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October 23, 2011: Measles Outbreak In Brooklyn Haredi Community
Comments: 60 | Categories: Haredim , Med-Ethics, Public Health
A haredi community in Brooklyn is experiencing a measles outbreak, which will probably spread because of the the close proximity of people during the holidays. Outbreak generally happen when parents do not have their children vaccinated. This is a real...

October 22, 2011: NYC Will Close Gender Segregated Hasidic Bus Line
Comments: 44 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Women & Judaism
New York City authorities said they will shut down a city bus service run by hasidic Jews if the group doesn't stop making women sit at the back of the bus. NY may close bus service that makes women sit...

October 22, 2011: Israeli Society Racist, Zionist Orthodox Rabbi Says
Comments: 16 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Ethiopian Jews , Israel , MO & Chardal
Rabbi Amiel Keinan says 'great honor' to teach children from the now-closed, predominantly Ethiopian school Ner Etzion; Keinan enrolled his own son in Ner Etzion as the only white student, because 'it's an excellent school and we're against racism.' Rabbi...

October 22, 2011: Haredim Throw Concrete Blocks At Police
Comments: 41 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel
Haredim in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Mea Shearim hurled concrete blocks from their balconies at police officers on Saturday. Several officers were lightly wounded and treated on the spot. Earlier on Saturday, police arrested one man on suspicion of disorderly...

October 19, 2011: Blog Schedule
Comments: 27 |
Tonight at sundown is the beginning of the holiday of Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah, which continues through Friday at sundown, at which time Shabbat begins. That's a long way of saying that there won't be any new posts until...

October 19, 2011: The Jewish Community Should Be Ashamed – But It Isn't
Comments: 15 | Categories: Hessed , Poverty & Homelessness
The holiday of Sukkot is both a harvest festival and a commemoration of the time the ancient Hebrews spent in the desert after fleeing Egypt. The sukkah symbolizes the protection God gave them during their 40 years of wandering. It...

October 19, 2011: Rubashkin Robo Calls Violate Law
Comments: 59 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
"We have been receiving phone calls nightly between 10:00-10:30pm from 718-640-1870. It is an automated call to sign the [Sholom] Rubaskin [White House] petition. Not only are they waking me up, but my husband is going through chemotherapy…and they are...

October 19, 2011: Hasidim Protest At Community College
Comments: 65 | Categories: Haredim , Homophobia and its Discontents
Hasidim protested same sex marriage, promiscuity and high taxes at the Borough of Manhattan Community College. Hasidim protested same sex marriage, promiscuity and high taxes at the Borough of Manhattan Community College earlier this week. Stealtheworld writes on Tumblr: Hasidic...

October 19, 2011: Women Flock To Special Torah Evenings – Some Rabbis Object
Comments: 13 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal , Women & Judaism
In a synagogue one evening a few weeks ago, dozens of women burst into laughter when Noam Zigedon joked about getting one's husband to change a lightbulb: "So it takes him a month or two - a year or two....

October 19, 2011: In Brooklyn, An Illegally Gender Segregated City Bus
Comments: 51 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Women & Judaism
Hasidim have turned a public bus line into a gender-segregated bus line, despite New York City regulations (and court decisions) that make this illegal. And the city is doing nothing to stop it. The B-110 bus. Sasha Chavkin/The New York...

October 18, 2011: The Founders Of Pop Kabbalah (Part 2)
Comments: 15 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Religion, Religion & State
After complaining that Karen had too much power, "we were presented with an ultimatum -- to have us agree that Karen Berg possessed Ru'ah HaKodesh -- Holy Spirit (total obedience to every decision of hers) or that we could no...

October 18, 2011: Haredi Zealots Attack Bookstore – Again
Comments: 17 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
The store is haredi-owned and stocks only religious books, but they include volumes published by Orthodox institutions that are Zionist -- anathema to the Sikrikim, who believe a Jewish state can be established only with the coming of the Messiah....

October 18, 2011: Another Arrest In The Chabad Child Sex Abuse Scandal
Comments: 57 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Another alleged pedophile at Chabad's Yeshiva College has been arrested. The charges relate to molestations that allegedly took place during the past five years. Aron Ezriel "Ezzy" Kestecher top and above left in Chabad Youth T-shirt and tzitzit Another alleged...

October 18, 2011: Jerusalem City Council Member Stripped Of Portfolios For Opposing Haredi Gender Segregation
Comments: 17 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Women & Judaism
Jerusalem City Council Member Rachel Azaria quickly paid a high price for standing up for what she believes in. Earlier today, Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat stripped her of her portfolios on the city council that concern community councils and early...

October 17, 2011: Reform Movement Demands Western Wall Gender Segregation Be Ended
Comments: 31 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Women & Judaism
The Reform Movement in Israel is demanding that forced gender segregation at the Western Wall plaza and on buses departing from its main entrance be immediately ended. Above: The prayer areas abutting the Western Wall The main entrance to the...

October 17, 2011: Rabbi: IDF Soldiers Should Shoot Terrorists "In Their Beds"
Comments: 52 | Categories: Ethics , Israel , MO & Chardal , Religion, Religion & State , Terrorism
The Israel Defense Forces' former chief Rabbi criticized a prisoner swap deal that is due to set abducted IDF soldier Gilad Shalit free, saying on Monday that Israeli soldiers should from now on "kill terrorists in their beds." "When you...

October 17, 2011: Photos: Ivanka Trump On Sukkot
Comments: 49 | Categories: MO & Chardal , Religion, Religion & State , Sightings
Ivanka Trump, who converted to Orthodox Judaism before she married Jared Kushner, walks with her husband, baby and a lulav in Manhattan on the second day of Sukkot.

October 17, 2011: The Founders Of Pop Kabbalah
Comments: 11 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
He is a former haredi yeshiva student and insurance salesman who used ghost writers to make his books appeal to a mass non-Jewish audience. She is his former secretary. They married after having an affair and built a multi-million dollar...

October 17, 2011: Hasidim Dance For Shalit's Release
Comments: 17 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
"Thousands" of Miskolc hasidim dance for kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit's release, scheduled for Tuesday, claiming their rebbe's prayers facilitated the deal. The Miskolc rebbe Thousands of Hasidim dance for Shalit Miskolc Rebbe's followers dedicate Water Drawing Festival to kidnapped...

October 17, 2011: Haredi "Taliban" Woman In Monsey
Comments: 49 | Categories: Haredim , Women & Judaism
A haredi "Taliban" or burka cult woman in Monsey, New York. Women like this are part of a small group of ultra-Orthodox women who believe their faces and bodies – even if clothed in a normal long sleeved dress that...

October 16, 2011: A Letter To An Agudath Israel Of America "Gadol"
Comments: 60 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
"As an adult survivor of severe and unrelenting childhood sexual abuse, I have followed your halachic decisions and media pronouncements regarding this issue with great concern. I am a Litvak, yeshiva-trained, from Monsey, New York. For many years I taught...

October 16, 2011: Right Wing Rabbis Issue "Halakhic Manifesto" Against Shalit Deal
Comments: 42 | Categories: Halakha , Israel , MO & Chardal , Terrorism
Two notoriously extreme and racist Orthodox Zionist rabbis, Dov Lior and Shmuel Eliyahu, came out against the deal to ransom kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. Rabbis Dov Lior, left, and Shmuel Eliyahu, right Rabbis share 'halachic manifesto' against Shalit deal...

October 16, 2011: High Court Again Rules Against Mea Shearim Gender Segregation
Comments: 5 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Women & Judaism
"I call on the court to intervene immediately in what is happening in the haredi neighborhoods and ensure that women feel comfortable walking anywhere in the State of Israel. If Rosa Parks succeeded in racist US of the 1950s, we...

October 16, 2011: Does Judaism Really Want Women To Step Aside For Men?
Comments: 34 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Women & Judaism
The Talmud (Horiyot 13b) indicates that the reason a man should not walk between two women has to do with the superstition that it may impair the man’s ability to remember the Torah he learned. Many haredi men are particular...

October 16, 2011: Yoel Weisshaus Versus The Port Authority
Comments: 15 | Categories: Haredim
He is a 30-year-old college student who gets by on loans and freelance jobs as a legal assistant and public notary. He does not have a bank account. He does not have a credit card. When he says he lives...

October 15, 2011: Haredi Rabbis, Including Israel's Chief Rabbis, Refuse To Allow Down Syndrome Adults To Marry
Comments: 22 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Med-Ethics, Public Health
The Chief Rabbinate and haredi rabbis refuse to perform weddings of Down syndrome adults because they consider Down Syndrome people to be shotehs, fools or idiots. Down Syndrome adults in Jerusalem with two volunteers from Yated, a voluntary association for...

October 15, 2011: Kiryas Joel Leader Fails To Show Up For Arraignment
Comments: 6 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
Moishy Deutsch apparently did not show up for his arraignment, which was scheduled for last week. I'm told Moishy Deutsch, a leader in Kiryas Joel, the Satmar hasidic village in New York, did not show up for his arraignment last...

October 15, 2011: Lawsuits Pile Up Against Haredi Rabbi Accused Of Real Estate Fraud
Comments: 12 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
A web of lawsuits have been woven around an allegedly crooked rabbi accused of forging paperwork to steal a whole building. According to court records and knowledgeable sources, Rabbi Benjamin Herbst and cohorts have been the focus of a number...

October 15, 2011: Prosecution Wants To Introduce Rabbi's Prior Crimes At Murder Trial
Comments: 13 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
Prosecutors want to use Victor Koltun's federal criminal record to discredit him if the rabbi testifies at his upcoming murder trial. Koltun, 42, of Brooklyn, and co-defendants Frank Lewis, 57, of Brooklyn, and Craig Fennell, 52, of Manhattan, face first-...

October 15, 2011: Bishop Indicted For Failure To Report Child Sex Abuse
Comments: 4 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
A Kansas City Roman Catholic bishop was indicted for failing to report child sex abuse – a charge that could apply to leading haredi rabbis and to some of their followers. Agudath Israel of America is lucky it has few...

October 12, 2011: Blog Schedule
Comments: 11 |
Tonight is the beginning of the holiday of Sukkot. It starts at sundown and the continues through Friday at sundown, at which point Shabbat and the intermediate festival days begin. That's a long way of saying there won't be any...

October 12, 2011: Jewish Heroes?
Comments: 32 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Jewish Leadership , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
The Federations' Jewish Hero Awards quietly disqualified a left wing nominee from Jewish Voice for Peace. But its top vote getter so far is Leah Rubashkin, convicted felon Sholom Rubashkin's wife and the sister-in-law and aunt of convicted felons Moshe...

October 12, 2011: Several Haredim, Bible Codes Expert, Others Indicted For Immigration Fraud
Comments: 22 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , MO & Chardal
Earl Seth David, better known in the Jewish community as Rabbi Avraham David, is accused of running a scheme in which his Manhattan law practice submitted at least 25,000 immigration applications over nearly 15 years, based mainly on fake claims...

October 12, 2011: Real Estate Investor Gets 7 Years For Wire Fraud
Comments: 16 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Sefardim
Ezri Namvar, a real estate investor who was formerly a pillar of the Los Angeles Iranian Jewish community, was sentenced yesterday to seven years in federal prison for wire fraud. Ezri Namvar Real Estate Investor Gets 7 Years For Wire...

October 12, 2011: Rubashkin Files Petition For Appeal
Comments: 25 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Sholom Rubashkin has filed a a petition for enbanc rehearing and also for rehearing by panel, which means he wants all the judges of the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals to sit together enbanc and review his appeal. Originally published...

October 11, 2011: Video: Confronting Child Sex Abuse
Comments: 3 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Video of a seminar on child sex abuse that was given for the Melbourne Jewish community in the wake of the Chabad child sex abuse scandals. It features Dr. Danny Lamm, Sergeant Scott Wells of the Victoria Police Sexual Offences...

October 11, 2011: Haredim Should Study Science, Renegade Haredi Rabbi Says
Comments: 24 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Sefardim , Torah & Science
Generations upon generations proved that we can have it both ways. The greatest rabbis in history mastered the sciences as well and made a great impression on the world. There is no shortage of examples: Rabbi Levi Ben Gershon (Gersonides),...

October 11, 2011: Report: Israel And Hamas Reach Prisoner Exchange Deal For Gilad Shalit
Comments: 35 | Categories: Israel
Al-Arabiya is reporting that Israel and Hamas have reached a prisoner exchange deal that would free Gilad Shalit, the young Israeli soldier who was kidnapped and has been held hostage for more than 5 years. Gilad Shalit Ha'aretz says PM...

October 11, 2011: Haredi Fringe Group Claims Molestation Of Boys Has "Surged" Since Same Sex Marriage Bill Passed In NY
Comments: 49 | Categories: Haredim , Homophobia and its Discontents
JPAC wants men's mikvas to put up its anti-gay signs "The Jewish Political Action Committee is now organizing an awareness program to stop Gay molesters from attacking children and teens. Since the gay marriage bill in New York was introduced,there...

October 11, 2011: Hasidic Rebbe Calls President Obama "Black Dog" And "Arab"
Comments: 73 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Haredim , Israel
The rebbe also called Israel's president, Shimon Peres, "evil" and said the world will end soon with the wars of Gog U'Magog, and those wars will be an instantaneous worldwide nuclear holocaust. The Shomrei Emunim rebbe Note: the Jewish new...

October 11, 2011: Ashkenazi Haredi School Refuses To Admit Sefardi Students
Comments: 6 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Sefardim
Kol Hai Radio on Sunday aired a recording of a principal of a haredi high school for girls in Beitar Illit, complaining about the number of Sephardic students he already has and refusing to admit any more. Seminary refuses to...

October 11, 2011: Mea Shearim Haredim Ban Women From Public Streets
Comments: 20 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Women & Judaism
The ultra-Orthodox community in Mea She'arim is planning to impose gender segregation in the Jerusalem neighborhood's streets on Sukkot, despite a High Court order forbidding it. Women's rights and other watchdog groups intend to fight against the segregation, which excludes...

October 11, 2011: City Workers Remove Sexist Yiddish Signs
Comments: 38 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Media & Media Criticism
City workers have removed signs warning women in a Hasidic neighborhood in Brooklyn to step aside for men. The signs were first reported on FailedMessiah.com. City workers remove Yiddish signs directing women to move aside for men in Hasid neighborhood...

October 10, 2011: Should A Powerful Congressman Fire His Senior Advisor Because The Advisor Is In Cherem For Refusing To Give A Get?
Comments: 56 | Categories: Haredim , MO & Chardal , Women & Judaism
Aharon Friedman is refusing to give his ex-wife Tamar Epstein a Jewish divorce called a get. Without a get a religious Jewish woman cannot remarry and is known as an agunah, a chained woman. This is despite the fact that...

October 10, 2011: Kosher Meat Still Inhumanely Slaughtered, Forward Says
Comments: 33 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Extremely cruel methods of slaughter, including one banned in the US, are used in OU supervised slaughterhouses in South and Central America and imported to the US. At the same time, Agri Star is still using its infamous inverted pen...

October 10, 2011: Between Mudslinging And Exposing Cover-Ups
Comments: 53 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
In Brooklyn, Yehuda Kolko was arrested yet again recently for harassing one of his young victims. He continues to be welcomed in the Flatbush shul of Rabbi Weinfeld, where until last year he was honored by being the Baal Tkiah,...

October 10, 2011: Recalcitrant Husband Ordered To Pay $183,000 Fine
Comments: 0 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Women & Judaism
Family Court rules divorce recalcitrant must pay high compensatory damages to wife with whom he has not cohabited since 2002. 'Refusing to grant a get violates the values protected by Israel’s Basic Law: Human Dignity and Freedom,' says judge. Recalcitrant...

October 10, 2011: Haredi Fringe Group Works Borough Park
Comments: 63 | Categories: Haredim , Homophobia and its Discontents , Torah & Science
The haredi fringe group JPAC puts its signs in sukkas in Borough Park. The JPAC people have created at least one unwelcoming sukka in Borough Park. Note the sign that says homosexuality is worse than murder. That moronic statement is...

October 9, 2011: Israeli Chabadniks Behaving Badly
Comments: 33 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc.
A yeshiva student walking home late at night was attacked from behind, a towel wrapped around his head so that he could not see his attackers, kicked and punched to the moment he felt that he was surely going to...

October 9, 2011: Haredi 2-Year-Old Found Walking Alone At 3 AM
Comments: 33 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Hessed
Borough Park Shomrim patrolling the streets of Borough Park were shocked when they came across a 2-year-old boy walking alone early Sunday morning just before 3:00 a.m. Miracle In BP: Shomrim Find 2-Year-Old Child Wandering Streets On Motzei Yom Kippur...

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