May 31, 2013:
Is This Ruling Against Oral Sex Real? Or Is It The Best Parody Ever?
Comments: 37 | Categories:
Chabad ,
Haredim ,
Israel ,
Kosher Scandal ,
Rabbis & Sex
"Recently it became known to me that there are those who place their mouths during sexual relations on the "unmentionable place," or those who tell their wives to do so, and we find at times lices and 'worms', Heaven forbid,...
April 11, 2013:
Head Of KSA Kosher Allegedly Frequented Strip Clubs And Prostitutes, Had Multiple Affairs, Embezzled And Stole Money, Lawsuit Says
Comments: 53 | Categories:
Chabad ,
Crime, etc. ,
Haredim ,
Rabbis & Sex
A son-in-law of the head of KSA (Kosher Supervision of America) alleges his father-in-law Rabbi Binyomin Lisbon (a former Chabad emissary and rabbi of an Orthodox synagogue, along with heading KSA) visited strip clubs, cavorted with strippers and prostitutes and...
January 2, 2013:
Cops Nab Two In Haredi Extortion Scheme
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Crime, etc. ,
Haredim ,
Israel ,
Rabbis & Sex
Israeli Police have arrested two men for extorting and blackmailing haredi men who party at Amsterdam, a decadent Tel Aviv nightclub popular with haredim looking for a forbidden release from their restrictive communities. Cops Nab Two In Haredi Extortion Scheme...
October 31, 2012:
London Haredi Sex And Rape Scandal, Continued
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Crime, etc. ,
Haredim ,
Pedophilia & Related Crimes ,
Rabbis & Sex
The Times of Israel has posted a long article on the alleged London haredi rape and sex abuse scandal. The problem is that the Times of Israel fails to cite the two bloggers who broke the story along with the...
October 9, 2012:
IDF Rabbi Caught In Porn Scandal
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Crime, etc. ,
Israel ,
MO & Chardal ,
Rabbis & Sex
The IDF's Military Advocate General Corps is deliberating which measures to take against an officer from the Military Rabbinate, who was caught visiting porn websites. The officer allegedly used a computer issued to a more junior officer under his command,...
October 3, 2012:
A Jewish History Of Sleep
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Halakha ,
History ,
Rabbis & Sex
How the way humans used to sleep impacted the history of Jewish prayer. Updated at 1:16 am CDT 10-4-2012 David K. Randall writes in the New York Times: …One of the first signs that the emphasis on a straight eight-hour...
September 10, 2012:
State-Funded Ritual Baths Bar Single Women To Prevent Extra-Marital Sex
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Haredim ,
Israel ,
MO & Chardal ,
Rabbis & Sex ,
Women & Judaism
"The bottom line is that we are asking state-funded authorities to refrain from becoming involved in women’s personal reasons for wanting to immerse themselves in a mikva, and to recognize that each woman has the right to choose for herself.”...
July 18, 2012:
Hasidic Rebbe Allegedly Caught Cavorting With Much Younger Naked Woman
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Crime, etc. ,
Haredim ,
Israel ,
Rabbis & Sex
The rebbe was discovered when a visiting hasid climbed up to the rebbe’s window to peer in. He was shocked to see his rebbe – who was supposed to be like an angel and extremely close to God – cavorting...
July 15, 2012:
Exclusive: The Chabad Chief Rabbi And The Prostitute?
Comments: 123 | Categories:
Chabad ,
Court Jews ,
Crime, etc. ,
Haredim ,
Rabbis & Sex
A recording is purportedly made of Rabbi Berel Lazar, Chabad's 'chief rabbi' of Russia, having phone sex with a prostitute. Is it really him? Lazar tells me it isn't. But there's more to the story. Someone, I don't know who,...
March 15, 2012:
VIDEO: The Chabad Rabbi And The Prostitute
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Chabad ,
Crime, etc. ,
Rabbis & Sex
A Chabad shaliach in the Former Soviet Union has a pornographic liaison with a prostitute caught on videotape. Rabbi Noach Kamenetsky of Barnaul, Altay, FSU caught on videotape having sex with a prostitute – while wearing his yarmulke. Here's the...
February 11, 2012:
Chabad Rabbis Tell Hasidim To Marry Younger
Comments: 42 | Categories:
Chabad ,
Rabbis & Sex
Too many Chabadniks leave the movement or leave Orhodoxy altogether in the years following basic yeshiva study and marriage. So Chabad rabbis tell hasidim that the marriage age must be made younger to keep youth from straying. The logic? It's...
February 8, 2012:
Zionist Orthodox Schools To Teach Sex Ed
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Israel ,
Med-Ethics ,
MO & Chardal ,
Rabbis & Sex
The new course, titled "Home, education and family," will deal with contraception, premarital relationships, modesty and the status of women. It is also to deal with "family purity," or the Jewish law that addresses married couples' conduct during menstruation. Religious...
February 7, 2012:
Gerrer Hasidim And Sex
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Haredim ,
Rabbis & Sex ,
Women & Judaism
"This view dictates the strict separation between the sexes in this hasidic sect, and primarily the practices of prishut [separation] that guide the relationship between spouses in this society, which is unparalleled in other ultra-Orthodox groups. Hasidism is doing more...
December 9, 2011:
YU "Sex" Scandal
Comments: 65 | Categories:
Bans & Censorship ,
Media & Media Criticism ,
MO & Chardal ,
Rabbis & Sex ,
Women & Judaism
The scandal surrounding the YU beacon's publication of a Stern College student's alleged account of a sexual liaison with a YU boy demonstrates the immaturity of the YU's rabbis and of its student council. Here are the facts: • The...
November 17, 2011:
Rabbi Mordechai Tendler Loses – Again
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Crime, etc. ,
Haredim ,
MO & Chardal ,
Rabbis & Sex
Court rules that Tendler's demand to know the identity of anonymous bloggers who reported on Tendler's clergy sex abuse is rejected. Rabbi Mordechai Tendler For the second time, a court has rejected Rabbi Mordechai Tendler's attempt to out anonymous bloggers...
September 15, 2011:
New York Post Sued Over XXX Rabbi Videos
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Crime, etc. ,
MO & Chardal ,
Rabbis & Sex
A Long Island rabbi is suing his ex-wife and the New York Post over the publication of sordid sex tapes that allegedly show him cavorting with prostitutes after a Sabbath service. New York Post sued over 'randy rabbi' videos Jessica...
July 7, 2011:
Ultra-Orthodox Swingers
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Haredim ,
Israel ,
Rabbis & Sex
Yishai goes to strtp clubs and swingers parties and hires escorts. After years of this behavior he tells his wife, Michal. And then he gets Michal to join him at the clubs and the parties. Now Michal – who has...
April 10, 2011:
A New Brooklyn Kol Koreh And Ban
Comments: 59 | Categories:
Bans & Censorship ,
Haredim ,
Rabbis & Sex
Rabbis ban specific lectures and pamphlets on sexual issues.
January 5, 2011:
Sexual Guilt
Comments: 39 | Categories:
Israel ,
MO & Chardal ,
Rabbis & Sex ,
Women & Judaism
A new study performed by Bar-Ilan University has found that religious teens who are compelled to watch pornographic images are afterwards haunted by guilt and self-deprecation. Study probes religious teens' sexual guilt Researchers hear descriptions of crippling self-loathing from youths...
December 18, 2008:
Under A Coat Of Red: A Hasidic Woman's View Of Sex
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Haredim ,
Rabbis & Sex ,
Women & Judaism
"When I was seventeen years old I discovered my vagina…" Under a Coat of Red I lean towards the mirror, painting my lips with bright red lipstick, blotting carefully, watchful of my own reflection as I attempt to fashion a...
September 23, 2008:
Haredi Newspapers Refuse to Print Picture or Full Name of Israel's Foreign Minister – Tzipi Livni Asked To Form Next Government
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Haredim ,
Israel ,
Rabbis & Sex ,
Women & Judaism
…`Syria calls her the "Mossad beauty." But ultra-orthodox Jewish newspapers in Israel won't print Tzipi Livni's picture or her name, for reasons… … of religious modesty. We might write 'Mrs. T. Livni' or just 'Mrs. Livni,' but the name Tzipi...
November 29, 2007:
Rabbis and Sex
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Rabbis & Sex
Ruthie Blum interviews former Hollywood screenwriter turned currently brainwashed BT Tzvi Fishman about his affiliation with haredi pseudo-kabbalist Rabbi Eliahu Leon Levi. In the interview, Fishman cites the Zohar as if it were a real text with unquestioned authenticity and...
November 26, 2007:
Beware A Woman's Tongue, Rabbi Says
Comments: 36 | Categories:
Rabbis & Sex ,
Women & Judaism
Gotta love rabbis. Ynet reports: Rabbi Yoav Malka deals with the instruction in Pirkei Avot to keep conversation with the woman to a minimum. Malka explains that a man must be careful not to be overly-influenced by his wife: "Women's...
November 14, 2007:
Child Marriage In Ancient Judaism
Comments: 26 | Categories:
Humor ,
Rabbis & Sex ,
Religion ,
Skepticism & Former Haredim ,
Women & Judaism
The Monsey Tzaddik writes in response to a comment from Renee: "The reason that our Rabbis stress the importance of the Oral Law...and Rivka exemplified exceptional modesty as she veiled herself upon seeing Yitzcack (Observance of family laws)." You stupid...
July 6, 2007:
Judaism's Own Untouchables – The Sexual Gift That Never Stops Giving
Comments: 149 | Categories:
BTs ,
Chabad ,
Ethics ,
Halakha ,
Haredim ,
MO & Chardal ,
Outreach ,
Rabbis & Sex
Writing on Jewschool, David Kelsey points out what would be the biggest stumbling block to recruiting new ba'alei teshuva – if the BTs knew about it. For the most part, potential BTs do not know. I think it's time to...
June 11, 2007:
Haredi Rabbis Curse Gay Pride Marchers And Police – "They Will Never Be Cleansed From Their Sins"
Comments: 47 | Categories:
Haredim ,
Homophobia and its Discontents ,
Israel ,
Rabbis & Sex
Ha'aretz reports: The ultra-Orthodox rabbinical court, Haredi Badatz [Yerushalyim], placed a "curse" Sunday on the participants in the upcoming Gay Pride parade scheduled to take place next week in Jerusalem. The court also cursed the police officers who will be...
June 6, 2007:
Luke Ford Profiled In The LA Daily News Today
Comments: 11 | Categories:
Blogs ,
Media & Media Criticism ,
Rabbis & Sex
The LA Daily News profiles former Protocols blogger Luke Ford. The profile deals with his work covering the porn industry, breaking the HIV story that shut it down for a time, and his mistreatment by several rabbis, who banned him...
December 17, 2006:
What Rabbis Worry About When They're Not Covering For Child Abusers
Comments: 47 | Categories:
Rabbis & Sex
From JewishSexuality.com: 6. The exclusive position of the marital union is with the wife lying on her back, facing up, and the husband lying upon her, facing down. This way of union is the select and most perfect union, which...