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186 posts from May 2011

May 8, 2011: New Women's Clothing Ban
Comments: 98 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Haredim , Women & Judaism
Hasidic rabbis in Williamsburg, Brooklyn ban "clingy," "slinky" knits. Rabbis also ban a new women's hair salon on Lee Ave, which they say is "taken from the ways of the goyyim [non-Jews]." [Hat Tip: Shaya.]

May 8, 2011: Forgetting We Were Once Fish
Comments: 71 | Categories: Science , Torah & Science
It may seem strange that humans have evolved from fish, but the evidence can be found not just in fossils but also within our own bodies – especially our faces. Anatomical clues to human evolution from fish Dr Michael Mosley...

May 8, 2011: Stop Lying, Rabbis Tell Haredim
Comments: 10 | Categories: Haredim
Haredim often attempt to conceal health conditions from potential spouses. A new organization is attempting to change that. Religious Affairs: Medical honesty is the new best policy Some haredim attempt to conceal health conditions from potential life partners. A new...

May 6, 2011: Accused Haredi Pedophile Meir Dascalowitz May Be Declared Unfit To Stand Trial
Comments: 29 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Two court-appointed psychiatrists believe Meir Dascalowitz is unfit to stand trial, source says. According to a source in the courtroom today, the two court-appointed psychiatrists did not present their written reports at today's hearing. But, based on statements made by...

May 6, 2011: Kabbalah Centre, Madonna's Charities Under IRS Criminal Investigation
Comments: 10 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc.
The Kabbalah Centre, the Los Angeles-based spiritual organization that mingles ancient Jewish mysticism with the glamour of its celebrity devotees, is the focus of a federal tax evasion investigation probing, among other things, the finances of two charities connected to...

May 6, 2011: Kosher Pizza Deliveryman Killed In Brooklyn Hit-And-Run
Comments: 21 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc.
Luis Torres was at Fort Hamilton Parkway and 59th St. on his bike delivering pies for Amnon Kosher Pizza when he was hit by a Budget box truck, police and family said. Pizza delivery man dies after hit-and-run accident in...

May 6, 2011: Missing The Mark On The Middle East And The War On Terror
Comments: 24 | Categories: Current Affairs , Israel , Media & Media Criticism
Condaleeza Rice can't admit she was wrong about Iraq and doesn't like to answer questions about her failures. A leading leftist cable news host doesn't understand Middle Eastern dictatorships. And they come close to slapping each other silly on national...

May 6, 2011: Government Funded Haredi Schools Refuse To Honor Israel Independence Day
Comments: 14 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
The Director of Hiddush – Freedom of Religion for Israel, Rabbi Uri Regev, called on the Education Ministry to make the necessity of a national holiday clear to the haredi education institutions and stop funding to those institutions which do...

May 6, 2011: Rabbis Try To Postpone Lag Ba'omer Holiday
Comments: 9 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal
Lag Ba'omer begins on a Saturday evening, when bonfires will be lit throughout the country. Fearing a possible mass Sabbath desecration, leading Orthodox rabbis, including the Tzohar rabbis, asked the Chief Rabbis, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef and Education Minister Gideon Sa'ar...

May 6, 2011: New Deal On Conversions
Comments: 4 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal , Religion, Religion & State
After over a year of an impassioned court debate, the state and ITIM – The Jewish Life Information Center have agreed on a mechanism set to ensure converts are registered for marriage by city rabbis in a way that is...

May 5, 2011: Haredi Rabbis Ban Mishpacha Magazine
Comments: 19 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Haredim , Israel , Media & Media Criticism
Haredi leader Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky joins the ban against the haredi values publication Mishpacha Magazine. Details in Hebrew on Kikar HaShabbat.

May 5, 2011: Hasidic Paper Removes Hillary Clinton From Osama Picture
Comments: 154 | Categories: Haredim , Women & Judaism
Di Tzitung cuts Hillary Clinton out of the iconic picture of government leaders watching the Bin Laden hit. Di Tzitung's photoshopped version of the picture: The unaltered picture: Der Tzitung's photoshopped picture with my annotations showing where Hillary Clinton was...

May 5, 2011: Rabbi Convicted Of Molestation
Comments: 41 |
An orthodox rabbi was convicted Thursday of molesting a female Israeli Army officer on a trans-Atlantic flight. Orthodox rabbi Gavriel Bidany found guilty of molesting female Israeli Army officer on flight John Marzulli • NY DAILY NEWS An orthodox rabbi...

May 5, 2011: Magen Tzedek Responds To Agudath Israel Of America
Comments: 91 | Categories: Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
The misleading statement by Agudath Israel concerning Magen Tzedek is a misrepresentation of a very important development in kosher food production in America. Magen Tzedek is based on our assertion that Biblical and Rabbinic law mandate fair treatment of workers...

May 5, 2011: Another Grocery Chain Drops Sonny And Joe's Hummus
Comments: 23 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Morton Williams, a well-known chain of twelve supermarkets, has discontinued the sale of Sonny & Joe's hummus over concerns about workers' rights violations at Flaum Appetizing Corp., the Brooklyn-based haredi-owned producer and owner of the Sonny & Joe's brand. Morton...

May 5, 2011: Haredi Forex Trader Indicted For Fraud, Theft, Computer Crime
Comments: 14 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel
Moshe Sussman of Bnei Brak allegedly stole millions of dollars from his clients in a ponzi scheme and gave them false earnings statements counterfeited from the website Easy Forex. The scam was first reported last year on the haredi website...

May 4, 2011: Satmar Drivers Attack Bicyclists In Williamsburg
Comments: 26 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
Hasidic Jewish motorists collided with bicyclists and fought them in the street several times last month as the bike riders used a dangerous stretch of Bedford Avenue that once included a bike lane – until it was removed by the...

May 4, 2011: Help This Blog Today
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FailedMessiah.com needs your help now. Here's why: Thank you for your generous support! As many of you know, FailedMessiah has broken many major stories, from the Rubashkin family's shenanigans to Rabbi Leib Tropper's extortion and sex scandal, along with important...

May 4, 2011: Married Orthodox Rabbi, Father Of 11 Children, Accused Of Molesting Woman On Plane
Comments: 106 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel
She's an IDF officer - and she says the rabbi's most definitely not a gentleman. An Israeli Army officer testified Wednesday she was molested by an orthodox rabbi sitting next to her on a trans-Atlantic flight. Married rabbi, father of...

May 4, 2011: When Chabad Students Can't Be Rabbis
Comments: 29 | Categories: Chabad
The number of students dropping out of the hasidic educational system and finding themselves unable to support a family increased in recent decades, Chabad's Rabbi Kaplan said. “You’re talking about thousands” of young hasidic men and women. “There are hundreds...

May 4, 2011: Playing Chicken With The Law
Comments: 16 | Categories: Israel , Kosher Scandal
A particularly cruel death is meted out to 11,000 baby chicks each day in Israel: They are thrown live into a machine that crushes and tears them apart. Four million male chicks are put to death every year by this...

May 4, 2011: Breslov Hasidim Storm Joseph's Tomb
Comments: 22 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel
Breslov hasidim stormed Joseph's Tomb in Shechem (Nablus) and attempted to take over the site. 55 hasidim and right wing activists were arrested. Right-wing Israelis barricade themselves in West Bank Jewish holy site A nighttime operation planned by Bratslav Hasidim...

May 3, 2011: Haredi Man Arrested For Child Sexual Abuse
Comments: 107 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
State Police at Monroe have charged a 52-year-old Kiamesha Lake man with driving a 14-year-old boy to the America’s Best Value Inn located in the Town of Woodbury and having sexual contact with the child. State Police charged Sullivan County...

May 3, 2011: Conservative Ethics Hechsher "A Falsification Of True Judaism," Agudath Israel Says
Comments: 76 | Categories: Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
The goal of Magen Tzedek is to redefine kashrut. Its exclusive purview is food. In its own literature, it calls itself the “gold standard of kashrut,” prominently claims to offer “kashrut for the 21st century,” and states its objective: to...

May 3, 2011: The Abortionist Of Auschwitz
Comments: 64 | Categories: History , Med-Ethics, Public Health
This woman aborted as many as 3,000 babies while she was a prisoner in Auschwitz. Is she a murderer or a hero? The Abortionist of Auschwitz Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com To the Catholic Church and many Evangelicals, Dr. Gisella Perl...

May 3, 2011: From Slave To Israeli To Jew?
Comments: 9 | Categories: Israel
"The whole journey my mother's voice was echoing in my head saying 'they sold you into slavery'." The journey to Israel was an ongoing hell. "At night we drove and throughout the day, Bedouins with guns watched over us. One...

May 2, 2011: Neturei Karta Try To Burn Israeli Flag On Holocaust Remembrance Day
Comments: 55 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
During the two-minute siren marking Holocaust Remembrance Day today, dozens of members of the haredi extremist group Neturei Karta gathered in the ultra-Orthodox Mea She'arim/Geula neighborhood of Jerusalem to burn an Israeli flag. J'lem: Naturei Karta try to burn flag...

May 2, 2011: Exclusive: Chabad Hasid Arrested For Sexual Abuse
Comments: 51 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
The Crown Heights hasid was charged with Sexual Abuse in the 2nd Degree, Sexual Abuse in the 3rd Degree, and Endangering the Welfare of a Child. I exclusively reported the arrest last Friday. The man's name is Moshe Y. "Itzik"...

May 2, 2011: Man Busted For Paying Undercover Cop To Attack Rabbi
Comments: 8 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Israel
Jerusalem police arrested a man last week who was accused of paying an undercover policeman thousands of shekels in order to injure the rabbi of a girls boarding school in Jerusalem. Man arrested for paying cop to attack girl's school...

May 2, 2011: French Court Clears Jewish Oligarch Of Most Charges
Comments: 2 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc.
A French appeals court yesterday acquitted Russian-Israeli businessman Arcadi Gaydamak of most charges in the arms-trafficking case dubbed "Angola-gate." And last week Gaydamak filed suit against Chabad oligarch Lev Leviev for allegdly stealing $2 billion dollars from him. French court...

May 2, 2011: Haredim To Open Their Own Holocaust Museum
Comments: 8 | Categories: Haredim , History
The Kiddush Hashem Archive is to be based in the haredi city of Bnei Brak. New Bnei Brak center to focus on Haredi-style Shoah commemoration The Kiddush Hashem Archive is a long-standing Haredi enterprise dedicated to commemorating the Holocaust which...

May 2, 2011: Haredi Holocaust Delusions
Comments: 52 | Categories: Chabad & Holocaust , Chabad Anti-Zionism , Chabad History , Haredim , History
A haredi 'expert' argues Yad Vashem, Israel's national Holocaust memorial museum, discriminates against haredim. The Jewish Week has a softball interview with Rabbi Meir Wikler, a haredi Borough Park-based psychotherapist who has, according to the Jewish Week, met with Yad...

May 1, 2011: Osama Bin Laden Dead
Comments: 40 |
The world's leading terrorist killed by US troops. Body in US possession. President to speak soon. President Obama should be speaking momentarily.

May 1, 2011: Donald Trump Savaged At White House Correspondents Dinner
Comments: 16 |
The man with what is arguably one of the worst comb-overs in history gets called out and taken down for his lies. [Hat Tip: Dr. Rofeh-Filosof.]

May 1, 2011: Government Drops Charges Against Rabbi
Comments: 4 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Israel , MO & Chardal
The Jerusalem Prosecutor's Office has told Rabbi Shear Yashuv Cohen that it has decided to close the case that was opened against him in connection with a bribery scheme. J'lem prosecution closes bribery case against Rabbi Shear Yashuv Cohen Aviad...

May 1, 2011: The Half-Jewish Nazi Who Saved The Lubavitcher Rebbe
Comments: 14 | Categories: Chabad , Chabad & Holocaust , Chabad History , Haredim , History
The sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe was hiding in war-torn Warsaw during the days after the German invasion in 1939. After locating the rabbi at the order of Adm. Wilhelm Canaris, the head of the so-called Abwehr, Maj. Ernst Bloch, whose father...

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