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August 22, 2012: Chabad's Non-Apology 'Apology' For Sexual Abuse
Comments: 35 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Chabad in Melbourne, Australia has issued a letter about child sexual abuse and child safety in its Yeshiva Centre. It doesn't actually apologize for the sexual abuse and coverups that have plagued it for decades. It doesn't even admit that...

August 21, 2012: Were There More Agudah Child Sex Abuse Victims?
Comments: 118 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Philip Fishman wrote a memoir about growing up in Williamsburg before the hasidic takeover of the Brooklyn neighborhood. In it Fishman talks about being sexually abused by a very well known "middle aged" "charismatic" leader of Agudath Israel of America...

August 21, 2012: Haredi Mayor To Block Non-Haredi Visits To Archaeological Site In Bid To Prevent Haredim From Hearing “False Opinions”
Comments: 25 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Haredim , Israel , Torah & Science
Modi'in Ilit's Mayor Yaakov Gutterman told the haredi newspaper Yated Ne’eman last week that the site, which is believed to be an agricultural village from the Second Temple period, "will operate according to the doctrines of our forefathers, according to...

August 21, 2012: Zionist Orthodox Rabbis Launch Their Own Version Of A “Kosher” Smart Phone
Comments: 36 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Blogs , Israel , MO & Chardal , Web/Tech
Rabbi Avinoam Horowitz, principal of the Kiryat Arba Zionist Orthodox public high school, said that the objective of Telephonetto is to create unanimous opposition by Zionist Orthodox teachers to unfiltered smart phones, which cause the "mutilating the students' souls,” referring...

August 21, 2012: Rabbi Ovadia Yosef Attacks Teachers In Israel’s Non-Orthodox Schools, Calls Them Heretics
Comments: 22 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Sefardim
"Anyone who sends his sons [to non-Orthodox schools] should know that he is corrupting them, burying them, and he is unfit to serve as a shaliach tzibbur,” Yose ruled. The 91-year-old founder and spiritual leader of the Sefardic Shas political...

August 21, 2012: Video: Kids Told Not To Talk About Camp Abuse
Comments: 14 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
"'The kids were warned that morning that they should not be talking to each other about the incident,' the father, who wants to remain anonymous, told PIX. The man said he feared reprisals from the Bobover sect in Borough Park,...

August 20, 2012: Exclusive: Hasidic Newspaper Uses The "N" Word
Comments: 106 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Haredim
In a rant about secular Jews who waste their time watching "lame" sports events like the Olympics, the Satmar hasid-owned Yiddish newspaper Der Yid can't resist using the "N" word – and shvartze – twice. Here's a very rough summary-translation...

August 20, 2012: Haredi Boy Assaulted In Bnei Brak Mikva
Comments: 38 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Marvin Schick
A haredi boy was sexually assaulted in a Bnei Brak mikva Sunday, and even though the alleged 20-year-old assailant is under arrest, local politicians and police are warning parents to watch over their children – even in places that seem...

August 20, 2012: Haredi Rabbis Ban Tight Pants – For Men
Comments: 62 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Extreme Sniut , Haredim , Israel
“There is a strict Biblical prohibition against wearing tight clothing like the gentiles, as stated: ‘You shall not follow in their ways.’ Wearing tight pants is forbidden because of that reason.…And those who wear (such garments) are sinful and cause...

August 20, 2012: Should The New Shlomo Carlebach Musical Be Banned?
Comments: 71 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Shlomo Carlebach was perhaps the greatest religious Jewish composer since King David. His compositions are sung in synagogues across the world – and across all denominations. He inspired tens of thousands of Jews to explore Judaism, often for the first...

August 20, 2012: Israeli City Refuses To Enroll African Refugee Children In Its Public Schools
Comments: 53 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Israel , Refugees
Despite a court order, the Eilat is refusing to enroll African refugee children in the city’s public schools. Israeli City Refuses To Enroll African Refugee Children In Its Public Schools Despite a court order, the Eilat is refusing to enroll...

August 20, 2012: Zionist Orthodox Public Schools Adopt “Modesty Rules” For Little Girls That Echo Haredim
Comments: 25 | Categories: Israel , MO & Chardal , Women & Judaism
Israeli parents trying to enroll their first- and second-grade girls in many Zionist Orthodox public schools across the country have reportedly been given questionnaires about their personal level of religious observance and told they must complete them before their children...

August 19, 2012: Was She Murdered? Jewish Woman In Custody Battle With Saudi Prince Falls From 4th Floor, Dies
Comments: 18 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Sefardim
Police are still investigating what caused the death of Candice Cohen-Ahnine, 35, who fell from her Paris apartment window on Thursday night. Investigators reportedly had been leaning towards an accident as cause of death, but by Sunday reports in the...

August 19, 2012: Just Like Birthright, Only For Congress: Drunken, Nude Swim In Israel By Republican Lawmakers Draws FBI Investigation
Comments: 25 | Categories: Israel
A group of mostly freshmen Republican members of the US House of Representatives, their wives, families and staffs went on an American Israel Educational Foundation-sponsored "fact-finding" trip to Israel last summer. (The AIEF is related to AIPAC.) While there, many...

August 19, 2012: Bride Arrested In Williamsburg
Comments: 69 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
I don't know the details of this story or the name of the bride. I don't even know at this point whether this is a real arrest or if it is staged. However, allegedly, it is real. Update 10:36 pm...

August 19, 2012: Town Rabbis Rule Electric Razors Are Treife, Move To Offer Kosher Certification For Barber Shops
Comments: 75 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
A senior rabbi also sent out a list of forbidden haircut styles to barbershops in the city and signaled the beginning of kosher supervision for barber shops. Town Rabbis Rule Electric Razors Are Treife, Move To Offer Kosher Certification For...

August 19, 2012: Rabbi Faking Mental Illness To Avoid Trial, Psychiatrist Says
Comments: 7 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
A forensic psychiatrist says a Rabbi Victor Koltun is faking symptoms of mental illness to avoid his murder-for-hire trial. Alan Tuckman reportedly testified at a hearing Friday that Koltun was "malingering." Rabbi Victor Koltun Rabbi Faking Mental Illness To Avoid...

August 19, 2012: Rabbi Ovadia Yosef Rules That Judges Of Israel's Secular Courts Are "Evil" And Have Status Equivalent To Non-Jews
Comments: 30 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Religion, Religion & State , Sefardim
“Whoever presides over a court of gentiles, and judges using the laws of gentiles, gives up the Torah of Moses, and is called wicked,” said Rabbi Yosef on Saturday night. “They judge according to the laws of the nations, not...

August 19, 2012: A Picture Imperfect
Comments: 23 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
Howard Frank, a beggar with a million dollar photo collection, was found dead in the Gowanus Canal in June. An autopsy was blocked, allegedly by Misaskim, without family being contacted. Police and the medical examiner rushed to try to rule...

August 18, 2012: Palestinian Firebomb Victim Blames Israel For Not Protecting Him From Haredim
Comments: 20 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel
"We blame the State of Israel for this situation because they allow the haredim to attack us. We demand that the perpetrators responsible for this incident be prosecuted.…We also want to be protected from the settlers who want to harm...

August 18, 2012: Former Aide To Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto Charged With Immigration Fraud
Comments: 3 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Sefardim
The involvement of the US Attorney’s Public Corruption unit in the arrest of Ofer Biton portends more arrests and much broader charges to come. Ofer Biton Former Aide To Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto Charged With Immigration Fraud Involvement of US...

August 17, 2012: Video: The Woman Who Saved Syrian Jews
Comments: 59 | Categories: Antisemitism , Jewish Leadership
Judy Feld-Car is a Canadian-Jewish grandmother who rescued thousands of Syrian Jews. Here's how she did it…

August 17, 2012: Is Female Genital Mutilation A Valid Reason For Gaining Refugee Status In Israel?
Comments: 26 | Categories: Israel , Refugees
Should a family be granted asylum in Israel because if deported back to the Ivory Coast the family's daughter will be forcibly circumcised? The Ivory Coast refugee family, Tel Aviv, Israel Should a family be granted asylum in Israel because...

August 17, 2012: An Implausible Bobov Lie
Comments: 61 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
A man creeps into a bunkhouse of a hasidic boys camp at approximately 4:00 am. He is seen on security camera footage in the bunkhouse hallway, going in and out of the rooms where 12- and 13-year-old boys are sleeping....

August 16, 2012: Haredi Man Busted In Modesty Squad Prostitution Extortion Scheme
Comments: 29 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel
A haredi man has reportedly been arrested and indicted after he set up other haredim who contacted online a person they thought was a female prostitute selling sex. The alleged extortionist worked with a haredi modesty squad. He allegedly threatened...

August 16, 2012: Moshe Rubashkin Violates Parole To Go To Mikva
Comments: 33 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
The brother of former Agriprocessors VP Sholom Rubashkin violated his parole by cutting off his electronic ankle bracelet for Passover so he could immerse in a mikva. But Moshe Rubashkin got caught. Moshe Rubashkin, left The relevant excerpt from the...

August 16, 2012: Internal Hasidic Politics Causes Demise Of “Umbrella” Hasidic Kosher Supervision
Comments: 6 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Hisachdus, an Israeli umbrella glatt kosher supervision, launched three years ago to unify several disparate hasidic supervisions, has closed. Internal Hasidic Politics Causes Demise Of “Umbrella” Hasidic Kosher Supervision Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com Hisachdus, an Israeli umbrella glatt kosher supervision,...

August 16, 2012: Cops Bristle At Shomrim Bid To Conceal Evidence Of Crimes
Comments: 19 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
As the NYPD bristles at Shomrim's insistence that publicly funded security camera footage be censored by Shomrim before police are allowed to view it, Brooklyn's ethics-challenged District Attorney Charles J. Hynes refuses to criticize the haredi vigilante group. Charles J....

August 16, 2012: Three Brooklyn Hasidim Busted For Laundering Millions Of Dollars Of Drug Money
Comments: 39 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
Three Brooklyn hasidim – Samuel Ashkenazi, 43; Samuel “Benzi” Goldberger, 34; and Samuel Blau, 50 – were arrested Wednesday for allegedly laundering “millions of dollars for an international drug ring that operates in Israel, England and the US.” Three Brooklyn...

August 16, 2012: Murder In Malcha Mall
Comments: 24 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Israel
A young girl has apparently been murdered in the Malcha shopping mall in Jerusalem. According to a source whose wife, daughter and uncle were all there, a young girl, probably between the ages of 4 and 7, has just been...

August 16, 2012: Rubashkin Reply Brief To Govt's Opposition To Supreme Court Appeal
Comments: 24 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Here is the reply brief from Sholom Rubashkin's attorneys that was filed in response to the government's opposition to the US Supreme Court taking Rubashkin's case. Sholom Rubashkin There is no way to predict how the US Supreme Court will...

August 15, 2012: Video: Israeli Makes Working Bicycle Out Of Cardboard
Comments: 19 |
Izhar Gafni hopes his invention will allow cheap bicycles to be sold in very poor countries so that people who now walk miles every day to get to work or school will be able to ride bikes instead, cutting down...

August 15, 2012: Haredi IDF Soldiers Say Drivers Of Gender Segregated Public Buses Refused To Let Them Ride
Comments: 9 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
Two separate Egged bus drivers allegedly refused to allow haredi male IDF soldiers to travel on their gender segregated buses in violation of the law. The soldiers tried to board near a haredi kibbutz that is used as a vacation...

August 15, 2012: Whitewashing The Satmar Rebbe On The Anniversary Of His Death
Comments: 78 | Categories: Haredim , History
It's the 33 yartzeit of the Satmar rebbe , Yoel Teitelbaum, and haredim associated with Edah Charedit figures (Rabbi Yair Hoffman, for example) and Satmar hasidim extoll the greatness of a man who was arguably one of the worst Jewish...

August 15, 2012: Man Claims Haredi Pol Barred His Daughter From School In Kindergarten Turf War
Comments: 8 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Turf Disputes
A haredi resident of the Israeli haredi city of Elad claims the city's haredi deputy mayor, who is also a rabbi, blocked the man's daughter from enrolling in first grade in a haredi school as revenge for the man opening...

August 15, 2012: Rescued From Slavery
Comments: 26 | Categories: Antisemitism , Books , Ethiopian Jews
Judie Oron knows the price of freedom. So does her daughter Wuditu: $111. That's the price Oron paid to free the 17-year-old Ethiopian Jew from a life of slavery and forced prostitution. Journalist rescued Ethiopian girl from slavery JOE BELANGER...

August 15, 2012: Nonprofits Petition High Court To Stop Haredi Stipends
Comments: 19 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Religion, Religion & State
The Israeli nonprofits Hiddush, which advocates religious freedom and denominational equality within Judaism; Israel Hofshit; and the Israeli Forum for Equal Service; joined with former Member of Knesset Roni Barizon to petition the High Court of Justice in an attempt...

August 14, 2012: Rotten Apple? Rabbis Want Apple To Stop Selling Notorious Antisemitic Forgery
Comments: 42 | Categories: Antisemitism , Haredim , MO & Chardal , Web/Tech
The Conference of European Rabbis wants Apple to remove an Arabic language version of the notorious antisemitic forgery, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, from the iTunes store. Apple failed to respond to the request or to repeated calls...

August 14, 2012: Baltimore Haredi Rabbi Warns Community About Pedophile
Comments: 55 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
A warning signed by Rabbi Yaakov Hopfer is posted in at least two Baltimore synagogues, Congregation Kol Torah (headed by Rabbi Yosef Berger), and Kehillas Bnai Torah (headed by Rabbi Jonathan Seidemann.) Pictured above and above right: Convicted pedophile Rabbi...

August 14, 2012: The Distortions Of Britain's Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
Comments: 41 | Categories: Circumcision , MO & Chardal
Britain's outgoing chief rabbi tries to pull an intellectual fast one in defense of brit milah, Jewish ritual circumcision. But Sacks – who is considered to be a student of philosophy – is outed by Allan Nadler. Rabbi Lord Jonathan...

August 14, 2012: Haredi Rabbis Call On Government To Stop Haredi Draft
Comments: 33 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Religion, Religion & State
“[Do] not change in any way the state of affairs regarding yeshiva students which has been in effect from ancient times here in the Land of Israel,” the rabbis wrote. Rabbi Aharon Leib Shteinman Haredi Rabbis Call On Government To...

August 13, 2012: Two Israelis Arrested In Rabbi Blackmail Plot
Comments: 16 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Sefardim
Two Israeli men were arrested by Israel Police and indicted for trying to blackmail and extort an unnamed American-based rabbi. Shai Cohen and Simon Suriana allegedly hired two women to seduce the rabbi with the intent of using images of...

August 13, 2012: Haredi Male Employment Up By 28% – Or Is It?
Comments: 27 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
The government-controlled Bank of Israel issues a study showing that 45% of haredi men now work, up from 35% in 2002. In fact, the employment rate for haredi men went from 38% in 2009 to 45% in 2011 – an...

August 13, 2012: Kosher Ice Cream Truck “War” Leads To Arrests
Comments: 47 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
A kosher ice cream truck “war” in Sullivan County has led to two arrests and numerous police calls. Originally published at 9:59 pm CDT 8-12-2012 Kosher Ice Cream Truck “War” Leads To Arrests Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com A kosher ice...

August 13, 2012: Haredi Rabbis Allegedly Hid Evidence Of Child Rapes, Granted Haredi Rapist Access To His Children
Comments: 23 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
The State of Israel’s official Jerusalem rabbinic court, which is haredi-controlled, reportedly concealed evidence that a haredi elementary school teacher had raped boys. Originally published at 9:10 pm CDT 8-12-2012 Haredi Rabbis Allegedly Hid Evidence Of Child Rapes, Granted Haredi...

August 12, 2012: Report: Lev Tahor Cult Uses Violence, Extortion, Manipulation To Terrorize Members
Comments: 20 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Extreme Sniut , Haredim , Women & Judaism
Part One of an in-depth Hebrew series of reports on Rabbi Shlomo Helbrans and his haredi Lev Tahor cult exposes violence, extortion and manipulation by Helbrans used to keep his cult members under his control. Women in the Lev Tahor...

August 12, 2012: Haredim At War With Each Other Over Graves
Comments: 11 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel
In a new letter published in Israeli haredi papers today, Rabbi Moshe Shternbach, the head of the Mea-Shearim-based haredi umbrella organization Eda Haredit’s rabbinical court, accused the haredi Atra Kadisha organization of fraudulently staging sometimes violent protests against construction in...

August 12, 2012: 19-Year-Old Female Blocked From Boarding Public Bus, Harassed By Haredim
Comments: 29 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Women & Judaism
A 19-year-old off-duty female soldier was extensively harassed by haredim as she tried to take a public bus from Shoham to Jerusalem on Friday. File photo 19-Year-Old Female Blocked From Boarding Public Bus, Harassed By Haredim Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com...

August 12, 2012: A Chabad Messianist License Plate
Comments: 79 | Categories: Chabad , Chabad & Christianity
Spotted near 770 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York – Chabad's international headquarters. "MHM" stands for "Melech HaMashiach," "The King Messiah." [Hat Tip: HeathenHassid.]

August 10, 2012: New Child Sexual Abuse At A Bobover Camp Shows How Things Have – And Have Not – Changed For Haredim With Regard To Reporting Abuse
Comments: 126 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Camp officials take at least 32 hours to report a series of sexual assaults against several children to police. File photo used for illustrative purposes only New Child Sexual Abuse At A Bobover Camp Shows How Things Have – And...

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