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226 posts from December 2012

December 24, 2012: Chabad In Sydney Bailed Out To The Tune Of $6 Million
Comments: 10 | Categories: Chabad
Triguboff has apparently avoided errors made by previous benefactors who previously rescued the movement’s Sydney outpost from financial distress – he structured a deal that removed the Feldman family from control of Chabad’s day-today operations and its buildings. Instead, Rabbi...

December 24, 2012: Former Neturei Karta Leader Wins Court Case Against Belgian Hasidic School, But Bizarre Backstory May Lead To More Satmar Arrests
Comments: 77 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
Moshe Aryeh Friedman won a bizarre court case against an all girls hasidic school forcing the school to take his young boys as students or lose state subsidies and face state penalties. But the case may be even more bizarre...

December 24, 2012: Haredim Angered By Jerusalem Christmas Tree
Comments: 21 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Religion, Religion & State
Haredi leaders were outraged when the City of Jerusalem allowed a large Christmas tree to be displayed at Jaffa Gate last week, the main entrance to the Old City for many Jews and Armenians. Jaffa Gate Haredim Angered By Jerusalem...

December 23, 2012: Video: Haredim Protest Haredi-Run Job Fair
Comments: 16 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
Last week, a haredi-run job fair in Beit Shemesh was protested by…Yerushalmi haredim, who complained that providing haredim with jobs would take them away from Torah study. You'll see the Yerushalmi haredim protest and scream, the Litvish haredim who sponsored...

December 23, 2012: A Desecration Of God's Name In London
Comments: 30 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
"There are some sins one cannot be rehabilitated from. One who abuses one's religious office in order to gain sexual favors cannot repent and then continue to serve. Such people need to be permanently and completely removed from ever serving...

December 23, 2012: Dov Hikind Trying To Block Israel's Extradition Of Yitzchak Shuchat To Brooklyn
Comments: 21 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel
New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikind Says he has been in contact with Israel's "Attorney General" in an attempt to block the High Court of Justice ordered extradition of Yitzchak Shuchat, who is wanted for a beating a Black honors...

December 23, 2012: Ostreicher Judge Reportedly Flees Bolivia
Comments: 12 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
Ariel Rocha, the President of the Court of Justice of Santa Cruz, Bolivia, has reportedly fled a warrant for his arrest and is now reportedly in Argentina. Jacob Ostreicher, right, and actor Sean Penn outside a Bolivian courtroom earlier this...

December 23, 2012: Haredi Man Arrested For Allegedly Sexually Assaulting Hospitalized 11-Year-Old Girl
Comments: 13 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
A resident of the haredi town of Modi’in Ilit was reportedly arrested Friday for allegedly sexually abusing an 11-year-old girl hospitalized in Jerusalem. Haredi Man Arrested For Allegedly Sexually Assaulting Hospitalized 11-Year-Old Girl Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com A resident of...

December 23, 2012: Vizhnitzer Rebbe To Yeshiva Students: Do Not Report For The Draft, Say I Said So And Tell The IDF To Come Arrest Me If They Want To
Comments: 33 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Religion, Religion & State
“[R]ecently I heard the frightening incidents that occurred [at the induction centers, where haredi yeshiva students supposedly had their testicles examined, sometimes by women physicians, as part of the IDF’s standard induction physical]… I have a responsibility to all of...

December 23, 2012: Haredi Infighting Allegedly Behind Assault Against Haredi Newspaper Editor
Comments: 4 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel
The editor-in-chief of the haredi daily newspaper Hapeles was reportedly assaulted late Thursday night outside his Jerusalem home. The attack is thought to be part of the power struggle for leadership of the non-hasidic Ashkenazi haredi community. Nati Grossman Originally...

December 22, 2012: New York State Reportedly Positioning Itself To Take Over Haredi-Dominated School District
Comments: 28 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , MO & Chardal
New York State officials sent the scandal-plagued East Ramapo school district a third formal notice late last week that states that the district's special-education programs violate state and federal laws. New York State Reportedly Positioning Itself To Take Over Haredi-Dominated...

December 22, 2012: Breeding Violence Against Women
Comments: 29 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Women & Judaism
Hadassah Shalom, the in-house social worker in charge of children's therapy at this Bat Melech shelter, says ultra-Orthodox children often have special problems: "It is hard for these children to say bad things about their father: They are educated to...

December 22, 2012: Cairo Geniza, Nash Papayrus Fragments Now Online
Comments: 6 | Categories: History
Cambridge University, continuing its project of digitializing its collection of ancient manuscripts, has digitialized and put online its Cairo Geniza collection and its Nash Papayrus fragment – the second oldest Bible fragment known to exist, allowing you to see them,...

December 21, 2012: Top Israeli Haredi Rabbis Tell Justice Minister Not To Extradite Chabad Hasid Wanted In US For Hate Crime
Comments: 30 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
Top Israeli haredi rabbis have reportedly signed a public letter forbidding the extradition of Yitzchak Shuchat, a Chabad hasid who fled Brooklyn for Israel after allegedly beating a Black honors student in a Crown Heights hate crime. Yitzchak Shuchat Top...

December 21, 2012: Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto Says He Had A Dream
Comments: 36 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Sefardim
“We're relaxed because four years ago I had a dream of what's happening. If they [the police - the Attorney General] could, they would take [the arrests, the police investigations, the looming indictments] all back." Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto Rabbi...

December 21, 2012: Haredi Man Arrested For Smashing Up King David’s Tomb
Comments: 16 |
The man told police that he came to the tomb to pray for a wife. He claimed that a second man, who fled before police could arrest him, told him that the only way for his prayers to be answered...

December 21, 2012: Israel’s Public Bus Companies Refuse Kadima Party Ads For Being Anti-Haredi
Comments: 9 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Jewish Leadership , Religion, Religion & State , Women & Judaism
The Kadima political party alleged yesterday that the Egged bus company, which operates public buses in Jerusalem and surrounding areas along with more remote parts of the country, and the Dan bus company, which operates public buses in Tel Aviv...

December 21, 2012: Haredi Yeshiva Student Busted Doing 106 MPH On Israeli Highway
Comments: 46 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel
An 18-year-old haredi yeshiva student was arrested on Israel’s Highway 1 near Mitzpe Jericho for driving wildly and erratically at speeds of up to 106 miles per hour Thursday night. The yeshiva student did not have a driver’s license and...

December 21, 2012: 42 Israelis Petition High Court To Be Declared “Persons Of No Religion”
Comments: 9 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Religion, Religion & State
42 Israelis have petitioned the High Court of Justice to be registered as “persons of no religion” in protest of the haredi stranglehold over marriage, divorce, conversion and burial for Israeli Jews and as a statement of freedom from religion...

December 20, 2012: Haredi Modesty Booklet Urges Women To Stay Indoors, Not To Use Shampoo If They Do Go Out
Comments: 35 | Categories: Extreme Sniut , Haredim , Israel , Women & Judaism
A woman's place is in the home, away from strange men she may arouse in the marketplace, claims a new haredi modesty booklet. Ma'ariv reports that the booklet urges haredi women to stay at home. They should chose to pay...

December 20, 2012: Haredim Caught Using National Library Computers To Surf Porn
Comments: 25 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
The National and University Library at Hebrew university’s Givat Ram campus is used to having haredim come and use the library for research. But it is also faced with a problem it hadn’t foreseen – haredim using the library’s computers...

December 20, 2012: Knowledge Of Child Sex Abuse Allegations Was Widespread In YU Leadership, Abuse Covered Up, More Former Students Allege Abuse
Comments: 19 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , MO & Chardal , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
11 more students have come forward to make allegations about Finkelstein; three more have come forward to make allegations about Rabbi Macy Gordon, who resigned from his teaching job at the OU's Israel Center in Jerusalem over the scandal. The...

December 20, 2012: Schoolchildren Harassed By Screaming Haredi Man, Wife Over “Immodest” Dress
Comments: 19 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Extreme Sniut , Haredim , Israel
"It happened for the first time last year. Some girls wore shorts and were passing by his house. His wife came outside and began screaming to get out of there because they were wearing clothes that were too revealing. In...

December 20, 2012: Naked Archaeologist Sues Critic
Comments: 5 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , History , Israel , MO & Chardal , Religion, Religion & State
Journalist and T.V. host Simcha Jacobovici has sued Joe Zias, the former Curator of Archaeology and Anthropology for the Israel Antiquities Authority, over criticism Zias leveled against Jacobovici and his work. Zias has allegedly accused Jacobovici of "planting" archaeological evidence...

December 20, 2012: Video: The Dishonest, Unethical Haredi-Dominated East Ramapo School Board In Action
Comments: 26 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , MO & Chardal
Daniel Schwartz, the Orthodox Jew who is president the scandal-plagued East Ramapo school board and affiliated with the haredi faction that dominates it, motions to haredi board member Moses Friedman to leave the meeting room so the board loses it...

December 20, 2012: Report: Special Beit Din About To Be Seated In London Rabbi Sex Abuse Affair
Comments: 9 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
After unsuccessfully trying to sweep the allegations against Rabbi Chaim Halpern under the rug and then trying to form a special beit din headed by a known protector of pedophiles and sex offenders, Kedassia reportedly moves to have a more...

December 19, 2012: Bolivian Officials Order Arrest Of Senior Judge In Ostreicher Case
Comments: 7 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
"The apprehension order was issued because there is information in our investigations that he had to a certain degree been part of this [extortion] network with some prosecutors and judges." Actor Sean Penn, left, and Jacob Ostreicher, right, outside a...

December 19, 2012: “Victims Who Choose Silence When They Could Prosecute Have A Moral Obligation To Remain Silent When They Can No Longer Prosecute,” Leading Orthodox Rabbi Says
Comments: 43 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , MO & Chardal , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
In response to the new Yeshiva University high school scandal, Rabbi Steven Pruzansky argues that if you're sexually abused as a child and didn't go to police soon enough to prosecute, you're now obligated to be silent about your abuse...

December 19, 2012: Two Men Caught Forging Diesel Truck Safety And Emissions Certificates
Comments: 11 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
Two Brooklyn motor-vehicle inspectors – one an Orthodox Jew who apparently is a Williamsburg hasid – were arrested earlier today for forging safety and emission tests for diesel trucks. Each man faces as much as seven years in prison. Two...

December 19, 2012: In The Wake Of Sandy Hook Shootings, Behavior Of Haredi-Dominated East Ramapo School Board Draws More Condemnation
Comments: 24 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
“This incident in Connecticut is horrific and it just brings to the surface again the requests that have come down to [the NAACP] saying [to the haredi-dominated school board,]‘We plead with you to be responsive,’” Oscar Cohen, an activist and...

December 19, 2012: Haredi Kabbalist Hucksters Want You To Know That The "Wonder Ring" Is Better Than Any Doctor
Comments: 30 | Categories: Haredim , Hucksterism
That's right. Do you need a yeshua, shalvation? For medical problems (especially, it seems, related to fertitility) the wonder ring can bring "yeshuos." And that, readers of of the North Manchester [England] Circular, is why you should buy one.

December 19, 2012: Video: Ashkenazi Haredi Rabbi Bans Ethiopian Boy From School Because Child Really Isn't Jewish Enough
Comments: 33 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Ethiopian Jews , Haredim , Israel
Israel's Channel 2 documents the case of a studious Orthodox Ethiopian boy who has been banned from his school by the schools Ashkenazi haredi principal. Why? The principal has decided that the boy needs to convert to Judaism. The boy...

December 19, 2012: Court Hearing Exposes Weakness Of Haredi Circumcision Case
Comments: 15 | Categories: Chabad , Circumcision , Haredim
In arguing that City of New York's requirement to inform parents of the dangers posed to the baby by metzitzah b'peh, the direct mouth-to-bleeding-penis suction done by many haredi mohels, is unconstitutional, haredi groups exposed the weakness of their argument....

December 19, 2012: Ashkenazi Deception Of Sefardim Has Begun To End, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef Says
Comments: 10 |
What Sefardi leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef considered an ongoing consumer deception and kosher fraud directed at Sefardim has largely come to an end. Rabbi Ovadia Yosef Ashkenazi Deception Has Begun To End, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef Says Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com...

December 19, 2012: Video: Jacob Ostreicher Thanks Bolivian President For Arrests Of Officials Who Extorted Him
Comments: 8 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
US haredi businessman Jacob Ostreicher speaks on Bolivian television news about the arrests of the government officials who extorted him and his appreciation for Bolivia's president, Evo Morales. Originally published at 11:07 pm CST 12-18-2012 [Hat Tip: Burich.]

December 18, 2012: Jacob Ostreicher Reportedly Released On Bail
Comments: 16 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
Jacob Ostreicher has been released on bail. Ostreicher, a haredi businessman from Brooklyn, was held for more than 18 months without charges in a Bolivian prison on suspicion of money laundering and related charges. Actor Sean Penn, left, with Jacob...

December 18, 2012: The Orthodox Union Lies To The New York Times
Comments: 30 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Scandal , MO & Chardal , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Michael Powell of the New York Times asked the Orthodox Union's president Simcha Katz yesterday about the conviction of Rabbi Nechemya Weberman on child sexual abuse charges. Here is what Katz reportedly told Powell: From today's New York Times: On...

December 18, 2012: Weberman Fundraising Campaign Seeks To Raise $125,000 By The End Of Next Week For Downpayment On Attorneys Fees For Hasidic Sex Offender's Appeal
Comments: 51 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Rabbi Nechemya Weberman's supporters have placed ads in Satmar newspapers seeking to raise $125,000 by the end of next week as a downpayment for attorneys for the appeal of convicted sex offender Rabbi Nechmya Weberman. The hot rumor continues to...

December 18, 2012: CEO Of Homecare Firm Fined $15 Million By NY State For Defrauding Welfare Programs Has Campus Of Lakewood Yeshiva Named For His Family
Comments: 11 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
Elly Kleinman's Americare was fined $7 million in 2005 after New York State investigators found Americare billed for bogus hours at adult homes for eight years. Then in 2008, Americare was fined $8 million for falsely claiming home health aides...

December 18, 2012: Haredi Children Protest Internet In Jerusalem
Comments: 18 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Blogs , Haredim , Israel , Web/Tech
A group of haredi children in Jerusalem used their lunch break yesterday to stage a small protest march against the evil Internet. [Hat Tip: Burich / Ladaat.info.]

December 18, 2012: White House Chief Of Staff Condemns Alleged YU Child Sex Abuse Coverups, Says Response To Child Sex Abuse Must “Transcend The Confines Of Religious Teaching”
Comments: 10 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , MO & Chardal , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
“The alleged behavior is despicable and cannot be tolerated in any place, at any time, and the response must transcend the confines of religious teaching. Leaders of this and every educational institution have a sacred responsibility under civil law to...

December 17, 2012: Two Haredi Yeshiva Students Busted Smuggling Cigarettes
Comments: 16 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel
Two Jerusalem haredi yeshiva students were arrested at Ben Gurion airport last week after they were caught trying to smuggle cigarettes into Israel from Moscow. Two Haredi Yeshiva Students Busted Smuggling Cigarettes Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com Two Jerusalem haredi yeshiva...

December 17, 2012: Australian Jewry's Roof Body Continues To Deny The Abuse Coverups It Is Part Of
Comments: 10 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Jewish Leadership
"it is also about the ECAJ’s unequivocal defence of the Jewish institutions involved in the abuse allegations and the subsequent alleged cover-ups. The ECAJ has repeatedly gone on the public record to say that all the institutions are being fully...

December 17, 2012: Former Irish Chief Rabbi Gets British Chief Rabbi Job
Comments: 21 | Categories: MO & Chardal
Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis has been named United Synagogue's new chief rabbi. Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis Mirvis is South African born but has served for years in the UK. Details at the JC. [Hat Tip: B. R..]

December 17, 2012: Why Did Jews Get Expelled From England And Parts Of France?
Comments: 112 | Categories: Antisemitism , Crime, Litigation, etc. , History
Jews were expelled from England in 1290 CE and from parts of France before that. Why did this happen? Was it simple antisemitism? Or did Jews play a role in our own expulsion? The answer may surprise you. Why did...

December 17, 2012: A Little OU Self-Censorship In The Face Of Satmar Threats?
Comments: 12 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , MO & Chardal , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
The OU, never one to have much in the way of backbone, removed its joint statement with the RCA supporting the verdict against convicted child sexual abuser Rabbi Nechemya Weberman from its website. Did Satmar threaten the OU over kosher...

December 17, 2012: Head Of Leading Haredi Org Pays Friendly Visit To Accused Sex Offender, Jews Protest
Comments: 25 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Rabbi Padwa, the senior rabbi of Kedassia in London, paid a friendly visit to Rabbi Chaim Halpern and his father Rabbi Elchonon and showed his support for the accused sex offender. Padwa has heard details from several women who allege...

December 17, 2012: What Fools Believe: Pouring Away The Evil Eye
Comments: 39 | Categories: Haredim , MO & Chardal
Blei gissen, the technique of pouring lead to nullify ayin ha’ra, the poisonous evil eye, has its source in the Gemara and been practiced for many years. Today, one of its most popular practitioners is Rebbetzin Aidel Miller, a great-granddaughter...

December 17, 2012: Haredi-Run Homecare Firm Whose CEO Has Close Ties To Agudah Under Fire – Again
Comments: 5 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
Whistleblowers are on the warpath against Americare. The Flatbush home care agency with a troubled past is back to its old Medicaid billing tricks, they charged — with one ploy right out of “The War of the Roses.” A company...

December 16, 2012: Warring Haredi Leaders Meet, Decide Nothing
Comments: 11 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
Haredi leader Rabbi Aharon Leib Shteinman reportedly met his chief adversary Rabbi Shmuel Auerbach, head of a haredi breakaway faction, in Shteinman's home Saturday night. Rabbi Aharon Leib Shteinman Warring Haredi Leaders Meet, Decide Nothing Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com Haredi...

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