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May 24, 2013: IDF Bows To Public Pressure, Moves Haredi Swearing-In Ceremony Back To Ammunition Hill Despite Haredi Threats
Comments: 5 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel
After widespread public outcry in response to news earlier this week that the IDF was moving its swearing in ceremony for new recruits to its haredi Netzach Yehuda battalion from Israel’s national Six Day War memorial at Ammunition Hill in...

May 23, 2013: Haredi Soldier Files Criminal Complaint Against Haredi Paper For Incitement To Violence Against Haredi Soldiers
Comments: 4 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel
A haredi IDF soldier filed a criminal complaint with the police today against the haredi daily HaPeles, which is the mouthpiece of a leading haredi rabbi, Shmuel Auerbach. The soldier claims that an editorial in the paper condemning "collaborators" from...

May 23, 2013: Proposed Bill To Draft Haredim Into Israel’s Military “Designed To Crush The World Of Torah,” Haredi MK Says
Comments: 8 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Religion
United Torah Judaism Party MK Rabbi Meir Porush was even more blunt in his criticism, reportedly calling the government’s newly tweaked proposal for a law drafting haredim a "miserable bill designed to crush the world of Torah.…The future of our...

May 23, 2013: Haredi Family From Lev Tahor Cult Busted After Trying To Flee Israel By Illegally Crossing Into Jordan
Comments: 4 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Extreme Sniut , Haredim , Israel
The family apparently could not legally leave Israel because of an ongoing family court case initiated by the father’s relatives. Women from the haredi Lev Tahor cult Haredi Family From Lev Tahor Cult Busted After Trying To Flee Israel By...

May 23, 2013: IDF Cancels Haredi Recruits’ Swearing-In Ceremony Due To Haredi Threats
Comments: 14 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel
The IDF’s haredi Netzah Yehuda Battalion cancelled its swearing-in ceremony originally scheduled to take place today on Ammunition Hill in Jerusalem after receiving information that haredi “zealots” would attempt to disrupt the event. File photo: Haredim stone police in Mea...

May 23, 2013: Haredi Newspaper Blames Mass Shooting On Secularism
Comments: 10 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Media & Media Criticism
"The lawlessness prevailing among those distant from Torah exacted yet another bloody toll yesterday" HaPeles wrote, explaining that its choice not to report the mass shooting in its news section stemmed from its wish to "steer clear of the ugliness...

May 22, 2013: Association For Civil Rights In Israel Asks Justice Minister To Discipline Racist Chief Rabbi
Comments: 2 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Crime, etc. , Israel , MO & Chardal , Sefardim , Xenophobia
The Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) petitioned Justice Minister Tzipi Livni yesterday, asking her to open disciplinary proceedings against the Chief Rabbi of Sefat Shmuel Eliyahu for "repeated racist incitement." Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu Association For Civil Rights In...

May 22, 2013: How Haredim Saved Jerusalem
Comments: 10 | 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: It Is Our Fundamental Democratic "Right" To Choose To Be Poor And To Live Off Welfare, Haredi MK Says
Comments: 24 | 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 22, 2013: Video: Tens Of Thousands Attend Wedding Of Belz Rebbe's Grandson
Comments: 9 | Categories: Hanukkah , Israel
25,000 to 30,000 hasidim attended yesterday's wedding of the Belzer Rebbe's 18-year-old grandson. Here is video of the the Rebbe of Belz blessing the couple after the huppah (marriage ceremony) and another video with highlights from the wedding. [Hat Tip:...

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: High Court Of Justice Petition Seeks To Rescind Beit Din’s Order Of Excommunication
Comments: 11 | 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 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: 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: Women Of The Wall Board Member Gets Death Threat
Comments: 11 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Israel , Women & Judaism
Graffiti threatening the life of longtime board member of Women of the Wall journalist Peggy Cidor was found painted outside her apartment in the Talpiot neighborhood of Jerusalem this morning. Women Of The Wall Board Member Gets Death Threat Shmarya...

May 20, 2013: The Times Of Israel Apologizes
Comments: 3 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Israel , Media & Media Criticism
"The article about the Jewish school that banned thick rimmed glasses that was published On [The Times of Israel website] was corrected, and attribution was added to Failed Messiah blog as well as the New York Post. It was a...

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: 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: The Times Of Israel Rips Off FailedMessiah.com And The New York Post
Comments: 9 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Israel , Media & Media Criticism
Over the past few months, the Times of Israel stole much of the stories surrounding the Rabbi Chaim Halpern London sex abuse scandal from the British haredi blog IfYouTickleUs and from FailedMessiah.com. Now the Times of Israel has stolen another...

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 17, 2013: The Surprising Hidden History Of The Kotel
Comments: 11 | Categories: History , Israel
“From the start of the sanctification of the Western Wall, in the 16th century, the traditions in the texts of the Sages were transferred from the western wall of the Temple [itself] to the western [retaining] wall of the Temple...

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: Governmant Launches Program To "Rehabilitate" Zionist Orthodox Gang Members
Comments: 1 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Israel , MO & Chardal , Xenophobia
The Israeli government is finally trying to do something about the Hilltop Youth – gangs of Zionist Orthodox thugs who attack police and Arabs on the West Bank. They vandalize and set fire to mosques and churches, burn olive groves,...

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: 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: 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 12, 2013: Leading Sefardi Haredi Rabbi Uses Hebrew "N" Word Slur To Attack Government
Comments: 34 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Haredim , Israel , Religion , Sefardim
“If we’re talking about the sports budget, there is plenty of money to bring a few Cushim to play basketball, but when its a budget for synagogues or ritual baths, there’s nothing." Rabbi David Yosef The Times of Israel reports:...

May 12, 2013: More Israelis Support Women Of The Wall Than Oppose Them
Comments: 7 | Categories: Israel , Religion , Women & Judaism
"Support for the Women of the Wall is highest among self-defined secular Israeli Jews (64%) and the traditional-non-religious (53%). Traditional-religious (26%), religious (28%), and ultra-Orthodox (0%) support them to a lesser degree." Friday's anti-Women of the Wall riots The poll...

May 12, 2013: Haredi Soldier Claims Military Service With Seculars Made Him Chronically Depressed, Suicidal
Comments: 16 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
"Before I enlisted, I didn't know any secular people at all, so joining the IDF was a big change for me. I had a hard time adjusting to the military lifestyle. There were many instances in which I was unable...

May 12, 2013: Video: Women Of The Wall – What It Was Like Before Last Month's Court Ruling
Comments: 16 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Religion , Women & Judaism
A video from the New York Times made in December of last year clearly shows you what haredim call a "provocation" by WoW, and has the Kotel's haredi Rabbi, Shmuel Rabinovitch, saying that he "has legal authority to decide what...

May 12, 2013: Audio: MK Rabbi Dov Lipman Responds To Critics Of The Haredi Draft And Secular Education
Comments: 9 | Categories: Chabad & EJs , Haredim , Israel , Religion , Women & Judaism
Member of Knesset Dov Lipman – called a "rasha" (evil one) and an "apostate" by Rabbi Aharon Feldman – responds to the stinging attacks on him from haredi rabbis, including Feldman, over the government's plan to draft haredim and to...

May 10, 2013: Attack On MK Rabbi Dov Lipman Exposes The Problem With Haredi Logic
Comments: 19 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Religion
"Clearly there is no Talmudic or Halachic foundation for not teaching children…basic skills…that they will need to be able to earn a living…So instead of arguing the point itself, Rabbi Aharon Feldman uses a classic ruse. He tries to bolster...

May 10, 2013: Video: Clashes At The Western Wall
Comments: 11 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Women & Judaism
Video of today's clashes at the Kotel between haredim on one side and police and Women of the Wall on the other. The clashes shown in this brief video appear to have been filmed after haredim surged at Women of...

May 10, 2013: HAREDIM RIOT AT THE KOTEL
Comments: 46 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Religion , Women & Judaism
Haredim fought with police and hurled bottles of water, garbage, hot coffee, rocks eggs, chairs and other objects at the Women of the Wall worshippers. They also spit on the women and children with Women of the Wall and screamed...

May 9, 2013: While Apologizing For Calling Knesset Member Rabbi Dov Lipman "Evil," Haredi Leader Rabbi Aharon Feldman Says Lipman "Mistaken," Should Resign
Comments: 9 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Religion
Rabbi Dov Lipman is "a shogeg" [a person who has erred or who is mistaken], not a "rasha" [evil man], the rosh yeshiva of Baltimore's Ner Israel Yeshiva Rabbi Aharon Feldman (pictured at right) told his students. However, while apologizing...

May 9, 2013: Chabad Joins Battle To Fight Against Teaching Math, English
Comments: 23 | Categories: Chabad , Haredim , Israel , Religion
Rabbi Yitzchok Yehuda Yeruslavsky, the secretary for Chabad’s beit din in Israel and the chief rabbi of Nachlas Har Chabad, ordered Chabad schools to join the battle against Israeli government efforts to get haredi schools to teach Israel’s core curriculum....

May 9, 2013: The Unintended Consequences Of Supporting Haredi Kollel Study
Comments: 44 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
"…When you support a charedi man in kollel, it's not something that can be simply ended at some point, with the merit points waiting in [the World to Come]. There are long-term consequences to what you have done. By supporting...

May 9, 2013: Scathing State Comptroller’s Report Blasts Israel’s Health, Absorption, Education And Interior Ministries
Comments: 5 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Ethiopian Jews , Israel , Med-Ethics , MO & Chardal
Among the report's findings: The Zionist Orthodox school system employed more unqualified teachers than Israel’s secular public schools and than Arab schools. (Haredi schools, even when they are funded by the state, are officially private, not public, schools and are...

May 8, 2013: Haredi Soldiers Ask For Uniform Exemption After Receiving Threats, Harassment
Comments: 16 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Religion
"…The [haredi] street is on fire and we have become its victims. They call us names, say we are impure and threaten our children. Some of us are forced to hide and – in violation of army directives – change...

May 8, 2013: MK Rabbi Dov Lipman Responds To Personal Attack From Haredi 'Gadol'
Comments: 18 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Religion
"…Adina Bar Shalom, Rav Ovadiah Yosef's daughter appeared before the Knesset task force to help Haredim enter the work force which I founded and begged us to implement math and English because 50 percent of the boys in her chareidi...

May 8, 2013: Israel’s Absorption Of Ethiopian Jews A Failure, Gov’t Comptroller Says In Scathing Report
Comments: 13 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Ethiopian Jews , Israel
All talk, little action: In 2001, the Government of Israel announced a special 9-year $660-million absorption program for the approximately 130,000 Ethiopian Jews then in Israel. But since 2005, government ministries have allocated only a tiny amount of the money...

May 8, 2013: IN CRUSHING BLOW TO HAREDIM, A.G. ORDERS END TO ALL GENDER DISCRIMINATION & SEGREGATION, BANS HAREDI MEHADRIN BUSES EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY
Comments: 39 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Haredim , Israel , Women & Judaism
Gender segregation and gender discrimination in Israel has finally come to its legal end. This large sign dictating the clothing women can and cannot wear is posted in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighborhood. It is now illegal and must be immediately...

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