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Agudah Pulls Shafran Columns Over Child Sex Abuse Stories

Grants exclusivity to competing newspaper with little coverage of the haredi sex abuse issue.

Haredi Kiruv Rabbi Advocates Suicide For Homosexuals

Homosexuals are better off dead than alive, unless they can be readily 'cured.'

Postville Lag Ba'Omer Parade Video: "Agendas Destroy" Postville

An "old" Postville tradition? Or an excuse to avoid communal responsibility?

A Warning About Civility

Argue with facts, not ad hominem attacks.

$1 Million Donated To Postville Relief Since Raid

Private donations far outstrip any government aid.

Ohel Calls For ‘Collective Action’ On Pedophile Problem

Ohel statement long on hyperbole, short on concrete tangible action.

Rabbi Protests Scantily Clad Dummies

Threatens to revoke kosher supervision of stores displaying immodest mannequins.

These Kosher Inspectors Stay Out Of The Kitchen

Does Tav HaYosher really do anything?

Attorney General Orders Probe Of Rabbis Who Tricked Mentally Handicapped Woman Into Divorcing Her Husband

Investigation of rabbinical judges called "rare."

Postville Anniversary Video

What is the lesson of Postville?

FailedMessiah – The Interview

Michael Croland asks Shmarya Rosenberg about Agriprocessors one year after.

YU Chancellor: Reform and Conservative Judaism Dead

Haredim and Modern Orthodox will control Judaism in the near future.

VATICAN LIES: Pope Was "Never, Never, Never" In Hitler Youth

But the Pope's autobiography says he was a Hitler Youth member.

Why Has The Government Not Charged Agriprocessors With Civil Rights Violations?

Could it be because of this?

Government Wants To Drop Rubashkin Identity Theft Charges

Supreme Court ruling, prosecutorial failures damage aggravated identity theft charges.

Haredi Kiruv Organization Censors Women's Pictures

Kiruv, Taliban-style.

Agriprocessors Trustee: No Date For Sale, $10 Million Debt Buy One Step In A Long Process

"This has been, in my 22 years of doing this, one of the most difficult, challenging, convoluted bankruptcies that I've ever dealt with," Sarachek said.

EXCLUSIVE: The Man Who Bought Agriprocessors $10 Million Line of Credit – Updated

How much did he really pay? Is he a union buster?

Jews Believe The World Is 5769 Years Old – Or Do We?

Every Jewish calendar says this is the 5769th year from creation. But is it? More importantly, did Jews always count years this way?

Was The Biblical Canon Chosen To Exclude Temple Tradition?

Did rabbis go as far as changing the dates of holidays in a bid to destroy Temple-based Judaism?

Postville One Year After

Two reports from Iowa on Agriprocessors, the town, the landlords, and the people decimated by the Rubashkins and the raid.

Rich Jew Threatens Poor Blogger With Big Lawsuit

Guma Aguiar didn't like Rabbi Daniel Eidensohn's reporting about him on the Daas Torah blog, especially Aguiar's former connection to haredi conversion partisan Rabbi Leib Tropper, and his current connection to Chabad.

Chabad Rabbi: Church Helped Nazis Kill Jews, Do Not Welcome, Honor or Meet With Pope

Rabbi Sholom DovBer Wolpe, leader of Chabad's messianist faction in Israel, condemns Church and Pope.

Weingarten Gets 30 Years

Satmar rabbi raped his own daughter.

Book Chronicles Haredi Sexual Abuse And Coverups

And it is the coverups that are the most troubling.

Rabbi Who Raped His Own Daughter To be Sentenced Today

Could get 14 to 17 1/2 years in prison.

Rubashkin Wants Aggravated Identity Theft Charges Dropped

Say Supreme Court ruing should invalidate charges against him.

Agriprocessors Credit Buy Out Called A "First Step" Toward Sale

Many unanswered questions remain.

BREAKING! Agriprocessors $10 Million Debt Sold, Sale May Be Likely

Buyer is "undisclosed."

Rubashkin Wants Child Labor Charges Dropped

Accuses government of misconduct.

Health Minister Wants Haredi Rabbis To Make Health Policy

Ger hasid Yaakov Litzman wants extremist rabbis to set policy on abortion, organ transplants, stem cell research, and other critical issues.

Israel's Chief Rabbis Attack Pope

But the attack is ridden with errors and shows a clear disregard for truth.

Agudah's Rabbi Yaakov Horowitz 'Apologizes' To Abuse Survivors

'Apology' is all spin, no substance.

Rabbi Menashe Klein Condemns Chabad Messianism

“This sect of crazies, which falsify the Torah and our sages’ words…"

Rabbi Yaakov Horowitz Sells Out, Part 2

The apologetics of of Agudath Israel of America's new hit man.

Agriprocessors Trustee: I'm Working With Multiple Potential Buyers, "Some Old, Some New"

Also claims plant is still operating using loaned funds from First Bank.

BREAKING! Ohel Exposed

Haredi family services organization sometimes doesn't tell police about child molesters it treats. In at least one infamous case, that inaction apparently led to more children being molested.

Postville Yeshiva: We're Not Closing

Rubashkin: "We are here to stay."

Is Chabad Trying to Steal This Synagogue?

The synagogue's rabbi says yes. Past Chabad behavior says yes. Attorney (and child advocate) Elliot Pasik says no – but he says it in a way that calls his own behavior into question.

Prof. Marc Shapiro on Haredi Revisionist History, Spin and Covering Up For Gedolim

When is it proper not to tell the truth?

Charges Dismissed Against Haredi Couple Accused Of Child Rape

Israeli police bungled the investigation. Children's testimony mishandled.

Blood Donations Needed In NYC

16 year old Sephardic girl with Leukemia needs your help.

Hasidic Yeshiva Students Slaughter Cow In Residential Neighborhood

Cow slaughtered in backyard of the Bobover Yeshiva of Monsey, New York. The yeshiva is located in a residential neighborhood. Slaughter was done in the open, in full view of neighbors.

Woman Trips on Eruv, Sues

But a New York City judge threw out the lawsuit.

ABC News: Sex Abuse Rocks Orthodox Jewish Community

Alleged victims and advocates say sex abuse common but rarely discussed. Rabbis who abuse shifted from school to school, community to community – children left unprotected, police not called.

Chabad Again Stirs Controversy By Holding Scheduled Religious Services In Private Home

New Jersey rabbi told newspaper no religious services were taking place, even though they were. Claims First Amendment right to violate zoning laws, sues city.

Case Against Agriprocessors HR Worker Begins To Unravel

Laura Althouse withdraws guilty plea in wake of new US Supreme Court Ruling.

New York Esrog Distributor Bound By Israeli Rabbi's Ruling, New York Court Rules

Distributor claimed he did not know rabbi provided kosher supervision for the etrogs in question.

Haredi Child Molester Sentenced To Prison

Judge calls molester's acts "disgusting and severe," hands down single two year sentence. Molester must also pay $1,941 to each of the three boys he molested.

US Supreme Court Ruling Impacts Agriprocessors Raid Prosecutions

Ruling could impact hundreds of former Agriprocessors workers.