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142 posts from June 2009

June 18, 2009: BREAKING! MKs, Some Modern Orthodox Rabbis, Strike Back At Haredim Over Conversions
Comments: 20 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal
"Instead of supporting the efforts of conversion court judges who operate under the Chief Rabbinate's auspices, the chief rabbi caved in to a group of extremist ultra-Orthodox hacks who have made it their goal to sabotage conversion." Lawmakers demand apologies...

June 18, 2009: Is Dov Hikind Trying to Kill the Child Victims Act?
Comments: 8 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Sex abuse bill In "big trouble," almost dead, Hikind claims. Complains compromise is needed, but does not acknowledge compromises already put in place. Markey Abuse Bill “in big trouble”, And Most Likely Dead Albany, NY - Assemb. Margaret M. Markey’s...

June 18, 2009: BREAKING! High Rabbinic Court Haredi Rabbi: Converts Are Liars
Comments: 103 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
Rabbi Avraham Sherman attacks converts, non-haredi Orthodox rabbis. High Rabbinical Court judge: Converts will do everything to deceive By Yair Ettinger, Haaretz A judge of the High Rabbinical Court, Rabbi Avraham Sherman, says that new immigrants who want to be...

June 18, 2009: Elie Wiesel: Obama Doesn't Hate Israel
Comments: 32 | Categories: Israel
"I can say with complete certainty that Obama does not hate Israel." Nobel laureate Wiesel: It'd be foolish to call Obama anti-Israel Shlomo Shamir, Ha'aretz After touring the former Nazi death camp Buchenwald with President Barack Obama last week, Nobel...

June 18, 2009: Protest Video
Comments: 0 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Organized in less than five hours, abuse survivors and advocates demonstrate at Assemblyman Vito Lopez's office. Why were they demonstrating?This exclusive post.

June 17, 2009: Rabbi Present As Inmates Had Phone Sex, Former Prisoner Claims
Comments: 10 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
Satmar Rabbi Leib Glanz may have resigned, but the investigation into his chaplaincy continues.

June 17, 2009: Sex Abuse Survivors Plan Protests At Vito Lopez's Offices
Comments: 11 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Renegade Assemblyman is trying to block Child Victims Act in dirty deal with Church. I hear the time for the protests is 3 pm today. One group of protesters will be at the Brooklyn office, another at the Albany office:...

June 17, 2009: BREAKING! Chief Rabbi Sides With Haredim, Backs Conversion Annulments – Thousands Of Converts In Limbo
Comments: 62 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Yonah Metzger says haredi leader Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv behind conversion annulments. Metzger backs Eliyashiv's policy. Chief Rabbi Metzger supports conversions annulment At conference dedicated to 'fortifying walls of conversion,' chief rabbi voices support for Rabbi Sherman,...

June 17, 2009: EXCLUSIVE: Democratic NY State Assemblyman Allegedly Threatens Rebellion To Block Markey Bill
Comments: 9 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Assemblyman Vito Lopez, a powerful Democratic leader in the NY State Assembly, wants to have his rejected bill – backed by the Catholic Church and Agudath Israel of America – brought to a floor vote by the Republicans. A well...

June 17, 2009: Man Molests Two Brooklyn Hasidic Girls
Comments: 20 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
One incident in Kensington, the other in Bensonhurst. PERV AFTER B'KLYN GIRLS By PHILIP MESSING, NY Post A stranger molested two 16-year-old Hasidic girls in separate incidents in Brooklyn in less than a week, sources said. The first incident occurred...

June 17, 2009: Israel's Internal Security Minister Calls Cop "Arabush," Sand Nigger
Comments: 10 | Categories: Israel
Internal Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch says he made the remark in a "moment of humor." Minister utters ethnic slur Internal security minister praises undercover agent, says he looks like 'real sand nigger' Avi Cohen, Ynet Embarrassing remark by minister: Internal...

June 16, 2009: VOTE POSTPONED
Comments: 2 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
The vote in the NY State Assembly on the Child Victims Act (Markey Bill) has been postponed. It will not be Wednesday. I'll let you know when the vote will take place as soon as I find out. The current...

June 16, 2009: Dispute Over Bamba Blessing Underscores Rabbi Power Struggle
Comments: 7 | Categories: Halakha , Haredim , Sefardim
Two sons of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef rule differently on snack food blessing as both fight to be Sefardic Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem. Dispute over Bamba blessing underscores rabbinical power struggle By MATTHEW WAGNER, JPost.ccom What blessing should a pious Jew...

June 16, 2009: Teen Confronts Molester In Court
Comments: 4 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Police were told after family went to Rabbi Yaakov Horowitz to see if they should report the crime. Teen molested as a child by Queens baker confronts tormentor in court BY NICOLE BODE, NY DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER A Queens...

June 16, 2009: Satmar Rabbi Resigns Amid Jail Perks Scandal
Comments: 11 | Categories: Chabad & Christianity , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
Rabbi Leib Glanz says goodbye. Rabbi Resigns as City Chaplain After Jailhouse Bar Mitzvah By WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM, NY Times Rabbi Leib Glanz, the part-time chaplain for the city’s Department of Correction who is under investigation for allowing a man...

June 16, 2009: Haredi Sex Offender Plea Raises Questions About Judge, Police, DA, Rabbis
Comments: 3 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Stefan Colmer could be free before the end of the year. Pleaded guilty June 10 to molesting 2 kids. Police know of at least 10 other victims whose rabbis would not let them testify. Colmer Plea Deal Seen Raising Questions...

June 16, 2009: BREAKING! Rubashkin Wants All Evidence Gathered During Raid Excluded From Trial
Comments: 15 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Safety , Rubashkin Workers
Argues raid violated constitutional rights of workers. He paid them at or below minimum wage; made them worked forced, unpaid overtimes; employed child laborers; shorted employees' pay, and and violated OSHA health and safety regulations. And now he wants to...

June 16, 2009: Child Victims Act Has New Senate Sponsor
Comments: 1 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Vote in the Assembly slated for tomorrow night. The new Senate sponsor is Senator Ruth Hassell-Thompson.

June 16, 2009: BREAKING! Agudath Israel and Ohel Defend Satmar Rabbi In Jail Corruption Scandal
Comments: 4 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
Agudah email lists at least two cosigners that say they did not sign the letter defending Rabbi Leib Glanz. Orthodox Organization Defends Chaplain Accused of Favoring Jewish Inmates By Nathaniel Popper, The Forward The nation’s leading ultra-Orthodox umbrella organization is...

June 16, 2009: Brooklyn Girl Testifies Against Alleged Haredi Perv Kidnapper
Comments: 10 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Bernard Mutterperl said he took the girl's hand because he wanted to become friends. Brave Brooklyn girl, 13, testifies at kidnapping trial BY SCOTT SHIFREL, NY DAILY NEWS A plucky 13-year-old Brooklyn girl who kept cool and escaped when a...

June 16, 2009: CORRUPTION: Satmar Rabbi Behind Jail Bar Mitzva Bash Got Job Through Backroom Deal
Comments: 5 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
Republican mayor said to have rewarded Satmar for bloc vote by appointing rabbi over objections of chaplaincy committee in violation of city's labor agreement. BAR QUITS-VAH! JEWISH-BASH JAIL HONCHO RESIGNS By DAN MANGAN and REUVEN BLAU, NY Post A top...

June 16, 2009: Protecting Pedophiles
Comments: 5 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
The child sexual abuse scandal in Beit Shemesh deepens and widens as rabbis and community leaders persecute abuse victims and their families. Protecting the pedophiles Tamar Rotem, Ha'aretz For several weeks in April last year, the seven-year-old son of residents...

June 16, 2009: Want To Pass A Law To Protect Kids From Child Sexual Abuse?
Call Your Legislators Now!
Comments: 7 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Your calls will make the difference. Please click to enlarge: MEMO TO: Friends and Supporters of Child Victims’ Act of New York FROM: Assemblywoman Margaret M. Markey SUBJECT: Albany Update, Monday, June 15, 2009 The Assembly continued in session well...

June 16, 2009: Chabad Rabbi And Wife Charged With Fraud
Comments: 19 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
Rabbi Yossi Engel and his wife Chana charged with 39 counts of document fraud, expected to plead not guilty. Rabbi Yossi Engel. Adelaide rabbi and wife charged over school funding PETER KOHN, Australian Jewish News ADELAIDE'S Rabbi Yossi Engel and...

June 15, 2009: BREAKING! Queens Rabbis Force Bakery To Fire Convicted Pedophile
Comments: 16 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Queens Pita given ultimatum by Vaad. June 14, 2009 - Queens Pita PUBLIC ADVISORY - SUNDAY, JUNE 14, 2009 On Friday, June 12, 2009, the Vaad Harabonim of Queens ordered the retail establishment known as Queens Pita Bakery and/or Queens...

June 15, 2009: Chabad Donor Allegedly Runs Massive South African Ponzi Scheme
Comments: 22 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc.
Barry Tannenbaum gave Chabad a Sefer Torah in 2006. Audio from the Australian Broadcasting Company: Barry Tannenbaum holds the Torah Scroll under the canopy with Chabad's Rabbi Shlomo Wainer. MoneyWeb: Special investigations Reserve Bank, Sars, NPA to investigate SA's biggest...

June 15, 2009: The Bias Of Google News
Comments: 10 | Categories: Chabad & the Media
Why are Chabad.info, Chabad.org and Lubavitch.com indexed as Google News sources? I did a Google news search for "Agriprocessors" a few minutes ago and got a result that I think clearly shows a bias in how Google selects news sources...

June 15, 2009: Kosher Industry: We Will Never Be Transparent
Comments: 7 | Categories: Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Menachem Lubinsky extols the virtues of backroom 'kosher' deals, alibis for Streit's ban. Rushing to Judgment in the Streit’s Fiasco It was an unfortunate incident for the Streit family when it learned just several weeks before Passover that its Matzoh...

June 14, 2009: EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Luke Ford On The New HIV Outbreak And Jews In The Porn Industry
Comments: 6 | Categories: Podcasts '09
The Orthodox Jewish blogger and journalist who broke the story of the 1997 AIDS outbreak in the porn industry talks to FailedMessiah.com about the new cases of HIV in the porn industry and about how porn impacts its users and...

June 14, 2009: Picture of the Day
Comments: 43 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Rubashkin at home. "Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin, flanked by his wife Leah and children, making Havdalah after Shabbos Beha'aloscha in their home in Postville, Iowa. The future of the local Jewish community has been in question ever since the May 2008...

June 14, 2009: Rabbi Milton Yehoshua Balkany Defends Rabbi Dovid Cohen & Ohel, Attacks Media, NY Jewish Week
Comments: 6 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
The rabbi who misappropriated a $700,000 federal grant meant to help disabled children defends rabbi who said Jewish law allows you to cheat on your taxes. Rabbi Milton Yehoshua Balkany is also the son-in-law of Aaron Rubashkin. And, like the...

June 14, 2009: Haredi Matza Rabbi Again In Trouble With The Law
Comments: 5 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
Once claimed "religious freedom" exempted him from building and fire codes. 'Matzo rabbi' in Monroe under fire again for home oven By John Sullivan • Times Herald-Record MONROE — After winning a protracted battle to bake matzos in his home,...

June 14, 2009: Postville: A City Under Siege
Comments: 7 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Safety , Rubashkin Workers
CBS News takes a look at Postville, 13 months after the raid. Another weak effort from CBS. It doesn't mention 9300 counts of child labor violations, bank fraud, the ongoing attempt to sell Agriprocessors, the near-evictions, etc. God help us...

June 13, 2009: CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT LAUNCHES KOSHER SUPERVISION IN ISRAEL
Comments: 13 | Categories: Israel , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Hechsher will compete with Rabbinute and various independent haredi hechshers. A kashrut conundrum YAEL BRYGEL , THE JERUSALEM POST Most kashrut-observant Jews are accustomed to walking into an eatery and asking the restaurateur or waiter whether the establishment is kosher....

June 13, 2009: Haredi Rabbi's Phone Used By Jewish Prisoners To Hide Evidence, Gamble, and for Phone Sex
Comments: 13 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
Satmar Rabbi Leib Glanz let Jewish cons gamble, use his phone for phone sex and to tamper with evidence, and broke many other rules. Why does he still have his job? CONS LIVING L'CHAIM LIFE WITH SEX By DAN MANGAN,...

June 13, 2009: No Jail For Kosher Molester
Comments: 12 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Kosher baker admits molesting boy, released without bail, is expected to get short probation and counseling. Not registered as sex offender. Will be back in bakery Sunday. No jail for molester: Plans return to Kew Gardens bakery BY NICOLE BODE,...

June 12, 2009: Bikers Urge Protest At Haredi Rabbi's House
Comments: 6 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
Group outraged over crooked police chaplain. Previous Posts: 1, 2.

June 12, 2009: CORRUPTION: Jewish Prisoners Treated Like Kings, "Untouchable," Rules Did Not Apply To Them – Haredi Rabbi Played Prison Fixer
Comments: 18 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
Jews ate like kings while blacks and hispanics cleaned up after them. Rabbi Leib Glanz. RABBI'S 'CLUB' KEPT 'EM WELL FED & COMFY By DAN MANGAN and DAVID SEIFMAN, New York Post Move over, Goodfellas. The lower Manhattan lockup known...

June 12, 2009: New Blog Policies
Comments: 33 |
No more free announcements. Most blogs charge for posting announcements. For example, Hirhurim has been doing this for a couple of years already. I've resisted doing this, especially when dealing with causes I believe in – but no more. You're...

June 12, 2009: Tablet Magazine
Comments: 0 | Categories: Media & Media Criticism
Nextbook rebrands, restyles and gets much better. Take a look. [Thanks for the reminder: C-Girl.]

June 12, 2009: Brooklyn's DA Is Unfit For Office
Comments: 1 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Charles Hynes shows he does not understand the crime of child sexual abuse. VosIzNeais posted a video interview with Brooklyn DA Charles Hynes done for it by Yair Hoffman. Hoffman, a haredi rabbi, may be familiar to some of you...

June 12, 2009: AIN LO BEITZIM: Barkat Surrenders To Haredi Violence
Comments: 5 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel
One weekend of haredi rioting is enough for Jerusalem's mayor to surrender to haredi demands. Jerusalem parking lot to remain closed Municipality announces controversial parking lot will not open on Shabbat during next two weeks 'following district police commander's request',...

June 12, 2009: VIOLENCE WINS – Jerusalem Mayor Said To Give In To Haredim, Close Parking Lot On Shabbat
Comments: 9 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel
Riots cause police to ask mayor to surrender to haredi demands. Barkat considers giving in on parking issue Haredim say police asked Jerusalem mayor to close Safra lot on Saturdays while considering alternatives Ronen Medzini, Ynet Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat...

June 12, 2009: The Thug Behind Haredi Riots
Comments: 8 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel
The quiet, soft spoken leader of the rock throwing, dumpster burning haredi mob. The quiet organizer behind the new haredi riots vows: We won't surrender By ABE SELIG, Jerusalem Post Behind the shabby stone buildings and through the dusty streets...

June 11, 2009: Haredi Corruption: Haredi Rabbi Suspended Over Con's Son's Lavish Bar Mitzvah Party In NY Jail
Comments: 32 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
Rabbi Leib Glanz is suspended after Tuvia Sten hosts lavish in-jail bar mitzvah party for his son. RITE IS WRONG FOR SON OF CON BIGS LET RICH CROOK HOLD BAR MITZVAH IN JAIL By DAN MANGAN and REUVEN BLAU, NY...

June 11, 2009: "I Was Tortured By Rabbis…I Went Through Hell"
Comments: 22 | Categories: Chabad , Haredim , Med-Ethics, Public Health
Chabad tries to stop a family from donating the organs of a brain stem dead child. Neil Steinberg writes in the Chicago Sun-Times: …Joseph C. Cox was looking for an unlit cigar on the floor of his gray 2002 Chevy...

June 11, 2009: Make A Call, Save A Life
Comments: 8 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Take five minutes out of your busy day to help kids. The Survivors for Justice blog writes: URGENT: ACTION NEEDED NOW Monday's surprise upheavel in the New York State Senate puts the progress of the Child Victims Act of New...

June 11, 2009: Child Sex Abuse Bill Poised For Vote Amid Albany Chaos
Comments: 4 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Catholic Church, Agudath Israel try to block bill. Child Sex Abuse Bill Poised for Vote Amid Albany Chaos By Rebecca Dube • The Forward Last summer, New York State Assemblywoman Marge Markey had lunch with Delaware State Senator Karen Peterson....

June 10, 2009: Darwin, Evolution Cause Of Holocaust Museum Shooting, Beliefnet Blogger Claims
Comments: 16 | Categories: Antisemitism , Ethics
Former Forward columnist and current fellow at the fundamentalist anti-evolution Discovery Institute David Klinghoffer tries to lay the blame for the shooting on Charles Darwin. David Klinghoffer writes on his Beliefnet blog: James von Brunn, Evolutionist Wednesday June 10, 2009...

June 10, 2009: TWO SHOT AT NATIONAL HOLOCAUST MUSEUM IN WASHINGTON, DC
Comments: 39 | Categories: Antisemitism
GUNMAN 89 YEAR OLD WHITE SUPREMACIST HOLOCAUST DENIER. WASHINGTON (AP) — At least two people were shot Wednesday at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, authorities said. D.C. police spokeswoman Traci Hughes said a person walked into the museum...

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