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October 27, 2005: The Unchosen: The Hidden Lives of Hasidic Rebels
Comments: 3 | Categories: Books , Chabad , Haredim

Sandee Brawarsky of the New York Jewish Week reviews the new book "The Unchosen: The Hidden Lives of Hasidic Rebels."

October 27, 2005: Ethiopian Who Saved Jews To Be Deported – From Israel
Comments: 0 | Categories: Ethiopian Jews , Israel , Jewish Leadership

An Ethiopian righteous gentile is up for deportation from Israel. No amount of first-hand testimony from those he has helped save seems to be sufficient for Israel's Interior Ministry, which also claims the Ethiopian did not serve in the IDF...

October 27, 2005: Rabbi Sanctioned By State Over Nursing Home Abuse
Comments: 0 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Jewish Leadership , Med-Ethics, Public Health

Orthodox nursing home magnet Rabbi Morris Esformes has been sanctioned by the State of Illinois. His nursing homes have been under fire for years, with abuse and negligence alleged to be rampant. [Hat tip: JWB]

October 27, 2005: Chicken Abuse In Israel? Why Are Rabbis Silent?
Comments: 0 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Jewish Leadership , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , MO & Chardal

Ha'aretz reports on chicken-raising in Israel: Arik Ben Moshe, chief nutritionist at the Amir-Dagan feed mill, said the source of protein in the chicken feed is grains, feathers, and sterilized meal mead from bodies of chicken, fish and meat. After...

October 27, 2005: Iran: Israel Must Be Wiped Off Map
Russia: No Sanctions Against Iran, Syria

Comments: 14 | Categories: Chabad , Court Jews , Israel , Jewish Leadership

Iran's president called yesterday for Israel to "wiped off the map." Russia, who is reported to be helping Iran achieve nuclear technology, is refusing to join in condemnation of Iran's stand. Russia also is refusing to sanction Syria for its...

October 27, 2005: Haredim Riot In Jerusalem
Comments: 2 | Categories: Dirty Tricks , Haredim , Israel

Y-Net reports: Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox men rioted Tuesday night in Jerusalem's Shabbat Square, stoning police and injuring four officers. One officer was taken to Shaare Zedek hospital in the capital, and four people were arrested, including three teens. Several civilians...

October 26, 2005: More On Ukraine's Chief Rabbi Scandal
Comments: 0 | Categories: Chabad , Court Jews , Haredim , Jewish Leadership , Turf Disputes

The JTA has more on the scandal surrounding Ukraine's many chief rabbis: Yakov Dov Bleich, a U.S.-born rabbi and member of the Karlin-Stoliner Chasidic group, has been widely recognized as chief rabbi of both Kiev and Ukraine since 1992. Bleich,...

October 26, 2005: Satmar Factions Rumble In Williamsburg
Comments: 6 | Categories: Circumcision , Haredim , Turf Disputes

Two rival Satmar factions fought in shul in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY on Simhat Torah. Police broke up the rumble before it could turn into a full-fledged riot. This is the community whose Beit Din is entrusted by NYC's mayor to...

October 24, 2005: Fear Society
Comments: 12 | Categories: Haredim

Ha'aretz has a review of Natan Sharansky's book on democracy, which has just come out in Hebrew translation. Ha'aretz summarizes Sharansky's thought: According to Sharansky … the world is divided between free societies and fear societies. Fear societies … must...

October 24, 2005: Grave Robbing Destroys Ethiopian Jewish Cemeteries
Comments: 0 | Categories: Ethiopian Jews , Israel , Jewish Leadership

Ha'aretz has a disturbing report about the desecration of Jewish cemeteries in Ethiopia. Locals dig up Jewish bones and trade them, believing that they have the power to cure illness. They also use the land to grow crops. Locals have...

October 23, 2005: Rabbi Shteinman: "Most" Gentiles "Robbers, Murderers, Theives"
Comments: 13 | Categories: Haredim , Jewish Leadership

Paul Shaviv has some interesting thoughts about this quote attributed to the haredi yeshiva world's number two 'gadol,' Rabbi Aryeh Leib Shteinman by (the Israeli) Yated Ne'eman: "Most of the world is evil," said Steinman, "especially the gentiles, most of...

October 23, 2005: Simchat Torah, Shabbatai Tsvi & Rabbi Hershal Schachter
Comments: 7 | Categories: Haredim , History , Jewish Leadership , MO & Chardal

Miriam Shaviv has an excellent post on the customs of Simkhat Torah based on Avraham Ya'ari's classic history of the festival, 'Toldot Chag Simchat Torah' ('The Origins of the Festival of Simchat Torah,' pub. in Hebrew by Mossad Harav Kook):...

October 23, 2005: Circumcision And NYC's Mayorial Race
Comments: 1 | Categories: Circumcision , Haredim , Jewish Leadership , Med-Ethics, Public Health

The Australian reports on metzitza b'peh and the NYC mayorial race: … But for a real sense of just how desperately Bloomberg craves a second term, the tragic case of the baby boy who died last year after contracting the...

October 23, 2005: HaModia Banned In Williamsburg
Comments: 1 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Haredim

Chakira reports on the newest Satmar cause – protests calling for the banning of HaModia (an ultra-Orthodox newspaper) from Williamsburg.

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The New York Times, Page 1: "Shmarya Rosenberg…traced the fraudulent comments on his site to a 5W address."

The New York Times: "The legal conflict has revealed a deep tension within the Orthodox community that has been reported in the Jewish weekly press, and has been the almost exclusive topic of discussion on some Orthodox Jewish Web sites like failedmessiah.com and unorthodoxjew.blogspot.com in the months since Mr. Hikind brought up sexual abuse."

The New York Times: "In Postville, residents were dismayed by a report posted on a Jewish Web site, FailedMessiah.com, saying that Sholom Rubashkin held a celebration in Postville last week after he was released from detention on $1 million bail."

THE COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW: "[Jeff] Abbas passed the video to Shmarya Rosenberg, a blogger in St. Paul, Minnesota, who has provided some of the best coverage of the raid and its aftermath; a few days later, the video was referenced in The New York Times."

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The Forward: Blogger Focuses on Orthodox Foibles

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The Village Voice: The Fall Of The House Of Rubashkin

Tablet Magazine: Blogger charges Jerusalem Online University tricking secular students into Orthodoxy

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GAWKER: 5WPR Flacks Get So Freaking Busted Impersonating People Online

GAWKER: 5WPR Busted For Even More Blog Fraud; Uses Apology As Slimy Sales Pitch Opportunity

Jerusalem Post: Agriprocessors' PR company faces allegations of identity theft

The Forward: Flacks for Kosher Slaughterhouse Accused of Impersonating Company's Critics Online

The Forward: Flacks for Kosher Company Admit Impersonation

JTA: PR firm accused of impersonating rabbi

GAWKER: 5WPR Scares Holy Man With Sock Puppet, Blames Intern

JTA Traces Fake Rabbi Morris Allen Comment To Agriprocessors Spokesman's Home

JTA: Agriprocessors' PR firm accused of impersonating rabbi

Ha'aretz: Jewish blogger tackles perceived shortcomings of Orthodox Judaism

PR Week: 5W faces accusation for blog misconduct

GAWKER: Scheme To Blame Intern For PR Fraud Unravels

The Forward: Meat Company’s P.R. Firm Acknowledges Responsibility of ‘Senior Staff Member’ in Online Deception

GAWKER: Sad Flacks Secretly Edit Their Boss's Own Wikipedia Page

NY Jewish Week: A P.R. Nightmare

The Forward: Postville’s City Council initially voted to support the idea of a community benefits agreement, but later voted to withdraw support for such an agreement — a development first reported on the blog Failed Messiah.

The Forward: The blog Failed Messiah reported that Hirsch wrote an e-mail to the alliance assailing its Jewish member groups.

Mpls StarTribune: PR firm's meat plant messages misleading

Iowa Independent: Misconduct by Agriprocessors' PR Firm Has Rabbi Considering Legal Options

The Forward: Public Relations Firm Criticized

PR Week: 5W, Orthodox Jewish group at odds over statement

The Daily Kos: "This project could not have been completed without the help of others. While I cannot name them all, I would be negligent if I did not mention Shmarya Rosenberg of FailedMessiah.com…"

The Cedar Rapids Gazette: "…[H]e did not broadcast the interview on his radio station but [instead] sent it to failedmessiah.com and played it for local law enforcement agencies."

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ASBURY PARK PRESS: Dwek Faces Shunning, If Not Death

Religion In The News: "So authoritative has Rosenberg become that he is now regularly quoted by the Register; and his site has been referenced by the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and both the Forward and the JTA."

New Vilna Review: Is There An Orthodox War Against Modern Orthodoxy?

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Talkline Radio Network Interview: Rabbinic responses to Ethiopian Jewry.

Tablet Magazine: “If you’re Jewish and you were married five years ago, you have not confronted the problem that exists today,” Rosenberg says. “The problem is much worse for anyone who isn’t Orthodox. As the Haredi strength grows and their control grows, that’ll become clearer.”

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