170 posts categorized "Turf Disputes"

March 10, 2013: Haredim Prepare To Exact Revenge On Zionist Orthodox
Comments: 17 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal , Religion , Turf Disputes
As it looks more and more like haredi political parties will be excluded from the new coalition government, haredi political leaders have begun to plot revenge on Zionist Orthodox Jews, because the Zionist Orthodox HaBayit HaYehudi party is, in their...

February 13, 2013: After 8 Years, Warring Bobov Hasidic Factions Settle Half Of Dispute
Comments: 20 | Categories: Haredim , Turf Disputes
In a special zabloh-style beit din, the two warring Bobov hasidic factions settled their fight over who can – and who cannot – use the Bobov name. But what about their fight over money and property? Inside the main Bobov...

January 6, 2013: Jewish Settlers Riot In Two Arab Villages, Arabs Respond With Rocks
Comments: 5 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Israel , MO & Chardal , Turf Disputes , Xenophobia
Approximately 20 Jewish settlers rioted in the West Bank Arab village of Jallud near Ramallah Wednesday, reportedly shattering windows of one village's home and assaulting three of its residents. The settlers then reportedly vandalized a car parked near the home...

January 2, 2013: Rabbi Allegedly Resigns From RCA Over Chabad Shul "Stealing" Imbroglio, Leaked Emails Show
Comments: 30 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , MO & Chardal , Turf Disputes
"I have decided to withdraw my membership from the RCA and this group. The reasons for my decision are detailed below. I will first write the short reasons. Anyone interested in the full story can read the details which follow...

December 31, 2012: Masked Men Break Into Office Of Haredi Breakaway Faction Member On Shabbat
Comments: 5 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Turf Disputes
The office of Rabbi Menachem Carmel, a member of Rabbi Shmuel Auerbach's Netzach ultra-conservative breakaway faction from United Torah Judaism, was broken into on Shabbat. Apparently only documents related to UTJ housing deals from Carmel's days as UTJ's housing point...

November 26, 2012: Reform Claims Orthodox Started Fake Reform Synagogue To Deceive Government
Comments: 27 | Categories: Haredim , MO & Chardal , Turf Disputes
The Reform Movement in Europe claims that an Orthodox group in Poland started a fake "independent" Reform synagogue that is not in any way Reform or Progressive. The Orthodox allegedly did this to appear to be pluralistic in the hope...

November 1, 2012: Chabad Allegedly Violates Beit Din Restraining Order, Destroys Synagogue's Property In Bid To Evict
Comments: 53 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Turf Disputes
"…Cheder Lubavitch and their Dean had our expensive Shul steel sign sawed off and confiscated (stole) it. They also removed and took our printed signs and posters by the other doors and took down the Marque. This is in direct...

September 11, 2012: Kiryas Joel Dissidents Lose Appeal
Comments: 45 | Categories: Haredim , Turf Disputes
The ruling, which was handed down yesterday, rejected dissidents’ argument that Kiryas Joel should be dissolved because Kiryas Joel leaders discriminate against the dissidents and trample the Establishment Clause of the Constitution, which mandates separation of church and state. Kiryas...

August 29, 2012: Despite Government’s Claims To The Contrary, New City “For All Israelis” Is Designed To Attract Haredim And Repel Everyone Else
Comments: 19 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Turf Disputes
"The plans have not been adapted to the secular population from the outset. Buyers will come and see neighborhoods planned with synagogues, mikvas, four-story buildings lacking elevators, and barely one parking space per unit. What business would they have here?"...

August 15, 2012: Man Claims Haredi Pol Barred His Daughter From School In Kindergarten Turf War
Comments: 8 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Turf Disputes
A haredi resident of the Israeli haredi city of Elad claims the city's haredi deputy mayor, who is also a rabbi, blocked the man's daughter from enrolling in first grade in a haredi school as revenge for the man opening...

August 8, 2012: Report: Former Head Of The Beit Din Of America The Frontrunner For Chief Rabbi Of Britain Job
Comments: 44 | Categories: Haredim , MO & Chardal , Turf Disputes
In what is being called a “surprise twist,” an American, Emory University law professor Rabbi Michael Broyde, is now the frontrunner to fill the soon-to-be-vacant position of Chief Rabbi of Great Britain. Report: Former Head Of The Beit Din Of...

July 30, 2012: Does Evidence Uncovered In A London Trial Show That Chabad Helped Its Patron Oligarch Steal More Than $1 Billion?
Comments: 7 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Turf Disputes
That is essentially the claim made by billionaire Arcadi Gaydamak, who accuses Chabad's chief rabbi of Russia Berel Lazar, another prominent Chabad rabbi in Russia, David Mondshine, and the Chabad-founded and Chabad-controlled Federation of Jewish Communities in Russia with lying,...

July 4, 2012: Stealing Rav Kook
Comments: 22 | Categories: Haredim , History , Israel , MO & Chardal , Turf Disputes
Will Palestine’s first Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi be homeless? If haredim linked to former haredi leader Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv prevail, he may be. Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak HaKohen Kook in 1924 Palestine Will Haredim Steal The Home Of Pre-State Israel’s First...

June 13, 2012: RCA Rebels Decry Shift To The Left
Comments: 29 | Categories: MO & Chardal , Turf Disputes
R ebels seeking to oust much of the Rabbinical Council of America's current moderate leadership allegedly oppose the proposed hiring of Rabbi Mark Dratch, founder of the anti-child sexual abuse organization J-Safe, as the Centrist Orthodox organization's executive vice president,...

June 6, 2012: Kiryas Joel Satmer Files $50 Million Lawsuit Against Ulster County
Comments: 39 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Turf Disputes
Satmar hasidim loyal to the Kiryas Joel Satmar Rebbe, Aaron Teitelbaum, filed a lawsuit late last week against Ulster County, New York, after county officials handed control of four Satmar summer camps to the Satmar faction led by the Williamsburg...

May 9, 2012: Zalman Bests Aaron In Satmar Camp Turf War – At Least For Now
Comments: 13 | Categories: Haredim , Turf Disputes
Zalman Teitelbaum's Satmar faction will continue to operate four childrens camps in Ulster County, New York despite his brother Aaron's claim that half of those camps belong to his faction. Ulster County has now refused to decide the fight between...

May 6, 2012: Politicians Take Sides In Satmar Turf War
Comments: 49 | Categories: Haredim , Turf Disputes
Sleazy Brooklyn Democratic party boss and Assemblyman Vito Lopez is going to bat for Zalman Teitelbaum. Rep. Nydia Velazquez, a Democrat whose district was just redrawn to include hasidic Williamsburg, is backing Teitelbaum’s older brother, Aaron. At stake? Millions of...

May 6, 2012: Chabad Is Rude, Neighbors Says
Comments: 42 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Turf Disputes
Years of littering and swarms of rude visitors to the Rebbe's grave has a group of Cambria Heights residents fighting Chabad's expansion plan. They say visitors park in front of their driveways, leave trash strewn about the street and hog...

April 3, 2012: Court Stops Chabad Attempt To Seize Synagogue – For Now
Comments: 60 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Turf Disputes
Rabbi Faivish Dalfin, a Chabad shaliach, allegedly tried to steal HaRambam synagogue. A Miami Beach court has temporarily blocked him.

February 24, 2012: Video: Fistfight In 770
Comments: 74 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Turf Disputes
Students from Chabad's yeshiva in Tzefat, Israel – known for believing Chabad's later rebbe, dead since 1994, is actually alive, well and living in 770 Eastern Parkway – spark more fighting in Chabad's main synagogue in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Originally...

February 3, 2012: Jerusalem's "Jews Only" Public Parking Lot Causes Outrage
Comments: 19 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Israel , Religion , Turf Disputes
Armenian residents of Jerusalem's Old City are outraged over the city government's decision to designate a parking lot in the area for Jewish use only, although part of it stands on land belongs to the Armenian Patriarchate. Jerusalem's Armenians outraged...

January 23, 2012: "Take Back" Crown Heights
Comments: 40 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Chabad , Haredim , Turf Disputes
"Friends, we pay a premium to live in this neighborhood, and we strive to create an atmosphere of holiness and kedusha for our children and teens. These yuppies bring pritzus to our neighborhood. They come out at night to our...

December 10, 2011: City Residents Battle To Keep Karmiel Secular
Comments: 18 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal , Religion , Turf Disputes
Residents of Karmiel's Meyasdim neighborhood are furious over the transfer of an abandoned school compound to the Keren Or Yeshiva, run by the city's stae-funded haredi chief rabbi, which they see as a sign of haredim gaining a foothold in...

December 4, 2011: Kiryas Joel Sues Neighbor Over Zoning
Comments: 23 | Categories: Antisemitism , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Turf Disputes
To ease the population crush, Kiryas Joel hasidim want to expand to neighboring Woodbury. Allegedly to prevent this, Woodbury adopted zoning regulations that forbid the type of dense housing that Kiryas Joel has, favoring instead single family homes spaced on...

December 2, 2011: Cops Make First Major Arrest In Violent Haredi Gang War
Comments: 19 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Turf Disputes
According to the indictment, a mob of some 100 Sicarii men led by Yosef Meir Hazan and Shalom Baruch Rost came to a Ger hasidic family's house on a Friday night to evict them. The mob allegedly threw rocks at...

December 1, 2011: Police Make Wave Of Arrests In Response To Mea Shearim Violence
Comments: 38 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Turf Disputes
10 Gerrer hasidim and 15 Sicarii members busted on charges of rioting and damaging private property, cops say. Haredim burn garbage and block street in Mea Shearim, Jerusalem Police Make Wave Of Arrests In Response To Mea Shearim Violence 10...

November 11, 2011: Haredi Gang War Continues – Gerrer Hasid Beaten By Sicarii In Beit Shemesh
Comments: 31 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Turf Disputes
A Gerrer hasid tried to stop two Sicarii members from posting signs from Eidah Charedit condemning Gerrer violence against the Sicarii. The two haredi groups are fighting for control over the Batei Warsaw houses in Mea Shearim. Both Ger and...

November 7, 2011: Kiryas Joel Sues Neighbor
Comments: 34 | Categories: Haredim , Turf Disputes
The Village of Kiryas Joel is suing its neighbor, the Town of Woodbury to dismantle its zoning laws, accusing Woodbury of discriminating against hasidic Jews by not allowing dense housing in an area where the hasidic community hopes to expand....

October 29, 2011: Live: Women To The Back Of The Bus
Comments: 38 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Turf Disputes , Women & Judaism
The reporters who broke the Brooklyn B-110 segregation story will talk about the forced gender segregation and a deputy mayor of Jerusalem will talk about the violence between the the Sicarii and Gerrer hasidim tonight on the radio. SASHA CHAVKIN...

October 28, 2011: Haredi Violence Rocks Mea Shearim
Comments: 19 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Turf Disputes
Residents of the Mea She'arim neighborhood in Jerusalem fear the violence that has erupted between two ultra-Orthodox sects will grow and complain the police are not protecting them. Violence between ultra-Orthodox sects rocks Jerusalem neighborhood A group of Hasidim brutally...

October 26, 2011: Haredi Gang Beats Jew With Clubs And Spikes
Comments: 54 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Turf Disputes
Avraham Hirschman was walking home to Batei Warsaw in Mea Shearim. But he didn't make it. Ten masked haredim jumped out of a truck and beat Hirschman with clubs and metal spikes, leaving him lying in the street in a...

September 27, 2011: The Grinch Who Is Trying To Steal Yom Kippur
Comments: 45 | Categories: Chabad , Turf Disputes
A powerful rabbi is acting like the Grinch who stole Yom Kippur -- slapping the congregation of Lubavitch World Headquarters with an eviction notice right before the high holy days. Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky, leader of the Chabad Lubavitch movement, served...

September 26, 2011: A Haredi Leader Explains Why He Will Not Publicly Condemn Haredi Violence
Comments: 67 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Extreme Sniut , Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal , Turf Disputes
Rabbi Chaim Malinowitz is a rabbi in Beit Shemesh, a hotbed of haredi violence. He's also the general editor of Artscroll's Talmud series. Beit Shemesh has seen haredi thugs attack and beat Modern Orthodox teens, stone little Modern Orthodox boys,...

September 25, 2011: "Official" Chabad Tries To Evict Messianists
Comments: 23 | Categories: Chabad , Turf Disputes
Chabad's "official" leadership again tries to evict the messianists who control the main Chabad synagogue at Chabad's World Headquarters, 770 Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn, New York. But there's one important fact to know about this looming court case you probably...

September 2, 2011: Leaked US Govt Cable Exposes Chabad Misconduct In Russia
Comments: 24 | Categories: Chabad , Court Jews , Turf Disputes
The cable, released by Wikileaks, points out 'chief rabbi' Berel Lazar's dishonesty and his use of Chabad to damage a Jewish oligarch who supported democracy and opposed Vladimir Putin. Vladimir Putin, left; Rabbi Berel Lazar; right First, here's a key...

August 21, 2011: Chabad Turf War, Part 2
Comments: 6 | Categories: Chabad , Turf Disputes
As two Chabad rabbis fight over turf, a document surfaces that appears to show one of them refused to allow a Chabad rabbinic court to decide the issue. The letter as a PDF file: Download Telsner Groner Letter to Krinsky...

August 19, 2011: Chabad Turf War
Comments: 31 | Categories: Chabad , Turf Disputes
A dispute between two rabbis has erupted in Surfers Paradise over who should represent the Chabad-Lubavitch movement on Australia's Gold Coast. Rabbi Nir Gurevitch In-fighting plagues Gold Coast shuls JOSHUA LEVI • Australian Jewish News A DISPUTE between two rabbis...

August 2, 2011: Satmar Succession Battle Back In Federal Court
Comments: 22 | Categories: Haredim , Turf Disputes
The succession battle between two brothers to be the leader of an ultra-orthodox Jewish sect is back in the courts. The brothers, Zalman and Aaron Teitelbaum, have been fighting for years in religious and state civil courts to determine who...

August 1, 2011: US. Iraq Clash Over Jewish Treasures
Comments: 4 | Categories: History , Turf Disputes
Ranging from a medieval religious book to children's Hebrew primers, from photos to Torah cases, the collection is testimony to a once vibrant Jewish community in Baghdad. It was discovered in a sewage-filled basement used by Saddam Hussein's secret police....

March 10, 2011: Chabad Rabbi's Plan To Steal Manhattan Synagogue Thwarted
Comments: 46 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Turf Disputes
“To [deceptively] recruit 100 members cost [Rabbi Simon Jacobson] $32,500. In return, he could have gained control of Manhattan real estate worth millions.” Battle for Historic Lower East Side Synagogue Ends With Old Guard in Charge After First Leadership Election...

February 26, 2011: Kick Them When They're Down
Comments: 8 | Categories: Jewish Leadership , Kosher Scandal , Media & Media Criticism , MO & Chardal , Turf Disputes
The OU proves again that it is an amoral (if not immoral) organization. I received the following email Friday from a person promoting a new OU initiative for – not by – students: Dear Shmarya, In response to your post...

February 1, 2011: Chabad Rabbis Sues Synagogue For Wrongful Dismissal
Comments: 42 | Categories: Chabad , Turf Disputes
Rabbi Yossi Engel, a Brooklyn, N.Y., native who served at the Adelaide Hebrew Congregation for seven years until his contract ended in 2006, is claiming more than $600,000 in compensation. Engel believes his termination was a breach of halakha, or...

December 4, 2010: Holtzberg Family's Role In Chabad Of Mumbai Ended With Murders, Chabad Says
Comments: 8 | Categories: Chabad , Turf Disputes
Chabad moves to take Nariman House away from Moshe Holtzberg, the only surviving member of his immediate family to survive the terror attack that killed his parents and four others two years ago. ‘Trusteeship ended with Rabbi’ By Ashutosh Shukla...

November 28, 2010: Terror Ravaged Mumbai Chabad House Sits Empty As Chabad Tries To Block Holtzberg And Rosenberg Family Members From Access
Comments: 14 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Turf Disputes
The reconstruction of Mumbai's Chabad House has been halted and the Bombay High Court has taken possession of the building that became a symbol of the terror attack — which began two years ago Friday — as the parents of...

November 26, 2010: The "Best Revenge" Will Be Moshe Returning To Mumbai As Rabbi Of Chabad House
Comments: 5 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Terrorism , Turf Disputes
The Holtzberg family trust wants Nariman House to be an innovative Jewish education centre for children, with Moshe's room preserved as it is. Freida denied that there was any monetary dispute. "This is not about funds but principles. Chabad wants...

November 24, 2010: Part 4: What Did Chabad Do With The Mumbai Money?
Comments: 15 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Terrorism , Turf Disputes
As part of a "rapid increase" in Jewish services in the terror-stricken financial capital of Mumbai, India, Jewish community officials are placing the final touches on a restored mikva built by the murdered directors of the city’s Chabad House, Rabbi...

November 24, 2010: Part Three: The New York Times On The Dispute Over Mumbai's Chabad House
Comments: 19 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Terrorism , Turf Disputes
“I want it to come back and have it be better and bigger,” Rabbi Holtzberg said. He added that he waited a year and a half for the Chabad-Lubavitch movement to start renovations and when it did not, he and...

November 24, 2010: Mumbai Chabad House "Home" For Baby Moshe, Holtzbergs Say
Comments: 5 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Terrorism , Turf Disputes
Baby Moshe, the cherubic face of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, still remembers his slain parents, Rabbi Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg, and considers the Chabad House here as his home even as he grows up in Israel, his grandparents said...

November 24, 2010: Part Two: Is Chabad Stealing Millions Of Dollars From The Fund Meant To Rebuild Terror Ravaged Chabad House And Care For Its Infant Survivor?
Comments: 35 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Turf Disputes
The father of slain Chabad Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg says Chabad is stealing millions of dollars donated to rebuild Nariman House and care for his tiny grandson. Chabad denies this. The dispute became public when Chabad first sued Rabbi Holtzberg's representative...

October 17, 2010: Satmar Succession Battle Heats Up, Riots Feared
Comments: 41 | Categories: Haredim , Turf Disputes
The scandal engulfing Assemblyman Vito Lopez -- the most powerful ally of Rabbi Zalman Teitelbaum's faction -- has created a window of opportunity for the faction led by older brother Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum to capture the highly coveted Williamsburg congregation...

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