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215 posts from May 2010

May 23, 2010: Schlepping Toward Ecstasy
Comments: 7 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Film , Haredim
The Israeli mobster was running a modest ecstasy smuggling ring when he had a multimillion-dollar idea. To smuggle his pills into New York’s JFK Airport, he’d turn to couriers who were completely unlikely to arouse customs officers’ suspicions: young Hasidic...

May 23, 2010: Frum Comics Big Hit With Haredi Kids
Comments: 6 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
The comics are censored by haredi rabbis before publication. Kosher comics prove hit with Israel's Haredi Jews By Ron Bousso • AFP SAFED, Israel — A far cry from the thrills of Spiderman and the sexy glam of Lois Lane,...

May 23, 2010: 83% Of Haredim Claim Discrimination
Comments: 6 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
While most respondents say they have not experienced phenomenon, majority of haredi sector say they, or someone they know, were subject to discrimination. Poll: 83% of haredim suffer ethnic discrimination While most respondents say they have not experienced phenomenon, majority...

May 23, 2010: Mixing Torah And 'Flour'
Comments: 13 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
JCT staff believe Talmud students should work. “Without flour, there is no Torah. Without Torah, there is no flour”–Pirkei Avot. Mixing Torah and flour JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH • Jerusalem PostJCT staff believe Talmud students should work. “Without flour, there is no...

May 22, 2010: Suit Alleges Pro-Hasidic Bias In Brooklyn Housing
Comments: 22 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
A judge blocked any development of the Broadway Triangle in order to hear a lawsuit claiming that the process to rezone the area favored whites and Hasidic Jews over other minorities. Suit Alleging Racism In Brooklyn Zoning Moves Ahead Jen...

May 22, 2010: Letter from Jerusalem: Haredim "Held Captive" By Radicals
Comments: 21 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel
As long as the haredim themselves don't shun the haredi minority willing to beat up police officers in order to protect bones, Israelis will not be able to see that the vast majority of ultra-Orthodox community members are fine people....

May 21, 2010: Rubashkin Trial Day 6 Summary
Comments: 12 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Safety , Rubashkin Workers
When state labor investigators came to Agriprocessors a month before the immigration raid, Rucal testified that supervisors told her not to talk to them or “we would be fired.” Rubashkin trial: Former workers take standBlog post by Jens Krogstad •...

May 21, 2010: Rubashkin's Wife: Sentence My Husband To Time Already Served
Comments: 47 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
"What we are looking for in the court system is that they treat us the way they would treat any other person in this situation. I’d be happy with time served. He has served almost a year already in a...

May 21, 2010: Pumping Iron: In Williamsburg, Hasids And Hipsters Work Out Side By Side
Comments: 15 | Categories: Haredim
“I myself am very confused about what my parents would think of it. I for sure hide it from them because I should spend my evenings learning Torah in shul and not in gym. I would never be able to...

May 21, 2010: Rubashkin Trial Resumes This Afternoon
Comments: 7 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Safety , Rubashkin Workers
Trial postponed this morning because Rubashkin was still hospitalized. Leah and Sholom Rubashkin, Black Hawk County court, May 13, 2010. Photo: Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier. According to the live blog of the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier's Jeff Reinitz, Sholom Rubashkin was released...

May 21, 2010: Jews For Jesus Founder Dies
Comments: 55 | Categories: Antisemitism , Religion, Religion & State
Martin Rosen was born April 12, 1932, in Kansas City, Mo., and was raised in an Orthodox synagogue in Denver. He adopted his Christian beliefs in 1953, the same year his Jewish-born wife converted. Moishe Rosen, 78; founded evangelistic group...

May 21, 2010: Archeologists Find Pagan Altar, Confirm Barzilai Bones Not Jewish–Haredim Hold Mass Funeral, Say Kaddish
Comments: 18 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Med-Ethics, Public Health
Israeli archaeologists say workers have uncovered an ancient pagan altar while clearing ground for construction of a hotly disputed hospital emergency room. Pagan altar unearthed at Ashkelon hospital construction site Archeologists say discovery proves hotly contested cemetery at site slated...

May 21, 2010: Oorah Subcontractor Linked To Sale Of Stolen Cars
Comments: 11 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Oorah Kars4Kids , Outreach
Haredi kiruv organization and its bogus subsidiary for 'at risk' youth are again linked to shady dealings. Donated family car makes criminal turn One woman helpless to fix the problemBy Kim Holland • KRQE ALBUQUERQUE -- Do you really know...

May 21, 2010: Hundreds Of Haredim Riot In Jerusalem, Start Forest Fire, Try To Block Firefighters
Comments: 15 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel
Hundreds of haredim threw stones at police officers. During the rioting a group of haredim shattered the windshield of a police vehicle. Rioters stole a briefcase containing confidential documents detailing plans to arrest the riots' organizers, as well as police...

May 20, 2010: Letter from Des Moines: Rubashkin Deserves A Fair Punishment
Comments: 32 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
As Federal District Court Judge Linda Reade prepares to pass sentence on former Agriprocessors executive Sholom Mordecai Rubashkin on May 27 for his conviction on federal financial fraud charges, I have been receiving a steady stream of phone calls and...

May 18, 2010: Hot Jerusalem Rumor
Comments: 16 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Women & Judaism
Latest haredi excess in time for Shavuot. Reb Yudel writes: With thanks to Andrew M. Sacks: "The news has anounced that on Shavuot the entire Kotel Plaza will require men and women to be seperated. The Mehitzah will not be...

May 18, 2010: Mysteries Of The Baal Shem Tov
Comments: 13 | Categories: Haredim , History
Exactly 250 years after the Baal Shem Tov’s death, we still know nothing about where he came from, or who he was before age 36. But a critical reading of his last moments, recounted by eyewitnesses, provides a look at...

May 18, 2010: Blog Schedule
Comments: 4 |
The holiday of Shavuot begins tonight. Shavuot, the Spring holiday that has come to commemorate the giving of the Torah to Moses and the Israelites at Mount Sinai, begins tonight and lasts for two days. Therefore the blog will not...

May 18, 2010: Letter from Bnei Brak: The Haredi Revolution Starts Here
Comments: 28 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
If Bnei Brak is the signpost that marks the future of ultra-Orthodox society, then the future is much less dark than we secular are inclined to think. Bnei Brak, a different planet, is connecting to Israel, if we are only...

May 18, 2010: The High Court of Justice’s Ultimatum To Haredim: End Segregation Or Pay
Comments: 9 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Sefardim
The haredi school system will pay a fine of NIS 10,000 for every day segregation continues. Parents who disobey the court's injunction will have to pay a fine of NIS 200 per day per parent (a couple will have to...

May 18, 2010: Mofaz Says Kadima Head Livni Wrong To Attack Haredim
Comments: 4 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
Opposition leader Tzipi Livni’s rival in Kadima, MK Shaul Mofaz, has attacked her in an interview with a chain of haredi newspapers, saying that it was wrong of her to adopt an anti-haredi line in recent weeks. Mofaz: Livni was...

May 18, 2010: Haredim Riot Again, Block Main Road
Comments: 1 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Med-Ethics, Public Health
The haredim were protesting the removal of graves from a site designated for Barzilai Hospital's new emergency wing, as well as the arrest of a man suspected of snatching the body of a woman in order to prevent an autopsy....

May 18, 2010: Supreme Court Allows Indefinate Imprisonment Of Sexual Predators
Comments: 14 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
In a broad endorsement of federal power, the Supreme Court on Monday ruled that Congress has the authority under the Constitution to allow the continued civil commitment of sex offenders after they have completed their criminal sentences. Extended Civil Commitment...

May 17, 2010: Rubashkin Trial Delayed Until Friday
Comments: 24 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Safety , Rubashkin Workers
Sholom Rubashkin’s child labor trial will resume on Friday, because of health reasons and a Jewish holiday. Rubashkin hospitalized over weekend Jens Krogstad • Des Moines Register 3:48 p.m., Waterloo, Ia. — Sholom Rubashkin’s child labor trial will resume on...

May 17, 2010: 100-Year-Old Haredi Leader Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv Blocked Hospital Expansion, Report Claims
Comments: 9 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Med-Ethics, Public Health
The people who make the most noise about the media blitz against haredim actually secretly wish that the Barzilai fiasco would just disappear. None of the MKs would admit as much in public, particularly because it would be interpreted as...

May 17, 2010: 40 Arrested As Haredim Protest In Jaffa – Again
Comments: 13 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel
Graves causing riots again as haredim demonstrate in Jaffa against construction work they say is desecrating ancient tombs. Haredi protests in Jaffa resume; 40 arrested Graves causing riots again as haredim demonstrate in Jaffa against construction work they say is...

May 17, 2010: No Rubashkin Trial Today
Comments: 38 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Safety , Rubashkin Workers
Sholom Rubashkin hospitalized over the weekend. According to the live blog of Jeff Reinertz of the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier, the trial is canceled for today. It may resume tomorrow: Sholom's wife said he had a bite or something on his...

May 17, 2010: Rubashkin Hospitalized
Comments: 18 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Safety , Rubashkin Workers
Ex-Agriprocessors manager taken to hospital. Jeff Reinitz of the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier writes in the Courier's live trial blog: Defense attorney Montgomery Brown said Sholom Rubashkin was taken to the hospital over the weekend bc of an infection. It doesn't...

May 17, 2010: Jerusalem City Workers Beaten By Haredi Mob, 30 Arrested
Comments: 17 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Med-Ethics, Public Health
"They are arresting righteous Yeshiva students for protesting the desecration of graves," said Rabbi Yitzhak Tuvia Weiss, the leader of the Haredi group that organized the protest. "It is they [the police] who should be arrested." Some 700 Haredim riot...

May 17, 2010: Haredi Riots Cost Jerusalem NIS 1 Million
Comments: 3 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel
The damage from the riots carried out by members of the Eda Haharedit Sunday is valued at NIS 1 million (about $270,000). A Ynet investigation revealed that the municipal coffers will bear the burden of the protesters' vandalism, which included...

May 17, 2010: Letter from Tel Aviv: The Haredi S&M Club
Comments: 10 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
There is no need to come to the aid of a person who subjects himself to the rules of Halacha as interpreted by the Haredi leaders, just as one should not listen to the cries of pain emitted by a...

May 17, 2010: Only 42% Of Israeli Jews Are Secular
Comments: 13 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal
Among young Jews aged 20-29, the percentage of haredim is higher, and stands at 14%, as opposed to only 2% who define themselves as haredi among elderly [Jews] aged 65 or above. Only 42% of Jews Are Secular Zeev Klein...

May 17, 2010: 37% Of Haredi Children Disabled, 20% Have No Wage Earning Parent
Comments: 19 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
About a fifth of the haredi children in Israel live in families without a providing parent, and some 37% of them have disabilities – especially learning disabilities. Report: 20% of haredi kids have no providing parent Ahead of conference on...

May 17, 2010: At Least 87 Haredim Arrested, Bones Moved
Comments: 4 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Med-Ethics, Public Health
Disinterment of the bones started Sunday, and provoked a wave of violent protest among extremist elements in the Eda Haharedit in Ashkelon, Jerusalem, and Jaffa. Barzilai dig completed; police still on alert Archeological work on disputed hospital emergency room site...

May 17, 2010: Haredi Riots Reveal Split In Haredi Community
Comments: 3 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Med-Ethics, Public Health
Senior ultra-Orthodox officials criticize leaders of struggle against removal of graves from Ashkelon hospital, following Jerusalem Municipality's decision to halt service to haredi neighborhoods. 'They've made us lose our power of deterrence,' one of them says. Haredim: Extreme protestors causing...

May 17, 2010: Hundreds Of Haredim Riot In Jerusalem
Comments: 0 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Med-Ethics, Public Health
After they failed in Ashkelon, and the work for evacuating the graves in the Barzilai Hospital compound was launched as planned, extremist haredi elements decided to move the focal point of the clashes to a more convenient venue for them—...

May 16, 2010: Haredim Draw Swastika At Barzilai As Litzman Threatens Government Coalition
Comments: 1 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Med-Ethics, Public Health
Haredi protesters drew a swastika on the walls of the improvised police holding area at Barzilai Hospital. Haredim draw swastika at Barzilai 15 arrested setting fire to fields near Ashkelon's Shikma prison. By ABE SELIG, JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH • Jerusalem Post...

May 16, 2010: Haredi Riots: Graves Christian, Not Jewish, Antiquities Authority Says
Comments: 7 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Med-Ethics, Public Health
"The real shame is with the people who delayed construction of the bombproof emergency room, while during Operation Cast Lead people could have died…That is the biggest disgrace." Israel: Graves in Ashkelon ER row are Byzantine, not Jewish Netanyahu: Creation...

May 16, 2010: Jerusalem Cuts Off City Services To Haredim Over Violent Protests
Comments: 11 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Med-Ethics, Public Health
Due to "a long list of violent incidents, including attacks on municipal workers and the vandalism of city facilities at the hands of the haredi protesters, the city has decided to remove employees from these neighborhoods and immediately halt all...

May 16, 2010: Pulsa Denura? Haredim To Curse Prime Minister
Comments: 22 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel
Leading figures of the extreme “Eda Charedis” haredi community are planning to lay a curse on Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and the director-general of his office, Eyal Gabbai on Sunday night, Channel 10 news reported. Eda haredit to curse Netanyahu...

May 16, 2010: Yankel Rosenbaum's Murderer Now Lives A Quiet Anonymous Suburban Life
Comments: 22 | Categories: Antisemitism , Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc.
The man at the center of the 1991 Crown Heights riot now lives incognito in a New Jersey town, untroubled by memories of his terrible deed. '91 Crown Hts. thug's new life JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN • New York Post The man...

May 16, 2010: Plans Made To Reduce Haredi Unemployment
Comments: 10 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
Modiin Illit Mayor Rabbi Yaakov Gutterman said, "Free daycare and nursery school must be provided or every haredi woman who wants to work." Plans made to reduce haredi unemployment In discussion initiated by Industry, Trade, and Labor Ministry, number of...

May 16, 2010: Prime Minister: "Public Welfare" Conquers Haredi Protests
Comments: 3 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel
"Public welfare conquers, this is our guideline. If we can, we confer and attempt to reach conclusions, but in the end the government's decision [not to agree to haredi demands] is according to public welfare." Netanyahu: Public welfare conquers haredi...

May 16, 2010: 17 Haredim Detained In Jaffa Over New Grave Dispute
Comments: 2 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel
Haredim tried to block infrastructure work and then tried to assault police. Jaffa: Haredim protest against construction claiming ancient graves Police says ultra-Orthodox tried to disrupt infrastructure work near Andromeda Hill, insulted officers; 17 detained Eli Senyor • Ynet Some...

May 16, 2010: Letter from Jerusalem: Haredim, Curb Your Enthusiasm
Comments: 3 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Kosher Scandal
There are many kashrut organizations in Israel…but none thrives the way the Eda Haredit’s organization does. The amounts charged by the Eda Haredit are among the highest. Most of the surplus income does not go to the inspectors, but rather...

May 16, 2010: Audio: New Book On Lubavitcher Rebbe Sparks Controversy
Comments: 14 | Categories: Chabad , Chabad History
Professor Samuel Heilman, co-author of new book on the life of Menachem Mendel Schneerson, is interviewed by Zev Brenner. Shmuley Boteach responds with harsh criticism. The audio is listenable but not perfect. The second part of the Heilman interview has...

May 16, 2010: 15 Haredim Detained By Police During Ashkelon Protests
Comments: 3 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Med-Ethics, Public Health
On Friday night, horsemen and special crowd-dispersal police units were deployed around the hospital. Police stressed that no measure would be spared and that the commanders were instructed to act as they see fit, including making arrests, in order to...

May 15, 2010: Redundant? Senator Rethinks $1 Million Grant To Haredi Village After Opposition Surfaces
Comments: 5 | Categories: Haredim
The county has a new, state-of-the-art emergency center in Goshen and Orange County Executive Edward Diana said the county didn’t need another identical facility in Kiryas Joel. Gillibrand to “look into” her $1 million promise to KJ MidHudsonNews.com NEWBURGH –...

May 15, 2010: 2 High Court Petitions Challenge Haredi Education Policies
Comments: 1 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
There was 1 government supervisor for every 101,901 students in the state-funded recognized but unofficial haredi school system, none for the estimated 40,000 students in the “exempted” haredi schools, 1 for every 5,328 students in the state secular schools and...

May 15, 2010: Haredim Protest Ice Cream
Comments: 13 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
"Promiscuity!" haredim declared in wall posters at the entrance to Mea Shearim. Taking their licks to survive A new ice-cream parlor in an ultra-Orthodox part of Jerusalem has provoked protests by religious zealots By Tamar Rotem • Ha'aretz Jerusalem's Geula...

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