2,564 posts categorized "Haredim"

November 6, 2009: Moving Backward: A Look At "Mehadrin" Bus Lines
Comments: 9 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Women & Judaism
What is really behind the sudden rise of Hareidi demands that public buses in Israel be gender-segregated? Moving Backward: A Look at "Mehadrin" Bus Lines By Naomi Ragen • JewishIdeas.org There was no Rabbi more concerned with tseni'ut (modesty) than...

November 5, 2009: RUBASHKIN TAKES THE STAND
Comments: 25 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
“I made mistakes. I’m a human being. I took the information people gave me and sort of went with it without really drilling down to see if it was for real or not.” Rubashkin admits mistakes, denies crimes BY GRANT...

November 5, 2009: BIRTHRIGHT AND JEC HOST EVANGELICAL LEADER WHO PROMOTES MESSIANIC JUDAISM
Comments: 90 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Outreach
An Evangelical leader who believes Jews can accept Jesus without giving up their Jewish identity will be the keynote speaker in two weeks at an event for Birthright Israel alumni, sponsored by Birthright NEXT and the Jewish Enrichment Center. BREAKING...

November 4, 2009: Agriprocessors Twice Refused To Hire Federal Informant Due to Fake Papers
Comments: 26 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
Informant was eventually hired using real papers given to him by Feds. [UPDATED 11:10 PM] This is an updated version of the Des Moines Register piece I originally posted. [Hat Tip: Neighbor Girl.] Rubashkin trial: Informant had been rejected as...

November 4, 2009: New Scam May Have Taken Haredim For $100 Million
Comments: 14 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim
Major Chabad center carries the name of disgraced alleged fraudster, who is now said to be cooperating with feds. Rothstein's Jewish Legacy, Enshrined in Black and White By Lisa Rab • New Times ​South Florida's Jewish community just can't catch...

November 4, 2009: Haredi Towns Poorest In Israel
Comments: 18 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
Beitar Ilit poorest overall. Kiryat Sefer has the lowest per capita monthly income: $180. The richest towns: Savyon, Kfar Shmaryahu, Omer By Lior Dattel • Ha'aretz Savyon boasts Israel's richest residents and highest socioeconomic level, so says the Central Bureau...

November 4, 2009: Haredi Riots Supreme Leaders Visit NY, Host Rabbi Reacts With Spin And Denial–Defends Neturei Karta
Comments: 36 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal
“Neturei Karta, of which [the rebbes] are officially members, are lumped together—nobody knows the difference—and you’ve got to sift it out,” said Rabbi Dovid Weinberger. Toldos Avrohom Yitzchok Rebbe draws blog spotlight to Lawrence By Mayer Fertig • The Jewish...

November 3, 2009: [UPDATED] AARON RUBASHKIN TESTIFIES
Comments: 63 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
Agriprocessors founder says he was "unaware" of any illegal immigrants working at Agriprocessors. Sholom Rubashkin's wife also testifies. Aaron Rubashkin, Agriprocessors' founder, testifies in son's trial BY GRANT SCHULTE • Des Moines Register Sioux Falls, S.D. — The man who...

November 3, 2009: Burka Cult Mother Sentenced To 4 Years For Severe Child Abuse
Comments: 21 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Extreme Sniut , Haredim , Israel
Woman's husband was also convicted of 10 counts of assault and three counts of abuse of a minor or helpless person, and was sentenced to six months in jail. 'Taliban mother' jailed for four years JERUSALEM POST A Beit Shemesh...

November 3, 2009: Rubashkin Attorneys Ask Judge To Dismiss 91 Fraud Charges
Comments: 5 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
“Simply put, the government has overreached. There is an insufficient linkage for a criminal conviction…Breach of contract does not equal a crime.” Attorneys in Agriprocessors case ask judge to dismiss 91 fraud charges BY GRANT SCHULTE • Des Moines Register...

November 3, 2009: Rubashkins, Knowing Raid Was Imminent, Tried To A Cut Deal
Comments: 13 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
After plant had ignored several warnings from Feds, Rubashkin legal team tried to cut deal to avoid "disruption." Sholom, Aaron, Yossie and Heshy Rubashkin with US Senator Charles Grassley in Sholom's home during a Grassley Campaign fundraising event. As you...

November 3, 2009: Chabad Yeshiva Brawl Over Messiah Goes To Court
Comments: 43 | Categories: Chabad , Chabad & Christianity , Crime, etc. , Haredim
"I'm going to call the Messiah as my first witness," a defense lawyer quipped, while prosecutors warn judge about possible witness tampering. Yeshiva row over Messiah goes to court BY SCOTT SHIFREL • New York DAILY NEWS STAFF What began...

November 2, 2009: Slaughterhouse Worker: Rubashkins Incompetent
Comments: 16 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
Chaim Abrahams says Rubashkin brothers incompetent. Court documents filed by the defense just before the trial began list Chaim Abrahams as Sholom Rubashkin's brother-in-law: Slaughterhouse worker: Manager was incompetent SIOUX FALLS, S.D., (AP) — A former Iowa kosher slaughterhouse manager...

November 2, 2009: Exclusive: Haredim Issue Women's Stocking Color And Thickness Ban
Comments: 71 | Categories: Bans , Haredim , Women & Judaism
New Lakewood-issued edict regulates color and thickness of women's stockings. The ban, seen posted around Brooklyn, is signed by the entire Lakewood Yeshiva hierarchy, including Rabbi Kotler, rosh yeshiva, and Matisyahu ("Sweep it under the carpet") Salomon, the yeshiva's mashgiach...

November 2, 2009: Rubashkin Defense To Start Today Or Tomorrow
Comments: 18 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
The list of possible defense witnesses includes the plant's former bankruptcy trustee, Postville schools guidance counselor Ron Wahl, and Aaron Rubashkin. Sholom Rubashkin will also testify. Rubashkin to present his side in federal trial By GRANT SCHULTE • Waterloo-Cedar Falls...

November 1, 2009: Israel Arrests Haredi Settler Who Admitted Attacks On Arabs, Leftists, Gays And Messianic Jews
Comments: 39 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Homophobia , Israel , Racism , Xenophobia
Jack Teitel, a 37-year-old ultra-Orthodox Jewish West Bank settler, was behind the killing of two Arabs, the targeting of a peace activist and an attack on a breakaway Jewish sect. He also advocated attacks on gays. Israel nabs serial attacker...

November 1, 2009: Edah Charedit: Organ Donation Equals Murder
Comments: 52 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Med-Ethics
Anti-Zionist haredim rule brain stem death is not death. Haredi leaders do not outlaw haredim taking organs – they only outlaw giving organs. Eda Haredit: Organ donation is murder Following 'Zionist rabbinate's shocking seal of approval' to recognize brain-respiratory death,...

November 1, 2009: Israel's Haredi Deputy Prime Minister: Refugees Will Bring AIDS And Disease
Comments: 24 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Racism , Sefardim , Xenophobia
Interior Minister and Deputy PM Eli Yishai wants to expel all refugees and illegal aliens – and their Israeli-born children. Yishai: Foreigners will bring AIDS, drugs Interior minister makes unusually harsh comments to explain his desire to expel illegal aliens...

November 1, 2009: Crown Heights Beit Din Rules Vigilantes Attacked By Other Jewish Vigilantes Violated Mesira Law By Pressing Charges
Comments: 34 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim
Ruling and Beit Din summons issued during secular criminal trial raises issues of witness tampering and obstruction of justice. CH Beis Din Takes Initiative, Calls Bochurim to Din Torah and Issues Psak CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — It has been...

November 1, 2009: In Response To Shidduch Crisis, Rabbis Ban Dates Between Older Men And Younger Women
Comments: 35 | Categories: Haredim , Women & Judaism
"That mindset is the reason there's a crisis. Women in the Orthodox Jewish world shouldn't have an 'expires by' stamp on them." Dreidel robbers By REUVEN BLAU • NY Post There's an epidemic of kosher cradle snatchers -- and a...

October 30, 2009: A Call To Arms: Haredi Riot Leaders In Long Island For Shabbat – And Fundraising
Comments: 18 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel
The rebbes whose hasidim beat women, attack police and social workers, and who rioted and burned Jerusalem neighborhoods are being hosted by a shul in Lawrence, NY tonight. My friend DovBear reports: The grapevine tells me that one of the...

October 30, 2009: The Alternative Universe Of Agriprocessors Former Counsel, Nathan Lewin
Comments: 18 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Safety , Rubashkin Workers
Lewin says Agriprocessors workers were paid more than workers at other meat plants and were better treated – even though government-siezed records show workers made minimum wage (or less) and were mistreated. What, Where, When bills itself as Baltimore's Jewish...

October 30, 2009: UPDATE: Brooklyn DA Talks About Haredi Child Sex Abuse on NPR
Comments: 5 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia
Charles Hynes, head of sex crimes unit and head of the Board of Family and Children Services. Listen here: Brian Lehrer Show, WNYC Radio, 11 am to noon today. The volume is a bit low, especially for the first 20...

October 30, 2009: Haredi Father Blocks Paramedics From Taking Severely Burned Baby Daughter To Hadassah Hospital
Comments: 32 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel
Haredi man says his rabbi told him not to allow his baby to be treated at Hadassah. Baby brought to hospital that does not have a burn unit. Haredi father blocks burned toddler from Hadassah Crisis between ultra-Orthodox public and...

October 29, 2009: Rubashkin Trial: Defense Illegally Uses Autistic Son To Sway Jury
Comments: 7 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
Former employee: "I knew at that plant you could get in without any documents, even if it was the face of another person. I even knew in Mexico that we could go in there and work." There are two versions...

October 29, 2009: Judge: No Mistrial
Comments: 13 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
Attorneys for former Agriprocessors executive Sholom Rubashkin twice filed motions for a mistrial Wednesday after a key government witness divulged details of illegal immigrants working at the company. Judge in Rubashkin case refuses to order mistrial BY JENS MANUEL KROGSTAD...

October 29, 2009: Former Agriprocessors Supervisor: Plant Scrambled To Get Workers New IDs The Night Before Raid
Comments: 9 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
Carlos Guerrero-Espinoza says Agriprocessors managers provided new permanent resident cards to workers. Supervisor: Iowa plant workers given immigration cards SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A former kosher slaughterhouse supervisor has testified the plant scrambled to get workers new identification documents...

October 29, 2009: Elior Chen: Extradition Illegal, Brazilian Police "Kidnapped" Me And Sent Me To Israel
Comments: 12 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel
Chen allegedly used knives, hammers and other instruments to abuse children as young as 3 and 4 years old. Child abuse suspect in custody after Brazil extradition By Liel Kyzer and Yair Ettinger • Ha'aretz Elior Chen, the spiritual leader...

October 29, 2009: US State Department: Israel Discriminates Against Non-Orthodox Jews
Comments: 80 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal , Xenophobia
Report cites government discrimination against non-Orthododx Jews and non-Jews. US: Israel favorites orthodox sects Matthew Wagner • THE JERUSALEM POST The State of Israel discriminates against non-Orthodox streams of Judaism and against Jewish-born believers in Christianity, while the Palestinian Authority...

October 28, 2009: "Abuse Rabbi" Returns To Israel
Comments: 11 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel
Child victim held under a stream of water until he choked, burned his fingers with a cigarette lighter and would strip him, put him outside and poor hot and cold water over him. 'Abuse rabbi' returns to Israel The leader...

October 28, 2009: BREAKING! RUBASHKIN WANTS A MISTRIAL
Comments: 11 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
Claims testimony about illegal workers allowed by judge destroys chance for fair trial. Attorneys file for mistrial in Agriprocessors executive's case By JENS MANUEL KROGSTAD • Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier SIOUX FALLS, S.D. --- Attorneys of former Agriprocessors executive Sholom Rubashkin...

October 28, 2009: Former Agriprocessors HR Manager Elizabeth Billmeyer Testifies Against Rubashkin
Comments: 7 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
"He said it was his company and he would run it the way he wanted to." Witness: Rubashkin ignored warnings But an attorney for the former Agriprocessors executive attempts to block the testimony. BY JENS MANUEL KROGSTAD • WATERLOO-CEDAR FALLS...

October 27, 2009: Accused Sadistic Child Abuser Elior Chen On Plane To Israel
Comments: 39 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim
'Rabbi' Chen had to be restrained by police as he shouted extradition illegal. Harsh indictment awaits 'abusive rabbi' Elior Chen, suspected of ordering his followers to abuse children, to land in Israel on Wednesday afternoon after being extradited from Brazil....

October 27, 2009: Prosecution Details Late Payments For Cattle As Key Witness Stumbles
Comments: 12 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Late payments illegal under federal law but rarely prosecuted criminally. Rubashkin prosecutors turn to new federal violation case JENS MANUEL KROGSTAD • Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -- During former Agriprocessors executive Sholom Rubashkin's third week on trial, prosecutors...

October 26, 2009: Former Agriprocessors Exec Tells Court He Was Paid In Cash To Avoid Taxes
Comments: 19 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
Defense attorneys batter witness in attempt to save Rubashkin. Agriprocessors official testifies to getting cash salaries to avoid taxes By JENS MANUEL KROGSTAD • Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier SIOUX FALLS, S.D. --- Defense attorneys of Sholom Rubashkin battled on Monday with...

October 26, 2009: Customers Refused To Pay Agriprocessors For Invoices
Comments: 2 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
LA-based City Glatt and mega-kosher food distributor Twin City Poultry wouldn't pay for meat they say they never received. Some companies refused to pay Agriprocessors By JENS MANUEL KROGSTAD • Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier WATERLOO -- High-level employees of companies that...

October 26, 2009: OU Moves To Publish New Soleveitchik Siddur With Koren
Comments: 48 | Categories: Books , Haredim , MO & Chardal
Move seen by some as a response to Artscroll's policy of not citing (or not attributing material to) Modern Orthodox rabbis Like Joseph Soleveitchik. In April, the JTA reported on the controversy surrounding the debut of the Sacks Siddur, also...

October 26, 2009: Rubashkin "Too Good," Witness Told Court
Comments: 9 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
"That's the thing about the Rubashkins. They don't realize that, when you're too good, you get stepped on." Witnesses say fraud in Postville occurred for years BY GRANT SCHULTE • Des Moines Register Sioux Falls, S.D. - The eastern Iowa...

October 26, 2009: Hasidic Rebbe Detained By Customs On Entry To US
Comments: 19 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel
The Toldos Avrohom Yitzchok Rebbe was briefly detained by US Customs agents upon his arrival in JFK Airport on Sunday afternoon. Toldos Avrohom Yitzchok Rebbe Detained In JFK Airport Eli Gefen • Yeshiva World News The Toldos Avrohom Yitzchok Rebbe...

October 25, 2009: Using Non-Jews As Pawns: The Race For Jerusalem's Chief Rabbi, Haredim And The International Fellowship Of Christians And Jews
Comments: 7 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Xenophobia
How support for Israel from US evangelicals has been endangered by haredi rabbis' attempt to influence the election of Jerusalem's Ashkenazi chief rabbi. Hoop dreams By Yair Ettinger • Ha'aretz Yitzhak David Grossman, a rabbi who is traveling across North...

October 25, 2009: Haredi Street Thug Behind Haredi Riots Arrested In Mea Shearim After Attacking Woman
Comments: 84 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel
Edah Charedit street captain Yoelish Kraus sprayed woman pepper spray when she refused to walk on a different street. Eda Haredit 'officer' suspected of assault Yoel Kreus, Jerusalem's haredi 'operations officer' arrested for allegedly spraying woman with mace after she...

October 24, 2009: Letter from Jerusalem: New Knesset Civil Marriage Bill Indecent Proposal
Comments: 19 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Religion
Bill would create new underclass of "untouchables" and won't solve the problems of marriage in Israel, Hiddush head writes. This article was originally published in Hebrew on Ynet and has been translated by Hiddush: Knesset civil union bill ‘indecent proposal’...

October 23, 2009: Illegal Yeshiva Angers Town Residents
Comments: 49 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim
"All of a sudden," the private home was a haredi school. "65 little boys in a single family home." Illegal Yeshiva Angers Ramapo Residents Tony Aiello • CBS News 2 RAMAPO, N.Y. ― In the blink of an eye, it...

October 23, 2009: Septic Tank Standoff In Kiryas Joel
Comments: 32 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Turf Disputes
Dueling hasidic factions "riot" over septic tank. The dissident synagogue mentioned was given as a gift to members from the original Satmar Rebbetzin: Septic tank standoff ends peacefully in Kiryas Joel By Chris Mckenna • Times Herald-Record KIRYAS JOEL —...

October 23, 2009: Witness: Rubashkin Feared Feds Had Bugged Phones
Comments: 23 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
All conversations had to be conducted "on the move." Witness: Rubashkin routed profits into plant instead of bank BY GRANT SCHULTE • Des Moines Register Sioux Falls, S.D. — A former top officer at the financially ruined Agriprocessors Inc. described...

October 22, 2009: IFCJ Head: I'll Out The Haredim Taking Our Money
Comments: 18 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Xenophobia
Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein reacts to haredi leader's ban on taking money from the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. Christian donor to out haredi recipients Matthew Wagner • THE JERUSALEM POST Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, chairman of the International Fellowship of...

October 22, 2009: Rubashkin's Former Controller Says Rubashkin Ran An Elaborate Scheme To Defraud Bank
Comments: 3 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
Controller also says field reviews done by bank were not thorough. Former officers testifies about fraud at Agriprocessors plant GRANT SCHULTE • DES MOINES REGISTER A former top officer at the financially ruined Agriprocessors Inc. described a culture of fraud...

October 22, 2009: Rubashkin Cashed In Own Life Insurance Policy To Keep Plant Running, Government Witness Says
Comments: 10 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
Rubashkin attorney hammers witness in attempt to discredit testimony. Witness: Rubashkin cashed insurance policy to get cash for plantBy GRANT SCHULTE • Des Moines Register Sioux Falls, S.D. – Lawyers for Sholom Rubashkin today hammered a government witness who testified...

October 22, 2009: Haredi Modesty Squad Launches Jerusalem Turf War, Residents Say
Comments: 15 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel
Mea Shearim-based haredi 'modesty squad' moves to take over neighboring Sefardic neighborhood. Jerusalem 'chastity squad' branching out Residents of capital's Beit Israel neighborhood say members of 'modesty guard' recently attacked young divorcee, American yeshiva students suspected of screening porn filmsAri...

October 22, 2009: Rabbi Elyashiv Rules Taking Money From The International Fellowship Of Christians And Jews "Ignores The Prohibition Against Idolatry"
Comments: 10 | Categories: Haredim , MO & Chardal
Head haredi forbids taking money from IFCJ, says doing so "assists missionary activity in the future." Arutz Sheva reports Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, the 99-year-old haredi leader, has ruled taking money from the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, headed...

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