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10 posts from May 27, 2007 - June 2, 2007

June 1, 2007: Chabad Tries To Take Over Conservative School In Ukraine
Comments: 6 | Categories: Chabad , Dirty Tricks , Turf Disputes
The JTA reports Chabad and its Ohr Avner network of schools, funded by Israeli billionaire Lev Leviev, tried to take the Conservative Movement's day school in Ukraine. The Schechter Institute claims the local Chabad rabbi, functioning as a representative of...

May 31, 2007: The Lubavitcher Rebbe "Justified" The Holocaust; A "Surgery" "Necessary" To Save The Jewish People
Comments: 89 | Categories: Chabad , Chabad & Holocaust , Chabad History
And Hitler, yemach shemo, a "servant of God" just like Nebuchadnetzer. Chabad tried to cover this up. Thankfully, the truth has finally come out: God as surgeon By Yehuda Bauer The panel discussion on "Haredim and the Holocaust" recently aired...

May 31, 2007: Forward Story On Rubashkin Nominated For Prestigious Loeb Award
Comments: 2 | Categories: Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Media & Media Criticism , Rubashkin Workers
… given for best business writing. The piece, an exposé, In Iowa Meat Plant, Kosher ‘Jungle’ Breeds Fear, Injury, Short Pay, was written by Nathaniel Popper and deals with worker abuse at the Iowa plant that produces Rubaskin's, Aaron's Best,...

May 31, 2007: Women Cantors – How Halakha Evolves
Comments: 35 | Categories: Halakha , History , Women & Judaism
…The Shira Hadasha Synagogue in the German Colony of Jerusalem is defined as an equal opportunities Orthodox institution. Women chant from the bima and serve as cantors where Halachah rules that even small children can serve as a shaliah tzibur...

May 31, 2007: More Rubashkin Related News
Comments: 9 | Categories: Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
This week's Kosher Today responds to two readers – one who also a frequent visitor here – who criticized the publication for not disclosing the financial relationship between its editor, Menachem Lubinsky, and Agriprocessors and the Rubashkin family: "...and we...

May 30, 2007: All Haredi Teachers To Be Paid At Level Of Non-Haredi Teachers With College Degree
Comments: 9 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
In Israel, people are paid based on the level of education they aquire. This means two people doing the same job and performing at the same exact level will be paid differently if one has a B.A. degree and the...

May 30, 2007: New Revelations About The Lubavitcher Rebbe
Comments: 38 | Categories: Chabad History
Apparently timed around his 70th birthday, Ha'aretz has feature about Professor Menachem Friedman, the noted scholar and expert on Israeli ultra-Orthodoxy, haredim. The piece contains some new revelations about Chabad, and some old truths not often publicized, including [and I...

May 30, 2007: Haredim Stone MO Jews In Jerusalem
Comments: 20 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel
A Modern Orthodox guy drives with his family through a haredi neighborhood in Jerusalem 20 minutes after Shabbat has ended. Haredi kids try to wreck the car by stringing rope across the street. (Remember the Burt Reynolds movie, The Longest...

May 27, 2007: Evolution Treife?
Comments: 55 | Categories: Ethics , Israel , Torah & Science
Writing in Ynet, Yitzhak Kakun complains about the 'secularization' of Shavuot that is becoming increasingly common in Israel. Secular Israelis gather in lecture halls and theaters to listen to and participate in discussions about Jewish history, Zionism, the origin of...

May 27, 2007: Win A Free Book
Comments: 6 | Categories: Books
Name what you believe to be the top five Jewish-written and themed short stories of all time. (Note to Mis-nagid: Biblical texts are not up for consideration.) Post your list in the comments to this post (or email me; the...

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