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Chabad Pedophile Allegedly Rapes Teen In Prison

Samuel David Cyprys, convicted of sexually abusing nine boys at Chabad’s Yeshivah Centre in Melbourne, Australia after he had already been cited for child sexual abuse in a previous case that was known to Chabad leaders, has allegedly raped another teenager – this time, a fellow prisoner.

Top Candidate For CEO Of Scandal-Plagued Anti-Poverty Charity Said To Be Chabad Rabbi

The Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty, the New York City Jewish community’s scandal-plagued anti-poverty arm, is reportedly considering hiring a Chabad rabbi to replace outgoing CEO David Frankel, who was brought in to clean up the organization last year but was apparently forced out because he was trying to do just that.

State Gives Grant To Bloomingburg To Facilitate Dissolution Referendum Prompted By Satmar Hasidic Development

In what many see as move meant to fight off deceptive Modern Orthodox developer Shalom Lamm and the high-density Satmar hasidic ’shtetl’ he is building in the tiny 420-person upstate New York village, the Village of Bloomingburg is seeking to dissolve itself and fold the village into the adjoining town of Mamakating – and New York State is going to help them do it.

Haredi Rebel Leader Rules That Haredim Must Donate To Failing Faction Newspaper Rather Than To The Faction’s Yeshivas Or Other Charities

Non-hasidic haredi rebel faction leader Rabbi Shmuel Auerbach reportedly told followers through a surrogate that donating to his faction’s failing newspaper, HaPeles, must take precedence over keeping charity pledges made to his faction’s kollels (yeshivas for married haredim), buying or maintaining Shabbat generators that allow haredi families to get electricity from a ‘kosher’ source rather than from the Israel Electric Company, and other charity commitments.

4-Year-Old Dead, Multiple People Injured, In Hamas Rocket And Mortar Attacks

Israel has been under heavy rocket and mortar fire from Gaza over the past 24 hours. There have been several injuries, at least one serious, and now one death – a four-year-old child from Shaar HaNegev.

Ubiquitous Ads Promising Prayers By Sefardi Kabbalist In Exchange For Donations To Chabad-Linked Anti-Missionary Charity Ruled Illegal

The ubiquitous ads for the haredi Yad L’achim anti-missionary anti-intermarriage organization featuring Rabbi Yehiel Abuhatzeira have been ruled illegal.

Beit Din Issues Final Ruling In Decade-Long Bobov Hasidic Succession Fight

Bobov 45 (i.e., the rebel or breakaway faction) must call Bobov 48 (the main faction) "Bobov" without any qualifying identifiers (for example, like "Bobov 48"). Bobov 48 (the mainstream faction) must call Bobov 45 "Bobov 45" without adding any derogatory or other nicknames. Bobov 48 (henceforth "Bobov") gets all the buildings of the Bobov hasidic movement but has to pay Bobov 45 $6.2 million over next five years.

Government To Cut Funding To Noncompliant Haredi Schools

Unless someone blinks, many haredi yeshivas in Israel are about to lose all or much of their state funding – unless they start teaching math, science, English and other core subjects.

New Attempt To Annex Land For Satmar Hasidic Village

A group of Satmar hasidic Monroe, New York property owners have filed a new petition to annex land from Monroe into the adjoining Satmar hasidic village of Kiryas Joel.

New CEO Of Scandal-Plagued Jewish Community Anti-Poverty Arm ‘Resigns’

The scandal-plagued Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty, the New York City-area’s Jewish community’s scandal-plagued anti-poverty arm, is losing its new CEO – likely due to conflicts with organization’s board and with local Jewish Community Councils, which are largely haredi or Orthodox controlled.

Request By Guilty Eliyahu Weinstein Associate To Travel To Israel Denied

A judge almost allowed Alex Schleiderto travel to Israel this month for his niece's wedding. But in the end, she didn't.

US-Israel Relations Continue To Worsen After US Accuses Israel Of Targeting For Arrest Members Of Murdered Palestinian Boy’s Family

The deputy spokeswoman for the US Department of State charged yesterday that Israel was targeting members of the family of the 16-year-old Palestinian boy, Mohammed Abu Khdeir, who was kidnapped and gruesomely murdered by a band of haredi and ex-haredi terrorists on July 2.

Rare Divorce Ruling Frees Woman Trapped In Jewish Marriage

Wednesday, a state rabbinic court dissolved a woman’s marriage on the grounds of mekah ta’ut - fraud. If she had known about her husband's history of mental illness, she likely would not have married him in the first place.

Haredi Circumcision: Who Will Protect New York’s Jewish Children From Preventable Death and Permanent Disability?

"…What belief is being burdened by the requirement that the mohel tell the parents the practice is dangerous to infants? Do they have a belief that parents must be ignorant of potential medical harm to their infant? Are they saying that rabbis have a right to impose religious practices without full disclosure where the potential result is the death of a child? Really?…Informed consent is always required when a doctor performs a circumcision. Why should rabbis be absolved of the same obligation during the same procedure that involves creating a wound on an infant?…" 

Video: Dirty Little Secrets – Chabad's Decades-Long Coverup Of Child Sex Abuse

Chabad allegedly enabled child sex abuse and covered up abuse to protect molesters for decades. Here are some of those dirty little secrets.

Video: After Robbery, NYPD Allegedly Ignores Victims' Pleas For Help

It was a shoplifting that turned into a strong arm robbery, and New York's finest allegedly refused to take a police report or the alleged thieves' license plate number or do anything to apprehend them – despite multiple witnesses and videotape evidence.

Warring Bobov Hasidic Factions Continue Decade-Long Succession Fight

The newest claims made by Bobov 45 are that two of the five beit din rabbinic judges are biased because they or their families have business ties with Bobov 48 – facts that appear to have been known for a long time.

Special Needs Man Missing In Catskill Mountains

Levi Shamilov, a 26-year-old special needs man, has gone missing in the Catskill Mountains.

New Study Finds Neanderthals Lived Alongside Humans In Europe For Centuries

“Previous radiocarbon dates have often underestimated the age of samples because the organic matter was contaminated with modern [carbon] particles. We used ultrafiltration methods which purify the extracted collagen from bone, to avoid the risk of modern contamination.”

Hamas Warns Airlines It Will Target Ben Gurion Airport Beginning At 6 AM

Hamas has issued a warning to international airlines that it will begin targeting Ben Gurion International Airport at 6:00 am Israel Time. More than 140 rockets and other projectiles have been fired at Israel from Gaza today.

Haredim Riot In Jerusalem Against Draft, IDF – Despite Gaza Shooting War

Hundreds of haredim from Rabbi Shmuel Auerbach’s non-hasidic haredi rebel fraction filled Jerusalem’s Shabbat Square late this afternoon to protest the military draft of haredi yeshiva students and against even voluntary enlistment in the IDF – despite the fact that Israel is in the middle of a shooting war with Hamas and other Islamic terror groups. During the protest, haredim set garbage dumpsters on fire, blocked roads and rioted.

Haredim To Hold Anti-Draft Protest Today, Despite War

Missiles may be flying and Israel’s security services and police may be on high terrorism alert, but haredim are still planning to stage a large anti-draft protest in Jerusalem today, anyway.

Baruch Dayan HaEmet: IDF Corporal David Menachem Gordon

Corporal David Menachem Gordon, a 21-year-old Israeli soldier from the US who went missing over the weekend and was then found dead near his base, wrote a piece last year about being sexually abused as a child.

Israel Busts Mob-Connected Organ Trafficking Ring

The ring allegedly ran an extensive trafficking network that preyed on vulnerable poor people (who appear to have been predominantly females) who sold their own organs out of desperation – and frequently only after being coerced and threatened by the ring’s leaders to do so.

Despite Missiles From Gaza, Haredim Riot Against Serving In The IDF

Despite the newly-resumed large scale rocket fire from Gaza, and despite the fact that IDF airmen and women were flying combat missions while IDF units prepare for a possible invasion of Gaza, haredim took to the streets to of Jerusalem Tuesday night to violently protest the arrest of a 20-year-old repeat draft-dodger haredi yeshiva student.

Video: Brooklyn DA Visits Masbia

In an almost never-ending attempt to appease haredim, Brooklyn DA Ken Thompson has given haredi criminals easy (and often no-jail) plea deals, denigrated an anti-abuse activist and made far too many photo op visits to haredi rabbis, store and organizations. But he finally did something right – his latest photo op visit was to the haredi soup kitchen Masbia, which is arguably the the best and most effective haredi charity in all of New York City and one of the only truly deserving haredi places he's visited.

Jewish Holiday Planner For The New Academic Year

Here's a downloadable Jewish holiday planner for the new academic year that begins in September and ends next summer. It's especially useful for those of you in secular schools or working and for your professors or employers.

A Note On The End Of The Cease Fire, The Collapse Of Truce Talks, And What It Likely Means For Israeli Society

As you know, several Grad rockets were fired into Israel this morning from Gaza, ending the cease fire many hours prematurely and Israel responded by hitting several terrorist target in Gaza. This could mean Israel will face a prolonged war of attrition. And what would that mean for an Israel saddled with a large and rapidly growing haredi population that refuses to share the burden of defense and war?

State Rabbinic Court Refuses To Hear Testimony From Females, Including Wife, In Divorce Case

The judges asked the woman’s husband to leave the courtroom. After he left, they asked the woman’s attorney how many witnesses he planned to call. After he answered, the rabbi-judges asked on their own initiative without prompting, “Are your witnesses men or also women?” “Both,” the woman’s attorney answered. The rabbinic court’s president, Rabbi Yisrael Yifrah, responded, “We don’t accept women.”

Controversial Orthodox IDF Commander Begrudgingly Orders Troops To Watch Performance Of Band That Included Female Musicians

"This is just for one song that I have no control over. I'm asking you to have patience. I've suffered from this enough over the last week. My wife can't listen to all of this poppycock either. I've seen great rabbis who didn't leave the auditorium during events like these. I don't want to see anyone leaving 'by mistake'. Be patient. Whoever's having a hard time can put his head down and wait for it to be over."

Gang Attacks And Almost Kills Eritrean Refugee In Tel Aviv

An Israel Police officer saved the life of a 23-year-old Eritrean refugee who had been beaten unconscious and near death by a gang of youths in Tel Aviv.

Hands Tied Over Illegal Haredi Schools

These schools “can either be made to operate properly or be disbanded. It’s that simple.” What this would mean in practice is not simple at all, however: the yeshivas are not publicly funded and they enjoy the support of their community. Short of disbandment and criminalization, which are undesirable, there are few ways in which they can be “made to operate properly.”

Hasidic Bungalow Colony Where Little Boy Died In Fire Had No Smoke Alarms

Camp Mareh Yechezkel, the hasidic bungalow colony-camp in Liberty, New York where a 3-year-old haredi boy, Aron Follman, died in a fire last night, has no smoke detectors in any of its bungalows, and fire officials came close to evacuating the entire bungalow colony last night but did not do it in the end.

Report: All 3 Killers Of Arab Boy Come From Same Sefardi Haredi Family

All three killers of 16-year-old Mohammed Abu Khdeir come from the same Jerusalem haredi family, and the lead killer's father is well-known Sefardi haredi rabbi and rosh yeshiva.

Video: "Dump That Donkey!"

Racist protesters from the racist neo-Kahanist Lehava organization shouted racist slurs and tried to rush the wedding hall where a Muslim-Jewish couple was celebrating their wedding. They also attacked a Ha'aretz photojournalist and caused other trouble.

Likud Interior Minister Allegedly Closed TA Supermarkets On Shabbat In Exchange For Haredi Votes For Presidential Candidate

Member of Knesset Meir Sheetrit of the Hatnua Party says he lost the runoff presidential election in Knesset earlier this year because of a deal Interior Minister Gideon Sa'ar made with haredim – and that deal involved Saar closing the Tel Aviv shops on Shabbat in exchange for haredim switching their support from Sheetrit to Reuven Rivlin, Sa’ar’s old buddy and his personal choice for president, and for future haredi backing for Sa’ar if he tries to become prime minister.

Why Did It Take So Long For Law Enforcement To Investigate Brooklyn's Former (And Likely Corrupt) DA?

The signs of corruption and malfeasance were everywhere, but a series New York's attorneys general and US Attorneys did nothing as minorities served long prison sentences for crimes they did not commit and little Jewish kids had their civil rights – and their innocence – stolen.

Orthodox Man Sues Hospital, Rabbi, Over Cremation Of Amputated Leg

A 43-year-old blind Orthodox Jewish man, Moshe Lefkowitz, is suing a hospital in a Chicago suburb for cremating the leg its doctors amputated instead of keeping it so it could be buried in a traditional Jewish burial as required by Jewish law and as he allegedly requested.

Haredi Billionaires May Have Repeatedly Skirted IRS Regulations To Inflate The Value Of Their Personal Charities – And The Stock Of Their Closely Held Corporations

It started with a pump-and-dump stock scam and, despite sanctions, grew from there to make haredim Michael and George Karfunkel incredibly rich and, on the books at least, very generous. But a new report by the Southern Investigative Reporting Foundation has found that much of that charity may really have been a ploy to protect family stock shares and, by doing so, falsely elevate their value while maintaining family control. The value of much of the stock the Karfunkels gave to various family charities and trusts seems to have been inflated to benefit the donors, and other irregularities exist. And when the Karfunkel's money does reach charities, where does it go? Overwhelmingly to Belz hasidim.

Chabad Issues Deceptive Letter On Child Sex Abuse – This Time With The Unwitting Help Of The Government

"…I would like to reiterate Yeshivah Centre’s unreserved and repeated apologies for the mishandling of past cases of child abuse.  Many lessons have been learned, and we continue to offer support and counselling to those affected. We encourage anyone who is in need of support to contact, in strict confidence, Rabbi Chaim Tzvi Groner…" [the son of the man who led the decades long abuse coverup and who was awful to victims and their families. Chaim Tzvi Groner has never admitted the wrong his father did let alone repudiate it.]

3-Year-Old Haredi Child Dies In Bungalow Fire

A three year old haredi boy died in a bungalow fire at Camp Mareh Yechezkel in Liberty, New York on the edge of the Catskill Mountains Sunday night.

Haredi Yeshiva Evicted By Secular Mayor For Teaching, Get This, Secular Subjects

It’s a twisted tale that could only happen in a country as twisted and confused as Israel often is. Hochmei Lev Yeshiva High School, a small one-year-old haredi yeshiva that combines regular yeshiva study with secular studies in a way meant to allow its students to earn a high school diploma and pass national exams, has been evicted from its location by the City of Jerusalem – not because of late rent payments or bad behavior on the part of its students, but because haredim want the yeshiva to be shut down.

Hundreds Of Haredim Protest, Riot Over Arrest Of Yeshiva Student Draft Dodger

Even though Israel is still at war with with Hamas, hundreds of haredim from Rabbi Shmuel Auerbach’s non-hasidic haredi rebel faction demonstrated, sometimes violently, last night against the arrest and imprisonment of a haredi draft dodger from Ashdod – which ironically is a city that has experienced heavy Hamas rocket fire.

Battling Kiryas Joel Flyers

Here are two flyers, one that appears to be anti-United Monroe propaganda distributed to counter United Monroe's own leafleting of the second flyer in Kiryas Joel today.

Big Government Makes For More Satisfied People, Study Finds

“The effect of state intervention into the economy equals or exceeds marriage or employment status — two traditional predictors of happiness — when it comes to [individual] satisfaction.”

Senior Zionist Orthodox Rabbi Called For Protests At Private Muslim-Jewish Marriage Celebration

"Intermarriage in Israel is simply a catastrophe. There is no other word for it but terrible assimilation. It is very painful. We feel the pain of intermarriage outside of Israel, in the Diaspora. This phenomenon inflicts a holocaust upon our nation. So when it happens in the Land of Israel, among us, will we not be pained? Will we not protest this?…TOne must understand, even Jews who call themselves secular would not agree that their son or daughter marry a Muslim."

Israel Arrests Haredi Woman On Australian Extradition Warrant Issued For Alleged Child Sex Crimes

Malka Leifer, a former principal of the Adass haredi school in Melbourne, was arrested today in Israel and is awaiting extradition to Australia.

Israel's Shameful Rate Of Organ Donation Gets International Negative Attention

Since 2000, one [organ] trafficking prosecution after the next has implicated Israelis in some way. Although recent legal changes have made it less enticing for Israelis to seek transplants overseas, they have contributed to longer wait lists at home. That has kept organ brokers in business.…“The continued driving force is the lack of deceased donation in Israel and the concept that every rich person worldwide would rather put a stranger at risk than a relative.”

Court Refuses To Block Racist Right-Wing Demonstration At Private Jewish-Muslim Wedding

An Israeli court refused to stop a racist right-wing demonstration outside a wedding hall where an Arab-Jewish couple is holding a wedding celebration even though the couple and their families have received death threats.

Haredi Quasi-Life Insurance Policies Come Under Scrutiny – Sort Of

Areivim insists it isn't a true life insurance company and therefore should not be regulated by the State of New York, and it even commissioned a report from a white shoe law firm to back up that contention. But is that true?