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183 posts from May 2012

May 31, 2012: Video: Rabbi Yisroel Belsky Comes Home
Comments: 26 | Categories: Haredim , Kosher Scandal
The rosh yeshiva of Torah Vodaas and co-chief halakhic authority for OU Kosher returns home after months of hospitalization and rehab, much of it in serious or critical condition.

May 31, 2012: Inside A Failed Haredi Marriage
Comments: 107 | Categories: Haredim , Women & Judaism
A four letter word – W-O-R-K – and his wife's student loans destroy a yeshiva student's 'idyllic' marriage.

May 31, 2012: Married Through A Hole In The Sheet
Comments: 36 | Categories: Extreme Sniut , Haredim , Israel , Women & Judaism
The haredi demand for 'modesty' and gender segregation reaches an extreme new low. Two Jewish burka cult "Taliban" women in Monsey, NY in 2011 Extremist ‘Taliban’ Chasnah in Bnei Brak Yeshiva World There was a unique chasnah [hatuna, wedding ceremony...

May 31, 2012: Haredi Modesty And Anti-Smartphone Posters
Comments: 26 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Haredim , Israel , Web/Tech , Women & Judaism
Shavuot modesty instructions for both sexes and a cartoon about smartphones, both posted on a Jerusalem street. The pictures were taken today: Cartoon translation from the person who sent the posters to me: Upper row, from right to left. 1...

May 31, 2012: The Truth About Haredi Brooklyn?
Comments: 38 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
"For those who serve Brooklyn’s Hasidic community, it comes as no surprise that the city and Brooklyn DA Charles “Joe” Hynes have approached the subject of child abuse with pathetic trepidation.…" From the New York Post's letters section: For those...

May 31, 2012: 6 Haredim Busted
Comments: 3 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel
Six haredim men were arrested yesterday near the presumed tomb of Habakkuk the Prophet in Northern Israel. 6 Haredim Busted Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com Six haredim men were arrested yesterday near the presumed tomb of Habakkuk the Prophet in Northern...

May 30, 2012: The Latest Haredi Anti-Internet Ban
Comments: 61 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Blogs , Haredim , Web/Tech
A haredi synagogue in Flatbush, Brooklyn has added a new ban to the haredi fight against the Internet. …No coffee, no tea, and no sugar. Seen at a synagogue in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn today: [Hat Tip: HeathenHassid.]

May 30, 2012: Cheap Political Gamesmanship In The Name Of Helping Haredi Businessman Jacob Ostreicher
Comments: 10 | Categories: Bad Spin , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Hucksterism , Israel
Republican controlled US House of Representatives to hold hearing on "the U.S. State Department’s Inadequate Response to Human Rights Concerns in Bolivia: The Case of American Jacob Ostreicher." On Wednesday, the United States House of Representatives will hold a hearing...

May 30, 2012: He Didn’t Look Jewish
Comments: 18 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Israel , MO & Chardal , Women & Judaism
An Israel mob attacks and beats an Ethiopian Jew mistaken for a non-Jewish African refugee. He Didn’t Look Jewish An Israel mob attacks and beats an Ethiopian Jew mistaken for a non-Jewish African refugee Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com He didn’t...

May 30, 2012: Another Chabad Diamond Mining Scam?
Comments: 25 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Flim-Flam , Haredim , Hucksterism
Inspired by the late Chabad-Lubavitch rebbe who "prophesized" that precious stones were "divinely" buried in the area, the firm has been mining for about a decade along the steep hills and lush valleys around Haifa. Prophecy of diamonds keeps Israeli...

May 30, 2012: Dump Your Smartphones Or Get A New Rebbe
Comments: 53 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Haredim , Web/Tech
The Satmar Rebbe of Kiryas Yoel has laid down an ultimatum for his hasidim – to rid themselves of their smartphones within a month of look for a new rebbe. Satmar Rebbe’s Ultimatum: Turn in Smartphone or Get Out Yeshiva...

May 30, 2012: Rabbi Busted For Running Home Pharmaceutical Dispensary
Comments: 25 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel
Acting on a Health Ministry complaint from a pirate pharmacy, police launched an investigation into a rabbi who operates a pharmaceutical gemach [loan fund, free or discounted pharmacy] in his community in Israel. When police raided the suspect’s home they...

May 30, 2012: Censoring News: Two Haredi 'News' Websites Censor Articles In Response To Community Pressure
Comments: 22 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Blogs , Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Web/Tech
A Chabad site posts and then later removes an article detailing calls for a Chabad rabbi to resign over child sex abuse coverup allegations and VIN News removes an op-ed on the completion of the Daf Yomi cycle by Rabbi...

May 30, 2012: Video: US Congressman Takes On Jacob Ostreicher Case
Comments: 5 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) takes on the case of Jacob Ostreicher, who has been imprisoned in Boliva for almost one year without being charged.

May 30, 2012: Israeli Researchers Find Genetically Jewish American Indian Tribe
Comments: 45 | Categories: History , Science
Geneticists at Sheba Medical Center in Israel report they have found a unique Jewish genetic mutation in a Native American tribe living in Colorado. The "Ashkenazi mutation" on the BRCA1 gene - a marker unique to European Jews – indicates...

May 30, 2012: Haredim Following Medieval Islam Into The Abyss
Comments: 44 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Haredim , Torah & Science , Web/Tech
700 years ago, Islam was a dominant global force. It had conquered parts of Europe. It had scientific knowledge more advanced than Europe and a literacy rate that was higher than Europe. But then something changed. What was it, what...

May 29, 2012: Israel Recognizes Non-Orthodox Rabbis – Sort Of
Comments: 9 | Categories: Israel , Religion, Religion & State
Seven years after the Reform Movement petitioned Israel’s High Court demanding equal state financing of non-Orthodox and Orthodox religious services, the state has agreed for the first time to recognize non-Orthodox rabbis as rabbis and pay their salaries – sort...

May 29, 2012: Deport African Refugees, Jail Israeli Human Rights Activists, MK Says
Comments: 13 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Israel , Refugees , Religion, Religion & State , Xenophobia
Calling human rights activists “hypocrites” who “would be the first to put haredim and settlers on buses and transfer them," Kadima Party Knesset Member Yulia Shamalov Berkovich told a Knesset committee that, “all human rights activists should be imprisoned and...

May 29, 2012: Haredim Allegedly Destroy 1,600 Year Old Synagogue Mosaic Floor
Comments: 72 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Torah & Science
Vandals seriously damaged a rare 1,600-year-old synagogue mosaic floor in Tiberias, smashing parts to rubble and scrawling graffiti, Israel Antiquities Authority officials said tody. Experts suspect extremist haredim who object, sometimes violently, to excavations they claim involve ancient grave sites...

May 29, 2012: Rabbis Who Endorsed The Murder Of Non-Jewish Babies Won’t Be Prosecuted, AG Says
Comments: 61 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Israel , MO & Chardal , Xenophobia
Rabbis Yitzhak Shapira and Yosef Elitzur will not be prosecuted for their book Torat HaMelech. Shapira and Elitzur wrote in Torat HaMelech that non-Jews who are non-combatants could be killed in times of war. Even babies in their cribs could...

May 29, 2012: Man Admits To Faking Beating Over Get
Comments: 24 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Women & Judaism
Robert Klein told police his father-in-law, Brian Hirshman, and four masked men beat him until he uttered the formula for a Jewish divorce, known in Hebrew and Yiddish as a get. And then, as icing on the cake, Klein told...

May 29, 2012: Saving Non-Jewish Lives On The Sabbath
Comments: 58 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Haredim , Med-Ethics, Public Health
Rabbi Ovadia Yosef spoke about the issue of saving the lives or medically treating non-Jews on the Sabbath, specifically how that impacts Jewish doctors. Here is some of what he said: Rabbi Ovadia Yosef Originally published at 10:00 pm CDT...

May 29, 2012: Audio: Chabad Child Sex Abuse Scandal And Coverup
Comments: 68 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
A large Australian radio show does a segment on the child sex abuse scandal and coverup at Chabad's flagship Australian school. Originally published at 11:39 pm CDT 5-28-2012 Manny Waks is an alleged victim of David Cyprys, who allegedly raped...

May 29, 2012: Video: Excommunicate Bloggers Who Question Rabbis, Haredi Rabbi Says
Comments: 111 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Blogs , Haredim , Web/Tech
While in the audience of last Sunday's massive haredi anti-Internet gathering in CitiField stadium, Rabbi Paysach Krohn, the English-speaking haredi world's leading maggid (moralizing public speaker; preacher) called for excommunicating bloggers who anonymously criticize rabbis ("Da'as Torah"), and says that...

May 25, 2012: Blog Schedule For The Long Weekend
Comments: 2 |
The holiday of Shavuot which commemorates the giving of the Torah on Mount Sinai starts Saturday evening and ends Monday evening. Barring an emergency of some kind, the blog will not be updated until Monday night about 10:00 pm CDT....

May 25, 2012: 5th Haredi Rabbi Pleads Guilty In Dwek Sting
Comments: 1 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
Rabbi Lavel Schwartz pleaded guilty Thursday in a New Jersey federal court to conspiracy to commit money-laundering. 5th Haredi Rabbi Pleads Guilty In Dwek Sting Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com Rabbi Lavel Schwartz pleaded guilty Thursday in a New Jersey federal...

May 25, 2012: Hikind Says Shomrim Not In Control Of Security Cameras – Or Does He?
Comments: 2 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
The Brooklyn Daily reported yesterday that the $1 million in government funds given to Borough Park, Midwood and Kensington, Brooklyn, would be given to Agudath Israel of America and the cameras would be administered by Shomrim. Dov Hikind now says...

May 25, 2012: Ba’al Teshuva Wants His Sperm Back
Comments: 39 | Categories: BTs , Israel , Med-Ethics, Public Health
A newly Orthodox man wants the sperm he donated to an Israeli sperm bank years ago to be returned to him before its new owner uses it – again. Ba’al Teshuva Wants His Sperm Back Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com A...

May 25, 2012: Alleged Murder-For-Hire Rabbi Fit For Trial
Comments: 11 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
After five psychiatric examinations, Rabbi Victor Koltun is fit to stand trial for murder, a judge has found. Rabbi Victor Koltun Rabbi In Alleged Murder-For-Hire Fit For Trial, Judge Says Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com Rabbi Victor Koltun is fit to...

May 25, 2012: Crown Heights Rape And Sex Trafficking Case Continues To Implode As Prosecutor Abruptly Resigns
Comments: 19 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
The head of the Brooklyn D.A.’s sex-trafficking unit abruptly resigned yesterday in what many see as fallout from a botched Crown Heights rape and sex trafficking case. Lauren Hersh Brooklyn’s Head Sex Trafficking Prosecutor Resigns In What Many See As...

May 25, 2012: Haredi Man Nabbed In Mortgage Double Dip
Comments: 19 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
A haredi man from Monsey, New York was arrested and charged yesterday with stealing $292,000 from Florida Capital. Aharon Farkas Haredi Man Nabbed In Mortgage Double Dip Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com A haredi man from Monsey, New York was arrested...

May 24, 2012: Publicly Funded Borough Park Security Cameras Go To Org That Shields Alleged Pedophiles
Comments: 39 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
An ultra-Orthodox religious group that discourages Jews from reporting sex crimes to police without first consulting a rabbi is getting $1 million from the state to install security cameras to catch criminals and child predators on the streets of Midwood...

May 24, 2012: Agudah Rabbis Could Be Prosecuted For Obstruction Of Justice, D.A. Says
Comments: 12 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
"D.A. [Charles] Hynes told Dovid Zwiebel [Agudah’s executive vice president] that it was a mistake to advise someone with information about child abuse to first speak with a rabbi. Zwiebel … risks having the rabbi prosecuted for obstructing a law...

May 24, 2012: Fire Former Principal, Chabad Told
Comments: 25 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
A flagship Chabad boys' school is under pressure to fire its former principal, who now works as a teacher and the school's student welfare officer. A judge found it was ''unfathomable'' that the rabbi was unaware of child sexual abuse...

May 24, 2012: Person Implicates Self In Etan Patz Disappearance
Comments: 20 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly announced earlier today that a person currently in custody has implicated himself in the 33-year-old disappearance and murder of Etan Patz, a 6-year-old boy who lived in the SoHo neighborhood of Manhattan. Person...

May 24, 2012: Video: Tel Aviv Demonstration And Riot Against Aftrican Refugees
Comments: 24 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Israel , Religion, Religion & State , Xenophobia
African refugees in Israel's largest city were beaten last night in riot that followed an anti-African refugee demonstration.

May 24, 2012: East Ramapo's Haredi-Dominated School Board Spirals Out Of Control
Comments: 106 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
When asked if enough courses would be available for high school kids to graduate in 4 years, the board could not answer. Finally, if the budget revote fails in June East Ramapo will be the first Public School District in...

May 24, 2012: Protecting The Unholiest Of Sinners
Comments: 17 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
"There exists in this city a group of unparalleled perverts that’s wrapped in Teflon — more resistent to charges of sexual exploitation than John Travolta. I’m not talking about Hollywood nimrods or Catholic priests, but a sect not generally associated...

May 24, 2012: Internet Caused Fatal Car Accident, Haredi Rabbis Say
Comments: 66 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Blogs , Haredim , Israel , Web/Tech
A car crash that killed eight members of one family happened due to the spiritual weakness the Jewish people is suffering because of Internet use, Rabbi Ahron Leib Steinman and Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky said. Rabbi Ahron Leib Steinman, left, and...

May 24, 2012: Councilman Decries Lack Of Glatt Kosher Food In Riker's Island Jail
Comments: 34 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Kosher Scandal
Councilman David G. Greenfield is working with the New York Board of Rabbis to convince the city to require a higher level of kosher certification when seeking a new vendor to provide kosher food in detention facilities run by the...

May 24, 2012: D.A. Wants To Make Rabbis Mandatory Reporters
Comments: 16 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Brooklyn’s D.A. Charles Hynes says he will work to get state legislation passed that would add rabbis and other religious leaders to the professionals now required by law to report suspicions of child sexual abuse to law enforcement or A.C.S.,...

May 24, 2012: SHAME: Israelis Riot, Loot, Attack, Stone African Refugees
Comments: 41 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal , Refugees
Dozens of protesters tried to move from the Hatikva neighborhood, where the rally was held, towards Tel Aviv’s Shapira neighborhood, where most African refugees live. They were stopped by police. Protesters attacked a car passing by carrying African immigrants, smashing...

May 23, 2012: Best D.A., Kol Tzedek, Agudah Joke So Far
Comments: 14 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Humor , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
What happens when a yid calls the D.A.'s Kol Tzedek hotline to report child sexual abuse? According to an anonymous haredi jokester, this: Brooklyn's D.A., Charles Hynes An anonymous haredi jokes: You have reached 911. If this is an emergency...

May 23, 2012: Rabbis Should Investigate Alleged Child Sexual Abuse Victims Before Allowing Parents To Call Police, Agudah Says
Comments: 52 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Media & Media Criticism , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Zwiebel said the rabbi’s decision on whether the parent can go to law enforcement “depends on whether your child has the habit of fantasizing. It depends on whether your child and the teacher have had run-ins in the past. It...

May 23, 2012: Supporters Of Alleged Victims Of Child Sex Abuse In Chabad School Take Out Ad To Protest Harassment, Intimidation
Comments: 45 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
"The fact that it has gotten to this stage, where supporters of child sexual abuse victims and their families feel the need to take out paid ads in the media in order to combat the ongoing abuse from a fringe...

May 23, 2012: Ten Israelis Arrested For Illegally Harvesting And Trafficking In Organs Taken From Destitute Non-Jews
Comments: 45 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Israel , Med-Ethics, Public Health
Ten Israelis were arrested on Tuesday on charges that they are part of an illegal organ harvesting ring will be arraigned today in Rishon Letzion’s Magistrate’s Court. Ten Israelis Arrested For Illegally Harvesting Organs From Destitute Non-Jews Shmarya Rosenberg •...

May 23, 2012: D.A. Under Fire For Composition Of Panel On Haredi Witness Tampering And Intimidation
Comments: 50 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Earlier this week, Brooklyn's District Attorney Charles Hynes agreed with former NYC Mayor Ed Koch's suggestion to form a task force to combat intimidation of witnesses in haredi child sexual abuse cases. And then Hynes stacked the task force with...

May 23, 2012: Lakewood Yeshiva Bans Internet
Comments: 137 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Blogs , Haredim , Web/Tech
Bais Medrash Govoha, commonly known as Lakewood Yeshiva, has banned students, single or married, from having the Internet in their homes or on their phones. The only exception is when the Internet is needed to earn a living, in which...

May 22, 2012: Imprisoned Haredi Man Gets New Hearing
Comments: 6 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
Jacob Ostreicher, imprisoned in Bolivia for almost one year without trial, has finally been scheduled for a new judicial hearing. Jacob Ostreicher The new hearing is scheduled to take place June 11 at 11:00 AM.

May 22, 2012: Is Judaism Really A Religion Of Peace?
Comments: 57 | Categories: Hanukkah , Haredim , Israel , Religion, Religion & State
The issue of a Jewish doctor violating the Shabbat to treat a non-Jew has come up again in Israel. The Israeli daily newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported that one of Israel’s prominent rabbis, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, was quoted as telling his...

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