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August 23, 2011: Judge Slams Levi Aron's Attorneys For Inexperience, Mistakes
Comments: 20 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
A Brooklyn judge slammed the lawyers of accused butcher Levi Aron, ripping them for their inexperience and their gripes about media coverage of the case. Jennifer McCann and Pierre Bazile Judge slams accused murderer Levi Aron's lawyers for inexperience, complaints...

August 23, 2011: Men To The Rear?
Comments: 52 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Women & Judaism
While buses create a halachic problem [sic] for haredi men to sit behind women, in the tram haredi men seek to occupy the back car. "The distance between the cars solves the halachic problem of sitting behind a woman, so...

August 23, 2011: Abuses
Comments: 17 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Baruch Lebovits was a convicted sex offender until another man was accused of tampering with witnesses against him. To some ultra-Orthodox leaders, this justifies a reluctance to go to authorities with charges of abuse. Rabbi Baruch Lebovits Updated at 5:45...

August 23, 2011: Lack Of Torah Study Caused Terror Attacks, Rabbis Say
Comments: 55 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Terrorism
Haredi rabbinic leaders say the drop in Torah study during bein hazemanim, the yeshiva vacation period from Tisha B'Av until the first of the Hebrew month of Elul (this year, Tuesday, August 30) caused the spate of terror and missile...

August 23, 2011: More Haredim Visit Temple Mount, But Rabbis Won't Openly Encourage Visits Due To Fear Of Anti-Zionist Haredi Zealots
Comments: 19 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
Fear of anti-Zionist haredim who use violence and intimidation to get their way has stopped haredi rabbis from openly telling their followers to visit the Temple Mount. Jews on the Temple Mount looking toward the Muslim shrine the Dome of...

August 22, 2011: Home Invasion That Injured 2 Meant To Secure Religious Divorce
Comments: 33 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Women & Judaism
A Borough Park home invasion was carried out today to force one of the two occupants of the home to give his wife a get, a Jewish religious divorce, a source says. A home invasion reported on the Boro Park...

August 22, 2011: Raw Sewage Found In Yeshiva Dorm
Comments: 32 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Med-Ethics, Public Health
A haredi yeshiva is fined for having raw sewage inside and outside its dormitory. The Journal News reports: Congregation and Kollel Noam Elimelech Litzensk Inc., operator and Congregation Litzensk Inc., owner, Congregation Litzensk Dormitory, 100 South Central Ave., Clarkstown, were...

August 22, 2011: Shabbes Wars
Comments: 63 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel
“As I was driving slowly to avoid the trash, 200 Orthodox men surrounded my car. They began punching and kicking it, and then opened my door and started grabbing at me. I tried to close the door, but they wouldn’t...

August 22, 2011: ZAKA Sends Its Jeeps On A Special Mission
Comments: 4 | Categories: Haredim , Hessed , Israel , MO & Chardal
The ZAKA Jeep Unit, which normally carries out search and rescue operations in difficult terrain, could be seen recently snaking through the Jerusalem hills, festooned with dozens of balloons, taking sick and disabled campers on a jeep adventure. ZAKA jeep...

August 22, 2011: Time Has Not Healed Their Wounds
Comments: 4 | Categories: Antisemitism , Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc.
In the back of an empty Jewish deli in Brooklyn, two central figures from riots that rocked Crown Heights 20 years ago last Friday sat together at a wooden table before a plate of corned beef sandwiches. Yitzhak Bitton lying...

August 21, 2011: Chabad Turf War, Part 2
Comments: 6 | Categories: Chabad , Turf Disputes
As two Chabad rabbis fight over turf, a document surfaces that appears to show one of them refused to allow a Chabad rabbinic court to decide the issue. The letter as a PDF file: Download Telsner Groner Letter to Krinsky...

August 21, 2011: Rev. Al Sharpton On The Crown Heights Riots
Comments: 41 | Categories: Antisemitism , Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc.
"Twenty years after the Crown Heights riots, the city has grown, and I believe I have grown. I'd like to share a few of my reflections about the choices I made, including the mistakes, with an eye toward advancing racial...

August 21, 2011: Exclusive: Kiruv Organization Photoshops Sleeves In, Breasts Out
Comments: 66 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Outreach
Jewpiter, a kiruv (ultra-Orthodox Jewish missionary or outreach) organization geared to college students, decided to give a model a more 'modest' dress – and significantly smaller breasts and buttocks. Originally published at 11:29 pm 8-20-11. All images can be clicked...

August 21, 2011: Ex-Pro Wrestler Rabbi Passes Away
Comments: 12 | Categories: BTs , Haredim , Israel
Rabbi Rafael Halperin died at his home in the central city of Bnei Brak on Saturday afternoon, following a serious illness. Halperin was a former professional wrestler. Rafael “Mr. Israel” Halperin Rabbi Rafael Halperin, ex-wrestler, dies Former world champion in...

August 20, 2011: 'America's Rabbi'
Comments: 33 | Categories: Bad Spin , Chabad
But inside that brain of his, oh the stuff that comes out. Heady stuff. Weird stuff. Personal stuff. (Remember, this is the guy who talked with Oprah about kosher sex.) Stuff about success and life balance and principles and ambition....

August 20, 2011: Sharpton Shul Appearance Should Not Have Been Canceled
Comments: 76 | Categories: Antisemitism , Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc.
In this racially and religiously charged episode, two people lost their lives, a young black boy and young Jewish man. It was an ugly and disturbing chapter in our nation and our city's history. Rev. Al Sharpton and Rabbi Schneier...

August 19, 2011: More Rockets Hit Israel
Comments: 7 | Categories: Israel , Terrorism
Fire from Gaza was renewed Friday afternoon when terrorists fired five rockets at various locations in southern Israel, hitting Be'er Tuvia, Eshkol, and Sdot Negev regional councils, as well as Ashdod. No injuries or damage were reported. Rocket damage to...

August 19, 2011: School’s Forced Gender Segregation Canceled – For Now
Comments: 1 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal , Women & Judaism
After Israel’s Education Ministry backed down at last minute, an Israeli court ruled Thursday that a petition by parents to block the state’s decision to force gender segregation in a state-sponsored Orthodox grade school in Petach Tikva was moot. State...

August 19, 2011: Chabad Turf War
Comments: 31 | Categories: Chabad , Turf Disputes
A dispute between two rabbis has erupted in Surfers Paradise over who should represent the Chabad-Lubavitch movement on Australia's Gold Coast. Rabbi Nir Gurevitch In-fighting plagues Gold Coast shuls JOSHUA LEVI • Australian Jewish News A DISPUTE between two rabbis...

August 19, 2011: Empire Kosher Update
Comments: 42 | Categories: Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Filling in some key bits of information the JTA did not include in its profile of the kosher poultry giant. I noted last week that the JTA's report on Empire Kosher Poultry didn't ask or answer key questions: 1. How...

August 19, 2011: Orthodoxy Sliding To The Left?
Comments: 43 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal
Israeli women's schools are helping some American Orthodox Jews to slide leftward, says the same scholar who 13 years ago observed American Orthodoxy moving to the right. Chaim Waxman Israel affecting growing liberalism among Orthodox U.S. Jews, says sociologist U.S.-Israeli...

August 19, 2011: Rocket Hits Yeshiva, 10 Injured
Comments: 13 | Categories: Israel , MO & Chardal , Terrorism
A rocket fired at the Southern Israel city of Ashdod Friday morning exploded in the courtyard of a haredi yeshiva and left 10 people injured – two seriously. More rockets were fired across the south, and Israel struck back by...

August 18, 2011: Sharpton Opts Out, Shul Event Canceled
Comments: 43 | Categories: Antisemitism , Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc.
Under heavy criticism, Rev. Al Sharpton opted out of the synagogue panel on race relations 20 years after the antisemitic Crown Heights riots, in which Sharpton had played a key role. Shortly after, Rabbi Marc Schneier canceled the event. Sharpton...

August 18, 2011: Murdered Jew's Brother Condemns Sharpton Shul Invite
Comments: 36 | Categories: Antisemitism , Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc.
"It's just an absolute disgrace. His vile rhetoric incited the rioting." – Norman Rosenbaum, brother of PhD candidate Yankel Rosenbaum, who was murdered by a black mob at the beginning of the anti-semitic riots in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, 20 years...

August 18, 2011: Isadore Farkas Gets Bail Pending Appeal
Comments: 11 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
The hasidic thug who beat a 70-year-old man and stole his camera, and who then beat the court system for more than five years, was sentenced to four years in prison last week. But now Farkas is free on bail,...

August 18, 2011: A Thought About Today's Terror Attacks
Comments: 67 | Categories: Antisemitism , Israel , Terrorism
Three terror attacks today near the Southern Israeli city of Eilat killed seven and injured, by some accounts, more than 30. Bus from today's terror attack near Eilat News Analysis A Thought On Today’s Terror Attacks Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com...

August 18, 2011: This Week In History: Haredim Kidnap Children From Youth Aliyah Center
Comments: 24 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , History , Israel , Religion, Religion & State
"Ramat Hadassah must not be turned into a spiritual Auschwitz," said one rabbi. The head of Youth Aliyah, Moshe Kol, denied the allegations - he insisted that the Youth Aliyah centers had synagogues and kosher kitchens, and that they employed...

August 18, 2011: Video: Living Apart In Crown Heights
Comments: 7 | Categories: Antisemitism , Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc.
20 years after the anti-Jewish riots that ravaged the Brooklyn neighborhood that is Chabad's international headquarters, Chabad Jews and blacks still live side by side – and apart. Living Apart in Crown Heights from Jewish Forward on Vimeo.

August 18, 2011: Rabbi “Perplexed" By Child Sex Abuse Charges
Comments: 7 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , MO & Chardal , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
“It was a complete, utter shock to him,” defense attorney Howard Simmons said shortly after Rabbi Uzi Rivlin formally was charged with criminal sexual contact and child endangerment at a brief hearing in Superior Court in Hackensack. “He just doesn’t...

August 18, 2011: Homeless: How Israel's Welfare State Fails Its Poorest Citizens
Comments: 4 | Categories: Israel , Poverty & Homelessness
Although the Ministry of Housing is supposed to use cash raised by selling public housing apartments to replenish the public housing stock by investing in new buildings, it has not done so. According to a 2008 report by the State...

August 18, 2011: Woman Divorces Brain Damaged Husband
Comments: 12 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal , Women & Judaism
He was defined by a court as a "ward", and his wife was appointed as his legal guardian. She took care of him for two years and then decided she wanted to remarry and build a new life. When she...

August 17, 2011: Racism: Haredim Still Block Sefardi Girls From Schools
Comments: 40 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Haredim , Israel , Sefardim
The leading Ashkenazi haredi rabbinical arbiter, Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, called the principals of the haredi high schools to a meeting and told them not to cooperate with the government's attempt to integrate haredi girls schools. "We must fight this...

August 17, 2011: Scholars: The Torah We Have Today Is Not The Torah Our Ancestors Had
Comments: 53 | Categories: History , Israel , Religion, Religion & State
A dull-looking chart projected on the wall of a university office in Jerusalem displayed a revelation that would startle many readers of the Old Testament: The sacred text that people revered in the past was not the same one we...

August 17, 2011: School Sends Out Warning About Alleged Child Molester
Comments: 5 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , MO & Chardal , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
A school has written to parents warning it has grave concerns that an alleged child molester continues to have access to its premises because of police inaction and the inaction of the Orthodox synagogue that is its landlord. Chabad's Yeshiva...

August 17, 2011: Chabad Rabbi Whitewashes Jewish Crown Heights 20 Years After The Pogrom
Comments: 54 | Categories: Antisemitism , Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc.
The incident began with a tragic car accident. A young Guyanese child was struck and killed by a car driven by a Hasidic man. The driver, whose car had been hit by another while crossing the intersection, tried to avoid...

August 17, 2011: Synagogue To Host Rev. Al Sharpton
Comments: 28 | Categories: Antisemitism , Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc.
The controversial activist and MSNBC host will talk about his role in the Crown Heights riots, the only pogrom on American soil which started 20 years ago Friday, and lasted for three chaotic days. Rev. Al Sharpton The Jewish Week...

August 17, 2011: Rabbi Rushes To Defend Accused Child Molester
Comments: 37 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , MO & Chardal , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Rabbi Moshe Yasgur suggested that the Israeli children’s original report to Israeli police could have been “mixed up in translation,” or that the teens had made an accusation because something had happened to them in Rivlin’s absence, and they blamed...

August 17, 2011: Rabbis: Alternative Medicine "Idolatry"
Comments: 38 | Categories: Israel , Med-Ethics, Public Health , MO & Chardal
Six senior Zionist Orthodox rabbis sign a manifesto warning the public not to seek holistic treatments because "some methods involve elements studied in…idolatrous sects." Rabbis: Alternative medicine based on idolatry Six senior Religious Zionism rabbis sign manifesto warning public not...

August 17, 2011: D.A.'s Safe Stop Program For Lost Kids Launches
Comments: 3 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Before Leiby Kletzky was abducted and brutally murdered, he wandered the streets of Borough Park alone, lost and confused, on his first walk home from day camp. Storeowners post 'Safe Stop' signs on windows to help lost kids BY Lillian...

August 16, 2011: Teaneck Rabbi Arrested In Sex Abuse Of Two Israeli Boys
Comments: 67 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , MO & Chardal , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Uzi Rivlin, a 63-year-old married Orthodox rabbi from Teaneck, New Jersey, was arrested today and charged with four counts related to the alleged sexual abuse of two Israeli boys. Rabbi Uzi Rivlin Updated 9:30 pm CDT. Teaneck Rabbi Arrested In...

August 16, 2011: Video: Orthodox Rabbi Marries Gay Men…To Lesbians
Comments: 82 | Categories: Homophobia and its Discontents , Israel , MO & Chardal
And now Rabbi Areleh Harel wants to take his unconventional matchmaking service to the Internet. Time Magazine's story.

August 16, 2011: The Bible Made Her Do It! Woman Gets Probation For Botched Home Circumcision Done With A Box Cutter
Comments: 22 | Categories: Bizarre , Circumcision
Keemonta Peterson was sentenced Monday in an Oregon court for first-degree criminal mistreatment after she tried to circumcise her 3-month-old son by herself in her home after reading the Hebrew Bible. Keemonta Peterson The Bible Made Me Her It! Woman...

August 16, 2011: "Humiliated" By Haredim?
Comments: 27 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
An IDF reserve officer and two soldiers claim they were humiliated by haredim and the Egged bus company yesterday after boarding a bus in the haredi city of Bnei Brak. Egged buses; Shlomi Cohen. Soldier, Go To The Back Of...

August 16, 2011: DA's Safe Stop Program For Lost Kids Starts Today
Comments: 4 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Inspired by the abduction and murder of Leiby Kletzky, a new effort gets underway today to help children find a safe haven when they're lost. Kletzky's death left such a feeling of hopelessness in the Borough Park community, throughout Brooklyn...

August 16, 2011: Not Quite Kosher
Comments: 13 | Categories: History
Divided and diminished: In the eyes of Judaism as well as Beijing, the tiny Chinese Kaifeng Jewish community Isn't quite kosher. Kaifeng Jew Zhang Xinwang calls himself "Moishe." Bob Davis, Wall Street Journal. Chinese Jews Face Existential Questions Divided and...

August 16, 2011: Video: 2-Year-Old Girl Struck And Killed In New Square
Comments: 55 | Categories: Haredim
Chaye Gitel Schwartz ran out into the street in front of her home and was struck by a mini van. She died at he scene from severe head trauma. Her funeral is a t 10:30 am this morning. This the...

August 16, 2011: Kabbalist To The Stars Used Me To Launder Money, Chief Rabbi Says
Comments: 11 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Sefardim
The father in law of Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto says the kabbalist to the stars used him to launder money and cheat on a multi-million dollar real estate deal. Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto Kabbalist To The Stars Used Me To Launder Money,...

August 16, 2011: Jerusalem's Black Hole
Comments: 4 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
The City of Jerusalem produced and sent a calendar of cultural events to every household in the capital. It includes listings of performances of the Jerusalem theater, events at the city’s botanical gardens, participatory feedings of zoo animals, and many...

August 16, 2011: Forced Segregation
Comments: 3 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal , Women & Judaism
Against the wishes of parents, Israel’s Education Ministry is trying to force gender segregation at the state-sponsored Orthodox grade school. Forced Segregation Against the wishes of parents, Israel’s Education Ministry is trying to force gender segregation at the state-sponsored Orthodox...

August 16, 2011: Fine Justice
Comments: 3 | Categories: Israel , Religion, Religion & State , Women & Judaism
On Sunday, a judge in an Israeli family court ruled that a recalcitrant woman who had refused to accept a get (a religious divorce) from her husband would be fined 25,000 NIS per year of refusal – 200,000 NIS so...

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