555 posts categorized "Jewish Leadership"

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...

October 28, 2009: Birthright Leads To Jewish Marriages, Donor-Funded Study Claims
Comments: 17 | Categories: Israel , Jewish Leadership
Flawed study, paid for by Birthright's mega-donors, used in attempt to counter persistent reports of Birthright's failures. I don't think the study proves what Birthright claims it does. My remarks are posted after the Forward article: Birthright Leads to Jewish...

September 25, 2009: Haredi Rabbis Announce Citywide Ban On Unfiltered Internet Use
Comments: 25 | Categories: Bans , Haredim , Jewish Leadership
Rabbis in Beitar Illit demand residents use only haredi-filtered Internet. Schools told to only accept students from homes with no Internet or filtered Internet. Here is VIN's writeup, based on Channel 2's report: Beitar Illit Rabbonim Announce City-Wide Ban Against...

August 26, 2009: Breaking! Birthright Disproportionately Funds Stealth Orthodox Outreach Organization Once Part Of Ohr Somayach
Comments: 29 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Jewish Leadership , Outreach
Money given to Birthright as a restricted gift earmarked only for the JEC by mega-funder Michael Steinhardt on the recommendation of Birthright-Next's NYC head – a childhood friend of Steinhardt's son. Early this month, Birthright hired the disgraced PR firm...

August 21, 2009: Agudah, Reform Movement Praise Obama On Universal Healthcare
Comments: 20 | Categories: Haredim , Jewish Leadership , Med-Ethics
Efforts to "make health care more accessible to the uninsured and underinsured should be applauded." Aguda, Reform praise Obama on universal health care WASHINGTON (JTA) -- Two Jewish religious streams praised President Obama's efforts to achieve universal health care. Statements...

August 19, 2009: Ukrainian Jewish Leader Fakes Own Kidnapping, Steals Jewish Community Property
Comments: 7 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Jewish Leadership
Man lost more than $1,000,000 on London stock exchange, tried to hide from debts. Leader of Kharkov Orthodox Jews staged his own kidnapping after losing money at the London Stock Exchange Dnepropetrovsk, August 19, Interfax – Head of the Kharkov...

August 16, 2009: Bumbling Flack Whose PR Agency Impersonated Agriprocessors Critics Gets Uncritical Coverage From Orthodox Jewish Radio Host, Jerusalem Post Columnist
Comments: 7 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Israel , Jewish Leadership , MO & Chardal
Zev Brenner lobs, 5WPR's Ronn Torossian ducks and denies responsibility. The Jerusalem Post's Ruthie Blum pretends not to see. UPDATE 1 pm 8-16-09 – Complete audio now embedded in this post. Zev Brenner asked no tough questions tonight, allowed Torossian...

August 13, 2009: Ex-Hadassah CFO Responsible For Investment With Madoff Had Affair With Him
Comments: 11 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Jewish Leadership
Ex-CFO's book says she slept with Bernie while putting Hadassah's cash in Bernie's corporate pocket. Madoff Had Affair With Ex-Hadassah CFO, Her Book Says By David Voreacos Aug. 13 (Bloomberg) -- An accountant who has publicly blamed imprisoned con man...

August 5, 2009: More Than 1/3 Of US Jews Secular
Comments: 86 | Categories: BTs , Jewish Leadership , Outreach , Religion , Skepticism
New study shows number of Jews leaving Jewish religion in any form is rapidly growing. Jewish community generally does not program for or service these people. Study shows the vapidness of Jewish communal institutions and the abject failure of kiruv....

July 15, 2009: Evangelicals' Rabbi Asks Why Gentiles Have To Keep FSU Jews Afloat While Israel Refuses To Pay
Comments: 17 | Categories: Chabad , Jewish Leadership
Evangelical donations keep Russia's Jewish community functioning as Israel and individual Jewish donors default on pledges and schools close. Evangelicals’ rabbi wants to know why the Jews aren’t saving FSU Jewry By Jacob Berkman · JTA Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, the...

April 13, 2009: HIAS Outed?
Comments: 2 | Categories: Jewish Leadership
Did Big American Judaism's immigration arm resort to McCarthyism to silence a critic? David Kelsey says HIAS is guilty. Here's the Forward's coverage of Kelsey's scoop.

March 25, 2009: Birthright Israel Fails
Comments: 35 | Categories: Israel , Jewish Leadership , Rants
Only 4% of participants seriously involved in Jewish community after trip, college. Birthright Israel was really the idea of the old independent Jewish student movement, the North American Jewish Students Network, which proffered the idea at the plenary session of...

February 20, 2009: Chabad.org On Brink Of Financial Collapse?
Comments: 67 | Categories: Chabad , Haredim , Jewish Leadership
And it isn't just Chabad. The JTA reports: …The economic crisis has hit us crushingly hard and we are in an emergency situation. Though we always keep our overhead low (-- our editors and writers do their jobs for comparatively...

February 7, 2009: A Quarrel Over What Is Kosher
Comments: 15 | Categories: Chabad , Creative PR , Haredim , Jewish Leadership , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , MO & Chardal , Rubashkin Gordon , Rubashkin Safety , Rubashkin Workers
Details: A Quarrel Over What Is Kosher By NATHANIEL POPPER, Wall Street Journal, 2-5-09 Since it was raided by immigration agents last May, the kosher slaughterhouse in Postville, Iowa has been an endless source of national fascination and headlines. Just...

December 26, 2008: Is News Coverage Of The Madoff Scandal Antisemitic?
Comments: 27 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Jewish Leadership
The American Jewish Committe says… …yes, it is. Here is the AJC's letter published in the New York Times on December 20, 2008: To the Editor: In “Standing Accused: A Pillar of Finance and Charity,” your Dec. 13 Business Day...

December 22, 2008: Eisav Sonei Ya'akov? Debate Erupts Over How To Explain The Mumbai Chabad Terror
Comments: 43 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Israel , Jewish Leadership
“And so Mumbai joins Kishinev, Hebron, Berlin, Babi Yar, Maalot, Sbarro’s, Sderot (we could easily mention 150 other sites) to the annals of sudden infamy." Or does it? J.J. Goldberg writes in the Forward: On December 5, just one week...

December 13, 2008: Many Jewish Charities Destroyed By Madoff Scam – Bush SEC Missed Clear Signs Of Trouble
Comments: 37 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Jewish Leadership , MO & Chardal
Non-Jewish charities are also heavily hit. And this comes at a time when… …the economic crisis has already caused hundreds of thousands of Americans of all backgrounds to seek out help from nonprofits. The Washington Post reports on the mother...

December 7, 2008: YU Panel On Ethics And Kashrut
Comments: 38 | Categories: Haredim , Jewish Leadership , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , MO & Chardal , Rubashkin Safety , Rubashkin Workers
Details: Please click to enlarge. UPDATE – Streaming LIVE. 7 PM Eastern Time, Tuesday December 9. I can not grab this or download this for you. If you want to make sure to see it, you'll have to watch it...

November 19, 2008: Stress Over Food Widespread In Postville
Comments: 18 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Hessed , Jewish Leadership , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
Video and details: Postville struggles in wake of Agriprocessors' struggles from GazetteOnline.com on Vimeo. Stress over food widespread in Postville By Orlan Love POSTVILLE - Food insecurity — a common problem here since a May 12 immigration raid threw this...

November 19, 2008: Food Arrives In Postville
Comments: 4 | Categories: Hessed , Jewish Leadership , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
Details and pictures: Loading at Beth Jacob Congregation in Mendota Heights, MN: Unloading in Postville: A Quick Stop At Agriprocessors: Rabbi Allen writes: Yesterday, Harold Sloboff, Eric Pasternack and Michael Zaslofsky travelled to Postville to deliver the food which our...

November 13, 2008: The Forward: Ethics Of The Rabbis
Comments: 25 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Jewish Leadership , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , MO & Chardal , Rubashkin Gordon , Rubashkin Safety , Rubashkin Workers
I would add one thing to this spot-on Forward editorial about… …Agriprocessors. Curiously, the Forward omits all mention of animal abuse, even though leading experts like Dr, Temple Grandin called Agriprocessors treatment of animals the most horrific examples of abuse...

November 12, 2008: NY Times: Sexual Abuse Complaints Subpoenaed – Dov Hikind: “Abusive teachers and rabbis in the schools. Pedophiles on the streets. Incest in the home.”
Comments: 30 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Jewish Leadership , Pedophilia
Hella Winston's Jewish Week article, UOJ and FailedMessiah.com are all mentioned – although the Times… …gets UOJ's url wrong and seems to confuse the name of the Jewish Week. Too late to correct either in the print edition, but hopefully...

November 12, 2008: Dov Hikind Subpoenaed For Molestation Records – Experts: Hikind Is Obstructing Justice
Comments: 59 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Jewish Leadership , Pedophilia
There are three main points in all this. 1. As well meaning as Hikind may be, he's a rank amateur. 2. Hikind has information of what he says is hundreds of haredi pedophiles. 3. The Brooklyn DA doesn't care much...

November 8, 2008: A Word About The Kosher Meat "Shortage"
Comments: 83 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Jewish Leadership , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Gordon , Rubashkin Safety , Rubashkin Workers
You'll be reading a lot about the kosher meat "shortage" caused by Agriprocessors' legal troubles. But what you will not read is the truth behind that "shortage," and how that "shortage" is part of the Rubashkin's' strategy to retain ownership...

November 6, 2008: Disgraced Agriprocessors PR Flack Honored With Award From Jewish Group
Comments: 2 | Categories: Chabad , Creative PR , Crime, etc. , Jewish Leadership , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Safety , Rubashkin Workers , Spin
Remember Ronn Torrosian? Torossian heads 5WPR, the public relations firm caught illegally impersonating Agriprocessors critics online. Torossian is slated to be honored by the (very right wing) Zionist Organization of America later this month. What award is Ronn getting? "Young...

November 1, 2008: Zionist Organization Of America To Honor Agriprocessors PR Flack Ronn Torossian – 5WPR Was Caught Impersonating Agriprocessors Critics
Comments: 1 | Categories: Chabad , Creative PR , Crime, etc. , Jewish Leadership , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Safety , Rubashkin Workers , Spin
Ronn Torossian, the PR flack whose company, 5WPR got caught sockpuppeting and illegally impersonating Agriprocessors' critics online is to be honored at the Zionist Organization of America's annual… …dinner. The award? "Young Leadership." Please click to enlarge: The Ronn Torossian...

September 26, 2008: Head Of Reform Movement Speaks Out On Agriprocessors
Comments: 31 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Jewish Leadership , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , MO & Chardal , Rubashkin Safety , Rubashkin Workers
Why is the best rabbi-authored article on Agriprocessors written by a… …Reform rabbi? Orthodoxy’s Kosher Crisis Opinion By Eric Yoffie Thu. Sep 25, 2008 Over the course of the past five months, the American Jewish community has observed with dismay...

September 18, 2008: Dov Hikind: The "Best Community" To Be A Child Molester Is "Borough Park, Flatbush, Lakewood or Monroe.…People Don’t Press Charges”
Comments: 34 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Jewish Leadership , Pedophilia
This is exactly the argument made by critics and by victims' advocates, and the same argument Agudath Israel of America and other haredi leaders have attacked as antisemitic. And now uber-Jew and NY State Assemblyman Dov Hikind is saying exactly...

September 3, 2008: BREAKING! Reform Rabbis Endorse Hechsher Tzedek
Comments: 60 | Categories: Jewish Leadership , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Safety , Rubashkin Workers
They're calling it an "historic move." Here's the money quote: “This is not about Conservative or Reform or Orthodox Judaism,” said Dr. Raymond Goldstein, international president of United Synagogue. “It is about ethics. We are commanded to act ethically and...

July 24, 2008: Will Jewish Orgs Stop Using 5WPR? No Way, Sez The Forward
Comments: 6 | Categories: Chabad , Creative PR , Crime, etc. , Jewish Leadership , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Media , Rubashkin Safety , Rubashkin Workers , Spin
That's right. No amount of fraud from 5WPR will cause Jewish organizations to stop using 5W. Honesty is not… … a Jewish organizational virtue, as the Forward reports: …In mid-July, Shmarya Rosenberg, who reports on the Orthodox world on the...

June 1, 2008: Baruch Dayan HaEmet: Tommy Lapid
Comments: 34 | Categories: Israel , Jewish Leadership
Former MK, Minister of Justice and head of the Shinui Party passed away today. Lapid… …was also the head of the Yad Vashem Memorial Council. Ha'aretz reports: Former Israeli minister and journalist Yosef (Tommy) Lapid died of cancer early Sunday...

May 23, 2008: Conservative Rabbis Stop Short Of Boycotting Agriprocessors
Comments: 32 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Jewish Leadership , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
In a joint statement, the Conservative Movement's Rabbinical Association and the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism in effect punted. Despite widespread calls within the movement for a boycott against Agriprocessors (Rubashkin), the rabbis decided to leave the decision of whether...

May 14, 2008: Baruch Dayan HaEmet
Comments: 3 | Categories: Israel , Jewish Leadership
Shmuel Katz, a leading figure in pre-State Revisionist Zionism and later an advisor to Prime Minister… …Menachem Begin passed away Friday in Tel Aviv, the New York Times reports. He was 93 years old. Katz broke with Begin over the...

March 11, 2008: Feiglin Barred from Entering Britain
Comments: 67 | Categories: Israel , Jewish Leadership
The Likud party's resident fascist, Moshe Feiglin, has been barred from entry into Britain. Why? According to Ha'aretz: Moshe Feiglin, leader of the Likud's Jewish Leadership faction, was recently notified in a letter from British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith that...

March 2, 2008: Who Is A Jew? Who Is A Convert? Who Is A Rabbi? The New York Times on Israel's Conversion Crisis
Comments: 12 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Jewish Leadership , MO & Chardal
The New York Times Magazine has feature on the conversion crisis in Israel and the Rabbinical Council of America's participation in that crisis. How did the RCA participate? By caving in to Israeli haredi demands, as we noted last week....

December 24, 2007: Nittlenacht With Heeb
Comments: 37 | Categories: Jewish Leadership
Heeb's raison d'être is to shock. Still, the idea of holding any event with Kinky Jews bothers me. If Heeb truly wants to be a voice for younger unaffiliated Jews it must understand that Kinky Jews is not a group...

November 2, 2007: The Organized Jewish Community, Truth and the Academic Process
Comments: 13 | Categories: Books , Chabad , Chabad & the Media , Chabad History , Jewish Leadership
I spoke briefly with Mitchell Bard tonight. Bard, author of Will Israel Survive?, was the opening speaker at the local Jewish bookfair. Most of the conversation revolved around an earlier book Bard wrote on Ethiopian Jews and Operation Moses. But...

August 20, 2007: Israel's Sex Worker Slave Trade
Comments: 105 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Jewish Leadership
Aidan Maconachy writes: …Amnesty International contend the Israeli government and the police have largely turned a blind eye to this trade [in foreign women] going on under their nose. Exactly how a nation that arose on the back of a...

July 31, 2007: Let Them Have More Babies?!
Comments: 12 | Categories: Haredim , Insanity , Israel , Jewish Leadership
Ha'aretz reports: In an effort to boost the number of ultra-Orthodox men in the workforce, the Finance Ministry is proposing an exemption from mandatory military service for married yeshiva students over the age of 23 who have a minimum of...

July 27, 2007: The Growing Demographic Threat To Israel
Comments: 41 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Jewish Leadership
Dan Ben-David, an economist from Tel Aviv University, writes about the demographic threat to Israel in Ha'aretz: This week, in which the First and Second Temples were destroyed, it seems we do not need Sicarii [the Zealots who revolted against...

July 17, 2007: The Rabbi and the Attorney, Round 7 – The Lies of Yated Ne'eman
Comments: 14 | Categories: Creative PR , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Jewish Leadership
Yated Ne'eman, the official mouthpiece of Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv and the Lithuanian haredim that make up 1/2 of the United Torah Judaism (UTJ) political party, 'reports' the rabbi MK - attorney incident this way: …The incident took place during...

July 17, 2007: The Rabbi and the Attorney, Round 6 – The Lies of Hamodia
Comments: 8 | Categories: Creative PR , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Jewish Leadership
The Beadle, leafing through his copy of the new Hamodia (not available online), the Gerrer hasidim-controlled Jewish weekly, spotted this blatant lie by omission in Hamodia's coverage of the Knesset slap: Rabbi Cohen told De Hartuch: “You’re destroying the Torah...

July 15, 2007: The Rabbi MK and the Attorney, Round 5
Comments: 2 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Ethics , Haredim , Israel , Jewish Leadership
Shahar Ilan writes in Ha'aretz: They don't understand that barring entry to an honest man like Hartog is an insult to the Knesset, not to Hartog. Many of us are responsible for the fact that he broke down, and we...

July 13, 2007: We Will Not Be Israel's Suckers
Comments: 27 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Jewish Leadership
A 37-year-old deputy battalion commander in the IDF reserves is mad as hell, and he is not going to take it any longer. He has already served more than a month of reserve duty this year alone, with more duty...

July 12, 2007: The Rabbi and The Attorney, Round Four: Haredim Manned Masada, Haredi Journalist Claims
Comments: 14 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Jewish Leadership
By now you know the story. The government attorney, son of Holocaust survivor and a observant Jew, is slandered by a haredi MK, a rabbi affiliated with the Gerrer hasidic sect, who accuses the attorney of being worse than the...

July 11, 2007: UPDATE: Attorney Who Slapped Haredi MK Son Of Holocaust Survivor, Rabbi Called Attorney "More Evil And Terrible Than The Nazis"
Comments: 44 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Jewish Leadership
Yesterday's post on a Justice Ministry attorney who slapped a haredi MK in the Knesset has been fleshed out by a new Ha'aretz report on the incident and its aftermath. Key points: The attorney is the official in charge of...

July 10, 2007: Justice Ministry Attorney Slaps Haredi MK In Knesset
Comments: 21 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Jewish Leadership
A haredi MK gets into an argument with an attorney from the Justice Ministry after a heated committee meeting about allocations to haredi schools given in violation of the law. The MK accuses the attorney of "being worse than the...

June 4, 2007: WJC Controversy: Isi Liebler's Real Agenda Exposed?
Comments: 2 | Categories: Jewish Leadership
Krum has two interesting posts on the upcoming elections for president of the World Jewish Congress. Ever sharp eyed, Krum noticed this: …Several weeks ago, [WJC Secretary-General] Stephen Herbits finally made public a document setting forth the purported basis for...

May 20, 2007: The NY Times On Rubashkin, Conservative Hechsher Tzedek
Comments: 1 | Categories: Haredim , Jewish Leadership , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
Rabbi Morris Allen Samuel G. Freedman has a piece in today's NY Times profiling Rabbi Morris Allen and the Conservative Movement's Hechsher Tzedek. Freedman mentions the allegations against Rubashkin, but does not mention any related information. He does not mention...

May 13, 2007: The Bias Of Gary Rosenblatt
Comments: 11 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Jewish Leadership
The Jewish Week has a bizarre and possibly defamatory editorial on the troubles besetting the World Jewish Congress. It is co-authored and co-signed by the Jewish Week's editor and publisher, Gary Rosenblatt, and by Larry Cohler-Esses, the author of last...

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