47 posts categorized "Poverty & Homelessness"

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...

April 30, 2013: Jewish Federation Lies
Comments: 28 | Categories: Poverty & Homelessness
What happens when a telemarketing call from your local Jewish Federation makes claims that are false? I received a telemarketing call last Wednesday from the St. Paul Jewish Federation. Times are tough, the caller, Nicole, said, clearly reading off a...

April 21, 2013: Haredi Slumlords And The Rise Of Antisemitism In NYC
Comments: 78 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Poverty & Homelessness
"I hear a lot of anti-Semitic comments from tenants based on their experiences with landlords, the only visibly Jewish people with whom they have contact. (I was raised in the Reconstructionist movement, and I’m not visibly Jewish.) Sometimes I get...

April 21, 2013: Who Wrote This And Why Do So Many Orthodox And Haredi Jews Disagree With It?
Comments: 14 | Categories: Haredim , MO & Chardal , Poverty & Homelessness
"…The alleviation of poverty has been a preoccupation of Judaism since its earliest days. The Hebrew Bible contains extensive welfare provisions based on an agrarian society. Parts of the harvest -- the corners of fields, forgotten sheaves and so on...

March 19, 2013: Monsey Hasid Who Repeatedly Raped 14-Year-Old Boy Is Sentenced To – Probation
Comments: 23 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Poverty & Homelessness
Even though a Monsey hasid refused to take full responsibility for sexually abusing a young teenage boy, a New York State Supreme Court judge sentenced the sex offender to a probation-only sentence. A 59-year-old Moishe Turner told probation officials in...

March 18, 2013: Jews Without Shelter
Comments: 69 | Categories: Poverty & Homelessness
The American Jewish community continues to fail to provide adequate aid and housing for Jews who have become homeless. Last week I spoke with a homeless Jew in New York City whose story epitomizes the problems caused when the Jewish...

January 16, 2013: Haredi Pols Who Claim To Care For Poor Voted Down Law Meant To Help Disabled Elderly
Comments: 3 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Poverty & Homelessness , Sefardim
Campaign ads for the Sefardi haredi Shas political party and its Ashkenazi haredi counterpart UTJ spotlight their concern for Israel’s poor – perhaps because so many haredim are poor because they have chosen to follow their rabbis’ orders and study...

January 4, 2013: Israeli Elderly Often Suffer From Extreme Poverty While Israeli Politicians Ignore Their Plight, Rabbi Says
Comments: 12 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal , Poverty & Homelessness
“Across all political parties, including those that published their economic platform, there is no mention of the weak elements of society in general and the elderly and the helpless in particular. Everyone's talking about the middle classes, about creating more...

December 4, 2012: Jewish Poverty Rises In Australia
Comments: 8 | Categories: Haredim , Poverty & Homelessness
More than 20 per cent of Jewish households in Australia are living below or close to the poverty line and financial struggles are worsening in the country’s haredi ­community. The Australian Jewish News reports: MORE than 20 per cent of...

November 16, 2012: Is This Any Way To Treat The Poor?
Comments: 56 | Categories: Halakha , Hessed , MO & Chardal , Poverty & Homelessness
"…Jews believe in charity, but primarily as a private endeavor. The tithing obligation, or the dispensing of gifts to the poor in Biblical times (maasrot, leket, shikcha, pe’ah – known collectively as matnot aniyim, gifts to the poor), are all...

November 16, 2012: The Shame Of Modern Orthodoxy
Comments: 51 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , MO & Chardal , Poverty & Homelessness
The Rabbinical Council of America and the Beit Din of America prove through their inaction that poor people and "mud" people can never really be members in good standing in Modern Orthodoxy. Rabbi Steven Pruzansky Just over a week ago...

November 9, 2012: Should This Rabbi – Finally – Be Fired?
Comments: 190 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , MO & Chardal , Poverty & Homelessness
A Teaneck rabbi, long known for extreme right wing outbursts, echoes the worst slurs about Americans who voted for Barack Obama, including deriding them as freeloaders who voted for Obama only because he gives them free food. He rants against...

November 7, 2012: A Lesson From The Storm
Comments: 26 | Categories: Hessed , Poverty & Homelessness
What can we learn from the massive natural disaster that ravaged New York City and New Jersey along with many other East Coast locations after Hurricane Sandy struck? One of the new facts of life in the aftermath of Hurricane...

November 2, 2012: More Hurricane Sandy Recovery, Clean Up, And Public Aid Information
Comments: 3 | Categories: Hessed , Poverty & Homelessness
"As our City begins to recover from Hurricane Sandy, I wanted to share information about relief groups and other charitable organizations to which you can donate, if it’s difficult for you to personally offer supplies and shelter to people in...

October 17, 2012: 80% Of Welfare Budget Meant To Help Public Institutions Care For Elderly And Disabled Israelis Goes To Haredi Yeshivas And Related Haredi Institutions
Comments: 21 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Poverty & Homelessness
80% of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Welfare budget meant to help Israel’s elderly, disabled, battered women, and abused children actually went to haredi yeshivas and institutions, according to a stunning new report. 80% Of Welfare Budget Meant To...

October 16, 2012: Leading Zionist Orthodox Rabbi Endorses Israel’s Social Justice Movement
Comments: 6 | Categories: Israel , MO & Chardal , Poverty & Homelessness
The “flag of social justice is the flag of religious Jews.” A social justice protest earlier this year Leading Zionist Orthodox Rabbi Endorses Israel’s Social Justice Movement Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com The Zionist Orthodox community in Israel should be leading...

September 27, 2012: Dereliction Of Duty: Jewish Donors, Federation Drastically Underfund Needs Of Jewish Poor
Comments: 10 | Categories: Poverty & Homelessness
[More than] 30 kosher food pantries and soup kitchens in the city’s five boroughs supplied year round by City Harvest, New York City’s nonprofit food rescue operation, with fresh produce and other provisions. For most, it is their only source...

September 21, 2012: Bringing Down Mercy From The Heavens By…Harassing Beggars And Depriving Them Of Donations
Comments: 79 | Categories: Haredim , Poverty & Homelessness
A Brooklyn hasidic synagogue now bans beggars from collecting inside the synagogue and from collecting outside near the front door, as well. Instead, the beggars have been told to stand on the other side of the street. If they disobey...

September 20, 2012: Can You Live On $4.50 Per Day? Some Rabbis Will Try, But They Won't Be Haredi Or From YU
Comments: 39 | Categories: Poverty & Homelessness
Rabbis and cantors from across America – except for haredim and the center Orthodox – have agreed to spend no more than $4.50 per day per person for food and beverages as part of the third year of the Jewish...

September 19, 2012: Romney Blames The Poor For Being Poor
Comments: 43 | Categories: Current Affairs , Poverty & Homelessness
"All right, there are 47 percent who are with [President Obama], who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to...

August 23, 2012: Is It Permissible To Cut The Social Safety Net Because, As Paul Ryan Claims, We “Can’t Afford” It Anymore?
Comments: 101 | Categories: Halakha , Poverty & Homelessness
Among the arguments made by Republican Vice Presidential Candidate Paul Ryan to support his plan to cut the social safety net for America’s poor and working poor is that America just can’t afford these social programs anymore. They cost too...

June 13, 2012: A Conservative Jewish Magazine's Double Standard On Welfare And The Haredi Community's High Birthrate
Comments: 41 | Categories: Haredim , Poverty & Homelessness
Perhaps without realizing it, Commentary Magazine has now shown that its years of campaigning against welfare and other "entitlements" has much more to do with how the recipients of that welfare vote than the cost of that welfare to government...

April 20, 2012: Shame
Comments: 14 | Categories: Hessed , Israel , Poverty & Homelessness
10,000 destitute survivors have discovered that the $400 quarterly stipend they receive from the Company for Location and Restitution of Holocaust Victims' Assets has been cut down to $320. The destitute survivors were not informed of the cut. Instead, they...

March 21, 2012: Israel Fails To Adequately Care For Its Elderly
Comments: 18 | Categories: Ethics , Israel , Poverty & Homelessness
An old-age home in Bnei Brak had gone up in flames. The fire, which started due to what turned out to be criminal negligence, was the fault of the institution's directors, who were operating it without a license and with...

March 19, 2012: NYC Bans Food Donations
Comments: 13 | Categories: Hessed , MO & Chardal , Poverty & Homelessness
The Bloomberg administration is now taking the term “food police” to new depths, blocking food donations to all government-run facilities that serve the city’s homeless. No Kugel for you! Mike’s homeless-gift ban JEFF STIER • NY POST So much for...

January 29, 2012: Pay To Beg: Chabad's Main Synagogue Charges Beggars Admission Fee
Comments: 90 | Categories: Chabad , Haredim , Hessed , Poverty & Homelessness
Down-on-their luck panhandlers at the Chabad-Lubavitch world headquarters in Crown Heights have to follow the 11th Commandment: Fork over $5 for the right to beg inside. Charity collector in front Chabad's main synagogue, 770 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York Temple’s...

January 22, 2012: Exclusive: In Chabad's Central Synagogue, Charity Collectors Have To Pay To Play
Comments: 39 | Categories: Chabad , Haredim , Hessed , Poverty & Homelessness
Administrators known as gabbais are charging charity collectors and beggars $5 to beg inside Chabad's main synagogue at 770 Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn, New York. Those who do not pay are ejected, sometimes by police who are called in by...

December 16, 2011: Half Of All Americans Are Poor Or Low Income
Comments: 29 | Categories: Poverty & Homelessness
MIddle class erodes as more and more Americans fall into poverty. Census shows 1 in 2 people are poor or low-income By HOPE YEN WASHINGTON (AP) — Squeezed by rising living costs, a record number of Americans — nearly 1...

December 3, 2011: Gemach's Aren't Just For Orthodox Jews Anymore
Comments: 37 | Categories: Chabad , Haredim , Hessed , Jewish Leadership , Poverty & Homelessness
Jewish free loan funds often run by haredim now serve an expanded clientele that includes people not usually considered part of their communities. But the economic downturn has hit many Jews hard, and as I've reported many times, the Jewish...

October 19, 2011: The Jewish Community Should Be Ashamed – But It Isn't
Comments: 15 | Categories: Hessed , Poverty & Homelessness
The holiday of Sukkot is both a harvest festival and a commemoration of the time the ancient Hebrews spent in the desert after fleeing Egypt. The sukkah symbolizes the protection God gave them during their 40 years of wandering. It...

September 22, 2011: Video: Hasid Sues Over Cost Of Bridge Tolls
Comments: 46 | Categories: Haredim , Poverty & Homelessness
Yoel Weisshaus claims the new increase in tolls on bridges connecting New York and New Jersey is an abuse of power and discriminates against him because he is poor. The price of cash tolls on the George Washington Bridge, Holland...

August 18, 2011: Homeless: How Israel's Welfare State Fails Its Poorest Citizens
Comments: 4 | Categories: Israel , Poverty & Homelessness
Although the Ministry of Housing is supposed to use cash raised by selling public housing apartments to replenish the public housing stock by investing in new buildings, it has not done so. According to a 2008 report by the State...

August 6, 2011: The Ultra-Orthodox Underground
Comments: 6 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Poverty & Homelessness
While mainstream Israelis protest the high cost of housing in tent camps around the country, in the subterranean parking lots of high-rise apartment buildings in Jerusalem, Haredim are living in improvised dwellings. Notes from the ultra-Orthodox underground While mainstream Israelis...

July 26, 2011: In Jerusalem, Haredi Families Live In Warehouses, Storerooms, Garages
Comments: 36 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Poverty & Homelessness
While in many places across the country young Israelis are taking to the streets and temporarily living in tents in protest of the soaring housing prices, in haredi areas of Jerusalem, entire families are forced to live in warehouses, parking...

June 19, 2011: The Modern Orthodox Bribe-Giving Homeless Shelter King
Comments: 4 | Categories: Crime, etc. , MO & Chardal , Poverty & Homelessness
Shimmie Horn is the man who would be homeless king. The hotel owner whose former company was at the center of a lawmaker-bribery scandal could stand to rake in millions of taxpayer dollars if four Brooklyn warehouses he recently purchased...

February 15, 2011: Why Shoot The Messenger?
Comments: 90 | Categories: Jewish Leadership , Poverty & Homelessness
A response from the head of the Metropolitain Council on Jewish Poverty to my recent post on Jewish homelessness. This post is part of an ongoing series of posts on Jewish homelessness. Yesterday, I wrote the following post: You're in...

February 14, 2011: Another Jewish Community Failure
Comments: 21 | Categories: Poverty & Homelessness
You're in your late 50s. You become disabled and can no loger work. Because of this, you will need housing assistance. What does the Jewish community do to help you? This post is part of an ongoing series on Jewish...

December 1, 2010: Hanukkah, Fundraising, And The Jewish Federations' Failure To Deal With Jewish Poverty And Homelessness
Comments: 108 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Hessed , Jewish Leadership , Poverty & Homelessness
The Jewish Federations of North America use a portrayal of a homeless man sleeping on a sidewalk to demonstrate the Federations' value and the work they claim to do. The problem? The Federations do little, if anything, to help such...

November 9, 2010: Podcast: Rabbi To The Drug Addicted, Lost, And Fallen
Comments: 22 | Categories: Books , Hessed , Podcasts 2010 , Poverty & Homelessness
A FailedMessiah.com interview with Rabbi Yehuda Fine, known as the Times Square Rabbi, who has spent the last quarter century working with the street kids, prostitutes and junkies the rest of the Jewish community abandons. This post is part of...

October 31, 2010: The True Cost Of Homelessness
Comments: 69 | Categories: Hessed , Poverty & Homelessness
The government and private sector spend enough money per homeless person per month to pay market rate rent for each homeless person. Instead, the government pursues a policy meant to discourage homelessness by, in effect, punishing the homeless. That policy...

October 19, 2010: Shoshana’s Story: A 12-Year-Old Heroin User's Life On The Streets
Comments: 206 | Categories: Hessed , Poverty & Homelessness
She was a 12-year-old Jewish heroin user who got her first high by tricking an older boy into believing she was 16. He did for her what she couldn’t yet do by herself – he shot her up. This post...

October 14, 2010: You Can't Put A Plaque On A Child
Comments: 129 | Categories: Hessed , Poverty & Homelessness
Hundreds of throwaway Jewish children, homeless and at-risk, are in danger every night in New York City. But their plight is ignored by the Jewish charity most responsible to help them. This post is part of an ongoing series on...

October 4, 2010: Homeless: From The Posh Life Of Central Park West To The City’s Mean Streets, A FailedMessiah.com Special Report
Comments: 100 | Categories: Hessed , Poverty & Homelessness
It was mid-May 1998 and Gladys didn’t know what to do. For her entire life she had always had a place to sleep, a place to call home. But now she didn’t and it was getting dark. New York City,...

September 29, 2010: From Riches To Rags – A Story Of Jewish Joblessness And Impending Homelessness
Comments: 33 | Categories: Hessed , Poverty & Homelessness
He was wealthy and successful. And then the economy crashed. He lost more than $1,000,000 and then used up his remaining savings while he spent more than two years job hunting. He's at the end of his rope. He's on...

September 18, 2010: Another View On Failure Of The Jewish Community To Fulfill Its Responsibility To Help Needy Jews
Comments: 41 | Categories: Hessed , Poverty & Homelessness
What I wrote Friday is accurate with regard to families and adults who became homeless because of the economic downturn or because of illness or old age, and those who become homeless because of mental illness or drug addiction. But...

September 17, 2010: A Pre-Yom Kippur Post On Jewish Homelessness
Comments: 30 | Categories: Hessed , Poverty & Homelessness
As the recession drags on more people suffer prolonged joblessness. Some of them become homeless. And some of them – more than you might think – are Jews. What does the Jewish community do to help them? Two weeks ago...

September 3, 2010: Homeless Jews
Comments: 13 | Categories: Hessed , Poverty & Homelessness
Do we really care? I've been contacted recently by Jews who are or who are, God forbid, about to be homeless. Each time I refer them to a Jewish community agency, they respond by saying they've already tried getting help...

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