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October 31, 2010: Operation Breslov
Comments: 15 | Categories: Haredim
What do followers of Rabbi Nachman do upon discovery that some of his progeny are assimilated and are married to gentiles across former Soviet Union? They launch a worldwide campaign and bribe clerks and priests – all in order to...

October 31, 2010: Amid Controversy, Steinsaltz Completes Talmud Translation
Comments: 21 | Categories: Chabad , Israel
On Nov. 7, noted Talmud scholar and teacher Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz will formally conclude his Hebrew translation of the Babylonian Talmud, a monumental task that has occupied him for the past 45 years. Steinsaltz completes Talmud translation, but not without...

October 31, 2010: Secular Israel's Demographic Nightmare
Comments: 24 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
"If at this time 20% of Israel's children never studied English, sciences, or math, and in 20 years the figure will grow to 35%, we'll have a major employment crisis here, a drop in the standard of living, in public...

October 31, 2010: Dark-Skinned Soldiers Denied Entry To Israeli Nightclub
Comments: 51 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Ethiopian Jews , Israel
According to the Golani Brigade troops, two of the nightclub's bouncers allowed only those with an "Ashkenazi appearance" to enter, while soldiers of Ethiopian and Yemenite descent were kept out despite presenting invitations sent to them by the nightclub. 'Dark-skinned'...

October 31, 2010: The True Cost Of Homelessness
Comments: 69 | Categories: Hessed , Poverty & Homelessness
The government and private sector spend enough money per homeless person per month to pay market rate rent for each homeless person. Instead, the government pursues a policy meant to discourage homelessness by, in effect, punishing the homeless. That policy...

October 31, 2010: 10 Years After First Refusing To Give His Wife A Divorce, Rabbinical Court Imprisons Husband
Comments: 10 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal , Women & Judaism
The Tel Aviv Rabbinic Court was in turmoil when the recalcitrant husband was brought from jail accompanied by policemen, bound by handcuffs and chains on his legs like an ordinary criminal. Beyond the tears, joy, hugs and great excitement, it...

October 30, 2010: Chicago Shul Targeted By Terrorists Cites Dozens Of Website Visits From Egypt
Comments: 1 | Categories: Terrorism
A rabbi at one of the synagogues allegedly targeted by explosive-laden packages from Yemen said that the group's website was visited dozens of times recently by individuals located in Egypt. Chicago Synagogue Cites Web Visits From Egypt By LAUREN ETTER...

October 29, 2010: Package Attacks Target Chicago Shuls
Comments: 3 | Categories: Terrorism
Rabbis at Chicago synagogues are remaining calm, amid news of a foiled package attack targeted at two religious institutions here. But the lack of agitation and a sense of normalcy amid the threats is itself disturbing, rabbis say. Rabbis at...

October 29, 2010: Playboy Cover Girl Writes Haredi MKs A Letter
Comments: 43 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Kosher Scandal
It's not every day that an ultra-Orthodox Jew gets a personal letter from a Playboy cover girl, but in this case there's a perfectly good explanation. ISRAEL: Bill to ban fur gets fuzzy -- but also gets Pamela Anderson Batsheva...

October 29, 2010: Haredi Housing Minister Demands All Haredi Segregated Cities Or Else
Comments: 19 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Sefardim
Speaking at a conference organized by the Gesher Foundation, which promotes dialogue between seculars and the religious public, the minister added, "I would not let my children meet with secular youth." Minister backs segregated haredi housing Housing minister says ultra-Orthodox...

October 29, 2010: Kosherfest Best Of The Show New Food Products Announced
Comments: 7 | Categories: Kosher Scandal
140 brands take part in kosher food's "main event." Israel's award winning product: Vegetarian 'pigs' in a blanket Best fine food from Jewish state goes to children's favorite at Kosherfest; 140 brands take part in kosher food's main event Meirav...

October 29, 2010: MK Behind Conversion Bill Tells Reform And Conservative Jews They Do Not Exist
Comments: 14 | Categories: Israel , MO & Chardal
"I am in favor of one Judaism. In my opinion, there's only one Judaism. There are no three Judaisms.…Don't be confused, that's a fact." Bill granting Rabbinate monopoly on conversions sparks fiery Knesset debate Reform and Conservative leaders lash out,...

October 28, 2010: Haredi School Expells 9 Girls For Possession Of "Non-Kosher" Cellphones
Comments: 42 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
Nine students from the Beis Yaakov Yerushalayim (BJJ) Jerusalem High School were expelled because they own "non-kosher" cell phones. Beis Yaakov Expells 9 Girls for "non-kosher" cellphones By Jameel @ The Muqata Nine students from the Beis Yaakov Yerushalayim (BJJ)...

October 28, 2010: Satmar Pays Haredim Who Demonstrate And Riot Against Israel And Grave Relocations
Comments: 9 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel
Those fundraising on behalf of the protesters have published a price list for their Satmar friends in London, so that they can choose what they would like to sponsor and send the appropriate amount of money. The price list of...

October 28, 2010: Rubashkin Attorneys Plan Appeal Within 10 Days
Comments: 29 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Convicted former Agriprocessors VP will appeal to higher court for new trial, attorney says. Convicted former Agriprocessor manager will appeal to higher court to new trial, attorney says Trish Mehaffey • SourceMedia Group News CEDAR RAPIDS – Former Agriprocessor vice...

October 28, 2010: Has The Haredi Community's Silence On Child Sexual Abuse Been Broken?
Comments: 26 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Has the Jewish community finally come to terms with sexual abuse? That is the question raised by the publication of a controversial new book, “Breaking the Silence: Sexual Abuse in the Jewish Community.” Has the silence been broken? New book...

October 28, 2010: Suit Claims Towns Zoning Law Discriminates Against Haredim
Comments: 5 | Categories: Haredim
A new lawsuit is seeking to overturn the Village of Woodbury's zoning law, calling it discriminatory because it doesn't allow high-density housing in an area where hasidic families have now settled. Suit claims Woodbury zoning restricts property owners By Chris...

October 28, 2010: Rubashkin Attorney Fails To Disclose Conflict Of Interest
Comments: 9 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Bob Barr, a former Republican Congressman and a one-time presidential candidate, writes an article attacking a federal agency that regulated Agriprocessors and under which Rubashkin was prosecuted. And Bob Barr doesn't tell his readers that he works for Sholom Rubashkin....

October 28, 2010: Why Is Judaism Spreading Across Africa?
Comments: 15 | Categories: Religion, Religion & State
Timbuktu: the name is so steeped in mystique that many people think it is an imaginary rather than a real place. Historically, the city in the republic of Mali has been a centre of Islamic civilisation in Africa. It is...

October 28, 2010: Jewish Blogger Makes Forward's Top 50 List
Comments: 8 | Categories: Blogs
And, guess what? It isn't me. So, who is it? Daniel Sieradski, AKA Mobius, founder of Jewschool and 31 Days, 31 Ideas. The Forward 50.

October 28, 2010: The Truth About Haredi Unemployment
Comments: 27 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
Large Israeli manpower firm says at any given time it has 1,000 jobs suited for haredim, but very few haredim apply – even though it advertises the jobs in haredi areas. The company also offers free training courses – like...

October 28, 2010: New Program Will See Secular And Orthodox Students Studying Civics Together
Comments: 1 | Categories: Israel , MO & Chardal
The program was tested last year in the Tiberias religious school and the secular Nofey Golan school in Katzrin and was hailed as a great success. The students who took part in the pilot program said that the introduction to...

October 28, 2010: Haredim Move To Get Extra Government Financial Support For Themselves In Order To Displace African Refugees
Comments: 4 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Haredim , Israel , Religion, Religion & State , Sefardim , Xenophobia
A Shas councilman is promoting a motion to give haredim who want to move to south Tel Aviv rent support, property tax exemptions, and kindergarten discounts in order to fight "culture of African refugees flooding the city." Haredim to get...

October 28, 2010: The Haredi Sea Of Mediocrity
Comments: 1 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
The senselessness of the notion that allows a growing part of Israel’s population to evade work is clear. The foolish law on yeshiva student allowances is bad for seculars. But the income supplement law is bad for haredim as well:...

October 28, 2010: Satmar To Hold Large Demonstration Today In Manhattan
Comments: 61 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
Now, the situation has become even more urgent, with the construction going full speed ahead, and graves being destroyed, desecrated,and trampled on. Human bones and crushed skulls are scattered about like dirt.The dignity of the dead is being utterly disregarded...

October 27, 2010: Judge Denies Rubashkin Motion
Comments: 74 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Motion filed by Nathan Lewin ruled "totally devoid of merit." The most interesting point made by Judge Reade effectively says Nathan Lewin lied. You should recognize this because I showed this when Lewin filed his motion (please see the 3:00...

October 27, 2010: Dancing Under The Gallows
Comments: 16 |
The world's oldest Holocaust survivor, Alice Herz Sommer is 106 years old. She survived by playing piano in Theresienstadt, and she still plays and entertains guests today, less than one month before her 107th birthday.

October 27, 2010: Contact High
Comments: 24 |
In Berkeley, California, three Orthodox Jews run a medical-marijuana collective selling a religiously inspired cannabis cream. Contact High In Berkeley, three Orthodox Jews run a medical-marijuana collective selling a religiously inspired cannabis cream By Rebecca Spence • Tablet Magazine On...

October 27, 2010: Lawsuit: Ramapo Official Approved Unsafe Yeshiva Housing At Rabbis' Request
Comments: 7 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
The town's top building and zoning administrator overstepped his authority by signing documents allowing families to live in 16 yeshiva-owned homes on Grandview Avenue despite fire and safety violations cited by inspectors, according to a lawsuit. Lawsuit: Ramapo official OK’d...

October 27, 2010: Knesset Panel Approves Controversial Bill Opponents Fear Will Allow Towns To Reject Potential Residents Based On Religion, Beliefs, Gender & Class
Comments: 17 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Israel , Religion, Religion & State , Xenophobia
The bill has sparked wide condemnation and many believe it to be discriminatory and racist, since it allows communities to reject residents if they do no meet the criteria of "suitability to the community's fundamental outlook", which in effect enables...

October 27, 2010: NY's Governor Moves To Pass State Financial Aid Grants For Yeshiva Students
Comments: 14 | Categories: Haredim
Gov. David Paterson said he'll call lawmakers back to Albany Nov. 15 and ask them to pass a set of education proposals he reluctantly vetoed, including one that would authorize annual tuition grants of up to $5,000 for low-income students...

October 27, 2010: 7 University Students Detained By Police As Hundreds More Protest Government Stipends For Haredi Yeshiva Students
Comments: 0 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
Ben Gurion and Hebrew Universities had the largest demonstrations, with hundreds of students at each. Smaller demonstrations also took place at Haifa University, IDC Herzliya, Sapir College, and colleges in Netanya and Kiryat Ono. 7 detained as students protest haredi...

October 27, 2010: Hasidic Father Of 7 Busted By FBI In Plan To Murder Business Ally
Comments: 59 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
A Hasidic father of seven was charged Tuesday with plotting to kill a business associate with an overdose of sleeping pills in his coffee. Update 1-20-11 – the charges were dropped. Hasidic father of seven busted in plan to kill...

October 27, 2010: Haredi Rabbinate: If You Want To Get Married, Prove Your Grandmother Really Is A Holocaust Survivor
Comments: 19 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
He was five years old when he made aliyah from the Ukraine, then part of the former Soviet Union. 22 years later, after being bar mitzvahed and serving in the arm, he tried to open a marriage portfolio in the...

October 27, 2010: Secular Students Give Prime Minister A "Wake Up Call"
Comments: 5 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
Students in Israel have decided to fight against a bill allotting millions in state funds to yeshiva students, and dozens attending the Hebrew University in Jerusalem showed up in front of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's residence at 6:30 am Wednesday....

October 26, 2010: Is Agri Star For Sale?
Comments: 27 | Categories: Agri-Star , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
And, if it is, can the Rubashkin family or their representatives buy it? A hot rumor at the kosher food industry's trade show, Kosherfest, held this week in New Jersey, is that Agri Star, the renamed Agriprocessors plant in Postville,...

October 26, 2010: Despicable Jewish Revenge
Comments: 49 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Israel , MO & Chardal
What at first appeared to be individual mischievous acts, and later became methodical “hooliganism,” is increasingly taking the shape of a threatening phenomenon: The desecration of an Arab cemetery and the torching of mosques, schools, fields and vehicles. Despicable Jewish...

October 26, 2010: A Slap In The Face Of Israel: Funding Haredi Yeshiva Students Hurts The Country And Is Profoundly Unfair To Non-Haredim
Comments: 17 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
Haredi Knesset Member Moshe Gafni’s latest bill that would provide continued stipends for haredi yeshiva students, not only aims to circumvent the High Court ruling on the matter, it presents a genuine test to the Israeli government. A slap in...

October 26, 2010: Liar: Netanyahu Government Includes 111 Million NIS In Budget For Haredi Yeshiva Stipends Despite Promise Not To
Comments: 16 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
Netanyahu has "broken a new record for cynicism, chutzpah and disrespect toward the Israeli public. On Sunday he announces he's establishing a committee, and on Monday he is pushing the yeshiva student stipends into the state budget. This is a...

October 26, 2010: National Union of Israeli Students To Rally In Opposition To Yeshiva Stipends
Comments: 16 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
"We feel we have massive support among the thousands of students who feel cheated and disgraced and we are determined to take this public campaign all the way in an effort to abolish this this inequitable edict." Students step up...

October 26, 2010: 3 Held For Trying To Extort Bnei Brak Rabbi
Comments: 6 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel
Three men were arrested last week by Tel Aviv Police on suspicion of attempting to extort a well-known Bnei Brak rabbi. Two main suspects, whose names are barred from publication, are believed to have conspired to extort $150,000 from the...

October 26, 2010: Orthodox Attorney Fired As Spring Valley Village Attorney
Comments: 21 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , MO & Chardal
Village attorney Ryan Karben got fired today and got a police escort out of Village Hall. Ryan Karben fired as Spring Valley village attorney By Steve Lieberman • Journal News SPRING VALLEY — Village attorney Ryan Karben got fired today...

October 25, 2010: Police Arrest Haredi Rabbi's Blackmailers In Sting Operation
Comments: 16 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel
American millionaire suspects his $600,000 donation missing, rabbi fears extortion and threats. Police detectives dressed as waiters put end to saga, arresting suspects during secretly recorded meeting. Detective-waiters arrest rabbi blackmailers in hotel American millionaire suspects his donation missing, rabbi...

October 25, 2010: Decision To Investigate Validity Of Army Conversions Draws Widespread Protest
Comments: 2 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
Members of the haredi community involved in conversions to Judaism are calling for an immediate freeze on all military conversions following the Chief Rabbinate's decision to set up a committee to investigate the military conversion process. Decision to check army...

October 25, 2010: Leading Haredi Rabbis Slam Any Government Involvement In Their State-Funded Schools
Comments: 8 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
During an emergency meeting, leading haredi rabbis ordered school principals to object to any development that has not been agreed on first by the leading rabbis, even at the cost of government budget cuts for haredi schools. They have also...

October 25, 2010: Letter from Bar-Ilan: Creating A New Type Of Israeli Rabbi
Comments: 29 | Categories: Israel , MO & Chardal
Bar-Ilan University initiative will combine study for rabbinical ordination with a courses in math, psychology, and physics. Make for yourself a (new) rabbi Bar-Ilan University initiative seeks to combine study for rabbinical ordination with a courses in math, psychology, and...

October 25, 2010: Bill To Make All Army Conversions Kosher And Irrevocable Could Undermine Rabbis
Comments: 11 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
Chief Rabbinate panel’s validity challenged by bill submitted by MK Rotem that would make all military conversions valid and irrevocable. Bill legislating all IDF conversions could undermine rabbis Chief Rabbinate panel’s validity challenged by bill submitted by MK Rotem that...

October 24, 2010: "We Yeshiva Students Barely Study"
Comments: 30 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
"The State gives us funds, so why should anyone work? The seculars' money is ruining our society'." 'We yeshiva students barely study' Special: In courageous monologue, young haredi man reveals truth behind yeshiva student stipends. 'The State gives us funds,...

October 24, 2010: Report: Haredi University Students Oppose Stipends For Yeshiva Students
Comments: 8 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
"Even if they wanted to do something differently – what could they do? They don’t have an education or a matriculation certificate. They're stuck – it's a nightmare. People give them a hard time, but they don't understand how sad...

October 24, 2010: Chabad-Trained Rabbi Rallies With Racist English Hard Right
Comments: 8 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Chabad
The English Defence League (EDL) rallied outside the Israeli embassy with Orthodox Rabbi Nachum Shifren from L.A. The Israelis opposed the rally as did most of England's Jewish community. But the opposition of Great Britain's Jewish community and the Israeli...

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