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17 posts from April 22, 2007 - April 28, 2007

April 28, 2007: More Orthodox Fundraising Questions
Comments: 7 | Categories: Crime, etc. , MO & Chardal
As Luke Ford notes, the Simon Wiesenthal Center has a horrible rating from Charity Navigator. Rabbi Marvin Hier also employs his sons and daughters-in-law in senior positions, allegedly using the maiden names of the daughts-in-law to reduce public scutiny. Another...

April 27, 2007: The Rebbe, Freud and Chagall
Comments: 12 | Categories: Chabad History
The Wall Street Journal notes the 5th Lubavitcher Rebbe, Shalom DovBer Schneerson, was depressed and visited Sigmund Freud seeking help, as did Marc Chagall, who first visited the 5th Lubavitcher Rebbe seeking solace. He asked the rebbe a question –...

April 27, 2007: New Split In Chabad Movement Exposed
Comments: 4 | Categories: Chabad History , Court Jews
The Forward's Nathaniel Popper has an important story in this week's issue – a new split in the Chabad movement between Chabad's "chief rabbi" of Russia Berel Lazar and the American-led movement. Lazar wants the Jackson-Vanik amendment repealed. Rabbi Yehuda...

April 27, 2007: Rabbi Yechiel Yakov Weinberg on Agudath Israel
Comments: 0 | Categories: Haredim , History
Perhaps the most prescient quote ever made: …Rabbi Weinberg [author of the Seridei Eish] wrote, “For the members of Agudah, every unimportant rabbi who joins them is considered a great gaon.” Can you elaborate? Rabbi Weinberg wrote in his private...

April 27, 2007: The Bad and Good of Haredi Fundraising – Including ArtScroll
Comments: 4 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Oorah Kars4Kids
Flatbush Life reports: A handful of Brooklyn-based charities are concerned more about their own bottom line than they are about those who may have hit rock bottom, according to an independent charity evaluating organization. The group, Charity Navigator, recently released...

April 27, 2007: Please Give
Comments: 2 | Categories: Hessed
This post will remain at the top of the blog for the next few days. Newer posts follow immediately below. A Jew needs help. People, what more do you need to hear? Let's get the man the money he needs...

April 27, 2007: Agudah Hack: “What are they going to do next? Have a molester of the week feature?”
Comments: 0 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia
The Forward has an excellent article on the tension in the Baltimore community after the Baltimore Jewish Times published an article on Rabbi Ephraim Shapiro, a man who, if the testimony of victims – some as old as 64 –...

April 27, 2007: Rabbi Weinreb To Remain At OU – Public Pressure Wins
Comments: 5 | Categories: Crime, etc. , MO & Chardal , Pedophilia
The JTA reports: The Orthodox Union reversed course and extended the contract of Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb, its executive vice president, for two more years. Weinreb’s contract was to expire this summer and a search committee had been established to...

April 27, 2007: Postal Service Attacks Freedom Of The Press
Comments: 1 | Categories: Current Affairs
The Bush Administration is mired in corruption and cronyism. The latest bad decision made by Bushies comes from the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC). According to FreePress.net: … [T]he PRC rejected a postal rate increase plan offered by the U.S. Postal...

April 26, 2007: Please Help!
Comments: 11 | Categories: Hessed
Ariel Sokolovsky has brought the plight of an Ethiopian Jew living in the Eastern US to my attention. The man has fallen on hard times and needs our help. Ariel has already helped him as best he can, giving money...

April 25, 2007: Agudath Israel Opposes Regulation Of Faith-Based Nursery Schools; Health Department Would Require Criminal Background Checks
Comments: 2 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia
The NY Sun reports: Several religious groups are fighting a health department proposal that for the first time would require permits for some faith-based nursery schools. Representatives of the Catholic Archdiocese of New York and Agudath Israel of America, among...

April 25, 2007: For The RCA, Agudath Israel, Igud HaRabbonim, Agudath HaRabbonim, Satmar, Chabad, Belz, Bobov, Sanz, etc.
Comments: 7 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , MO & Chardal , Pedophilia
In this week's Jewish Press, attorney and victims advocate Elliot Pasik writes about the Baltimore abuse letter and the state of the problem in New York and nationwide: The damage that abuse can cause is devastating and potentially life altering;...

April 25, 2007: Rabbi Harry Maryles On Homosexuality
Comments: 57 | Categories: Blogs , Ethics , Halakha
DovBear interviews Rabbi Harry Maryles. An excerpt of Harry's: …My objection to the forbidden homosexual act is not so much to the fact that the Torah calls it a Toevah. It is more to the seriousness of the offense as...

April 25, 2007: Baruch Dayan HaEmet: Help Needed For Funeral Minyan Today In Paramus, NJ
Comments: 2 | Categories: Hessed
Rabbi Gil Student writes: Baruch Dayyan Emes - the father of Mr. Zvi Erenyi, librarian at the Mendel Gottesman Library, was niftar yesterday. The levayah will be taking place today at 12:45 at the Parkside Memorial Chapel at 98-60 Queens...

April 24, 2007: JIB Awards Nominations
Comments: 4 | Categories: Blogs
I just was informed that this blog has been nominated for several JIB Awards. Among my nominated posts are my post For The RCA, and this defense of Shasha Baron Cohen. David Kelsey, AKA The Kvetcher, is also nominated several...

April 24, 2007: The Avishai Cohen Trio Live
Comments: 1 | Categories: Music
Israeli-born jazz bassist Avishai Cohen is a world class bassist and composer who mingles Sefardic rhythms with straight up modern jazz. A founding member of Chick Corea's sextet Origin and a member of Chick Corea's New Trio, Cohen is one...

April 23, 2007: Yeshiva Evicts Elderly and Handicapped Poor
Comments: 36 | Categories: Ethics , Haredim
A haredi yeshiva buys an adjoining apartment building with the intent to use it as dorm and study space. Many of the building's residents are elderly and handicapped immigrants from the Former Soviet Union who pay reduced rents under rent...

April 22, 2007: A Fictional "Antisemite"?
Comments: 11 | Categories: Books , Chabad , Haredim
Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Michael Chabon is under fire for a book that is not yet officially in print. Chabon – who is Jewish – writes about a fictional world where the State of Israel was not founded in 1948,...

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