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18 posts from May 13, 2007 - May 19, 2007

May 19, 2007: Gerrer Rebbe Declares War …
Comments: 7 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
…on home computer use. Ha'aretz reports: …Every Gerrer Hasid with a computer can expect a house call in the near future, meant to persuade him to get rid of the treyf device. Those with an Internet connection - the height...

May 18, 2007: Mars Candy Kosher or Treife? Part 4
Comments: 19 | Categories: Halakha , Haredim
What is the rationale for ruling Mars candy – including Snickers, Mars Bars and Milky Way – kosher or treife? Remember, the candy's composition changed recently when Masterfoods, the parent company, began using whey derived using animal rennet. A reader...

May 18, 2007: Messiah's House To be Demolished?
Comments: 4 | Categories: History
Seems so. And you can't blame Yudel for this one …

May 18, 2007: Conservative Rabbis 'Race' To The Rescue
Comments: 14 | Categories: Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
The Conservative Movement is moving ahead with its Tzedek Hechsher, meant to supervise how kosher food producers and other related businesses deal with their employees. The Forward reports: “If you haven’t been supervising for these issues, it’s not automatically going...

May 17, 2007: Another Reason Why Our Leaders Are Not Gedolim
Comments: 7 | Categories: Haredim , Kosher Business? , Rubashkin Workers
From FamousRabbis.com: …In Telz, Reb Eliezer [Gordon, the famed Rosh Yeshiva and communal rabbi] was also deeply involved in communal affairs, and the amendments he instituted there are indicative of his greatness of spirit and his mussar nature. At that...

May 17, 2007: More Rubashkin Trouble – Are You Supporting A Form Of Slavery By Eating Rubashkin Meat?
Comments: 1 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
The Forward's Nathaniel Popper has filed a report on the newest troubles at AgriProcessors, the company that makes Aaron's Best, Aaron's, Rubashkin's, Shor HaBor, David's and other meat brands, including private label brands. The Forward's report confirms what I wrote...

May 17, 2007: Mars Bars Treife, Manchester Beit Din Rules
Comments: 0 | Categories: Halakha , Haredim , Kosher Business?
That's right – the apparently haredi Manchester, England Beit Din has ruled Mars candy treife because of an animal-derived ingredient that according to halakha is clearly battel. The London Jewish Chronicle will have the story in tomorrow's paper. You can...

May 17, 2007: Rabbi Dov Lior – Racist
Comments: 9 | Categories: Ethics , MO & Chardal , Refugees
Rabbi Dov Lior, the rabbi of Kiryat Arba is an ethically challenged individual. Never has this been more clear than today, when Rabbi Lior issued a ruling regarding refugees from Darfur who have fled to safety in Israel. First, Rabbi...

May 17, 2007: She Saved 2,500 Jewish Children
Comments: 6 | Categories: Church & Holocaust
A Polish woman saves 2,500 Jewish children in Warsaw during the Holocaust. She smuggles them out of the ghetto one by one, taking care to write their Jewish names and family information in code so they can be reunited with...

May 16, 2007: You Are Not Jewish Anymore! Haredim Revoke Conversion Done 15 Yrs Ago – Woman's Children Ruled Non-Jewish
Comments: 91 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
Israel's haredi-dominated state-sponsored rabbinic apparatus controls the personal lives of millions of Israelis. They cannot marry or divorce without it. Haredim continue to abuse that system and abuse the Israeli populace, as Rivkah Lubitch reports in Ynet: A rabbinical judge...

May 15, 2007: Mars Bars Not Kosher, Rabbinute Claims?
Comments: 0 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Kosher Business?
Just as the idea that sanity would dominate the issue of animal-rennet-derived-whey in Mars candies made in Great Britain, haredim at the Israeli Chief Rabbinate's office have stepped in to provide our daily dose of haredi-inspired stupidity. Ynet reports: …“If...

May 15, 2007: Still Time To Vote
Comments: 1 | Categories: Blogs
You can still vote in the JIB Awards. FailedMessiah is nominated for best Jewish Anti-Establishment Blog. Vote here.

May 15, 2007: Open Your Eyes And Learn How To See
Comments: 38 | Categories: Divre Torah , Halakha
I'm regularly surprised at how little Orthodox Jews – even haredim – know about the halakhic process. Increasingly, even "rabbis" learn only surface applications of parts of Yorah Dayah and Shabbos. They don't learn poskim or look deeply into commentaries....

May 15, 2007: A Halakha Not To Follow
Comments: 11 | Categories: Halakha
Rabbi Eli Monsour writes: Is It Permissible For A Son To Treat His Father In The Case Where Blood Might Be Drawn The Torah forbids causing a bloody wound in one's parent, or doing anything that results in the drawing...

May 14, 2007: Is This "Kabbalist" A Fraud? An Abuser?
Comments: 8 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes , Sefardim
A comenter writes about this man, a "kabbalist" rabbi: …He refuses to give his wife a Jewish Get (divorce) becuz he wants the house, even though he already has 2 houses, one in Tel Aviv and the other in Bat...

May 14, 2007: Another Baltimore Rabbi Sex Abuser?
Comments: 11 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
UOJ posts the following email from Phil Jacobs of the Baltimore Times: During the investigation of the late Rabbi Ephraim Shapiro, the name coming up perhaps "second" in the conversations was more often than not that of Rabbi Moshe Eisemann....

May 14, 2007: Mars Candy In England Now May Have Animal-Derived Ingredient – Is The Candy Still Kosher?
Comments: 26 | Categories: Halakha , Kosher Business?
The Telegraph reports Mars candies and ice cream, including Mars Bars, Snickers, Bounty, Minstrels, Celebrations chocolates, Mars ice cream, Tracker nut bars and Magic Stars made in England may contain animal-derived whey: Vegetarians who have learned to live without roast...

May 13, 2007: The Bias Of Gary Rosenblatt
Comments: 11 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Jewish Leadership
The Jewish Week has a bizarre and possibly defamatory editorial on the troubles besetting the World Jewish Congress. It is co-authored and co-signed by the Jewish Week's editor and publisher, Gary Rosenblatt, and by Larry Cohler-Esses, the author of last...

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