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5 More IDF Soldiers Killed

5 more IDF soldiers were reportedly killed in Gaza in the runup to the cease fire that is scheduled to begin in less than three hours.

US And UN Announce Gaza Cease Fire

US Secretary of State John Kerry and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon have announced a 72-hour cease fire to begin at 8:00 am Israel time (midnight US Central Time), during which representatives of Israel, Hamas and the PA are expected to meet in Egypt to work out larger issues.

Small Anonymous Group Of Haredim Allegedly Wants To Volunteer For IDF Combat Duty

A small group of anonymous haredi yeshiva students reportedly claims it wants to enlist as a group and serve on the front lines in Gaza – but with preconditions.

Haredi-Founded, Israel-Based US Tax Scam Discovered By IRS

A scam to file falsified tax returns to get unwarranted child tax credits for American expats living in Israel that began in the haredi community allegedly spread throughout the American ex-pat community in Israel causing a crackdown by the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) it dubbed the "Israel Project.”

France May Ban JDL Over Violence, Incitement

The French Interior Ministry is considering banning the radical Ligue de Défense Juive (Jewish Defense League; JDL) over violence and over provoking violence by anti-Israel demostrators.

Picture Of The Day: Neturei Karta Members Doing Inverted Nazi Salute At Anti-Israel Protest

At a pro-Palestinian demonstration in Manchester, England members of the rabidly anti-Zionist haredi group Neturei Karta did the the Quenelle – as an inverted Nazi salute and an anti-semitic gesture – countries across Europe are trying to ban because of its association with anti-Semitism and Nazism.

Cop Shoots Haredi Burka Cult Woman At Kotel

There was a security alert in place last night at the Kotel (Western Wall), and police were on edge. Yeshiva students had been warned to stay indoors rather than mill about the plaza in front of the Kotel or pray there. But the only person shot was a 35-year-old haredi woman dressed in an odd improvised version of a burka.

Hamas Rockets Still Flying As Israel Calls Up 16,000 Reserve Soldiers

Hamas continues to fire a large number of rockets at Israel today, and Israel has now called up 16,000 more reserve soldiers to fight what looks to be a long and protracted Gaza war.

New Square Rabbi Charged With Felony Child Sex Abuse Rejects Plea Deal

Rabbi Moshe Menachem Taubenfeld, a New Square teacher who is the father of 20 children, is charged with repeatedly sexually abusing a young boy over a five-year period of time. Earlier this month, Taubenfeld turned down a plea deal offered by prosecutors and will fight the abuse charge at trial.

Video: Historian Simon Schama Says Orthodox And Haredi Jews Are "In Denial"

Orthodox and ultra-Orthodox Jews essentially are in denial because they deny history and deny fact in order to maintain separatist beliefs and a separatist society, the noted historian says.

Tying Tzitzit For IDF Soldiers “Work Of The Devil,” Haredi Rabbi Says

Rabbi Tuvia Novick, the mashgiach ruchani (dean of students) of the haredi yeshiva in Hadera, told his students that tying ritual fringes for IDF soldiers is wrong because it is “the work of Satan.”

Accused Crown Heights Rapists Sue Ex-DA Over Allegedly Bogus Criminal Charges

And leave it to New York City's sleaziest daily tabloid to misreport the story.

New York Magazine Publishes Fawning Profile Of Disgraced Haredi Kabbalist-To-The-Stars Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto

"…[Pinto] became aware of his own supernatural abilities when he was just 11 years old. “The rabbi was a kid in school,” related a follower who’d been told the story. “And there was a teacher who was not good. The rabbi prayed, ‘God, please punish this person.’ An hour later the teacher was riding a bicycle when he had an accident. Until today he’s in a wheelchair.”…"

Ashkenazi Haredim To Cancel Yeshiva Vacations Because It Looks Bad To Have Yeshiva Students Vacationing During A War They Refuse To Serve In

"…We need to know this is not like the other times. We are now in a terrible situation. Our brothers who have strayed [from Torah and haredi Orthodoxy – i.e., Jews who are not haredi] take every opportunity to make propaganda [against us] and incite against yeshiva Torah scholars. And is now in this time of war, thousands of Jews endanger themselves and every day large numbers of soldiers are killed, may God have mercy on us, and logic says that if [haredi yeshiva students] would vacation now with all that entails, it would cause a huge chillul Hashem when the seducers who wait for us on every occasion will open their mouths to speak ill of the Torah world.…"

Kiryas Joel Satmar Hasid Busted For Alleged Child Molestation

The New York State Police in Monroe arrested 27-year-old Joel Mendlowitz of the Satmar hasidic Village of Kiryas Joel for sexual misconduct and endangering the welfare of a child.

UPDATED: Lawsuit Against Sefardi Haredi Kabbalist-To-The-Stars Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto

Tomer Shohat's updated lawsuit against Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto, Pinto's brother Menachem, NYPD cop Eric Patino and Pinto's aide, cousin and ex-pornographer Benzion Suky. Among the money Shohat alleges Suky and Pinto stole is $4,800 they took from the company account and contributed to embattled US Congressman Michael Grimm's 2010 campaign and a $101 donation to the Chabad-linked Noahide.org. And then, of course, we have the allegedly trumped up arrest of Shohat carried out by Pinto pal Patino, and Pinto's and Suky's alleged looting of the real estate business.

Most Hasidic Groups In Israel Will Keep Yeshivas Open During Summer Vacation Due To The War

Major hasidic groups in Israel, excluding Chabad, will not close their yeshivas for the normal summer vacation period that runs from approximately Tisha B’Av to Rosh Hodesh Elul. The official rationale for this move is supposed to be the idea that Torah study provides protection for the Jewish people and the Land of Israel and, during a time of war, that protection is especially needed. But public relations is also playing an outsized role.

Satmar Aharon Faction Tries To Build New 620-Family Hasidic Development Near Kiryas Joel

South Blooming Grove is about four miles north of the rapidly growing Satmar hasidic Village of Kiryas Joel – the poorest municipality in the entire country. The South Blooming Grove development would be an extention of it.

Why Do Haredim Do Metzitzah B’Peh, The Dangerous Circumcision-Related Practice That Has Killed And Maimed Babies?

Why do so many ultra-Orthodox Jews still do metzitzah b'peh (MBP), even though it is dangerous and risks babies' lives? What follows is an answer to that question.

Hamas Rejects PLO Unilateral Cease Fire

The PLO declared a unilateral 24-hour humanitarian Gaza cease fire today that would have been respected by all Palestinian factions and hopefully by Israel, but Hamas rejected it.

Suspect In Gruesome Murder Of Arab Boy Tells Reporters “I Am The Messiah”

As he made his way into a Jerusalem court to hear the indictment against him read out by Jerusalem District Court Judge Yaakov Tzaban, Yosef Chaim Ben-David was asked by reporters if he felt any remorse for the kidnapping Abu Khdeir and burning him alive. Ben-David replied, “I am the messiah.”

Ancient Human Remains May Be From World’s First “Race War”

Archaeologists studying 13,000-year-old human remains from the Mesolithic Era found at a burial site in Sudan have found proof of what may have been the world’s first race war.

Chabad And Breslov Missionize IDF Combat Soldiers As Former IDF Chief Rabbi Visits Troops And Tells Them This Is a Religious War Against Hamas

Breslover hasidim are a common sight along the Gaza border, as are their Chabad-Lubavitch competitors. Military police have been blocking access to vehicles that do not belong to local residents, but somehow the hasidim are getting through anyway. So have other various religious types, with and without any authority, with and without any permission from the IDF. Chabad and Breslov use this often unapproved access to soldiers to do missionary activities with them when they are at their most vulnerable – something the IDF officially opposes.

IDF Reserve Soldier And His Two Young Children Attacked By Haredim In Beit Shemesh

An IDF reserve soldier and his little children were attacked and his car windows were smashed by a mob of haredim in Beit Shemesh Monday night.

Shomrei Emunim Rebbe: President Obama “Black Dog,” “Worse Than Hitler”

“Suddenly…he gestured with his hands to ask what is happening in the world. At first I thought he was asking me about personal things, but he said that was not what he meant, and that he wanted to know what was going on in the world with the ‘evil Obama.’ It was one of the last times I was with him and talked with him, and at the time said to me, write this down and remember things, yet be revealed for all to see, that ‘evil black dog will be revealed to have the wickedness of Hitler.…You do not know how I worked and tried to cry out [to God] to prevent his election, and I could not, and [saw that Obama] would be worse than Hitler.’"

Appraiser Who Allegedly Took $5,000 From Skvere Hasidim Gets Sweetheart Plea Deal, Hasidim, School Board Members Still Not Charged

More than a year after the appraiser's arrest, prosecutors reportedly still refuse to identify the Skvere hasidim who allegedly bribed Vardi and at least one school board member who allegedly played a role in the scheme, and none of them have been arrested or charged.

Hamas Terrorists Infiltrate Israel

A team of Hamas terrorists has just inflitrated southern Israel through a tunnel.

Reform Rabbi Named To Be US Ambassador For International Religious Freedom

Rabbi David Saperstein’s appointment will likely increase pressure on Israel to prosecute price tag attacks and other hate crimes against minorities – including a long string of hate crimes against African asylum-seekers – and hate crimes against non-Orthodox Jewish movements and Women of the Wall, all of who have suffered from violent and non-violent hate crimes Israel has repeatedly failed to prosecute.

Updated: 4 IDF Soldiers Dead, At least 6 Others Wounded, In Hamas Cross-Border Mortar Attack

At least four IDF soldiers are dead and six others wounded, some critically, when mortars fired from Gaza hit the Eshkol region of Israel just across the Gaza border Monday night.

Jerusalem Jews Blast Shema Prayer On Loudspeakers At 2:30 AM To Irritate Arabs

Upset by Ramadan calls to prayer from mosque loudspeakers in the adjacent Arab neighborhood of Tzur Baher waking them in the middle of the night, a group of Jews from the Armon Hanatziv neighborhood of southern Jerusalem decided to get revenge. So in the middle of the greatest tension between Israel’s Jewish and Arab populations in a decade, these Jewish Jerusalemites got their own loudspeakers, pointed them toward Tzur Baher – and loudly chanted the Shema prayer at 2:30 am.

Video: Joan Rivers Rant On Israel Gaza War

In case you haven't seen it, here's Joan Rivers' impromptu rant about the Israel Hamas war in Gaza.

Video: Israeli-American UFC Fighter Wins Saturday Night Fight, Heads To Israel To Rejoin IDF Unit

Noad Lahat fought on last night's UFC fight card, winning a decision over Steven Siler in the early preliminaries. Monday, he's flying back to Israel with his American wife so he can rejoin his IDF reserve unit and, as soon as the war is over, have a formal Jewish wedding.

Report: Residential Health Care Facility Owned By Lakewood Rabbi Mice-Ridden, Filthy, Dangerous

Dover Woods residential healthcare is owned by Erez Healthcare Realty Company of Lakewood, New Jersey. Mice allegedly infest the Toms River, New Jersey facility as residents sit amid stench in urine-fouled clothing. Erez, a for-profit entity, was founded and is owned by Rabbi Isser Zalman Kotler, a descendant of Rabbi Ahaorn Kotler, founder of the largest haredi yeshiva outide Israel, Beth Medrash Govoha in Lakewood, commonly known simply as "Lakewood Yeshiva." 

Video: Clinton Says Accusing Israel of War Crimes Is Not Fair

Former Secretary of State and US Senator Hillary Clinton tells CNN's Fareed Zakaria that accusing Israel of war crimes is not fair.

IDF Ends Unilateral Cease Fire After Hamas Sends Rocket Barrages Into Israel

The IDF has begun striking Gaza again after rocket barrages were fired on southern and central Israel by Hamas.

OTD Woman Who Posted Near-Nude Selfies Wrapped In Tefillin Has Car Accident, Haredim Claim God Punished Her For Her Sins

Brenda Turtle's car accident would not be news if it the haredi reaction to it had not been so typically haredi, and if the New York Post's reaction had not been so typical of New York City's sleaziest tabloid.

43 IDF Soldiers Dead Since Gaza Ground Operation Began

43 IDF soldiers have been killed since Israel's ground operation in Gaza began 10 days ago, including seven since Friday night, two of whom died from wounds sustained earlier and one of whom was killed during the humanitarian cease fire by a Hamas mortar fired into Israel.

Right-Wing Thugs Try To Attack Leftists, Celebrate The Deaths Of Arab Children

At least 7,000 left-wing anti-war protesters flooded Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square for an anti-war protest Saturday night organized by the hard-left political party Hadash, Combatants for Peace, and The Parents Circle Families Forum. But the peaceful protest was marred by right-wing violence and thuggery.

Jewish Mob Allegedly Beats, Seriously Injures, 2 Palestinians With Iron Bars, Baseball Bats

Both men, Amir Shwiki and Samer Mahfouz, were seriously injured and are hospitalized in Hadassah University Hospital Ein Karem.

Haredi War News: Haredi Faction Bans Haredim From Attending Home Front Command's Missile Defense Instruction Sessions

HaPeles, the mouthpiece newspaper of the non-hasidic Ashkenazi haredi rebel faction led by Rabbi Shmuel Auerbach, ordered haredim not to attend the Home Front Command's war education sessions held specifically for haredim in haredi neighborhoods of Jerusalem. Why? The sessions are all allegedly an evil IDF-government plot.

Updated: Israel Reportedly Rejects US-Brokered Cease Fire That It Says Rewards Hamas Terror

The Government of Israel has turned down a US-brokered one-week "humanitarian" two-step cease fire proposed by US Secretary of State John Kerry.

While His Soldiers Fight And Die, Defense Minister Takes Time Off To Visit Chabad, Participate In Torah-Writing Ceremony

While the soldiers he commands are fighting and dying in Gaza, Israel’s Defense Minister Moshe took some time off Thursday to appear at a Chabad function some are calling a publicity stunt in Kfar Chabad near Tel Aviv.

Crown Heights Modesty Sign Illegally Warns Women

New Crown Heights modesty signs illegally posted on public property warn women to dress "modestly" because Crown Heights is "a Jewish neighborhood."

Report: Right-Wing Thugs Target Leftist Anti-War Protesters As Police Do Little To Stop It

Left-wing anti-war protesters in Haifa, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem now need to travel in groups to avoid being caught alone by gangs of right-wing thugs who lurk at the fringes of left-wing protests and, like the biblical Amalek, physically attack isolated leftists as they try to make there way to or from the anti-war protests.

Video: Islamic Terrorists Blow Up Tomb Of Jonah The Prophet In Iraq

ISIS intentionally destroyed the mosque and tomb below it of Jonah the Prophet in Mosul, Iraq. The site has long been considered to be the tomb of the biblical Jonah, who the Bible says was swallowed by a fish after he fled from God and lived to tell the tale.

State Lets Scandal-Plagued Haredi-Controlled School District Sell School To Haredi Yeshiva At Questionable Price, Governor’s Fiscal Monitor Silent

The scandal-plagued haredi-controlled East Ramapo school district got state approval this week to sell the former Colton elementary school, which was closed by the district in 2009 when public school enrollment was falsely projected to be declining. Public school enrollment soared instead, but the district kept the school closed anyway and rented it to a haredi yeshiva. In 2011 it tried to sell the school for less than its true market value to that yeshiva. A court case stopped that sale. But now, three years later the sale to the yeshiva has been completed for the exact same sale price, $6.6 million – less rent credits which bring the actual sale price down to $5.1 million.

Montreal Haredim To Pray For "Brethren" In "Land Of Israel" – No Mention Of Or Thanks Given To IDF, Soldiers Or State

The Montreal Vaad Ha'ir asks Jews to pray for "brethren" in "Eretz Yisrael" [the Land of Israel] "who are facing grave danger. Many are need of Refuah Sheleima [healing]." The call to prayer fails to mention, Gaza and Hamas rocket fire as the cause of the need for healing and peace, and fails to mention or thank the IDF, IDF soldiers or the State of Israel. The Montreal Vaad Ha'ir is also a major kosher food certification agency in Canada, which uses the MK symbol reproduced at right.

UPDATED: Thousands Of West Bank Palestinians March Toward Jerusalem, IDF Reportedly Firing On Mob

Thousands of Palestinians are marching from Ramallah towards Jerusalem as IDF reportedly uses live fire to try to turn them back. At Least 1 Palestinian has been killed and 21 wounded.

Facebook Removes Pages Of Racist Israeli Group And Former Extreme Right Wing MK

Facebook has removed the page of the far right wing racist and neo-Kahanist group Lehava and the personal page belonging to former MK Michael Ben Ari.

Following US FAA Lead, EU Lifts Israel Flight Warning

The European Air Safety Agency has just lifted its recommendation to avoid flying to Tel Aviv.