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147 posts from September 2010

September 19, 2010: Bedouin Car On Emergency Run Stoned By Jews During Yom Kippur
Comments: 41 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel
While driving back from the emergency room during Yom Kippur, a family from Rahat was pelted with stones that "poured down like rain." Bedouin car pelted with stones during Yom Kippur emergency While driving back from the emergency room during...

September 19, 2010: The World's Most Beautiful Synagogues
Comments: 14 | Categories: Sightings
A pictorial essay of the worlds most beautiful synagogues. The Great Synagogue on Dohany Street in Budapest. For more pictures of the Great Synagogue on Dohany Street and for pictures of other beautiful synagogues, click here.

September 19, 2010: 'Kabbalists' Make Predictions For The New Year
Comments: 22 | Categories: Bizarre , Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal
Kabbalists predict China's demise, Israel's expansion into Syria, and a giant jellyfish attack. Europe and the US would also "fall apart." "The earth is tired of the impurity in the world and that is why there will be earthquakes." Wild...

September 18, 2010: Another View On Failure Of The Jewish Community To Fulfill Its Responsibility To Help Needy Jews
Comments: 41 | Categories: Hessed , Poverty & Homelessness
What I wrote Friday is accurate with regard to families and adults who became homeless because of the economic downturn or because of illness or old age, and those who become homeless because of mental illness or drug addiction. But...

September 17, 2010: A Pre-Yom Kippur Post On Jewish Homelessness
Comments: 30 | Categories: Hessed , Poverty & Homelessness
As the recession drags on more people suffer prolonged joblessness. Some of them become homeless. And some of them – more than you might think – are Jews. What does the Jewish community do to help them? Two weeks ago...

September 17, 2010: On The Eve Of Yom Kippur, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef Sends Message Of Atonement To Egyptian Leader Hosni Mubarak
Comments: 9 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Sefardim
Shas spiritual [leader] seeks conciliation after asking God to deliver a plague on Abbas, the Palestinians and 'all the evil people' in the world. Ovadia Yosef atones to Mubarak after declaring Palestinians should die Shas spiritual [leader] seeks conciliation after...

September 17, 2010: IDF To Draft 30% Of Yeshiva Students Within 5 Years, Another 30% To Do Civil Service
Comments: 8 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
Money will be needed to pay for special stipends for soldiers' families, for training, adjusting the bases for the special religious needs of Haredim and creating permanent base accommodations for longer term stays by haredi soldiers. Money will also be...

September 17, 2010: Chabad Reaches Out To Prisoners, Soldiers For Yom Kippur
Comments: 7 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Outreach
In a small, bustling office tucked into an Orthodox synagogue in Surfside, a dozen men and women spent Thursday stuffing FedEx boxes with the markings of Jewish worship: Hebrew prayer books, camouflage yarmulkes, talitot and shofars. Rabbis reach out to...

September 17, 2010: Government Of Israel Sorry For Hasidic Violence In Uman, Ukraine
Comments: 6 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
According to the Ukrainian police, two policemen were injured in a mass altercation with hundreds of pilgrims that broke out after they came to arrest the stabber. That incident came a day after hundreds of Jewish pilgrims rioted in another...

September 17, 2010: Army Conversions Are Kosher, Sefardic Chief Rabbi Tells Knesset
Comments: 2 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Sefardim
The Knesset's demand for this public clarification came after a stormy meeting to discuss what was initially perceived to be the State Attorney’s Office declaring that military conversions were not kosher, after state attorney Yochi Gnessin told the High Court...

September 17, 2010: Kapparot Controversy In Tel Aviv
Comments: 10 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Kosher Scandal
"This is no different than a slaughtered chicken that you consume. Regarding the chicken's living conditions, take it up with the chicken farmers." Kapparot Controversy Tel Aviv: Haredim, seculars in chicken slaughter feud City council member calls on mayor to...

September 16, 2010: How Not To Do Kapparot – A Photo Essay
Comments: 53 | Categories: Haredim , Kosher Scandal
How not to hold your chicken. Ha'aretz posted a Reuters photo essay of haredim doing kapparot. What follows are a few pictures from that essay that show haredim holding chickens in inappropriate ways: And here's a picture from a different...

September 16, 2010: Haredi Health Minister Shuts Down Ministry's Website On Shabbat And Holidays
Comments: 26 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
Rabbi Yaakov Litzman's decision follows an order by Interior Minister Eli Yishai to block online payments to his ministry on Shabbat and holidays. Both men represent ultra-Orthodox parties: Yishai chairs Shas, while Litzman belongs to United Torah Judaism. Health Ministry...

September 16, 2010: Haredim Threaten To Stop Paying Taxes Over Supreme Court Ruling
Comments: 40 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Haredim , Israel
"We will stop paying taxes. What will happen? They'll throw us in jail. The money is ours, but if, God forbid, they try to hurt our children's education and stop the budgeting, there will be war. There are many ways...

September 16, 2010: Crown Heights Riot Victim's Family React To Lemrick Nelson Stabbing
Comments: 12 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc.
“He is a violent criminal, a dangerous person, a bad guy. It doesn't surprise me that he would get himself into this situation. Am I going to wish him all the best? Certainly not. But my family's pursuit has always...

September 16, 2010: Jerusalem Municipality Skirts Court Ruling To Disproportionately Fund Haredi Schools
Comments: 4 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
Municipality authorizes criteria circumventing court ruling and attorney general's opinion. Opposition claims that despite slight changes, Arab schools still discriminated against. J'lem okays subsidies that favor haredi schools Municipality authorizes criteria circumventing court ruling and attorney general's opinion. Opposition claims...

September 16, 2010: Bank Sues Chabad Over Delinquent Loan
Comments: 41 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc.
A bank is seeking to grab the property and assets of Congregation Chabad-Lubavitch West of Boynton Beach to pay off a delinquent loan. Among those assets are the congregation's five Torahs. Threatening to seize the Torahs is "a desecration," said...

September 15, 2010: Former Ohel Employee's Bond Set At $1 Million
Comments: 19 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Andrew Goodman charged with sexual abuse. Goodman's bond was set this morning at $1,000,000. I'm told Ohel fired Goodman when he was arrested. Mark Meyer Appel brought people to the court this morning to support Goodman's alleged victims. This is,...

September 15, 2010: Sex Charges Against Phoenix Rabbi Dismissed
Comments: 43 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
"The D.A.’s highly unusual step of moving to dismiss an indicted case speaks highly of the Office’s professionalism and quest for justice.” Sex Charges against Rabbi Dismissed Reported by Rabbi’s Counsel Alan Lewis and Michael Shapiro Press Conference to be...

September 15, 2010: Bentzion Miller Convicted In Drug Smuggling Scheme
Comments: 11 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
The Satmar hasid was sentenced to three years in prison by a Tel Aviv court. Bentzion Miller with the Kiryas Joel Satmar Rebbe. Miller allegedly served as the Kiryas Joel Satmar Rebbe's driver. Bentzion Miller was the architect of a...

September 15, 2010: PETA's New Yom Kippur Video
Comments: 54 |
Don't wear your leather shoes.

September 15, 2010: Ethiopian Bride Fights Rabbis For Four Years To Get Married As A Jew
Comments: 19 | Categories: Ethiopian Jews , Haredim , Israel , Sefardim
Southern resident insists on being recognized as a Jew, refuses to undergo any conversion procedure after rabbis question her Jewish origins ahead of wedding. For four years she fights rabbinical establishment until she prevails. Ethiopian bride's fight for Jewish marriage...

September 15, 2010: Letter from Israel: Will Orthodox And Haredi Army Officers Remain Loyal To The State?
Comments: 8 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal
The interesting thing about the poll is the gap between the public’s faith in Orthodox officers, expressed in widespread support for continued drafting of Haredi soldiers and the creation of special conditions to ease their time in the army and...

September 15, 2010: 90 Draft-Dogers Removed From Uman-Bound Planes By Police
Comments: 7 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
Some 90 Israelis wanted by Military Police taken off planes carrying passengers making annual pilgrimage to Rabbi Nachman of Breslov's gravesite; two young men detained for unruly behavior on flight back from Ukraine. Draft-dodgers removed from Uman-bound planes Some 90...

September 15, 2010: Exclusive: Is Chabad's Chief Rabbi Of Russia Part Of A $2 Billion Swindle?
Comments: 62 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc.
Arcadi Gaydamak says Berel Lazar, Chabad's chief rabbi of Russia, destroyed a contract given to him for safekeeping. That helped Chabad oligarch Lev Leviev steal $2 billion dollars from Gaydamak. Gaydamak also says Lazar failed to answer repeated summonses from...

September 15, 2010: Audio: Avi Moskowitz On The Rubashkin Motion
Comments: 25 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Former Assistant Deputy US Attorney for the Southern District of New York and current defense attorney practicing in Manhattan discusses Sholom Rubashkin's motion to have the judge recuse herself. Avi Moskowitz does not say whether he actually read the affidavits...

September 15, 2010: Day Schools Focus On Combating Child Sexual Abuse
Comments: 4 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , MO & Chardal , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
YU study finds strong interest in responding to problem; activists call for tough policies. Day Schools Focusing On Combating Abuse YU study finds strong interest in responding to problem; activists call for tough policies. Gary Rosenblatt • The Jewish Week...

September 15, 2010: Shul Removes Plaques Honoring Rabbi Accused Of Child Sexual Abuse
Comments: 49 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Congregation Herzlia-Adas Yeshurun does the right thing. Related Post. The Case of Rabbi Ephraim Bryks. [Hat Tip: The Awareness Center, which worked for 6 years to get those plaques removed and which wants the shul to put up a plaque...

September 14, 2010: Massive New Square Fire Linked To Family Of Squarer Rebbe
Comments: 15 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
House of rebbe's son in flames as questions arise over fire's origin and recent factional fighting and its related vandalism. It's unclear whether the fire is linked to recent factional fighting in the hasidic village, although some partisans believe the...

September 14, 2010: Rabbi Nachman's Grave: Pot Parties, As Much Alcohol As You Can Drink And Ukrainian Girls Wearing Next To Nothing
Comments: 52 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
"Many of the apartments turn into marijuana dens," a haredi reporter who visited Uman this year said. "(The tourists) get drunk and go looking for trouble. Many of the locals sell marijuana, and after all, Israel is going through a...

September 14, 2010: At A Maximum Security Prison, Jews Heed The Shofar's Call
Comments: 13 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , MO & Chardal
On a breezy summer afternoon at the maximum-security prison that dominates the landscape here, inmates gather around a stocky bearded man as he prepares to blow a shofar. Philip Drelich sounds one long blast, and then the crowd disperses, off...

September 14, 2010: Twitter User Sells @Israel Username To Israeli Government For 6 Figures – Or Did It?
Comments: 5 | Categories: Israel
In 2007 Israel Meléndez set up a Twitter account under his first name. This year he says he was approached by the state of Israel, which wanted to buy @Israel from him for a quantity of dollars that, he told...

September 14, 2010: Jorge Puello Extradited To US
Comments: 6 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Sefardim
A former adviser for American missionaries accused of taking children out of Haiti has been extradited to the United States in an illegal immigrant smuggling case, officials said Tuesday. Dominicans send Haiti missionaries' adviser to US EZEQUIEL ABIU LOPEZ •...

September 14, 2010: Senior Rabbi Speaks Out Against Chicken Kapparot
Comments: 27 | Categories: Israel , Kosher Scandal
Kabbalist Rabbi Yitzchak Kadouri said you should abstain from using chickens due to "the cruelty to animals, which is prohibited by the Torah, and kashrut problems." For those reasons, Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach stopped using animals for kapparot, giving charity...

September 14, 2010: Haredi Interior Minister Shuts Down Online Payments On Shabbat And Holidays
Comments: 32 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Religion, Religion & State , Sefardim
Interior Minister Eli Yishai has ordered his ministry's computer department to reprogram its online payment service so that people will no longer be able to pay the ministry over the Internet on Shabbat and Jewish holidays. Shas minister shuts down...

September 14, 2010: Nude Pictures Of Rabbi's Lawyer Used For Extortion In Haredi Concert Conflict
Comments: 29 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
Bnei Brak man with violent criminal record allegedly threatens to spread nude pictures of Rabbi Amnon Yitzhak's lawyer if latter does not retract his opposition to haredi artists performing before mixed-gender audiences. Nude pictures used for extortion in haredi concert...

September 13, 2010: Video: Vandalism In Hasidic Village Linked To Internal Strife
Comments: 18 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
[Update] New Square leaders, including the Squarer Rebbe, object to Shabbat prayer services held in nearby nursing home, allegedly react by vandalizing cars of participants. New Square: car vandalism may be linked to internal strife By Steve Lieberman • JournalNews...

September 13, 2010: More Rabbis To Receive Police Summons Over Racist Book
Comments: 11 | Categories: Chabad , Israel , MO & Chardal
"I confess that before Rosh Hashanah I visited Yitzhar and said that it was a privilege to shake a hand that was handcuffed for speaking a rabbinic opinion. I think it is a disgrace for Judaism to have a rabbi...

September 13, 2010: Fewer Than Half Of Israelis Define Themselves As Secular
Comments: 41 | Categories: Israel
Central Bureau of Statistics survey shows most Israelis – even those who define themselves as secular – keep some religious traditions. Poll: Fewer than half of Israelis see themselves as secular 8% of Jewish Israeli adults define themselves as ultra-Orthodox,...

September 13, 2010: Kapparot Opponents Protest In Crown Heights
Comments: 64 | Categories: Chabad , Haredim , Kosher Scandal
But do protesters have a valid point? Or are they conflating their belief in vegetarianism with animal rights? The Alliance to End Chickens as Kaporos held a protest in Crown Heights Sunday. Their signs and their arguments opposed the slaughter...

September 13, 2010: Killer Of Crown Heights Riots Victim Stabbed In Head With Ice Pick
Comments: 45 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc.
Nineteen years after he knifed a Hasidic student to death in the notorious Crown Heights race riots, Lemrick Nelson was stabbed in the head with an ice pick in Manhattan on Sunday. Lemrick Nelson stabbed in the head with ice...

September 13, 2010: Leading Orthodox Rabbi Rules Kapparot Should Be Done With Money, Not Chickens
Comments: 41 | Categories: Israel , Kosher Scandal , MO & Chardal
"Because this is not a binding obligation but a custom, in light of problems related to kashrut and the suffering of animals, and given the edicts of the aforementioned rabbis, a recommendation must be made to favor performing kapparot through...

September 13, 2010: Shelter Provides Refuge For Battered Orthodox Women
Comments: 19 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal , Women & Judaism
Bat Melech provides rare support for abused religious women, addressing their particular needs as they break cycle of violence and grapple with a painful reality that is particularly taboo in their communities. Religious, hurt and hopeful Bat Melech provides rare...

September 12, 2010: Rabbi Avi Shafran, Haredi Dissembler
Comments: 13 | Categories: Bad Spin , Guest Posts , Haredim
Rather than confront the problems of the haredi community, Agudath Israel of America's spokesman attacks the messengers who make those problems public. Rabbi Avi Shafran, Haredi Dissembler By David Kelsey • Special to FailedMessiah.com Rabbi Shafran, the director of public...

September 12, 2010: Letter from Israel: Haredi Crime And Punishment
Comments: 10 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
Every time the haredim intervened in a dispute they should have had nothing to do with; every time they took things out of proportion, cooperated with their dangerous radicals, responded in a disproportional and illogical manner to incidents that could...

September 12, 2010: Leading Members Of Iconic Lower East Side Shul Opt To Forgo Board Positions Due To Ban On Women In Leadership, Critics Say
Comments: 22 | Categories: Haredim , MO & Chardal , Women & Judaism
The Lower East Side's historic Bialystoker Synagogue is facing a revolt from its female members, who want to run for positions on the synagogue's board of governors. Shelly shul shock Temple snubs gals By JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN • New York Post...

September 12, 2010: Against The Clock
Comments: 15 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
230,000 Israelis have signed the petition against the early return to standard time. Few if any of them are haredim. Against the Clock Amir Ben-David • Yedioth Ahronoth (p. 2) Translation: Didi Remez • Coteret.com Last night at 02:00 AM,...

September 11, 2010: Israeli Stabs Ukrainian Man In Uman
Comments: 10 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel
Police report a Jewish pilgrim to Rabbi Nachman of Breslov's grave is in custody after allegedly drunkenly stabbing a Ukrainian man caught stealing. Israeli in custody for stabbing Ukrainian man in Uman Jpost Exclusive: Police report pilgrim in custody after...

September 11, 2010: Hasidim Riot In Uman
Comments: 16 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
Hundreds of Jewish pilgrims clash with police after crowd surrounded two Ukrainian men allegedly caught stealing. Uman: Riot erupts between pilgrims and Ukranian police Hundreds of Jewish pilgrims clash with police after crowd surrounded two Ukrainian men allegedly caught stealing....

September 11, 2010: Knesset To Hold Hearings On Validity Of Orthodox Conversions Done By Army Rabbis
Comments: 8 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal
The Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee will hold a hearing later this month to discuss the petition being heard in the High Court of Justice questioning whether haredi marriage registrars can reject the legitimacy of IDF conversions. Knesset to...

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