142 posts categorized "Bans"

April 8, 2009: Breaking! Heads of Queens and 5 Towns Vaads Both Linked to OU
Comments: 37 | Categories: Bans , Kosher Business? , MO & Chardal
Call for allowing only "national" kosher supervisions issued by high-ranking employee of OU and former OU senior employee. Streit's management called it an "ambush," and so it is. Rabbi Yosef Eisen, head of the 5 Towns Vaad HaKashrus, is a...

April 7, 2009: The Streit's Ban, Continued
Comments: 20 | Categories: Bans , MO & Chardal
Politics, problems that "might" exist but apparently do not and never did, and the big kosher mafia trying to crush a little guy. Different from all other years: Streit’s Matzo off preferred list in Five Towns and Queens The decision,...

April 5, 2009: The Kosher Matza Rabbis Banned, Part 2
Comments: 22 | Categories: Bans , Kosher Business? , MO & Chardal
An inside video look at the Streit's matzo factory. Banned by the Vaads of Queens and the 5 Towns because the supervision – Rabbi Ahron Soleveitchik's son Rabbi Moshe Soleveitchik – is not a "national" hashgacha, kosher supervision. I can...

April 3, 2009: Rabbis Ban Strawberries – Again
Comments: 26 | Categories: Bans , Halakha , Israel , Kosher Scandal
This time it's Religious Zionist rabbis in Israel. Halachic ruling forbids strawberries Torah and Land Institute finds tiny insect that clings to fruit despite washing, pesticide Kobi Nahshoni, Ynet Strawberries sold in Israel are infested with tiny insects that cannot...

January 18, 2009: Leading Haredi Rabbi Ahron Schechter Attacks Rabbi Natan Slifkin, Moderate Views Of Science And Torah
Comments: 106 | Categories: Bans , Haredim , Torah & Science
Creation was less than 6000 years ago, my friends. Believe anything different and you are a heritic. Part 1 Part 2 These videos were uploaded to YouTube by Rabbi Slifkin and were shot in Teaneck, NJ in 2006. The Rabbi...

October 26, 2008: Were Judaism And The Enlightenment Friends?
Comments: 8 | Categories: Bans , History
A new book by a Jewish studies scholar argues… …religion and the haskala (Enlightenment) were more than friends. David Sorkin claims: "[T]he Enlightenment was not only compatible with religious belief,” it actually generated new formulations of that belief. This is...

September 12, 2008: Haredi Rules For Playing 'Kosher' Music
Comments: 53 | Categories: Bans , Haredim , Insanity , Israel , Music
The haredi modesty squad leader who led the successful campaign to ban… …most Jewish music is profiled by the BBC today. Here is what Rabbi Efraim Luft has to say: What Rabbi Luft objects to so vehemently is not just...

September 3, 2008: Racism Haredi Style: The Bigoted, Ignorant, Race-Baiting, KKK "Theology" Behind The Newest Music Ban – Haredi Modesty Squads Act As Bans' Enforcers
Comments: 49 | Categories: Bans , Haredim , Israel , Music
Please see an important update at the end of this post. Thank you. Who said this? "We might be able to adopt Bach or Beethoven, music with class, but not goyishe African music and beats. Or this? "There are certain...

March 15, 2008: Hasidic Actor Flees Natalie Portman Film After Rabbis Threaten Expulsion
Comments: 32 | Categories: Bans , Haredim
A hasidic actor who was acting opposite Natalie Portman in a film being shot on location in Brooklyn was forced to walk off the movie set and drop out of the film because rabbis… …threatened him. The New York Daily...

March 7, 2008: Guess Who Was Spotted in Brooklyn Yesterday?
Comments: 15 | Categories: Bans , Haredim
Who? You know who. Sure you do. A reliable source tells me it was… …the instigator of the ban against Lipa Schmeltzer and Jewish music concerts Rabbi Avrohom Schorr, who told Hella Winston of the Jewish Week Friday, February 29,...

March 6, 2008: Agudah Mouthpiece Rabbi Avi Shafran Gets It Wrong – The New Music Ban, part 16
Comments: 3 | Categories: Bans , Haredim
How wrong is Avi Shafran this time? Very, as… …Blog in Dm notes. Hamodia (the place the ban was originally published and the house organ of the Gerrer rebbe) published five 'responses' to the ban. According to Blog in Dm...

March 6, 2008: Marvin Schick Gets It Right – The New Music Ban, part 15
Comments: 3 | Categories: Bans , Haredim , Marvin Schick
As longtime readers of FailedMessiah probably know, Marvin Schick and I do not see eye to eye on most things. However, when it comes to the Lipa Schmeltzer-concerts ban, we're… …largely in agreement: March 2008, Adar I & II 5768...

March 5, 2008: Haredi Spin: Why the 'Gedolim' Made the Ban – The New Jewish Music Ban, part 14
Comments: 12 | Categories: Bans , Haredim
Binyamin Jolkovsky, publisher of JewishWorldReview.com and a close observer of the haredi community, said he believes the rabbis intend… …to “put a stop” to “the cultural trend” within the Orthodox community that emulates secular society, complete with music “superstars and...

March 5, 2008: Rabbi Avrohom Schorr: Bully, Coward – The New Jewish Music Ban, part 13
Comments: 21 | Categories: Bans , Haredim
Hella Winston has a Page 1 story in tomorrow's New York Jewish Week on the Lipa Schmeltzer-concerts ban. Here's the (cowardly) money quote, in context: The spokesman [for concert producer Shya Mendlowitz] specifically cited Asher Friedman, a Brooklyn resident who...

March 4, 2008: Lipa – The T Shirt!
Comments: 6 | Categories: Bans , Haredim , Humor
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March 3, 2008: Nechomas Yisroel, The Organization Behind The Ban – New Music Ban, part 13
Comments: 37 | Categories: Bans , Haredim
Nechomas Yisroel, the haredi charity run by Asher Friedman, one of the two men behind the Lipa Schmeltzer-concerts ban, is a tax exempt organization. It pays for yeshiva tuition for students that would otherwise go to public schools. As such,...

March 2, 2008: It's Official – The 'Gedolim' Want YOU to Pay for Their Mistake; The New Music Ban, part 12
Comments: 39 | Categories: Bans , Haredim
It's official. The so-called gedolim will issue a ruling tonight that will urge ticket holders for the now-canceled Madison Square Garden "Big Event" Lipa Schmeltzer concert to donate their "refund" to the concert promoter and the charity it would have...

March 2, 2008: Rabbi Yaakov Horowitz Wimps Out – The New Music Ban, part 11
Comments: 24 | Categories: Bans , Haredim
Rabbi Yaakov Horowitz, 'rebbe' to many J-bloggers, was interviewed on the Zev Brenner Show last night. Rabbi Horowitz refused to comment on the Lipa Schmeltzer-concerts ban, even though that was the show's topic. (I have posted the entire show as...

March 1, 2008: New Ban On All Concerts – The New Music Ban, part 10
Comments: 11 | Categories: Bans , Haredim
This new ban was published in Hamodia in Hebrew and signed by 8 (or 9) haredi 'gedolim' who were part of the 33 'gedolim' who signed the original against Lipa Schmeltzer and the "Big Event" concert. It is translated into...

March 1, 2008: Background of the Ban – New Jewish Music Ban, part 9
Comments: 4 | Categories: Bans , Haredim
Kiryas Joel's "Vaad HaChinuch" banned Lipa Schmeltzer's music in late 2005 during Hanukka. The ban and an English-language translation is posted after the jump in the extended post below: We'd like to raise awareness and let the respected elders know...

March 1, 2008: The Rabbi Behind The Ban – The New Music Ban, part 8
Comments: 15 | Categories: Bans , Haredim
Rabbi Avrohom Schorr, son of Rabbi Gedaliah Schorr and the rabbi behind the Lipa Schmeltzer-Jewish music concerts ban.

February 29, 2008: The Names of the Men Behind the Ban – The New Music Ban, part 7
Comments: 20 | Categories: Bans , Haredim
The Jerusalem Post mentions the names of the two men behind the Lipa Schmeltzer-concerts ban. One we've mentioned here already is Asher Friedman of Nechomas Yisroel. The other is… … Rabbi Avrohom Schorr, the son of Rabbi Gedaliah Schorr. You...

February 28, 2008: The New Music Ban, part 6 – Sheya Mendlowitz and Lipa Schmeltzer Interviews mp3
Comments: 23 | Categories: Bans , Haredim
Both Lipa Schmeltzer and the now-canceled Big Event's producer, Sheya Medlowitz, were interviewed tonight on Zev Brenner's Talkline Radio Network show. Here's an mp3: Download medlowitz_schmeltzer_22708.mp3 Summary: The rabbis are holy. They were misled by askanim (community "activists"). The rabbis...

February 27, 2008: Anatomy of a Ban: The New Jewish Music Ban, part 5
Comments: 10 | Categories: Bans , Haredim
So who is really behind the new ban against Lipa Schmelter specifically and all Jewish music concerts (as opposed to cantorial concerts) in general? His name is… … Asher Friedman. He works for the haredi charity Nechamos Yisroel. And he...

February 27, 2008: New Music Ban, part 4 – Lipa Schmeltzer Interview
Comments: 29 | Categories: Bans , Haredim
The topic of Zev Brenner's Talkline radio show that aired Tuesday night was the new music ban. Dov Shurin, Zev's guest, spoke about the ban and also a bit about the ban against his uncle, Rabbi Nosson Kamenetzky, and his...

February 25, 2008: New Music Ban, part 3
Comments: 30 | Categories: Bans , Haredim
Here is an mp3 file of Zev Brenner's entire Talkline show on the Lipa Schmeltzer concert ban. (This is all of it, not just one small segment.) You should be able to play this in your browser or you can...

February 25, 2008: The New Music Ban, part 2
Comments: 7 | Categories: Bans , Haredim
Astute readers point out that one of the haredi rabbinic signatories on the new ban issued against Lipa Schmeltzer and the Madison Square Garden "Big Event" is… Rabbi Lipa Margulies of Yeshiva Torah Temimah, the enabler of accused rabbi-on-boy child...

February 24, 2008: The New Music Ban
Comments: 26 | Categories: Bans , Haredim
The producer of the banned Madison Square Garden Lipa Schmeltzer-Shlomie Gertner concert was on Zev Brenner's Talkline radio show last night. He made many points. Most of them will be very familiar to those of you who followed the Slifkin...

November 28, 2007: Monsey Rabbis: Only Orthodox Jews Can Own Restaurants and Food Establishments – Gentiles and Non-Orthodox Jews Must Stay Away
Comments: 59 | Categories: Bans , Haredim , Kosher Business?
So, what does this mean? The 'esteemed' haredi rabbis of Monsey, New York are forcing a non-Jewish restaurant owner out of business. She has, I'm told, no kashrut problems. Just like that haredi rabbis have destroyed her life's work, and...

February 23, 2007: More From Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein
Comments: 13 | Categories: Bans , Haredim , Torah & Science
Luke Ford has a report (including audio) of a panel of rabbis responding to challenges to Orthodoxy from Dennis Prager. Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein was one of these rabbis, and Luke has assembled a few choice quotes for us. [I added...

February 18, 2007: Haredim Ban Miami Beach Vacations
Comments: 8 | Categories: Bans , Haredim
Haredim have banned vacations to Miami Beach. Too many women in skimpy clothing. I guess this rules out areas of LA, most of Tel Aviv and Netanya, as well. And don't even think about Eilat. Please click the image to...

January 17, 2007: Haredi Wall Posters
Comments: 7 | Categories: Bans , Haredim , Israel
Ever wonder how those haredi wall posters known as pashkvillim that announce bans, excommunications, deaths, and other news get distributed? In Jerusalem, it happens this way.

January 14, 2007: Haredi Rabbis Ban Denim Skirts, Blouses
Comments: 53 | Categories: Bans , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel
On the left. the leader of Lithuanian haredi, Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv. On the right, the Litvak's number two, Rabbi Aryeh Lein Shteinman. I have seen dozens of pictures of these two and one video, but I've never seen either...

January 11, 2007: Haredi Rabbis and Haredi Thugs: Is There Really Any Difference?
Comments: 10 | Categories: Bans , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel
A haredi thug, leader of a gang of haredi thugs who terrorize the Mea Shearim neighborhood of Jerusalem, is convicted of crimes of violence against another haredi gang. The reason for the violence? A war over pashkvellim, the notorious wall...

January 11, 2007: Why Orthodox Judaism Fails
Comments: 18 | Categories: Bans , Dirty Tricks , Haredim , Torah & Science
Rabbi Without A Cause, the RCA-affiliated rabbi so loved by Rabbi Gil Student (and so ridiculed by many of Gil's readers and by me) has this to say about the behavior of the 'gedolim' in the Rabbi Slifkin Ban: [L]abelling...

November 8, 2006: Paul Shaviv On Rabbi Slifkin, The Age of the Universe, Chabad and Haredim
Comments: 16 | Categories: Bans , Books , Chabad , Haredim , MO & Chardal , Torah & Science
Paul Shaviv writes: Whether we read the tangled tales of our “founding family,” or the mystical account of the origins of morality in the Garden of Eden, Genesis has always been the most engaging and the most challenging of the...

September 7, 2006: Haredim Rule Organic Products Not Kosher
Comments: 26 | Categories: Bans , Haredim , Israel , Kosher Business? , Religion
A kibbutz adopts the philosophy of Anthroposophy, a cult (or cult-like group) that follows the teachings of Rudolph Steiner, and early 20th century social philosopher and occultist. The kibbutz goes into the organic produce business and is successful. Tnuva then...

August 25, 2006: Dennis Prager's Rabbi Slifkin Interview On Web
Comments: 0 | Categories: Bans , Haredim , MO & Chardal , Torah & Science
You can listen to Dennis Prager's recent interview with Rabbi Natan Slifkin here. [Hat tip: LA Yid.]

August 23, 2006: The Haredi Takeover and YU's Cowardice
Comments: 7 | Categories: Bans , Haredim , Jewish Leadership , MO & Chardal , Torah & Science
The Canadian Jewish News has published the first of a two part series on inter-Orthodox tension in Toronto. The article is stunning, both for its clarity and for the candidness of the interviewed subjects. First, we have Rabbi Shlomo Miller,...

August 22, 2006: Rabbi Slifkin Live On Dennis Prager NOW
Comments: 5 | Categories: Bans , Torah & Science
Rabbi Natan Slifkin is live on Dennis Prager's radio show as I write this at 1:15 CDT. You can listen (live streaming only – no archived content) on the web here.

August 18, 2006: BeliefNet Interview With Rabbi Natan Slifkin; Klinghoffer Politely Skewered
Comments: 4 | Categories: Bans , Haredim , Jewish Leadership , MO & Chardal , Torah & Science
Rabbi Natan Slifkin, the now-banned author whose earlier books so traumatized haredi gedolim, is interviewed by Steven I. Weiss for BeliefNet: I can't speak for Yeshiva University or anyone else, but many rabbis believe, like me, that [the Discovery Institute...

April 12, 2006: Rabbi Saul Berman: Bans Make A Mockery Out Of Judaism
Comments: 2 | Categories: Bans , Torah & Science
Rabbi Saul Berman of Edah on today's gedolim and bans: The current anti-scientific climate makes a mockery of Judaism's constant search for truth. The very idea that rabbis might excommunicate people for teaching that the world is more than 5766...

March 29, 2006: Rabbi Elyashiv's Evil
Comments: 8 | Categories: Bans , Haredim
Dan Rabinowitz at SeforimBlog has a more complete picture of just how bad the new ban on Rabbi Nosson Kamenetsky's Making of a Gadol is. Not only did Rabbi Elyashiv agree to consult with Rabbi Kamentsky before banning the revised...

March 27, 2006: Rabbi Kamentsky's Letter?
Comments: 4 | Categories: Bans , Books , Haredim
A reader has sent me a the text of what appears to be Rabbi Nosson Kamentsky's letter to Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv (and perhaps to some other gedolim as well) detailing the agreement made after the original ban, and how...

March 23, 2006: The Text Of The Ban
Comments: 6 | Categories: Bans , Books , Haredim
Deiah v'Dibur, the online edition of the Israeli haredi rag Yated Ne'eman, has published a translation of the new (second) ban against Rabbi Nosson Kamentsky's revised book, Making of a Gadol: Daas Torah BS"D, 14 Adar 5766 On Rosh Chodesh...

February 7, 2006: The Association Of Orthodox Jewish Scientists Goes Over The Edge
Comments: 16 | Categories: Bans , Torah & Science
The association of Orthodox Jewish Scientists, once the proud home of giants like Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan, ztz"l, has apparently morphed into a bizarre collection of haredi apologists and wannabees. As GodolHador notes (hat tip: me, yours truly, the anti-Mendel), calling...

January 4, 2006: Marc Shapiro On The Age Of The Universe
Comments: 13 | Categories: Bans , Haredim , Jewish Leadership , MO & Chardal , Torah & Science
…[T]he entire received body of knowledge in just about every field of human study is dependant on the fact that the world is not 5000 years old and that there was not a flood. These facts are the fundamentals of...

December 29, 2005: Rabbi Moshe Tendler Backs Intelligent Design Quid-Pro-Quo Deal To Save Son Accused Of Abuse?
Comments: 6 | Categories: Bans , Haredim , Jewish Leadership , MO & Chardal , Science
Mariah Blake of the Miami New Times reports : On a recent Tuesday evening, Moshe Tendler, an influential Orthodox rabbi and Yeshiva University biology professor, ambled onto the stage at Kovens Conference Center in North Miami. A stately figure with...

December 28, 2005: RCA: Evolution Compatible With Judaism
Comments: 6 | Categories: Bans , Haredim , Jewish Leadership , MO & Chardal , Science
The Rabbinical Council of America, the largest Orthodox rabbinic organization in America, has issued a statement saying that Judaism and evolution are compatible: Creation, Evolution, and Intelligent Design: The View of the Rabbinical Council of America December 22nd 2005 21...

December 21, 2005: Yated Ne'eman On The Renewed Rabbi Slifkin Ban
Comments: 6 | Categories: Bans , Haredim , Jewish Leadership
Under a headline reading "Why We Censor," the Internet version of the Israeli Yated Ne'eman explains why it was necessary to ban Rabbi Nosson Slifkin: …Many books include ideas mentioned by Slifkin, but only his were condemned. Why? Because of...

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