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November 23, 2010: Haredi Perps In Horrific Child Abuse Case Get 17 And 20 Years
Comments: 13 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Sefardim
Followers of notorious kabbalah cult leader Elior Chen sentenced. 17 and 20 year sentences for followers of 'abusive rabbi' Elior Chen Aviad Glickman • Ynet The Jerusalem District Court sentenced David Kugman, a follower of "abusive rabbi" Elior Chen, who...

November 22, 2010: Modern Orthodox Billionaire To Be Sued By Thousands Of Peruvian Kids Said Poisoned By His Mining Operations
Comments: 20 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , MO & Chardal
Billionaire industrialist Ira Rennert may have a legal problem big enough to match his East End house, say lawyers preparing a massive lawsuit against his mining interests. The likely plaintiffs in the case against the Brooklyn-born Rennert -- whose 66,000-square-foot...

November 22, 2010: Chabad Filmmaker Merges Hollywood With Tikkun Olam
Comments: 15 | Categories: Chabad , Film
What was Elisabeth Moss, star of the AMC hit series “Mad Men” and an avowed Scientologist, doing hanging out with a Lubavitcher Jew? They were making a movie together to promote "tikkun olam," the Jewish value of repairing the world....

November 22, 2010: City of Jerusalem To Hold Forced Gender-Segregated Event Honoring Security Forces
Comments: 10 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Women & Judaism
The Jerusalem Municipality announced Sunday it would be holding an event honoring security forces in which gender segregation will be strictly enforced. Ticket ads say men will be seated in the main hall and women in the gallery. The announcement...

November 22, 2010: Racism In Bnei Brak: Ethiopian Jewish Boy Attacked At Mikvah
Comments: 17 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Ethiopian Jews , Haredim , Israel
The worker verbally attacked the boy, saying "don't come in, you stink, you're a stinking kushi ["stinking n*%ger"". When the teen refused to back down, the man took hold of him and punched him in the face. Ethiopian teen attacked...

November 22, 2010: Former Heavyweight Champ Mike Tyson Wants To Launch Kosher Restaurant Chain
Comments: 16 | Categories: Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Tyson is in talks with businessman Moshe Malamud, owner of the Franklin Mint and chairman of the Asian technology service provider emaimai, to break into the kosher-food business. Mike Tyson reportedly planning kosher restaurant chain (JTA) -- Mike Tyson reportedly...

November 22, 2010: Details Of Massive Haredi Yeshiva Scam Revealed
Comments: 20 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel
The issue behind the shutting down of a number of kollels, and arrests of a few people, for kollel fraud yesterday was more than just having people registered who were no longer learning in the kollel. More Details Of The...

November 22, 2010: Victim Of Texting Haredi Driver Dies
Comments: 67 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
Family attorney David Sobiloff said widow Xiu Ying Zhang, 52, and three children want prosecutors to throw the book at Rothberger, who is currently facing only misdemeanor charges and no jail time. 'Text' victim dies By REUVEN BLAU • New...

November 22, 2010: Thou Shalt Not Make A Graven Image: Haredim Inflamed By Statue Of Winston Churchill
Comments: 25 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
A gesture by the City of Jerusalem to England is already threatening to ignite haredi residents of the city: Last week, the Jerusalem municipality decided to erect a statue of Winston Churchill, Britain’s legendary former prime minister, in one of...

November 22, 2010: Kolko's Attorney Says Victims Trying To Set Up Kolko
Comments: 6 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
"These days they arrest people if you look at them the wrong way. It's not a crime." A Brooklyn rabbi was arrested for violating an order of protection against a 12-year-old boy he is accused of sexually molesting. Brooklyn rabbi...

November 22, 2010: Haredim Planning City's Takeover?
Comments: 7 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
Major demographic changes mean that 52,000 residents, one-fourth of southern city's total, classified as haredi. Change brings revolution to city's construction and land holding plans; secular population wonders how this has happened in their city. Haredim staging Kiryat Gat takeover?...

November 21, 2010: Kolko Released From Jail
Comments: 11 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Yehuda Kolko, the former Torah Temimah teacher who is believed to have molested scores of children, was released late Sunday night after being arrested the night before. A Brooklyn judge allowed Kolko to keep his passport, but required Kolko to...

November 21, 2010: Bnei Brak Moves To "Shame" Landlords Who Rent To African Refugees And Other Non-Jews
Comments: 15 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Refugees , Xenophobia
Haredi city's new whistleblower hotline invites neighbors to report and "shame" homeowners who rent homes and apartments to African refugees and other non-Jews. Bnei Brak battles African 'infiltrators' Whistleblower hotline invites neighbors to report, 'shame' homeowners who rent to migrants...

November 21, 2010: Israel's Supreme Court To Approve Gender-Segregated Public Transportation
Comments: 23 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Women & Judaism
The High Court of Justice will not ban gender segregation on haredi bus routes, and is likely to accept the Transport Ministry's recommendation to make the separation between sexes voluntary rather than compulsory, Justice Elyakim Rubinstein said Sunday. Judge: Court...

November 21, 2010: Haredi MKs Get Threatening Letters
Comments: 6 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel
"Stop sucking our blood, pack your shtreimels and go to Brooklyn," say letters sent with white powder. Haredi MKs get threat letters 'Stop sucking our blood, pack your shtreimels and go to Brooklyn,' say letters sent with white powder Roni...

November 21, 2010: Haredi Yeshivot Embezzled Millions In ID Fraud, Police Say
Comments: 11 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel
Jerusalem Police on Sunday raided the offices of three ultra-Orthodox non-profit organizations, which operate yeshivas in the capital and nearby towns of Beit Shemesh and Beitar Illit. Officers believe that the organizations embezzled millions from the State. Police: Haredim embezzled...

November 21, 2010: Kolko Victim David Framowitz Speaks About The Arrest Of Rabbi Yehuda Kolko
Comments: 6 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
The man whose courage in coming forward broke the wall of silence about child sexual abuse in the haredi community speaks about Rabbi Yehuda Kolko, rabbinic coverups and Kolko's arrest last night. Framowitz and Ben Hirsch of Survivors for Justice...

November 21, 2010: More Orthodox Women Choose To Serve In The IDF
Comments: 22 | Categories: Israel , MO & Chardal , Women & Judaism
More and more Orthodox women, some already married, are passing up on national service and choosing to enlist in the IDF instead. A woman of combat who will find? Thought religious women skip the draft or rush to get married...

November 20, 2010: Breaking! Confirmed: Rabbi Yehuda Kolko Arrested
Comments: 24 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Pedophile Rabbi Kolko was apparently arrested tonight for violating his order of protection. I'll post more details as they become available. Related Post. Update 9:05 pm CST – It's confirmed. Kolko was arrested tonight for violating his order of protection....

November 20, 2010: New York Schools New Chancellor Should Use Crown Heights School As A Model, Daily News Says
Comments: 10 | Categories: Chabad
At the New American Academy in Crown Heights - aka Public School 770 - she'll find mostly Caribbean kids working in small circles learning in English, French and Spanish from teachers who will stay with them for six years. New...

November 20, 2010: Rabbi Ovadia Yosef Slams Renegade Shas MP
Comments: 22 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Sefardim
"Whoever tells yeshiva boys to go to work is lacking in faith in our Torah," Rabbi Yosef says. Ovadia Yosef slams maverick Shas MK Amsalem "Whoever tells yeshiva boys to go to work is lacking in faith in our Torah,"...

November 20, 2010: Government Committee Appoints 2X More Haredi Rabbinic Judges Than Religious Zionists
Comments: 3 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal
The Committee for Appointing Rabbinical Judges appointed 12 new rabbinical judges on Friday, 8 haredi and 4 National Religious, who will serve in Israel's state regional rabbinic courts. Eight haredi, four Zionist rabbinical judges chosen Rabbi Shlomo Dichovsky to head...

November 20, 2010: African Rabbi In Bid To Become First Ugandan Jewish MP
Comments: 6 |
A Ugandan Jew who grew up under the Idi Amin regime is hoping to become the first rabbi serving in a national parliament outside of Israel. African rabbi in bid to become first Ugandan Jewish MP By Jennifer Lipman •...

November 20, 2010: From Koogle To Yideotube, Efforts To Provide A Kosher Internet
Comments: 18 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
As more haredim venture online, various providers in Israel are offering them pre-screened access so they can avoid inadvertently viewing any offensive content. From Koogle to Yideotube, efforts to provide a kosher Internet As more ultra-Orthodox Jews venture online, various...

November 20, 2010: Agudath Israel Lobbied To Exempt Religious And Private Schools From New Jersey's Anti-Bullying Bill
Comments: 16 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
The bill, which would be "the most extensive anti-bullying bill in the Nation," would have meant an "unprecedented government intrusion into private schools and could have been interpreted to forbid the expression of religious beliefs," Augudah Israel of America claims....

November 19, 2010: Rabbi Yehuda Kolko Allegedly Intimidating Boy Set To Testify In Abuse Case
Comments: 15 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
The father of a 12-year-old boy who alleges that he was sexually molested by Rabbi Yehuda Kolko has filed a criminal complaint against Kolko for violating a protection order signed after the rabbi plead guilty in 2008 to two counts...

November 19, 2010: CEO Of OU Kosher Defends Sholom Rubashkin – Again
Comments: 27 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , MO & Chardal
Avoiding his own role in the abuse of workers and animals, and the massive crimes committed as his kosher supervisors looked on, Rabbi Menachem Genack shills for Rubashkin. Spreading the Light of Kashrus Throughout the World By M. Rabin Shedding...

November 19, 2010: Oorah Workers Shorted Three Weeks Pay, Protest Outside Oorah Headquarters
Comments: 28 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Oorah Kars4Kids
Non-Jewish workers shorted weeks of pay. Haredi outreach organization Oorah claims contactors owe workers the money, but Oorah also admits to owing those contactors at least $30,000. The Asbury Park Press reports: About 30 workers and others affiliated with a...

November 19, 2010: Holocaust Survivors Shocked By Israel's Rules For Aid
Comments: 2 | Categories: Israel
In effect, survivors seeking compensation must locate forms more than 40 years old, a nearly impossible task. Holocaust survivors shocked by Israel's rules for aid In effect, people seeking compensation must locate forms more than 40 years old, a nearly...

November 19, 2010: The Religious Excuse For Barbarity
Comments: 77 | Categories: Kosher Scandal
Why are we sitting silently while religious slaughter regresses our treatment of animals to the standard of the sixth century? The religious excuse for barbarity Why are we sitting silently while our treatment of many of our animals regresses to...

November 19, 2010: The Jerusalem Post Alibis For Israel's Mistreatment Of Non-Orthodox Jews, Converts And Non-Jewish Russian Olim
Comments: 2 | Categories: Bad Spin , Israel , Media & Media Criticism
An official State Department report on religious freedom in Israel raises valid points about the imperfect and intricate condition of faiths in the Holy Land, but inaccuracies and errors in it raise questions as to the methods of obtaining and...

November 19, 2010: Shas's Enfant Terrible Is A Lone Voice Of Haredi Sanity In The Knesset
Comments: 6 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Sefardim
Amsellem is the enfant terrible of Shas. He's a one-man opposition to Shas leader Eli Yishai and he fearlessly opposes Shas' distorted worldview on all important issues - conversions, core studies in the schools, military service and employment. He doesn't...

November 19, 2010: The World's First Interactive Online Yeshiva
Comments: 5 | Categories: Israel , MO & Chardal , Outreach
What do an 85-year-old Israeli, a 10-year-old homeschooler, and a 33-year-old Polish Jew have in common? They all study at WebYeshiva.org, the world’s first fully interactive online Torah study program. The world’s first interactive online Torah study program Jews of...

November 18, 2010: Israel Violates Religious Freedom Of Non-Orthodox Jews, US Says
Comments: 11 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
Government allocations favoring the Orthodox, extra legal protection to Jewish holy sites and Orthodox hegemony over life-cycle events are among Israel's religious freedom violations highlighted in a U.S. State Department report. U.S. report highlights Israel’s religious freedoms violations (JTA) --...

November 18, 2010: Religious Zionists Choose Stricter Lifestyle
Comments: 31 | Categories: Israel , MO & Chardal
Israel's National Religious public deems mainstream education, culture unsuitable. Instead, they customize alternatives to suit their needs. National Religious choose stricter lifestyle National Religious public deems mainstream education, culture unsuitable. Instead, they customize alternatives to suit their needs, but insist:...

November 18, 2010: University Students Rumble With Cops Over Yeshiva Stipends
Comments: 7 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
300 university students gather outside Tel Aviv Museum to protest against yeshiva students' stipend bill; protesters block road, trade blows with police. Students clash with police at 'yeshiva law' rally Some 300 students gather outside Tel Aviv Museum to protest...

November 18, 2010: 3 Haredim Plead Guilty In NJ Sting
Comments: 14 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
Three New York men arrested in a large-scale federal money laundering sting in New Jersey last year pleaded guilty Tuesday to running unlicensed money transmitting businesses. 3 in NJ sting plead to illegal cash transfers Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. —...

November 18, 2010: Rabbi To Be Suspended For Anti-Arab Racism And Incitement
Comments: 9 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Israel , MO & Chardal
Minority Affairs Minister Avishay Braverman asked Justice Minister Yaakov Neeman on Wednesday to begin the process of immediate suspension of Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu from his post as municipal rabbi of Safed. Safed rabbi to be suspended for 'inciting war between...

November 17, 2010: Young Israel Rejects Petition From Dissident Synagogues
Comments: 14 | Categories: MO & Chardal
The proposal was triggered by an aborted plan in June by NCYI leaders to expel and seize the assets of its Syracuse branch for that synagogue’s failure to pay $20,000 in dues. The synagogue president, however, said she was told...

November 17, 2010: Alan Dershowitz On Chabad And Rubashkin
Comments: 88 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
"I don't know enough about the case to know whether he's completely innocent, but I can tell you this: The sentence was utterly disproportionate. You cannot explain that sentence based on the facts of the case. I don't care how...

November 17, 2010: The Case for Speaking Openly About Jewish Ethics And Jewish Criminals: If Not Now, When?
Comments: 24 | Categories: Ethics , MO & Chardal , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Justifiable anger about sexual abuse, financial fraud, or political corruption should not disqualify one from taking part in conversations about Jewish ethics. It is the lack of anger, when anger is surely the only appropriate response, that should be called...

November 17, 2010: Israel: Law Barring Sex Offenders From Working With Kids Goes Unenforced
Comments: 5 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Israel , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Police claim to be too busy to enforce the law. Only four cases of violations opened in seven years, and none resulted in an indictment. Law barring sex offenders from working with kids going unenforced Knesset Committee on the Rights...

November 17, 2010: IDF Freezes Service Deferments Due To Enlistment Drop Spurred By Haredim
Comments: 3 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
Decrease in the number of army recruits is due primarily to rise in number of ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students who don't serve at all. IDF freezes service deferrals for volunteering due to enlistment drop Decrease in number of army recruits is...

November 17, 2010: Domestic Violence: 3 Ethiopian Jewish Women Murdered, Many More Battered
Comments: 4 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Ethiopian Jews , Israel
At the age of three she watched as her mother lay in a pool of her own blood having been shot in her head and stomach by her father who also lay wounded on the stained floor. She sat beside...

November 17, 2010: North American Rabbi Offered Bribes To Steer Students To An Israeli Yeshiva
Comments: 10 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , MO & Chardal
Sometime in the past few weeks Rabbi Eli Mandel, vice-principal of Jewish studies at the Tanenbaum Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto, received an offer he felt compelled to refuse: “$1,000 cash” for every TanenbaumCHAT student he directed to a certain...

November 16, 2010: First Israeli Website Listing Pedophiles Launched
Comments: 16 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Israel , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
The Website can be searched by name, town, and area and fills a need unmet by the government or by private sources. Tzedek-Tzedek reports: …In Israel, there is no public data base of pedophiles available from official sources. This is...

November 16, 2010: Power Cut To New Square's Main Synagogue Over Delinquent $78,000 Bill
Comments: 40 | Categories: Haredim
Worshipers attending the Hasidic Jewish community's main synagogue have been praying in the dark since Monday morning after Orange and Rockland Utilities cut off power when bills were not paid. The synagogue has been a focus of recent disturbances in...

November 16, 2010: Did An Orthodox Funder Unduly Influence A Study Of The Jewish Internet?
Comments: 91 | Categories: Blogs , Chabad , Haredim , Media & Media Criticism , MO & Chardal
The Avi Chai Foundation, which is closely linked to haredi apologist Marvin Schick, funded a study of the jewish Internet. Excluded from that study's rankings of top Jewish blogs and Websites is the only Jewish blog or Website to have...

November 16, 2010: Chabad Suspect In Beating Of NYPD Cop's Son Living Openly In Israel
Comments: 44 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Israel
Shuchat - a member of a Hasidic civilian crime patrol named Shmira - was identified as one of the attackers in the racially charged incident. An arrest warrant was issued in May 2008, although the charges have not been made...

November 16, 2010: Haredi Pol: Seculars Should Have More Children Instead Of Complaining About Haredim
Comments: 26 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
Minister of Religious Services Yacov Margi calls on secular public to boost birth rate in effort to thwart demographic threat. "Bring more kids to the world instead of complaining about the haredim. I, as a haredi man, fear for the...

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