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220 posts from December 2010

December 25, 2010: Haredim Threaten Boycott Over Lights
Comments: 9 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
The ultra-Orthodox community is threatening to boycott Jerusalem's luxurious Mamilla shopping complex due to electric ornaments resembling Christmas lights, which have been placed along the boulevard. Haredim threaten to boycott Mamilla Mall Christmas-style lights placed along shopping boulevard anger Jerusalem's...

December 24, 2010: A Chabad Christmas
Comments: 23 | Categories: Chabad , PARODY & SATIRE
A poem for the season by our very own Yochanan Lavie. A Chabad Christmas A Poem By Yochnan Lavie Twas the night before Nitel, when all through the shul Not a bochur was learning, not even Reb Shmuel. The mezuzot...

December 24, 2010: Nittel Nacht Gathering In Boro Park
Comments: 23 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , PARODY & SATIRE , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Nittel Nacht, a.k.a., xmas eve, is a time many Jews abstain from studying Torah. Haredim are gathering in Boro Park tonight to honor that tradition.

December 24, 2010: Heeb's Weekly Crime Blotter
Comments: 7 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc.
Our very own weekly list of community crimes and misdemeanors. Chosen: Crimes and Misdemeanors.

December 24, 2010: Are Satmar Cronies Of Disgraced Brooklyn Pol Vito Lopez Behind The Vos Iz Neias Ban?
Comments: 12 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Blogs , Haredim
The ban against the haredi news site Vos Iz Neias, first reported here, appears to be the work of cronies of Vito Lopez, the disgraced Brooklyn politician who worked closely with the Catholic Church, Satmar and Agudath Israel of America...

December 24, 2010: Haredi Rabbis Ban Listening To All Radio, Even 'Kosher' Stations
Comments: 32 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Haredim , Israel , Media & Media Criticism
Leading haredi rabbis have now banned Jews from listening to all radio stations, even stations that broadcast so-called 'kosher' programming. Update 6:40 pm CST 12-25-10 – I asked Yisrael Medad, author of My Right Word, about the age of the...

December 24, 2010: Chabad Financier Funds Pro-Rubashkin Film
Comments: 34 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Brooklyn financier Simi Jacobson is bankrolling a documentary about Sholom Rubashkin and has a plan to help free the jailed Lubavitcher. Simi's Plan to Save Rubashkin Brooklyn financier Simi Jacobson is bankrolling a documentary about Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin and tells...

December 24, 2010: Haredi Party's Infighting Reaches Into Rabbinic Leader's Family
Comments: 5 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Sefardim
The crisis in Shas is deepening and reaching the innermost circle of the party's spiritual leader, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef. Shas infighting reaches as far as spiritual leader's family Aryeh Deri loyalist clashes with Ovadia Yosef's son in synagogue. By Yair...

December 24, 2010: Chabad Rabbi Threatens Government With Civil War
Comments: 59 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal , Religion, Religion & State
Rabbi Sholom DovBear Wolpe called for civil war if Israel evacuates even one West Bank settlement. Wolpe is a widely popular Chabad rabbi affiliated with the overtly messianist faction of Chabad. Rabbi threatens civil war at rally Thousands gather in...

December 23, 2010: The Piggies That Wiggled Away: A 'Torah Thought' From Ohr Somayach's Rabbi Mendel Weinbach
Comments: 26 | Categories: Bizarre Fixations With Taboo Animals , Haredim
Jews understandably have an aversion to pigs. But what happens when Israel’s biggest importer of quality wooden toys discovers that the Country Life toy farms he has imported from Toys R Us includes three little wooden piggies? The Piggies That...

December 23, 2010: Not Letting Go: The Anatomy Of An Agunah
Comments: 81 | Categories: Haredim , MO & Chardal , Women & Judaism
“Despite offers [to fix custody issues the husband objects to] by the wife, which she’s put her name to and signed, [and] rabbis have vouched [for] on her behalf, the husband has not been willing to agree to anything.” All...

December 23, 2010: In Wake Of Devastating Wildfires, Israel's Firefighters Blast Govt Decision To Earmark More Money For Haredi Yeshiva Students But Not To Firefighters
Comments: 12 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
"Netanyahu chose yeshiva students and abandoned the firefighters. This is an outrageous decision that constitutes a shameful and clear message to the Israeli public that it is being led by a cynical, indifferent man whose priorities harm Israel." Firefighters upset;...

December 23, 2010: Acting On Behalf Of Rabbis, Jews Threaten To Murder Druze IDF Veteran And His Arab Roommates, Forcing Them To Flee Home
Comments: 13 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal , Religion, Religion & State
"The neighbors came out and started to yell that they don't want to see Arabs in the neighborhood, and that it is for Jews only… This act destroys coexistence. I feel humiliated from this intolerable cruelty. Despite serving in the...

December 23, 2010: New Standard For Kosher Food
Comments: 47 | Categories: Kosher Scandal
"There's a perspective that those companies will be seen as having caved in to Conservative demands and being more left-leaning," Menachem Lubinsky said, adding that smaller kosher producers won't be able to afford or compete with Magen Tzedek's requirements. "(Consumers)...

December 23, 2010: Igud HaRabbonim Spokesman: Senator Joe Lieberman Is An "Apostate," US Military Will Pay With "Loss Of Life And Limb" For Repealing Don't Ask Don't Tell
Comments: 56 | Categories: Haredim , Homophobia and its Discontents
“We are students of Biblical history. We have seen time and time again in biblical history when Jews and others have forsaken the path of morality that we have paid - society has paid - a bitter price in terms...

December 23, 2010: Herzl And The Rabbis
Comments: 8 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal , Religion, Religion & State
If somebody would have told Theodor Herzl that in the Jewish state dozens of rabbis would put their signature to a letter that forbids Jews to rent or sell apartments to gentiles, he would certainly have been outraged. Herzl and...

December 23, 2010: Don't Read Talkbacks And Website Comments, Rabbi Says
Comments: 14 | Categories: Blogs , Israel , MO & Chardal , Web/Tech
One of Religious Zionism's leaders says responding to articles on websites may lead to religious and moral transgressions. 'Talkbacks can bring many blessings, but for the most part we see that they have many negative sides which means it isn't...

December 22, 2010: OU Sues Seafood Importer For Falsely Using OU Symbol
Comments: 16 | Categories: Kosher Scandal
The Orthodox Union is suing a Pennsylvania-based seafood-importing company, saying it falsely claimed the OU certified its tilapia fish as kosher, highlighting a common problem in the increasingly global kosher marketplace. The Fish Isn't Kosher, Suit Charges By SUMATHI REDDY...

December 22, 2010: USDA Unveils New Humane Animal Handling Enforcement Measures
Comments: 6 | Categories: Chabad , Haredim , Kosher Scandal
The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced several measures to better enforce humane handling laws for cattle slaughtered at FSIS-inspected facilities. They appear to be in response to violations at Agriprocessors uncovered by PETA in 2004 and 2007....

December 22, 2010: Tuvia Stern, Haredi Scam Artist Of Bar Mitzvah In The Tombs Infamy, Denied Parole, Is Given Another Parole Hearing By Judge
Comments: 6 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
Stern and his brothers stole more than $1 million. He fled indictment and his in Brazil for 19 years and in England for one. Now Stern wants parole – even though he told the parole board he has no idea...

December 22, 2010: Hundreds Rally For Chained Woman While Others Support Husband
Comments: 117 | Categories: Haredim , MO & Chardal , Women & Judaism
Cries of "shame on you" and "do the right thing" echoed through the Warwick apartment complex in Silver Spring Sunday afternoon, as some 300 protesters transformed a divorce dispute involving two Orthodox Jews, one of the a staffer of the...

December 22, 2010: Center For At-Risk Teens May Close
Comments: 16 | Categories: Haredim
With its funding slashed, future of Flatbush’s Our Place in jeopardy; ‘I’d be on the street’ without it, teen says. Bklyn Center For At-Risk Teens Itself At Risk With its funding slashed, future of Flatbush’s Our Place in jeopardy; ‘I’d...

December 22, 2010: Haredi Rabbis Ban Vos Iz Neias
Comments: 79 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Haredim , Web/Tech
Haredi news website banned by dozens of leading haredi rabbis. UPDATE – Do we now know the name of the man behind the ban? Haredi rabbis just banned VIN. Will VIN shut down? Will it subject itself to rabbinic editorial...

December 22, 2010: Israel Must Separate Religion From Politics
Comments: 10 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
"As an ultra-Orthodox man, I'm about to write some very strong things. I can't help but write them, though, having reached the conclusion that it's time for radical change." Israel must separate religion from politics The mix of politics and...

December 22, 2010: Residents Of Small Israeli Town Fear Hasidic Takeover
Comments: 10 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
Ramot Hashavim resident claims the town has become a 'Bratslav center'; Hasidic resident says her prayer group consists of only 15 people. Residents of small central town fear ultra-Orthodox takeover Ramot Hashavim resident claims the town has become a 'Bratslav...

December 22, 2010: Upsurge In Racism As Protesters Take To The Streets Against Arabs, Migrant Workers
Comments: 3 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal , Religion, Religion & State
Just weeks after several dozen state-employed rabbis ignited a major controversy by issuing a letter calling on Israeli Jews not to rent or sell their homes to non-Jews, and one day after an anti-Arab demonstration in Bat Yam, Tuesday saw...

December 22, 2010: Hundreds Protest Foreign Workers, Refugees
Comments: 0 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Israel
Protesters in Tel Aviv's working class Hatikva neighborhood claim foreign workers and refugees are responsible for violent incidents and also drive up apartment prices. Hundreds in Tel Aviv call for deportation of foreign workers, refugees Protesters in Tel Aviv's working...

December 21, 2010: More Evidence Of RCA Lies
Comments: 12 | Categories: Halakha , Med-Ethics, Public Health , MO & Chardal
The RCA continues to cover up the facts of brain stem death. Spoke With Rabbi Feinstein Tuesday, December 21, 2010 Frank J. Veith • New York Jewish Week Although I am not Jewish, I met with Rabbi Moshe Feinstein in...

December 21, 2010: Ranking Republican Member Of The House Ways And Means Committee Has Staffer Who Refuses To Give His Wife A Get
Comments: 128 | Categories: Haredim , MO & Chardal , Women & Judaism
Aharon Friedman, an Orthodox Jew, won't give his wife a get, a Jewish divorce, even though he initiated civil divorce. Friedman is using the get as leverage to try to overturn custody arrangemnts made by the civil court. Rabbis, including...

December 21, 2010: Guatemalan Families Reunite In Postville
Comments: 43 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
26 family members from Guatemala were reunited with 8 former Agriprocessors workers whom they had not seen in years. Many of the travelers were children whose mothers left Guatemala several years ago to earn money in Postville to send back...

December 21, 2010: The Truth Behind Haredi Draft Dodging – Haredim Really Want To Work
Comments: 11 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
45 percent of those getting psychological exemptions from the army are haredi. It turns out that being psychologically unfit enables ultra-Orthodox youths to not only avoid army service, but also not to study in a yeshiva. That is the reason...

December 21, 2010: Netanyahu Gives Kosher Seal Of Approval To Haredi Anti-Zionists
Comments: 10 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
What do you call a secular person in Yiddish? Freier (sucker ), the yeshiva students answer, and burst out laughing. For really, it's so easy to pull a fast one on the secular public and extract boundless government funding and...

December 21, 2010: Hasidic Jews Demonstrate Against Don't Ask Don't Tell At West Point
Comments: 44 | Categories: Haredim , Homophobia and its Discontents
"Only God can establish what's wrong and what's right. We cannot uproot his rules," Diamant said. "The whole LGBT agenda is evil," using the abbreviation for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender. 4 Hasidic Jews protest repeal of ban on gay...

December 21, 2010: 9 Orthodox And Haredi Youths Arrested In Anti-Arab Gang Violence
Comments: 4 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Ethiopian Jews , Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal , Religion, Religion & State
Jerusalem Police arrest seven youths on suspicion of assaulting young Arab men in the capital after having a 14-year-old girl seduce them and lead them to meeting point. Police say the suspects admitted their acts were nationalistically-motivated. Teens suspected of...

December 21, 2010: Shin Bet Warns Rabbi Behind Anti-Arab Demonstrations
Comments: 1 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal , Religion, Religion & State
Rabbi David Hai Hacohen was called in for a meeting with Bat Yam's police chief. He was met there by surprise by four officials from the security service's Jewish unit who told him that that they have been following his...

December 20, 2010: Five Times More Haredim Than Seculars Use Psych Exemption To Escape Army Service
Comments: 27 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
Data published by the IDF Personnel Directorate reveals that the rate of haredim who obtain psychiatric exemptions is five times higher than among secular people,even though haredim have another "escape route" out of military service. IDF: Haredim abusing psych exemption...

December 20, 2010: Demonstration: Death To Jews Who Date Arabs, Death To Jews Who Sell Homes To Arabs
Comments: 28 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal , Religion, Religion & State
200 people demonstrate in city center against 'Arabs who are taking our daughters'; leftists wave signs reading "Jews and Arabs refuse to be enemies." Bat Yam rally: Death to Jewish women who date Arabs 200 people demonstrate in city center...

December 20, 2010: 73% Of Israelis Believe Rabbis Must Not Make Controversial Political Statements, But Haredim And Orthodox Don't Care
Comments: 11 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal
But religious and haredi Israelis object to any restriction on rabbis' "freedom of speech." Secular (61%) and traditional (63%) Jews are convinced that the problem stems from the rabbis' intolerance towards those who are different. But the religious (49%) blame...

December 20, 2010: Instead Of Telling Rabbis What To Believe In, Israel Should Separate Religion And State
Comments: 47 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal
Nobody has a right to dictate to religious clerics – Jews, Christians, or Buddhists – what to believe in, how to interpret their religion, and what to say and do. If the rabbis violated criminal laws banning incitement, they should...

December 20, 2010: YouTube Shuts Down Palestine Media Watch Account And Then Reinstates It – Sort Of
Comments: 7 | Categories: Israel , Web/Tech
PMW needs your help. YouTube – a Google company – has closed down PMW's main video account - PALWATCH - for "violating YouTube terms of use", by supposedly propagating hate speech. Of course PMW does not promote hate speech, but...

December 20, 2010: Netanyahu's Unacceptable Deal With Haredim
Comments: 6 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
The cabinet's approval of a sweeping 'reform' of the state's horse-trading relationship with the ultra-Orthodox community reflects the cabinet's capitulation to the political demands of the Haredim. Netanyahu's unacceptable deal with the ultra-Orthodox The cabinet's approval of a sweeping 'reform'...

December 20, 2010: Jews And Muslims Object To Labeling Of Ritually Slaughtered Meat
Comments: 8 | Categories: Kosher Scandal
About 10 million turkeys are expected to be eaten in the UK over Christmas with most people unaware of how the bird on their plate was killed. All that could change under proposed EU legislation that would require the labelling...

December 20, 2010: Mr. Prime Minister, Douse The Flames Of Racism
Comments: 0 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal
Netanyahu was right to condemn the rabbis' letter; now he must prevent the passage of the admission committees' bill which could be used to prevent the admission of Arabs to small communities. Mr. Prime Minister, douse the flames of racism...

December 20, 2010: Israeli Involved In Organ Trafficking Ring Flees Arrest
Comments: 2 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Israel
Moshe Harel, an Israeli of Turkish descent, is suspected of being at the center of a network of organ traffickers in Kosovo. Israeli involved in Kosovo organ trafficking case on run from Interpol Moshe Harel, an Israeli of Turkish descent,...

December 20, 2010: Sudanese Refugees' Apartment Torched
Comments: 7 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Israel , Religion, Religion & State , Xenophobia
Five Sudanese nationals suffered from smoke inhalation on Saturday after an unknown assailant tried to set fire to their apartment in the southern city of Ashdod. Refugees' flat torched in Ashdod Burning tire thrown at apartment's door; five Sudanese nationals...

December 19, 2010: Jerusalem Breslov Leader Claims Held Prisoner By Son And Grandson For 10 Years
Comments: 21 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel
A scandal that is rocking the Breslov community of Shuvu Banim has taken another twist, with its spiritual leader Rabbi Eliezer Berland’s return to his Jerusalem home from his hiding place in the North on Saturday night, after breaking away...

December 19, 2010: Anti-Arab Demonstration In Bat Yam: Arabs Are Dating Our Sisters
Comments: 29 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal
After a rabbis' letter instructing Jews to not sell or rent apartments to Arabs, racist behavior reaches new low: An organization called Jews for a Jewish Bat Yam is expected to protest on Monday against the "assimilation of young Jewish...

December 19, 2010: IDF Chief: Integrate Haredim In The Army Now
Comments: 6 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
Several hours after the government approved an extension of yeshiva student stipends and postponed a discussion on the integration of the ultra-Orthodox sector in the army and national service, Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi warned Sunday of...

December 19, 2010: Sell Out: Over Secular Objections, Government Approves Haredi Yeshiva Students Stipends
Comments: 2 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
"In order to gain haredi support for the budget, Netanyahu chose the culture of lying at the expense of a shared burden and is forcing the public to pay for his government's survival. Netanyahu's bluff was exposed today." Cabinet approves...

December 19, 2010: Kabbalist: Letter Banning Rental Or Sale Of Homes To Arabs "Comes From Stupidity
Comments: 13 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Haredim , Israel , Religion, Religion & State , Sefardim
Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto, the New York-based rabbi whose followers include many high society names, has condemned the letter prohibiting Jews to rent or sell property to Arabs, signed by 50 municipal rabbis. "This letter has put the lives of Jews...

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