362 posts categorized "Med-Ethics"

May 23, 2013: NYC Haredi Measles Outbreak Spreads To Rockland County
Comments: 5 | Categories: Haredim , Med-Ethics
"During the Health Department’s investigation, it was discovered that the individual with measles was at the Hatzlacha Grocery Store, located at 126 Maple Avenue in Spring Valley, on Wednesday, May 22nd. Individuals who may have been at this location between...

May 21, 2013: Haredi Measles Outbreak Dramatically Worsens
Comments: 10 | Categories: Haredim , Med-Ethics
There were four cases of measles in the Brooklyn haredi community confirmed as of April 25; 34 cases have now been confirmed as of today. "Additional cases will likely occur, because a large number of children and adults have been...

May 12, 2013: Hasidic Woman Advertises Bizarre Wart Cure – Kill A Pigeon, Put Its Blood On The Wart…
Comments: 46 | Categories: Haredim , Med-Ethics
The woman had a stern warning for New York Post readers. The cure will only work on Jews, not on Gentiles. “Gentiles,” she reportedly said, “are not capable of taking this.” Hasidic Woman Advertises Bizarre Wart Cure – Kill A...

May 9, 2013: Scathing State Comptroller’s Report Blasts Israel’s Health, Absorption, Education And Interior Ministries
Comments: 5 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Ethiopian Jews , Israel , Med-Ethics , MO & Chardal
Among the report's findings: The Zionist Orthodox school system employed more unqualified teachers than Israel’s secular public schools and than Arab schools. (Haredi schools, even when they are funded by the state, are officially private, not public, schools and are...

May 7, 2013: Alert: Chickenpox Epidemic In UK Haredi Community, Measles Outbreak In Haredi Brooklyn
Comments: 42 | Categories: Haredim , Med-Ethics
Close quarters, studying face-to-face (rather than side-by-side) in yeshivas, and the failure to get vaccinated makes any outbreak in haredi communities especially dangerous. A child with measles Chickenpox Epidemic In UK Haredi Community, Measles Outbreak In Haredi Brooklyn Shmarya Rosenberg...

May 6, 2013: Former Chief Rabbi Rules Organs Can be Donated By HIV-Positive Donors
Comments: 37 | Categories: Israel , Med-Ethics , MO & Chardal
Former Sefardi Chief Rabbi Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron has issued a new halakhic ruling that is likely to be controversial. In response to a question from the Puah Institute, Bakshi-Doron ruled that a life-saving organ donation can be taken from a donor...

May 6, 2013: Don't Let Gentiles Or Average Jews Know We Do Controversial Circumcision Sucking Rite, Chabad Rabbi Says
Comments: 40 | Categories: Chabad , Circumcision , Haredim , Med-Ethics , Religion
“[Metzitzah b'peh, the direct mouth-to-bleeding penis sucking done by many haredi mohels after removing a baby's foreskin] is not an issue that should be discussed in a non-Jewish paper. It’s something to be discussed by rabbis.” The mohel at the...

May 1, 2013: Video: Haredi Mob Attacks, Screams "Nazis!" And "Shiksa!" At, Police, Electric Co Workers, And Firefighters
Comments: 43 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Med-Ethics
During a fire that firefighters feared would lead to a building collapse, haredim in Mea Shearim, Jerusalem attack police, firefighters and electric company workers while screaming "Nazis!" and "shiksa!" at them. Related Post: Sicari Gang Stone Firefighters, Police, Electric Company...

April 30, 2013: Sikrikim Stone Firefighters, EMTs In Mea Shearim
Comments: 25 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Med-Ethics
Haredi Sicari gang members reportedly attacked rescue workers and firefighters last night in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighborhood. File photo: Sikrikim throwing bricks in Mea Shearim Yeshiva World reports: When firemen and EMS personnel responded to a blaze in Meah Shearim...

April 29, 2013: Learning From Tragedy – Or Not, As The Haredi Case May Be
Comments: 25 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Med-Ethics
"Levaya [funeral] details to be announced. He is survived by his rebitzen [wife] and children. Zaka [the largely haredi search and rescue organization] officials add there are no signs of foul play and they hope police will not seek to...

April 24, 2013: Chief Rabbis' Reversal On Circumcision Sucking Ritual Ban Done To Protect Chabad
Comments: 19 | Categories: Chabad , Circumcision , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Med-Ethics
A Chabad rabbi, Yehuda Teichtal, faces a lawsuit and possible criminal prosecution in Germany for having metzitzah b'peh (MBP), the direct mouth-to-bloody-penis sucking done to babies by mohels after the foreskin has been cut off, done to his infant son...

April 23, 2013: Satmar Mikva Warns: Do Not Blow Your Nose In The Mikva's Towels
Comments: 34 | Categories: Haredim , Med-Ethics
"We are providing tissues here in the mikvah to blow the nose. Its not a normal thing to blow the nose in the mikvah towels. Remember! People take used towel to put under their feet...And also a yid washes the...

April 22, 2013: Chabad Rabbinic Organization Lies To Protect Chabad Emissary From Circumcision Lawsuit
Comments: 25 | Categories: Chabad , Circumcision , Haredim , Med-Ethics
The Rabbinical Centre of Europe – which was founded by and is controlled by Chabad – issued a statement today claiming the circumcision was done properly and that it conformed with German law that requires medical protocols be followed. But...

April 16, 2013: Chief Rabbis Tell Mohels To Use Sterile Tube, Not Mouth, For Metzitzah
Comments: 22 | Categories: Circumcision , Israel , Med-Ethics
Two months after an Israeli study found that 1/3 of all neonatal herpes cases in Israel come from circumcisions done with metzitzah b'peh (MBP), the direct mouth-to-bloody-penis-sucking done by many mohels after removing the baby's foreskin, Israel's haredi chief rabbis...

April 15, 2013: University Of Pennsylvania Issues Statement On Agudath Israel Of America Misrepresentation Of Circumcision Study
Comments: 45 | Categories: Chabad , Circumcision , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Med-Ethics
Penn Med could not be clearer – Agudath Israel of America used an internal Penn Med study without permission, took it out of context and misrepresented what the study found – in other words, the rabbis and gedolim of Agudah...

April 12, 2013: Exclusive: Penn Study Cited By Agudath Israel Of America Not Peer Reviewed, Flawed, Authors Did Not Disclose Conflicts Of Interest
Comments: 32 | Categories: Chabad , Circumcision , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Med-Ethics , MO & Chardal
The University of Pennsylvania's Center for Evidence Based Medicine did what is known as a review study of the dangers of metziztah b'peh (MBP), the direct-mouth-to-bloody-penis sucking done by haredi and some Modern Orthodox mohels after cutting off the baby's...

April 10, 2013: Haredi Chief Rabbis Ban Disabled Mobility Aid – 25 Years After It Was Approved
Comments: 24 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Med-Ethics , MO & Chardal , Religion
Israel’s haredi chief rabbis have banned a specially designed electric scooter that gave disabled Jews the ability to get to and from synagogues on Shabbat, the Jewish sabbath when active use of electric devices is normally forbidden. Haredi Chief Rabbis...

April 9, 2013: Study Questions Danger Of Haredi Circumcision Penis Sucking Ritual
Comments: 34 | Categories: Chabad , Circumcision , Haredim , Med-Ethics
"We have been saying for years that the evidence attacking this religious practice is highly dubious, and now we have world class doctors agreeing with us," said Rabbi Gedaliah Weinberger, chairman emeritus of the board of trustees of Agudath Israel...

April 9, 2013: Complete Audio: Conservative Radio Host Michael Savage Dedicates Show To Controversial Haredi Circumcision Ritual
Comments: 45 | Categories: Chabad , Circumcision , Haredim , Med-Ethics , Media & Media Criticism
Michael Savage, upset by a Fox News headline on metzitzah b'peh (MBP), the direct mouth-to-bleeding-baby-penis sucking done by many haredi (and some Modern Orthodox) mohels after cutting off the baby's foreskin, dedicates more than an hour of his national radio...

April 5, 2013: NYC Metzitzah B'Peh Circumcision Law Toothless
Comments: 23 | Categories: Chabad , Circumcision , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Med-Ethics
"We developed this law…to balance the right of people to practice religion with the requirements of a health agency to protect everybody, especially the most vulnerable. We require their cooperation and it's a challenge." The health department took no action...

April 5, 2013: Man Sentenced For Organ Trafficking, Extortion
Comments: 6 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Israel , Med-Ethics , Sefardim
Sami Shem Tov gets a three-year sentence for extorting 'donors' and paying them as little as $2,000 to donate a kidney while at the same time charging recipients exponentially more money. Sami Shem Tov Man Sentenced For Organ Trafficking, Extortion...

March 30, 2013: Israeli Doctors Find 'Delayed Reaction' Herpes Infection Caused By Dangerous Haredi Cicumcision Rite
Comments: 21 | Categories: Chabad , Circumcision , Haredim , Med-Ethics
Israeli doctors have found a herpes (HSV-1) infection in a 2-and-a-half-year-old boy they believe came from metzitzah b'peh (MBP), the direct mouth-to-bloody-penis sucking done by many mohels (and almost all hasidic mohels) just after cutting off the baby's foreskin and...

March 30, 2013: Video: German Chabad Circumcision Lawsuit
Comments: 33 | Categories: Chabad , Circumcision , Med-Ethics
A Chabad emissary in Germany, Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal, had his son circumcised by an Israeli mohel last week. The mohel did metzitzah b'peh (MBP), the direct mouth-to-bloody-penis sucking done immediately after removing the foreskin. The was videoed with Teichtal's knowledge...

March 21, 2013: Rabbi Ovadia Yosef Certifies Kosher For Passover Cigarettes
Comments: 24 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Kosher Scandal , Med-Ethics , Sefardim
For the first time ever, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef is putting his kosher supervision mark on Passover cigarettes – even though Yosef opposes smoking and urges people who smoke to quit. Rabbi Ovadia Yosef Rabbi Ovadia Yosef Certifies Kosher For Passoever...

March 18, 2013: Video: NYC Mayoral Candidate Appeases Haredim Over Dangerous Circumcision Ritual
Comments: 46 | Categories: Chabad , Circumcision , Haredim , Med-Ethics
NYC mayoral candidate Bill Thompson is told by a haredi leader that a "red line" issue for the "rank-and-file" haredi man on the street is metzitzah b'peh (MBP), the direct mouth-to-bleeding-penis-sucking done primarily by haredi mohels after cutting off a...

March 14, 2013: 15 Babies Die Every Year In NYC From Metzitzah B'Peh Herpes, Hospitals Cover Up Deaths Leading YU Rabbi Claims
Comments: 51 | Categories: Chabad , Circumcision , Halakha , Haredim , Med-Ethics , MO & Chardal
Speaking at a rabbinical conference in London, England, Rabbi Hershel Schachter, the rosh yeshiva of Yeshiva University's rabbinical school, claims 15 Jewish babies die every year in the New York City area from herpes transmitted by the haredi circumcision direct...

February 25, 2013: Haredim Say They Can't Meet School Lunch Nutritional Guidelines For Religious Reasons
Comments: 28 | Categories: Haredim , Med-Ethics
Led by Agudath Israel of America, haredim are finding it hard to comply with the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010. The law, which went into effect this year, is supposed to make school lunches healthier, and allocates billions of...

February 24, 2013: Bnei Brak: Child Injured from Purim Fireworks
Comments: 7 | Categories: Haredim , Med-Ethics
Purim began in Bnei Brak on motzei Shabbos accompanied with fireworks as has become the minhag [custom] among the young in Eretz Yisrael. Despite increased warnings from rabbonim, the fireworks are still used and in this case, a child sustained...

February 24, 2013: A Purim Plea From A Haredi Paramedic
Comments: 10 | Categories: Chabad , Haredim , Med-Ethics
Last night at 2:00 am my radio went off for an unresponsive child. As with every call my mind started searching what can cause a child to become unresponsive? Was it croup? Was it a high fever? Was it seizures?...

February 21, 2013: Federal Court Rejects Haredi Request For Emergency Stay In Circumcision Case
Comments: 19 | Categories: Chabad , Circumcision , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Med-Ethics
Agudath Israel of America, Satmar, the International Bris Association and their fellow plaintiffs appealed last month's denial of their request for a stay of NYC law requiring parents to sign an informed consent document before metzitzah b'peh (MBP), the direct...

February 21, 2013: Chabad Rabbi-Mohel Threatens To Sue Blogger Over Dangerous Circumcision Sucking Ritual
Comments: 46 | Categories: Chabad , Circumcision , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Med-Ethics
"Over the past few months the New York City Mayor Michel Bloomberg (a Jew), has been combating Metzitzah Ba'peh - a very important procedure of the Brit Milah ritual [sic]. A tenet in the Jewish religion. Historically we have found...

February 10, 2013: Haredi Burka Cult Family Flees After Baby Dies From Alleged Neglect
Comments: 10 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Extreme Sniut , Haredim , Israel , Med-Ethics
A baby is dead, a haredi family is missing and in the face of a looming police crackdown, the anti-Zionist haredi umbrella organization Edah Haredit has reportedly put out its version of an all points bulletin to try to find...

February 7, 2013: Breaking! Israeli Study Finds 7 Cases Of Herpes Transmitted By Ritual Circumcision Sucking Procedure
Comments: 21 | Categories: Circumcision , Haredim , Israel , Med-Ethics , MO & Chardal
In the 8-year study period, 22 cases of nHsV were identified (an incidence rate of 8.4 per 100,000 live births). Most patients (77.2%, 17 cases) manifested as skin, eye and/or mouth infection, 13.6% (3 cases) as localized central nervous system...

February 3, 2013: Is Football Kosher?
Comments: 36 | Categories: Halakha , Med-Ethics
Some rabbis ruled that boxing, because of it's high risk of serious injury including brain damage, was forbidden. But to my knowledge, no rabbi has ruled that American football is forbidden – even though the evidence that a high percentage...

January 30, 2013: Mohels Say They Will Not Follow NYC Law On Circumcision Informed Consent
Comments: 32 | Categories: Chabad , Circumcision , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Med-Ethics
“He’s the mayor of the biggest city in the world, but I’m not going to listen to him. I have another mayor, the Almighty, and I will do it his way.” The Forward reports: The leading association for mohelim who...

January 28, 2013: Israel Orders Doctors To Stop Administration Of Depo-Provera Shots To Women If There Is Any Doubt That They Do Not Understand Their Purpose
Comments: 36 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Ethiopian Jews , Israel , Med-Ethics
It isn’t an apology or an acceptance of responsibility. But for the first time, an Israeli government official has told doctors to stop injecting Ethiopian women – or any other women – with long-acting birth control medication known as Depo-Provera...

January 10, 2013: Judge Denies Haredi Request For Injunction To Ban Metzitzah B'Peh Informed Consent
Comments: 19 | Categories: Chabad , Circumcision , Haredim , Med-Ethics
U.S. District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald on Thursday refused to issue a preliminary injunction against the change to the city’s health code requiring the informed consent to be signed by parents before a brit milah, circumcision, involving metzitzah b'peh (MBP)....

January 10, 2013: Video: Orthodox Family Fights Hospital To Keep Teen Daughter On Life Support
Comments: 32 | Categories: Med-Ethics
"Our way to believe as a Jew," said the victim's mother, Aviva Zfat, "is that everything goes through the heart. As long as the heart beats, the soul is in the heart, and therefore she is alive." WSVN-TV -

January 7, 2013: Breaking! Another NYC Baby Gets Herpes From Dangerous Haredi Circumcision Ritual
Comments: 76 | Categories: Chabad , Circumcision , Haredim , Med-Ethics
The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene has sent out an alert to medical providers warning them that another baby now has Herpes Simplex Virus 1 that was transmitted to the baby through metzitzah b'peh, the direct...

December 30, 2012: Lack Of Faith May Be A Psychological Issue That Requires Medical Treatment, Noted Haredi Psychiatrist Says
Comments: 91 | Categories: Haredim , Med-Ethics , Religion , Skepticism
Rabbi Dr. Abraham Twerski tells a yeshiva student who has tried hard to remove doubts he has about Judaism but can't that he may have a form of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder that requires medical treatment. From this week's English Hamodia....

December 28, 2012: The Dangers Of Metzitzah B'Peh That Haredim Tried To Hide
Comments: 30 | Categories: Circumcision , Haredim , Med-Ethics
The haredi journal Dialogue published an issue this month that largely deals with metzitzah b'peh (MBP), the mouth-to-bloody-penis sucking many haredi mohels do. MBP transmits disease, injures, maims and even kills babies. After publishing pro-MBP material, Dialogue was approached and...

December 3, 2012: 3 Major Medical Organizations Come Out Against Haredi Circumcision Rite
Comments: 20 | Categories: Chabad , Circumcision , Haredim , Med-Ethics
American Academy of Pediatrics, the Infectious Diseases Society of America, and the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society all say metzitzah b'peh, the direct mouth-to-bleeding-penis suction done by haredi mohels is a danger to children, and they argue that an informed consent...

November 17, 2012: Haredi Rabbis Wrong About Circumcision, Rabbi Says
Comments: 31 | Categories: Circumcision , Haredim , Med-Ethics , MO & Chardal
Rabbi Hershel Schachter says that haredi rabbis who insist on "following in the steps of our forefathers" are wrong, because they don't understand what the term "following in the steps of our forefathers" means. Rabbi Hershel Schachter Yeshiva University's rosh...

November 14, 2012: 5,600 Join Organization For Orthodox And Haredi Homosexuals
Comments: 27 | Categories: Haredim , Homophobia and its Discontents , Israel , Med-Ethics , MO & Chardal
Approximately 5,600 religious homosexuals have joined the Hod organization since its establishment in 2008, according to figures presented by the organization in a special seminar held in collaboration with the Israel Psychological Association. 5,600 join religious gays' organization Testimonies collected...

November 12, 2012: Haredi Newspapers, Websites Refuse To Run Cancer Screening Ads
Comments: 65 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Med-Ethics
Israel's haredi (Deputy) Health Minister Rabbi Yaakov Litzman refuses to promote colon and rectal cancer screening tests and refuses to be screened himself, telling an anti-cancer organization that he would recite Psalms instead. (Deputy) Health Minister Rabbi Yaakov Litzman An...

November 11, 2012: Metzitzah B'Peh Status Quo To Stay In Place For Months Due To Storm
Comments: 25 | Categories: Circumcision , Haredim , Med-Ethics
Superstorm Sandy delayed so many court cases and did so much damage to NYC courts that the hearing that was set for later this week to determine when the city's new informed consent requirement for circumcisions involving metziztah b'peh, direct...

November 11, 2012: Haredi-Owned Nursing Home Allegedly Ignores State Orders, Failed To Prepare For Hurricane, Endangered Residents And Staff
Comments: 20 | Categories: Haredim , Med-Ethics
Residents left in the cold and dark without food after Hurricane Sandy struck New York City. Because of the nursing home's failures, residents were evacuated without I.D. or medicine sheets. Two weeks after the hurricane, one resident is still lost...

November 8, 2012: Rabbi Compares NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg To "Harsh Rulers" Who Made "Many False Libels" Against Metzitzah B'Peh
Comments: 16 | Categories: Chabad , Haredim , History , Med-Ethics
Over the past few months the New York City Mayor Michel Bloomberg (a Jew), has been combating Metzitzah Ba'peh - a very important procedure of the Brit Milah ritual [sic]. A tenet in the Jewish religion. Historically we have found...

November 5, 2012: Haredim More Likely To Get And Transmit Mumps Because Of Face-To-Face Studying And Overcrowding, Study Finds
Comments: 18 | Categories: Haredim , Med-Ethics
A new study published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine finds that haredi boys who study with a study partner face-to-face or in groups studying face-to-face are more likely to get the mumps – even if they were...

October 28, 2012: Israeli Anti-Abortion Group Linked To Suicide Pact Tragedy
Comments: 30 | Categories: Israel , Med-Ethics , MO & Chardal
Efrat activists allegedly so traumatized a young girl about to have an abortion that she called off the procedure. Instead, just a few days later, now emotionally unstable, she and her boyfriend tried to commit suicide. To stop it, police...

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