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Ex-Agriprocessors Supervisor Who Fled To Israel gets 41 Month Sentence

Hosam Amara, a former supervisor at Agriprocessors kosher slaughterhouse in Postville, Iowa, was sentenced to 41 months in prison, substantially less than the 78 months prosecutors wanted. Amara’s sentence was at the top of the federal sentencing guidelines and the judge, Linda Reade was unwilling to go beyond them. She also ruled that Amara would get credit for 11 months he has spent in custody before pleading guilty and while awaiting sentencing. About 9 months of that time was served here in the US.

Court Upholds And Expands Stop Work Order For New Satmar Hasidic Village

A federal judge has just upheld yesterday's stop work order for all construction of a new Satmar hasidic village in the tiny town of Bloomingburg, New York. Developer Shalom Lamm tried to deceive locals into thinking the 396-unit townhome development, Chestnut Ridge, was open to anyone who wants to live there, but Satmar advertised the development in their Yiddish-language newspapers as a new Satmar-only hasidic village called Kiryas Yated Lev.

Living In A Parking Lot – The Haredi Housing Crisis Revealed

A tiny structure – a shed, really – located in a single parking spot underneath an apartment building in the haredi city of Bnei Brak is the home of a young haredi couple and their infant son. It has one window, kitchenette, bed and tiny bathroom. The couple pays 3,000 shekels ($858) per month rent for it.

Haredim Join Right Wing Group To Demand Supermarkets Fire Arab Workers

Rami Levi employs many Arabs, and that angers right wing Jews – including haredim – who say the Arabs, primarily men, cause Jewish women to stray. The Arabs allegedly seduce the Jewish women and girls and cause them to intermarry.

New Haredi Anti-Draft Children’s Cartoons Depict Haredi Soldiers As Both Murderers Of Haredi Children And Victims Of The IDF

New drawings created by haredi children who are likely part of the Edah Haredit umbrella group depict the IDF as a garbage truck and haredi soldiers as predators attempting to destroy and kill haredi children.

Rubashkin Files New Motion To Try To Force Judge To Recuse Herself

In a new motion, the attorneys for former Agriprocessors VP Sholom Rubashkin have moved to recuse Chief United States District Court Judge Linda R. Reade from presiding over Rubashkin’s pending 2255 Motion to vacate his sentence.

Indict Cop Who Beat Haredi Man During Violent Protest, Internal Affairs Reportedly Says

The Police Internal Affairs Unit of Israel’s Ministry of Justice has reportedly recommended that a border policeman accused of beating a haredi protester during a violent haredi protest in Beit Shemesh be indicted.

Sex Abuse lawsuit Against Yeshiva University Thrown Out Of Court

A $380 million lawsuit against Yeshiva University’s all-boys Manhattan high school, the Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy, for allegedly covering up widespread sexual abuse was thrown out of court today by a federal judge.

Judge Orders Halt To Construction Of New Satmar Hasidic Village In Bloomingburg, New York

5W PR Head Sued Over Alleged False And Defamatory Comments Made Online Against His Late Mother’s Boyfriend

Ronn Torossian, the head of 5W PR who in 2008 was caught (by this writer) impersonating online Rabbi Morris Allen and other figures critical of Agriprocessors and Sholom Rubashkin in order to defame them, has allegedly been caught again – this time by his late mother’s boyfriend.

Haifa’s Sefardi Chief Rabbi On Verge Of Being Charged With Fraud, Breach Of Public Trust

Both Haifa prosecutors and the State of Israel’s Prosecutor's Office have reportedly recommended that Rabbi Shmuel Shaloush be prosecuted for fraud and breach of public trust.

Reform Synagogue Vandalized In Israel

A large reform synagogue in Ra'anana, a bedroom suburb of Tel aviv, was covered with anti-Reform graffiti overnight by unknown assailants, Israel Police announced today.

Cops Raid Haredi Lev Tahor Cult

Canadian police reportedly raided the haredi Lev Tahor cult’s compound in Chatham-Kent, Ontario, executing two search warrants for two separate dwellings.

She's Baaaack

Female kabbalist will eliminate "the evil eye and phobias" along with improving shidduchim prospects and "child bearing" – but don't forget to pay her!

Video: Shochet Or Mashgiach At Veal Slaughterhouse Closed For Horrific Animal Cruelty Explains Where The Kosher Slaughtered Meat Is Sold

The kosher veal slaughtered under extremely cruel conditions at Catelli Brothers in New Jersey is, as FailedMessiah.com exclusively reported Monday, sold by Meal Mart, which in turn is owned by Alle Processing, the Satmar-hasid-owned kosher slaughter giant. Here's proof.

Senior Haredi Rabbi Says Recent Deaths Of Haredi Children Caused By “Insulting Senior Haredi Rabbis”

Ashkenazi haredi #2 Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky was asked why so many bad things – deaths of haredi children in a bizarre pesticide accident, a haredi family in a gas explosion, deaths of young kollel students, and other bizarre injuries and illnesses – have happened recently. Kanievsky, no stranger to theodicy, was quick to answer.

Haredi Scammer Eliyahu Weinstein's Motions All Denied, Sentencing To Take Place As Scheduled

"…None of the motions raised an issue relevant or related to Weinstein’s sentencing, and as far as the Court can discern, their only purpose has been to delay the sentencing date and to create an argument for post-conviction relief that may be outside the scope of Weinstein’s waiver of appeal contained in his plea agreement.…"

Daniel Greenberg Convicted In Online Scam

"Daniel Greenberg, the president and owner of Classic Closeouts, LLC, a now-defunct Internet seller of discounted clothing and personal items, was convicted today by a federal jury in Central Islip on all thirteen counts for defrauding thousands of customers through unauthorized use of the credit and debit card numbers they had provided…"

More Orthodox Girls Choosing To Enlist In The IDF; IDF Will Not Follow Chief Rabbis’ Ruling Against It

IDF officials say they aren't interested in openly fighting with Orthodox rabbis, but insist they will do everything short of that to keep the number of Orthodox girls enlisting in the army growing.

New Case Of Infant Herpes Transmitted By Metzitzah B'Peh

"…In January 2014, the New York City (NYC) Department of Health and Mental Hygiene received a report of a new case of HSV-1 infection in a newborn male infant following direct orogenital suction. To date, a total of 14 laboratory-confirmed cases of HSV-infection attributable to direct orogenital suction have been reported to the Health Department since 2000. Two of these infants died, and at least two others suffered brain damage.…"

Former Agriprocessors Supervisor Wants Credit For Israeli House Arrest When Sentenced

Hosam Amara – the former Agriprocessors supervisor who fled to Israel in 2008 to escape arrest at the encouragement of and with the help of Agriprocessors VP Sholom Rubashkin in the days following the 2008 immigration raid on the glatt koser slaughterhouse in Postville, Iowa – has asked a federal court in Iowa to give him credit for time he spent on house arrest and in jail in Israel.

Cops Reportedly Find Murdered Satmar Slumlord’s DNA In Van

DNA from Menachem “Max” Stark, the Satmar slumlord murdered early this month after being kidnapped in front of his Williamsburg office, has reportedly been found in a van linked to a contractor Stark owed $20,000.

Exclusive: Haredi Group To Open Missionary Center And Kollel At Auschwitz

Like the Carmelite nuns before them, a haredi group is opening a kollel (advanced yeshiva) and kiruv (often deceptive outreach, intra-Jewish-community missionary) center across from the Auschwitz death camp. But unlike the nuns, these haredi rabbis will be directly preying on the children of secular and non-Orthodox Jews who come to Auschwitz – a site sanctified through the blood and smoke and ashes of the millions who were murdered there.

Shomer Shabbos Drug Dealer Gets Up To 5 Years in Prison

Police said Edward Sorin and his partners texted customers with instructions on how to pick up their purchases, and made sure to warn customers that the gang was closed for business on Shabbos, the Jewish Sabbath that runs from just before sundown on Fridays to just after sundown on Saturdays.

Electronic Currency Innovator Busted For Money Laundering And Drug Buys

Twenty-four year old Charlie Shrem – a Yeshiva of Flatbush grad who is the CEO of the digital currency exchange BitInstant and the vice chairman of the Bitcoin Foundation, a nonprofit group aimed at promoting the digital currency – was arrested earlier this week with another man on money laundering charges.

The Netherlands Asks Israel To Extradite Alleged Haredi Child Sex Abuser

The Public Prosecution Department of The Netherlands has asked Israel to extradite a haredi man suspected of sexually abusing minors at Cheider, an Orthodox Jewish school in Amsterdam where he once taught.

Haredi Couple Arrested For Child Neglect

A haredi couple in their thirties were reportedly arrested in Manchester, England after police found their eight young children had been left alone in the family’s filthy and unsafe home Saturday night.

Haredi Who Spied For Iran Gets 4 1/2 Years in Prison

A member of the vehemently anti-Zionist haredi Naturei Karta sect has pleaded guilty to spying for Iran and will serve 4 1/2 years in prison.

Video: Horrific Animal Abuse At Slaughterhouse That Produces Veal For Meal Mart

Horrific animal abuse was uncovered at Catelli Brother's slaughterhouse in New Jersey. The Humane Society of the US says the plant did kosher and non-kosher slaughter – with the kosher slaughter done by and sold under the Meal Mart/Alle Processing brands. (Catelli Brothers own brand is not kosher.) The USDA shut down the plant. Paul Shapiro of the Humane Society of the US told me tonight that mis-slaughters with calves left alive for up to 2 minutes after shechita were very common.

Video: Rabbi Nuchem Rosenberg On The Moral Courage Channel

The fight against the people who fight against pedophiles in the hasidic community can get extremely nasty – as this new brief video of anti-child-sex-abuse activist Rabbi Nuchem Rosenberg shows.

Haredi Independent School System Chinuch Atzmai Raided By Government Agents

It was dramatic, but not as dramatic as it might sound. The Jerusalem office of the “independent” haredi educational system Chinuch Atzmai was raided by government agents yesterday. Agents from the state’s court collection authority Ho’tzaot L’Poel reportedly confiscated computers and other office equipment.

Bnei Brak Murder Highlights Problems With The Haredi Education System

In the haredi community, being a rosh yeshiva often means having complete control over the yeshiva, even though the yeshiva is officially a nonprofit and should have a board and normal governance. But haredi yeshivas are often run as family businesses, even though they really are not legally allowed to be run that way. This means that even top teachers can have no say over policy, over how students are treated – or if students are expelled from yeshiva. Back to the murder.

The Lies Of The New York Post

The New York Post chooses to ignore the fact that that an accused pedophile's attorney lied to them and ignores the much else about the case, to try to smear a blogger for reporting the pedophile's arrest.

Haredi Mohels' Group Backs Mohel Who Cut Off Baby's Penis

The suit says Rabbi Mordechai Rosenberg (pictured at right) "suffered from an impairment of his ability to think and process thoughts clearly" and recklessly failed to use the shield normally employed to protect against catastrophic injury. Mr. Rosen said Rabbi Rosenberg severed the organ and that the boy's grandfather, himself a doctor, immediately called Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC and alerted them to assemble a reconstructive surgery team.

Doctors In Sweden And Denmark Call For A Ban On Infant Ritual Circumcision

“We are not religious experts, but for medical reasons we cannot approve a procedure that removes tissue from the genitals [for non-medical reasons] in which the risk is so great for serious complications.”

Hasidim And S & M: Visiting Dungeons Of Pain And Sex

A sex worker who wields a whip talks about her alleged hasidic clients.

Satmar Zalman Faction Issues Eyeglasses Ban And Eyeglasses Dress Code

"…And though the truth is its extra to talk about this topic, because all our honorable parents seek the same way to continue raise generations of children with the truth of God and his holy Torah, and they stand and monitor these things, but with all we feel its important to issue a reminder about this topic that has lately started to catch in due to ignorance, by some of the kids, to go with dark black plastic [“Woody Allen”] glasses what comes from the goyisha [non-Jewish] styles.…"

Haredi Newspaper Hamodia Apologizes For Saying Ariel Sharon's Memory Should Be A Blessing

"…I was astonished and astounded to see that [Hamodia] honored Sharon with a very undeserving title "z"l" [zichrono l'vracha; may his memory be a blessing.) Even though the writer attempts to describe him as a very proud Jew, it seems to be quite irrelevant when the proud one is actually not practicing what he's proud of. Hamodia, being an orthodox paper with Torah values should of [sic]not honored an unorthodox person with this title.…"

US Attorney Files Statement Supporting Jewish Pine Bush Students

The US Attorney for the Southern District of New York told a federal court in White Plains that evidence in the lawsuit by three Jewish families against the Pine Bush, New York school district “could support a conclusion” that beyond disciplining individual students, the school district’s efforts to stop anti-Semitic bullying of the Jewish students “ignored multiple signals that greater, more directed action was needed.”

Ancient Tablet Says ‘Noah’s Ark’ Was Round

The tablet’s ark is a huge circular coracle or round boat, 38,750 square feet in dimension and was supposed to be made “like a giant rope basket strengthened with wooden ribs, and waterproofed with bitumen inside and out” – a giant version of a normally tiny boat that was in daily use until the late 20th to ferry people and livestock across rivers.

Rapfogel Reportedly On Verge Of Pleading Guilty

William E. Rapfogel, the former head of the New York City Jewish community’s anti-poverty arm, the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty, is reportedly on the verge of pleading guilty to his role in running a $7 million dollar embezzlement scheme.

Shechita Called “Barbaric” In British House Of Lords

During what the London Jewish Chronicle called a “fierce debate” in the House of Lords, shechita (Jewish ritual slaughter of cattle, chickens, turkeys, etc.) was called as “barbaric” and “absolutely unacceptable.” before Jewish peers rallied to defend the practice.

Alleged Embezzlement From Murdered Slumlord’s Business Account Began “A Protracted Period Of Time” Before Previously Thought, Almost $2 Million Missing

In court yesterday, Flaxer said that the apparent embezzlement from South Side LLC started a "protracted period of time" before Nov. 6, 2013 – the date of a suspicious bank statement previously provided to the court.

Haredi Rebel Faction’s Newspaper On Brink Of Bankruptcy

The financial foundation of the HaPeles newspaper, started about a year ago by followers Ashkenazi haredi rebel leader Rabbi Shmuel Auerbach, is reportedly crumbling.

Breslov Community Implodes As Leader Continues To Flee Prosecution

Many children of followers of Rabbi Eliezer Berland, the Breslov leader who fled Israel to avoid prosecution on sex abuse charges and who is now holed up in Namibia, are reportedly no longer strictly Orthodox and wander the streets committing crimes.

When Israeli Haredim Want To Leave, They Often Find They Have Nowhere To Go

"Although the government is now offering a growing range of vocational training programs and grants for ultra-Orthodox men and women interested in joining the workforce, only those who remain Haredi are eligible. What choice is there but to remain inside and raise another generation in denial?"

Top Prosecutor Appointed To Prosecute Accused Haredi Child Sex Abuser Rabbi Baruch Lebovits

Rabbi Baruch Lebovits is in a heap of trouble. He is finally about to be retried, and Brooklyn’s new District Attorney Kenneth Thompson has appointed his office’s top prosecutor, Anna-Sigga Nicolazzi, to help prosecute him. Nicolazzi — a homicide bureau chief – has never lost a trial.

Town To Hold Special Referendum Over Controversial Sale Of School To Satmar

The Mount Hope, New York town board has set the date for a public referendum on the controversial sale of a shuttered school to a Satmar hasidic group.

2 Haredim Arrested In Violent Beit Shemesh Protest

Two haredim were reportedly arrested yesterday in Beit Shemesh during a violent protest against construction at a site that a tiny minority of haredim believe contains ancient Jewish graves.

Ban: Ashkenazi Haredi Rabbis Across The Board Ban Haredi News Hotlines

Senior haredi rabbinic leaders from both the hasidic Agudat Israel Party and the non-hasidic Degel HaTorah Party issued a ban today on listening, operating or being interviewed by haredi news hotlines.