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December 16, 2009: Haredi Websites React To Ban
Comments: 8 | Categories: Bans , Blogs , Haredim , Israel
Haredi rabbinic leaders banned haredi news websites and haredi blogs. Now the bloggers react. Haredi websites respond to rabbis' condemnation In public statements, haredi website managers attempt to avoid confrontation with religious leaders, align themselves with traditional views. Off record...

December 14, 2009: Rightists Threaten To Start Mass Movement To Delay IDF Enlistment
Comments: 18 | Categories: Israel , MO & Chardal , Religion
"It needs to be understood that the military has much more to lose than the hesder yeshivas. There is a huge lack of manpower and motivated fighters are an obvious need of the IDF." Rightists: Postpone yeshiva enlistment to IDF...

December 14, 2009: Far Right Yeshiva Head: My Duty Is To Tell Soldiers To Disobey Orders
Comments: 8 | Categories: Israel , MO & Chardal , Religion
Rabbi Eliezer Melamed says he has obligation to "speak his inner truth." Far-right yeshiva head: My duty is to tell troops to refuse orders By Anshel Pfeffer and Chaim Levinson • Ha'aretz The head rabbi of a far-right West Bank...

December 13, 2009: Israel Removes Defiant Hesder Yeshiva From IDF Program
Comments: 31 | Categories: Israel , MO & Chardal
Defense Minister Ehud Barak has decided to remove the Har Bracha yeshiva from an arrangement with the Israel Defense Forces over its support for insubordination among soldiers. Barak decides to remove hesder yeshiva from IDF Following Rabbi Melamed's refusal to...

December 12, 2009: Gay Orthodox Rabbi Comes Out Of The Closet
Comments: 47 | Categories: Homophobia , Israel , MO & Chardal
And he still serves as the rabbi of his synagogue.

December 12, 2009: The Unholy Battle For Ethiopia's Remaining Jews
Comments: 18 | Categories: Ethiopian Jews , Israel
Falash Mura fight among themselves as American and Evangelical aid groups and the Israeli government fight over aliya. The unholy battle for Ethiopia's remaining Jews By Gili Gurel • Ha'aretz ADDIS ABABA AND GONDAR - Above the entrance to the...

December 11, 2009: NEW HAREDI BAN: Sweeping Child Sex Abuse And Crime Under The Rug, Senior Haredi Rabbis Ban Haredi News Websites And Blogs
Comments: 42 | Categories: Bans , Haredim , Israel
The rabbis further stated that it is the ultra-Orthodox websites "which impeach a public tempted to (surf) the vilest of places, which have already caused so many in Israel to breach Torah laws about things best kept private." Rabbis take...

December 11, 2009: Settlers Torch Mosque – "We Will Burn All Of You"
Comments: 25 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Israel , MO & Chardal , Racism
According to reports, settlers allegedly set fire to a carpet and to a library in the mosque's second floor, destroying holy books. They also sprayed abusive statements on the walls including "We will burn all of you." Settlers allegedly vandalize...

December 11, 2009: Letter from Ra'anana: The Justice Minister's Sickly Olive Branch To Haredim
Comments: 0 | Categories: Halakha , Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal , Religion
Justice Minister Yaakov Neeman's comments this week in which he suggested that he would like to see a "return" to the Torah litigation system are understandable. But they are also indefensible. Neeman's sickly olive branch By Seth Farber • Ha'aretz...

December 10, 2009: Do Non-Normative Jewish Religious Beliefs Make Food Unkosher?
Comments: 26 | Categories: Food , Halakha , Haredim , Israel , Religion
Should the religious beliefs of a food producer impact the kosher status of the food produced? Israelis Begin a Serious Domestic Cake Fight Benjamin Joffe-Walt • Media Line What began as a local spat over the kosher credentials of a...

December 10, 2009: Haredi Health Minister Wants To Gender Separate Psych Hospitals
Comments: 16 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Med-Ethics , Women & Judaism
Israel’s medical establishment is reacting angrily to revelations that the country’s Health Ministry is working on a plan to make Jerusalem’s two largest psychiatric institutions single-gender. Gender Segregation Plan Stirs Anger By Nathan Jeffay • Forward JERUSALEM — Israel’s medical...

December 10, 2009: Letter from Tel Aviv: Israel Is A "Semi-Theocracy"
Comments: 9 | Categories: Israel , Religion
The Israelis who were frightened by the minister's remarks and who love viewing their country as liberal, Western and secular are forgetting that our life here is more religious, traditional and halakhic than we are prepared to admit. Let's face...

December 9, 2009: Did The Brooklyn DA Really Try To Extradite Avrohom Mondrowitz?
Comments: 2 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Pedophilia
Mondrowitz currently sits in an Israeli jail; his extradition is being decided by Israel's High Court. Did Brooklyn DA Chase Sex Abuser? By Nathaniel Popper • The Forward Brooklyn’s district attorney has lost a key fight in his effort to...

December 9, 2009: Golda Meir Wanted To Bar Sick, Handicapped Holocaust Survivors From Immigrating To Israel
Comments: 21 | Categories: Ethics , History , Israel , Jewish Leadership
"A proposal was raised in the coordination committee to inform the Polish government that we want to institute selection in aliyah, because we cannot continue accepting sick and handicapped people." Golda Meir proposed halting aliyah of disabled Polish Jews By...

December 9, 2009: Haredi Leaders Attack Chief Rabbi Over Proposed Conversion Compromise
Comments: 23 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
Chabad messianist teams up with haredi leader Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv's conversions point man to try to block compromise. Haredi leaders question conversion policy of Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Matthew Wagner • THE JERUSALEM POST Rabbis representing the Ashkenazi haredi rabbinical...

December 8, 2009: Haredim Urged To Report Yeshiva Students With Internet Access To Modesty Squad
Comments: 17 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
Posters displayed throughout ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods in Jerusalem are calling on residents to report yeshiva students who own computers and are connected to the internet for fear of "to'eva (abomination)." Haredim asked to report yeshiva students with internet connection Jerusalem 'modesty...

December 8, 2009: Israel's Orthodox Justice Minister Calls For A State Run By Halakha
Comments: 41 | Categories: Israel , MO & Chardal , Religion
"We must restore glory [to the judicial system], so that the justice of the Torah will be the justice commanded in the state of Israel." This must be achieved slowly, "step by step." Justice minister causes stir over restoration of...

December 8, 2009: More Haredim Refuse Army Service
Comments: 13 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
Haredim are required to attend yeshivas. In practice they use the time to acquire a profession, sometimes receiving living costs from the State during their studies. This discriminates against everyone who serves in the army." Rise in army service exemptions...

December 7, 2009: Tel Aviv Moves To Censor Billboards Offensive To Haredim
Comments: 14 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Women & Judaism
City Councilman Rabbi Naftali Lubert, one of the prominent activists in recent years for making billboards more modest, is behind the new censorship. New committee for billboard modesty in Tel Aviv After provocative ads offend religious, municipality decides that each...

December 7, 2009: Fearful Of Lipstick, Haredim Demand Bnei Brak Pharmacy Close
Comments: 16 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
"People here do not want their daughters to be influenced by cosmetics and perfume. It simply is not acceptable." New-Pharm still not kosher enough for some in Bnei Brak By MATTHEW WAGNER • Jerusalem Post You cannot please all of...

December 6, 2009: In Response To Threatened Lawsuit, Chief Rabbis Say Any Conversion Issued By State Is Valid
Comments: 19 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
Israel's Ashkenazi chief rabbi has declared that anyone holding a conversion certificate issued by the State of Israel can register to be married in his place of residence. Chief rabbi: Israeli conversion certificates valid for marriage By Yair Ettinger •...

December 6, 2009: Haredim Riot In Meron
Comments: 4 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel
Eight haredim were arrested yesterday morning after "particularly violent" riots at the burial site of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai. 8 people arrested after riots at holy burial site By Eli Ashkenazi • Ha'aretz Eight men were arrested yesterday morning after...

December 6, 2009: Accused Haredi Pedophile Has A Brand New Job
Comments: 40 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Pedophilia
Rabbi Avraham M. Leizerowitz is now counseling troubled boys. Word from Israel on accused pedophile Rabbi Avraham M. Leizerowitz: Avraham M. Leizerowitz has started working at a new job. He is the mashgiach ruchani (religious counselor) in a Jerusalem yeshiva...

December 6, 2009: Settlers Torch Palestinian House
Comments: 11 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Israel , MO & Chardal
Israeli security forces believe the arson was carried out as part of the rightists' "price tag" policy following the cabinet decision to freeze constriction in settlements. Rightists suspected of torching Palestinian property Police believe extreme right-wing activists set house, two...

December 5, 2009: Baruch Dayan HaEmet:
The Bostoner Rebbe
Comments: 6 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
The Bostoner Rebbe, Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Horowitz, of Boston and Har Nof, Jerusalem, passed away on Shabbat. More pictures and details.

December 5, 2009: Police Called When Haredi Man Refuses To Sit Next To Elderly Woman On Bus
Comments: 34 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Women & Judaism
"He started elbowing me and shoving me. He also swore at me and warned me not to sit next to him." Haredi man delays bus after refusing to sit next to woman Bus from Kiryat Gat to Kiryat Malachi forced...

December 5, 2009: Haredim Continue Shabbat Protests
Comments: 24 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel
Haredi leader: "All those [non-haredim] who are fomenting [against us] are a very small group of young people consumed by hatred. It's nothing. We have no reason to be intimidated by them. We are growing bigger and will continue to...

December 4, 2009: Man Sues Haredi Rabbi Who Blocked His Marriage
Comments: 22 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel
"This country has a Knesset and it has laws, and if some punk rabbi decides to take the law into his own hands, then I will not remain silent about it." Never mind the rabbis, here's the chuppah By Cnaan...

December 4, 2009: Errant Candy Thrown At Üfroof Knocks Out Sister Of Groom
Comments: 16 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Med-Ethics
Sister hospitalized for several days for observation. Incident spurs calls to ban synagogue candy throwing. Aufruf Ends at Hospital After Chosson’s Sister Gets Hit Yair Alpert • Matzav.com The sister of a chosson in Ashdod will never forget her brother’s...

December 3, 2009: MO Group To Sue Chief Rabbis Over Conversion Annulments
Comments: 10 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal
"We've cooperated with the rabbinate for years…but the situation cannot be allowed to go on," said Rabbi Seth Farber of ITIM. Threat of suit pressures Rabbinate to reopen conversion annulment issue By Cnaan Liphshiz • Ha'aretz A local nonprofit assisting...

December 3, 2009: Rabbis Rule Woman Must Take Lie Detector Test
Comments: 18 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Halakha , Haredim , Israel , Women & Judaism
In an unprecedented move, the Haifa Rabbinical Court has ordered a woman in a divorce case to answer questions about her relations with men and alleged drug abuse while connected to a lie detector. Rabbis: Woman must pass polygraph test...

December 3, 2009: "Haredi Madoff" Steals Millions
Comments: 11 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel
Moshe Zussman bilked about $50 million from Bnei Brak residents and wealthy families overseas. 'Haredi Madoff' bilked Bnei Brak families Nati Toker • Ha'aretz Another Ponzi has been uncovered in the ultra-religious sector. Kikar Shabbat, a news Web site caters...

December 2, 2009: Right Wing National Religious Paper Takes 'Daring' Step, Prints Pictures Of Women
Comments: 18 | Categories: Israel , MO & Chardal , Women & Judaism
The paper strayed from the haredi codes it has taken upon itself that stipulate that no pictures of women be published, and did so with one goal in mind – to stop the deal to free Gilad Shalit. Religious weekly...

December 2, 2009: IDF Soldier Jailed For Cooking On Shabbat
Comments: 45 | Categories: Israel
Soldier sentenced to 20 days in detention after he found out a stray cat ate his Shabbat meal and the soldier was caught cooking a new meal, despite IDF's strict orders that forbid cooking on the holy day. Soldier sent...

December 1, 2009: Elior Chen Child Abuse Trial To Open In February
Comments: 5 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel
"Such a crooked person, who burns children, what kind of punishment can you give him? Want kind of punishment can you give a Nazi? This is what he did, let him live with it," the father said. 'Abusive rabbi' trial...

December 1, 2009: Secular Protestors Use God's Name – And Porn – To Terrify Haredim
Comments: 58 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel
The secular underground also dispersed pornographic material, which caused the haredi protesters to flee in disarray at the sight of the smut. Seculars use God's name against Haredim in Jerusalem fight By Nir Hasson • Haaretz During the ultra-Orthodox demonstrations...

November 30, 2009: Squabble Over Old City Synagogue Linked To Haredi Power Grab, Critics Say
Comments: 13 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Turf Disputes
If the Vilna Gaon was right, on March 16, 2010, construction will begin on the third Temple. That day coincides with the third completion of the Hurva Synagogue in Jerusalem's Jewish Quarter. If the Vilna Gaon was right, the 3rd...

November 30, 2009: Department of Circular Reasoning: Haredim Blame Secular Mayor For "Incitement" Against Haredim
Comments: 5 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel
After a summer laced with haredi riots and attacks on secular Jews – including the mayor – and Arabs, a haredi spokesman told reporters secular "incitement" began last week during the protest outside Intel, when secular counter-protestors wrote God's name...

November 29, 2009: Lakewood Rosh Yeshiva Speaks At Fundraiser For Convicted Haredi Baby Killer
Comments: 34 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel
Rabbi Dovid Schustal calls conviction a "blood libel," asks for donations to help the family and murderer. Rav Dovid Schustal Addresses Parlor Meeting for Mishpachas Wallis Matav.com Last night, a parlor meeting was held to raise funds for the family...

November 28, 2009: Mouths Filled With Hatred
Comments: 90 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal
"Every [Christian cleric] who's been here for awhile, who dresses in robes in public, has a story to tell about being spat at [by haredim and National Religious Jews]." Mouths filled with hatred Larry Derfner • THE JERUSALEM POST Father...

November 28, 2009: Haredi Scam Steals Millions Of Shekels From Government
Comments: 7 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel
Haredi schools registered students from Edah Charedit schools as their own in order to cheat the government out of millions of shekels in subsidies. Haredi schools falsely register students to get funds Education Ministry inquiry reveals ultra-Orthodox schools in Jerusalem...

November 28, 2009: Thousands Protest Haredi Violence In Jerusalem
Comments: 8 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Religion
The protesters marched from Paris Square to Zion Square in the Jerusalem city center under the banner: "Iran is here – we're sick of haredi violence." Thousands protest haredi violance in Jerusalem Seculars, religious march in capital Saturday night to...

November 28, 2009: Haredim To Police: "Zionists, You Caused The Holocaust"
Comments: 4 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel
Haredim blocked on way to Intel, also call police 'Nazis.' Haredim blocked on way to Intel, call police 'Nazis' Some 50 ultra-Orthodox demonstrate near police roadblock against plant's operation on Shabbat, shout at officers, 'Zionists, you caused the Holocaust' Efrat...

November 27, 2009: Letter from Jerusalem: Give Haredim A Chance
Comments: 58 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
Israeli society cannot continue dancing at both weddings: It cannot both hate the ultra-Orthodox for their separatism and not allow them to work. Give us a chance By Rony Paluch • Ha'aretz The 2009 report by the Ono Academic College...

November 27, 2009: Israel's Newest National Holiday
Comments: 5 | Categories: Ethiopian Jews , Israel
Something old becomes something new. [Hat Tip: Pish Posh.]

November 24, 2009: Letter from Tel Aviv: Israel At The Edge Of The Abyss
Comments: 16 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
The solution is not for the ultra-Orthodox to stop being ultra-Orthodox, but rather for them to start working and serving in the army – to integrate into mainstream society. At the edge of the abyss By Shahar Ilan • Ha'aretz...

November 24, 2009: Haredim Demand Modesty Patrols To Monitor Arab Workers
Comments: 7 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Racism , Xenophobia
Flirting with a Jewish woman can get an Arab worker fired – or beaten. Haredim demand 'kosher' certification for Arab workers Ultra-orthodox in Beitar Illit ban together against Arab workers, claim they have negative influence on town's women. They proffer...

November 23, 2009: Judge Says "Starving Mother" Did Not Violate Arrest Conditions
Comments: 6 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel
But ruling does not deal with previous violations. As you read this remember the mother and her community refused to follow previous court orders, and her community rioted to stop enforcement of those orders. For those of you who are...

November 23, 2009: Letter from Jerusalem: Intel Inside? Prove It
Comments: 16 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
The Hebrew version of Intel is the real reason for this country. You can have Shabbes in Teaneck. Intel Inside? Prove It. Bernard Avishai Here is a thought experiment. It is Sunday, and various employees of Intel's R&D and consulting...

November 22, 2009: Haredim Block Church, Mosque At Ben Gurion Airport
Comments: 32 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Religion
The new terminal included both a church and a mosque, but they never were built. Ultra-Orthodox pressure stalling church, mosque at Ben-Gurion airport By Zohar Blumenkrantz • Ha'aretz Ultra-Orthodox political pressure has stalled the construction of a church and a...

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