Jewish Burka Fanatic Arrested On Multiple Counts Of Child Abuse

Remember those 'holy' Jewish women who adopted the veils, burkas and hijabs of their Arab neighbors in order to be "holy" as God "demands"?

One of them was arrested today on many counts of child abuse – all with…

…her own children. Worse than that, she apparently did not report multiple incestuous relationships and abuse between her underage children.

And the best part is, she refused to remove her veil and show her face in court for reasons of sniut, modesty.

The Jerusalem Post reports:

A 54-year-old Israeli mother of 12 was under arrest Tuesday for allegedly severely abusing her children, police said.

The mother was also suspected of failing to report multiple cases of incest among her children.

The suspected child abuser was apprehended after police were summoned to her Beit Shemesh home last month by neighbors, who heard  a child crying for help and objects being broken in the house, a police investigator told a Jerusalem court during a remand hearing Tuesday.   

Police, with the help of social workers, soon uncovered a history of brutal physical abuse against several of the children, which included whippings with belts and electric cables, according to the police officer's testimony.   

The mother was also suspected of breaking her daughter's nose with a rolling pin, and of preventing her children from receiving medical treatment for their injuries, according to court documents.

The woman's husband was abroad seeking charity donations, and had not yet returned to the country for the court hearing on Tuesday.

When the abuse case was first discovered last month, only two of the couple's 12 children, who range in age from 8 to 33, were living at home.

The two children, one of them a disabled teen, were removed from the house by social workers, the police investigator told the court.

When the family's children were subsequently treated by social workers, it emerged that the teens had committed incest with each other, he said.

The teenage boy who was removed from the house told social workers that he had sexual relations with his 18-year-old sister, and that he had told his parents as well as his Rabbis, but the latter told him not to tell anybody.

The Jerusalem Magistrate's Court extended the mother's remand by six days by on Tuesday. The defendant, who was covered in layers of clothing, did not speak in court.

Her attorney, who successfully attained a court order barring the publication of his client's name, explained that the woman "did not speak with men," and that he would speak on her behalf, according to a court protocol of the proceedings.

The judge rejected the attorney's request to place the woman under house arrest instead of keeping her in police detention, citing investigative material which presented a very difficult case of physical violence and abuse.

Mabat TV news report. (It's in the first five minutes.)

Previous posts: 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5.

[Hat Tip: A Mother In Israel and JBM.]

UPDATE 3-26-08 4:00 am CST: The arrested woman is said to be the head of the burka cult herself, Rabbanit Beruriah Keren.

Comments

[Yochanan Lavie]

I guess the burka covered up more than her face...

This surprises me- NOT. Fanatics are sickos.

[SJ]

Orthodox Jewish influence + Islamic influence + disdain for any kind of American/Western influence = sick shit like this.

[Yosef ben Matitya]

Orthodox Jewish influence + Islamic influence + disdain for any kind of American/Western influence = sick shit like this.

really sj? is that what it is?
wait until we find out.
for all u know she could be american herself.

[Yochanan Lavie]

American or not, she clearly disdains Western culture. Many Americans hate their own society- such as can be found on the far left, far right, or religious fringes.

[Archie Bunker]

"And the best part is" .... Drumroll ...

It's a shame that Shmarya can't report on this sick woman without wallowing in glee as if this is another case of gotcha against Haredim.

A beth din in Israel has already ruled that these women are mentally ill and should be divorced by their husbands.

[Abe]

...The teenage boy who was removed from the house told social workers that he had sexual relations with his 18-year-old sister, and that he had told his parents as well as his Rabbis, but the latter told him not to tell anybody...

More sexual abuse covered up by the rabbeim. It seems unlikely that Orthodox Judaism will ever rise from the fundamentalist mire.

[Jake]

Western culture brought us Hitler.

Judasim is not a western religion. Judeao _ christian description is only made by ignorant people. We have more incommon theologically with Islam that we do with C hristianity.

Obviously one can draw no conclusions about a segment of a population baseed n this sick story.

Whatever one make think of Charedei Judasim there are tens of thousands of children who are not abused.

Abuse knows no relegious distinction and there are unfortunatly abusers of all denominations within Judaism.

Clearly these people are sick criminals ( not a contradiction )and all of their children need help.

[shmuel]

Get the names of those "rabbis" and hang 'em high.

"More sexual abuse covered up by the rabbeim. It seems unlikely that Orthodox Judaism will ever rise from the fundamentalist mire.

Posted by: Abe | March 25, 2008 at 09:37 PM"
Amen. These are our "leaders." Grotesque sexual aberrance like incest does not prompt them to action. But concerts? Now that's bad! Can you believe this bunch? This is what you get when you take that teaching of "even if they say right is left, left is right" to its logical conclusion.

[Anonymous]

I bet she's hot.

[Isa]

Regarding: "I bet she's hot"
Uh no probably so ugly that her face would 'stop a clock'

[Haforsko]

Remember, the word progrom is Russian, not Arabic.

[A reader]

You should also report on last week's case (or two weeks ago) of the "Israeli Arab" with 13 kids (multiple wives, paid for by Israeli govt) who was abusing and molesting them all in Israel, reported in jpost.com. But I guess that guy doesn't catch headlines around here like a Jewish Burka-fanatic.

Arabs in Arab-occupied Jewish lands have a culture of domestic abuse that has been reported on by LEFTIST! Israeli researchers (they tried to blame Israel for it), and so it looks like these ladies may have taken in more than just the Islamic influence of the burka. They took on also the violence and abuse. Guess we should be wary of any person taking on outward Muslim or Arab cultural practices for what else they might be hiding.

[Jim the Catholic]

Somewhere in my stack of stuff I have a article about an Abortionist who abused his own children sexually. On Worldnetdaily.com every other week I read a story about female teachers who have sex with their underage students some even as young as 9 or 10.

There are perverts all over the place & if you stamped out all orthodox religions everywhere THERE WOULD STILL BE PERVERTS all over the place.

[Haforsko]

Did the haredi rabbis and Catholic priests who molested children wear Muslim garb?

[asshole]

what a bunch of sick fucks. what the hell is wrong with jews? every day new sick stories come up of abuse and hypocricy. maybe were all fucked up because were circumcized without anasthsia as infants? perhaps that does leave lasting trauma. only arabs and jews do it and were both not exactly normal people.

[Haforsko]

Just circumcized.

[Shmarya]

You should also report on last week's case (or two weeks ago) of the "Israeli Arab" with 13 kids (multiple wives, paid for by Israeli govt) who was abusing and molesting them all in Israel, reported in jpost.com. But I guess that guy doesn't catch headlines around here like a Jewish Burka-fanatic.

Maybe you should think for a moment – I cover the ORTHODOX Jewish community. Look on my masthead.

[Phillip]

This woman is just evil and belongs
in prison for the rest of her life.
Nothing more.... also with 12 chhildren
of her own. She is a baby factory.

[Yochanan Lavie]

Western culture brought us a respect for human rights, women's rights, and the concept of freedom of religion and conscience (good for the Jews, depsite SOME rabbanim who want to keep us ignorant and dependent on them). Hitler & the Nazis detested Western culture as soft and decadent, and wanted to replace it with a mythical "Norse" culture. Was it Himmler who said "Whenever I hear the word culture, I reach for my gun!" (It was some big Nazi).

We need to defend the West against the Neo-Barbarians, including the Islamic fundies like Bin Laden who was inspired by another West hater Sayyid Qutab.

Western culture produced Churchill, Lincoln, and other heroes. It's not perfect, but it's better than the alternatives.

[pushkina]

it was goering who said the thing about reaching for his gun when hearing the word culture....

[Yochanan Lavie]

Thanks, Pushkina. Sometimes I'm bad with remembering names.

[A reader]

"Western culture brought us a respect for human rights, women's rights,"

Uhhh... it did? Talk about cliche and oversimplifying. The rise of modern 'western culture' brought us the two world wars of the 20th century. Did you forget this? Women's rights... LOL.

[A reader]

"Maybe you should think for a moment – I cover the ORTHODOX Jewish community. Look on my masthead."

Funny Smarya, but it appears your 'masthead' says, "Covering Orthodox JUDAISM"

Is this a Freudian slip or do you openly admit that you wish to portray Orthodox Judaism itself as the criminality that you report on your blog? There have been others who have portrayed Judaism as a religion of criminality. In fact, the Arab state media still do it today, but they took their lessons from the German Nazis. Et tu?

[Shmarya]

Western culture brought us a respect for human rights, women's rights,"

Uhhh... it did? Talk about cliche and oversimplifying. The rise of modern 'western culture' brought us the two world wars of the 20th century. Did you forget this? Women's rights... LOL.

You forget the Crusades, the Thirty Years War, and the Muslim Conquest – all massively bloody for their time.

[A reader]

I said modern.

[Shmarya]

My point is that less than modern culture also brought us horrific wars.

[Chaya Eitan]

The fact that she was able to 'convert' other woman to her way of thinking shows just how easy it is for cults to recruit followers. She is indeed mentally ill. What an awful shame that it took this long to discover what has been going on with this family!!

[A reader]

The bottom line: "Western culture" didn't change human nature and basic human behavior as documented since the historic period. There is no reason to idolize it. And the 'major' wars you mentioned are nowhere near the level of death and destruction brought by the world wars. Modern "western culture" also involved the creation (and use on human beings) of all those modern weapons/systems. This is no less a part of western culture than "respect for women," who presumably have the weapons carried out on them to a lesser degree than men (of course not in the case of firebombing cities, bombing london, or nuclear attacks etc).

[A reader]

Now, will you change your 'masthead' to say Covering the Orthodox Jewish Community, rather than covering ORTHODOX JUDAISM as if you are portraying the religion itself as the criminal elements and some bad-acting Jews within it whom you expose? Or will you continue to label this site in a manner that neo-Nazis would dream of?

[Shmarya]

1. "Western culture" didn't change human nature and basic human behavior as documented since the historic period.

Neither has religion.

2.the 'major' wars you mentioned are nowhere near the level of death and destruction brought by the world wars.

Again, and this is a rather simple point that should be easy for you to grasp, technology improved. Better technology means easier killing, which means more deaths.

3a. Modern "western culture" also involved the creation (and use on human beings) of all those modern weapons/systems.

Ancient cultures also designed newer and better weapons of war, and killed many more people than older, more primitive societies did as a result.

This is such a simple point, so clearly documented. That you do not grasp it can only be because you do not want to grasp it.

3b. This is no less a part of western culture than "respect for women," who presumably have the weapons carried out on them to a lesser degree than men (of course not in the case of firebombing cities, bombing london, or nuclear attacks etc).

Let's see. Jewish sources speak of blood running knee deep on the streets of Jerusalem during the Destruction of the Second Temple.

Lots of that blood belonged to women and children.

Ancient accounts – including the Torah – a full of equally chilling acts of mass murder linked to war.

Yet you, in you bizarre, ahistorical apologetics are too blind to even notice this.

4a. Now, will you change your 'masthead' to say Covering the Orthodox Jewish Community, rather than covering ORTHODOX JUDAISM as if you are portraying the religion itself as the criminal elements and some bad-acting Jews within it whom you expose?

As long as Jewish LEADERS are major PARTICIPANTS in the crimes I cover, and as long as apologists for them – like you, for example – fail to acknowledge this, your 'point' is moot.

(Readers can see one example of what I mean at here)

4b. Or will you continue to label this site in a manner that neo-Nazis would dream of?

Why not ask your rabbis and leader why they act in a manner that encourages (in your mind) neo-Nazis?

Stop attacking the messenger and deal with the message. Clean up your community and there will be nothing negative left for me to print.

[A perplexed reader]

"2.the 'major' wars you mentioned are nowhere near the level of death and destruction brought by the world wars.

Again, and this is a rather simple point that should be easy for you to grasp, technology improved. Better technology means easier killing, which means more deaths."

So what? Save the condescending tone, you prick.

[A perplexed reader]

"3a. Modern "western culture" also involved the creation (and use on human beings) of all those modern weapons/systems.

Ancient cultures also designed newer and better weapons of war, and killed many more people than older, more primitive societies did as a result.

This is such a simple point, so clearly documented. That you do not grasp it can only be because you do not want to grasp it."

You haven't made any point at all.
Someone here lauded western culture as having "respect for human rights." I noted the killing machines of the 20th century (and killing sprees) and make the simple point that that can't possibly involve any increased respect for human rights. A person can call himself 'enlightened' all he wants, but as long as he is pulling the trigger as bodies fall into a mass grave, I am not inclined to believe this charade of "western culture." That's my point. Nothing more nothing less. Stop trying to make it into something it's not.

You counter by saying that there were bloodbaths in ancient times too. So what? That doesn't contradict anything I said. That only strengthens it. No amount of western culture has changed basic human behavior. That's the bottom line. Why are you so defensive about this? You're acting like I stole your handball at recess.

[Shmarya]

"2.the 'major' wars you mentioned are nowhere near the level of death and destruction brought by the world wars.

Again, and this is a rather simple point that should be easy for you to grasp, technology improved. Better technology means easier killing, which means more deaths."

So what? Save the condescending tone, you prick."

The point is clear. The condescension comes from a revulsion on my part to your ahistorical rantings against the West.

It is not as if you have listened to me or to anyone else who has pointed out the mistakes in your reasoning. You just keep going on, probably because you've heard rabbis make the very same points you now try to make. They were not any more correct than you, I assure you.

[Shmarya]

I noted the killing machines of the 20th century (and killing sprees) and make the simple point that that can't possibly involve any increased respect for human rights. A person can call himself 'enlightened' all he wants, but as long as he is pulling the trigger as bodies fall into a mass grave, I am not inclined to believe this charade of "western culture." That's my point. Nothing more nothing less. Stop trying to make it into something it's not.

And who brought those killing machines to an end? Largely the West – the US, Great Britain and the rest of the Allies.

You are an ungrateful person.

[A perplexed reader]

"As long as Jewish LEADERS are major PARTICIPANTS in the crimes I cover, and as long as apologists for them – like you, for example – fail to acknowledge this, your 'point' is moot."

I have never once defended an abusive rabbi or enabler. You are (unfairly) attempting to paint me into a corner by labeling me. Why do you say I'm an apologist? What did I do exactly? Did I go on Oprah and tell her audience there are no problems in the Jewish community? No, I don't seem to remember that. Of course, I wouldn't be on Oprah or doing anything else because I'm just some guy... a nobody.

All I do is comment on your blog. And now you label me as a supporter of child abuse. Why don't you jump off a bridge, you worthless sack of garbage. I'll repeat. You know nothing about me. You have no idea who I am. I happen to be a Jew. And you happen to be presenting apologetics for why you think it's justified that cases of child abuse should be labelled as "Orthodox Judaism." As if the Talmud prescribes this criminal activity and this is our religion. This is a legitimate complaint and has nothing to do with attacking messengers.

"Stop attacking the messenger and deal with the message. Clean up your community and there will be nothing negative left for me to print."

If I disagree with you on certain things, that does not amount to "attacking the messenger" no matter how much you want to think you are always right and that anyone disagreeing is just some mindless fool or pro-abuse mongerer. I also never said you couldn't print anything negative. Boy Smarya, you sure seem well-versed in how to refute straw men and make other people look bad.

[Shmarya]

You counter by saying that there were bloodbaths in ancient times too. So what? That doesn't contradict anything I said. That only strengthens it. No amount of western culture has changed basic human behavior. That's the bottom line. Why are you so defensive about this? You're acting like I stole your handball at recess.

Your 'point' proves mine. At worst, Western culture is no worse than ancient cultures, including religious cultures, including ours.

How many refugees has the US taken in over the years? How many immigrants? Millions and millions.

Look at Canada, at Australia, Great Britain, etc., who also have taken in many.

Look at foreign aid, look at medical and health programs in Africa, etc.

The west does much good, both governmentally and privately.

You'd be hard pressed to find many ancient or pre-modern societies that did the same.

[A perplexed reader]

"The point is clear. The condescension comes from a revulsion on my part to your ahistorical rantings against the West.

It is not as if you have listened to me or to anyone else who has pointed out the mistakes in your reasoning. You just keep going on, probably because you've heard rabbis make the very same points you now try to make. They were not any more correct than you, I assure you."

Rantings against The West? I'm talking about western culture. And this has nothing to do with rabbis. Once again you are presumptuous.

[A perplexed reader]

"Your 'point' proves mine. At worst, Western culture is no worse than ancient cultures, "

So I should jump for joy that "western culture" managed to be not worse than other cultures?

[A perplexed reader]

"Why not ask your rabbis and leader why they act in a manner that encourages (in your mind) neo-Nazis?"

Are you saying I'm part of the burka cult?

[A perplexed reader]

Or do you think my local rabbi is an abuser that I should confront?

[Shmarya]

What you actually wrote:

Now, will you change your 'masthead' to say Covering the Orthodox Jewish Community, rather than covering ORTHODOX JUDAISM as if you are portraying the religion itself as the criminal elements and some bad-acting Jews within it whom you expose?

Or will you continue to label this site in a manner that neo-Nazis would dream of?

How I responded:

As long as Jewish LEADERS are major PARTICIPANTS in the crimes I cover, and as long as apologists for them – like you, for example – fail to acknowledge this, your 'point' is moot.

(Readers can see one example of what I mean at here)

Why not ask your rabbis and leader why they act in a manner that encourages (in your mind) neo-Nazis?

Stop attacking the messenger and deal with the message. Clean up your community and there will be nothing negative left for me to print.

What I am clearly saying is that, as long as leaders are criminals or are covering for criminals, and the masses do not protest, then there is no reason to separate Orthodox Judaism from the crimes.

That is exactly the position of halakha, which mandates a protest. If one does not publicly protest, it is as if one has consented to the crime.

[Shmarya]

"Your 'point' proves mine. At worst, Western culture is no worse than ancient cultures, "

So I should jump for joy that "western culture" managed to be not worse than other cultures?

Again, you show your dishonesty.

I wrote, "At WORST Western culture…"

You responded as if I wrote, "Western culture…" without any qualification.

In truth, Western culture is far better than anything that preceded it. You'll find little argument from academics, historians, etc., about this.

[A perplexed reader]

Shmarya responds "liar liar pants on fire" yet again. Just insult after insult with you.

as long as apologists for them –
" like you, for example "
" like you, for example "
" like you, for example "
" like you, for example "

What gives you the right to call me that?
It is YOU that is being dishonest here. This is an outrage.

[Shmarya]

Anyway, the point is to point out the flaws in your arguments and to note areas that I think are deceptive. I should not have made it personal, and for that I apologize.

[A perplexed reader]

Who exactly is "my leader" that you refer to?

[Shmarya]

Where?