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Rabbi Elyashiv: The Knesset Is Heresy, Jews Should Not Enter

[Updated With Audio] 99 year old supreme haredi leader bans Jews – including haredi Knesset Members – from entering Israel's parliament.

Rubashkin May Get 27 Year Prison Term

Feds estimate Sholom M. Rubashkin could be sentenced to 21 to 27 years with no potential for parole.

Rabbi Meir Kahane's Grandson Arrested For Mosque Arson

A relative of former Kach Chairman, Rabbi Meir Kahane, was arrested Thursday on suspicion of torching a mosque in the West Bank village of Yasuf about three weeks ago.

5 Religious Girls Sue Police Over Strip Search

Five young religious women have filed a lawsuit against the Israel Police for allegedly conducting demeaning strip searches on them during their arrest at illegal West Bank outpost.

Yeshiva Student Bites Senior Army Officer

An indictment was filed against the yeshiva student in for assaulting a high-ranking army officer and damaging military property.

Avrohom Mondrowitz Case Enters California Politics

The fugitive pedophile, still waiting in Israel for the High Court to decide on his extradition to Brooklyn, plays an outsized role in California.

Letter from London: The Unsavory Side Of Strict Conversions

Tropper, EJF, Dayan Chanoch Ehrentreu, and the London Beit Din.

"Perfidy In Iowa"

1500 women rally for Sholom Rubashkin as organizers claim antisemitism.

1500 Women Rally For Rubashkin

Borough Park, Brooklyn rally meant to show depth of community support for Sholom Rubashkin.

Doctors Forced To Amputate Baby's Arms, One Leg, Part Of Foot

Shocking infection changes baby's life forever.

Haredim Caught In $200 Million Affinity Fraud

Another haredi scandal rocks Lakewood, London, Florida.

NCSY's Bar Ilan One Year Program Staffed By Haredi Kiruv Workers

[UPDATED] Teachers' affiliations appear hidden by NCSY.

Court Shuts Down Hasidic Slaughterhouse

A federal judge has ordered a New Square kosher poultry slaughterhouse padlocked for unsanitary conditions that pose a health risk to the community.

800 Hasidim Protest In New Square

For the second straight night, hundreds of protestors took to the streets of the hasidic village.

Dov Hikind To Announce New "Compromise" Child Sex Abuse Bill Weaker Than Markey

Hikind also touts $1.1 million grant from state to educate about sex abuse.

Rubashkin's Attorney: Feds Used "Duplicitous, Dishonest” Tactics To Convict Rubashkin

Rubashkin testified that while he knew about the inflated invoices, he did not generate them. They were part of a system put into place before his tenure as manager of the company began.

Feds Move Against Hasidic Slaughterhouse

A kosher poultry slaughterhouse and processing plant in New Square has been selling uninspected meat since 2002 and continues to operate under unsanitary conditions, federal prosecutors said.

Kosher Supervisors Under Fire

"Mashgichim cannot ignore blatantly unsafe or unhealthy conditions despite the argument that their role is restricted to kashrus."

Former Agriprocessors Workers Feel Misused By Company, Government, Rubashkin

“We were all punished, and charges are dismissed against the one who broke all the laws and caused all the suffering.”

Protest In New Square

New Square's thought police get challenged. 

90% Of Israelis Oppose Gender-Segregated Buses

Even 81% of Orthodox Israelis support the elimination of limitation of so-called mehadrin buses.

Sigmund Freud Saved By Nazi Admirer

Sigmund Freud and his family was saved from Nazi persecution by a Nazi. After the war, Freud's family saved the Nazi.

Haredim Stone Police At Intel Protest

Thousands of ultra-Orthodox demonstrators gathered on Sunday evening at an industrial zone in Jerusalem where Intel has its compound, to protest the company's decision to stay open on the Sabbath. 

Activists Stage Mock Modesty Squad To Protest Sex Segregated Bus Lines

Protesters divided the walking routes leading up the government offices in Jerusalem for men and women on Sunday morning in protest against the segregated bus lines in public transportation in the capital.

Kosher Cop Canned By Hospital

Fired OU mashgiach's story makes the New York Post.

Haredim Plan Mass Protest Against Intel Tomorrow

  "What Intel is doing is the beginning of the next destruction." 

Alleged Haredi Pedophile Rabbi David Y. Greenfeld Agreed To Stop Teaching Children After Confrontation With Alleged Victim

A victim and Rabbi Nochem Rosenberg confronted Greenfeld in November. Greenfeld was arrested this week on three molestation-related counts.

"Agriprocessors…Was Basically The Bottom Of the Barrel. It Was Bad As Bad Can Be."

Jonathan Safran Foer talks to WNYC's Brian Lehrer about factory farming, the meat business, and Sholom Rubashkin's handiwork.

"Sholom Rubashkin Is Not John Dillinger, Although He Has Been Treated As If He Were."

Sholom Rubashkin's motion for release on bail.

Unholy Night

Christmas Eve is one of the few occasions when Hasidim refrain from Torah study, do not conduct weddings or go to the mikveh. But they do play chess and work on their bills.

Rubashkin Attorneys Appeal Detention Order

Yesterday, Nathan Lewin and Guy Cook Esq. submitted a Brief of Appellant on Motion for Release Pending Sentencing

Advocate of Strict Conversions in Sexual Scandal

In an ironic twist, the rabbi whose organization questioned the legitimacy of conversions performed by others now has his own conversions called into question.

Police Attacked By Haredi Mob In Jerusalem

Police officers on Thursday morning were attacked by a haredi mob after being dispatched to the ultra-Orthodox Beit Yisrael neighborhood in Jerusalem to tend to a woman who was assaulted by the "modesty patrol."

Rabbi Leib Tropper Issues Official Statement On Sex And Abuse Of Power Scandal

"Rabbi Leib Tropper’s response to recent allegations has been delayed until now in deference to his legal counsel."

Haredi Yeshiva Teacher Busted For Alleged Sexual Assault Against Boy

A Borough Park, Brooklyn, yeshiva teacher was busted Wednesday morning for allegedly molesting a teenage boy who had attended his synagogue, cops said.

YU Holds Public Meeting On Homosexuality

The event attracted hundreds of students, graduates and faculty members. Dozens more were turned away, and fire officials were on hand at one point when security guards said the building had reached capacity.

Accused Horrific Haredi Child Abuser's Lawyer Claims Israeli Police 'Antisemitism'

Elior Chen's lawyer also told the court that the indictment issued against his client does not match the extradition request Israel submitted to Brazil, and, therefore, Chen should be immediately freed.

Armageddon: Rabbis Can Retroactively Annul Conversions Based On Convert's Current Level Of Jewish Observance, Legal Opinion Claims

"The suspicion is not whether or not the conversion court was meticulous in verifying that the prospective convert was sincere in his expressed desire to lead an observant lifestyle. The suspicion does not arise from the conversion certificate's validity, rather from the objective situation that the rabbi confronts when the convert's situation is presented to him."

Tropper Sex And Abuse Of Power Scandal Hits The Israeli Press

The doors of senior haredi leaders were thrown open to Tropper, and rabbi Tropper himself had the title of gaon bestowed upon him by the haredi press – all because of his efforts against Modern Orthodox and National Religious conversions. 

Hasidic Girls Skip School Rather Than Study With Sefardim

Some 70 students at the Beit Yaakov girls' school in Immanuel have not been attending class, in the wake of Education Ministry attempts to force the ultra-Orthodox institution to comply with a Supreme Court ruling against segregating Sephardi and Ashkenazi students.

Praying for Justice at the Western Wall

From the men’s section came the powerful sound of many haredi men shouting threateningly, “You should be ashamed of yourselves!”  “Leave this place”  “You are profaning the sacred place!”  “There is a church for you over there!” And many, many repetitions of the single word, “Filth!”

Chabad Rebbe Worship Caught On Video

Videos from Chabad world headquarters.

DC Area Orthodox Synagogue Issues Policy On Sex Offenders

Young Israel Shorai Emunah of Greater Washington sent members a list of rules governing sex offenders in the synagogue.

Is Chabad Doing Easy Conversions For Non-Jewish Spouses Of The Rich?

That's the claim made by a South American Chabadnik.

Layoffs At Agri Star

A Christmas present to Postville from Hershey Friedman.

Mashgiach Files Discrimination Complaint Against YU's Teaching Hospital

The OU has – so far – refused to back its now former kosher inspector and YU has been completely silent.

Letter from Jerusalem: Under Cover With Women Of The Wall

A struggle for the character of the Western Wall, this city’s iconic Jewish holy site and central place of worship, is under way, and it is being fought with prayer shawls and Torah scrolls.

RCA Press Release On The Tropper Sex And Abuse Of Power

We are deeply appalled, saddened and pained by reports that have reached us concerning alleged inappropriate behavior on the part of the chairman of the rabbinic committee of the Eternal Jewish Family, Rabbi Leib Tropper.

Rubashkins "Light Up" Sioux Falls

It was a Rubashkin Hanukkah.

Spinka Rebbe Sentenced

[UPDATED] Money laundering and tax fraud case comes to an end.