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169 posts from September 2009

September 3, 2009: Artists Are The New Rabbis
Comments: 5 | Categories: Art , Editorials, News Analysis
These days, Jews gather at galleries and wine bars – not at synagogues. Ritual By (Re) Design By Dan Friedman • The Forward Artists are the new rabbis. Since at least the destruction of the Second Temple exile, adaptation and...

September 2, 2009: Birthright Israel's Stealth Haredi Missionary Agenda Exposed
Comments: 20 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Outreach
Birthright covertly tries to make young Jews ultra-Orthodox, using schemes right out of the Jews for Jesus playbook. Part two of the Forward's alarming exposé: Birthright Alumni Center Tied to Haredi Outreach Group By Gal Beckerman • Forward Many of...

September 2, 2009: "We Must All Ask Forgiveness From The Ethiopian Community"
Comments: 1 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Ethiopian Jews , Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal
As dozen of Ethiopian students still wait for school placement, discrimination against Ethiopian students took center stage in the Knesset. 'We must all ask forgiveness from the Ethiopian community' Rebecca Anna Stoil • THE JERUSALEM POST As more than two...

September 2, 2009: Blood Libel: Haredim Blame Baal Teshuvas For Violence
Comments: 11 | Categories: BTs , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel
"Those guys look haredi because they dress like haredim but they aren't. They are responsible for all the violence. We are not a violent people." Eda Haredit calls to tone down protests Matthew Wagner • THE JERUSALEM POST Violence on...

September 2, 2009: Under Pressure from Donors And Stepped Up Police Response, Haredim Call For Nonviolence
Comments: 6 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel
But statement blames "misguided youths" rather than the rabbis who sent them out to riot. Eida Gavaad Weiss Shlita Calls for Non-Violent Protests Yechiel Spira • YWN Israel Following weeks of stormy protests, involving many misguided youths who took advantage...

September 2, 2009: DC Kosher Restaurant Caught Selling Non-Kosher Steak
Comments: 7 | Categories: Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Rabbis shut down JCC restaurant in response. Vaad shuts JCC cafe Eatery closed for buying, stashing nonkosher meat Richard Greenberg, Associate Editor • Washington Jewish Week The JCC Cafe, a kosher dining fixture in the District for more than a...

September 2, 2009: CNN: Israeli Organ Brokers Still Operating–$100,000 Buys Transplant But Not Good Health
Comments: 13 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Israel , Med-Ethics, Public Health
In a dirty rural Chinese hospital, an Israeli gets a kidney––and the Chinese 'donor' pays with her life. Embedded video from CNN Video '$100,000 buys patient new kidney but not good health Israeli man paid $100,000 to a broker to...

September 2, 2009: Why Does Kosher Milk Spoil So Fast, Taste So Bad And Cost So Much?
Comments: 66 | Categories: Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Halav Yisrael, partially exposed, including why the cheapest halav yisrael milk is also the freshest. Does it do a body good? An inside look at Cholov Yisroel By Michael Orbach • The Jewish Star Cholov Yisroel milk has the dubious...

September 2, 2009: Letter From Tel Aviv:
Why Ethiopian Kids Are Like Shalit
Comments: 0 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Ethiopian Jews , Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal
A word is not a word, a promise is not a promise, an agreement is not an agreement. Why Petah Tikva's Ethiopian kids are like Shalit By Yossi Sarid • Ha'aretz What did you learn in school today, my darling...

September 2, 2009: Dozens Of Ethiopian Kids Miss Classes As Schools Put Up New Roadblocks For Admission
Comments: 7 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Ethiopian Jews , Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal
Petah Tikva schools blame city, Education Ministry for problem as Ethiopians cry foul. Dozens of Ethiopian kids miss first day of school in Petah Tikva By Or Kashti, Haaretz Correspondent Dozens of children of Ethiopian origin in Petah Tikva did...

September 2, 2009: Haredim Attack Taxi Driver With Axe, Police Flee Mea Shearim
Comments: 10 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel
It was an attempted lynching, a haredi witness told media. Axe-wielding ultra-Orthodox attack Palestinian (AFP) JERUSALEM — Axe-wielding ultra-Orthodox Jews went on a rampage in a Jerusalem neighbourhood, wounding a Palestinian taxi driver, destroying his vehicle and setting dumpsters on...

September 2, 2009: Parents Of Children In Chabad School Remove Their Children Due To Principal That "Hits" Kids
Comments: 5 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel
Beit Shemesh Chabad parents won't let their kids go to school until the Education Ministry removes the principal. Beit Shemesh Chabad school 'on strike' over principal By ABE SELIG • Jerusalem Post While other children across the country were beginning...

September 1, 2009: Breaking! Rubashkin Trial Moved!
Comments: 94 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
October 13, 2009 – Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Postville to Sioux Falls: 306 miles, about 5 hours driving according to Google, but much longer with snow or rain. Please click to enlarge. Iowa judge moves trial for plant managers to...

September 1, 2009: Haredi Girls Paid To Not Wear Makeup
Comments: 35 |
Jerusalem seminary pays its students 1000 NIS to have a makeup-free wedding. Haredi girls paid not to wear makeup Following rise in use of makeup among female ultra-Orthodox students, seminary offers NIS 1,000 to each girl agreeing not to put...

September 1, 2009: Satmar To Protest Zionist "Gestapo" In NYC Today
Comments: 11 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel
Protest slated for today at 2:30 PM in front of Israel's UN Consulate. Satmar Protest Outside Israeli Consulate in NYC to Protest ‘Zionist Gestapo’ Yechiel Spira • Yeshiva World News The pashkavilim are already posted around the frum areas of...

September 1, 2009: Haredim Stone Police Car, Blame Cops For Violence
Comments: 6 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel
"Why shouldn't we stone them after the way they have treated us?" Haredim stone police car in Jerusalem Matthew Wagner • THE JERUSALEM POST A police patrol car was stoned Tuesday as relations between Jerusalem law enforcement and Jewish zealots...

September 1, 2009: Chabad Calls For Special Day Of Prayer For Rubashkin
Comments: 17 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Safety , Rubashkin Workers
Prayer service to be held at Rebbe's gravesite in New York. Yom Tefilla!! In z’chus of Sholom Mordechai Halevi ben Rivka on September 7, 2009 - A special request to everyone around the world to gather together in your communities...

September 1, 2009: Bias: Haredi Rioter Portrayed As Hero By Jerusalem Post
Comments: 6 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Media & Media Criticism
As police are injured by stones thrown by haredim, and as haredim compare police to the Gestapo, the Post sees a haredi rioter as a hero. No end in sight for police-haredim confrontations in Jerusalem By MATTHEW WAGNER • Jerusalem...

September 1, 2009: Supreme Court Rejects Appeal Of Haredi Baby Killer
Comments: 8 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel
Israel Valas repeatedly abused handicapped infant son until shaking him to death at age 3 months. A short sentence was chosen "since the court considered that this is a young man… who had never shouldered any responsibility other then studying...

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