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November 23, 2013: Iran Nuclear Deal Reached
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Iran and six major powers agreed early Sunday on an historic deal that freezes key parts of Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for temporary relief on some economic sanctions, diplomats confirmed. The deal apparently allows Iran to continue limited enrichment...

November 23, 2013: Videos: Multiple Arrests In Knockout Game Attacks, 1 Man Murdered In New Jersey
Comments: 3 | Categories: Antisemitism , Crime, Litigation, etc.
New Jersey knockout game murder victim is not Jewish. The attacks may not be anti-Semitic hate crimes – although this is still not certain. And a knockout game murder in Hoboken, New Jersey, where three teens were arrested: Related Post:...

November 23, 2013: Satmar And The Holocaust: A Rebbe's Rescue From The Nazis And The Lies Satmar Tells To Cover Up The Truth
Comments: 83 | Categories: Haredim , History
Tonight marks the 69th anniversary of the Satmar Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum's rescue from the Nazis, and Satmar is marking the occassion with giant banquets in Brooklyn and elsewhere as it does every year. But Teitelbaum was saved by a Zionist...

November 23, 2013: Haredi Thugs Harass Edah Haredit #2 Rabbi Over “Graves Desecration” – Will Beit Shemesh Riots Resume?
Comments: 5 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
Rabbi Moshe Sternbuch, the second most senior rabbi in the virulently anti-Zionist Mea-Shearim-based haredi umbrella organization Edah Haredit, was attending a brit milah ceremony in the haredi town of Kiryat Sefer Friday when he was harassed by a group of...

November 22, 2013: More Allegations Surface Against Second Alleged Camp Dora Golding Molester
Comments: 3 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , MO & Chardal , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
More allegations against the second alleged Camp Dora Golding molester have been made, and they allegedly come from new alleged victims. All Camp Dora Golding Abuse Scandal Posts.

November 22, 2013: Case Against Haredi Man Who Spit On And Terrorized Little Girls Dropped
Comments: 11 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal , Women & Judaism
Little girls were repeatedly spit on, yelled at and threatened by adult haredi males who called them "whores," "harlots" and "trollops" and who chased the little girls as they tried to flee these screaming haredim. All the girls wanted to...

November 22, 2013: Judaism’s Fundamentalism Problem
Comments: 12 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes , Women & Judaism
"Jewish communities — both in Israel and the Diaspora — sometimes are held to a lower standard. Despite emerging evidence of widespread, appalling sex abuse within fundamentalist orthodox Jewish communities, this problem gets only sporadic [media] attention, especially compared to...

November 22, 2013: Haredi Man Who Allegedly Tried To Spy For Iran May Get Plea Deal
Comments: 5 | Categories: BTs , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel
Yitzhak Bergel, the Neturei-Karta-linked man who allegedly tried to spy against Israel for Iran may be about to get a plea deal that reportedly could see him serve four years or less in prison. Yitzhak Bergel Haredi Man Who Allegedly...

November 22, 2013: Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger Asked Aide To Take The Fall For Him, Secret Tape Allegedly Shows
Comments: 6 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel
“If you take the blame [for stealing millions of shekels] just like Shula Zaken did for Ehud Olmert, I will give you a great deal of money as well as an apartment,” Metzger allegedly told an aide. Former Ashkenazi Chief...

November 22, 2013: Satmar-Backed Candidates Win Final Monroe Vote Tally, Alleged Hasidic Voter Fraud Again Left Uninvestigated
Comments: 1 | Categories: Haredim
The Satmar-backed candidates in this month’s elections in Monroe, New York have, after more than two weeks spent counting ballots, come out on top and are expected to be declared the official victors soon – despite evidence of voter fraud...

November 21, 2013: British Government Sends Inspectors To Root Out Illegal Haredi Schools That Do Not Teach Secular Subjects
Comments: 15 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
Many haredim in Belgium were allegedly planning to flee the country for Manchester and London after Belgium recently began to enforce its education law mandating that schools teach Belgium’s secular core curriculum. Israel is in the process of doing the...

November 21, 2013: In Another Blow To African Refugees, Israel Violates International Law And Agreements, Will Deny All Foreigners Born In Israel Birth Certificates
Comments: 17 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Israel , Refugees , Religion, Religion & State
The existence of this draconian decision was included in papers on a separate case filed by the government with the High Court of Justice Monday. In that case, the government’s existing policy of refusing to include the father's name on...

November 21, 2013: Israel To Indict Kahane Website’s Editors, High Court Orders State To Explain Why Chabad Settler Rabbis Were Not Indicted For Racist Book That Incites Violence
Comments: 19 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Israel , MO & Chardal
Israel’s High Court of Justice ruled Wednesday that Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein and the State Prosecutor's Office have three months to explain to the High Court why Rabbis Yitzhak Shapira and Yosef Elitzur, the authors of the racist book Torat...

November 21, 2013: Bill That Would Have Made It Illegal To Form A Coalition Government Without Haredi Parties Fails First Knesset Reading
Comments: 14 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Religion, Religion & State
“…If only a small portion of what is being directed against haredim was directed at the Arab sector the entire nation would be up in arms. Banning haredim from the coalition stems from pure racism!,” haredi MK Rabbi Yaakov Litzman...

November 21, 2013: Rabbi Marc Schneier Marries Wife #5
Comments: 11 | Categories: MO & Chardal
Rabbi Marc Schneier – founder of the Hampton Synagogue, the New York Synagogue and The Foundation for Ethnic Understanding – has married his fifth wife, Gitty Leiner – which should mean Schneier's bitter divorce battle with is fourth wife, Tobi...

November 21, 2013: Haredi Rabbi: We Would Love To Commit Genocide Against Palestinians
Comments: 33 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Haredim , Israel
Rabbi Yisroel Reisman, a rosh yeshiva (dean) of Yeshiva Torah Vodaas in Brooklyn, New York whose public classes are streamed live worldwide, told his students Saturday night that "we" would love to kill all the non-Jewish residents of Hebron and...

November 20, 2013: Hasidic Rebbe Arrested In Brooklyn By NYPD Sex Crimes Detectives
Comments: 25 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Rabbi Yakov Yitzchak Roth – one of the four Shomrei Emunim rebbes – allegedly hid his Israeli sex crimes record in order to get a US visa and immigrate to New York. The Shomrei Emunim Rebbe of Borough Park Rabbi...

November 20, 2013: In Nod To Haredim, De Blasio Names Ohel President To Transition Team
Comments: 7 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Ohel's decades of allegedly covering up and mishandling of haredi child sexual abuse was apparently not enough for New York City Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio to keep Ohel's president off his transition team. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 20, 2013 MAYOR-ELECT...

November 20, 2013: Alleged Mobsters In Rabbi Extortion Scheme Ordered Released To House Arrest
Comments: 1 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Sefardim
“You can’t arrest someone just because of his reputation. There are clear rules, including the existence of evidence, progress in the investigation and a clear reason for the arrest.” Shalom Domrani Alleged Mobsters In Rabbi Extortion Scheme Ordered Released To...

November 20, 2013: I’ll Ask All Haredim To Dodge The Draft If Draft Dodging Is Criminalized, Haredi MK Says
Comments: 9 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Religion, Religion & State
In the Knesset committee meeting, a defiant haredi MK, Rabbi Moshe Gafni of the Ashkenazi haredi United Torah Judaism Party, reportedly attacked Yesh Atid’s demand for criminalizing haredi draft dodging and said he will personally call on haredim to dodge...

November 20, 2013: Video: Billy Crystal And Jimmy Fallon In "Schmuck Dynasty
Comments: 10 | Categories: Haredim , Humor , PARODY & SATIRE , Television
Billy Crystal and Jimmy Fallon parody the wildly popular A&E reality show Duck Dynasty. [Hat Tip: Rebitzman.]

November 20, 2013: Another Rabbi In Chains: Prominent Israel Rabbi Indicted For Spousal And Child Abuse
Comments: 16 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Israel
A prominent rabbi from southern Israel was indicted yesterday for physically abusing his wife and children, issuing terroristic threats and obstructing justice. Prominent Israel Rabbi Indicted For Spousal And Child Abuse Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com A prominent rabbi from southern...

November 20, 2013: Notorious Haredi Cult Tries To Flee Canada For Iran, Is Allegedly Arrested
Comments: 21 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
Rabbi Shlomo Helbrans and his Lev Tahor cult fled Ste. Agathe-du-Mont, Quebec and were rumored to heading for the southern US and from there to Sudan or another country that would not extradite them to Canada or Israel when they...

November 20, 2013: Censorship: Haredi Newspapers, Radio Maintain News Blackout Of Former Chief Rabbi’s Arrest
Comments: 5 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel
All four Israeli haredi daily newspapers - Yated Ne'eman, Hamodia, Hamevaser and Hapeles – “did not write a single word” about the arrest of former Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel Yona Metzger on fraud, breech of public trust, obstruction of...

November 20, 2013: Chabad Rabbi Starts Food Safety Kosher Seal
Comments: 2 | Categories: Chabad , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
The Rabbi said the existing Kosher certification program, , has been using client contracts for many years that require commitments by Kosher certified manufacturers that they comply with all applicable government food-safety regulations. "Under Kosher Check," he said, "Approval will...

November 20, 2013: Accused Chabad Pedophile Allowed To Leave Australia For L.A. On $1 Million Bond
Comments: 11 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Daniel Robert "Gug" Hayman was granted permission to leave the Australia despite being charged with a third offense relating to the indecent assault of a 12-year-old boy. Daniel "Gug" Hayman The Sydney Morning Herald reports: A businessman accused of sexually...

November 20, 2013: Video: Outside Court, Advocate, Dershowitz Talk About Lebovits Plea Deal That Wasn't
Comments: 3 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Outside court yesterday after Rabbi Baruch's Lebovits' case was postponed until late January, an advocate for abuse victims and an attorney for the alleged abuser talk about the pleas deal that wasn't and what the future may hold. Related Post:...

November 19, 2013: 60% Of Haredi Women Do Not Take Their Babies For Hearing Evaluations – Even Though The Evaluations Are Free
Comments: 11 | Categories: Child Safety , Haredim , Israel , Med-Ethics, Public Health
Six out of 10 haredi women don’t take their babies for free hearing checks, Tel Aviv University hearing researcher Dr. Sarah Ingber reportedly told the Knesset today. The Jerusalem Post reports: Six out of 10 ultra-Orthodox women don’t take their...

November 19, 2013: Murder: Dead Baby Found Wrapped In “Haredi-Style Skirt,” Police Hunt For Killer
Comments: 20 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
Police in Rockland County have posted a Yiddish-language appeal in the hopes of solving the murder of a baby who was not even one day old when killed. Murder: Dead Baby Found Wrapped In “Haredi-Style Skirt,” Police Hunt For Killer...

November 19, 2013: Hasidic PR Flack Yossi Gestetner Writes What Some Call Op-Ed Threatening New Rockland County Executive
Comments: 25 | Categories: Haredim
"One route Mr. Day may choose is to fall fully in line with his election partners, the Ramapo-based Preserve Rockland bloc. This could antagonize the situation; it could lead to lawsuits; it could bring the U.S. Department of Justice to...

November 19, 2013: Former Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger Reportedly Caught On Tape Incriminating Himself
Comments: 1 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel
Police reportedly have an "operative" who recorded and photographed Rabbi Yona Metzger sabotaging investigations, obstructing justice, coordinating alibis with associates, and incriminating himself. Former Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Of Israel Rabbi Yona Metzger Former Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger Reportedly Caught On...

November 19, 2013: Police Find More Than $200,000 In Cash Allegedly Hidden By Ex-Chief Rabbi Arrested For Fraud, Bribery
Comments: 11 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel
The fraud, bribery, money laundering and embezzlement investigation into former Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel Yona Metzger has reportedly turned up troves of hidden cash – and two new witnesses. Former Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel Yona Metzger Police Find...

November 19, 2013: Lebovits Case Adjourned Until January 23
Comments: 2 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
The retrial of accused serial pedophile Rabbi Baruch Lebovits has been adjourned until January 23, meaning the new District Attorney, Kenneth Thompson, and his staff will be handling the case. This also means that outgoing D.A. Charles J. Hynes and...

November 19, 2013: Mobster Rabbi Issues Statement After Being Released From Detention
Comments: 2 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Sefardim
When the alleged mobster Rabbi Yoram Abergel was released from jail Sunday after a week spent behind bars, he issued his first public statement on his arrest – a statement which was surprisingly sedate – for a man who allegedly...

November 19, 2013: 'Haredi' Soldiers Win Award For Excellence
Comments: 6 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Religion, Religion & State
"This is the best proof that when the haredi soldier is taken into account, suitable conditions are provided for him in the IDF, and things are done with dialogue and understanding, he will be better than any other soldier,” the...

November 19, 2013: Chabad Rabbi Sues Oligarch Over Real Estate Deals
Comments: 14 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc.
One the richest oligarchs in London, the Ukrainian Gennadiy Bogolyubov, is being sued by his own Chabad rabbi, Yonah Pruss, over real estate deals worth hundreds of millions of pounds. Rabbi Yonah Pruss Chabad Rabbi Sues Oligarch Over Real Estate...

November 19, 2013: Banned In Beirut, Yours Free – If You Win
Comments: 16 | Categories: Antisemitism , Bans & Censorship , Film , Israel , Terrorism
Lebanon’s Interior Ministry banned the award-winning film The Attack last spring when it found out part of it was filmed in Israel using Israeli actors. Now you have a chance to get a copy of the film - for free....

November 18, 2013: The Forward's Freudian Slip
Comments: 2 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Media & Media Criticism , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Sam Kellner hasn't been convicted or tried. In fact, the case against him has very publicly imploded and Kellner has not been put on trial and has not pleaded guilty. But the Jewish Daily Forward not only ran a hit...

November 18, 2013: Police Arrest 4 Jewish Teen Girls In Muslim Cemetery Just Past Midnight
Comments: 13 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Israel , MO & Chardal
Israel Police arrested four teenage Jewish girls after they were discovered in the Muslim cemetery in the Old City of Jerusalem just after midnight last night. Police Arrest 4 Jewish Teen Girls In Muslim Cemetery Just Past Midnight Shmarya Rosenberg...

November 18, 2013: Orthodox Jew Named To State Department Israel-Palestine Peace Talks Team
Comments: 6 | Categories: Israel , MO & Chardal
David Makovsky has left The Washington Institutefor Near East Policy to join the State Department. David Makovsky Time Magazine reports: David Makovsky–the man with the best Israel-Palestine land-swap maps–has left The Washington Institute to join the State Department. Why is...

November 18, 2013: Pro-Abergel Haredi Mob Targeted Arab, Cops Say
Comments: 1 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Sefardim
Hundreds of haredim protesting the arrest of organized crime-connected Rabbi Yoram Abergel stoned Majdi Al-Jarbawi as he drove in Jerusalem early Sunday morning becuase he is Arab, polce say. Majdi Al-Jarbawi's car Pro-Abergel Haredi Mob Targeted Arab, Cops Say Shmarya...

November 18, 2013: Metzger In Chains: Former Haredi Chief Rabbi Arrested, Charged With Stealing Millions
Comments: 35 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel
The former Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel Yona Metzger was arrested today on charges that he stole millions of shekels. Metzger was brought to the Rishon Lezion Magistrate’s Court and charged with fraud, bribery, money laundering, breach of trust, obstruction...

November 18, 2013: Haredi Girls Youth Movement Caught Inflating Numbers To Get Increased Government Funding
Comments: 6 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel
A haredi girls youth movement has reportedly seen its government funding withheld through the end of the year due to allegations that it illegally inflated both the number of branches it has and the services it provides in order to...

November 18, 2013: Government Allegedly Deceived High Court Of Justice, Granted Illegal Haredi Draft Exemptions
Comments: 1 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Religion, Religion & State
In response to a demand for information made by the High Court of Justice, the office of Israel’s attorney general told the High Court Sunday that the Ministry of Defense has given full military service exemptions to 633 more haredi...

November 18, 2013: Haredi Anti-Poverty Video Blames Israeli Government For Self-Inflicted Haredi Poverty
Comments: 13 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Poverty & Homelessness
This video – shown at the recent convention of Agudath Israel of America, made by the haredi newspaper Hamodia and produced by Ruth Lichtenstein – the owner of Hamodia and the wife and mother of slumlords – blames the Israeli...

November 18, 2013: Agri Star Security Staff Allegedly Refused To Let Fire Department Fight Fire Because Of Shabbat
Comments: 17 | Categories: Agri-Star , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Agri Star kosher slaughterhouse in Postville, Iowa had a major fire Friday night, and its security staff refused to let the fire department in the plant to fight the fire until they got approval from the plant's maintenance supervisor. Originally...

November 18, 2013: Haredi Uber Scammer Eliyahu Weinstein Tries To Drop Guilty Plea Again
Comments: 2 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
He stole tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars. And now haredi über scammer Eliyahu Weinstein is trying to have his guilty plea voided – again. Originally published at 11:40 pm CST Sunday, 11-17-2013 The entire 19 page motion...

November 17, 2013: Agri Star Fire Burned For Hours Before Fire Department Called, Could Have Been Much Worse, First Responders Say
Comments: 10 | Categories: Agri-Star , Haredim , Kosher Scandal
Friday night’s fire at Agri Star kosher slaughterhouse in Postville, Iowa burned for almost five hours before the Postville Fire Department was notified. Agri Star Fire Could Have Been Much Worse, First Responders Say Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com Friday night’s...

November 17, 2013: Mobbed Up Rabbi Released To House Arrest After Thousands Of His Followers Riot
Comments: 1 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Sefardim
Rabbi Yoram Abergel, the popular Netivot rabbi accused of conspiring with a known mobster to extort and possibly murder a rabbinic rival, was released to house arrest earlier today after spending one week in jail. Rabbi Yoram Abergel Mobbed Up...

November 17, 2013: Haredim Stone Cars, Attack Arabs In Protest In Support Of Mob-Connected Rabbi
Comments: 5 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel
Last night in Jerusalem, hundreds of haredim rioting and protesting the arrest of Rabbi Yoram Abergel stoned Arab-owned cars as they drove past the protest, causing at least one driver to have to stop his car and flee the haredi...

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