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Senior Chabad Emissaries Issue Ruling Banning US Brokered Peace Negotiation

"We, the personal emissaries of the Lubavitcher Rebbe to the Holy Land - including Rabbis of cities and neighborhoods in Israel, heads of Yeshivot and Kollelim and social welfare institutions, who were sent to Israel by the Rebbe himself over 35 years ago in order 'to arouse and encourage Jews to observe Torah and Mitzvot and help build the Jewish land physically and spiritually' - from the depths of a pained heart protest against the Israeli government’s decision to resume negotiations with Palestinian murderers on withdrawal from territories of the Holy Land, G-d forbid.…"

Women Of The Wall Hold Impromptu Prayer Service At Kotel, Haredim Fail To Riot Or Protest

The unexpected WoW prayer service caught haredim off guard, and WoW’s prayers went on undisturbed – apparently because haredim lacked orders from their rabbis to protest.

Anonymous Chabad Group Calls For Boycott Of Non-Chabad Talmud

An anonymous letter purportedly from Chabad community activists and rabbis calling for a boycott of the Oz Vehadar Talmud and other books by Oz Vehadar has been published in Israel.

Agri Star Finally Pays Hundreds Of Thousands In Back Property Taxes – Less Interest

Hershy Friedman’s SHF Industries, LLC, the owner of the Agri Star glatt kosher meat processing plant in Postville, Iowa – the former home of the Agriprocessors glatt kosher slaughterhouse that was once owned by the Rubashkin family – has finally settled a claim against it by Allamakee County for hundreds of thousands dollars of property taxes left unpaid by Agriprocessors, which declared bankruptcy in late 2008.

UPDATED: First Arrest In Scandal-Plagued Haredi-Controlled Schoolboard Scandal

The real estate appraiser whose vastly undervalued $3.2 million assessment of the Hillcrest School in East Ramapo led to its controversial sale to a Sqvare hasidic girls school run by Congregation Avir Yakov has now been charged with felonies related to the appraisal.

Haredi Tourists Desecrate Memorial To 73 Fallen Soldiers

A group of haredi tourists reportedly stripped down to their bathing suits and went for a swim in a clearly marked memorial fountain dedicated to 73 IDF soldiers who died when two military helicopters collided in 1997.

Haredim Riot After Haredi Couple Arrested For Ordering Woman To Back Of Bus

Police in the Israeli city of Bet Shemesh reportedly detained a haredi couple who ordered a woman move to the back of a city bus operated by the scandal-plagued Egged Bus Company, sparking a riot.

Nathan Lewin Says NYC’s Demand For Informed Consent Before Controversial Haredi Ritual Circumcision Practice Is Reasonable

"It seems to me that it is not unreasonable, even in the area of religious observance, for the city to require parents to sign a form that says that their eight day old baby can have this controversial procedure performed on them. Given the [medical] allegations [against MBP] and history this is a reasonable requirement on the part of the city and falls within the kinds of things that are ordinarily regulated even if there is a religious duty attached."

Israel’s New Haredi Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Makes Racist Remark, Sparks Outrage

"Who cares if a bunch of paid 'Cushim'in Tel Aviv beat a bunch of paid 'Cushim' in Greece?" Chief Rabbi David Lau said, using a derogatory term for Black people that is in Modern Hebrew the rough equivalent of the English-language “N” word, “darkie” and “coon.”

Kellner Extortion Trial Postponed Again At D.A.'s Request

On Monday, a Brooklyn judge for the second time postponed the start of chasidic abuse whistleblower Sam Kellner’s trial. The move, which effectively delays the trial until after the Democratic primaries in which Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes is seeking re-election, came in response to a request from prosecutors to continue an investigation [into the DA's own tainted witness] that court documents show they began 10 months ago but did not disclose to Kellner’s attorneys until the eve of his first trial date, July 8.

Dov Hikind Endorses Ken Thompson

New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikind has just endorsed Ken Thompson, who is challenging incumbent Charles J. Hynes in the upcoming election for Brooklyn district attorney.

Charges Dropped Against Men Who Harassed Supporters Of Alleged Victims Of Rabbi Chaim Halpern

Both trials were abandoned after the complainants in both cases withdrew support for the prosecutions.

Haredi Man Allegedly Spits On ‘Immodestly’ Dressed Teen

"I will continue to walk in my neighborhood like I'm used to doing.…I wasn't scared, but I wanted to get home as fast as possible because my little sister was with me and I didn’t want anything else to happen. Even when I went back to the place to meet my mom and the cops I wore the same clothing, I dare [haredim] to tell me what to do.”

Victims Advocacy Group Call On Chabad To Set Up "Compensation Fund" For Abuse Victims

“…We are aware that civil action against the [Chabad] Yeshivah Centre is currently being discussed at various levels. We call on Yeshivah to recognise the terrible and prolonged pain and suffering of the innocent children entrusted to their care, and to do the right thing and establish a fund to compensate the many victims and their families who have come forward and the many who are still to speak out.…"

More Brooklyn DA Corruption?

"[Michael]. Vecchione is a proud and confident fellow. As recently as 2006, he declared in a court affidavit that “I and I alone determined the course of our investigation.” He insisted, “I still have a clear recollection of it.” Under questioning by Mr. Collins’s lawyer last month, Mr. Vecchione suffered rapid memory loss. Asked why his signature appeared to be forged on key documents, and asked about all manner of irregularities, Mr. Vecchione took rhetorical refuge in a forest of iterations of “I don’t recall.” He says these words over 300 times.…"

Video: Avrohom Mondrowitz Attacked in Jerusalem

Avrohom Mondrowitz, the Ger hasid who posed as a psychologist in Brooklyn and who allegedly raped dozens of boys is attacked on a Jerusalem street.

Jews Who Voted For Zionist Orthodox Party In Last Knesset Elections Will “Go To Hell,” Senior Sefardi Haredi Rabbi Says

“[Minister of Education Rabbi Shai] Piron wants to uproot the Torah students that the world rests on and you, HaBayit HaYehudi, wish to be partner to this? Lapid promises them that [Zionist Orthodox] hesder yeshivot will not be harmed. I don’t know who everyone voted for but those who voted for [HaBayit HaYehudi] believe they are going to Olam Haba [heaven] but are instead headed for Gehinnom [hell].”

Sam Kellner's Lawyers Move To Dismiss Charges Against Him

In a motion filed in court today, accused extortionist Sam Kellner's attorneys cite multiple errors and apparent lies by Brooklyn's district attorney and ask the judge in the case to dismiss the charges against Sam Kellner. Kellner was acting as an anti-child-sex-abuse activist in cooperation with the DA when he was suddenly arrested and charged with extortion based solely on evidence – most of which since proved false or perjured – provided by accused pedophile Baruch Lebovits' son Meir – himself an alleged pedophile – and Satmar big wig Moshe Friedman (Gabbai), the editor of the Satmar mouthpiece Der Yid. That evidence has been shown to be false.

Likud Moves To Postpone Haredi Draft, Despite High Court Ruling

As he said he wanted to do, Israel’s Likud Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon has decided to defer the conscription of the 500 haredi yeshiva students who were drafted after the blanket haredi draft exemptions were ruled illegal by the High Court of Justice last year, and who were supposed to report to induction centers August 18.

Do Not Return Lost Smartphones To Their Haredi Owners, Haredi Rabbi Rules

Senior haredi Rabbi Nissim Karelitz ruled that smart phones and other similar devices that have been banned by haredi rabbis are not objects which according to halakha have to be returned to their rightful owners if found – meaning haredim who find lost smartphones or similar devices should destroy them.

Son Of DA Charles Hynes Former Haredi Liaison Caught Calling Hookers From His DA Office Phone

A married Brooklyn prosecutor – the son of an Orthodox Jew who served as a liaison between his boss, Brooklyn DA Charles J. Hynes, and the haredi community – was caught by another prosecutor calling outcall prostitutes from his office phone. But Mark Posner was not prosecuted or fired.

Hasidic Autistic Boy From Kiryas Joel Goes Missing

A 10-year-old autistic boy who wandered away from his father in the Satmar hasidic Village of Kiryas Joel north of New York City is missing.

Hasidim Reportedly Push Over Gravestone Of Rabbi Moshe Feinstein

According to Yeshiva World, as the current Belz Rebbe was praying at the grave of his predecessor, the crush of hasidim pushing and shoving in order to get a better view of their rebbe praying caused the gravestone of haredi leader Rabbi Moshe Feinstein – who is buried in an adjacent grave and who was not a Bez hasid – to fall over.

Haredim Won Chief Rabbinate Because Right Wing Zionist Orthodox Voters Crossed Party Lines To Vote Against Moderate Zionist Orthodox Candidate

Sarah Eliash, who sat on the 150 member panel that elected Israel’s new chief rabbis last week, said that haredim won both chief rabbi positions because many Zionist Orthodox and ‘hardal’ (haredi-Zionist Orthodox) members voted against the major Zionist Orthodox candidate, Rabbi David Stav, who they opposed for being too liberal and for not deferential enough to haredi and hardal rabbinic leaders.

When Rabbis Become Atheists

A new study deals with the surprising number of rabbis – including Zionist Orthodox and haredi rabbis – who are closet atheists.

Mob Of Haredim Savagely Beat Haredi Man – Allegedly For Looking At A Pregnant Woman

The man was waiting at a bus stop for a public bus that travels to to the haredi city of Bnei Brak. when he apparently saw a pregnant haredi woman and noticeably looked at her. A mob of haredi men responded by beating the man, throwing him into a car and driving around with him as they continued to beat him inside the car, eventually dumping out the badly injured man on another street in the haredi neighborhood.

Baruch Dayan HaEmet: Rabbi Dr. Immanuel Schochet

Rabbi Dr. Jacob Immanuel Schochet, rabbi, academic, author, translator of part of the Chabad hasidic work the Tanya, and an authority on Jewish Philosophy and Mysticism, passed away yesterday.

Chabad Again Mistreats Parent Of Alleged Abuse Victim

Manny Waks reported the sexual abuse he suffered in Chabad's Yeshivah Centre in Melbourne to police. Since he did that, Chabad has been shunning and maltreating his extended family, and another incident of maltreatment took place today.

A Crown Heights Thug (Allegedly Unethically) Battles Child Sexual Abuse And Gives Brooklyn's Allegedly Corrupt DA Politcal Cover

The story of Jewish Community Watch and its kashering of allegedly corrupt Brooklyn District Attorney Charles J. Hynes.

Bibi Eats Traife In Poland, Allegedly Helping To Ensure Shechita Ban

"In the ballroom after dinner I asked Rabin why on earth he had told the President it was my birthday, and he shot back, “What else should I have told him – the truth? If I did that, tomorrow there’d be a headline in the newspapers that you ate kosher and I didn’t, and the religious parties will bolt the coalition, and I’ll have a government crisis on my hands. Ani meshuga? Am I crazy?”

A Land Where There Is No Justice

Of more than 2000 complaints by clergy child-sex abuse victims in Victoria [i.e., Mebourne, Australia and its environs], only one has ever made it through the civil court process to a verdict, a researcher will tell a human rights conference today.

A Health Notice From A Satmar Mikva

Do not urinate in the shower and do not spit on the shower floors because of the measels outbreak in the haredi community, a Satmar men's mikva says.

Chabad 'Apology' Exposed

As I pointed out earlier this week, Chabad's 'apology' for child sexual abuse that took place at its Yeshiva Centre in Melbourne was only sent to current school parents and a few outsiders – not to former students, known victims and their families. And the apology was clearly disingenuous. Now it turns out that there is one more shocking flaw in that apology…

Bad News For Charles Hynes: Abe George Drops Out Of Brooklyn DA Race

George reportedly said he would support the other Democratic challenger to current D.A. Charles J. Hynes, Kenneth P. Thompson, a prominent lawyer in private practice and a former federal prosecutor. This means Thompson will face Hynes in one-on-one matchup primary match-up. Opposition votes against Hynes will no longer be split between Thompson – who earlier this week received the endorsement of New York City’s largest union, Local 1199 S.E.I.U., which represents health care workers – and George.

Haredi-Controlled Scandal-Plagued School Board To Appeal State Decision Against It

East Ramapo’s haredi-controlled scandal-plagued school board has decided to appeal New York State Commissioner of Education John King’s decision to annul a sweetheart lease of a district school to a haredi yeshiva – even though it appears to have no legal grounds to do so.

Haredi Organ Trafficker Sells Brooklyn Home For More Than $2 Million

Levy Izhak Rosenbaum, who bought kidneys from live donors from poor countries like Moldova – sometimes at gunpoint – for approximately $10,000 each and sold them to desperately ill Americans for $120,000-160,000, has sold what the New York Observer calls “the house that organ trading [sic] bought” for more than $2 million dollars.

Not Guilty: Father Accused Of Gang Raping Daughter Acquitted

An Orthodox girl’s claims that she was gang raped by her father and a group of his friends and that she was sexually abused by him over many years were rejected by a London jury yesterday, which took only five minutes of deliberation to acquit the father and one of his friends (the only friend that was ever charged).

SAC Capital Advisors Hit With Massive Federal Criminal Charges

The hedge fund operated by embattled billionaire Steven A. Cohen was hit with white-collar criminal charges Thursday, less than a week after federal regulators accused him in a related civil case of failing to prevent insider trading at his firm.

In Softball Interview, Zev Brenner Allows Brooklyn DA To Attack The Jewish Week And Trample On The Truth

Brookyn DA Charles Hynes attacks the Jewish Week's coverage of haredi child sexual abuse on Zev Brenner's radio show, and at no time does Brenner mention any of the evidence the Jewish Week and the New York Times have amassed against Hynes – not even the federal court rulings that excoriate Hynes' office for massive violations of defendants' rights.

Despite 'Apology' For Sex Abuse Scandal, Chabad Continues To Shun Alleged Victim's Family

Chabad's true colors are again on display for all to see.

Family Of Chabad Molestation Victim Threatens To Sue Unless Rabbis Who Covered Up Abuse Are Fired

The family of a boy molested by a teacher who was paid by Chabad to flee prosecution in Melbourne even though headmitted sexually abusing students is considering launching legal action against the school, Yeshivah College.

Chabad Rabbi Shot In Possible Religiously-Motivated Antisemitic Attack

A Chabad rabbi in Derbent, a city in the predominantly Muslim Republic of Dagestan the borders Chechnya has been shot outside home in what appears to be a religiously-motivated antisemitic attack.

Chabad 'Apologizes'

Chabad's Yeshivah College weakly and disingenuously apologizes for its child sexual abuse scandal.

Haredi Deputy Mayor Arrested For Alleged Public Corruption, Money Laundering, And Embezzlement – From A Hevra Kadisha

Yoel Azarzar, the Deputy Mayor of the posh Israeli City of Ra’anana, was arrested yesterday on suspicion of taking bribes for approval of local building and business projects, money laundering – and for the alleged embezzlement of funds from a local hevra kadisha (burial society). Azarzar, a member of the Sefardi haredi Shas Party, denies all the charges against him.

Haredim Win Chief Rabbinate

Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, the son of Sefardi haredi leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, himself a former Chief Rabbi of Israel, and Rabbi David Lau, son of former Chief Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, have were elected late today as Israel's next chief rabbis. The pair will each serve a ten-year term unless removed. Both men and their fathers are haredim.

European Rabbis Announce Creation Of Mohel's Union

"The Conference of European Rabbis has today announced the creation of The Union of Mohalim in Europe (UME). Based upon the model of the UK's Initiation Society, the UME will unite approved mohalim across Europe under a single banner, ensuring that all communities can be assured of the high level of training and regulation of the mohalim that they use.…"

Scandal-Plagued Haredi-Controlled School District Illegally Buys Orthodox Religious Textbooks For Private Haredi Schools

At a time when the district is facing a $8.2 million dollar shortfall for this fiscal year alone, the district has used public funds to buy religious texts for haredi schools in violation of the law almost two years after the state ordered the district to stop doing so.

Fire Exposes Hasidic Slumlord’s Illegal Boardinghouse

A small fire in a single family home in a relatively upscale neighborhood of New Hempstead exposed an illegal boarding house owned and operated by notorious New Square hasidic slumlord Joseph Klein, who has had more than his share of run-ins with Ramapo zoning authorities and local courts.

Lapid: Haredi Politicians Slow The Coming Of The Messiah

"…You accuse me of incitement? Your [haredi] media compares all secular women to prostitutes and all secular youths to drug addicts and hedonists. And that's before we discuss the recent editorial in [the Ashkenazi haredi newspaper] Yated Ne'eman that compared me to Hitler. Does telling the haredi public that I want the exact same rights for them as I do for my own son constitute harassment? Does expecting them to honor the fourth commandment constitute harassment? It says, 'Six days you shall labor and do all your work,’ not 'six days you shall receive government stipends and the secular people shall labor.'…"

Chabad Pedophile Gets Sweetheart Sentence, Could Walk Free In 100 Days

A Jewish teacher who molested four boys at Chabad's Melbourne’s Yeshivah College over 20 years ago has been sentenced to three years and four months in jail. But David Kramer, 52, could be out of jail in 100 days. He was sentenced to a non-parole period of 18 months but has already served 457 days in pre-sentence detention.