8,015 posts categorized "Haredim"

May 22, 2013: New Jersey Blocks Release Of Lakewood Yeshiva’s $10.6 Million Grant Application, Opponents Cry Foul
Comments: 2 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim
The New Jersey State Secretary of Higher Education’s Office has denied the New Jersey Star-Ledger’s request to see the grant applications filed by Beth Medrash Govoha and Princeton Theological Seminary. The paper had filed that request under the state’s Open...

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 22, 2013: Satmar Threats And Backroom Politics Cause City To Keep Bikes Out Of Hasidic Areas Of Williamsburg
Comments: 7 | Categories: Haredim
“The neighborhood would have been in all sorts of drama [if the kiosks had been placed too close to or in heavily Satmar neighborhoods. Avoiding that] is a way to avoid conflict,” local biking advocate Baruch Herzfeld claimed. Satmar Threats...

May 22, 2013: How Haredim Saved Jerusalem
Comments: 8 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Religion
"Without these haredim, Israel would probably have lost all of Jerusalem in 1948 rather than only part. Yet had it depended on their rabbis, the city would have fallen: It survived because ordinary haredim were less religiously extreme (and perhaps...

May 22, 2013: Haredi Bloc Vote Elects Pro-Haredi School Board Slate In East Ramapo
Comments: 35 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim
Bernard Charles' decision to accept the appointment to the Ramao Planning Board and then to resign almost immediately from it – but only after voting for a hasidic development whose specifics he admittedly had not even had time to study...

May 22, 2013: It Is Our Fundamental Democratic "Right" To Choose To Be Poor And To Live Off Welfare, Haredi MK Says
Comments: 25 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Religion
Off the Knesset floor, it is the education issue that upsets Ashkenazi haredi MK Rabbi Meir Porush more than any other. He said the attempt to impose basic math, English and science education on haredi students is a fundamental breach...

May 22, 2013: Video: MK Rabbi Dov Lipman V. Shas MK Nissim Ze'ev On Secular Education For Haredim
Comments: 1 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Religion
On the Knesset Channel, MK Rabbi Lipman says secular education will help haredim be better haredim, and the Sefardi haredi MK Nissim Ze'ev tries unsuccessfully to evade the issue. The Knesset Channel staged a mini debate earlier this week between...

May 21, 2013: Lakewood Modesty Booklet – Gay In The Mikva
Comments: 8 | Categories: Haredim , Homophobia and its Discontents
The Lakewood modesty booklet You and Eye has a small vignette on being a gay (or bi-curious) yeshiva student. Here it is: Related Post: New Lakewood Modesty Booklet. [Hat Tip: maven.] Related articles Lakewood Haredi Modesty Poster Yosef Kolko Child...

May 21, 2013: Strike At Bobov 45 Yeshiva In Borough Park Allegedly Leaves Children Alone All Day Without Adequate Adult Supervision
Comments: 17 | Categories: Child Safety , Crime, etc. , Haredim
Children have allegedly been left alone in the building all day without adult supervision. Some of the very young children allegedly ran home while others were cared for by the 12- and 13-year-olds. I have heard that an 8-year-old boy...

May 21, 2013: Rabbi Accused Of Sexual Assault To Perform Wedding With The Blessing Of Britain's Two Major Haredi And Orthodox Rabbinic Organizations
Comments: 10 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Rabbi Chaim Halpern, who is currently free on bail and under police investigation for allegedly sexually assaulting women who came to him for marriage counseling and for perverting the course of justice, will conduct a wedding under the auspices of...

May 21, 2013: Video: Haredim Hurl Large Garbage Dumpsters At Mounted Police
Comments: 9 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel
Three views of the incident, which took place during last week's haredi riot in Jerusalem. Related articles 30,000 Haredim Protest - Some Riot - In Jerusalem Dozens Of Haredim Reportedly Stone 2 Haredi IDF Soldiers In Mea Shearim Non-Orthodox Movements...

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 21, 2013: High Court Of Justice Petition Seeks To Rescind Beit Din’s Order Of Excommunication
Comments: 10 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel
“The rabbinical court illegally acted outside its jurisdiction, in a manner that constitutes an obstruction of justice and extortion by the beit din and the rabbis operating it.…[this case] demonstrates the conflict between religion and state in Israel.…These practices do...

May 21, 2013: Belzer Rebbe Bans Hasidim From Talking To Media
Comments: 10 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Haredim , Israel
The family of the Belzer Rebbe is having a large wedding today, and the rebbe has banned all hasidim from speaking to the media regarding it or related issues. The official proclamation of the ban notes that the often outrageous...

May 21, 2013: Video: Seattle Haredi Day School Teacher Accused Of Child Sexual Abuse Arraigned
Comments: 1 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Jordan E. " Yaakov" Murray taught first and second grade at the Torah Day School in Seattle when he was arrested late last month for allegedly groping little girls he was teaching. He was hired without a background check and...

May 21, 2013: Video: US House Of Representatives Holds Hearing On Jacob Ostreicher Case
Comments: 3 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim
The US House of Representative's Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations held a hearing on the case of Jacob Ostreicher, who has been imprisoned (or under house arrest) in Boliva for two years, even though...

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: New Lakewood 'Modesty' Booklet
Comments: 53 | Categories: Haredim , Women & Judaism
A new 'modesty' booklet, "You and Eye," was mailed to Jewish homes in Lakewood, New Jersey after Shavuot. Here are some sample pages. Related articles Haredi Modesty Sign In Midwood, Brooklyn Lakewood Haredi Modesty Poster More Haredi E-Rate Fraud? Lakewood...

May 20, 2013: In Response To Lawsuits, Leading Glatt Kosher Meat Producer Says Kosher Slaughter Causes “Great Suffering”
Comments: 5 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Kosher Scandal
"Whereas the purchasers of other consumer goods could believe their production does not entail causing suffering and harm to the workers who participate in it, the consumer of meat products cannot make a similar assumption about the animals from whose...

May 20, 2013: Lawsuit Against Giant Glatt Kosher Meat Provider Alle Processing Becomes A Class Action
Comments: 11 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
The Satmar-hasid-owned Alle Processing allegedly shorted workers paychecks, failed to pay required overtime, and forced employees to don and doff their protective clothing and safety gear on their own time – all violations of the law. Meal Mart, one of...

May 20, 2013: Fasten Your Seat Belts: Rabbi’s Frequent-Flier Lawsuit To Be Heard By US Supreme Court
Comments: 6 | Categories: Haredim
Fasten your seat belts one more time. After losing in federal district court and winning in federal appeals court, Rabbi Binyomin Ginsberg’s class action lawsuit against Northwest-Delta Airlines will now be reviewed by the US Supreme Court after Delta petitioned...

May 20, 2013: Haredim Seek To Raise $100 Million In Donations To Offset Possible Gov’t Yeshiva Budget Cuts And Financial Penalties For Haredim Who Dodge Draft
Comments: 16 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
It is, a leading Israeli publication wrote, “a Lapid bypass plan.” Today's issue of the Israeli haredi daily Mishpacha reported that a number of wealthy haredi businessmen have been recruited by haredi leadership to contribute money to a new fund...

May 20, 2013: Melbourne Rabbis Group Denies Rabbis Stifle Child Sex Abuse Claims
Comments: 5 | 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 20, 2013: The Man Behind The VIN Ban Backs Disgraced Pol Vito Lopez
Comments: 13 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Not everyone is demonizing Lopez though. Simon Weiser, a member of Community Board 1 and an active organizer in the Williamsburg Hasidic community, said Lopez should be judged on his decades-long record of helping Brooklyn communities. "For such a politician...

May 20, 2013: Dozens Of Haredim Reportedly Stone 2 Haredi IDF Soldiers In Mea Shearim
Comments: 14 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Religion
Israel Police say that dozens of haredim threw stones at two haredi IDF soldiers in Jerusalem's haredi Mea She'arim neighborhood Sunday night. The assailants also burned garbage dumpsters during the riot. Haredim stone police in Mea Shearim 7-13-2011 Originally published...

May 19, 2013: Haredim In Israel To Launch A “Kosher” Smartphone Despite Ban
Comments: 17 | Categories: Bad Spin , Blogs , Haredim , Israel , Web/Tech
Rabbi David Zilbershlag – who reportedly said the Internet is viewed by haredi rabbinic leaders as "the greatest threat of all time” – also asserted that haredi leaders will eventually need to set up their own private “Internet” in the...

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 19, 2013: 2 Haredim Busted For Defacing Woman's Picture On Theater Billboards In Jerusalem
Comments: 4 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Women & Judaism
After a chase, Israel Police reportedly arrested two young haredi men they saw defacing the signs. One reportedly denied defacing them. The other allegedly justified the defacement by insisting that the ads depicting women actresses offend haredim. Defaced Khan Theater...

May 19, 2013: Government Reportedly Backs Down On Haredi Secular Education – At Least For Now
Comments: 5 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Religion
The Finance Ministry has reversed its earlier decision to cut state funding for ultra-Orthodox yeshiva high schools that do not teach core subjects like math, English, science and civics and do not have their students take matriculation exams. Ha'aretz reports:...

May 19, 2013: Haredi Anti-Zionist Playing Cards Big Sellers
Comments: 16 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
"Hatred of Zionism is no longer a marginal issue. In a Lag Ba’omer rally we sold 2,000 playing decks. They're for all sectors of the haredi world, and if necessary, we'll print thousands of decks more." Haredi Anti-Zionist Playing Cards...

May 19, 2013: Israeli Poverty Deepens As Haredim Refuse To Work Or Serve
Comments: 23 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Poverty & Homelessness
“These worrying findings underline the need to protect the most vulnerable in society, especially as governments pursue the necessary task of bringing public spending under control.” Is Israel’s Fiscal Hole Deepening? Yeshiva World According to a Yediot Achronot report, no...

May 19, 2013: Eliyahu Weinstein’s Attorneys Ask To Be Removed From The Case, Judge Agrees
Comments: 7 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim
The unshaven and shackled haredi scammer was sent back to prison to wait for his new attorney to put together a possible – but very unlikely – bail proposal. Eliyahu Weinstein Originally published at 11:08 pm CDT 5-18-2013 Weinstein’s Attorneys...

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 17, 2013: Arrested Haredi Rioters Released
Comments: 4 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel
Eight haredi rioters who were arrested at the massive haredi anti-draft protest Thursday night have reportedly been released in time for Shabbat, despite the fact that ten police officers were injured in the riots – two of them seriously enough...

May 17, 2013: More Evidence Of Ramapo Corruption – And Haredi Influence
Comments: 66 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim
"The names of the seven members of the Ramapo Planning and Zoning Boards do not appear anywhere on the Town’s website. Clarkstown, Orangetown, Stony Point—they list their boards. You might ask the Supervisor [i.e., Christopher St. Lawrence]. After all, he...

May 16, 2013: 30,000 Haredim Protest – Some Riot – In Jerusalem
Comments: 18 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel
"It is clear to all of us that [the haredi rioters are] just a small number of protesters in comparison to the tens of thousands God fearing protesters. We have no control over the youth,” Pini Rosenberg, the protest's spokesperson...

May 14, 2013: "Rabbi P" Cited In Eliyahu Weinstein's Indictment Is Rabbi Henoch Pearl; "Law Firm A" Is Greenberg Taurig
Comments: 3 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim
Rabbi Henoch Pearl wrote a check to be used to begin to repay Weinstein's, Schleider's and Muschel's victim, but his $188,000 check bounced. I'm told this law firm is Greenberg Taurig: Related articles "M.B.", 2nd Attorney Indicted With Eliyahu Weinstein...

May 14, 2013: "M.B.", 2nd Attorney Indicted With Eliyahu Weinstein Today, Is Michael Burnbam – The Attorney For East Ramapo Scammer And Former School Board President Nathan Rothchild
Comments: 5 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim
Michael Burnbam is unnamed co-conspirator #2 in the latest Eliyahu Weinstein scam. He was also East Ramapo scammer and former school board president Nathan Rothchild's attorney – until Burnbam's conviction for cocaine trafficking came to light as Rothchild was going...

May 14, 2013: Prominent Lakewood Rabbi Is Eliyahu Weinstein's Unnamed But Indicted "Co-Conspirator #1"
Comments: 7 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim
Eliyahu Weinstein "Co-conspirator #1" is prominent Lakewood Rabbi Fishel Todd, sources close to the case exclusively told FailedMessiah.com.

May 14, 2013: UPDATED: Lakewood Haredi Scammer Eliyahu Weinstein, 3 Other Haredim, Allegedly Arrested – Again
Comments: 30 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim
Eliyahu Weinstein, the nortorious haredi scammer who took tens of millions of dollars from business partners and banks, was arrested by the FBI this morning along with three other haredim (one of whom I know personally) on fraud and bank...

May 14, 2013: FBI Subpoenas Lakewood School Board Over Special Ed Contracts
Comments: 14 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim
The board meeting opened with the announcementby the board's attorney of the FBI subpoena. It concluded with four board members – Zecharia Greenspan, Jonathan Silver, Yizeriel Friedman and vice president Yechezkel Seitler – attempting to fire the board’s attorney, using...

May 14, 2013: Two Children Hit By Car In Kiryas Joel
Comments: 36 | Categories: Haredim
A 9-year-old sister and her 11-year-old brother ran out into Satmar Road in Kiryas Joel last night from between two parked cars and were reportedly struck by a slowly moving vehicle. Two Children Hit By Car In Kiryas Joel Shmarya...

May 14, 2013: Women Of The Wall Divisive, Immodest And Arrogant Haredi Rabbi Of The Kotel Says
Comments: 24 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Religion , Women & Judaism
Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitch also called on Religious Services Minister Naftali Bennett to quickly formulate new regulations that would make the Kotel a haredi and Zionist Orthodox synagogue by government fiat. Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitch Women Of The Wall Divisive, Immodest And...

May 14, 2013: Sefardi Haredim Allegedly Lie About Schools' Deal
Comments: 6 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Religion , Sefardim
“I forgot who I was dealing with,” Lapid wrote on Facebook. “I don’t understand it. It’s not only an obvious lie; he also destroyed the possibility that we will work with him in the future on issues important to his...

May 13, 2013: Sefardi Haredim Reportedly Agree To Government Education Demands
Comments: 13 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Religion
“This is an historic night. Haredi schools will be subject to standardized testing and core studies in order to gain funding." Rabbi Shai Piron Updated at 8:00 pm CDT Sefardi Haredim Reportedly Agree To Government Education Demands Shmarya Rosenberg •...

May 13, 2013: Rabbi Yosef Kolko Pleads Guilty
Comments: 65 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
A former Lakewood Yeshiva teacher today admitted sexually abusing a boy, after authorities said two more victims of his came forward to them as his trial was underway. Rabbi Yosef Kolko The APP reports: A former Lakewood Yeshiva teacher today...

May 13, 2013: First They Came For Haredim, Next They Will Come For Us, Modern Orthodox Rabbi Says
Comments: 38 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal , Religion , Women & Judaism
“We are the ones who should be shouting, not the chareidim, for after they are taken out of the picture we will be next in line.” Rabbi Yaakov Medan First They Came For Haredim, Next They Will Come For Us,...

May 13, 2013: Booklet Urging Haredim To Flee Israel Reportedly Distributed In Mea Shearim
Comments: 25 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
A booklet that urges haredim to flee Israel were handed out last week in the Mea Shearim neighborhood of Jerusalem. The booklet was written about 15 years ago by Rabbi Moshe Dov Bik, a member of the Mea-Shearim-based anti-Zionist haredi...

May 13, 2013: Haredi Investment Fraud In Beitar Illit
Comments: 15 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel
"Despite warnings from rabbonim and Gedolei Yisrael Shlita to avreichim to distance themselves from risky investments, there are some who simply cannot pass up such an opportunity.…" Yeshiva World reports: Despite warnings from rabbonim and Gedolei Yisrael Shlita to avreichim...

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...

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