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Town To Take Hasidic Yeshiva To Court Over Repeated Fire, Safety, Building And Other Code Violations

“There have been people in there. There was garbage and food. We believe they [the congregation] are in contempt of the judge’s order and we will be filing additional documents with the judge. We will be asking for fines or jail time."

IDF Reportedly Tries To Arrest AWOL Yeshiva Student But Hasidim Block Arrest

IDF military police arrived at a Belzer yeshiva dorm in Haifa at 1:00 am last night, apparently looking for a yeshiva student who had dodged the draft. But the hasidim refused to let the military police in and no arrests were made.

Town Puts Hold On Sale Of Vacant School To Satmar Hasidim

Almost 100 people turned out for what was supposed to be a routine town board meeting in the small Mount Hope, New York Monday night to do one thing – object to the pending sale of the vacant Otisville Elementary School to Satmar hasidim.

Haredi MK Says Haredim Are Treated Like Foreigners In Israel And Therefore Should Not Be Drafted

Haredi MK Rabbi Meir Porush also lashed out at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by sarcastically urging the Shaked Committee to allow haredi yeshiva students to fulfill their military service requirement by doing national civilian service as attendants in the Prime Minister’s residence and in Netanyahu’s villa in seaside town of Caesarea.

Indict Senior Chabad State Rabbinical Court Judge For Fraud, Breach Of Public Trust, Abuse Of Power, And Obstruction Of Justice, Police Say

Israel Police have completed their investigation and have recommended that Rabbi Chaim Yehuda Rabinovitch (also spelled and Rabinowich) be indicted on charges of fraud, breach of public trust, abuse of power and obstruction of justice.

Chabad Missionaries To Be Exempted From Draft, Knesset Committee Rules

“Are You Jewish? Have You Put On Tefillin Today?” Asking those questions of Diaspora Jews will now be the equivalent of serving in an IDF combat unit guarding Israel’s borders if Israel’s new draft law passes the Knesset, Israel’s parliament.

Ancient Fabric Fragment Contains Lost Biblical Blue, Scientists Say

The nearly 2,000 year old fabric fragment contains a fringe dyed with what scientists believe is the Biblical tekhelet, the mysterious blue or purple Jews are commanded to wear as fringes on the corners of their clothes and which was used in the coloring of the clothing of the Kohen Gadol (High Priest ) in the ancient Jerusalem Temple.

Chief Rabbis, Religious Services Ministry Want Knesset To Give Rabbis Police Powers To Enforce Kosher Food Law

The rabbis want to launch an actual kosher food police force that would crack down on restaurants and other food businesses that do not pay for the Rabbinate’s kosher supervision but who nonetheless advertise that all ingredients used in their menus are kosher.

Haredi Mega-Thief Eliyahu Weinstein's 2nd Motion To Vacate Guilty Plea Denied

As FailedMessiah.com exclusively reported last week, Eliyahu Weinstein tried for a second time to vacate his guilty plea. Now, one day after Weinstein's attempt to counter the government's response to his attempt to vacate his guilty plea, a judge has ruled against Weinstein and for the government.

Hasidic Rebbes' Anti-Israel Demonstration Apparently Canceled

The highly publicized joint trip to America of Israel’s leading hasidic rebbes to stage a large anti-Israel protest here has apparently been canceled.

New Wave Of Anti-Haredi-Soldiers Posters Blanket Haredi Areas of Jerusalem

A new wave of haredi posters attacking haredi IDF soldiers and calling them missionaries and kidnappers drew swift condemnation from the IDF yesterday but no arrests.

Vizhnitz Rebbe Bans Wedding Photographers

After spending the past month in Europe, the Bnei Brak Vizhnitzer rebbe issued a new regulation for his hasidim that takes effect on his return to Israel today. That regulation?  No Vizhnitz weddings can have photographers if the rebbe is present.

Haredi Mohel Amputates Baby's Penis During Bris

Rabbi Mordechai Rosenberg amputated the baby boy's penis during a bris in Pittsburgh about 8 months ago – and is still regularly doing unregulated circumcisions.

Israel's Deplorable Record On Refugees

Since Israel’s creation in 1948, it has granted refugee status to fewer than 200 asylum seekers – even though tens of thousands of asylum seekers clearly qualified.

Haredi Museum Will To Close Due To Lack Of Funds, Rabbi-Owner Says

Borough Park’s Torah Animal World museum, which claims to have a stuffed version of every animal mentioned in the Torah – except one – is closing due to financial problems.

Gay Jews Are Superior To Straight Non-Jews, Israeli Leader Says

Gay Jews have "higher souls" than all non-Jews, gay or straight, Israel’s Deputy Minister for Religious Services, Rabbi Eli Ben-Dahan of the of the right wing Zionist Orthodox HaBayit HaYehudi Party, says. But that doesn't mean, Ben-Dahan hastened to add, that he supports homosexuality.

Former Crime Boss Turned Haredi Rabbi Sentenced In Shooting Attack On Escaped Convict

Rabbi Menachem (Manny) Edry – a well-known former Israeli crime boss who had repented in prison, become a haredi rabbi and later opened his own yeshiva, Yeshivat Ben Ish Hai, for fellow penitents – ejected one of those fellow penitents from his yeshiva after learning the penitent was still involved in crime and was, in fact, an escaped convict. When the ejected student turned violent, Edry did not call police – instead, he set up an ambush and shot the escaped convict.

Rabbi Mordechai Tendler Loses Appeal

"…Here, while the Congregation may be liable for certain damages, it did not forfeit its right to terminate the plaintiff's employment once permission was obtained from an authorized Rabbinical Court …." Tendler was famously fired for allegedly sexually abusing several adult females who came to him for counseling.

Bitch Slap: Government Responds To Haredi Mega Thief Eliyahu Weinstein's Latest Attempt To Withdraw Guilty Plea

Haredi über-thief Eliyahu Weinstein, who stole allegedly stole at least $200 million (some government estimates allegedly approach $1 billion) and pleaded guilty to stealing $50 million made another try to withdraw his guilty plea last week and the government slapped it down with no evident difficulty Friday. Here is what the government alleges:

Chabad’s Religious Discrimination Lawsuit Against Northwestern University Thrown Out Of Court

U.S. District Court Judge John Darrah ruled that Northwestern showed a "legitimate, nondiscriminatory reason" for cutting all ties with Chabad because of Chabad’s clear and repeated violations of the university’s alcohol policy.

Haredi Takeover Of Planned Israeli City Blocked

The planned Israeli city of Harish was supposed to be a mixed city. Its initial residents were secular and Zionist Orthodox and the expansion from a tiny several hundred strong community into a full-fledged city was supposed to follow a similar population makeup, but with the addition of haredim into the population mix. But then the Sefardi haredi Shas Party took charge of the Housing Ministry and all that quickly changed. Housing tenders were illegally skewed to favor haredim. 1,500 haredim bought new apartments in the city as secular and Zionist Orthodox Jews were largely locked out of the bidding process. Ministry officials lied to Knesset and to Harish residents. And suddenly, the new Harish was about to become a haredi city – until now.

Video: Leiby Kletzky Security Cameras To Be Installed Over Next 10 Days, Hikind Says

100 so-called Leiby Kletzky security cameras will be installed in Borough Park and Midwood over the next 10 days, NY State Assemblyman Dov Hikind says. Hoever, Hikind does not answer widespread concerns about the control of those cameras, which were paid for with government money by which will be operated by a privtate security firm under the direct control of Agudath Israel of America. Police will only have access to the security camera footage after the fact, while haredi rabbis, their private security patrols, and haredi modesty squads on the other hand may very well have 24/7 unfettered access.

Israelis Don't Help The Poor Because Of Haredim, Columnist Argues In NY Times

“For middle-class Israelis to care, the message from the state should be quite different — one that could be called compassionate cruelty. The state should be telling its citizens: We don’t much care if the poor-by-choice get even poorer and get even less from the state. We don’t much care about poverty rates that take everybody into account without much consideration of personal and communal decisions and their consequences. But we will ensure that those willing to work and pay their dues [and their taxes] are properly assisted, and the government will make sure that they are the only ones to be raised above poverty level on the government’s dime.”

Hasidic Sex Abuser Dies In Prison

Convicted sex abuser Jeremy “Yakov” Kramer, who pleaded guilty to a series of sexual assaults against a child and who had also been accused of molesting an elderly hospital patient, has died suddenly in custody.

Alleged Murderer Of Baby Found Wrapped In “Haredi” Skirt Found

The mother of an hours-old infant found dead in a recycling center November 12 amid piles of cardboard and wrapped in a “haredi” skirt has been identified, arrested and charged with second degree murder.

Ashkenazi Haredi Pols Attack Court, Say New Beit Shemesh Elections Are “Racist” And “Undemocratic”

A slew of Ashkenazi haredi politicians have joined their Sefardi haredi counterparts to attack the Jerusalem District Court ruling issued earlier today invalidating the results of the recent local election in Beit Shemesh due to widespread organized haredi voter fraud committed on behalf of the city’s Sefardi haredi mayor Rabbi Moshe Abutbol.

Haredi Über-Thief Eliyahu Weinstein Again Tells Court He Wants To Withdraw Guilty Plea

Eliyahu Weinstein's latest gambit to withdraw his guilty plea really seems to be constructed to attempt to hide laundering of stolen money through one of the groups of attorneys Weinstein hired by attempting to portray that group of attorneys as thieves who defrauded Weinstein out of the money, which was paid to them as a retainer.

Satmar Rebbe Visits Site Of New Satmar-Only Hasidic Village As Town Reels From Developer’s Apparent Lies

The repeated claims of developer Shalom Lamm and his associates about the nature of their 396-unit townhouse development in the tiny 420-population town of Bloomingburg, New York appear to have been refuted this week after a delegation headed by the Williamsburg Satmar Rebbe Rabbi Zalman Teitelbaum toured the site.

When You Have To Put On Tefillin And Pray In Public, Do It In Front Of An Iconic Lingerie Store

Hasidim gear up and pray in front of a Victoria's Secret store.

Court Overturns Beit Shemesh Election Due To Haredi Voter Fraud

In an unprecedented decision, earlier today an Israeli court voided the election results and ordered a new election be held in the scandal-plagued Jerusalem bedroom suburb of Beit Shemesh.

Tiny Town's Board Violates State Open Meeting Law To Try To Mute Criticism Of New Satmar Village

The corruption, collusion and dishonesty surrounding Rabbi Norman Lamm's son Shalom Lamm's Satmar housing development/village in Bloomingburg, New York reached a new low this week as the town's addled and corrupt board broke state open meeting laws to hold its first meeting in about four months.

Zionist Orthodox Parents Turn To American Supporters To Stop Convicted Sex Offender From Teaching In Israeli Yeshiva

Hamstrung by cowardly Israeli politicians and furious that Elon will continue to teach at Druckman’s yeshiva, “concerned Israeli parents are turning to the American Friends of Yeshiva Bnei Akiva to protest his continued employment. They are also asking for support in pressuring Or Etzion head Rabbi Haim Druckman to reverse the decision to retain him.”

No One In Israel Listens To Haredi Rabbis & Leaders, Haredi MK Says

“It’s no wonder [a group of leading hasidic rebbes is] traveling abroad [to the US] to influence others since sadly, at home no one is willing to listen to what we have to say. Perhaps after the impact of this historic trip is felt, the influence from there will be felt here.”

Video: Channel 10 Documentary Report On The Haredi Lev Tahor Cult

Israel's Channel 10 News made a documentary on the Lev Tahor haredi cult. I've posted a version with English subtitles below.

Chief Rabbi Of Rehovot Condemns Draft, Says Haredi Yeshiva Students And Haredi Yeshivas Should Get The Equivalent Government Funding As Research Universities And Grad Students

“[Haredi] yeshiva students are not entitled to the scholarships given to 220,000 [secular] students every year? Or to a scholastic budget equivalent to the annual 7 billion [shekels] allocated [by the government] for [secular] academic institutions? Israel is one of the few global Torah centers and it must be preserved!"

iPhones Make Mikvas Unkosher, Invalidate Weddings And Divorces, Leading Haredi Rabbi Rules

Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky says anyone who owns an iPhone or similar phone or device that has full internet capabilities is halakhicly considered damaged and is therefore forbidden to serve as a witness at a wedding or a divorce. If an iPhone user with such a smartphone had already served as a witness at a wedding or a divorce, then the wedding or divorce is invalid and must be done over again, and this holds true not only a priori, but also as a secondary position (i.e., even b’diavad). And this holds true for many other things, including the validity of women's mikvas.

Video: Satmar Protests Against Israel In Manhattan

Satmar is protesting the State of Israel and the haredi draft near Israel's mission to the UN in Manhattan today. Here are video and a few photos.

Government, Probably Illegally, Postpones Draft of Haredi Yeshiva Students For Third Time

Israel’s Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon of the Likud Party has just postponed drafting 1,800 haredi yeshiva students who were scheduled to report to the IDF at the end of this month.

Rabbis, Girls – Even Orthodox Girls – Just Want To Have Fun, Orthodox Sex Educator Says

"The prevalent discourse in the religious public, both before and after the wedding, is 'give it to him even if you don't feel like it,' 'make it possible, go with the flow.' That's the worst thing. It makes a woman not want to even more and develop a negative approach, and it's definitely not fair towards the women. I had a couple in which the husband asked a rabbi what he should do if his wife is not showing enough interest in marital life. The rabbi said, 'Have a talk with her, explain to her that it's very, very important to you, and that she should allow it.' These are destructive statements. They stem from a conservative worldview that women 'don't really enjoy themselves.' A woman doesn't want to have sex because it's not good for her, because she's going through something. Let's help her instead of forcing her into an act she doesn’t want."

For The First Time Ever, Government Moves To Remove Haredi Chief Rabbi Of Israeli City

A haredi chief rabbi of an Israeli city may be removed by Israel’s Religious Services Ministry because he continues to bypass state rabbinical courts and instead refers questions of Jewish status to private haredi investigative organizations which intentionally rule very strictly on these matters and unnecessarily rule people to be of questionable or non-Jewish status.

Haredim Will Flee Israel En Masse If Draft Law Passes, Obnoxious Haredi MK Claims

“The haredi community feels choked by the situation, to the point many are contemplating forfeiting their Israeli citizenship. If you want to rule over us then do so – but regarding education and culture, we must maintain our autonomy, as it has been for the last 3,000 years."

Convicted Orthodox Drug Smuggler Given Right To Expand Pre-Sentencing House Arrest To Visit Grave Of Dead Chabad-Lubavitch Rebbe

A Chabad-affiliated Staten Island drug kingpin whose smuggling and trafficking operation brought in upwards $6 million per week at its height has been given permission to expand the terms of his pre-sentencing house arrest to visit the grave of the late Lubavitcher Rebbe with his pregnant fiancée to seek blessings and advice from the dead rabbi for their upcoming wedding.

Lev Tahor Haredi Cult Court Proceeding Put Off Until January 10

An Ontario, Canada court will have to decide whether Ontario should follow a Quebec court's ruling and seize 14 Lev Tahor children who fled Quebec with their families and the rest of the Lev Tahor cult late last month, or whether the children can stay with their arguably abusive and neglectful families.

Hit And Run Leaves Haredi Yeshiva Student Hospitalized In Jerusalem

The driver – reportedly a Jewish tourist from New York (who some claim is a prominent Satmar hasid) – fled the scene but was caught by a traffic police officer in Kiryat Belz.

Racist Rabbi Launches Bid To Ban Zionist Orthodox Girls From Army Service

“Military service is inappropriate for a Jewish girl [because it compels her to be involved in situations which] negatively affect her faith and harm her emotionally, and unfortunately, also physically.…We are here to stress the complete prohibition against girls going to the army. Military service causes great damage to girls' faith and values…"

NYPD Reportedly Incensed Over Satmar Anti-Israel Protest Scheduled For Xmas Week

“They know what this week is. Where is their sensitivity? That’s all they care about is that the NYPD should be sensitive to their needs, which we respect. But how about being sensitive to our needs as well. This is [supposed to be] a two way street.”

Ballroom Dancing As Couples Therapy For The Orthodox And Haredim

"We have slightly lost femininity and masculinity,. If I look at women today, they are very independent and leading and have an opinion. In dancing the man is the frame and the woman is the picture. In our studio, the woman learns to be a woman.”

Chabad Child Sex Abuse Scandal: They Sided With The Abusers

"In the 1990s, the father of two victims at Yeshivah College formally complained to Rabbi Glick (about Kramer) and he refused to take action.  The school principal advised the father that he wouldn’t even suspend Kramer from the teaching staff because he was ‘concerned for his welfare’. To hell with the welfare of his victims or future victims.  What hope did those kids have?  Here’s their rabbi, their school principal, siding with their abuser."

Senior Sefardi Haredi Rabbi Threatens To Convert Children Of Haredi Draft Supporters To Haredism In Retaliation For Draft

"[Underestimating the Sephardi opposition to the draft is] a big mistake on their part. We will not surrender to them and we will not let them think our boys will follow them. The only way to frustrate them is for all of us to unite as one body in support of this cause. They want to draft our pupils, but [instead] we will recruit their sons to the yeshiva benches."

Leading Zionist Orthodox Rabbi Says Conviction Of Sex Abuser Rabbi Mordechai Elon Was A “Mistake,” Says Elon Will Continue To Teach In Yeshiva, Despite Law Banning It

The most important Zionist Orthodox rabbi in Israel, Haim Druckman, has again defended sex abuser Rabbi Mordechai Elon. But this time Druckman – who has a history of defending and enabling pedophiles and harassing victims – did so only days after Elon was convicted of molesting a minor who came to him for help in a time of crisis.