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State Asks Scandal-Plagued Haredi-Controlled School District For A Face-To-Face Meeting

Like parents, friends and family trying to get a loved one to consent to a stint in rehab, New York State education officials are taking the much more rare step of requesting a face-to-face meeting with a troubled school district’s leaders.

Satmar Fraudsters Get Easy Ride From US Government

Leib Glanz, a Satmar former New York City Department of Corrections chaplain who was also an administrator in Satmar’s United Talmudical Academy (UTA) school system, got a slap on the wrist today from the federal government – a very light sentence for his role in stealing more than $220,000 from a federal housing program meant to aid the poor.

Orthodox Women's College Attacks Child Sex Abuse Victim For Publicizing Abuse

“I received an anonymous phone call last night with a message from one of your "friends" on Facebook, who expressed great consternation and concern that you have chosen to publicize to "friends" (regardless of their age, sincerity and level of intimacy) your history of sexual abuse.  Your public Facebook page is troubling enough, as is your Google history [which are open to the whole world].  It is troubling primarily because you have chosen to identify yourself by your pathology.  You no longer appear as a full human - but rather as "case study" of a young woman warped by her childhood experiences, and is thus identified wholly by that past.…I am asking you to exercise a measure of discretion, and develop a plan to go beyond your past  towards healing. You seem too intent on wallowing in the past, and drawing sick attention to yourself for all of the wrong reasons. At the same, you identify yourself as a student of Hebrew Theological College, and by association besmirch your peers as well as yourself."

Centrist Party Allegedly Refuses To Join New Government If Haredi Parties Are In Governing Coalition; Haredi Pol Calls Move “Pure Hatred For Haredim”

"Today it was made clear that behind the supposed care for equal share of the burden stands pure hatred for haredim."

Ethiopian Students Reportedly Face Segregation At Leading Zionist Orthodox Boarding School

Ethiopian students at the Zionist Orthodox boarding school in the Kfar Hasidim Youth Village near Haifa are reportedly being segregated. “It is something we have become used to; that those students who are considered the best, the Israelis, receive the best education. [We don’t.]”

Video: Chabad Messianist West Bank Settler Confronts Palestinian Farmers, Tells Them That When The Messiah Comes, They Will All Be Slaves Of The Jews

A Chabad messianist West Bank settler near the Arab village of Yasuf – and the Jewish Kahanist settlement of Tapuach and its illegal outpost, West Tapuach – has a bizarre conversation with Palestinian farmers about who really owns the land. The Chabad messianist also tells them that if they behave now and do what the settler is telling them to do, when the messiah comes they Palestinian farmers will be slaves of the Jews. But if they misbehave now, the Jews won't even allow them to be slaves – meaning they will be even less than slaves, or dead.

Chabad Rabbi Tries To Punish Small Children For Their Father's Sin

The leading Chabad rabbi in Melbourne, Australia, Zvi Hirsch Telsner (right), tried to get Chabad's Sydney, Australia schools to ban the children of a hasid who refused to heed a beit din ruling.

Ethiopian Jew Wins Miss Israel Contest

Yityish Titi Aynaw won the Miss Israel 2013 title Wednesday night. The 21-year-old resident of Netanya on Israel’s Mediterranean coastline is the first Ethiopian-born contestant to win the title.

Video: How Bad Is Satmar's Spring Valley Boys School? Very Bad, It Seems

If the people interviewed in this video are to be believed, Satmar's United Talmudical Academy in Spring Valley, New York is a very dangerous school.

Family Of Beaten Child Refuses To Cooperate With DA; In Its Awful Coverage, News 12 Labels Haredi PR Hack A "Journalist"

Meilich Spitzer, the principal of Satmar's United Talmudical Academy in Spring Valley, allegedly beat a 10-year-old boy, repeatedly slapping him strongly across the face and head two weeks ago. Spitzer was arrested and indicted on assault charges, but the boy's family is refusing to cooperate with the DA, causing the DA to say that he will drop the charges if a witness to the crime doesn't come forward within 60 days of the arrest.

Haredi Man Gets 13 Years For Child Rape

Simcha Kaikov, a 44-year-old haredi father of five, was sentenced to 13 years in prison by the Jerusalem District Court today for the premeditated rape of an eight-year-old girl.

Living Frei In Crown Heights

Aviva Bogart, 21, has a partially shaved head and is the daughter of a Chabad rabbi in Massachusetts. She says more misfits have been moving to the area. “This feels like the first time there’s in-reach within the community, instead of sending efforts to help those in the outside world. I think Chabad is beginning to realize how many people are getting lost and losing their religion, and how much of a change they really need. We’re not all completely lost, just because we don’t keep everything.”

Video: The "War" Against Purim – The Daily Show Does Dov Hikind

Dov Hikind's blackface escape makes the Daily Show with Jon Stewart.

Arab Woman Allegedly Assaulted By Zionist Orthodox Young Woman In Jerusalem

"A young religious Jewish woman who passed by the station suddenly punched the Arab woman in the face, while she was standing there. When the woman tried to defend herself, the attacker's friends came to her assistance, [and] started hitting [the Arab woman], and pushed her toward the station's wall. They yelled at her 'Don't you dare touch a Jew,' and 'you have no business being here.' The Light Rail security guard was there but he did nothing, he didn't get involved.…Many people just stood by and didn't help her…The attack was nationalistically motivated; you don't need to be a genius to see that.”

Fire Chief Threatens To Shut Down Israel’s Largest Bus Company

Israel’s Fire Chief Shachar Ayalon is threatening to shut down Israel’s largest bus company, Egged, unless Egged installs a fire detection and prevention system on each of its 3,000 buses.

Half Of The Charges Against Rabbi Motti Elon Dropped After Alleged Victim Pressured

They pressured him. They threatened him. And they intimidated him. And as police and prosecutors stood by and did nothing to protect their witness, in mid-trial he refused to testify, causing prosecutors to drop half of the charges against one of the most prominent Zionist Orthodox rabbis ever charged with sexual abuse in Israel, Rabbi Motti Elon.

Orthodox Women Sue Beit Shemesh Over Haredi Forced Gender Segregation, Violence

Four Orthodox women from Beit Shemesh have filed suit against the Israeli city for allegedly failing to prevent haredim from dictating so-called modesty rules which they insist must be followed by women in public haredi areas of the city.

How Did Dov Hikind's Career Survive His Purim Blackface Gaffe? Thuggery And Lies, Say Democrat Insiders

“Cross him and he’ll call you an anti-Semite and put you in the New York Post. In New York City politics, that’s something people are genuinely scared of and he plays it. … It’s like identity politics, mixed with money, mixed with intimidation.”

Orthodox MK Accused Of Buying Votes

MK Nissim Slomiansky of the HaBayit HaYehudi party is under police investigation for allegedly paying $50,000 for an agent to buy votes for him.

Hikind Condemns "Jerk Reaction" To Blackface Costume, Says Maybe Next Year, He'll Dress As A Gay Man

Speaking on Zev Brenner's Talkline radio show Monday night, Hikind complained about "certain people" in the Jewish community whose reaction to Hikind's blackface Purim costume wasn't one that Hikind wanted. And then Hikind said to Brenner, ""[The blackface costume was] all in the spirit of this very special holiday. But in the bottom line, would I do it all over again? I would look at additional alternatives. Because it's not about being a black person or Indian – or maybe I would be a gay person on Purim. Would that be OK, Zev, if I played a gay person next year?"

Video: Dov Hikind Apologizes For Blackface – Sort Of

“We live in a society where people are incredibly sensitive about everything…I was actually going to do Indians next year, but I don’t want to offend Indians…in hindsight, this has become a real story, my God, I would have picked something else.…But it was Purim and I do this every year for thirty-five or forty years…anyone who was offended, I’m sorry they were offended…I just have to reiterate – it was Purim…my wife was the devil…”

Video: Bobover Rebbe Dances With Personal Beit Din Representative

The Bobover Rebbe (48, not 45) 'dances' on Purim with his personal representative to the beit which awarded Bobov 48 almost everything it asked for, celebrating his victory over the rival Bobov 45 sect.

Satmar Principal Charged With Assaulting 10-Year-Old

Rabbi Meilech Spitzer was charged with third-degree assault with the intent to injure, a Class A misdemeanor, after brutally and repeatedly slapping a 10-year-old child in the head and face.

Dov Hikind Wears Blackface As Purim Costume, Prompts Questions Of Racial Insensitivity

New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D- Brooklyn) held a huge open Purim party in house yesterday that reportedly continued for 14 hours. And then there were the costumes – or, more accurately, Hikind’s costume.

Secular Jews Have To Serve In Israel’s Military Because The Wars Are All Their Fault, Hasidic Rebbe Says

Rabbi Meir Rosenboim, the rebbe of small but influential Peremyshlyany hasidic sect, has a simple explanation for why haredim should not serve in Israel’s military. The wars are not their fault, the rebbe claimed. The wars and Israel’s defense needs are the fault of secular Jews, and therefore secular Jews have to serve in the military but haredim do not.

Queen Esther Banned

After being criticized in previous years for blurring out the faces of little girls in toy store Purim costume ads for "modesty reasons” normative halakha would seem to reject, this year some toy stores owned by or catering to haredim decided to completely remove all girls and women from their ads.

Haredim Say They Can't Meet School Lunch Nutritional Guidelines For Religious Reasons

Led by Agudath Israel of America, haredim are finding it hard to comply with the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010. The law, which went into effect this year, is supposed to make school lunches healthier, and allocates billions of dollars to make this possible. Haredim say they need exemptions for religious reasons – or they need more money from the federal government to comply with the existing law.

Bnei Brak: Child Injured from Purim Fireworks

Purim began in Bnei Brak on motzei Shabbos accompanied with fireworks as has become the minhag [custom] among the young in Eretz Yisrael. Despite increased warnings from rabbonim, the fireworks are still used and in this case, a child sustained an eye injury on Chazon Ish Street.

A Purim Plea From A Haredi Paramedic

Last night at 2:00 am my radio went off for an unresponsive child. As with every call my mind started searching what can cause a child to become unresponsive? Was it croup? Was it a high fever? Was it seizures? No it wasn’t. It had not even occurred to me that a local yeshiva already had its Purim Chagiga.

Lapid Agrees To Compromise On Haredi Draft

According to an Israel Channel 10 news report that was reportedly confirmed by both Yair Lapid’s Yesh Atid party and Naftali Bennett’s HaBayit HaYehudi party, Yesh Atid’s Lapid agreed to Bennett’s request to increase the number of haredi draft exemptions from the 400 Lapid wanted to 2,000 per year. Lapid also agreed to raise the haredi draft age from 18 – as it is for all other draft-eligable Israelis – to 21.

Women's Laughter May Cause Yeshiva Students To Sin

Women and girls should stay out of sight and out of hearing on Purim, a haredi modesty ad in Monsey says. And if they must be where men can see or hear them, they certainly should not laugh, because their laughter could cause "innocent" haredi yeshiva students to sin – i.e., to masturbate.

Ashkenazi Haredim Completely Reject Compromise On Military Draft

Haredim refuse to serve. Haredi leaders make it clear to negotiators from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's philo-haredi Likud that they will not compromise at all on the issue of haredim being drafted into the military.

FCC Inspector General's Report On Satmar Abuse Of The E-Rate Program

Recommendation 1 of 3 - We recommend that the Wireline Competition Bureau direct the Universal Service Administrative Company to recover the amount of $934,300 disbursed on behalf of UTA in funding year 1999.

Weak Government Enforcement Allows Haredi Schools To Allegedly Defraud Government E-Rate Program – Until Now

His team found a number of major violations and ultimately recommended that the FCC make UTA return over $900,000. But in the end, the school paid nothing. In the years that have followed, it and the numerous institutions within its sprawling system of boys and girls’ schools in Brooklyn and Rockland County, each of which now files separately for E-rate, have been awarded tens of millions of E-rate dollars. In 2012, one of UTA’s service providers billed the program $81,600, just on Internet access for the Williamsburg boys’ divisions. That is despite the fact that UTA students are not allowed access to the Internet.

Alleged Haredi Pedophile Jumps Bail, Flees England

Rabbi Todros Grynhaus – previously known as T.G. in reporting on this blog – jumped bail and fled Great Britain, allegedly with the help of a wealthy member of Britain’s haredi community.

Williamsburg Modesty Squad Strikes Again

“It is not right,” said Moshe Spira, the manager of Grill on Lee, a sandwich shop down the block from the dress shop, explaining that the “man and his wife, trying to make a living for them and their family” opened just days ago.

Don't Get Married, Israeli Women Told

"Until then, the only thing to do is not to get married in this country…Make [conjugal] agreements, ceremonies, but don't register for marriage."

Another Chabad Child Sex Abuse Scandal Erupts – This Time, In Paris

A leading Chabad rabbi was arrested yesterday for failure to report the sexual abuse of minors under the age of 15. He allegedly was told by many parents of the Chabad boy's school in Paris that their children had been sexually abused by a school supervisor. The rabbi, however, did not report the abuse to police and allegedly ordered families to remain silent to protect the name of Chabad.

Video: Black History Month Presents: The Purim Story

A group of black stand-up comedians explain the Purim story.

Federal Court Rejects Haredi Request For Emergency Stay In Circumcision Case

Agudath Israel of America, Satmar, the International Bris Association and their fellow plaintiffs appealed last month's denial of their request for a stay of NYC law requiring parents to sign an informed consent document before metzitzah b'peh (MBP), the direct mouth-to-bleeding-penis sucking (please see the photo posted at right) done by many haredi and almost all hasidic mohels to infants who cannot consent to the risky procedure. The ruling was handed down today and, as you can see below, the haredim resoundingly lost.

Chabad Rabbi-Mohel Threatens To Sue Blogger Over Dangerous Circumcision Sucking Ritual

"Over the past few months the New York City Mayor Michel Bloomberg (a Jew), has been combating  Metzitzah Ba'peh - a very important procedure of the Brit Milah ritual [sic]. A tenet in the Jewish religion. Historically we have found many harsh rulers which have also tried to outlaw Metzitzah Ba'peh starting from the times of the Chasam Sofer in the 18th century, making many false libels against it. We will discuss the Torah perspective and medical benefits of metzitzah bapeh. We will also discuss the different things a mohel must insure before performing Metzitza Ba'peh."

Police Given 36 More Hours To Question Rabbi Chaim Halpern 3 Others

Rabbi Chaim Halpern, arrested on suspicion of sexually harassing and sexually assaulting a woman who came to him for counseling, has been remanded for another 36 hours for more questioning by police. So have three other haredi men arrested in relationship to his case, one of whom is reportedly Halpern's brother.

Hasidic Rebbe Caught With Another Young Girl, Reportedly Flees Israel

A hasidic rebbe from a large Jerusalem-based hasidic group reportedly took a last minute vacation to Miami this week after being caught – again – cavorting with a much younger naked girl.

BBC Confirms Arrest Of Rabbi Chaim Halpern

Home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw said the BBC understood Rabbi Chaim Halpern, 54, had been arrested on suspicion of sexual assault.

Chabad Head Rabbi Refuses To Answer Child Sex Abuse Question

"When asked by the AJN [Australian Jewish News] if anyone had ever come forward to him to report child sexual abuse at Yeshiva or by Yeshiva members, [Rabbi Pinchus Feldman] did not respond."

"Mass Demonstration" Called Against "Immodest" Williamsburg Women's Clothing Store

Since a women's clothing store has opened in the heart of Williamsburg, on Lee Ave, corner Keep Street (formerly Fruend's Dry Goods), in a very obscene and immodest fashion, with large open windows facing the street, which is a big immodesty in our town. Therefore there will be a MASS DEMONSTRATION in front of the store, tomorrow on Taanis Esther, Thursday, at 2:00 in the afternoon.

High Court Orders Standardized Testing Of Haredi Students

Earlier today, Israel’s High Court of Justice gave the Ministry of Education 100 days to formulate an outline for standardized testing of students in haredi schools and to sanction the schools if they fail to follow the outline. This is a way to force haredi schools to comply with the law and teach math, science, English, civics, Modern Hebrew laqnguage and other core subjects.

Increasing Rate Of Haredi And MO Divorce Due To Facebook, Some Claim

“Before, someone would get divorced and leave the community. Now even if they move, you see them [on Facebook] and they take off their wig and they go to Miami and they are drinking a cocktail, and you ask yourself, why should I be in prison? Let me get out.”

Young Children Tried To Kill Themselves Because Of Sex Abuse, Hatzolah Says

The Melbourne Jewish community's emergency medical response group, Hatzolah, says young children have attempted suicide as a result of being sexually abused.

Yerushalmi Haredi Man Screams, Attacks IDF: Worse Than Nazis

A Yerushalmi haredi man protested outside the Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem yesterday during the visit of the head of the right wing Zionist Orthodox HaBayit HaYehudi political party, Naftali Bennett. The man shouted, screamed and protested the looming military draft of haredim, at one point claiming that it would be better to serve in the Nazi army than to serve in the Zionist army, because in the Nazi army it was just a path to death, but the Zionist army is worse, it is a…path out of this world.