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May 14, 2009: Agudah Pulls Shafran Columns Over Child Sex Abuse Stories
Comments: 19 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Grants exclusivity to competing newspaper with little coverage of the haredi sex abuse issue. PUBLISHER’S NOTE: The price you pay By Mayer Fertig, Publisher and Editor in Chief The Jewish Star As you might well imagine, one of the more,...

May 14, 2009: Haredi Kiruv Rabbi Advocates Suicide For Homosexuals
Comments: 107 | Categories: Haredim , Homophobia and its Discontents , Israel
Homosexuals are better off dead than alive, unless they can be readily 'cured.' The following is written by the anonymous blogger Freelance Kiruv Maniac. FKM is Rabbi Dovid Kornreich, a teacher at Yeshivas Toras Moshe, a mainstream haredi post high...

May 13, 2009: Postville Lag Ba'Omer Parade Video: "Agendas Destroy" Postville
Comments: 44 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
An "old" Postville tradition? Or an excuse to avoid communal responsibility? Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai was a student of Rabbi Akiva. He lived 1900 years ago in the Galilee, 600 years after Rabbi Vogel said. Also note the sign carried...

May 13, 2009: A Warning About Civility
Comments: 34 | Categories: Blogs
Argue with facts, not ad hominem attacks. "Barney Fairy" instead of Barney Frank, "homo," etc. are simply not acceptable forms of discourse. Neither are nearly a dozen other similar attacks hurled at people who comment here. Issues can be discussed...

May 13, 2009: $1 Million Donated To Postville Relief Since Raid
Comments: 10 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Safety , Rubashkin Workers
Private donations far outstrip any government aid. Postville residents pray for healing, peace Janell Bradley, Gazette Online From the first sight of the helicopters that announced it, the May 12, 2008, raid on Agriprocessors Inc. tore apart the small town...

May 13, 2009: Ohel Calls For ‘Collective Action’ On Pedophile Problem
Comments: 6 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Ohel statement long on hyperbole, short on concrete tangible action. Ohel Calls For ‘Collective Action’ On Pedophile Problem NY Jewish Week Staff Report In the first public comment by the Ohel Children’s Home and Family Services after the publication of...

May 13, 2009: Rabbi Protests Scantily Clad Dummies
Comments: 113 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
Threatens to revoke kosher supervision of stores displaying immodest mannequins. Rabbi protests against scantily clad dummies JERUSALEM (AFP) — A rabbi in the Israeli city of Tiberias has called for a boycott of stores that display mannequins in bathing suits,...

May 13, 2009: These Kosher Inspectors Stay Out Of The Kitchen
Comments: 10 | Categories: Ethics , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , MO & Chardal
Does Tav HaYosher really do anything? These Inspectors Stay Out Of The Kitchen Steve Lipman, NY Jewish Week A young rabbi walked into one of Michael Gershkovich’s kosher restaurants on the Upper West Side a few weeks ago, asked for...

May 13, 2009: Attorney General Orders Probe Of Rabbis Who Tricked Mentally Handicapped Woman Into Divorcing Her Husband
Comments: 3 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal , Women & Judaism
Investigation of rabbinical judges called "rare." AG orders probe of rabbis who divorced mentally disabled woman By Tomer Zarchin, Haaretz Attorney General Menachem Mazuz has ordered a rare criminal investigation of four rabbinical court judges suspected of giving a divorce...

May 13, 2009: Postville Anniversary Video
Comments: 6 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Safety , Rubashkin Workers
What is the lesson of Postville? Two longer, better videos are posted on MinnPost.com: Part 1, Part 2. Illegal workers are paid less and exploited more – much more than legal workers. They drive down wages because they have no...

May 12, 2009: FailedMessiah – The Interview
Comments: 22 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
Michael Croland asks Shmarya Rosenberg about Agriprocessors one year after. The interview is posted two places: Heeb and Vegan. The Jew and the Carrot.

May 12, 2009: YU Chancellor: Reform and Conservative Judaism Dead
Comments: 90 | Categories: MO & Chardal
Haredim and Modern Orthodox will control Judaism in the near future. Non-Orthodox Judaism disappearing Matthew Wagner , THE JERUSALEM POST The Reform and Conservative Movements are disappearing, Yeshiva University Chancellor Rabbi Norman Lamm said over the weekend. "With a heavy...

May 12, 2009: VATICAN LIES: Pope Was "Never, Never, Never" In Hitler Youth
Comments: 67 | Categories: Church & Holocaust , Israel , Religion, Religion & State
But the Pope's autobiography says he was a Hitler Youth member. Vatican: Pope was 'never, never, never,' in Hitler Youth By Haaretz Staff and Reuters German-born Pope Benedict was never a member of the Hitler Youth, the official Vatican spokesman...

May 12, 2009: Why Has The Government Not Charged Agriprocessors With Civil Rights Violations?
Comments: 21 | Categories: Chabad , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Price-Fixing , Rubashkin Safety , Rubashkin Workers
Could it be because of this? The Kansas City Star reports: …Of the nearly 400 arrested, 290 already have been deported, some leaving family members behind. Many of the remaining workers are unemployed and unable to leave. Some have requested...

May 11, 2009: Government Wants To Drop Rubashkin Identity Theft Charges
Comments: 40 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
Supreme Court ruling, prosecutorial failures damage aggravated identity theft charges. Government seeks to drop charges against Rubashkin CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) -- The government is seeking to dismiss identity theft charges against the former vice president of a kosher meatpacking...

May 11, 2009: Haredi Kiruv Organization Censors Women's Pictures
Comments: 35 | Categories: Haredim , Women & Judaism
Kiruv, Taliban-style. DovBear has a guest post on this. Basically, it works like this. Gateways has a brochure for its Shavuot retreat: But that brochure has women's faces on it – Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis and Debbie Greenblatt – and haredi...

May 11, 2009: Agriprocessors Trustee: No Date For Sale, $10 Million Debt Buy One Step In A Long Process
Comments: 6 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
"This has been, in my 22 years of doing this, one of the most difficult, challenging, convoluted bankruptcies that I've ever dealt with," Sarachek said. Amid vigils, Iowa town pins hopes on sale of plant By NIGEL DUARA , AP...

May 11, 2009: EXCLUSIVE: The Man Who Bought Agriprocessors $10 Million Line of Credit – Updated
Comments: 23 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , MO & Chardal
How much did he really pay? Is he a union buster? I don't have many details but I do have a name and an amount. The purchaser is a Modern Orthodox or non-hasidic left wing haredi man from Canada named...

May 11, 2009: Jews Believe The World Is 5769 Years Old – Or Do We?
Comments: 43 | Categories: Halakha , History
Every Jewish calendar says this is the 5769th year from creation. But is it? More importantly, did Jews always count years this way? Palestinians busted trying to sell 2,000 year-old Hebrew scroll By Jonathan Lis, Haaretz Two Palestinians were arrested...

May 11, 2009: Was The Biblical Canon Chosen To Exclude Temple Tradition?
Comments: 34 | Categories: History , Israel
Did rabbis go as far as changing the dates of holidays in a bid to destroy Temple-based Judaism? From the Sun to the Moon Abraham Rabinovitch, Jerusalem Post The scene could be out of the Haggada - a group of...

May 10, 2009: Postville One Year After
Comments: 24 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Safety , Rubashkin Workers
Two reports from Iowa on Agriprocessors, the town, the landlords, and the people decimated by the Rubashkins and the raid. Postville decimated by immigration raid one year ago By Orlan Love, The Gazette Postville landlord Gabay Menachem. For flat-broke landlord...

May 10, 2009: Rich Jew Threatens Poor Blogger With Big Lawsuit
Comments: 22 | Categories: Blogs , Chabad , Haredim , Israel
Guma Aguiar didn't like Rabbi Daniel Eidensohn's reporting about him on the Daas Torah blog, especially Aguiar's former connection to haredi conversion partisan Rabbi Leib Tropper, and his current connection to Chabad. Rabbi Eidensohn caved in and pulled all the...

May 10, 2009: Chabad Rabbi: Church Helped Nazis Kill Jews, Do Not Welcome, Honor or Meet With Pope
Comments: 78 | Categories: Chabad , Church & Holocaust , Haredim , Israel
Rabbi Sholom DovBer Wolpe, leader of Chabad's messianist faction in Israel, condemns Church and Pope. Rabbi: Pope visit contradicts Judaism As Israel prepares for Benedict XVI's historic visit, head of SOS Israel believes 'rabbis must not meet with the pope...

May 9, 2009: Weingarten Gets 30 Years
Comments: 18 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Satmar rabbi raped his own daughter. Monsey rabbi sentenced to 30 years for sexual abuse of daughter By Akiko Matsuda • Journal News NEW YORK - A Monsey rabbi was sentenced today to 30 years in prison for taking his...

May 8, 2009: Book Chronicles Haredi Sexual Abuse And Coverups
Comments: 14 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
And it is the coverups that are the most troubling. Books: ‘Tempest in the Temple’ looks at Jewish leaders and child sex scandals By Anne Grant • Providence Journal For decades, while victims of child sex abuse fought Roman Catholic...

May 8, 2009: Rabbi Who Raped His Own Daughter To be Sentenced Today
Comments: 12 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Could get 14 to 17 1/2 years in prison. Sentencing Today For NY Rabbi Convicted Of Sex Abuse (Ramapo, NY) -- It's sentencing day for a New York rabbi convicted of taking his teenage daughter out of the country to...

May 8, 2009: Rubashkin Wants Aggravated Identity Theft Charges Dropped
Comments: 23 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
Say Supreme Court ruing should invalidate charges against him. Rubashkin seeks dismissal of ID theft charges By MICHAEL J. CRUMB • AP The former vice president of the Agriprocessors Inc. kosher meatpacking plant in Postville is seeking the dismissal of...

May 8, 2009: Agriprocessors Credit Buy Out Called A "First Step" Toward Sale
Comments: 24 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Many unanswered questions remain. Credit buy seen as move toward Agriprocessors sale TONY LEYS • Des Moines Register An unidentified company has made a move toward buying a struggling Postville meatpacking plant. The plant, Agriprocessors, was the region’s dominant employer...

May 7, 2009: BREAKING! Agriprocessors $10 Million Debt Sold, Sale May Be Likely
Comments: 26 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Buyer is "undisclosed." Firm buys Iowa meatpacker debt, making sale likely Associated Press IOWA CITY, Iowa - An undisclosed company has bought a $10 million credit line to a bankrupt Iowa kosher slaughterhouse, paving the way for the plant's sale....

May 7, 2009: Rubashkin Wants Child Labor Charges Dropped
Comments: 14 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Safety , Rubashkin Workers
Accuses government of misconduct. Another Motion To Dismiss Filed In Agriprocessors' Child Labor Case Attorneys for Sholom Rubashkin and other former Agriprocessors managers filed a second motion to dismiss the case Thursday. Rubashkin and others are charged with more than...

May 7, 2009: Health Minister Wants Haredi Rabbis To Make Health Policy
Comments: 35 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Med-Ethics, Public Health
Ger hasid Yaakov Litzman wants extremist rabbis to set policy on abortion, organ transplants, stem cell research, and other critical issues. Litzman seeks rabbis' advice on health issues Deputy health minister to form committee of ultra-orthodox rabbis to provide consultation...

May 7, 2009: Israel's Chief Rabbis Attack Pope
Comments: 16 | Categories: Church & Holocaust , Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal , Religion, Religion & State
But the attack is ridden with errors and shows a clear disregard for truth. Chief Rabbinate: Holy Land assets cannot be turned over to Vatican In response to reports of negotiations on the possible transfer of dozens of holy sites...

May 6, 2009: Agudah's Rabbi Yaakov Horowitz 'Apologizes' To Abuse Survivors
Comments: 8 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
'Apology' is all spin, no substance. Rabbi Horowitz Apologizes To Abuse Victims For Editorial Against The Markey Bill Monsey, NY - I am generally an upbeat person by nature and I do my best to follow the derech of the...

May 6, 2009: Rabbi Menashe Klein Condemns Chabad Messianism
Comments: 75 | Categories: Chabad , Haredim
“This sect of crazies, which falsify the Torah and our sages’ words…" I'll have to see this teshuva in writing to be sure, but Rabbi Klein's words actually condemn all of Chabad because "to say the Moshiach is dead but...

May 6, 2009: Rabbi Yaakov Horowitz Sells Out, Part 2
Comments: 4 | Categories: Bad Spin , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
The apologetics of of Agudath Israel of America's new hit man. Walking The Dog Backwards: Why I'm Opposed to the Markey Bill By Rabbi Yakov Horowitz If you were to attend a convention of mental health professionals who specialize in...

May 6, 2009: Agriprocessors Trustee: I'm Working With Multiple Potential Buyers, "Some Old, Some New"
Comments: 16 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
Also claims plant is still operating using loaned funds from First Bank. Efforts continue to find buyer for Agriprocessors By Dave Dewitte, Cedar Rapids Gazette CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Efforts to find a buyer for Agriprocessors are continuing five weeks...

May 6, 2009: BREAKING! Ohel Exposed
Comments: 10 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Haredi family services organization sometimes doesn't tell police about child molesters it treats. In at least one infamous case, that inaction apparently led to more children being molested. A Suspected Pedophile Falls Through The System Stefan Colmer was being treated...

May 6, 2009: Postville Yeshiva: We're Not Closing
Comments: 36 | Categories: Chabad , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Rubashkin: "We are here to stay." Postville yeshiva front view Postville yeshiva rear view Postville Yeshiva Not Closing By COLlive reporter "The Postville Yeshiva has had a lot of success in the past and will continue," Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin told...

May 6, 2009: Is Chabad Trying to Steal This Synagogue?
Comments: 24 | Categories: Chabad , MO & Chardal , Turf Disputes
The synagogue's rabbi says yes. Past Chabad behavior says yes. Attorney (and child advocate) Elliot Pasik says no – but he says it in a way that calls his own behavior into question. Court To Weigh Sale Of Syosset Shul...

May 6, 2009: Prof. Marc Shapiro on Haredi Revisionist History, Spin and Covering Up For Gedolim
Comments: 29 | Categories: Chabad History , Haredim , History , MO & Chardal
When is it proper not to tell the truth? Luke Ford quotes Professor Marc Shapiro: …"If you read my blogs, you’ll see that I am a relentless exposer of the fraudulence not just in the chareidi world but in the...

May 6, 2009: Charges Dismissed Against Haredi Couple Accused Of Child Rape
Comments: 2 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Israeli police bungled the investigation. Children's testimony mishandled. Charges dismissed against couple accused of kidnap, rape of girls By Tomer Zarchin, Ha'aretz The state prosecution yesterday withdrew an indictment against an ultra-Orthodox couple charged with kidnapping and raping two girls,...

May 5, 2009: Blood Donations Needed In NYC
Comments: 5 | Categories: Hessed
16 year old Sephardic girl with Leukemia needs your help. Received via email: Rebecca Mosseri--- Rivka bat Yaffa will soon need O+ blood. She is a 16 year old girl who has just been diagnosed with Leukemia. All those who...

May 5, 2009: Hasidic Yeshiva Students Slaughter Cow In Residential Neighborhood
Comments: 33 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Scandal
Cow slaughtered in backyard of the Bobover Yeshiva of Monsey, New York. The yeshiva is located in a residential neighborhood. Slaughter was done in the open, in full view of neighbors. Bobover Yeshiva of Monsey Cow slaughtered in yard of...

May 5, 2009: Woman Trips on Eruv, Sues
Comments: 16 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , MO & Chardal
But a New York City judge threw out the lawsuit. Court Says Temple Had No Notice Of Fallen Eruv, Dismisses Trip Suit Mark Fass, NY Law Journal A Queens judge has thrown out a slip-and-fall case filed by a woman...

May 5, 2009: ABC News: Sex Abuse Rocks Orthodox Jewish Community
Comments: 25 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Alleged victims and advocates say sex abuse common but rarely discussed. Rabbis who abuse shifted from school to school, community to community – children left unprotected, police not called. Damning coverup allegations made against Satmar leader and the Star-K's Rabbi...

May 5, 2009: Chabad Again Stirs Controversy By Holding Scheduled Religious Services In Private Home
Comments: 38 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc.
New Jersey rabbi told newspaper no religious services were taking place, even though they were. Claims First Amendment right to violate zoning laws, sues city. Millburn, rabbi file dueling suits over house of worship by PAT KELLEY/Independent Press MILLBURN --...

May 5, 2009: Case Against Agriprocessors HR Worker Begins To Unravel
Comments: 39 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
Laura Althouse withdraws guilty plea in wake of new US Supreme Court Ruling. Supreme Court limits prosecutors' use of identity theft law WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday limited federal prosecutors' use of an identity theft law against...

May 5, 2009: New York Esrog Distributor Bound By Israeli Rabbi's Ruling, New York Court Rules
Comments: 6 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Kosher Business?
Distributor claimed he did not know rabbi provided kosher supervision for the etrogs in question. New York Esrog Distributor Bound by Israeli Judgment, Court Rules Joel Stashenko, New York Law Journal An etrog, a fruit used during the Jewish holiday...

May 5, 2009: Haredi Child Molester Sentenced To Prison
Comments: 12 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Judge calls molester's acts "disgusting and severe," hands down single two year sentence. Molester must also pay $1,941 to each of the three boys he molested. He ruined three lives and his penalty is to spend two years in what...

May 4, 2009: US Supreme Court Ruling Impacts Agriprocessors Raid Prosecutions
Comments: 12 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
Ruling could impact hundreds of former Agriprocessors workers. This is a major slap at the Bush Administration and its Department of Justice – especially former Attorneys General Alberto Gonzales and Michael Mukasey. U.S. Supreme Court slaps Postville prosecutions By Lynda...

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