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July 31, 2012: Family Reportedly Flees Beit Shemesh After Haredi Harassment
Comments: 44 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel
A moderate haredi family from Beit Shemesh has been forced to leave the city after haredi extremists reportedly harassed and assauted them. File photo: A haredi man being arrested early last year in Beit Shemesh for throwing stones at buses....

July 31, 2012: Haredim Arrested For Counterfeiting Siyum HaShas Tickets
Comments: 20 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel
Israel Police have arrested two haredi men for counterfeiting tickets to tonight’s Siyum HaShas in Jerusalem, the Jerusalem Post reports. The event, which celebrates the conclusion of the 7 1/2 year cycle of study of the entire Babylonian Talmud and...

July 31, 2012: IDF Bans Chabad Messianist Yarmulkes
Comments: 40 | Categories: Chabad , Chabad & Christianity , Israel
The Israel Defense Forces has reiterated its ban on kippot that have writing on them, specifically noting that Chabad followers who have insisted on wearing so-called “Yechi” yarmulkes in the military may not do so. IDF Bans Chabad Messianist Yarmulkes...

July 31, 2012: Israeli Cops Bust Massive Online Pedophile “Ring”
Comments: 18 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Israel , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Israeli police have arrested more than 30 alleged pedophiles who are members of what is being called an “online ring.” However, it does not appear that the men knew each other or collaborated with each other in executing their crimes....

July 31, 2012: Does Evidence Uncovered In A London Trial Show That Chabad Helped Its Patron Oligarch Steal More Than $1 Billion?, Part 2
Comments: 18 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc.
A London Court proceeding found that Rabbi Beel Lazar – Chabad's chief rabbi of Russia – acted deceitfully to benefit his financial patron, oligarch Lev Leviev, in a $1 billion-plus battle with another billionaire, Arcadi Gaydamak, over the proceeds of...

July 31, 2012: Report: Australian Police Prepare To Arrest Senior Catholic Bishops For Covering Up Child Sexual Abuse – Case Could Lead To Arrests Of Chabad Rabbis
Comments: 38 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes , Religion, Religion & State
Australian police are reportedly preparing to give state prosecutors evidence against three senior Catholic bishops who reportedly knew about cases of child sexual abuse committed by Catholic priests but did not report those priests to police. The potential arrests are...

July 30, 2012: A Woman’s Place Is In The Home, Leading Zionist Orthodox Rabbi Claims
Comments: 39 | Categories: Israel , MO & Chardal , Women & Judaism
In a new pamphlet titled “Who Created Me As He Willed,” Rabbi Zvi Tau reportedly writes that “home is the natural habitat for women to express their special tendency ... not the domain of social activity. At home, without the...

July 30, 2012: The Government Responds To Rubashkin's Supreme Court Petition For A Writ of Certiorari
Comments: 36 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
The government lays down the reasons why it believes Agriprocessors former VP Sholom Rubashkin's request for United States Supreme Court intervention in his case should be rejected. Rubashkin is serving a 27-year sentence for fraud and related charges. Here is...

July 30, 2012: Are NY Teachers Unions Protecting Sexual Predators?
Comments: 28 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
When teachers are accused of sexual misconduct with a student, an independent arbitrator decides their fate. But that system is biased toward suspending or fining sexual predators rather than firing them, Campbell Brown writes. Campbell Brown Campbell Brown, the former...

July 30, 2012: Did The Haredi-Controlled East Ramapo School Board Commit Fraud Against The Citizens Of NY?
Comments: 79 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
Among a litany of alleged wrongdoing it outlines, a petition filed with the State of New York Department of Education alleges that the haredi-controlled East Ramapo school board used public funds to purchase religious books for yeshivas. Four haredi members...

July 30, 2012: Monsey Vizhnitzer Rebbe Orders Hasidim To Boycott Siyum HaShas
Comments: 36 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Haredim , Israel
As the Monsey Vizhniter Rebbe strengthens his ban on Agudath Israel of America's Siyum HaShas ordered because Agudah is allowing two 'Zionist' rabbis to speak there, the Belzer Rebbe also reportedly orders a boycott of the Israel version of the...

July 30, 2012: Does Evidence Uncovered In A London Trial Show That Chabad Helped Its Patron Oligarch Steal More Than $1 Billion?
Comments: 7 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Turf Disputes
That is essentially the claim made by billionaire Arcadi Gaydamak, who accuses Chabad's chief rabbi of Russia Berel Lazar, another prominent Chabad rabbi in Russia, David Mondshine, and the Chabad-founded and Chabad-controlled Federation of Jewish Communities in Russia with lying,...

July 29, 2012: In Chabad Child Sexual Abuse Scandal, Bad Judgement And Alleged Lack Of Concern For Children Led To Disaster
Comments: 5 | Categories: Chabad , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
"In many of the cases the abuse could have been prevented if appropriate action would have been taken earlier on. For example, with at least one of the alleged perpetrators there were sufficient warning signs for action to be taken....

July 29, 2012: Five Towns Orthodox Newspaper Photoshops Photo Of Teens
Comments: 86 | Categories: Chabad , Haredim , MO & Chardal , Women & Judaism
The Five Towns Jewish Times, owned by Larry Gordon, who is from a Chabad family, photoshops a photo of local teens, lengthening skirts and sleeves to make the photo "tzniut." The actual photo, published by the Jewish Star, without photoshopping:...

July 29, 2012: Hundreds Of Holocaust Survivors And Their Children Protest Israel’s Mistreatment Of African Refugees
Comments: 54 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Israel , Refugees , Xenophobia
“Last winter I saw on television dozens of African migrants huddled together in Levinsky Park. The sight was horrible and I decided to help them by giving the migrants food and blankets. During the Holocaust, I had to learn to...

July 29, 2012: Should You Really Be Fasting In This Heat?
Comments: 38 | Categories: Halakha , Med-Ethics, Public Health
Is it safe for you to fast when the temperatures have been so high in most of the US for so much of the summer? The answer may surprise you. Three weeks ago, I wrote a post about the dangers...

July 27, 2012: Haredim Say They Don’t Have To Worry About The Draft – “We Won’t Be Dragged Into The Army,” A Yeshiva Student Said
Comments: 53 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Religion, Religion & State
"Everyone knows that forcibly recruiting haredim is not possible. I'm not going to lie – we are thinking of what the future may hold – but we believe the Torah protects the people of Israel, us included. I'm certain that...

July 27, 2012: Video: Bill O'Reilly On The Goodman Child Sex Abuse Arrest
Comments: 14 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
"27-year-old Andrew Goodman raped two boys, ages 11 and 13, over a period of four years. This savage pleaded guilty to 48 felony counts of criminal sexual acts, but New York State Judge Martin Murphy sentenced the monster to just...

July 27, 2012: Lakewood Rabbi In Court Over Illegal Dumping Of Religious Waste
Comments: 33 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Sefardim
New Jersey’s Department of Environmental Protection has been fighting the rabbi for more than two years, and a court this year gave Abadi 60 days to remove the dump. The 60 days expired June 18, but the dump is still...

July 27, 2012: Satmar Hasidic Newspaper: We Will Ignore Government Regulations On Metzitzah B'Peh
Comments: 61 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Med-Ethics, Public Health
The Yiddish language hasidic newspaper Der Yid, published in Brooklyn by Satmar hasidim and considered to reflect the views of Satmar hasidic leadership, says haredim will fight the government's attempt to regulate metziztah b'peh (MBP), the direct mouth-to-bloody-penis sucking done...

July 26, 2012: Hikind Lashes Out At Bloomberg Over Haredi Penis Sucking Ritual
Comments: 36 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Med-Ethics, Public Health
"Orthodox Judaism isn't barbaric. Who cares more about children than their own parents? There's no call for Mayor Bloomberg to speak disrespectfully to our community, to speak condescendingly about our cultural traditions.…This issue is not about soda pop. it's about...

July 26, 2012: Is Chabad Punishing Restaurants That Carry Uri L'Tzedek's Ethical Hechsher?
Comments: 85 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Chabad denies it, but there is mounting evidence that Chabad is in fact coordinating a nationwide attempt to destroy Uri L'Tzedek's Tav HaYosher ethical supervision of kosher restaurants as payback for Uri L'Tzedek's short-lived boycott of Agriprocessors in 2008, and...

July 26, 2012: Homosexuality And Orthodoxy
Comments: 25 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Homophobia and its Discontents
A public radio show interviews several gay Orthodox and haredi Jews and follows it up with a debate of sorts between Rabbi Meir Fund, who is haredi, and Rabbi Debra Kolody of Jewish Renewal. (Fund wipes the floor with Kolodny,...

July 26, 2012: The Last Will And Testament Of Howard Frank
Comments: 46 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
Howard Frank, the beggar with the million dollar collection of entertainment photos who died under mysterious circumstances early in the morning of June 28th in Brooklyn, left a will. That will disinherits his only sibling and does not mention his...

July 26, 2012: Want To Get Well? Sell Your Illness To Goy, Haredi Ad Says
Comments: 80 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
You can sell your illness or problem to a non-Jew and be healed or have that problem solved, a haredi classified ad says. But the service isn't free. File photo A reader writes: From the Williamsburg Daily Dvar Yom from...

July 25, 2012: Scam: Haredi Yeshiva Students Caught In Employment Sting
Comments: 24 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel
Israel’s Channel 10 has no trouble finding haredi ‘full time’ yeshiva students who want to work off the books while still collecting government subsidies for their ‘full time’ yeshiva study. New Haredi Fraud Israel’s Channel 10 has no trouble finding...

July 25, 2012: Pedophile Andrew Goodman Arrested On Federal Charges
Comments: 11 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
The Brooklyn pedophile who pleaded guilty to raping boys and then was sentenced earlier this month to only two years in prison for his crimes – which, with time served would have seen Goodman free by early September – has...

July 25, 2012: Bloomberg: Unsafe Practices Like Metzitzah B’Peh Will Not Be Permitted
Comments: 72 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Mayor Michael Bloomberg responded to haredi rabbis’ threats to sue the city if the city passes a requirement for parents to sign an informed consent form acknowledging the dangers of metzitzah b’peh (MBP), the oral-to-penis sucking done primarily by haredi...

July 25, 2012: Audio: A Brief History Of The Haredi Draft / No Draft
Comments: 9 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Religion, Religion & State
Here are two brief but comprehensive reports on the haredi draft. One deals with the history of exempting haredim from military service, the other deals with the politics involved in trying to reverse those exemptions now. Both are well worth...

July 25, 2012: Charges Against Chabad Alleged Pedophile Dropped
Comments: 47 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Charges against Aron “Ezzy” Kestecher, accused of four counts of indecent acts on a child under 16, have now been dropped. Aron “Ezzy” Kestecher Charges Against Accused Chabad Pedophile Dropped Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com Charges against Aron “Ezzy” Kestecher, accused...

July 25, 2012: Haredi On Haredi Violence: Sicarii Gang Member Allegedly Attacks Haredi IDF Soldier
Comments: 12 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel
A Sicarii member allegedly assaulted a haredi IDF soldier in Beit Shemesh in what police say is part of a larger campaign against haredi IDF service and a potential haredi draft. A previous haredi victim of Sicarii violence in Beit...

July 24, 2012: Monsey-New Square Hatzolah Phone Lines Down
Comments: 9 | Categories: Haredim , Med-Ethics, Public Health
"Hatzolah Ambulance of Monsey and New Square is reporting that their emergency phone lines are down. They have asked that we provide an alternate phone number for those seeking to contact Hatzolah in an emergency situation. That number is (646)...

July 24, 2012: Matisyahu To Perform During Tisha B'Av Fast
Comments: 76 | Categories: BTs , Chabad , Music , Skepticism & Former Haredim
Matisyahu has a scheduled performance in New York City Sunday, during the Tisha B'Av fast commemorating the destruction of the 1st and 2nd Jerusalem Temples. Tisha B'Av is actually Saturday, but the fast is pushed off until Sunday because of...

July 24, 2012: American Greed To Profile Haredi Scammer Solomon Dwek
Comments: 12 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Sefardim
CNBC's venerable business crime series American Greed has new episode airing tomorrow night – The Jersey Score, profiling Solomon Dwek, the rabbi's son who scammed millions and then helped the FBI bag dozens of politicians and haredi rabbis. The rabbis...

July 24, 2012: Lying To Protect Metzitzah B'Peh
Comments: 89 | Categories: Circumcision , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Med-Ethics, Public Health
Haredi representatives use lies to protect metzitzah b'peh (MBP), the direct oral-to-penis sucking done by many mohels (Jewish ritual circumcisers) immediately after cutting off the baby’s foreskin, from regulation by NYC's Board of Health. A Modern Orthodox mohel in Israel...

July 24, 2012: Chabad Fails Its Own Long Term Members, Chabadnik Says
Comments: 89 | Categories: Chabad
Chabad's resources are put into outreach and missionary activity directed toward non-Orthodox and non-Chabad Jews. But it does little for Jews who already are Chabad, leaving Chabad adherents with exorbitantly high school tuition bills, and extremely high cost of living,...

July 23, 2012: Video: Rabbi Burger
Comments: 16 | Categories: Film , Humor , PARODY & SATIRE
It's offensive. It's funny. It's not my fault. Watch it anyway. Credits: Starring Jason and Randy Sklar bit.ly/KqjyVb, Jennie Pierson, Lainie Kazan, Judy Tenuta. Directors: Ethan S. Smith and Ron Yavnieli. Writer: Smith, James Carrey. Producers: Corey Moss, Tiffany Moore,...

July 23, 2012: Skvere Rebbe Visits New Square Arsonist In Prison
Comments: 36 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
The Skvere Rebbe is reportedly visiting Shaul Spitzer in prison. Spitzer is his former hus bucher ('butler'), who tried to burn down the home of New Square dissident Aron Rottenberg while the Rottenberg family was asleep inside, save for a...

July 23, 2012: Brooklyn Couple Busted For Food Stamp, Welfare Fraud
Comments: 36 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc.
Rivka Baror, 51, and her husband Avraham Baror, 64, have been indicted for fraudulently collecting $108,715.57 in Medicaid and food-stamp benefits, from January 1, 2006 through June 30, 2012. OFFICE OF THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY, KINGS COUNTY 718-250-2300 www.brooklynda.org KINGS COUNTY...

July 23, 2012: As Penn State Hit With Devastating, Unprecidented Penalties, Why Not Haredim?
Comments: 22 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Editorials, News Analysis , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
A $60 million fine. All wins from 1998 through last season voided. No post-season bowl games for four years. All football players can transfer to any other school that will accept them with no penalty and no red shirt year....

July 23, 2012: Haredim Sell Special "Double-Whapped" "Miracle" Ring That 'Cures" Illness And 'Solves' Financial Problems
Comments: 81 | Categories: Haredim , Religion, Religion & State
"This segulah [sign; an amulet or other magical object or action that brings about a change in the course of nature, by healing an illness, finding a spouse, etc.] uses a ring made from pure silver, crafted by G-d-fearing Yidden...

July 23, 2012: Siyum HaShas Organizers To Vizhnitzer Hasidim: Return Your Tickets Now, Please
Comments: 24 | Categories: Haredim , MO & Chardal
Three days ago, we learned that the Vizhnitzer Rebbe of Monsey, New York, told his followers to boycott the upcoming Siyum HaShas, the celebration for the completion of the study of the entire Babylonian Talmud that takes place every 7...

July 22, 2012: Netanyahu Sells Out To Haredim, Moves To Adopt Another Unconstitutional Law On Haredi Draft
Comments: 33 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Religion, Religion & State
He sold out to haredim. That’s the claim being made tonight by tens of thousands of indignant Israelis after their Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu again rejected the findings of the commission he formed to deal with the issue of drafting...

July 22, 2012: Admitted Monsey Pedophile Wants To Withdraw Guilty Plea, Brings In Out-Of-State High Priced Attorney
Comments: 28 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
A 21-year-old confessed pedophile from Monsey, New York wants to withdraw the guilty plea he entered. Shmul Dym pleaded guilty in June to two felony counts of sexual conduct against a child and two misdemeanor counts of endangering the welfare...

July 22, 2012: Judge Noach Dear Gets Demoted After Issuing “Bizarre” Ruling
Comments: 16 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
Brooklyn Judge Noach Dear gives until it hurts – all Brooklynites. The scandal-ridden former city council member, whose role as a judge was supposed to be limited to hearing low level debt disputes, was removed from hearing criminal cases after...

July 22, 2012: Sleeveless Top, No Service
Comments: 52 | Categories: Haredim , Religion, Religion & State , Women & Judaism
As I reported five days ago, stores in Williamsburg, Brooklyn have posted signs warning customers not to try to enter if dressed 'immodestly' in sleeveless and/or low cut tops. So? What's new? The Williamsburg dress code sign I posted on...

July 22, 2012: Colorado Mass Murderer Worked In Jewish-Sponsored Summer Camp
Comments: 24 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc.
James Holmes, the 24-year-old who is alleged to have murdered 12 people and wounded 58 others at an Aurora, Colorado movie theater early Friday morning, worked as a counselor at a non-sectarian camp sponsored by Jewish Big Brothers and Sisters...

July 21, 2012: Right Wing Zionist Orthodox MK Rips Up New Testament, Drawing Condemnation – And Silence
Comments: 32 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Bigotry & Racism , Books , Israel , MO & Chardal , Religion, Religion & State , Xenophobia
While the Anti-Defamation League, the American Jewish Committee and the head of the Conference of Presidents of Major America Jewish Organizations condemned the public destruction of a New Testament by a prominent Israeli lawmaker, the Jewish Federations of North America...

July 20, 2012: Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv's Heartless Misogyny
Comments: 69 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Women & Judaism
“I don’t understand how a rabbi can issue a ruling on a matter of life and death without even talking to the parties. We’re not talking about koshering a knife here.” Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv Writing in the Forward, Elana...

July 20, 2012: Hasidic Rebbe Threatens To Boycott Siyum HaShas Over "Zionist" Presence
Comments: 57 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
The Vizhnitzer Rebbe of Monsey, New York has reportedly threatened to boycott Agudath Israel of America's Siyum HaShas because “Zionist rabbis” are scheduled to speak. Those Zionist rabbis are former Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau and Yaakov Hillel. Both...

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