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January 20, 2009: Peter Himmelman Concert Live Online
Comments: 4 | Categories: Music
Details: The above video is just a sample.You can watch Peter streaming live every Tuesday night at 7 Pacific Time on his new Vblog. [Hat Tip: AEO.]

January 20, 2009: Barack Obama Inauguration Live Video Stream
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Watch live online: CNN. Fox.

January 20, 2009: Haredi Beit Din Voids Conversion – Shakespeare, All Non-Jews Antisemitic, Rabbinic Judge Says
Comments: 134 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
Details: Nine days ago, Ma'ariv reported that a Jerusalem state-sponsored rabbinical court voided the conversion of the son of Judaism's most influential modern day philosopher. Emil Fackenheim's son Yossi was converted as an infant in Toronto by an Orthodox beit...

January 19, 2009: Why Bank Fraud? What Motivated Sholom M. Rubashkin?
Comments: 32 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Price-Fixing , Rubashkin Workers
By now you probably noticed Agriprocessors'… …money troubles began long before the May 12, 2008 immigration raid. For example, Sholom M. Rubashkin's bank fraud allegedly began at least 8 months before the raid. What happened to cause Agriprocessors – which...

January 18, 2009: Leading Haredi Rabbi Ahron Schechter Attacks Rabbi Natan Slifkin, Moderate Views Of Science And Torah
Comments: 107 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Haredim , Torah & Science
Creation was less than 6000 years ago, my friends. Believe anything different and you are a heritic. Part 1 Part 2 These videos were uploaded to YouTube by Rabbi Slifkin and were shot in Teaneck, NJ in 2006. The Rabbi...

January 18, 2009: BREAKING! Bomb Found At Chabad House In Italy – Lessons Of Mumbai Not Learned
Comments: 43 | Categories: Chabad , Halakha , Israel
Details: Explosive device found at Florence Chabad January 18, 2009 FLORENCE (JTA) -- A rudimentary explosive device was found at the entrance of the Chabad House in Florence. The device, described as being constructed from a small camping gas canister,...

January 18, 2009: Black Like Me? Israeli Researcher Reconstructs Ancient Jewish Faces
Comments: 133 | Categories: History , Israel , Science
I have two words to say about this groundbreaking research: Jungle Fever. Israel 21c reports: Tel Aviv University researcher reconstructs ancient Israelite faces By ISRAEL21c staff January 18, 2009 Prof. Eugene Kobyliansky keeps two busts in his office. One represents...

January 17, 2009: Did The OU Engineer An Agriprocessors Coverup? It Seems So…
Comments: 41 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , MO & Chardal , Rubashkin Workers
You decide: From the introduction to the government's new, superseding 99 count indictment against Agriprocessors and Rabbi Sholom M. Rubashkin. Please click to enlarge: In other words, according to the government the OU's engineered and endorsed 'removal' of Sholom M....

January 16, 2009: Rubashkin Bail Appeal Hearing Set
Comments: 1 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
This hearing is for the earlier charges:

January 16, 2009: The Documents: New 37 Page Agriprocessors, Rubashkin Indictments, Governmen's Explanation Of Charges And Press Release, Hearing Date
Comments: 6 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
Here they are: The US Attorney's Press Release (Added Saturday night 1-17-08, 7:15 PM because the press release arrived just before the Sabbath began.) Please click to enlarge: The Indictment Please click the icon at the upper right hand corner...

January 16, 2009: BREAKING!

RUBASHKIN, AGRIPROCESSORS, Face 87 NEW FEDERAL CHARGES
Comments: 44 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
Details: More fed charges against Agriprocessors exec GRANT SCHULTE A former executive at Postville’s kosher meat plant has been indicted on 99 additional federal charges that include money laundering, making false statements and failing to pay for livestock in the...

January 16, 2009: What The Jerusalem Post Did Not Tell You – The Real Reason The Rabbinate Chose Life Over Death
Comments: 10 | Categories: Halakha , Haredim , Israel , Media & Media Criticism
Yesterday, the Jerusalem Post reported what it claimed was a no-brainer: Israel's Chief Rabbinate approving construction of underground operating rooms and an underground children's ward for a hospital in missile range of Gaza. The rabbis needed to approve because ancient...

January 16, 2009: Mother Of Rabbi Abuse Victim Speaks
Comments: 15 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , MO & Chardal , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
I am the mother of… …one of [Rabbi Baruch] Lanner's victims. Anyone who suggests that there should be rachmones on the adult perpetrator of a crime against a child and even has the slightest suggestion that whatever circumstance or behaviors...

January 15, 2009: Rubashkin Associate Says American Jews "Beware"
Comments: 145 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
Details: Citing Israeli law in rejecting bail denies equal protection By RASHI RAICES American Jews, beware. If you run afoul of the Justice Department, your chances for bail are slim to none. That's the new legal concept created by the...

January 15, 2009: Haredim Choose Death Over Life
Comments: 8 | Categories: Halakha , Haredim , Israel
Details: Haredim from Edah Hareidit (Badatz Yerushalayim) blocked construction of hardened underground operating rooms in a hospital directly threatened by Hamas rocket fire. Why? Respect for the dead. That's right. Haredim chose to respect the dead over saving lives. Edah...

January 15, 2009: What Hamas Doesn't Want You To Know About Gaza
Comments: 11 | Categories: Israel
What's the big secret Hamas (and the PA, 22 Arab countries and, well, a lot of other countries, as well) doesn't want you to know about Gaza? Longtime FalledMessiah.com commenter Lawrence Reisman spells it out for you over on JewishWorldReview.com.

January 14, 2009: Breaking! Postville Evictions To Resume – Agriprocessors Workers Face Brutal Cold, Lack Of Govt Help
Comments: 26 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Safety , Rubashkin Workers
Details: Postville landlords will be resuming evictions of former (and current) Agriprocessors workers. Why? Because the government broke its word again. As exclusively reported here, state and county agencies promised landlords rent reimbursement at market rates and then, once landlords...

January 14, 2009: What Rubashkin's Rabbis Really Said
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Video: Source: TelegraphHerald.com. (Related TH.com story.)

January 14, 2009: Rubashkin Appeals Denial Of Bail
Comments: 25 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
Details: Former Agriprocessors CEO appeals for release on bail By Trish Mehaffey The Gazette CEDAR RAPIDS — Former Agriprocessors CEO Sholom Rubashkin filed an appeal motion for bail Monday after Jewish leaders came to the Dubuque County Jail to protest...

January 13, 2009: Agriprocessors May Pay Livestock Growers Soon
Comments: 18 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
Details: Livestock producers may soon get paid in Agriprocessors deal By Jean Caspers-Simmet Agri News staff writer CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa -- Livestock sellers who weren't paid for cattle sold to Agriprocessors should soon receive their money. The livestock sellers and...

January 13, 2009: BREAKING! Rubashkin Claims Govt Misrepresented Evidence, Files New Brief

Rabbis Demonstrate Outside Jail
Comments: 40 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
Report, video and documents: The group of rabbis from New York has clearly been padded by local Iowa Chabad rabbis. For example, the thin Chabad rabbi seen at left seems to be Rabbi Schneur Cadaner, who is married to Rabbi...

January 12, 2009: "It Would Be A Dishonor To His Faith To Flee," Rubashkin Attorney Claims, Rubashkin "Is Not A Flight Risk"
Comments: 79 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
Details… …from the Telegraph-Herald: …"We're not complaining about Judge Scoles, who made his decision based on the arguments that were presented to him," Cook said. "He said too much emphasis was being placed on this Law of Return, but the...

January 12, 2009: How Mondrowitz Escaped Justice, Part 2

Zev Brenner Confirms Earlier FailedMessiah.com Report
Comments: 18 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
On April 28 of last year, I wrote a post titled, "How Mondrowitz Escaped Justice." In it, I claimed… …COJO Borough Park (the Council of Jewish Organizations of Borough Park), then headed by a Gerrer hasid, Rabbi Elimelech Naiman, had...

January 11, 2009: Rebbe Fumbles, Eagles Soar
Comments: 23 | Categories: Chabad
It looks like the Rebbe-voodoo ran out: Eagles 23 – Giants 11. Maybe the Rebbe has turned his attention to the NBA…

January 11, 2009: "High-Profile" Rabbis To Visit Rubashkin In Jail Tomorrow
Comments: 32 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
And – what a surprise! – the rabbis will be holding a… …press conference. The Times Herald reports: Rabbis will make show of support for Rubashkin A group of high-profile rabbis on Monday will visit Sholom Rubashkin, the former CEO...

January 11, 2009: BREAKING! Israel Rabbinic Court Voids Conversion Of Emil Fackenheim's Adopted Son –

All Adopted Babies May Have Conversions Voided Unless Child Always Lived Haredi Lifestyle
Comments: 163 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
Details: UPDATED 11 am 1-11-09: My rough English translation follows Ma'ariv's Hebrew original. This is Emil Fackenheim's son whose conversion was voided.This means, in effect, that Israel's haredi rabbinate is now prepared to void or rescind all conversions done on...

January 11, 2009: Rebbe Saved NY Giants' Season, Fan, Rabbi, NY Times Say
Comments: 20 | Categories: Chabad , Chabad & the Media , Media & Media Criticism
I wonder if this would work for American Idol? Because from Chabad's point of view, it certainly didn't work… …for the US Presidential election. The New York Times 'reports': A Prayer Ritual Shared in Religion and Football By COREY KILGANNON...

January 10, 2009: Breaking! US Refused To Sell Israel Bunker Buster Bombs, Grant Over-Flight Right For Iraq, Or Allow Israel To Bomb Iran's Nukes
Comments: 10 | Categories: Israel
Page 1 in tomorrow's… …New York Times: …Late last year, international inspectors estimated that Iran had 3,800 centrifuges spinning, but American intelligence officials now estimate that the figure is 4,000 to 5,000, enough to produce about one weapon’s worth of...

January 9, 2009: Exclusive: Off The Mark – Plagiarism , Ethnic Cleansing And The NY Jewish Week
Comments: 130 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Israel , Media & Media Criticism , MO & Chardal
The Jewish Week's Associate Editor, Jonathan Mark, is rightly worried about the reactions of Israeli Arabs to Israel's war in Gaza. Mark's problems, however, are his inability to admit shades of gray, to understand nuance, and to tell the truth....

January 8, 2009: Leading Jewish Newspaper Panders To Jewish Stereotypes
Comments: 14 | Categories: Media & Media Criticism , MO & Chardal
Has the… …Jewish Week no shame? LINK. Where's Marvin Schick when you need him?

January 8, 2009: YU's Endowment Loses $600 Million Dollars – Activist Works To Remove Entire YU Board
Comments: 43 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , MO & Chardal
This is Modern Orthodoxy's financial Baruch Lanner scandal. And it seems clear… …Modern Orthodoxy has learned little in the years after Lanner's arrest and conviction. The New York Post reports: A DEMAND TO BOUNCE BOARD By JAMES COVERT New York...

January 8, 2009: In The Beginning God Created…
Comments: 15 | Categories: Humor
T Shirts, Sweatshirts, Note Cards, Prints.

January 8, 2009: AUDIO: Zev Brenner Was Told Of Mondrowitz Molestations One Month Before Mondrowitz Ran To Israel, Was Told To Be Quiet By Orthodox Leaders
Comments: 4 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
This and much more in Zev's interview with Rabbi Yaakov Horowitz… Zev Brenner says he was told Avrohom Mondrowitz was molesting children just before Mondrowitz fled to Israel more than 20 years ago. Zev went to Borough Park Orthodox leaders...

January 8, 2009: They're Red Hot
Comments: 1 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , PARODY & SATIRE , Rubashkin Workers
Agriprocessors' trustee Joseph Sarachek, this song's for you: They're Red Hot Robert Johnson 1937 Hot tamales and they're red hot, yes she got'em for sale Hot tamales and they're red hot, yes she got'em for sale I got a girls,...

January 8, 2009: Agriprocessors Trustee Claims More Than One Dozen Buyers Want Plant
Comments: 14 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Safety , Rubashkin Workers
Extremely large grain of salt, meet Joseph Sarachek: Iowa slaughterhouse seeks to sell embattled plant Associated Press IOWA CITY, Iowa -- The list of bidders for the Agriprocessors kosher slaughterhouse remains a secret, but on Wednesday a few more details...

January 8, 2009: A Prayer For The Children Of Gaza
Comments: 72 | Categories: Israel
Details… On his Atlantic Monthly blog, Jeffrey Goldberg writes approvingly of Bradley Burston's Jewish prayer for the Children of Gaza: This is a typical Bradley Burston effort, beautifully-written and deeply moral. He'll get some criticism from the right for this,...

January 7, 2009: What's He Smoking? Agriprocessors Trustee Waxes Insane
Comments: 18 | Categories: Bad Spin , Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
Details: Building on Agriprocessor’s Strength, Trustee Points Way to Sale in New Year Posted : Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:33:55 GMT Author : NY-TRIAX-CAPITAL Category : Press Release NEW YORK - (Business Wire) Joseph E. Sarachek, the Chapter 11 Operating...

January 7, 2009: Inside A US Pro-Hamas Demonstration
Comments: 24 | Categories: Israel
Video: While I disagree with Obsession and with Aish HaTorah's sleazy attempts to insert itself into politics, this amateur video by an Obsession supporter seems credible. It is also another reminder that Radical Islam continues to grow almost unchecked. And...

January 7, 2009: Rubashkin Does End Around – Rather Than File Appeal Of Denial Of Bail, Attorneys Ask US Attorney General To Intercede
Comments: 12 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
Details: Former Agriprocessor executive takes case to U.S. attorney general BY GRANT SCHULTE Attorneys for Sholom Rubashkin urged the U.S. attorney general to drop its argument that the former executive at Agriprocessors Inc. is a flight risk because he is...

January 7, 2009: Madoff's Haredi Ally In Hiding
Comments: 104 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel
Details: She's a baal teshuva who lived for a time in Monsey, New York. She raised billions of dollars for Bernard L. Madoff, some of it from Russian oligarchs and some, perhaps, from the Russian and israeli mob. She was...

January 6, 2009: Rubashkin And The Law Of Return, Cont.– The JTA Gets It (Somewhat) Wrong Again
Comments: 48 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
Details: First of all, let me state clearly that I do not mean to say that Sholom M. Rubashkin should be denied bail. I'm not writing here about that. I'm writing about the government's case for denial of bail, the...

January 6, 2009: EXCLUSIVE: First In New Wave Of Evictions Hits Postville
Comments: 54 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
Details: It's a little house at 129 South Maple Street, just under 1300 square feet, built in 1908. Its condition is below normal. The three bedroom house with an assessed value of $35,000 is owned by Nevel Properties, Rabbi Sholom...

January 6, 2009: Madoff "Loved" Pork Sausage, Stayed at London Hotel Costing More Than $10,000 Per Night – "Everything Had To Be Square"
Comments: 29 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc.
It seems Bernie Madoff is very OCD, as well. Details… …from the London Daily Mail: I just can’t live with that camera - it’s not square... Inside the bizarre world of £30bn pyramid schemester Bernie Madoff By Miles Goslett The...

January 5, 2009: Has Israel Moved Too Slowly In Gaza?
Comments: 28 | Categories: Israel
If this report from… …Debka is accurate, Israel has made the same basic mistake in Gaza that it made in Lebanon two years ago – it moved too cautiously and too slowly, on the ground, giving Hamas the time and...

January 5, 2009: Another Haredi Women's Cult Surfaces In Israel
Comments: 29 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal
This one has a National Religious component, as well. Details… …from Ha'aretz: Little woman, or big threat? By Tamar Rotem "I cried for days. I couldn't get out of bed. My body shivered, my head ached and I was nauseous...

January 5, 2009: New Mondrowitz Report: Ha'aretz On Survivors For Justice
Comments: 0 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Details: פורסם ב - 10:52 04/01/09 קורבנות מונדרוביץ' פועלים למען הסגרתו מאת רותי סיני ארגון של יהודים חרדים שנפלו קורבן לתקיפות מיניות בקהילותיהם בארה"ב ביקש מבית המשפט העליון לטעון בעד הסגרתו של אברהם מונדרוביץ', חסיד גור שהואשם בארה"ב בתקיפת עשרות...

January 4, 2009: Child Molested In Crown Heights Mikva
Comments: 159 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Details… Crown Heights.info reports: Child Molested in Crown Heights Mikvah January 04 2009 CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — At 4:12pm, Friday, Erev Shabbos, a child called the Shomrim hotline asking for help. The child stated that he was just molested at...

January 4, 2009: Maimonides The Muslim? Could What We Call Jewish Law Have A Muslim Source?
Comments: 44 | Categories: Halakha , History
Details: Shaul Magid, reviewing Joel L. Kraemer's book, MAIMONIDES: The Life and World of One of Civilization's Greatest Minds, writes: …The fact that Maimonides cites some Islamic sources, especially the philosopher Abu Nasar al-Farabi (c. 870-950), is well known. More...

January 4, 2009: Google's Censorship Continues
Comments: 6 | Categories: Israel , Media & Media Criticism
Jeffrey Rosen had a piece in the November 29 New York Times Magazine on Google's censors. Even though it was written before Google's censorship of IDF videos… …(and also here and here), it has great bits of information like this:...

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