday that...

August 1, 2005: Urgent Medical Help Needed
Comments: 0 | Categories: Hessed
She is in intensive care. She needs a liver transplant to survive. You can help.

August 1, 2005: Chabad & The Media: The Messiah On Israeli TV
Comments: 8 | Categories: Chabad , Chabad & the Media , Israel
Ha'aretz reports: The Chabad movement has been given lots of Channel 1 coverage as of late. A month and a half ago, the channel aired "The Emissaries," a film about the annual convention of Chabad worldwide emissaries held in New...

« Newer

----------------------

----------------------

FailedMessiah.com is a reader supported website.

Thank you for your generous support!

----------------------

----------------------

----------------------

Search

Please Scroll Down Toward The Bottom Of This Page For More Search Options, For A List Of Recent Posts, And For Comments Rules

----------------------

Recent Posts

----------------------

FailedMessiah.com is a reader supported website. Please click the Donate button now to contribute.

Thank you for your generous support!

-------------------------

Pages

Comment Rules

  • 1. No anonymous comments.

    2. Use only one name or alias and stick with that.

    3. Do not use anyone else's name or alias.

    4. Do not sockpuppet.

    5. Try to argue using facts and logic.

    6. Do not lie.

    7. No name-calling, please.

    8. Do not post entire articles or long article excerpts.

    ***Violation of these rules may lead to the violator's comments being edited or his future comments being banned.***

Older Posts Complete Archives

Search FailedMessiah

----------------------

FailedMessiah.com is a reader supported website.

Thank you for your generous support!

----------------------

----------------------

FailedMessiah.com in the Media

RSS Feed