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June 22, 2010: Supreme Court: 13 AWOL Haredi Mothers Won't Be Jailed, 9 Others To Be Jailed After Their Husnbands Are Released From Prison
Comments: 3 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Sefardim
In light of the haredi public's [disruptive] conduct during last week's discussion, the judges said next week's discussion will be held without an audience and the only people allowed to enter the courtroom will be the parents, media representatives, the...

June 22, 2010: 10-Year-Olds Watch Porn Vidoes At Orthodox School
Comments: 23 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Israel , MO & Chardal
Children studying in a religious school in the city of Raanana have been watching porn films online. Girls studying in the same school informed their principal that the boys, aged 10 and 11, would invite their female classmates to watch...

June 22, 2010: 27-Year Sentence for Plant Manager
Comments: 91 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
The sentence, two years more than prosecutors had requested, was unusually high in the recent history of financial crimes — longer than the term for Jeffrey K. Skilling, the former chief executive of Enron, and L. Dennis Kozlowski, the former...

June 22, 2010: Haredim Stone Van Over Bumper Stickers
Comments: 15 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel
Dozens of ultra-Orthodox in Mea Shearim pelt vehicle with stones because it had stickers of company they claim owns Jaffa complex where excavation works are taking place; women passengers rescued unharmed. Jerusalem: Haredim attack vehicle over Electra stickers Dozens of...

June 22, 2010: Charges Dismissed Against Rabbi
Comments: 5 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
Multiple fraud-related charges have been dropped after an investigation stretching back several years. Charges dismissed against rabbi AAP Multiple fraud-related charges against an Adelaide rabbi have been dropped after an investigation stretching back several years. In the Adelaide Magistrates Court...

June 21, 2010: No Bids On Former Agriprocessors Plant
Comments: 0 | Categories: Agri-Star , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Allamakee County received no bidders for the Agri-Star Meat & Poultry plant in Postville at a sheriff’s sale Monday, June 21. The lack of bidders was at a minor setback in the county’s efforts to collect a $577,872 tax bill....

June 21, 2010: RUBASHKIN GETS 27 YEARS
Comments: 180 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
[UPDATED] U.S. District Court Judge Linda Reade wrote that she will sentence Rubashkin for 27 years in prison in connection with his federal bank fraud convictions. Judge says Rubashkin to get 27 years in federal penn By JEFF REINITZ, •...

June 21, 2010: Haredi MK: Supreme Court Ruling Is "Mega Terror Attack"
Comments: 23 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Sefardim
Referring to the Supreme Court order to jail hasidic parents for repeated contempt of court citations, UTJ Chairman Menachem Eliezer Moses said that "leaving 293 children without parents is a mega terror attack." MK Litzman: We won't be deterred by...

June 21, 2010: Off the Mark: A Jewish Week Editor's Deceitful Attack On Samuel Heilman And Menachem Friedman
Comments: 53 | Categories: Chabad , Chabad & the Media , Chabad History , Media & Media Criticism
Does a book review written by a Jewish Week editor need to be fact based? Or is it okay to lie, especially when those lies benefit Chabad? Six years ago, Jonathan Mark, The Jewish Week's associate editor, wrote was supposed...

June 21, 2010: Hasidic Real Estate Tycoon Killed By Rabbi's Death Curse, Friends Say
Comments: 16 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
The New York medical examiner ruled Solomon Obstfeld's June 9 death a suicide, but family and friends insist Obstfeld was murdered after a dispute with an Israeli rabbi. The mysterious death of an Orthodox Jewish millionaire – murder or suicide?...

June 21, 2010: Furor At Budget's $18 Million For Rabbis
Comments: 8 | Categories: Haredim , Religion, Religion & State
An $18 million tuition subsidy devised by NY's Gov. Paterson as a political gift to NYC's Orthodox Jewish community has emerged as an angry 11th-hour sticking point in budget talks. Furor at budget's $18M for 'rabbis' By BRENDAN SCOTT •...

June 21, 2010: Beit Din Cancels Agreement With Sefardim
Comments: 4 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Sefardim
Sefardim say the hasidic parents refused to sign the agreement while the Ashkenazi beit din blames the Sefardim for using the beit din agreement to "satisfy" their "needs" in the media. In other words, the beit din was threatened and...

June 21, 2010: Letter from Tel Aviv: It's Time To End Government Guaranteed Income Allowances For Haredim
Comments: 6 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
Abolishing guaranteed income allowances for Haredim will increase the workforce and cause a dramatic decrease in the ultra-Orthodox community's poverty level. Taking in order to give Abolishing guaranteed income allowances for Haredim will increase the workforce and cause a dramatic...

June 21, 2010: Haredim Against Democracy
Comments: 12 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Sefardim
“We, the ultra-Orthodox community, will not respect rulings of either the Supreme Court or lower courts as long as they stand in opposition to the views of the Torah.” Protest Against Democracy Nissan Strauchler • Yedioth Ahronoth (p. 2) Translation:...

June 21, 2010: Beit Din Sides With Supreme Court, Rules Against Hasidim In Desegregation Case
Comments: 0 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Sefardim
The verdict of the three-man Beit Din Tzedek Jerusalem, headed by Rabbi Avraham Dov Levin, stressed that “all the students in the Independent Education Center must be united together [in the upcoming school-year], unless this court rules otherwise.” Beit din...

June 21, 2010: Poll: Voters Are Angry With Shas
Comments: 1 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Sefardim
The Sefardic haredi political party's silence on the discrimination in Immanuel provokes ire in voters – even Shas voters. Poll: Even the Voters are Angry with Shas By Dahaf Polling Institute/Dr. Mina Tzemah • Yedioth Ahronoth (p. 3) Translation: Didi...

June 20, 2010: Brooklyn "Unites" For Sholom Rubashkin
Comments: 23 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
"Massive" rally planned for Monday night, the eve of Rubashkin's sentencing on 86 fraud-related Federal convictions. Brooklyn Unites For Rubashkin: This Monday Evening On The Eve Of His Sentencing Yeshiva World News Nat Lewin, prominent Washington DC attorney and Orthodox...

June 20, 2010: Crime Pays Again: Sefardi Who Petitioned Supreme Court Signs Agreement With Ashkenazi Beit Din, Agrees To Drop All Petitions Before The Supreme Court
Comments: 15 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Sefardim
The religious court will decide all issues related to segregation. The agreement also stipulates that Slonimer Chassidus or its representatives may not harm Lalum verbally, in writing or in any form. Lalum Signs on Beis Din Arbitration Agreement Yechiel Spira...

June 20, 2010: Haredim Threaten Violent Riots If AWOL Mothers Jailed
Comments: 31 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Extreme Sniut , Haredim , Israel , Sefardim
"If the High Court decides to jail the mothers, the war will become a war of modesty and not just education, and then the demonstrations will be of a completely different caliber, very violent." Haredim vow violence if mothers jailed...

June 20, 2010: Supreme Court Delays Decision On Imprisonment Of Haredi Mothers
Comments: 2 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Sefardim
Haredi mothers from Emmanuel to stay at home, at least for now. The High Court judges on Sunday decided to delay the imprisonment of the 22 mothers and hold a session on the matter on Tuesday. Court delays decision on...

June 20, 2010: New Victims Of Rabbi Baruch Lebovits Come Forward
Comments: 21 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
But Motty Borger's father defends the serial sexual abuser: "When a Hasidic man gets indicted, he will lose the case. That's how the system is. They want to make an example out of [Lebovits] to the community. That's what they...

June 20, 2010: Rabbi Ovadia Yosef: Sefardim Who Went To The Supreme Court Have No Share In The World To Come
Comments: 31 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Sefardim
Education Minister: During the negotiations leading up to the Supreme Court's ruling, officials from his ministry, the haredi school system and the Sefardic petitioners reached an agreement, but the hasidic parents refused to accept it. The following translations from today's...

June 20, 2010: Sefardic Rabbi Stops Desegregation Bid Due To Death Threats
Comments: 28 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Sefardim
Rabbi Ya'acov Yoseph announced on Saturday night that he was ceasing his activities against racial discrimination in the Emmanuel Beit Ya'acov school, following a recent influx of threats on members of his family, including his children and grandchildren. “So long...

June 20, 2010: Women's Group Asks Justice Minister To Appoint Woman To Administer Israel's State Sponsored Rabbinic Courts
Comments: 4 | Categories: Israel , Women & Judaism
It is no secret that courts, which mainly discuss divorce cases, mostly deal with cases in which women are in the weaker position, not just because of the predominantly male dayanim (religious judges) panels, but primarily due to the halachic...

June 18, 2010: Michael Moore Producer Turns To Rubashkin Case
Comments: 28 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Safety , Rubashkin Workers
A documentary producer who has worked extensively with filmmaker Michael Moore is picking up the cause of a Brooklyn-based kosher meatpacking executive now on trial in Iowa. Michael Moore Producer Turns to Brooklyn Meat Case By Kyle Pope • New...

June 18, 2010: For The First Time, Ohel Says Call Police If You Suspect Child Abuse
Comments: 10 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Ohel, the largest Jewish social service agency, has come out and explicitly stated that parents should contact secular authorities if their child has been abused. Call the cops: Ohel recommends alerting the authorities By Sergey Kadinsky and Michael Orbach •...

June 18, 2010: Agri Star Asks Court To Declare It Doesn't Owe Taxes
Comments: 3 | Categories: Agri-Star , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
The owner of the Agri Star kosher meat processing plant in Postville is asking a judge to declare that it doesn’t owe Allamakee County a tax debt of $577,872.73 . SHF Holdings LLC filed the motion Thursday in United States...

June 18, 2010: Florida Chabad House Files For Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection
Comments: 12 | Categories: Chabad
Dispute with lender pushes Chabad of West Boynton Beach into bankruptcy. West Boynton Beach temple files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection By Alexandra Clough • Palm Beach PostUnable to resolve a loan dispute with its lender, an Orthodox Jewish congregation...

June 18, 2010: Man Who Brought Desegregation Case To Supreme Court Threatened With Death, Goes Into Hiding
Comments: 43 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Sefardim
"The entire debate between us revolves around whether the girls' blouses will be buttoned up to the wrist or 10 centimeters below the elbow. There's no argument about the fact that everyone, all the parents, meet the stringent requirements of...

June 18, 2010: Chief Rabbi To Mark Imported Beef NON-Kosher If Inhumane Slaughter Not Stopped
Comments: 26 | Categories: Israel , Kosher Scandal
Israel's chief rabbi intends to label 80 percent of the meat currently imported into the country as not kosher unless "cruel" slaughter practices are ended. The decision came after pressure from American-Israeli animal welfare activists. Chief rabbi to mark imported...

June 18, 2010: Friends Question 'Suicide' Of "Shady" Hasidic Real Estate Mogul
Comments: 26 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel
A wealthy Brooklyn investor plunged to his death from the 19th floor of the posh Jumeirah Essex House - leaving behind a tangle of mysteries, murky business deals and an international bribery scandal. Solomon Obstfeld, second from left. Shady, 'thuggish'...

June 18, 2010: State Asks Court Not To Jail AWOL Haredi Mothers As Anti-Segregation Petitioners Ask For Haredi Fathers To Be Freed
Comments: 27 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Sefardim
Threats, violence and the complete lack of haredi willingness to follow the law cause state and anti-segregation leaders to blink. State to court: Don't jail ultra-Orthodox mothers in segregated school row Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein advises High Court to refrain...

June 18, 2010: Search On For AWOL Haredi Mothers
Comments: 11 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Sefardim
Israel Police have launched a search for 22 mothers and four fathers who went underground Thursday in order to avoid a prison sentence ordered by the High Court of Justice. Search on for haredi mothers Police determined to locate 22...

June 17, 2010: Video: "Mother" Of All Haredi Protests
Comments: 11 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Sefardim
110,000 haredim protest Supreme Court and state. Our only law is the Torah, haredim say.

June 17, 2010: The "Mother" Of All Haredi Protests
Comments: 3 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Sefardim
In recent years, Israel has grappled with a series of issues testing the boundaries of secular and religious law, and many legal experts here see this as one of the most profound, with implications for the future of Israeli democracy....

June 17, 2010: Chabadnik, Rabbi, Police Commissioner, 12 Others Arrested In Massive Mortgage Scheme
Comments: 27 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
Federal agents charged 15 people—some of them prominent local figures—with undertaking massive mortgage fraud and moved to take control of 51 blighted New Haven properties Thursday, as the government’s response to the aftermath of the foreclosure crisis took a new...

June 17, 2010: [UPDATED At 3 PM] On The Lam: Almost Half Of Haredi Parents Fail To Report To Prison
Comments: 37 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Sefardim
One of the most dramatic days in the struggle for the State of Israel's character reached its peak Thursday evening: Dozens of parents of haredi school girls reported for prison terms after refusing to adhere to a High Court ruling...

June 17, 2010: Rabbi Eliahu Ben Haim Pleads Guilty To Money Laundering
Comments: 19 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Sefardim
Syrian rabbi just pleaded guilty to laundering $1,500,000 for Solomon Dwek. Rabbi Ben Haim, former leader of Deal temple, pleads guilty to money laundering By Jean Mikle • Asbury Park Press TRENTON — Eliahu Ben Haim, a prominent Deal rabbi,...

June 17, 2010: Hasidim Attack Leading Sefardic Rabbi
Comments: 27 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Sefardim
30 hasidic Jews attempted an attack on Rabbi Yaakov Yosef as he was leaving a class under his direction in Jerusalem. Again, 30 haredim attack Rabbi Yaakov Yosef's class Ari Galahar • Ynet Some 30 Hassidic Jews attempted an attack...

June 17, 2010: Leading National Religious Rabbi Tells Followers To Join Massive Haredi Protest Against State And Supreme Court
Comments: 11 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal , Sefardim
“The separation in Emmanuel is on ethnic grounds. Of course we favor an integration of all communities in our educational institutions. Nevertheless, I call to participate in a demonstration to protest the intervention of the Supreme Court in educational matters.”...

June 17, 2010: At Least 110,000 Haredim Protest Against Supreme Court And State
Comments: 19 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Sefardim
Demonstrations held in Jerusalem, Bnei Brak, and in other areas of the country. Haredi rabbinic leaders join protests. Court called "fascist." "God will rule forever and ever." Parent's jail delayed at request of police until protests end. 110,000 rally against...

June 17, 2010: Hasidic Rebbe: Imprisonment Of Parents Over Forced Desegregation Of Haredi School Like Holocaust
Comments: 8 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Sefardim
"Taking women, mothers to small children, making them leave their entire family and arresting them, I think this has never happened in any normal country," the rabbi noted. "No such thing has happened since the end of the war in...

June 17, 2010: Supreme Court Delays Deadline For Haredi Imprisonment Until 5 PM
Comments: 1 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Sefardim
The arrests were originally scheduled for 12 pm, but were delayed by an hour in order to allow the parents to respond to the suggestion. The State Prosecutor's Office filed an additional appeal to delay the arrests until 5 pm,...

June 17, 2010: Founder Of Chabad's Prisoner Outreach Arm Hosts "Unity" Rally For Sholom Rubashkin
Comments: 12 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Alef Institute founder Rabbi Sholom Ber Lipskar hosts Miami Beach rally tonight in support of Sholom Rubashkin. [Hat Tip: VidYid.]

June 17, 2010: Letters from Israel: What Should Be Done About Israel's Haredi Problem?
Comments: 13 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Sefardim
As haredi riots loom and haredim refuse to follow Israeli law, Israel's haredi problem dominates Israel's front pages. The following translations from today's papers were made by Didi Remez of Coteret.com: We Mustn’t Capitulate Yair Lapid • Yedioth Ahronoth (p....

June 17, 2010: Letter from Tel Aviv: The Haredi Rebellion Has Begun
Comments: 12 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
The haredim have declared a rebellion now for an obvious reason. They know they have a good chance of winning. In every other country they obey the state authorities. Only here, in the state they made no effort to establish...

June 16, 2010: 10,000 Police Prepare To Deploy For Haredi Riots
Comments: 31 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Sefardim
Some 10,000 police officers are preparing to deploy Thursday throughout Israel beginning in the early morning hours in preparation for what haredim have dubbed "the mother of all protests". Police prepare for haredi riots Ultra-Orthodox community organizes giant protest against...

June 16, 2010: Dozens Of Hasidim Assault Sefardim
Comments: 18 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Sefardim
Dozens of Slonim hasidim broke into a study hall used by Rabbi Ovadia Yosef's son and assaulted the Sefardim learning there in retaliation for the Supreme Court's desegregation ruling. Dozens of Hassidic Jews clash with students of Rabbi Yosef Aviad...

June 16, 2010: Haredim Riot, Stone Police
Comments: 15 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel
Rabbi Yitzchak Tuvia Weiss, leader of the Edah HaChareidis, led mass prayers, including curses directed at the developers of a hotel in the Andromeda luxury housing development near the seafront in central Jaffa. Haredim called police "Nazis" and "murderers," while...

June 16, 2010: For Men Only: Chabad Election For Community Leadership Bars Women From Voting
Comments: 33 | Categories: Chabad , Haredim , Women & Judaism
Only men — over age 20 if they’re married or 30 or older if they’re not — are permitted to vote for the new leadership of the Vaad Hakohol (Community Committee), which runs the Crown Heights Jewish Community Council. The...

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