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Sex-Abuse Statute Bill Clears Hurdle

Satmar, others tried to block bill.

Haredi Rabbi To Block Pope From Wearing Cross At Western Wall

Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch has a history of rudeness to Christian clergy visiting the holy site.

THEY DO REPRESENT YOU, RABBI HOROWITZ

Who bears responsibility for haredi modesty squads?

Childhood Sex Abuse Bill Passes Hurdle in N.Y. Assembly Committee

The real hurdle is yet to come.

Postville Mayor Out, Town's Radio Station On The Brink Of Closing

City council accepts the mayor's resignation (exclusively reported here last week), and Postville's public radio station may close due to lack of community support.

Video: The New Kosher Meat Scandal

Angry customers attack restaurant employee.

GUEST POST: Combating Kiruv Movement Wikipedia Censorship

Orthodox censors whitewash NCSY scandals, criticism.

New Treife Meat Scandal Rocks Brooklyn

Or does it? Early reports of treife meat sold in a Borough Park restaurant false.

Agriprocessors Trial Update

Attorneys spar over undocumented worker witnesses.

Does Organized Crime Use Haredi Yeshivas To Smuggle Drugs?

Satmar yeshiva students claim they thought they were smuggling antiques to avoid paying taxes.

Child Sexual Abuse: What You Should Do Today To Help

One phone call could save hundreds of kids.

Modesty Patrol Thug Gets 4 Years

Other thugs and modesty patrol leaders escape indictment due to police "errors."

Wife Of Horrific Haredi Child Abuser: "Those children were animals.…We made human beings out of them."

Satmar provided help and sanctuary in Brazil.

NY Community Leader Mark Appel Endorses Bill To Double Statute Of Limitations For Sexual Abuse

Faults Agudath Israel of America, Satmar, Catholic Church for trying to block bill.

Scientists Locate 'God Spot' in Human Brain

Science can't say whether God represents a loving, vengeful or nonexistent being. But researchers have revealed for the first time how such religious beliefs trigger different parts of the brain.

MO Rabbis Ethics Initiative Draws Cheers, Criticism

California initiative launched early this month.

Identity-Theft Arrest in Dispute Over Dead Sea Scrolls

Scholar's son's actions similar to what 5WPR did to critics of Agriprocessors and Rubashkin.

Iowa Toughens Child Labor, Wage Laws In Reaction To Agriprocessors Scandal

Agriprocessors' alleged child labor violations and shorting of wages and overtime prompt Iowa to toughen law.

POPE: I Screwed Up

Pope admits he mishandled Holocaust-denying bishop.

RCA RENEGES ON CONVERSION DEAL, INVALIDATES PREVIOUS CONVERSION

Conversion done by Rabbi Avi Weiss before new haredi-inspired conversion standards went into effect  last year. RCA stridently claimed that past conversions valid.

Idan Raichel Project Live NYC

Israel's most innovative world beat musicians come to NYC.

NY TIMES: Satmar, Sefardim Lobby Against Bill To Extend Statute Of Limitations For Child Sexual Abuse

Satmar, Sefardim, Church oppose bill to aid victims.

Holding A Hand To Save A Life

Should you help a child cross the street by holding his hand?

Women Prevented From Crying, Mourning, Approaching Graves By Haredim In Yavne, Israel

Women are "impure" because of menstruation and according to the "Jewish religion" are prohibited from approaching  graves.

Rabbi Guilty

Rabbi Israel Weingarten faces 50 years in federal prison for transporting his daughter across state lines and internationally to rape, sodomize, and abuse her.

Sunday: Confronting Child Sexual Abuse In The Jewish Community

Program features Rabbi Mark Dratch, Michael Lesher, Eliot Pasik, Dr. Rachel Yehuda, Rabbi Dr. Michael Kaplowitz, and Rabbi Fred Hyman.

NY Sex Abuse Survivors Push For Change In Statute Of Limitations

Studies show victim of childhood sexual abuse can't come forward for decades after the abuse occurred.

Esti Mamo, Shushan Purim Queen

Ethiopian Jewish model Esti Mamo is our Shushan Purim queen.

Survivors For Justice To Lobby Albany Tomorrow

They've chartered buses. You can still join them.

Pope To Visit Israel, Refuses To Enter Yad Vashem

The Pope will pray at the Holocaust memorial at Yad Vashem, but refuses to enter Yad Vashem's Holocaust museum.

Esti Ginzburg, Purim Queen

Exclusive image of FailedMessiah's Purim Queen 2009.

Haredim Turn In Molester

Chances are, the man has no yichus, though.

Rabbi's Daughter Claims Mother, Not Father, Sexual Abuser

Judge: This is not Jerry Springer!

EXCLUSIVE: Agriprocessors HR Director Elizabeth Billmeyer Barred From Agriprocessors By Trustee

Agriprocessors' HR Director Billmeyer is said to have been locked out of Agriprocessors today on the order of trustee Joseph Sarachek. Why?

EXCLUSIVE: POSTVILLE MAYOR RESIGNS

Robert Penrod resigns after city employees draft letter critical of mayor. Resignation, given orally, not official until put in writing.

Purim

Everything you never wanted to know about Purim, posted just in time for carnival.

UK Haredi Rabbis Warn Of "Unsuitable" Child Abuse Training

Haredi rabbis worry material is presented in an unsuitable way, poses "danger," want haredim to seek "Daas Torah."

BREAKING! RUBASHKIN ANTISEMITISM CLAIM DENIED

“It is the court’s firm conviction that there was no impropriety….defendants have mischaracterized and taken out of context…innocuous statements and questions.”

Survivors For Justice To Send Busloads To Lobby Albany

On March 11, Shushan Purim, there will be buses of children's advocates leaving New York City to lobby for an extension to the statue of limitations. Please join us!

Ex-Wife: Rabbi Half-Nude With Our Daughter

The ex-wife of a rabbi accused of molesting his daughter testified Thursday that she found them together in bed, and the teen revealed that she had been sexually abused.

Accused Perv Rabbi Grills Sobbing Daughter In Court

Rabbi Weingarten brings the daughter he allegedly repeatably raped over many years to tears.

Will Agriprocessors Trustee Take Over Rubashkin Real Estate Companies?

Should Joseph Sarachek be allowed to become Nevel Properties trustee?

"Hitler's Pope" Saved Jews, Newly Found Document Allegedly Proves

"The Holy Father wants to save his children, including the Jews, and orders that hospitality be shown to these persecuted people in the convents."

Court Rules Vatican Can Be Sued For Clergy Abuse

Vatican can appeal ruling to US Supreme Court.

Abuse: Religious Communities Slow To Uproot Cultures of Silence

“Blogs. That’s what’s going to change it. “There are no secrets in the world of the Internet. You can’t control it, you can’t stop them.”

Prosecution Seeks Maximum Sentence For Modesty Squad Thug

Buzaglo beat and threatened a woman who did not meet the squad's standards of modesty.

Agriprocessors Supervisor Gets 2 Year Sentence

De La Rosa pleaded guilty to one count of aiding and abetting the harboring of undocumented aliens.

Lakewood Drug OD Was Abuse Victim

Did molestation drive Shua Finkelstein to overdose?

Action, Not Talk, Needed In Combating Sexual Abuse

Victims do not need a day of prayer.

Israel's Chief Rabbinate May Allow Civil Marriage

But "mixed marriages" between Jews and non-Jews will not be allowed, Chief Rabbi Rabbi Yona Metzger said.