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September 28, 2011: Blog Schedule
Comments: 9 |
Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, starts tonight at sundown and continues through Friday night, which is, of course, Shabbat, which continues through Saturday until about an hour after sundown. So there won't be any new posts until then. May...

September 28, 2011: Craven Images
Comments: 4 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
These Haredi paparazzi publications appear each Thursday, and have a total circulation of tens of thousands. Some brand them as "tabloids," "yellow journals" or even "Haredi Playboys" - and someone who is caught with one can never claim he is...

September 28, 2011: No Women Can Vote
Comments: 20 | Categories: Chabad , Haredim , Women & Judaism
The Skvere hasidic movement does not allow women to drive cars and the Chabad-controlled Crown Heights Jewish Community Council does not allow women to vote. Is this our version of Saudi Arabia? Writing in the Forward's Sisterhood blog, Debra Nussbaum...

September 28, 2011: Dead Sea Scrolls Go Online
Comments: 7 | Categories: History , Israel , Religion, Religion & State
Two thousand years after they were written and decades after they were found in desert caves, some of the world-famous Dead Sea Scrolls went online for the first time on Monday in a project launched by Israel's national museum and...

September 28, 2011: Yeshiva Education Equal To A College Degree, Haredi Pol Says
Comments: 32 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
“The State is doing a great injustice to haredi job seekers by not recognizing religious education while [certain] academic degrees are irrelevant to employment,” he said. “A person who wants to be a doctor, should go to medical school and...

September 28, 2011: Poll: Israelis Want Haredi Army Draft, Compliance From Haredi Schools, Public Buses On Shabbat, And Freedom Of And From Religion – Haredim Oppose
Comments: 5 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
Authoritative poll reveals 62% of public support civil marriage, 52% back same-sex marriage, 87% want everyone to serve in IDF, 79% call for yeshiva budget cuts. 63% of Jews in favor of Shabbat buses State and Religion Index, conducted by...

September 28, 2011: Chabad's Reaches Sukkah Compromise
Comments: 14 | Categories: Chabad
Community Board 1 members find Chabad a private lot to use for its TriBeCa sukkah, avoiding what could have become a court fight over Chabad's request to place it in a tiny park on a traffic triangle. You can read...

September 28, 2011: Censorship: Hasidic Newspaper Cuts Off President's Head
Comments: 53 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Haredim , Media & Media Criticism
Der Yid, a Yiddish newspaper owned by hasidim associated with the Zalman faction of Satmar, crops a photograph removing President Obama's head. Originally published at 8:46 pm Tuesday September 27, 2011. The front page of the Friday, September 16, 2011...

September 27, 2011: Haredi Anti-Evolution, Anti-Gay Protesters
Comments: 59 | Categories: Haredim , Homophobia and its Discontents , Outreach , Torah & Science
Haredi anti-evolution and anti-gay protesters staged another offensive demonstration on Manhattan's Upper West Side today. JPAC, a small haredi organization that specializes in idiotic and offensive demonstrations staged another one today on Manhattan's Upper West Side, angering residents, drawing police...

September 27, 2011: Orthodox Women Now Spending Hundreds Of Dollars To Style Wigs
Comments: 50 | Categories: Haredim , MO & Chardal , Women & Judaism
Linda is whisked to a private, VIP room that has been graced by the likes of Al Pacino, the former queen of Jordan and assorted NYC elites. She’s a young, fashionable, Louboutin-loving mom from Forest Hills who gladly spends as...

September 27, 2011: Breslov Hasidim “Wreaked Havoc” At Ben Gurion Airport
Comments: 26 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
Israel Radio is reporting that Breslov hasidim on their way to Uman for Rosh Hashana wreaked havoc Ben Gurion airport. Breslov Hasidim “Wreaked Havoc” At Ben Gurion Airport According to the Jerusalem Post, Israel Radio is reporting that Breslov hasidim...

September 27, 2011: Kabbalist's Security Team "Roughs Up" ABC Correspondent And Camera Crew
Comments: 14 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Sefardim
Scandal-plagued rabbi-to-the-Stars Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto managed to slip past a camera crew and correspondent from the ABC News program — but his security guards weren't nearly as silky. Pinto's hired muscle allegedly roughed up "Nightline" correspondent Dan Harris and a...

September 27, 2011: The Grinch Who Is Trying To Steal Yom Kippur
Comments: 45 | Categories: Chabad , Turf Disputes
A powerful rabbi is acting like the Grinch who stole Yom Kippur -- slapping the congregation of Lubavitch World Headquarters with an eviction notice right before the high holy days. Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky, leader of the Chabad Lubavitch movement, served...

September 27, 2011: Scandal-Ridden Haredi Dominated School Board Hit With New Allegations
Comments: 10 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
An East Ramapo school district resident is petitioning the state Department of Education to halt the 2011-12 lease of Hillcrest Elementary School to Congregation Yeshiva Avir Yakov of New Square. The petition charges that East Ramapo's haredi-dominated school board rented...

September 27, 2011: Leaving Stove On Over Shabbat Or Yom Tov Dangerous, Experts Say
Comments: 14 | Categories: Chabad , Haredim , Med-Ethics, Public Health , MO & Chardal
Safety concerns over the practice of leaving a stove on have gained national attention. In 2005, a fire in Brooklyn that authorities blamed on a stove-top burner left on for Passover killed three boys and injured 10 other people, according...

September 27, 2011: Israel's FBI: Stop Funding West Bank Yeshiva Due To Terror Links
Comments: 5 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Chabad , Israel , MO & Chardal , Religion, Religion & State
Israel's Shin Bet security service is urging the Education Ministry to immediately halt funding to the Od Yosef Hai Yeshiva in the settlement of Yitzhar, near Nablus, saying it has received intelligence information that senior rabbis in the yeshiva are...

September 27, 2011: Emissary Of The Chabad Messiah
Comments: 14 | Categories: Chabad , Israel
Relying on the Lubavitcher Rebbe and his teachings in a speech that was ostensibly in favor of a Palestinian state is like relying on a racist who fervently supports slavery in a speech that is ostensibly in favor of abolition,...

September 26, 2011: Judaism Without God
Comments: 39 | Categories: Religion, Religion & State , Skepticism & Former Haredim
Shaul Magid, a professor of modern Judaism at Indiana University, said atheists may join synagogues because American Judaism lacks "a vibrant secular Jewish movement." "They go because they want some kind of ethnic identity," Magid said. "They don't care about...

September 26, 2011: A Haredi Leader Explains Why He Will Not Publicly Condemn Haredi Violence
Comments: 67 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Extreme Sniut , Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal , Turf Disputes
Rabbi Chaim Malinowitz is a rabbi in Beit Shemesh, a hotbed of haredi violence. He's also the general editor of Artscroll's Talmud series. Beit Shemesh has seen haredi thugs attack and beat Modern Orthodox teens, stone little Modern Orthodox boys,...

September 26, 2011: Should Chabad Be Allowed To Erect A Sukkah In A NYC Park?
Comments: 66 | Categories: Chabad
Nathan Lewin, a lawyer who has successfully represented Chabad in menorah cases, said government can accommodate religious displays but cannot appear to endorse them, an impression that might be created by a nativity scene stationed inside a government building with...

September 26, 2011: Extortion In Lakewood
Comments: 103 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
A haredi community activist is told by rabbis that he must drop out of politics and do nothing to benefit the Jewish community without their prior approval. If he won't agree, his daughters will not be accepted into Lakewood schools....

September 26, 2011: As Riots Break Out Between Jews And Palestinians, A Rabbi Calls For Collective Punishment
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Clashes between settlers and Palestinians broke out Sunday following a rally commemorating the deaths of Asher Palmer and his infant son Yehonatan in Kiryat Arba last Friday. Some 150 people held a protest rally in the scene of the terror...

September 25, 2011: West Bank Rabbi Calls For Collective Punishment
Comments: 30 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Israel , MO & Chardal , Terrorism
Dov Lior, Kiryat Arba's chief rabbi and a leader of the West Bank’s most radical Jewish settlers, called for collective punishment against “rioters” he blames for the deaths of Hillel Palmer and his one-year-old son Yonatan, who were killed Friday...

September 25, 2011: Report: More Than 2000 Pro-Modern Orthodox Demonstrate In Beit Shemesh
Comments: 27 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal
Thousands of Modern Orthodox demonstrate in Beit Shemesh, Israel support of the Orot Banot girls grade school and against haredi extremism. A Beit Shemesh reader writes: just came back from this "rest of beit shemesh showing the charedim we are...

September 25, 2011: Chabad Rabbi And Rabbinical Students Walk 15 Miles Every Shabbat
Comments: 45 | Categories: Chabad , Hessed
A Chabad rabbi and two rabbinical students walk 15 miles from Crown Heights to the Bronx each Shabbat morning to lead services in a tiny synagogue housed in a mosque. "We come to help the old Jewish people here," said...

September 25, 2011: Hasidic Alzheimer's Patient Paid More Than $1.2 Million In Txpayer Money By His Family's Nonprofit
Comments: 37 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Med-Ethics, Public Health
A wealthy hasidic real-estate family with a checkered past and a nonprofit medical center in Williamsburg has paid its patriarch more than $1.2 million in recent years with taxpayer cash -- though he’s an 89-year-old Alzheimer’s patient who needs round-the-clock...

September 25, 2011: Modern Orthodox To Rally In Beit Shemesh
Comments: 4 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal
"The time has come to join together and to say enough to the domination and violence of the [ultra-Orthodox] extremists Who Are Destroying Our City" Unity Gathering For The Sake Of Our City For The Sake Of Our Children For...

September 25, 2011: Hypocrisy?
Comments: 18 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Haredim , Web/Tech
Last week, haredi rabbis met in New York to discuss banning many forms of new technology – like smartphones – and the Internet. The following picture was allegedly taken at that meeting. Note the haredi rabbi appears to be videoing...

September 25, 2011: Haredi Businessman Freed From Bolivian Prison
Comments: 5 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
A judge ordered the release on bond Friday of a New York businessmen held in a Bolivian prison without charge for three months in a money laundering investigation. Jacob Ostreicher maintains he is the victim of judicial abuse and his...

September 25, 2011: "Official" Chabad Tries To Evict Messianists
Comments: 23 | Categories: Chabad , Turf Disputes
Chabad's "official" leadership again tries to evict the messianists who control the main Chabad synagogue at Chabad's World Headquarters, 770 Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn, New York. But there's one important fact to know about this looming court case you probably...

September 25, 2011: The Truth Haredi Modesty Police Do Not Know
Comments: 27 | Categories: Chabad , Extreme Sniut , Haredim , Israel , Women & Judaism
The pretext for the haredi attacks on Modern Orthodox little girls and their grade school in Beit Shemesh, Israel is that the girls – aged 5 through 11 – is that they are "immodestly" dressed. How so? According to haredim,...

September 24, 2011: Beit Shemesh Resembles A "War Zone"
Comments: 17 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Extreme Sniut , Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal , Women & Judaism
Herzog Boulevard, the road that runs between the ultra- Orthodox neighborhood of Ramat Beit Shemesh Bet and the older Kiryat Aryeh Sheinfeld community, resembles a war zone. On one side of the tree-lined street black-hatted men and turban-clad woman stand...

September 24, 2011: Baltimore Man Assaults Store Employees, Customer, Off Duty Cop In Fight Over Chair
Comments: 29 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
Stanley Jacob Drebin faces charges of first-degree assault, second-degree assault and reckless endangerment, and has been released on $50,000 bail. Baltimore Man Arrested After Argument at Staples Angry about a chair, a man tried to attack the store manager and...

September 23, 2011: Weinstein Bail Revocation Hearing Rescheduled
Comments: 14 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
Prosecutors allege that in one recent fraud committed while on bail, Weinstein tricked a past victim of his -- a Staten Island-based accountant referred to in government papers as “M.R.” -- into wiring him $101,700 in February. Weinstein allegedy fooled...

September 23, 2011: Haredi Women Demand To Join Hatzalah
Comments: 20 | Categories: Haredim , Med-Ethics, Public Health
Concerned about the modesty of women in labor, a group of Orthodox Jewish women is pushing to join Hatzalah, a citywide volunteer ambulance service. The women, who live in the heavily Orthodox Jewish community in the Borough Park and Williamsburg...

September 23, 2011: Haredim Vandalize Bookstore, Owners To Sue Police
Comments: 40 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Books , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel
"We believe the police are not doing enough about this," says one of the store workers. "After the incident a patrol car arrived, but didn't even wait for me to come. They left the security guard a form to fill...

September 23, 2011: Flaum Appetizing Tries To Cheat Workers – Again
Comments: 16 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Flaum Appetizing, the hasidic-owned Brooklyn-based kosher food manufacturer and distributor that distributes Tnuva products in the US, has long history of cheating its immigrant workforce. Now workers allege that a Flaum attorney tricked them into signing a document voiding claims...

September 23, 2011: Exclusive: Chabad's Coverup Of Child Sex Abuse
Comments: 25 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Chabad has been engaged in a coverup of child sexual abuse at its Melbourne, Australia flagship institution since the 1980s, if not earlier. For the first time, here is proof of a small amount of that coverup. The following email...

September 23, 2011: Dead Sea Gets Gender Segregated Beach
Comments: 12 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
"These are Orthodox Jews, some of whom come from abroad, for medical purposes as well. To this day they have no place to enter the water. The tourists, like yeshiva students, had to go and look for unofficial beaches, and...

September 23, 2011: The Next Greatest Threat To Israel's Security
Comments: 39 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
It's not sustainable. Israelis know about it, and sometimes talk about it, but Israel's government does nothing. It's just too hard – especially as the political power of the ultra-religious is growing. It's almost impossible to form a government in...

September 22, 2011: Rabbi Gets Probation In Dwek Money Laundering Scandal
Comments: 8 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Sefardim
"Traditionally, you have the motivation of greed or financial gain. But Rabbi Nahum never sought or received any personal benefit. He never was involved in any cash transactions or international transaction. They tried to give him a $1,000 check and...

September 22, 2011: "The Rubashkin Travesty: What You Can Do"
Comments: 62 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
On Friday, September 16, the Eight Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a draconian sentence on Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin, a sentence which is essentially a life sentence for him and his wife and 10 children. We now have a unique opportunity...

September 22, 2011: Israeli Jews Vaccinate Their Children Less Than Israeli Arabs Vaccinate Theirs
Comments: 10 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Med-Ethics, Public Health
Health officials explained the disparity between Jews and Arabs as resulting from low vaccination rates among specific segments of the Jewish population, particularly the ultra-Orthodox and communities that embrace a natural, vegetarian lifestyle. Israeli Jews vaccinate their children at a...

September 22, 2011: Video: Hasid Sues Over Cost Of Bridge Tolls
Comments: 46 | Categories: Haredim , Poverty & Homelessness
Yoel Weisshaus claims the new increase in tolls on bridges connecting New York and New Jersey is an abuse of power and discriminates against him because he is poor. The price of cash tolls on the George Washington Bridge, Holland...

September 22, 2011: Satmar Yeshivas Subpoenaed
Comments: 20 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
Investigators scrutinizing former Correction Department chaplain Leib Glanz have subpoenaed records from the giant United Talmudical Academy, Glanz’s landlord during a 15-year period where he’s accused of stealing more than $200,000 in federal rent subsidies. Rabbi Leib Glanz Probe hits...

September 22, 2011: A Grievous Injustice
Comments: 108 |
The State of Georgia is about to execute a man convicted on the basis of eyewitness testimony that has, almost in its entirety, been retracted. There was no physical evidence against him. A former US president, a former FBI Director,...

September 22, 2011: Israel's United Hatzalah To Open On Shabbat
Comments: 5 | Categories: Haredim , Hessed , Israel
The organization's managers turned to the rabbis guiding them and asked for the help in dealing with the halachic challenge hidden in this move. The rabbis responded that the emergency center could be operated by a non-Jewish worker on Shabbat...

September 22, 2011: "God Is Turning Over In His Grave"
Comments: 43 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Skepticism & Former Haredim
"If God did not die in Auschwitz, as Yoram Kaniuk wrote in "1948," he favors the rich.…Ever since my father took off his yeshiva student's black hat, we have honored his tradition that 'since Auschwitz, on principle we don't eat...

September 21, 2011: Anti-Evolution Haredim On 76th And Broadway
Comments: 42 | Categories: Haredim , Torah & Science
"As I was walking by west 76 st and Broadway on the upper west side of manhattan, I noticed this wacky site. Black hatted guys standing around discussing evolution with non jews telling them how its a fraud. On top...

September 21, 2011: Eliyahu Weinstein Violated Bail Conditions, Government Says
Comments: 30 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
The US Attorney’s office asks judge to revoke alleged $200 million Ponzi schemer’s bail. Eliyahu Weinstein Eliyahu Weinstein Violated Bail Conditions, Government Says US Attorney’s office asks judge to revoke alleged $200 million Ponzi schemer’s bail Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com...

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