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December 10, 2005: Moscow's Chief Rabbi Returns
Comments: 0 | Categories: Chabad , Court Jews , Dirty Tricks , Jewish Leadership , Turf Disputes

The JTA reports: Moscow’s chief rabbi returned to the city after being barred from Russia since September. Pinchas Goldschmidt landed at a Moscow airport Thursday evening. His visa had been cancelled upon arrival at the Moscow airport in late September,...

December 9, 2005: Buy A Rabbi – Israel's Chief Rabbinate Scandal Widens
Comments: 2 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Jewish Leadership , MO & Chardal , Sefardim

Ha'aretz writes: Buy a rabbi By Haaretz Editorial This weekend's Haaretz magazine exposes a major corruption scandal that could be called the "Latvia 2 affair." Hundreds of policemen, army officers and noncommissioned officers are suspected of having received fictitious certification...

December 9, 2005: Putin "Backs Down" Under US, EU Pressure
Comments: 1 | Categories: Chabad , Court Jews , Jewish Leadership

Under intense US and EU pressure, Russia's neo-Stalinist president Vladimir Putin appears to be backing down from proposed restrictions on pro-democracy groups: President Vladimir Putin signaled Friday he would scrap some of the harshest provisions of a much-criticized bill that...

December 9, 2005: Ethiopian Jews Sue Jewish Agency, Joint
Comments: 4 | Categories: Ethiopian Jews , Israel

The Jerusalem Post reports: One hundred and thirty-nine former immigrants from Ethiopia sued the Jewish Agency and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee this week for more than NIS 5 million for allegedly refusing to pay them for their work...

December 9, 2005: New Scandal Rocks Israeli Chief Rabbinate
Comments: 0 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Jewish Leadership

Israel's haredi-controlled Chief Rabbinate is involved in yet another scandal, this time awarding fake semicha (ordination) certificates that raise the salaries of the recipients. Paul Shaviv reports.

December 9, 2005: Lakewood Cop Smear Updates
Comments: 0 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Jewish Leadership

The post on haredim in Lakewood, NJ attempting to destroy the career of a local police officer has been updated several times. What it all boils down to is this – haredim believe secular laws were made for others to...

December 9, 2005: Fight In Prague Flares – Former Chief Rabbi Returns, Chabad Pushed (Partially) Out
Comments: 4 | Categories: Chabad , Turf Disputes

Prague's former chief rabbi, Karol Sidon, has been reappointed by the Prague Jewish Community. Rabbi Sidon, a former dissident and native Czech, was forced out a year and a half ago by a secular head of the PJC with allegedly...

December 7, 2005: Rabbi Elyashiv Opposes Rabbis Who Banned Book Without Reading It – The Same Thing Rabbi Elyashiv And His Henchmen Did To Rabbi Slifkin
Comments: 3 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Haredim , Jewish Leadership

In a bizarre move, Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv criticizes other rabbis for banning a book on marriage without first reading it. Does that mean Rabbi Elyashiv apologized to Rabbi Slifkin for banning him and the books he wrote on Torah...

December 7, 2005: Gil Student Thanks God For Modern Orthodoxy
Comments: 7 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Blogs , Chabad , Haredim , Jewish Leadership , MO & Chardal , Science

R. Gil Student, exasperated with pronouncements of gedolim disparaging science, thanks God for Modern Orthodoxy. The crux of Gil's journey begins in high school with a question: Was the entire text of the Talmuds and Mishna given to Moses at...

December 7, 2005: Lakewood Cop Smear
Comments: 6 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim

[UPDATED BELOW] Rabbi Yudel Shain is sending around a link to a CBS-2 video of a Lakewood woman and her father who are alleging police brutality. The police officer accused? The same one who arrested a Lakewood rosh yeshiva several...

December 7, 2005: Chabad Rabbi Who Advocated Sedition Will Not Be Compensated For Gaza Home
Comments: 11 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc.

The Chabad rabbi of Neve Dekalim in Gaza has been denied compensation for his family's eviction and the demolition of their home during Israel's Disengagement from Gaza. Arutz Sheva reports: [Rabbi] Kirshenzaft fears that the decision to deprive him and...

December 7, 2005: To A Fool His Due – Quackery In The Name Of God
Comments: 2 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , MO & Chardal , Science

A Montreal-based rabbi has written a new book of Torah "codes": … Rabbi Mordechai Bulua attempts to demonstrate that verses in the Torah allude to major events in Jewish and world history that occurred in the corresponding year of the...

December 7, 2005: The Roots Of Anti-Modernity?
Comments: 9 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Books , Haredim , History , Jewish Leadership , Science

Do the roots of the Rabbi Slifkin Book Ban and the anti-modernity views of haredim (ultra-Orthodoxy) go back to the dispute between Beit Hillel and Beit Shammai? Perhaps they do. The Observant Astronomer has a post reviewing Menachem Fisch's book...

December 7, 2005: Gerald Schroeder Interviewed On Dennis Prager's Show
Comments: 4 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Haredim , Science

Gerald Schroeder was on Dennis Prager's radio show (third hour) today and I caught the final 2/3 of the interview. Schroeder's understanding (under questioning from listeners) is that everything post Big Bang is explainable without God. Only the Big Bang...

December 7, 2005: Former WJC Head "Reports" On Chabad
Comments: 6 | Categories: Chabad & the Media

Avi Becker, a former senior official with the World Jewish Congress, writes in Ha'aretz on the virtues of Chabad. First Dr. Becker repeats the standard lines about Chabad's growth after the death of the Rebbe: The extent of the Chabad...

December 6, 2005: Hasidic Rebel Returns
Comments: 1 | Categories: Blogs , Haredim

After a two-year silence, Hassidic Rebel has returned. [First seen on the Canonist.]

December 6, 2005: New Ba'al Teshuva Blog Features White Supremist Blogger
Comments: 19 | Categories: Blogs

Gil Student is hyping a new blog by and for ba'alei teshuva (BTs, returnees to Orthodox Judaism). The blog is apparently based on a Cross-Currents-like theme, with many bloggers sharing one goal – defense of Orthodoxy at all costs. One...

December 6, 2005: Chabad Conference On Torah And Science To Feature Discredited Christian Proponent Of Intellegent Design
Comments: 28 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Chabad , Haredim , Science

Chabad becomes more and more 'Christ-like' every day. The latest proof of this is Chabad's upcoming conference on Torah and Science, sponsored by Professor Herman Branover's B'Or HaTorah and the Chabad's Shul of Bal Harbor (Florida). Branover is a very...

December 5, 2005: Haredi-Think: Ban In Order To Survive?
Comments: 9 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Haredim , Jewish Leadership

Mississippi Fred MacDowell reports on a ban issued two years ago by Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv and other haredi rabbis, many signers of the Rabbi Slifkin ban, some of whom added their signatures only this late this Summer. This ban,...

December 5, 2005: BREAKING! Iran "Only Months Away" From Atomic Bomb
Comments: 8 | Categories: Chabad , Court Jews , Jewish Leadership

Only days after Russia's $1 billion arms and missile sale to Iran was announced, Ha'aretz and the Jerusalem Post are reporting that the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency has confirmed that Iran is no more than a "few...

December 4, 2005: Gedolim Color War, The Threequel – Barney Must Die!
Comments: 16 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Haredim , Jewish Leadership , PARODY & SATIRE

December 4, 2005: New Lakewood Rap
Comments: 1 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , PARODY & SATIRE

Rap For Gil Student (Heard just this week around Lakewood and Boro Park.) What you gonna' do when Rabbi Belsky flips? When Rabbi Willig hides and Rabbi Schachter schvites? You gonna' tear your coat? You gonna' wear sackcloth and ashes?...

December 4, 2005: Gedolim Color War – The Sequel!
Comments: 2 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , PARODY & SATIRE

December 4, 2005: Gedolim Color War
Comments: 0 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Haredim , Jewish Leadership , PARODY & SATIRE

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