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183 posts from June 2012

June 22, 2012: Haredi Parents Used Mohel 2nd Time After Their 1st Child Got Herpes, CDC Says
Comments: 33 | Categories: Chabad , Circumcision , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Med-Ethics, Public Health , Religion, Religion & State
And, in the case of an infant who died this past September, “the parents would not directly answer questions about whether direct orogenital suction occurred,” the CDC says. Metzitzah b'peh in Israel Hella Winston reports in The Jewish Week: …The...

June 22, 2012: Coast Guard Suspends Search For Missing Multimillionaire
Comments: 27 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Med-Ethics, Public Health , MO & Chardal
Guma Aguiar's mother petitions a Florida court for control of her son’s assets. Much of the multimillionaire’s personal wealth appears to have been dissipated before his disappearance. Guma Aguiar Coast Guard Suspends Search For Guma Aguiar Mother petitions court for...

June 22, 2012: Australian Legislative Panel On Child Sex Abuse Calls For Information
Comments: 9 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
The parliamentary inquiry into child sexual abuse in religious organizations – including Chabad – is underway. Terms. How To Make A Submission.

June 22, 2012: Kolko Victim Testifies
Comments: 16 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
A now teenage victim of a notorious haredi child molester Rabbi Yehuda (Joel) Kolko testified against Kolko in a Brooklyn criminal court yesterday. Rabbi Yehuda (Joel) Kolko yesterday near the Brooklyn criminal court Kolko Victim Testifies Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com...

June 22, 2012: Names Of Four Indicted Hasidim Released
Comments: 33 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
The names have been released of the four hasidim charged with attempting to coerce a victim of child sexual abuse and rape to drop charges against a prominent hasidic rabbi. Names Of And Charges Against Four Indicted Hasidim Released Shmarya...

June 22, 2012: Picture Of The Day
Comments: 7 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Notorious haredi child molester Rabbi Yehuda (Joel) Kolko pictured around the corner from Brooklyn criminal court yesterday. Kolko is on trial for violating an order of protection by allegedly harassing one of the boys he sexually abused. In 2009, Kolko...

June 22, 2012: Report: Charges In Crown Heights Rape Case To Be Dropped
Comments: 8 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc.
Charges against two men in the child rape and forced prostitution case of a Crown Heights hasidic girl will be dropped next week, prosecutors told the men’s attorneys today. Originally published on 6-21-2012 at 8:33 pm CDT Report: Charges In...

June 21, 2012: Haredi Rabbis Ban Beit Shemesh Supermarket
Comments: 26 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Kosher Business? , Women & Judaism
Five Beit Shemesh rabbis linked to the Mea Shearim-based haredi umbrella group Edah Haredit have banned haredim from shopping in an a newly-opened haredi-owned supermarket there, part of the Osher Ad chain. Beit Shemesh sign telling women to move to...

June 21, 2012: AER Issues Statement On Hebrew National Scandal
Comments: 10 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , MO & Chardal
Hebrew National scandal part 6: AER denies the allegations against it. Here it is as a PDF file: Download AER Services, Inc. - Position Statement - June 21, 2012

June 21, 2012: Four Haredim Arrested For Allegedly Trying To Bribe Child Sex Abuse Victim And Extort Her Boyfriend
Comments: 69 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Four haredim were busted early this morning for attempting to bribe a child sexual abuse victim with $500,000 to get her to drop the charges against the hasidic rabbi who allegedly raped and abused her over several years beginning when...

June 21, 2012: Court Orders Burial Society To Pay Woman For Gender Discrimination
Comments: 15 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Women & Judaism
A Beersheva judge has awarded a woman every shekel she asked for plus 1,000 extra for court expenses after a burial society’s haredi rabbi gender segregated her father’s funeral against the family’s wishes. Court Orders Burial Society To Pay Woman...

June 21, 2012: Video: Progressive Jews Demand Israel Stop Its Mistreatment Of African Refugees
Comments: 17 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Darfur , Israel , Refugees , Xenophobia
"We, members of the global Jewish community, are appalled and outraged by Israel's abominable treatment of African migrants, asylum seekers and refugees. Itself a nation of refugees, Israel should know better than most the torment and horrors endured by those...

June 21, 2012: In The Pocket Of The D.A.
Comments: 4 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
The New York Daily News, viewed by insiders as a reliable mouthpiece for Brooklyn's D.A. Charles Hynes, accidentally exposes some of Hynes' corruption. Charles Hynes, right, in 1994 with an unidentified haredi rabbi First, here's the Daily News' error-ridden story...

June 21, 2012: Pictures: Brooklyn Demonstration Against D.A.
Comments: 5 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
In the blistering heat, 2 dozen or so demonstrators from Zaakah stood in front of Charles Hynes' office and protested his coverups and his easygoing attitude toward haredi pedophiles.

June 21, 2012: Rabbi Reuven Feinstein's Grandson Is Get Refuser
Comments: 39 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , MO & Chardal , Women & Judaism
Avrohom Meir Weiss, a grandson of the haredi 'gadol' Rabbi Reuven Feinstein (and a great-grandson of Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, the American haredi leader for decades of the 20th century) is a get refuser. And a demonstration against his get refusal...

June 20, 2012: DA To Release Some – Not All – Mondrowitz Documents
Comments: 13 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Michael Lesher's years long battle to get Brooklyn's DA Charles Hynes to release documents related to the Avrohom Mondrowitz case finally appears to have borne some positive fruit – maybe. Avrohom Mondrowitz Michael Lesher's years long battle to get Brooklyn's...

June 20, 2012: Guma Aguiar Believed Lost At Sea, Boat Washes Up Empty
Comments: 27 | Categories: BTs , Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
Aguiar is a businessman who made a fortune in oil and gas interests. He is also a philanthropist who has contributed millions to Jewish and Israeli charities and in 2009, co-sponsored a soccer team there called Beitar Jerusalem. Aguiar was...

June 20, 2012: Yossi Gestetner Resigns
Comments: 29 | Categories: Bad Spin , Haredim
The New York State Republican Party's newly appointed Jewish Liaison resigns after 8 days in office. Gestetner's defense of haredi pedophiles and other haredi criminals, and his habit of calling opponents Nazis, antisemites and bigots, caused the GOP to rethink...

June 20, 2012: “Immodestly” Dressed Woman Stoned In Beit Shemesh
Comments: 50 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Women & Judaism
A woman allegedly deemed by haredim to be immodestly dressed was attacked by haredim in Beit Shemesh today. They hurled stones at her car, shattering one of its windows. Haredim throwing stones at police in Jerusalem during the summer of...

June 20, 2012: D.A. Claims To Have "Locked Up" 102 Haredi Pedophiles
Comments: 18 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Brooklyn's District Attorney Charles Hynes makes the demonstrably false claim that he has "locked up" 102 haredi pedophiles since launching Kol Tzedek in October 2009. Charles Hynes As you read this, remember that Hynes' own information does not show anything...

June 20, 2012: Alleged Pedophile Targets Jerusalem Haredi Children
Comments: 12 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
The haredi residents of the Jerusalem neighborhoods of Ma'alot Daphna, Shmuel HaNavi, Golda Meir and Arzei HaBira are worried by attacks against haredi children there carried out by what appears to be a haredi pedophile. Note that there is no...

June 20, 2012: When It Comes To Haredi Rabbis And Haredi Heresies, Money, Politics – And Revenge –Talks
Comments: 26 | Categories: Chabad , Haredim , Israel
And little provides more proof of that then the backstory of the visit ofthe Ashkenazi Chief of israel Rabbi Yona Metzger to the Fairway supermarket in Paramus, New Jersey. Metzger, left, and Butman, right, in Fairway Israel's Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi...

June 19, 2012: Pashkvil Alert: mp3 Players Are Dangerous And Evil
Comments: 36 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Haredim
Signs posted around the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn warn hasidim that mp3 players are dangerous and evil. [Hat Tip: Heathen Hasid.]

June 19, 2012: Video: Antisemitic Pellet Gun Attacks In Brooklyn
Comments: 18 | Categories: Antisemitism , Haredim
Windows of more than one dozen cars in Williamsburg were shot out by an unknown assailant(s) reportedly riding in a dark colored car. Additionally, VIN reports that Rabbi Aron Kraus of Williamsburg was traveling southbound on the Harlem River Drive...

June 19, 2012: Another Mosque Torched, Radical Jewish Settlers Thought To Blame
Comments: 16 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Israel , MO & Chardal
Early this morning, several people thought to be radical Jewish settlers the entered the small Palestinian village of Jabaa, located equidistant between Jerusalem and Ramallah. The intruders broke broke a large window in the village’s new Grand Mosque and set...

June 19, 2012: Three Haredim Arrested In London
Comments: 104 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
The reason for the arrests of three haredim in the Stamford Hill neighborhood of London is unclear. The three were arrested yesterday in a sweep that also saw a number of non-Jews arrested, as well. Various rumors on the haredi...

June 19, 2012: Triangle-K Issues Statement On Hebrew National Class Action Lawsuit
Comments: 17 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Triangle-K threatens to sue anonymous detractors – if they make their names known. Rabbi Aryeh Ralbag writes that “outrageously false and defamatory allegations have been made by anonymous disgruntled individuals against Triangle–­K products in a complaint filed in court against...

June 19, 2012: Demonstration Against Brooklyn D.A. Tomorrow
Comments: 7 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
"Jews of all backgrounds will be protesting outside of Hynes' office, at 350 Jay St. Brooklyn, NY 11201, on June 20th at 4pm, to DEMAND that the DA immediately and publicly object to the Rabbinical policy that abuse allegations are...

June 19, 2012: Video: The Woman Who Saved Syria's Jews Gets Israel's Presidential Medal Of Honor
Comments: 21 | Categories: Israel , Jewish Leadership , Sefardim
Judy Feld Carr, the Canadian Jew who – literally and almost single-handedly – saved Syria's Jews is honored with Israel's Presidential Medal of Honor by President Shimon Peres. When Judy Feld-Carr says nobody knew what she was doing, that isn't...

June 19, 2012: Video: CNN Reports On Haredi Child Sexual Abuse
Comments: 24 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Haredi child sexual abuse and the bizarre behavior of Brooklyn's D.A. Charles Hynes are the topic of a CNN report aired last night on Anderson Cooper 360. The segment features Rabbi Nuchem Rosenberg, Pearl Engleman and Luzer Twersky. [Hat Tip:...

June 19, 2012: Israel’s State-Funded Haredi Chief Rabbis Declare “War” On Non-Orthodox Rabbis
Comments: 18 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Religion, Religion & State
Israel’s haredi chief rabbis call an emergency meeting to respond to the decision made by the government to recognize a small number of non-Orthodox rabbis and pay them. Chief Rabbis Shlomo Amar, left, and Yona Metzger, right Israel’s State-Funded Haredi...

June 18, 2012: Triangle-K, Hebrew National Contractor Threatens To Sue Jewish Newspaper
Comments: 20 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
The Hebrew National Scandal Part 4: AER Services, Inc., the company that provides shochtim (ritual slaughters), bodkim, and mashgichim (kosher inspectors) for five plants that sll meat to ConAgra for Hebrew National is threatening to sue the American Jewish World...

June 18, 2012: Bobov Shul Laundered Massive Amounts Of Money, FBI Was Told
Comments: 29 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Sefardim
The bank accounts of Congregation Shaarei Zion, the main synagogue of one of the two factions of Bobov hasidim in Brooklyn, were allegedly used for large scale money-laundering, notorious scammer Solomon Dwek told the FBI in 2006. Soloman Dwek Bobov...

June 18, 2012: All African Refugees Requests To Convert To Judaism Have Been Denied
Comments: 17 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal , Refugees , Religion, Religion & State , Xenophobia
All requests from African refugees and “illegal” migrants from Africa to convert to Judaism in Israel have been rejected over the past year, an anonymous source in the Prime Minister's Office says. African refugees in Tel Aviv All African Refugees...

June 18, 2012: NY State Republican Party's Jewish Liaison Has History Of Calling Political Opponents Of The Haredi Community Nazis
Comments: 45 | Categories: Bad Spin , Bigotry & Racism , Haredim
Gestetner also allegedly offered to smear a political opponent – for money, of course – of another politician by publicizing this Jewish pol's marriage to a non-Jew. The pol he made the offer to declined. Should Yossi Gestetner have a...

June 18, 2012: Is The New Koren Talmud Any Good?
Comments: 46 | Categories: Books , Chabad , MO & Chardal
Is the new English language version of Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz's Hebrew language Talmud translation and commentary any good? I spent some time over the past 10 days with the new (and bizarrely named) Koren Talmud. The Koren Talmud, of course,...

June 18, 2012: 127 South Sudanese Refugees ‘Voluntarily’ Deported
Comments: 53 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Darfur , Haredim , Israel , Refugees , Sefardim , Xenophobia
Israel uses threat of indefinite imprisonment, small financial inducements, to force out refugees. 127 South Sudanese Refugees ‘Voluntarily’ Deported Israel uses threat of indefinite imprisonment, small financial inducements, to force out the refugees. Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com 123 Sudanese refugees...

June 18, 2012: Haredi City Gets Green Mascot
Comments: 16 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
A notoriously dirty haredi city puts its clean up hopes on its young. Benny Haredi City Gets Green Mascot Bnei Brak’s Benny urges haredi kids to stop littering and start recycling. Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com The Israeli haredi city of...

June 17, 2012: No Hate Crime Charges In Bus Stoning Incident, Cops Say
Comments: 26 | Categories: Antisemitism , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
The 12-year-old, who has not been identified because of his age, told police he was playing with a group of friends when the incident occurred and did not mean to hit the bus. He is due in family court this...

June 17, 2012: Outgoing Chief Rabbi Of Amsterdam Opposes Ritual Slaughter Deal With Government
Comments: 22 | Categories: Haredim , Kosher Scandal
The deal with the government, signed with Ralbag’s approval the day before, “is not in accordance with our wishes, views and liking,” Ralbag and the two dayanim wrote, claiming to have only approved the deal under duress to avoid a...

June 17, 2012: Hundreds Of Haredim Protest, Stone Passing Cars
Comments: 40 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel
At least 200 haredim protested “Sabbath desecration” yesterday in Jerusalem, stoning cars, calling police "Nazis," and harassing secular women. A calmer moment in yesterday's protest Hundreds Of Haredim Protest, Stone Passing Cars Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com At least 200 haredim...

June 17, 2012: Satmar School Bus Stoned, Boy Injured, Hasidic Spokesman Says "Hate Crime"
Comments: 90 | Categories: Antisemitism , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
A 9-year-old boy was struck in the head and cut when the Satmar school bus he was riding in early Friday afternoon was stoned. A 12-year-old boy was arrested in the incident, which took place on South Main Street near...

June 17, 2012: “Taliban Mother” To Be Released From Prison Today
Comments: 19 | Categories: BTs , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Extreme Sniut , Haredim , Israel , Women & Judaism
One of Israel’s most notorious child abusers will be released from prison today. The woman – who lived in Beit Shemesh with her husband and family and who became known as the “Taliban Mother” because she covered herself and her...

June 17, 2012: NY Times Condemns Cuomo's Inaction On Child Sex Abuse, Pushes For Pasage Of Markey Bill
Comments: 7 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
"Earlier versions of the Markey bill have passed the Democratic-led Assembly several times. By refusing to rise above intense lobbying by Cardinal Timothy Dolan and Orthodox Jewish officials and fight for Ms. Markey's changes or offer a strong bill of...

June 16, 2012: The Allegations Against Hebrew National
Comments: 30 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
The Hebrew National Scandal Part #3: Here are the kosher violations allegedly made by AER Services, Inc. and Triangle-K kosher supervision as listed in the class action lawsuit against ConAgra/Hebrew National. The issue with the allegedly nicked knives is one...

June 16, 2012: The Other Side Of The Hebrew National Scandal And Lawsuit
Comments: 26 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
The Hebrew National Scandal post #2: AER Services, Inc. responds to charges made against it in the American Jewish World and in a class action lawsuit filed against ConAgra/Hebrew National. Originally published Friday June 15, 2012 at 5:59 pm CDT...

June 15, 2012: Haredi Pedophile Innocent, Republican Liaison Intimates
Comments: 53 | Categories: Bad Spin , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Yossi Gestetner, the New York State Republican Party's new Liaison to the Jewish community, defends a haredi pedophile who admitted to molesting two little haredi brothers, one 7-years-old, the other 9-years-old. Yossi Gestetner Gestetner Sleazes Again Haredi Pedophile Innocent, Republican...

June 15, 2012: Why Haredi Domestic Violence Is Different
Comments: 18 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , MO & Chardal
"Because of the observance of modest dressing, there are more places where (the women) can be beaten without it being noticed, because the man is also concerned about what people will say. But there are also characteristics that have to...

June 15, 2012: Orthodox And Haredi Teen Girls Much More Likely To Visit Internet Porn Sites Than Non-Orthodox Teen Girls, Study Finds
Comments: 51 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Extreme Sniut , Haredim , Israel , Med-Ethics, Public Health , MO & Chardal , Religion, Religion & State , Web/Tech
Orthodox and haredi teen girls are almost two times as likely as secular teens to view Internet porn, a new Bar-Ilan University study has found. Orthodox And Haredi Teen Girls Much More Likely To Visit Internet Porn Sites Than Non-Orthodox...

June 15, 2012: Did Chabad Oligarch Lev Leviev Steal $1 Billion With The Help Of Chabad’s ‘Chief Rabbi’ Of Russia?
Comments: 19 | Categories: Chabad , Court Jews , Crime, Litigation, etc.
That billion dollar question question will be decided by a British High Court judge sometime this year. Originally published at 10:00 pm CDT 6-14-2012 Did Chabad Oligarch Lev Leviev Steal $1 Billion With Chabad’s ‘Chief Rabbi’ Of Russia? That question...

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