New Square Honors Man Who Tried To Murder Dissident

The Skvere hasidic sect's weekly magazine, BaChatzar HaKodesh (In The Holy Courtyard), has coverage of an event held in Skvere's main hall in New Square honoring Shaul Spitzer, the hoos bukher (butler) of the Skvere Rebbe who tried to murder New Square dissident Aron Rottenberg and his sleeping family several years ago by trying to firebomb their house at 4 am.

Above: Shaul Spitzer's mug shot

The Skvere hasidic sect's weekly magazine, BaChatzar HaKodesh (In The Holy Courtyard), has coverage (on pages 43-44 in the PDF posted below) of an event held in Skvere's main hall in New Square honoring Shaul Spitzer, the hoos bukher (butler) of the Skvere Rebbe who tried to murder New Square dissident Aron Rottenberg and his sleeping family several years ago by trying to firebomb their house at 4 am.

Spitzer is still in prison for that crime. (He was allowed to plead guilty to 1st Degree Assault.) Nonetheless, Skvere threw a party honoring him because he completed study a volume of the Talmud with a Skvere man who visits him in prison every day to study with him.

The party was reportedly attended by all the Skvere Rebbe's sons and sons-in-law. (The Rebbe, Rabbi David Twersky,  allegedly never attends an event honoring anyone who is not a direct descendant of the Chernobyl hasidic dynasties Skvere is a part of. He doesn't even attend the dinner for the Skvere Institute. Instead, to show his support, he sends his sons and sons-in-law, as he did for the Spitzer event.)

All the rabbis of the New Square beit din (court of Orthodox Jewish law), including the head of the beit/chief judge, also attended and the chief judge even gave a speech.
There was also a mazel tov ad published honoring Spitzer that says that Spitzer a person who sanctifies God's name because what he did forced Rottenberg and the other dissidents to flee New Square.

Here's the magazine as a PDF file. The coverage is on pages 43-44. Right click to open in a new window or tab and read it online, or left click to download:

[126]בחצר_הקודש_תזריע_-_מצורע

~ ושמו שאו"ל בחור וטוב משכמו ומעלה גבוה מכל עם ~

בלב מלא התרוממות ורגשי הוקרה, ברחשי ידידות וחיבה יתירה, נודה ונהלל בגילת ורנן וקול נעים,

                   ---------------> לכבוד חברנו         -------------> מגדולי מקדשי שם שמים המופלאים,

חריף ובקי טובא בחדרי תורה, תורתו ערוכה בכל ושמורה, יראתו קודמת לחכמתו ומתנהג בחסידות כחשיכה כאורה, מקבל כל אדם בסבר פנים מאירות, עומד איתן ברוחו בנעימות וגבורות הבה"ח כמר שאול יחזקאל שפיטצער ני"ו - ממצוייני ומובחרי ישיבתנו הקדושה לרגל חגיגת השמחה הגדולה ב"סיום מסכת שבת" מרישא ועד גמירא גפ"ת ומהרש"א בעומק העיון ובבהירות יסודית וזכה לכבוש את ההררים התלויים בשערה בעמל ויגיעה ושקידה מופלאה יומם ולילה זה שנתיים וחצי. אשרי מי שעמלו בתורה! איחולינו הנאמנים ברגשי הערכה, יה"ר שיזכה משמים לכל מיני שפע וברכה, במדה טובה מרובה אלף פעמים ככה.

 חבריו וידידיו בני חבורת "צוותא חדא" המאחלים בלב מלא רגשי שמחה וגעגועים: י' אוסטערליץ, מ"פ אונגער, מא"י אונגער, צ"ק אונגער, אב"ב אייזענבערג, א' אסטרייכער, ש"א אסטרייכער, א"י אפטער, מ"ש אפטער, י"א בוקסבוים, י"ע בייער, א' ביסטאן, ש' ביסטאן, ש"י ביסטאן, נ' בירנהאק, י"י בערגער, מ' בערגער, ש"א בערגער, י"ל ברוין, י"ד ברוין, מ"מ ברוין, מ"ב ברוין, ש"ז ברוין, ד"א ברויער, י"ל ברייער, י"א ברייער, ש"ב ברייער, ד' ברילובסקי, י' גאלדמינמער, ימ"ז גאלדקלאנג, מ"ד גאלדקלאנג, דמ"ג גאלדשטיין, חמ"ב גאלדשטיין, יש"פ גאליצקי, י"א גלאנץ, נצ"ח גליק, מח"צ גרובער, נ' גרין, ח"ד גרינוואלד, י"י גרינוואלד, י"ח גרינוואלד, י' גרינפעלד, מ' דיאמאנט, א"י האלצלער, ב"א וואלאדארסקי, ב"א וואלאדארסקי, פ' וואלטער, נ' ווייס, י"ב זילבערמאן, ח"ב טאמבאר, ב"ז טויב, ש' טויב, אי"ה יששכרוף, א' כ"ץ, א' לאפפלער, י"א לאפפלער, י"מ לונגער, ש' לונגער, ש"מ לונגער, י' ליכטער, י"א מארגערעטן, ג"מ סופר, אי"א סיגל, חא"ג סיגלער, א"ש פאדווא, י"א פריעזעל, ש"א פעדער, י' פעלבערבוים, י"י פעלדמאן, ד"ע פראמאוויטש, מ' פראמאוויטש, מ' פראמאוויטש, חי"י פרידמאן, ח"ד פרידמאן, י' פריעד, פ' פריעדער, ד' צימענד, ב"ז קאהן, י"י קאפף, במ"א קויפמאן, ח"י קויפמאן, י' קויפמאן, א' קופערמאן, נ' קייזער, י"א קליין, נ"צ קנאבלאך, א"ב ראוויצקי, א"א ראזען, י' ראזענבלום, ד' ראטטענבערג, ש"ש רייכארד, א' שווארץ, ש"ז שווארץ, ב"ז שפיטצער, י' שפיטצער, י"מ שפיערער, נ"ד שפוץ, מ"נ שפירא

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All Shaul Spitzer Posts.

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Comments

[sam green]

yea go honor a murderer assholes

[Garnel Ironheart]

Well yeah, he has several things in his favour:
1) Listens to his Rebbe's orders without question
2) Willing to break Torah laws on those orders because he understands that Daas Torah trumps actual Torah
3) Was arrested and charge by nasssssty goyim. Gold star there!

[Gay Frum Jew]

After his release from prison, im sure there will be a huge community dinner in his honor. Twersky will be there, and ask for mechila....lol. Gee, will he get his hoos bucher(blow) job back?

[shmuel]

Some of these people seem to have lost their way. No moral compass at all. It all derives from a lack of respect for non-Jews and their laws, and its tragic.

[jancsibacsi]

If not for the sec,8 food stamps vouchers and thievery theese hassidim would not exist,the new square cult is sustained by sec.8 medicaid and food stamps,this is a big blight on all law abiding jews anti- semitism is the outcome of all theese chillel hashem cults.

[Moshe Freidman Williamsburg]

Raboisa This is all bad news, I want good stuff. I want that my chulent this shaboss should be Zaftig and meaty, the kugel should be not to oily or to salty and no one should interrupt my shaboss afternoon nap, everything else is not my problem. To all trouble makers u have one message you can all KiSS MY ASS

[MG]

Mazal Tov.

[jancsibacsi]

Moshe Freidman Williamsburg--Tzi arup dain hoizen:)

[the Atlantan]

Do not think that all frum people are as insane as these people are. For example check out www.jewinthecity.com. This website is a real breath of sanity.

[lematameasara]

No Shmarya
He did not attempt to kill anyone. You and anyone who thinks otherwise are off your hinges. Does he deserve jail time? Absolutely. But he had no intentions of killing anyone. Of course the jackasses who claim to be the law try to be sensational but it is far from the truth.

[jancsibacsi]

lematameasara---The truth is that your hassidim especially in new square are hynotized by the rebbe and this spitz was ready to do anything he didnt give a dammn if someone would be killed that is what is so insane he was indifferent to the lifes of rottenberg and his family,thats evil

[SkepticalYid]

Posted by: lematameasara | April 23, 2015 at 08:14 PM

He had a molotov cocktail in his hand and he was aiming for the house full of people. Only a jackass like you would say otherwise.

[S M L]

@Atlantan:

Yes, that site is a breath of fresh air to an extent. It's also a woman's site - a woman operates it. The outrages we read of here and which are all over the papers are not committed by nor probably are they endorsed by most Haredi women. Haredi women aren't throwing rocks, firebombing those in their Rebbe's disfavor etc. etc. Based on my superficial review of the site it does seem as if the webmaster of the site is a decent person who sees religion very differently from the way a Pinto or Twersky or any of their fanatical adherents sees it. It's the men who are the problem.

[Pearl Of Wisdom]

This is very upsetting....celebrating an attempted murderer for learning Torah scripture? Just does not make sense. Also, it seems like the followers of Twersky worship him as a Demi G-d. Isn't it against the Torah to worship idols? What am I missing here?

[Wigmore]

Chasidic scum!

[Miggo Wagga]

Can someone please explain to me why there is so much extremist, anti-social, and criminal behavior specifically among Ukrainian Hasidic sects? Skver, Tosh, parts of Breslov. And Talne, though a moderately sized group today, was big in the Ukraine and known for its mafia style tactics. Of course, none of this means that every person within Ukrainian Hasidic groups is violent or extremist, but there does seem to be an overall ethic of extremism among Hasidim from that particular region.

[Abracadabra]

Miggo Wagga - And the Satmers are refined? Every other Hasidic sect was extremist because they were for the most part ignorant, superstitious peasants who were drawn to a more lively form of Judaism with a live man they could follow and worship, instead of a God who they can't see, can't imagine, and who never seemed to answer their prayers.

[Abracadabra]

Pearl of Wisdom - You are not missing anything. The Vilna Gaon was very against the Chassidic movement for mainly this reason. But it was a time of misery for Jews and they needed more than what classical Judaism had to offer. The ideas of Chassidism gave the general population a more lively, joyful and positive Judaism which started out with the idea of celebrating the layman. It was a populist movement. Unfortunately, it was hijacked by charismatic Rebbes, and the idea of a "Tzaddik" who draws them closer to God was incorporated into the Chassidic belief system. It is, indeed, foreign to traditional Judaism, as is most of the innovations of Chassidism. They claim that the Baal Shem Tov and the Baal Hatanya "revealed" these ancient secrets of Torah in order to save the Jewish people. Again, innovation is conveniently excused by true believers, while they consider changes made by any other Jews to be blasphemous. Some of the Chassidic thoughts and beliefs are based on Kabbalah, the rest was either made up, or taken from classic philosophical ideas. Within Chassidic beliefs and practices, different Chassidic groups developed their own individual streams of belief - Chabad had theirs, Breslov had their own, etc. It's not like there were phones where they could have conference calls and streamline their beliefs. Each Rebbe who was able to make a name for himself and gather enough followers used prior Chassic beliefs and either built upon them, innovated his own, or just used what he knew.

The main Chassidic groups were located in Russia, Ukraine, Poland and Hungary. Because the Baal Shem Tov didn't leave a written bible or manual of "Chassidus," each Rebbe used the 2-3 basic Chassidic ideas and either built upon them, innovated their own, or just used what they knew. One of the first organized books of Chassidic thought was the Tanya. All Chassidim believe that the Tanya is holy, even while only Chabad believes in laymen learning and studying it. All other currently existing streams of Chassidim believe that the Tanya is too holy for the layman to learn, and that only Rebbes or other designated Tzaddikim are holy enough to learn it. There were many other sects of Chassidim who both learned Tanya and had some other ideas of their own, but they were from Poland and Galitziya and were all completely decimated in the Holocaust to the point where nobody who survived could claim to be their Rebbe.

Chassidism left a wide open door for any charlatan or charismatic leader to take advantage of desperate and superstitious believers. When an intercom was first available, there was a "Rebbe" who went around performing "Miracles" of being able to read people's minds, when all he did was listen in on the other room when the person would tell the Gabbai what their problems were and what they wanted to talk to the Rebbe about. Eventually he was caught using this trick, but he got away with it long before someone caught onto him. And he made a nice amount of money from all the people who wanted blessings from this obvious man of God who could perform all these holy miracles and "see into souls." Performing miracles was a big thing for Rebbes. The greatest Rebbes had reputations of being a "Baal Mofes" (a miracle worker). Desperate people searched for hope, and Rebbes were all too willing to provide it, while their followers showered them with what little money they had. There is a whole spiritual rationale about why it is important for a chassid to give money to the Rebbe. It's all very deep and spiritual. Somehow, it's also very lucrative.

[Miggo Wagga]

Abracadabra---the fact is, however, that if you go to almost any Ashkenazi Jewish community today, except for South Africa and Ireland, which are Lithuanian-origin communities, the great majority of people are of Hasidic ancestry. This is because Hasidism took over completely in Poland, Galicia, Slovakia, the eastern parts of Hungary, northern Romania, Moldova, and the Ukraine. These are the areas where the bulk of American, Canadian, British, Scandinavian, Argentinian, Brazilian, Australian, and New Zealand Jewry come from, as well as half of Mexican Jewry and the majority of Israel's Ashkenazim.
Hasidism only failed to take over in Lithuania and Latvia, Belarus, western Hungary, Austria, southern Romania, and Germany.

The bulk of Eastern European Jews were Hasidic, though that does not mean they were necessarily tied to one Hasidic sect or another. Being as you say, uneducated, and because they came without their rebbes and rabbis, when they arrived in the new countries they naturally gravitated toward the only religious heirarchy that did emigrate in substantial numbers--the Lithuanian misnagdim. That's why Lithuanian style Judaism dominates Ashkenazi Orthodoxy today.

However, those Hasidim who were particularly devoted to one sect or another were unable to leave, because they had to go with their rebbes and his entire court. Those are the ones who ended up being killed.

[Moshiachnow!]

ALL THE YIDDEN ARE BH! Oy vey the Lushan hura ich seen on this typepad. How can you YIDDEN do this to us! Shmarya you used be a chosid bh! Where have you gone You have gone so far away oh we still love you far away. I remember saying hey rebbe that was the meaninest game of pool I have ever did seen then I said to rabbi green hey rebbe that was the meanest game of pool I ever did seen but what made you come here on this night to play...,wAit for what he says (BH: check it:
#hesays(this almost the nays BH (miracle English for the Hebrew word nays I just used) he said '.,'rebbi a bum like meeeee #formerbochurcries

I WAS THIS BUM
BH THIS IS MY STORY
YECHI ADONAYNU MORENU VERANENU MELECH HAMOSHIACH LEOLAM FOED (say 3 times(bh)amen)

Ad mosuy

Shmarya chabad Lubavitch we love you forever you are a true chosid melamdon Torah bh

[Moshiachnow!]

Come to 770 eastern parkway and we'll hVe a lechaim and put on teffilin YEChi BH BH BH rebbe moshiach is hear he just hasn't not yet revealed himself come now! Baruch HaShem elokenu HaShem echodeheh

[Moshiachnow!]

Bhbh

[nachos( the original one)]

The rebbe is dead and rotting!!

[Moshiachnow!]

Chutzpah! Your mother oy vey would not like that!

[nachos( the original one)]

Neither would your rebbe's sister in law. Your rebbe let his people burn during the holocaust while he worried about his book collection

[Moshiachnow!]

Your a roshoh!!

[nachos( the original one)]

I am speaking the truth that you don't want to hear

[Morristown NJ]

The Rebbi Shlita had hakboh in 770 this morning , the Rebbi is not dead he is on extended vacation in Jamaica queens and resting peacefully

[nachos( the original one)]

OK. I am done. You guys wonder why I will never put on tefillin again.

[Moshiachnow!]

Fack you both ! I am very upset!

[nachos( the original one)]

Did the truth finally hit you in the face? Your rebbe was nothing! Take a look at how he handled the situation with his sister in law. He is in a very warm place right now!

[the Atlantan]

Nachos, why would you lessen your level of doing mitzvahs because of the actions of mentality retarded a-holes? There are many frum Jews that are as disgusted with these morons as you are. There are frum Jews who do so many wonderful things. For example, the vast majority of people in America who give a kidney to a total stranger are frum Jews!!! There are more examples of chesed that frum Jews do. Use them as role models, and not the others. By the way, I am a kidney donor and if any of you knows someone on dialysis, please send me an email. I may be able to help. My email is dhk613@aol.com. I will provide you with all the details.

[nachos( the original one)]

Theatlantan
I live near Postville and none of them is disgusted by this behavior. My faith in G-d has never been stronger, while my faith in the Rabbis has never been more absent.

[Yosef ben Matitya]

skvere? this year, they offered here shmura matzo with their hekhsher. (zivkhei meissim).
Skvere:
עצת רשעים;
דרך חטאים, מושב לצים,.
rolled in one. jews? they ain't.

[Jeff]

"There are many frum Jews that are as disgusted with these morons as you are."

I find that hard to believe, but even if it is true, no one ever speaks out. The frum world (including Modern Orthodoxy) is notorious for placing its wagons in a circle, and #1 on your catechism is that you NEVER take the part of a frei yid or a gentile against a frum yid.

In all the years I've been participating on this site, I've never seen a comment posted by a frum Jew, apologizing for the behavior of the Haredi trolls who infest this site like a virus. Not once.

I merely disagreed profoundly with Orthodoxy when I first began posting comments here. I am now convinced there is an unbridgeable gap between Orthodoxy and liberal Judaism, that the breach cannot be repaired nor should it be even if it were possible to do so. We now have two distinct religions. It is beyond time for us to acknowledge this and to go our separate ways. The idea of "Jewish unity" is a sentimental attachment. The very notion now offends me.

The people I have encountered nonstop on this website since I began posting comments here years ago have helped to being me to this position.

[nachos( the original one)]

G-d himself does not recognize Judiasm today!!

[Jeff]

nachos, by the way, I think this Moshiachnow guy is pulling our legs. It can be very difficult to tell, I know.

[nachos( the original one)]

Jeff
They really are that crazy. I sent you a Facebook friends request awhile ago.

[singlemalt]

Nachos, I do agree that many of us are that crazy. Although, it seems to me that Moshiachnow is putting us on. The charedi trolls used to bother me, because of the embarrassment they were causing. At this point I just lump them in to the cesspool of comments that are made on this site, from people of all kinds. It's a shame that we don't have a site that gives truly critical unbiased coverage of the serious issues that face my community, but I have zero control over or say in that. Though, it should be elementary to you that any forum that pretty much exclusively focuses on the mishaps of any community is going to eventually cause you to have a skewed view of it. I do know that you have personally experienced the ill effects of some of the ill people who practice so called yiddishkeit today and so have I. There are also many more people who are caring, helpful, giving, intelligent and thoughtful who also practice it. Many people here just hate religion period for varying reasons. Some have a assigned a malevolence to it and to God. I'm really not here to argue with those people and it may be in my naivete that I just don't share their feelings. I did not grow up in a frum home, but from a very young age I developed an affinity for God and love of religion. Maybe it's genetic, I don't know. Maybe it's even a genetic defect. What I do know is that just because someone attributes the mistakes of others to a view that they have formed about their way of life doesn't make it true. For example just because a halacha in it's application causes an unjust result to a person, it doesn't mean that the Rabbi deciding that halacha doesn't care about people. It could be that it pains hi deeply to make that decision. In my own personal life I have had to make decisions pursuant to halacha that were extremely difficult that negatively effected people who I love more than anyone. It is a heavy burden that I carry with me. Today, I may not make those decisions, but that doesn't mean that I was a bad person when I made them. I'm the same kind, caring and compassionate person then and now. I have no reason to defend orthodox judaism, such isn't my intent and I consider doing so a waste of time. It just bothers me for some reason when I hear a person, such as yourself, making decisions in your life and about your beliefs based on a heavily skewed, biased and one sided version of a unique and complex group of people. It probably bothers me because I was doing just that for a long time. Then I came to realize that people are individuals and each of us has our challenges and none of us are perfect. Also there is no group of people in existence nor will there ever be one that can survive the scrutiny of this blog. That creates for a pretty bleak view of the world. And would this level and manner of scrutiny, be applied to any minority racial group, it wouldn't be tolerated. One of the many things I did learn from coming here and especially reading many of the comments, is how it feels to be judged based on stereotypes. When I'm confronted with a situation where I might judge someone based on a stereotype or a racial profile, I try to remember that feeling.

Best wishes.

[nachos( the original one)]

Singlemalt
Thanks for your kind words.

[Alter Kocker]

I still don't understand why they deified the roaming gnome from Orbitz?

[Elliot]

Jeff,
I have openly debated haredim here on matters of substance, and in a number of instances, made them show their cards on the table. I see no point in engaging trolls who do nothing but hurl insults about Nazis and basements.

[Minna]

A Cult in all its splendor. Jewish In name only. The only way to combat such anti-semitisim (they are true self hating Jews) is that we (fellow tribe members) have to rise up & physically dismantle it ourselves. Not sure how to go about this but would gladly join or support such a movement.

[Jeff]

"I see no point in engaging trolls who do nothing but hurl insults about Nazis and basements."

I agree. I rarely address Jack. But really, the Haredim who come here are pretty much all alike - it's merely a question of time - and for the most part, they support and defend one another.

[Jeff]

"I sent you a Facebook friends request awhile ago."

Did you? I just looked through my requests, and I can't find one I'd recognize as you.

I get a number of friend requests (yes frummies, I know; you find that difficult to believe), but I accept very few. If you send me a request, though, I'll accept it. Message me through Facebook. I'll check my "Other" folder to make sure I see it.

[Moshiachnow!]

BH! Ich don't understand but BH the rebbe said Tanya is the true chassidis! Bh

[Shayna G in NZ]

Elliot

Not only are they trolls ,some of them are sockpuppeting.

[Moshiachnow!]

BH, shayna shalom ich just want to say I don't know what it means sock puppet. My kinder unde mishpuchee make sock puppets breech HaShem

[Shayna G in NZ]

Mosiachnow!

An Australian sockpuppet.
You're a pathetic moron Emes.

[Moshiachnow!]

BH shayna g, after doing some thinking and researched ich think you are really Shmarya BHBH or else how the fuck could you know that you hot piece of ass

[Moshiachnow!]

I emes you fools Shmarya you are so pathetic being shayna g to promote people commenting

[Shayna G in NZ]

Mosichnow!

Never ,ever ,under-estimate me just because I am a hot piece of ass.

[aga]

This boy will need a shiduch when he comes out.
Who do you think will take him?

The rebbe has a few OTD einiklich maybe them.
They have to build him up first.

[Heblew]

The Heblew thinks that Twersky is a perv, and unlike the Huey Lewis song, it ain't hip to be a New Square. Spitzer (related to Elliot?) was under Twersky's spell, and probably was blowing him and tossing his salad daily. It is therefore of no surprise that Spitz-not-swallows would be complicit with anything being asked of him.

[lematameasara]

Skeptical
The uneducated imbecile is unaware of the capabilities of the Molotov Cocktail. No, he had no intentions on killing anyone. I hope you are not as thick as you are showing...

[lematameasara]

... of killing