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61 posts from November 2005

November 30, 2005: xLubi Blog
Comments: 16 | Categories: Blogs , Chabad
Max Kohanzad of xLubi.com has started a blog and toned-up his website. Check it out.

November 30, 2005: The New "Jerusalem Compass" Exposed
Comments: 5 | Categories: Haredim , Science
The new compass that points to Jerusalem and "defies" the laws of nature has been exposed as fraud. As Rebel Jew notes, the Observant Astronomer did some research into the compass, marketed by, among others, Torah Educational Software and endorsed...

November 30, 2005: Nation Of Islam Trashes Liquor Stores, Kidnaps Worker
Comments: 4 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc.
In what appears to be an attempt to impose Sharia law in the US, a gang made up of members of Lewis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam has allegedly trashed liquor stores, committed arson and kidnapped a store employee. Why? The...

November 30, 2005: New Haredi Blogs Bash Non-Orthodox
Comments: 2 | Categories: Blogs , Haredim
A ba'al teshuva 'non-denominational' haredi has started two blogs with the sole purpose of bashing the Reform and Conservative movements. Clean your own house, my friend. There is enough dirt there to last many lifetimes.

November 30, 2005: Chabad Blocks DNA Tests On Newly Discovered Holocaust Remains
Comments: 6 | Categories: Chabad
Chabad's front organization the Rabbinical Center of Europe and ZAKA have blocked DNA testing on newly discovered Holocaust remains. The testing would have given closure to surviving family members still seeking information of their lost relatives. This is perhaps the...

November 30, 2005: Rabbi Aaron Feldman's Untruthful New Letter
Comments: 3 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Haredim , Jewish Leadership , Science
Rabbi Aaron Feldman, Rosh Yeshiva of Ner Israel in Baltimore, was an early supporter of the now-banned "Zoo Rabbi" Rabbi Nosson Slifkin. He wrote a disgusting essay distributed several months ago in which he blamed Rabbi Slifkin for the damage...

November 30, 2005: Pope Jewish, Historian Claims
Comments: 1 | Categories: Religion, Religion & State
A Jewish historian is claiming that Pope John Paul 2 was Jewish. The "proof" is weak and the argument weaker, but, hey, you never know. (First spotted on the Canonist.)

November 28, 2005: Chabad Compass™!
Comments: 1 | Categories: Chabad
In light of the new Jerusalem Compass (see here) that always points toward Jerusalem, I thought Chabad deserved its own version more suitable for its own use:

November 28, 2005: Chabad Rears Its Anti-Zionist Head: Sharon "False Messiah," Do NOT Pray For State, "We do not believe in the rule of the heretics, and disregard their laws."
Comments: 36 | Categories: Chabad , Chabad & Holocaust , Israel , MO & Chardal
"We do not believe in the rule of the heretics, and disregard their laws." The Jerusalem Post and Ynet are reporting Rabbi Sholom Dovber Wolpe, the most popular Chabad rabbi in Israel, has published a new book arguing against Religious...

November 27, 2005: Haredi Compass
Comments: 8 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Haredim , Jewish Leadership , PARODY & SATIRE , Science
An e-mail from TES trumpets a new invention – a compass that always points toward Jerusalem. Here is GodolHador's take on this new invention. Mine is immediately below:

November 27, 2005: New Israeli Play Features 3 Formerly Haredi Stars
Comments: 0 | Categories: Chabad , Haredim , Israel
Ha'aretz reports Israel's leading playwrite, Yehoshua Sobol, has written a play about two haredi men who lead double lives, secretly exploring the secular world. Three of the play's stars are former haredim who left the fold. One describes his real...

November 27, 2005: Ha'aretz: Chabad To Help Shas In Upcoming Election
Comments: 3 | Categories: Chabad , Haredim , Israel , Sefardim
Chabad has agreed to join the Shas campaign for the new Knesset. Ha'aretz reports: Members of the Chabad Hasidic movement will assist Shas in the upcoming elections campaign, the ultra-Orthodox party said Thursday. Shas spokesman Roi Lachmanovitch said that the...

November 26, 2005: Editor Of The Journal Of Halakha And Contemporary Society, Chabad Caught Illegally Screening Movie
Comments: 7 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Jewish Leadership
Rabbi Alfred Cohen, editor of the Journal of Halakha and Contemporary Society, and the Chabad Center in Wayne, New Jersey are both caught illegally screening the movie Ushpizin without paying its distributor or filmmaker or receiving permission. Rabbi Cohen claims...

November 25, 2005: Blog No Evil
Comments: 4 | Categories: Blogs , PARODY & SATIRE

November 24, 2005: Lazar Meets Antisemite Zhirinovsky To Storm Of Israeli Protest, Russia Cracks Down On "Foreign" Charities, Reason For Goldschmidt Ban Now Clear
Comments: 4 | Categories: Chabad , Court Jews , Dirty Tricks , Jewish Leadership , Turf Disputes
As Chabad's 'chief rabbi' of Russia Berel Lazar meets with noted antisemites Vladimir Zhirinovsky and Dmitri Rogozin (the heads of two Russian nationalist parties that disseminate anti-Semitic propaganda) to a storm of Israeli protest, Russia moves further away from democracy...

November 23, 2005: Chief Rabbi's Son, Wife Admit Attack, Kidnapping Charges
Comments: 9 | Categories: Chabad , Court Jews , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Dirty Tricks , Haredim , Jewish Leadership , Sefardim , Turf Disputes
Sefardic Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar's son has admitted to kidnapping and assult charges. His mother, Rabbi Amar's wife, has admitted to knowing about the abduction and attack as it was happening and then doing nothing to stop it. Ha'aretz reports:...

November 23, 2005: NY Times On Lakewood Internet Ban
Comments: 1 | Categories: Blogs , Haredim
Lakewood's internet ban has hit the New York Times. But the real news in the piece is that Shtreimel is blogging again.

November 22, 2005: Moscow's Chief Rabbi Deemed "Threat" To Russia's National Security, Permanently Banned From Russia
Comments: 0 | Categories: Chabad , Chabad History , Court Jews , Dirty Tricks , Jewish Leadership , Turf Disputes
Moscow's chief rabbi, Pinkhas Goldschmidt has been banned from Russia for almost three months. At first, we were told his visa expired. Then there were rumors of a fight between Rabbi Goldschmidt and Chabad supporter Vladimir Slutsker, who headed the...

November 22, 2005: Amazing Video
Comments: 3 | Categories: History
Menachem Butler has found a tremendous online video of daily life in Munkatch, Hungary in 1933. It opens with the wedding of the Munkatcher Rebbe (the leading anti-Zionist, along with the 6th Lubavitcher Rebbe, of his day) and then switches...

November 22, 2005: The Rebbe Is "Higher" Than God?
Comments: 44 | Categories: Chabad
Any information on the above poster? A reader sent this in. It is supposedly posted around Israel. Readers? The headline reads: "The Messiah the Rebbe of Lubavitch He is the King of Kings, the Holy One, Blessed is He, and...

November 21, 2005: Money, Mobsters And Murder: Three Jewish Republicans Get In Really Big Trouble – Again
Comments: 4 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Jewish Leadership
Just when you may have thought the scandals surrounding Orthodox Jewish Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff couldn't get any stranger, comes this sordid tale of mobsters and murder. Read it at your own peril. Don't be surprised if these scandals eventually...

November 21, 2005: Jews, Orthodoxy And The Jewish Birthrate
Comments: 5 | Categories: Haredim , Jewish Leadership , Turf Disputes
Jack Wertheimer's disingenuous article on the declining American Jewish population is now online. Wertheimer, an official of the failing Conservative movement, blasts his more liberal peers in the Reform and Reconstructionist movements for espousing attitudes that reduce rather than increase...

November 20, 2005: Darwin: "Moses Can Take Care Of Himself"
Comments: 3 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Chabad , Haredim , Science
From today's New York Times: The basic objections to evolution - the ones trumpeted by the proponents of so-called intelligent design - are essentially the ones Darwin described in the sixth chapter of "Origin." They have been given a new...

November 20, 2005: Soviet Torturer's Statue Now In Front Of Gov't Building
Comments: 3 | Categories: Court Jews
The statue of Feliks Dzerzhinsky, the man behind the Soviet Union's Red Terror and the founder of what would later become the notorious KGB, has been returned to a place of honor in Vladimir Putin's Moscow, in front of the...

November 19, 2005: Lower East Side Shul's Rebound
Comments: 4 | Categories: Chabad , Haredim , History
Lower East Side shuls rebound. The Villager reports: While a strong Orthodox community continues to thrive around the Grand St. co-ops and the Bialystoker Synagogue, ancient shuls from Delancey to Houston St. stand like lonely outposts of a bygone era....

November 18, 2005: Jerusalem's Walls In Danger Of Collapse
Comments: 3 | Categories: Israel
The Israel Antiquities Authority has again warned that the wall surrounding Jerusalem's ancient Old City is in danger of collapse: The survey showed 11 sections of the stone wall needing attention, most of them located along the northern stretch, which...

November 17, 2005: 'Lost' Jabotinsky Novel Published
Comments: 3 | Categories: Books , Haredim , History , Israel , Jewish Leadership
A 'lost' novel by Vladimir Jabotinsky has just been translated into English. Jabotinsky was in many ways a modern Jewish prophet, who spent the pre-Holocaus years traveling throughout Europe urging Jews to leave while there was still time. He was...

November 17, 2005: Shas MK Indicted, Admits Fraud
Comments: 1 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Jewish Leadership , Sefardim
In Israel, one is paid for most every job based on one's level of education, not one's actual level of performance or experience. The higher one's degree, the higher one's salary. Therefore, academic fraud is both a significant crime and...

November 16, 2005: PETA Kosherfest Protest
Comments: 7 | Categories: Kosher Scandal
PETA protested Rubashkin's animal cruelty at Kosherfest yesterday in New York. According to PETA's Matt Prescott: We were only able to be inside with our "body screen TV" (a wearable, portable video player) for a few minutes, but throughout the...

November 16, 2005: Pig Abuse In Israel
Comments: 24 | Categories: Kosher Scandal
Ha'aretz reports on pig abuse in Israel: It felt like we had arrived in hell. A powerful stench was discernible half a kilometer away. A little closer, you hear the moans and screams. And inside - overcrowding and filth. Here,...

November 16, 2005: 4 Refugees From GodolHador Publish New Blog
Comments: 0 | Categories: Blogs
Four of GodolHador's best commenters, Krum As A Bagel, On The Main Line, The 37th Tzaddik and ADDeRabbi have banded together to publish a joint blog, Maven Yavin. GadolHador was the best (and the funniest!) blog on Jewish thought and...

November 15, 2005: PETA To Protest Rubashkin At KosherFest, Calls For Boycott
Comments: 7 | Categories: Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
PETA has announced that they will be protesting Rubashkin at Kosherfest (staged at the Javits Center), which starts today in NYC: Holding signs that read, "Cruelty Is Treif: Boycott AgriProcessors," PETA members and supporters will protest against AgriProcessors, the world’s...

November 15, 2005: Rebbe's Cousin "Neo-Nazi"
Comments: 13 | Categories: Chabad History
Yehudi Menuhin's son has been removed from his father's foundation for espousing "neo-Nazi" views. Lord Menuhin, Lord Isaiah Berlin and the Rebbe were all equal Schneerson cousins. All are direct descendants of the Alter Rebbe. Menuhin's father was, like the...

November 14, 2005: The Problem With Chabad, Part 1: The Shabbatai Tsvi Defense
Comments: 19 | Categories: Chabad
[This begins what is planned to be a series of posts on reactions of segments of the Jewish world to the post-Rebbe messianism of the Chabad movement.] A large number of Chabad defenders contend that, because Chabad is "doing so...

November 14, 2005: Gov't To Sieze Rubashkin Property, Shell Game Continues
Comments: 0 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Jewish Leadership , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Rabbi Moshe Rubashkin's torched Allentown, PA mill is about to be siezed by the city after the "property owner" refused to pay for the site's cleanup. But who really owns the property? As the Allentown Morning Call reports: Allentown officials...

November 13, 2005: Moscow's Chief Rabbi Still Banned
Comments: 0 | Categories: Chabad , Court Jews , Jewish Leadership , Turf Disputes
Ha'aretz reports: Thursday's election of millionaire industrialist Vyacheslav Kantor as acting president of the Russian Jewish Congress could pave the way for the return to Moscow of the city's [non-Chabad] chief rabbi, Pinhas Goldschmidt, Jewish sources in the Russian capital...

November 13, 2005: Chabad At Its Best
Comments: 7 | Categories: Chabad , Haredim , Jewish Leadership , MO & Chardal
Chabad has a tremendous new project called the Tefillin Bank, which provides new tefillin to any (male) Jew who wants and needs them. What YU, Modern Orthodoxy and haredim will never understand is how much good will projects like this...

November 12, 2005: The Forward On The NYU Rebbe Conference
Comments: 7 | Categories: Chabad & the Media
Conference Weighs Rebbe's Legacy By Steven I. Weiss November 11, 2005 The late Lubavitcher Rebbe was the subject of a groundbreaking three-day conference at New York University this week, a generally laudatory program that could set the tone for how...

November 11, 2005: More Aish Lies?
Comments: 5 | Categories: Haredim , Jewish Leadership , Kosher Scandal
Aish HaTorah has an article arguing against vegetarianism, in part by praising Judaism's treatment of animals: … At the same time, the Torah stresses compassion for animals. Indeed, the Jewish forefathers are known affectionately as the "Seven Shepherds," and the...

November 10, 2005: Abraham Was Wrong: The Logic Of Aish.com
Comments: 7 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Haredim , PARODY & SATIRE
After reading this article on Aish.com, I thought it important to reprint a more accurate version here: ABRAHAM WAS WRONG by Rabbi Nechemia Foofersmith A CHILLING EXPERIMENT Do you think basically good, mentally healthy people could murder innocent human beings?...

November 10, 2005: Rabbinical Courts, Corruption & Abuse
Comments: 2 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel
Does the haredi system protect the weak? Or does it curry favor with the strong and abusive? Here's more evidence. You decide.

November 10, 2005: In Honor Of Godol Hador
Comments: 8 | Categories: Blogs
John Milton, the English poet, wrote Areopagitica in 1644 to defend the free, unliscensed press – i.e., blogs – of his day. In honor of Godol Hador, here it is in a free (36 page) pdf download.

November 10, 2005: Bnei Menashe Aliyah Halted
Comments: 3 | Categories: Israel
The Jerusalem Post is reporting Bnei Menashe aliyah has been halted due to pressure from the Indian government. Supposedly, the Indians object to the conversions of the Bnei Menashe – deemed by Sephardic and National Religious rabbis as being from...

November 10, 2005: Godol Hador Shuts Down
Comments: 0 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Blogs , MO & Chardal
GodolHador closes his blog. He will be sorely missed.

November 8, 2005: The Lying God
Comments: 6 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Blogs , Chabad , Haredim
Gil Student continues to descend further into haredi madness. For those tracking the NYU Rebbe conference (post 1, post 2, post 3 – same graphic for each post) you may want to keep in mind that the first rabbi to...

November 8, 2005: Norman Lamm Steps Up At NYU Rebbe Conference
Comments: 5 | Categories: Chabad , Chabad & the Media
Steven I. Weiss reports on Rabbi Dr. Norman Lamm's response (at the NYU Rebbe conference) to the presentations of Eliot Wolfson, Moshe Hallamish and Alan Brill: My main concern in reaction to this admirable presentation of the arcane thought of...

November 8, 2005: Problem Leaving Comments?
Comments: 1 | Categories: Blogs
If you've had problems leaving comments, I apologize. TypePad was down again today. I found this site calling for a class action lawsuit against TypePad. I'm not sure what to make of it, but my anger is rising.

November 8, 2005: The Forward And NYU's Rebbe Conference
Comments: 0 | Categories: Chabad & the Media
What will not be seriously discussed at NYU's Rebbe conference? Birthday gatherings like the one advertized on this poster. NYU is hosting the first academic conference on the Rebbe in the US. Bar Illan held a similar conference three years...

November 8, 2005: More On Ethiopian Grave Robbing
Comments: 0 | Categories: Ethiopian Jews , Israel
In a followup to this post, Ha'aretz reports on Ethiopia's reaction to Ethiopian Jews' protests over the desecration of Jewish graves in Ethiopia.

November 4, 2005: Genesis As Mythology
Comments: 18 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Chabad , Haredim , MO & Chardal
This is the best brief treatment of why Genesis is mythology. It should be mandatory reading for all Jews, especially all 'gedolim.' Say, maybe the kanaim could translate a some of this for them!

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