2,070 posts categorized "Haredim"

July 12, 2009: Annals of Halakha: Haredim Are Not Allowed To Support Secular Law, Rabbi Elyashiv Says
Comments: 23 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Halakha , Haredim , Israel
"These laws they want to enforce are not Torah laws but laws…the legislators made up themselves. How can we support any non-Torah laws – even indirectly? We may not support them." Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv is the defacto chief rabbi...

July 12, 2009: Annals of Kabbalah: "Doctors Are Liars," And Other Misleading Advice For Women From Israel's Leading Kabbaist
Comments: 52 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal , Sefardim , Women & Judaism
"[A] girl who wishes to marry must take upon herself already on the first date an obligation to have no less than 12 children.…When you see a woman whose youngest child is three, this means that she has been using...

July 10, 2009: Haredi Fraudster Busted By Fox
Comments: 34 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim
Allegedly cheated small businesses out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. [Hat Tip: Big Bill.]

July 10, 2009: Amid Swine Flu Fears, Rebbe Changes Tisch
Comments: 19 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Religion
Gerrer Rebbe bans communal kiddish cup, orders individual disposable plastic cups instead. Amid Swine Flu fears, Hassidic rabbi ditches communal cups Yair Ettinger, Haaretz The swine flu scare has recently prompted one of the leading spiritual figures of the ultra-Orthodox...

July 9, 2009: Satmar Tells Obama To Crack Down On Israel
Comments: 65 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
The mayor of Kiryas Joel sends anti-Zionist letter to the President. The letter is published on the Jews Against Zionism website. Strangely, the JTA, which published excerpts from the letter and links to the PDF download of the letter from...

July 9, 2009: Lakewood Haredi Rabbi Pleads Guilty To Fraud
Comments: 22 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim
Austrian swindle cost mostly illiterate victims millions of euros. Rabbi refused to give court info because of "mesira." What follows is a compilation of various German-language news reports on Strulovics sent in by a an anonymous source and primarily based...

July 9, 2009: Does Jewish Law Permit Turning In Jewish Criminals To Police?
Comments: 18 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia
And, even if it does allow it, do haredi rabbis do it? Ask the Rabbi: Just informers? Shlomo Brody , THE JERUSALEM POST Q If one has evidence against swindlers like Bernie Madoff, or a child abuser, can they report...

July 9, 2009: Israeli Rabbi Wants Virtual Kosher Supervision
Comments: 2 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Video surveillance could be used to augment on-site inspections. Israel rabbi proposes 'virtual' kosher supervision - via video cameras By Yanir Yagna, Haaretz The extended hours at Be'er Sheva bars and restaurants have brought the proprietors an additional expense: paying...

July 9, 2009: Haredi "Hidden" Dropout Rate 2X Higher Than National Average
Comments: 16 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
17% of elementary school-aged haredim are hidden dropouts, as are 30% of junior high and high school students, sharply higher than the national average of 10% and 15% respectively. 30% of haredi teens - 'hidden dropouts' Matthew Wagner , THE...

July 9, 2009: Poll: 52% Of Haredim Believe Riots Hurt
Comments: 5 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel
But only 18% of haredim consider riots to be a desecration of Shabbat. Most haredim believe riots hurt Shabbat Poll conducted for Ynet reveals most ultra-Orthodox think rallies against Shabbat desecration in Jerusalem only undermine status of holy day Ynet...

July 7, 2009: BREAKING! Did Rabbi Yaakov Horowitz Call On Haredi Leaders To Condemn Haredi Violence?
Comments: 15 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Spin
The Jerusalem Post says he did. But is it true? Rabbi Horowitz told me it is not true: "I never mentioned gedolim or leaders" "I kept saying people" "Look at the quotes attributed to me" In other words, Rabbi Horowitz,...

July 7, 2009: Rubashkin Attorney Objects To Trial Scheduling
Comments: 10 | Categories: Chabad , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
Wants immigration trial held before bank fraud trial. Trial Date Set In Iowa Slaughterhouse Case IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) ― A lawyer for a former top manager of a kosher slaughterhouse is protesting a judge's decision to hold a trial...

July 7, 2009: Israeli Bureaucracy's New Rules Keep Diaspora Converts Out
Comments: 24 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
“We want to safeguard the quality of the Judaism." New rules have Diaspora converts waiting on Israel By Dina Kraft TEL AVIV (JTA) -- M., a 35-year-old American woman who has been living an Orthodox lifestyle for years, thought she...

July 7, 2009: Rabbinate Revokes Conversion Of Ethiopian Woman After She Was Struck By Rabbi In Hit And Run
Comments: 26 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Ethiopian Jews , Haredim , Israel
Caught on video, the rabbi is convicted – but the Rabbinute revokes the woman's conversion, apparently in revenge. Rabbis' Wrath Matthew Wagner , THE JERUSALEM POST The wrath of the rabbis seems to be chasing N., an Ethiopian immigrant who...

July 7, 2009: Agriprocessors Asks Court To Suppress Evidence
Comments: 10 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Safety , Rubashkin Workers
Attorney for the company claims evidence against it was illegally seized during immigration raid. Agriprocessors asks court to suppress evidence By Trish Mehaffey • The Gazette CEDAR RAPIDS — An Agriprocessors’ attorney claims the evidence seized during the May 12,...

July 6, 2009: Is It Friedman? SHF's Attorney Denies Friedman Bid On Agriprocessors, Won't ID Owners
Comments: 21 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Lack of transparency does not bode well for Postville, for Agriprocessors workers – or for the kosher food industry. Company bids $8.5 million for Iowa slaughterhouse By NIGEL DUARA CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — A newly formed Iowa company bid...

July 6, 2009: BREAKING! Hershey Friedman Agriprocessors Only Bidder – Hearing On Sale Next Week
Comments: 8 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
Unsecured creditors, Postville businesses, former and current workers to get nothing from sale of Agriprocessors. Canadian businessman makes only bid for Agriprocessor BY TONY LEYS • Des Moines Register Cedar Rapids, Ia. – No other bidders stepped forward today to...

July 5, 2009: Haredim Attack Female Reporter
Comments: 36 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Women & Judaism
Haredim attack female reporter, cover her in spit, in latest round of Jerusalem riots. Reporter feels mob's hate in the Holy City By Australian Broadcasting Company Middle East correspondent Anne Barker The ABC's Middle East correspondent Anne Barker became caught...

July 5, 2009: HOLOCAUST VICTIMS REINCARNATED SINNERS, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef Says
Comments: 161 | Categories: Chabad & Holocaust , Haredim , Israel , Religion , Sefardim
Haredi theodicy rears its ugly head, again. 'Shoah victims - reincarnated sinners' By JPOST.COM STAFF Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef has argued that those murdered in the Holocaust were a reincarnation of sinners from past generations, Ma'ariv reported on...

July 5, 2009: A Golem In Williamsburg
Comments: 5 | Categories: Haredim , Media , PARODY & SATIRE
Hasidim make a golem in an attempt to drive hipsters out of Williamsburg. Tablet Magazine. Tablet Magazine quoting me.

July 5, 2009: Helicopter Ruins Shabbos, Haredim Say
Comments: 17 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel
Haredi MK complains police helicopter dispatched to curtail haredi rioting "destroyed the tranquility of the day." Note Yeshiva World doesn't mention the reason for the helicopter's flight pattern – haredi rioting. Police Chopper Disturbs Shabbos Tranquility in Yerushalayim Yechiel Spira...

July 5, 2009: Haredim, Racism And The N Word
Comments: 10 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Religion
Racism. thuggery and two standards of justice under Israel law. I find Hebrew Christianity and its variants to be especially repugnant and I fully support sane protests against proselytizing. But haredim – in this case, Gur (Gerrer) hasidim, the same...

July 5, 2009: HAREDIM TO POLICE: "Nazis! Burn In Hell!
Comments: 17 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel
"[Police and secular Jews] will burn in hell; the haredim will stick around." "Anyone who breaks Shabbos must die!" Haredim to police: Nazis, burn in hell Shabbat war continues: Thousands of ultra-Orthodox rioters hurl stones at security forces, vehicles in...

July 3, 2009: Mystery Witness Claims Woman Hurled Antisemitic Slurs At Cop
Comments: 24 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Women & Judaism
But other witness says it isn't so. Did cops invent mystery witness to cover for hasidic cop's brutality? Commish Defends Subway Pug Arrest Cop... Where's The Other Witness? John Del Signore • Gothamist • 7-2-09 Though some bloggers have shrugged...

July 3, 2009: Truth In Kiruv? Not With Aish HaTorah, Woman Says
Comments: 33 | Categories: Haredim , Outreach
Woman says Aish claims to be unaffiliated with any Jewish stream, lures unsuspecting non-Orthodox Jews like her to participate in indoctrination sessions, trips. Aish HaTorah – Being Reform in an Orthodox Setting by elizabeth katzki, JWeeekly.com I should have known...

July 2, 2009: 11 Haredim Indicted For Rioting
Comments: 15 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel
57 total arrests made. More indictments expected to follow. J'lem: 11 haredim indicted for rioting State presses charges against ultra-Orthodox residents of Jerusalem who took part in riots following city's decision to keep parking lots open on Shabbat. Police says...

July 1, 2009: BREAKING! Glatt Kosher Meatpacker Illegally Interfered With Union Election
Comments: 41 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Satmar hasid-owned Alle Packing tried to throw employees' election, block union. National Labor Relations Board orders revote. Alle's brands include: Meal Mart, Mon Cusine, New York Kosher Deli and Mrs. Schreiber. Please click to enlarge: […] The entire decision as...

July 1, 2009: POLICE BRUTALITY? Woman Says NYPD's First Hasidic Cop Grabbed and Pinched Breasts, Punched Her
Comments: 80 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Women & Judaism
"If you're going to act like a woman I'm going to treat you like a woman." Woman Says Misogynistic Cop Arrested Her, Punched Her, Grabbed Breasts for Carrying Pug in Subway By John Del Signore • Gothamist Greenpoint resident Chrissie...

June 29, 2009: Why Is Sholom Rubashkin (Jr.) Not In Prison?
Comments: 35 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Moshe Rubashkin
Moshe Rubashkin's son Sholom, AKA Sam Sternberg, was supposed to report to prison earlier this month to serve a 4 month sentence in the Rubashkin Allentown scam. Why didn't he? This: Please click to enlarge.

June 27, 2009: THOUSANDS OF HAREDIM RIOT
Comments: 69 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel
At least 40 arrested, 1 seriously hurt, Jerusalem shaken. Jerusalem shaken by riots Shabbat war escalates: Man seriously injured, four police officers sustain light wounds as ultra-Orthodox protestors clash with security forces across capital Saturday; dozens of rioters arrested Ronen...

June 26, 2009: AGRIPROCESSORS: Sale Hearing, New Auction Set
Comments: 13 | Categories: Chabad , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
If no other bidders come forward, Hershey Friedman wins. Auction: 1:30 pm, Monday July 6. Hearing on Sale: 1:30 pm Wednesday, July 15. Please click to enlarge:

June 26, 2009: Bank Sues Rubashkin Family Over Defaulted Loan
Comments: 7 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
$300,00 loan was taken out for Nevel Properties and personally guaranteed by Aaron, Heshy and Sholom Rubashkin. Bank suing Rubashkins for unpaid loan By Trish Mehaffey • The Gazette Related Story: Agriprocessors charges to be tried separately, judge rules CEDAR...

June 26, 2009: Rubashkin's New York Vacation
Comments: 25 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
Rabbi Sholom M. Rubashkin's very fine vacation, in pictures. All photos are taken in the main synagogue in Lubavitch World Headquarters at 770 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York Thursday, the 15th yartzeit of the death of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson,...

June 25, 2009: BREAKING! TWO TRIALS: Judge Splits Rubashkin Federal Charges
Comments: 14 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
Judge says it would be too difficult for a jury to keep all 142 counts straight. Judge separates charges in slaughterhouse case DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- A federal judge in Cedar Rapids has granted a motion to sever immigration...

June 25, 2009: Sefardic Chief Rabbi Moves To Ban Controversial Haredi Rabbi From Judging Conversion Cases
Comments: 15 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Sefardim
"Recently, conversion cases have become the focus of public scrutiny. Groups have taken advantage of the controversy surrounding these cases to attempt to limit the jurisdiction of the Rabbinical Courts. As a result, I am exercising my power...to personally choose...

June 25, 2009: BREAKING! Hella Winston Wins Prestigious Press Award For Haredi Sex Abuse Reporting
Comments: 6 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Media , Pedophilia
The NY Jewish Week's coverage of haredi child sexual abuse wins first place in the Jewish Press Association's Rockower Awards. I'm told A charge of Double Betrayal In Williamsburg by Hella Winston has won first place. Mazel Tov to Hella...

June 25, 2009: Agriprocessors Sale Will Leave Little To Nothing For Unsecured Creditors, Workers
Comments: 40 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
Unsecured creditors owed $22 million, unlikely to recover anything. Agriprocessors sale could leave little for creditors By Dave DeWitte • The Gazette The Rev. Richard Gaul performs a blessing of the Agriprocessors plant and the crowd during a march to...

June 24, 2009: Survivors’ Hopes Dashed As NY Assembly Adjourns Without Vote On Sex Abuse Bill
Comments: 3 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia
“That’s one or two people who want to sue, who just want to get money,” Lopez said. “That’s not, to me, a protest.” Survivors’ Hopes Dashed as NY Assembly Adjourns Without Sex Abuse Vote By Rebecca Dube • The Forward...

June 24, 2009: BREAKING! Huge Demonstration On Sex Abuse Bill Shakes Lopez
Comments: 3 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia
Police out in force to separate hundreds of pro and anti bill protesters, protect Lopez. Satmar and Catholic Church Send Busloads Of Protesters To Support Lopez And Attack The Child Victims Act Top two pictures: Rabbi David Neiderrman of Satmar....

June 24, 2009: Hershey Friedman's US Company
Comments: 15 | Categories: Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Friedman registered Favorite Plastic Corporation in Delaware as a foreign corporation. There is nothing illegal in this. However, companies use often Delaware to hide ownership details from the public. The address listed on Utica Ave. is the plant. Here is...

June 24, 2009: Rubashkin Allowed To Leave Iowa For "Jewish" Holiday
Comments: 70 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Event is of “exceptional religious significance for those of the Lubavitcher faith.” View Larger Map The purple line shows one of Google's routes from 770 Eastern Parkway, Lubavitch World Headquarters, to the Rebbe's grave in Queens. The large gray area...

June 24, 2009: American Conversions In Jeopardy, Rabbi Claims
Comments: 11 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
"If a marriage registrar does not feel beholden to recognize an Orthodox conversion certificate issued by the government of Israel, there is no reason to think they will not scrutinize a conversion performed overseas, even if it has approval from...

June 24, 2009: ALLEGED HAREDI PEDOPHILE: The Kids Came On To Me
Comments: 21 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia
Bar Mitzvah tutor tells court 12 year old boys tried to seduce him. Molest defendant: Kid came on to me BY SCOTT SHIFREL • NY DAILY NEWS A Bar Mitzvah tutor and social worker charged with molesting four teens took...

June 24, 2009: HAREDIM: "WE'LL SET THE ENTIRE COUNTRY ON FIRE"
Comments: 16 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel
Riots will be staged all over the country, not just in Jerusalem, if parking lot opens this Shabbat, haredim say. J'lem mayor seeks deal to avert secular-haredi crisis By ETGAR LEFKOVITS • Jerusalem Post Seeking to defuse an explosive haredi-secular...

June 24, 2009: Kabbalah Gone Bad
Comments: 16 | Categories: Halakha , Haredim , Sefardim , Xenophobia
Non-Jews as understood by kabbalah. From Rabbi Monsour on DailyHalacha.com. (The audio is less than 2 minutes long.) Ethiopian Jews used to immerse in a river or lake if touched by non-Jews, so perhaps there is a non-Ethiopian Jewish source...

June 24, 2009: Protests Continue Over Sex Abuse Bill
Comments: 3 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Documents , Haredim , Pedophilia
You're needed on the picket line today! Please stop by and wave a sign. Photo: Joe DiAngelo. Starting at 1:00 PM and continuing until early evening – come when you can: Congressman Vito Lopez Williamsburg District Office 434 South 5th...

June 23, 2009: BREAKING! AGRIPROCESSORS SALE FILED WITH COURT [UPDATED]
Comments: 47 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
The buyer is… …Hershey Friedman's SHF Industries. Please click the icon in the viewer's right top corner to better read the document. Please click it again to return to this post. The process works like this. 1. The court must...

June 23, 2009: BREAKING! Chief Rabbis Demand Haredi Control Over Conversions
Comments: 58 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
High Rabbinic Court decision based in large part on wall posters signed by leading haredi rabbis, not on actual halakha. All converts are suspect, rabbis say. Rabbinate demands haredi control over conversion By MATTHEW WAGNER • Jerusalem Post Since conversion...

June 23, 2009: Haredim To Allow Some Mentally Challenged To Marry
Comments: 12 | Categories: Halakha , Haredim , Israel
Mildly retarded previously forbidden to marry by haredi rabbis out of fear they would not correctly follow Jewish law regarding marriage, ritual purity. As you read this, note that Rabbi Chaim Druckman's daughter could not marry until this ruling, even...

June 23, 2009: NO VOTE: Sex Abuse Bill Will Have To Wait For Special Session
Comments: 13 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia
Or, the bill may come to a vote when the regularly scheduled State Assembly session continues in January. Vote unlikely on sex abuse bill Catholic Church opposes NY Newsday As the state Assembly wrapped up its regular session Tuesday, it...

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