2,540 posts categorized "Chabad"

May 24, 2013: Video: Chabad's Postville Yeshiva Named For Convicted Felon Sholom Rubashkin
Comments: 16 | Categories: Agri-Star , Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Not only that, as you can see on this video, the yeshiva is openly messianist (the yellow flags in the yeshiva's Lag Ba'omer parade and the "yechi" yarmulkes worn openly by some students), and the parents of these messianist kids...

May 24, 2013: Chabad Continues To Harass Abuse Victim's Family, Stalls Government Dispute Resolution
Comments: 4 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Chabad in Melbourne continues to harass and shun Zephania Waks for supporting his son Manny's campaign to bring Chabad (and other) pedophiles to justice. At the same time, it blocked attempts by Zephania Waks to resolve the shunning case in...

May 23, 2013: Agri Star Donates More Than $50,000 Worth Of Meat Products To Oklahoma Tornado Relief
Comments: 11 | Categories: Agri-Star , Chabad , Haredim , Hessed , MO & Chardal
Agri Star, the successor company to Agriprocessors, has donated 20,000 pounds of meat products to Oklahoma tornado relief in partnership with the haredi chain of soup kitchens Masbia. The meat and poultry products, which Agri Star says have a wholesale...

May 22, 2013: Rabbi Says He Was Misquoted On Child Sexual Abuse
Comments: 4 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
The Australian is expected to apologize for allegedly misquoting the former president of the Organization of Rabbis of Australasia (ORA), Rabbi Dovid Freilich as saying that 95% of Australian rabbis believe that child sexual abuse allegations should be dealt with...

May 21, 2013: Prostitution And Solicitation Arrests Of Head Of KSA Kosher
Comments: 19 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Scandal
Rabbi Binyomin Lisbon was at one time the rabbinic assistant of Rabbi Boruch Shlomo Cunin, the head of Chabad in California and Nevada. He has also served as the head rabbi of Congregation Chabad/Lubavitch of Beverly Hills since 1977 (the...

May 20, 2013: Melbourne Rabbis Group Denies Rabbis Stifle Child Sex Abuse Claims
Comments: 6 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Therefore there is absolutely no basis to the statement attributed to a Perth rabbi (“Manny Waks pays the price for speaking about sexual abuse in an Orthodox Jewish community”, The Australian, May 18) that "95% of Australian rabbis prefer child...

May 19, 2013: Chabad Rabbi Assaulted By Alleged Abuse Victim’s Brother
Comments: 21 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
When Chabad of Australia’s head rabbi Zvi Telsner saw Chaim Waks at the end of Shavuot prayer services on May 14, he offered the 24-year-old Waks holiday greetings. But Chaim Waks did not take those greetings well. Chabad Rabbi Assaulted...

May 17, 2013: Chabad Rabbi Insults Child Sex Abuse Victims And Their Families
Comments: 16 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
"…Saturday in the synagogue Australia Chabad's] senior spiritual leader, Rabbi Zvi Telsner, delivered a stern sermon from the pulpit. “Who gave you permission to talk to anyone? Which rabbi gave you permission?” he thundered, without mentioning any names. Zephaniah and...

May 13, 2013: The Appalling Jewish Press Smears 6-Year-Old Alleged Child Sex Abuse Victims
Comments: 25 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Media & Media Criticism , MO & Chardal , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
The appalling Jewish Press has published a horrific news article by its online editor, Yori Yanover. Yanover has a long history of allegedly harassing and stalking online advocates for victims. He also infamously wrote a very biased, unethical article many...

May 12, 2013: Miami Chabad School And Yeshiva Ordered Into Foreclosure Auction
Comments: 13 | Categories: Chabad
The Lubavitch Education Center in Miami and two Chabad properties in Miami Beach – including its yeshiva on Alton Road – where Jewish studies are taught from preschool through high school and rabbinical training, has been ordered into foreclosure auction....

May 12, 2013: Editorial: Postville, 5 Years After
Comments: 28 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
"It’s important not to forget that the abuses and illegal behavior that had been taking place in the Agriprocessors plant were well known and publicly documented long before the 2008 raid. If the government had intervened earlier — if inspectors...

May 10, 2013: Video: Film About Abuse Of Undocumented Workers At Agriprocessors
Comments: 24 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Safety , Rubashkin Workers
"The U-Turn," a film about the abuse of undocumented workers at the Postville, Iowa Agriprocessors kosher slaughterhouse (owned by the Rubashkin family) and the masive immigration raid that took place on May 12, 2008 that victimized them all over again,...

May 10, 2013: The "Awkward Dilemma" Of The Rogatchover Gaon
Comments: 72 | Categories: Chabad , Chabad History , History
Rabbi Yosef Rozin, commonly known as the Rogatchover Gaon, was the hasidic rabbi of Dvinsk connected to the Chabad hasidic dynasty. He also supposedly gave smicha (ordination) to the late Lubavitcher Rebbe Menachem Mendel Scheneerson, although some contend this is...

May 9, 2013: Second Victim In Chabad Staten Island Molestation Case Leads To Re-Arrest Of Suspect
Comments: 7 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Claude Neufeld's initial arrest in October came after that alleged victim informed his parents of the incidents. They told a rabbi at the center who reportedly advised them to contact police. The Staten Island Advance reports: A 64-year-old Willowbrook man...

May 9, 2013: A Shavuos Message From Convicted Felon Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin
Comments: 19 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
"…I think about the hashgocho protis and the symbolism of the name of the legal petition being presented to the appeals court. It’s a Latin expression called "Habeus Corpus,” which literally means, “Produce the body [from jail].” The emphasis is...

May 9, 2013: Chabad Joins Battle To Fight Against Teaching Math, English
Comments: 23 | Categories: Chabad , Haredim , Israel , Religion
Rabbi Yitzchok Yehuda Yeruslavsky, the secretary for Chabad’s beit din in Israel and the chief rabbi of Nachlas Har Chabad, ordered Chabad schools to join the battle against Israeli government efforts to get haredi schools to teach Israel’s core curriculum....

May 7, 2013: Rubashkin Launches Australian Fundraising Campaign With Major Chabad Endorsement
Comments: 22 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Former Agriprocessors VP Sholom Rubashkin's "pidyon shvuyim fund" has launched an Australian fundraising effort. Rubashkin is serving a 27-year prison sentence for bank fraud and related crimes and has exhausted all appeals save one. Meanwhile, as was reported Friday, $18...

May 7, 2013: Jewish Victims Org To Seek Justice At Royal Commission On Child Sexual Abuse
Comments: 11 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
The Jewish organization that has been established to end the silence on child sexual abuse within the Australian Jewish community, Tzedek – which means ‘Justice’ in Hebrew – has made an application to appear at the Royal Commission investigating child...

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 3, 2013: Agriprocessors' Trustee's Attorney Tries To Quash Chabad Alleged Money Laundering Story
Comments: 25 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Paula Roby, an attorney for Agriprocessors' bankruptcy trustee Joeseph Sarachek (pictured at right), tells Sarachek that she won't let Chabad's alleged money laundering be a story here. Here is that email. Paula Roby, one of Sarachek's attorney's, made a bit...

May 3, 2013: Chabad Charities That Allegedly Laundered Millions Of Dollars For Agriprocessors Must Repay Only Thousands
Comments: 15 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Chabad charities that some allege were used to siphon millions of dollars out of Agriprocessors and to the Rubashkin family to avoid their loss during a possible bankruptcy filing have agreed to repay pennies on the dollars they were given...

April 29, 2013: Rubashkin Family Fundraising Email
Comments: 67 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
"…The deadline to file this petition is in 5 months and we have barely started yet (there is a massive amount of work) because we don’t have funds to move forward. We desperately need to raise the funds to pay...

April 27, 2013: Rubashkin Fundraising Continues
Comments: 76 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Former glatt kosher meat baron Sholom Rubashkin lost at trial, lost on appeal and was denied by the US Supreme Court. Now his family is raising money to file a 2255 motion in the hopes that this will set him...

April 26, 2013: Bus Driver Charged In Child Sex Abuse Case
Comments: 2 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Police spokeswoman Leonie Johnson said Donald Cornell, who was a bus driver at the Orthodox Adass Israel School in Elsternwick and Melbourne's [Chabad] Yeshivah Centre, was charged with six counts of indecent assault on March 19. The offences date from...

April 25, 2013: New Child Sex Abuse Case In Melbourne's Haredi Community
Comments: 6 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
A Mentions Hearing will be held for Donald Cornell, who is facing six charges over alleged abuse dating back to the late 1980s. Cornell, who is not Jewish, was apparently contracted as a bus driver for both the fervently Orthodox...

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 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 22, 2013: Chabad's Do Nothing, Feel Good Judaism
Comments: 51 | Categories: BTs , Chabad , Outreach
"…On the other hand, the personal approach of Chabad to Jewish outreach—often combined with glitzy, high-profile, one-time events—has a major negative: It is built on absolutely minimal expectations. Its message seems to be: We will love you, but we won’t...

April 18, 2013: Chabad Rabbi Joseph Gutnick Sued For More Than $1 Million In Pump-And-Dump Stock Scheme
Comments: 14 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim
Chabad mining magnate Rabbi Joseph Gutnick allegedly tricked a man who came to him for financial help and swindled $1 million from him in a pump-and-dump stock swindle, a Melbourne court was told this week. Rabbi Joseph Gutnick Chabad Rabbi...

April 18, 2013: Orthodox Social Worker Denies Covering Up Child Sex Abuse
Comments: 14 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Debbie Fox, an Orthodox social worker who founded the anti-child-sexual-abuse protocol many Orthodox and haredi schools and institutions use (if they use anything at all), is denying she helped protect a pedophile. But her defense rings hollow, and what it...

April 17, 2013: Rabbinical Council Called To "Absurd" Beit Din Case
Comments: 14 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim
The case has grown out of a ruling made by Chabad's leading Melbourne Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Telsner ordering a Sydney Jewish school to expel a student because the student's father had failed to honor a ruling by Telsner. Related articles...

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 15, 2013: Flawed Penn Haredi Circumcision Study Comes Under Fire As Agudah Court Brief Lies
Comments: 18 | Categories: Chabad , Circumcision , Haredim , MO & Chardal , Religion
The two Penn Med Center for Evidence-based Practice members who did the study cited by haredi umbrella organization Agudath Israel of America in a court filing in support of its claim that there is no valid statistical information to back...

April 15, 2013: Video: Anti-Islam Bigot Speaks At Chabad
Comments: 24 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Chabad , Israel
Anti-Islam bigot (and freequent sockpuppet) Pamela Geller spoke at Chabad of Great Neck Sunday morning. Geller is beyond controversial, and is known for her extreme bigotry and the decption she and her cadre of followers use to promote it. Even...

April 14, 2013: High Court Issues Groundbreaking Ruling To Punish Get Refusers
Comments: 10 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Israel , Women & Judaism
The decision was made as part of an affair involving a woman who was abandoned by her husband about 12 years ago: A couple with four children immigrated to Israel from the former Soviet Union. The woman converted to Judaism...

April 14, 2013: Audio: Interview With P.I. Who Exposed LA Kosher Meat Scam
Comments: 2 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Scandal , MO & Chardal
Eric Agaki tells the story of why he began to investigate Doheny Glatt, how the kosher meat fraud was committed, and what he thinks should be done to make sure that something like this does not happen again. Agaki also...

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 12, 2013: Chabad Child Sex Abuse Scandal: Rabbi David Kramer Pleads Guilty
Comments: 13 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Rabbi David Kramer, the convicted pedophile extradited last year from the US to Australia to face charges of sexually abusing children at Chabad's Yeshivah College in Melbourne, pleaded guilty today. David Kramer David Kramer, the convicted pedophile extradited last year...

April 11, 2013: Head Of KSA Kosher Allegedly Frequented Strip Clubs And Prostitutes, Had Multiple Affairs, Embezzled And Stole Money, Lawsuit Says
Comments: 53 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Rabbis & Sex
A son-in-law of the head of KSA (Kosher Supervision of America) alleges his father-in-law Rabbi Binyomin Lisbon (a former Chabad emissary and rabbi of an Orthodox synagogue, along with heading KSA) visited strip clubs, cavorted with strippers and prostitutes and...

April 11, 2013: Non-Orthodox Australian Jewish Community Allegedly Fails To Properly Deal With Child Sex Abuse, Enables And Perpetrates Coverups
Comments: 4 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Jewish Leadership , MO & Chardal , Pedophilia & Related Crimes , Religion
"…Why is it important to share this information with the public? One of the reasons is to help dispel a myth that it is only an Orthodox issue; that they are the only ones who mishandle the response to child...

April 10, 2013: LA Jewish Family Service Denies It Protected A Pedophile
Comments: 13 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
An Australian media report earlier this week alleged that Debbie Fox and the Jewish Family and Children's Service of Los Angeles protected a pedophile wanted in Australia for questioning in a series of child sexual abuse incidents. The JFCS-LA has...

April 10, 2013: Australian Newspaper Confirms Failed Messiah Report On Chabad Witness Tampering
Comments: 29 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
The Herald-Sun reports that senior Chabad members pressured and may have bribed pedophile David Kramer to plead guilty in order to avoid having devastating and incriminating testimony about Chabad's conduct being given in open court during his trial. David Kramer...

April 10, 2013: Suspected Child Sexual Abuse Coverup In Israeli Chabad School Allegedly Has More Than 70 Victims
Comments: 5 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
A city representative claimed there was only one case, and that case was handled internally. He also warned parents that it was forbidden to speak publicly about the alleged abuse or allow it to become public on the haredi news...

April 9, 2013: Plea Deal In Melbourne Chabad Child Sex Abuse Scandal
Comments: 12 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
As I reported two days ago, David Kramer, a convicted pedophile extradited from the US to face 12 counts of child rape and abuse, has decided to plead guilty – allegedly after being offered bribes to do so by leading...

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: LA Jewish Family Service "Sheltering" Admitted Pedophile On Lam From Australia
Comments: 9 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , MO & Chardal , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Orthodox abuse 'expert' Debbie Fox and others at the Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles are knowingly sheltering an Orthodox pedophile. They have not called police in LA or Australia to notify them of the man's whereabouts or warned the...

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 7, 2013: Pedophile In Chabad Scandal Allegedly Offered Bribe To Plead Guilty
Comments: 39 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
David Kramer, a convicted pedophile who was extradited from the US to Australia last year to face charges of sexually abusing children at Chabad's Yeshivah College in Melbourne, has allegedly been offered a bribe by prominent Chabad members. They want...

April 6, 2013: Chabad Continues To Shun Abuse Victim's Family
Comments: 47 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Zephania Waks, the father of the lead victim in the Chabad child sexual abuse scandal in Melbourne, Australia, was denied a customary aliya today by the Yeshivah Centre's synagogue. Zephania Waks was not what is classically referred to in halakha...

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...

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