593 posts categorized "Sefardim"

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 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 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 9, 2013: Female Member Of Knesset Receives "Death Threats" From Shas Supporters
Comments: 14 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , MO & Chardal , Sefardim
Member of Knesset Ayelet Shaked of the right wing Zionist Orthodox HaBayit HaYehudi party reportedly had to file a complaint with Knesset Security last night after she received what an “onslaught of threatening text messages” from supporters of the Sefardi...

May 8, 2013: The Evil Lead The Blind
Comments: 25 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Sefardim
On Monday, two Israeli haredi rabbis went on a mission to Bnei Brak to see 99-year-old haredi leader Aharon Leib Shteinman. Their goal? To make sure Sefardi haredi Chief Rabbi of Israel Shlomo Amar does not get a second term....

May 5, 2013: Former Chief Rabbi's Fraud Trial To Continue
Comments: 3 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Israel , MO & Chardal , Sefardim
Earlier today, the Jerusalem District Court rejected former Sefardi Chief Rabbi Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron’s attempt to throw out the fraud case against him on the grounds that the gathering of evidence against him violated general principles of justice. Former Sefardi Chief...

May 4, 2013: Deri 'Redeemed His Deposit' To Become Shas Party Chairman, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef Says
Comments: 0 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Sefardim
Aryeh Deri was the high-flying head of the Sefardi haredi Shas party until he was convicted in 1999 of taking $155,000 in bribes when he was Israel’s Interior Minister and served 22 months in prison. And now he leads Shas...

May 2, 2013: Sefardi Haredi Shas Party Appoints Convicted Felon As Party Head
Comments: 26 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Sefardim
Aryeh Deri returned to Shas in October 2012, having been forced in August 1999 to resign from the Knesset and his position as party chairman following his conviction for receiving a bribe, fraud and breach of trust – charges for...

April 28, 2013: Disaster At Mount Meron
Comments: 17 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Sefardim
"It wasn't a pretty picture. People charged at every bus that arrived, trampling each other. Some were injured and fainted. It's unclear what caused the failure." Disaster At Mount Meron Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com Last night and today, 300,000 Jews...

April 28, 2013: Drafting Haredim The Work Of Satan, Chief Rabbi Says
Comments: 21 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Religion , Sefardim
"For the sins of multitudes, folly entered the minds of the few – it is the work of the Satan. Our salvation is wholly dependent on the Torah. The Satan instilled in their minds the folly that putting an end...

April 23, 2013: Can A Synagogue Give A Known Pimp An Aliya?
Comments: 17 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Halakha , Haredim , Sefardim
Can a synagogue give a Torah honor to a known pimp? This question was asked of a gadol, leading haredi rabbi, and was answered. The answer may surprise you. Can a synagogue give a Torah honor to a known pimp?...

April 21, 2013: State Comptroller Reportedly Finds That Former Haredi Housing Minister Skewed Housing Programs To Favor Haredim, Hurt Secular Jews
Comments: 7 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Sefardim
A new report by Israel’s State Comptroller Yosef Shapira has reportedly found that former Housing Minister Ariel Atias of the Sefardi haredi Shas political party used undue influence to skew decisions made by Israel’s Land Authority. Atias allegedly forced the...

April 21, 2013: Police: Indict Haifa Chief Rabbi
Comments: 8 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Sefardim
Israel Police have reportedly told state prosecutors that Haifa's Chief Rabbi Shlomo Shlush, who also heads the state rabbinical courts in Northern Israel, should be prosecuted for bribery, fraud, breach of public trust, misuse of a public position and committing...

April 19, 2013: High Court Supports Sefardim In Words, But Not With Deeds
Comments: 5 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Haredim , Israel , Sefardim
Israel's High Court of Justice heard Sefardi petitioners yesterday who are upset that Ashkenazi haredi schools are still discriminating against Sefardi applicants, with some of these Ashkenazi haredi schools still having quotas in force that limit the number of Sefardi...

April 18, 2013: Netanyahu Will Soon Dump Secularists And Zionist Orthodoxs And Will Return Sefardi Haredi Shas Party To Power, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef Says
Comments: 30 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Religion , Sefardim
The Sefardi haredi leader also called Yesh Atid Party leader Yair Lapid "Asmodai," a "demon" who is one of the Seven Princes of Hell. Netanyahu Will Soon Dump Secularists And National Religious And Will Return Sefardi Haredi Shas Party To...

April 12, 2013: Baruch Dayan HaEmet: Rabbi Yaakov Yosef
Comments: 12 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Sefardim
66-year-old Rabbi Yaakov Yosef, the eldest son of Sefardi haredi leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, has reportedly passed away at Jerusalem's Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital after a long illness. Yaakov Yosef, who broke with his father and flirted with Chabad hasidut...

April 12, 2013: Video: "Haredi" Man Arrested At Kotel
Comments: 4 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Sefardim
The "haredi man" arrested Thursday at the Kotel (Western Wall) during the Women of the Wall prayer service for buring a "heretical" book police originally thought was a Women of the Wall prayerbook (but was, in reality, a Mormon missionary...

April 5, 2013: Man Sentenced For Organ Trafficking, Extortion
Comments: 6 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Israel , Med-Ethics , Sefardim
Sami Shem Tov gets a three-year sentence for extorting 'donors' and paying them as little as $2,000 to donate a kidney while at the same time charging recipients exponentially more money. Sami Shem Tov Man Sentenced For Organ Trafficking, Extortion...

March 22, 2013: High Court Rules Chief Rabbi, Rabbinic Courts, Knowingly Broke Law In Divorce Case
Comments: 3 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Religion , Sefardim , Women & Judaism
It was a judicial punch in the nose for Israel’s chief rabbis and rabbinical courts. Yesterday, a seven-judge panel of Israel’s High Court of Justice headed by the Court’s President Asher Grunis hit Israel’s haredi chief rabbis square on the...

March 21, 2013: Rabbi Ovadia Yosef Certifies Kosher For Passover Cigarettes
Comments: 24 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Kosher Scandal , Med-Ethics , Sefardim
For the first time ever, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef is putting his kosher supervision mark on Passover cigarettes – even though Yosef opposes smoking and urges people who smoke to quit. Rabbi Ovadia Yosef Rabbi Ovadia Yosef Certifies Kosher For Passoever...

March 20, 2013: How Haredim Ripped Off Israel
Comments: 11 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Sefardim
Mechir Lamishtaken [special deals for low income Israelis on mortgages] is one blatant illustration of the way Israeli politics has helped the haredim maintain themselves without working. The cheaper mortgage offered by the Housing Ministry…is given only to those who...

March 16, 2013: Video: More Than 1,000 Bags Of Shaimot Left On Lakewood Roadside
Comments: 24 | Categories: Books , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Sefardim
Rabbi Chaim Abadi, ordered by a judge to remove illegally buried bags of shaimot, dug up the bags – but left them laying by the side of a Lakewood, New Jersey road. By law, shaimot – old, damaged prayerbooks and...

March 13, 2013: Rabbi Who Stole His Own Community's Torah Scrolls 'Defrocked' By Chief Rabbis
Comments: 9 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , MO & Chardal , Sefardim
Israel’s haredi-controlled state-sponsored Chief Rabbinate announced today that Rabbi Yehuda Rosilio, the former rabbi of Moshav Brosh in southern Israel, has been ‘defrocked.’ Rosilio stole Torah scrolls from his own community’s synagogue and sold them. Mordechai Vaknin of Moshav Brosh...

March 13, 2013: Video: Sefardi Chief Rabbi Goes To Meet Members Of "Lost Tribe" Of Jews From India
Comments: 19 | Categories: Israel , Sefardim
Approximately 1700 Bnei Menashe from India now live in Israel. Over the past few months, 274 have immigrated to Israel. Israel's Sefardi Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar went the absorption center where the new Bnei Menashe immigrants are housed today to...

March 12, 2013: Israeli With No Passport Or ID Busted By Egypt As He Tried To Visit A Kabbalist’s Grave
Comments: 3 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal , Sefardim
The man claimed that he was on his way to the grave of kabbalist Rabbi Ya’akov Abuhatzeira in Alexandria. After stopping there, he said he planned to go to Morocco to visit the graves of various rabbis there. Israeli With...

March 11, 2013: Haredim Threaten To Launch A Shadow Religious Affairs System If New Government Doesn’t Comply With Haredi Demands
Comments: 9 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal , Religion , Sefardim
Because of the probable makeup of the new governing coalition, a number of reforms that weaken or end the haredi hegemony over religious affairs are considered likely, including expanding public transportation on Shabbat (the Jewish Sabbath), allowing civil marriage between...

March 7, 2013: Could A Plague Of Near-Biblical Proportion Ease Poor Israelis Hunger Pangs?
Comments: 20 | Categories: Halakha , Haredim , Israel , Kosher Scandal , Sefardim
As locusts descend on Southern Israel, controversy erupts over whether or not the winged pests are kosher to eat. Above right: A file photo of one type of locust used for illustrative purposes only Could A Plague Of Near-Biblical Proportion...

March 5, 2013: Botched Circumcision Leads To Lawsuit, Reconstructive Surgery
Comments: 14 | Categories: Circumcision , Sefardim
Rabbi Mordechai Rachminov allegedly sliced off part of a baby boy’s corona glandis, the circumference of the base of the head of the penis in human males which forms a rounded projecting border, during the boy’s brit milah in the...

March 4, 2013: Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto To Be Questioned By Israeli Police In US
Comments: 8 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Sefardim
Israel police investigators are reportedly about to fly to the US to interrogate Pinto another time and to take a statement from him alleging that the police officer was extorting him – this despite the fact that police have the...

February 12, 2013: Some Leading American Haredi Rabbis Condemn Abuchatzeira Amuka $$$ For Marriage Scam
Comments: 11 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Religion , Sefardim
A small number of the leading haredi rabbis in the US (and one Sefardi kabbalist from Israel) have condemned the promises of marriages for dollars made by Sefardi kabbalist Rabbi Yechiel Abuchatzeira. Missing from list of rabbis condemning Abuchatzeira's scam...

February 11, 2013: Blow Shofars, Pay Money And Kabbalist Will Get You Married
Comments: 18 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Sefardim
They would blow 1,000 shofars, encircle the building seven times and recite penitential prayers led by a master of Jewish mysticism. They would scream and they would sing. They had come to harness the power of a dead rabbi, Yonatan...

February 2, 2013: Netanyahu Doesn’t Want Haredim In Government, Shas Says, But He Also Doesn’t Want Civil War
Comments: 14 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Religion , Sefardim
The co-head of the Sefardi haredi Shas Party Eli Yishai said he believes Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu wants to form a new government without Shas. Speaking on Israel’s Channel 2 tonight, Yishai reportedly said he believed that there was only...

February 2, 2013: Shimon Peres Won’t Intercede On Haredi Military Draft Issue
Comments: 3 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Religion , Sefardim
Israel’s President Shimon Peres will not become involved in negotiating a compromise between haredi leaders who oppose haredim being drafted into the military and the state, despite a personal request from old friend Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the founder and spiritual...

January 25, 2013: Ashkenazi And Sefardi Haredim To Form United Negotiating Bloc
Comments: 4 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Sefardim
Leaders of the Sefrardi haredi Shas and the Ashkenazi haredi United Torah Judaism (UTJ) political parties told Israeli media today that they would band together into a negotiating bloc to try to blunt the influence of Yair Lapid’s Yesh Atid...

January 22, 2013: Manhattan's 16th Street Synagogue Evicted
Comments: 7 | Categories: MO & Chardal , Religion , Sefardim
"The locks were changed and a legal possession notice was posted today at 3 West 16th Street — marking the long-fought eviction of the Sixteenth Street Synagogue from its home of 67 years, The Real Deal has learned. The eviction...

January 21, 2013: Shas Caught Intentionally Violating Election Law Again, Is Fined
Comments: 1 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Sefardim
The head of Israel’s Central Election Committee Justice Elyakim Rubinstein fined the Sefardi haredi Shas political party NIS 37,000 ($10,000) today for intentionally violating Israel’s election law by giving away amulets and offering blessings in return for votes. Shas Caught...

January 20, 2013: Rabbi Ovadia Yosef’s Books Burned, Police Investigate
Comments: 8 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Sefardim
Police reportedly believe that the books were burned as part of the internecine fighting between Sephardi haredi rabbis caused by Rabbi Amnon Yitzhak’s rebellion against Yosef and Shas. Rabbi Ovadia Yosef Rabbi Ovadia Yosef’s Books Burned, Police Investigate Shmarya Rosenberg...

January 19, 2013: Rabbi Ovadia Yosef Calls Zionist Orthodox Party “Goyyim” Who Want To “Abolish The Torah”
Comments: 14 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal , Sefardim
The spiritual leader of the Sefardi haredi Shas political party Rabbi Ovadia Yosef attacked the right wing Zionist Orthodox Habayit Hayehudi party Saturday night, calling it a party of “goyyim” that wants to "abolish the Torah.” Rabbi Ovadia Yosef Rabbi...

January 18, 2013: Shas Caught In Alleged "Amulets" For Votes Scam
Comments: 6 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Sefardim
The Sefardi haredi Shas party has allegedly violated Israel's elections law again by modifying a traveler's prayer card to turn it into an amulet that appears to offer Rabbi Ovadia Yosef's special blessing in return for voting for Shas. Rabbi...

January 18, 2013: Haredi Robo Call Promises You Will Get Married This Year – If You Press 1 Now
Comments: 14 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Religion , Sefardim
A haredi robo call from 386-506-8669 promises singles that they will get married this year – if you press 1 now. The "holy mekubal Rabbi Yechiel Abuchatzeira, shlita" guarantees it. Rabbi Yechiel Abuchatzeira This appears to be the Yad L'Achim...

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 15, 2013: Rumble In Beit Shemesh: Tear Gas Sprayed To Disrupt Gathering Of Rabbi Amnon Yitzhak’s Supporters As Yeshiva Students Opposed To Yitzhak Clash With Attendees
Comments: 10 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Sefardim
Unidentified people sprayed tear gas in the Beit Shemesh hall where the flamboyant Yemenite kiruv (missionary, outreach) rabbi turned politician Amnon Yitzhak was about to talk last night. About 300 people were reportedly in the hall waiting for Yitzhak to...

January 13, 2013: Shas Leader's Stroke Caused By Worry Over Haredi Draft, Shas Pol Says
Comments: 22 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Sefardim
The spiritual leader and founder of the Sefardi haredi Shas political party Rabbi Ovadia Yosef had a small stroke over Shabbat. Shas' co-chairman Eli Yishai claimed today that Yosef had the stroke because he was worried about haredi yeshiva students...

January 13, 2013: Rabbi Ovadia Yosef Released From Hospital After Suffering Minor Stroke
Comments: 2 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Sefardim
Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the 92-year-old founder and spiritual leader of the Sefardi haredi Shas political party, was released from hospital today. He was rushed to hospital Saturday morning after collapsing in his synagogue. His symptoms – including numbness of a...

January 12, 2013: Rabbi Ovadia Yosef Has Minor Stroke, At First Refuses To Go To Hospital On Shabbat
Comments: 13 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Sefardim
The Sefardi haredi Shas political party’s founder and spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef had what is being called a minor stroke on Shabbat and was rushed to Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem – but only after waiting hours because he did...

January 10, 2013: Religious Freedom Group Seeks To Ban Broadcasts Of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef’s Torah Classes
Comments: 7 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Religion , Sefardim
Hiddush reportedly labeled the Torah lessons by Yosef – Shas’s founder and spiritual leader – campaign advertising and proposed recording the lessons and broadcasting them after all the campaign content had been removed, apparently as an option to be considered...

January 10, 2013: Kabbalists Happy Because They Get To Roll Naked In The Snow To Atone For Sins, Israeli Rabbi Says
Comments: 40 | Categories: Haredim , Homophobia and its Discontents , Israel , Pedophilia & Related Crimes , Sefardim
Snow has a more personal meaning to kabbalsits, Rabbi Yitzhak Batzri also noted, because they have the rare opportunity to perform a kabbalistic atonement ritual, tikkun gilgul sheleg – immersing oneself naked in snow and rolling front and back a...

January 10, 2013: Israel Opens Health Clinic For African Refugees, Then Makes Arrests Of Refugees Just Outside It
Comments: 14 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Haredim , Israel , Refugees , Religion , Sefardim , Xenophobia
After Ichilov Hospital got caught last summer trying to separate African “migrants” from Israelis in its clinics and wards, a Health Ministry committee decided that an urgent care clinic should be opened to serve the African refugees. To its credit,...

January 10, 2013: Sefardi Haredi Shas Party Pulls Bigoted Anti-Russian Campaign Ad
Comments: 12 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Haredim , Israel , Sefardim
"The broadcast doesn't say a bad word about anyone. Intermarriage and fictitious conversions can lead to assimilation and the loss of the state's Jewish identity. A country fighting against mixed marriages abroad cannot allow them to occur on its soil."...

January 9, 2013: Video: Deeply Offensive And Bigoted Shas Campaign Ad Draws Widespread Criticism
Comments: 22 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Haredim , Israel , Religion , Sefardim
The Sefardi haredi Shas political party continued its race-baiting, bigoted and divisive election campaign ads by debuting a new television commercial meant as an attack against Russian immigrants to Israel – and against the Russian-led Yisrael Beiteinu political party that...

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