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143 posts from April 2012

April 22, 2012: Ethiopian Jews Say Jerusalem Government Discriminates Against Them
Comments: 12 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Ethiopian Jews , Israel
The tent camp activists say the municipality's demand to evict them contradicts its treatment of other movements that have protested there. They note that on this stretch of sidewalk, at the corner of Gaza Road and Balfour Street, the Shalit-family...

April 22, 2012: Haredi Rabbis Conspire With Unethical Psychiatrists To Drug Non-Compliant Followers
Comments: 54 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Med-Ethics, Public Health , Skepticism , Women & Judaism
The Gur hasid trembled as he spoke about a family gathering. One daughter in the extended family, a married woman with children, attended after a long period in which she had remained secluded in her home. "We were shocked," the...

April 20, 2012: Mohel Cuts Off 1/3 Of Baby's Penis In Horrible Brit Milah Accident
Comments: 77 | Categories: Circumcision , Israel
A circumcision in Northern Israel was botched by a mohel who cut off 1/3 of the baby's penis by mistake. The Algemeiner reports: A circumcision in Northern Israel went horribly wrong recently, when the mohel responsible for the procedure accidentally...

April 20, 2012: Shame
Comments: 14 | Categories: Hessed , Israel , Poverty & Homelessness
10,000 destitute survivors have discovered that the $400 quarterly stipend they receive from the Company for Location and Restitution of Holocaust Victims' Assets has been cut down to $320. The destitute survivors were not informed of the cut. Instead, they...

April 20, 2012: Conservative Movement In Israel Approves Gay Rabbis
Comments: 55 | Categories: Homophobia and its Discontents , Israel
Israel's Masorti Movement has decided to approve the ordination of homosexual rabbis. The Schechter Rabbinical Seminary, affiliated with the movement, will admit gay and lesbian students for training as spiritual leaders this fall. Israeli Conservative Movement approves ordination of gay...

April 20, 2012: Deport African Refugees, Haredi Interior Minister Says
Comments: 25 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal , Refugees , Sefardim
The government aims to deport tens of thousands of foreigners who crossed into Israel illegally, Interior Minister Eli Yishai declared at a conference organized by right-wing groups earlier this week. Israel's Interior Minister and leader of the Sefardi haredi Shas...

April 20, 2012: Sefardim Not As Smart As Ashkenazim, Zionist Orthodox Rabbi Says
Comments: 27 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Israel , MO & Chardal , Sefardim
A high profile Zionist Orthodox rabbi says Jews from North Africa and the Middle East are "purer" than European Jews but are no match for them intellectually. Religious Zionist rabbi: Moroccan Jews 'can't match Ashkenazi knowledge' Rabbi is father-in-law of...

April 19, 2012: New Square Women Asked To Increase Modesty In The Merit Of Arsonist Shaul Spitzer
Comments: 61 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
Signs reading, "In the merit of Shaul Yehezkiel son of Sarah Maryam [Spitzer], [Women] Please Do Not Walk On Taft Lane Wearing Long Dusters [a form of a housecoat, I think]" were posted in New Square. Earlier this week, Spitzer...

April 19, 2012: Why Metzitzah B'Peh Should Be Banned, Part 3
Comments: 37 | Categories: Circumcision , Haredim , History , Med-Ethics, Public Health
"…Even if it was explicit in the Talmud [and it is not] that the suction is meant to be oral, nevertheless since this is not an integral part of the circumcision, but only adjoined because of a health measure, so...

April 19, 2012: Attempted Child Kidnapping In Brooklyn
Comments: 29 | Categories: Child Safety , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
A 7 year old Jewish girl playing outside in Kensington, Brooklyn was confronted by a middle aged man who grabbed her by the hand and asked her to get into a double parked car, the father of the girl confirmed....

April 19, 2012: A Question Of Circumcision And Public Health
Comments: 70 | Categories: Circumcision , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Med-Ethics, Public Health
Babies have died from Herpes transmitted to them from metzitzah b'peh (MBP), the direct oral-to-genital sucking of babies' bleeding circumcision wounds done by haredi mohels. Other babies have been sickened and brain damaged. And all who survive carry the Herpes...

April 18, 2012: Agriprocessors Fugitive Appeals Extradition To High Court
Comments: 10 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
Hosam Amara, an Israel-born Arab who served as a senior manager at Agriprocessors kosher slaughterhouse in Postville, Iowa, fled to Israel with the help of Agriprocessors VP Sholom Rubashkin in 2008. Amara has now appealed his extradition to Iowa to...

April 18, 2012: Bais Yaakov Issues Abuse Reporting Protocol
Comments: 15 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Baltimore's Bais Yaakov schools issued a new protocol on sexual, emotional and physical abuse that mandates reporting and compliance with Maryland law. This was issued on March 30, 2012: Download Bais_yaakov_school_conduct_policy

April 18, 2012: Deadbeat Hasidic Slumlords Cited For More Violations
Comments: 6 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Media & Media Criticism
The husband of Hamodia's US publisher and his brother are cited for more property violations after a fire in one of their derelict buildings killed 2 firefighters earlier this week. They also owe hundreds of thousands of dollars in back...

April 18, 2012: Can't A Hasidic Whore Change Her Ways?
Comments: 64 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
A BROOKLYN man spent nearly a year behind bars on charges he raped an Orthodox Jewish woman — even though she recanted her accusation a day after making it. The woman told detectives she was a hooker for five years...

April 18, 2012: Haredi Soldiers Cost Too Much To Draft
Comments: 28 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Media & Media Criticism
All of the special benefits given to the few haredi soldiers who enlist in the Israel Defense Forces or who are drafted, but which are not given to any other soldiers, cost so much money per soldier over and above...

April 18, 2012: Something Has To Give
Comments: 9 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
"Another problem is poverty in Israel, which is very serious. The prevalence of poverty in the non-Arab and non-haredi (ultra-orthodox) population is stable, but poverty among Arabs and haredim is rising. Dealing with this is one of most important challenges...

April 18, 2012: Hamodia Publisher Married To Slumlord
Comments: 18 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
Hamodia bills itself as the haredi world's daily paper. Its publisher, Ruth Lichtenstein, is the wife of one of the Gur hasid owners of a neglected warehouse that burned Monday, killing two Philadelphia firefighters – the first firefighter deaths in...

April 17, 2012: Haiti's Great White (Jewish, Kosher) Hope
Comments: 29 | Categories: Food and Drink , Kosher Scandal
Manischewitz Wine Company (not a part of the Manischewitz company that makes matzoh and other kosher foods), now a part of Constellation Brands but still OU Kosher supervised, expands its syrupy sweet wine sales beyond the occasional octogenarian synagogue kiddush...

April 17, 2012: Parents Of Victims Lash Out At Molester During Sentencing
Comments: 45 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Yeshiva student Hillel Selznick admitted to Queens Supreme Court Justice Richard Buchter that he inappropriately touched two fourth graders over the course of a year during private religious lessons inside their Kew Garden Hills homes. Hillel Selznick Parents of young...

April 17, 2012: Spitzer Gets 7 Years
Comments: 88 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
New Square arsonist Shaul Spitzer, who almost murdered Aron Rottenberg and Rottenberg's family in May 2011, was sentenced this morning to 7 years in state prison and 5 years of post-sentence supervised release. He was immediately taken into custody. Shaul...

April 17, 2012: Leading Hasidic Proponent Of Metzitzah B'Peh Has Herpes, Infected Children
Comments: 127 | Categories: Circumcision , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Med-Ethics, Public Health
In response to the AIDS crisis, Rabbi Yonoson Binyomin Goldberger, a Bobov hasid and mohel living in Borough Park, Brooklyn, wrote a book in the late 1980s defending metzitzah b'peh (MBP), the direct oral-to-genital sucking done by the mohel to...

April 17, 2012: New Square Arsonist Sentencing Today
Comments: 17 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
Shaul Spitzer tried to burn down Aron Rottenberg's house at 4:15 am last May while Rottenberg's famiy slept inside. Rottenberg confronted Spitzer, fought with him and was seriously burned over more than half his body when Spitzer's firebomb ignited him....

April 17, 2012: Parlimentary Investigation Into Child Sex Abuse In Religious Institutions Launched
Comments: 16 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes , Religion, Religion & State
Scandals in Chabad and in the Catholic Church have pushed the Victorian (Melbourne, Australia) Parliament to launch a one year inquiry into child sex abuse coverups in religious institutions in the provence. Chabad's Yeshiva Centre, Melbourne, Australia Waks welcomes religious...

April 16, 2012: More Trouble For Oorah And Kars-4-Kids?
Comments: 67 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Outreach
At first blush, Jefferson Township's attempt to block tax free status for Oorah's kids camp seems unjust and doomed to failure. But that may only be at first blush. A deeper look may favor Jefferson Township's claim that Oorah is...

April 16, 2012: Nurse Fired For Reporting Abuse Can Sue School, Court Says
Comments: 57 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , MO & Chardal , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
A nurse working at the RAMAZ Modern Orthodox day school in Manhattan treated a boy with a "prominent injury" on his cheek he said was inflicted by his father. Joyce Villarin communicated with the father who admitted causing the injury...

April 16, 2012: End Run Around Justice
Comments: 15 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Israel , Jewish Leadership
The Likud-led coalition wants to pass a law that will allow the Knesset to pass laws already ruled unconstitutional by the High Court. Basic Law: Right-wing Legislation Coalition proposes a law, which will make it possible to pass a law...

April 16, 2012: Chabad's Own Eucharist
Comments: 113 | Categories: Chabad , Chabad & Christianity
Jews should eat the matzoh and drink the wine of Moshiach's Seudah (the closing meal of the Passover holiday allegedly initiated by the Ba'al Shem Tov but for the most part only kept by Chabad) with perfect faith that he...

April 15, 2012: Baba Sali's Grandson Up On Tax Charges – Again
Comments: 15 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Sefardim
The government claims that Rabbi Yekutiel Abuhatzeira, a descendent of a distinguished rabbinic dynasty and a son of the Baba Sali, owes NIS 9.5 million in back taxes. Rabbi Yekutiel Abuhatzeira Taxman: Baba Sali's son owes millions By Moti Bassok...

April 15, 2012: More Racism From West Bank Settler's Leading Rabbi
Comments: 39 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Israel , MO & Chardal
"The entry of immigrants from African states is a sophisticated move to get terrorists into Israel under the guise of family reunification and all sorts of these types of pronouncements. These are things which could hurt the security of the...

April 15, 2012: Fleeing To Freedom: Escaping Haredi Arranged Marriages
Comments: 165 | Categories: Haredim , Skepticism & Former Haredim , Women & Judaism
When I was 19, my family arranged for me to marry a man who turned out to be violent. With no education and no job, and a family that refused to help me, I was stuck. By age 20, I...

April 15, 2012: Passover Food Reviews
Comments: 26 | Categories: Food , Kosher Scandal
Matzoh and macaroons ranked and reviewed. Machine Matzoh I sampled three different matzoh brands this year. Manischewitz (US): Thicker and slightly smaller than other matzohs (and therefore a kashrut issue), Manischewitz tasted like cardboard and paste. The worst tasting matzoh...

April 15, 2012: Updated: Haredi Rabbi Lies About The Holocaust – Again
Comments: 132 | Categories: Haredim , History
"According to some experts, between 50%-70% of those murdered by the Nazis, were "traditionally religious Jews." There is no reason to assume the percentage of survivors who were religious was any less." Rabbi Meir Wikler Yad Vashem only honors Holocaust's...

April 14, 2012: More Non-Jewish Couples Have Jewish-Style Weddings
Comments: 15 | Categories: Religion, Religion & State
More non-Jewish couples have embraced Jewish marriage rituals over the last decade. Some stomp a glass, or a light bulb as a popular substitute. Others recite vows under a canopy called a chuppah. Ketubah, Jewish wedding contract Non-Jewish couples embrace...

April 14, 2012: The Big Business Of Haredi Weddings
Comments: 15 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
According to the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) there are 135,000 households that identify as haredi, and with an average of six members in each haredi family, roughly one million people are self-identified haredim. This means that nearly every haredi...

April 12, 2012: Deadbeat Haredi Landlords' Negligence Kills 2 Firefighters
Comments: 33 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
Michael, Yechiel and Nahman Lichtenstein, are New York brothers who habitually collect and neglect real-estate properties in Philadelphia, including the enormous Thomas W. Buck Hosiery building, destroyed in a blaze Monday that took the lives of two firefighters. Brooklyn brothers...

April 12, 2012: NY State Finally Clarifies Law On Rabbis Reporting Child Sex Abuse
Comments: 25 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , PARODY & SATIRE
Haredi rabbis who teach in yeshivas can no longer falsely claim they are exempt from reporting child sex abuse to police or ACS. The state has clarified the law, and all teachers – even rabbis – guidance counselors, social workers,...

April 12, 2012: Woman Forced From Circus Stage By Haredi Complaint
Comments: 27 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Women & Judaism
A female audience member who was invited to participate in a circus performance held in a largely secular town was forced to leave the stage after a haredi woman in the audience complained. Female volunteer removed from circus stage after...

April 12, 2012: The Haredi Media Mafia
Comments: 15 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Media & Media Criticism
How did all this happen without anyone in the system, which is full of young, inquisitive people, blowing the cover? And why didn't any of these people, who allegedly knew what was going on, say anything? Moreover, what leads esteemed...

April 11, 2012: Haredim, City Illegally Gender Segregate Zoo And Ban "Immodestly" Dressed Israelis From Entry
Comments: 106 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Women & Judaism
Israelis trying to visit the Beersheba Zoo today found the gates closed to all non-haredim unless they passed a modest clothing test, and all zoo activities were gender segregated – despite the fact that this violates the law. "Today the...

April 11, 2012: Is The New American Haggadah Worth Buying?
Comments: 17 | Categories: Books
Is Jonathan Safran Foer's years-in-the-making project featuring a translation by Nathan Englander and commentary by modern writers like Jeffrey Goldberg, Rebbeca Goldstein and Lemmony Snicket worth the money? And if it not, why not? The New American Haggadah Little, Brown...

April 11, 2012: An Alleged Coverup Of Child Sex Abuse And Physical Abuse At Chabad's Flagship Crown Heights Yeshiva
Comments: 42 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Oholei Torah in Crown Heights, founded and run at the direction of the late Chabad-Lubavitch rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, and known as the "Rebbe's school," does not teach its students legally mandated secular subjects. It also allegedly covered up child...

April 11, 2012: New York Times, NPR Blow Matzo Story
Comments: 17 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Media & Media Criticism
The Times and NPR think the barrier to entry in the matzoh baking business is set high through legal means, and they 'prove' this by omitting all facts that prove them wrong. Adam Davidson NPR Matzo 4-2012 Why Matzo Makers...

April 11, 2012: Haredi Website's Attorneys Say Arrests Are Police Retaliation
Comments: 8 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Web/Tech
Lawyers representing the CEO of the website Behadrei Haredim accused the police of starting an investigation and filing charges of extortion and blackmail against the CEO and four other website employees in response to the website’s attacks, now illegal, against...

April 10, 2012: New Witnesses Come Forward In Elon Sex Abuse Case
Comments: 22 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Israel , MO & Chardal , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Prosecutors are seeking to introduce new new alleged victim-witnesses in the trial of Rabbi Moti Elon, who has been charged with two counts of sexual offenses against two underage students. Rabbi Mordechai Elon New witnesses come forward in Moti Elon...

April 10, 2012: Experts Find High Court Ruling On DA's Mondrowitz Extradition Censorship Troubling
Comments: 6 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
“The element that I find troublesome involves the ability of a law enforcement agency to engage in what is characterized as the generic denial of access . . . The government has the burden of proof [under FOIL] and that’s...

April 10, 2012: Is Top Haredi Girls School Cursed?
Comments: 46 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Women & Judaism
Girls in a prestigious girls' seminary in Bnei Brak are worried about a "wedding drought" they believe is caused by a hex put on them by a fellow student they insulted. While dozens of girls from other classes are already...

April 10, 2012: Kabbalah Centre Honcho Allegedly Scams Demented Woman Out Of Millions
Comments: 14 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc.
John E. Larkin's intense involvement in the Kabbalah Centre began in the early 2000s, a period in which Madonna's devotion piqued the interest of many in Hollywood. Raised Roman Catholic, Larkin became close to founders Philip and Karen Berg. He...

April 10, 2012: Anti-Aging Genes Discovered In Haredi Women
Comments: 9 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Science
Researchers at Hadassah University Hospital, Ein Karem, found that at least four genes unique to women who conceive naturally after 45 generate an anti-aging effect on those women. The findings were the result of a genetic study of ultra-Orthodox Ashkenazi...

April 9, 2012: Israel Workforce Participation Seen To Be Dangerously Dropping
Comments: 26 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
In 20 years, the proportion working age population will fall to 59%, partly due to the increase in segments of the population which have a lower level of participation than other segments – haredim and Arabs. Workforce participation seen falling...

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