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ALERT – Hatzolah Reminds Parents Of The Serious Dangers Of St. Moritz Kosher Cleaning Spray

"With Pesach cleaning in high gear and after several incidents in the past years, Lakewood Hatzolah is asking parents to be aware of the dangers of the powerful St. Moritz chemical spray.…"

Town of Mamakating and Village of Bloomingburg Officials Call for State’s Legal Response to Repeated Voter Fraud

"As the Town of Mamakating and the Village of Bloomingburg continue to call for integrity in the local voting process and prosecution for voting fraud that has become systemic, the two are now calling for New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to step in and engage on matters that Sullivan County District Attorney James Farrell has neglected. The results of the March 18, 2015, Village of Bloomingburg election remain inconclusive because fraudulent votes by those who do not live in Bloomingburg were counted; incumbent Village Trustee Katherine Roemer has not conceded.…"

Succession War Flares At Leading Haredi Kiruv Yeshiva And Outreach Org

"… From the beginning, when I entered into the arbitration regarding the dispute between Aish HaTorah and Rabbi Hillel Weinberg, my intention was just one thing – to strengthen, restore and stabilize the organization and to make a compromise between the parties so that Yeshivas Aish HaTorah could continue with its work like it had over the years. It had never crossed my mind at all to fire and remove the Rosh Yeshiva [Head of the Yeshiva]from his institution so that the leadership would remain vacant, and that the institution's management would be left as a free for all, G-d forbid. But my intention was clear and since I had been consulted on the matter, I saw fitting to give comprehensive advice including the appointment of a new Rosh Yeshiva so that the Yeshiva would be able run as it ought to and also to ensure that Rabbi Hillel should have an appropriate alternative position – other than that of Rosh Yeshiva – as befits the son of Rav Noach zt"l [may the memory of the righteous be a blessing], founder of Aish HaTorah.…"

Haredim Protest In Ashdod After Stores Open On Shabbat

Haredim in the Israeli port city of Ashdod staged a protest on Shabbat after a shopping center was opened for business on the Jewish Sabbath. Some secular residents decried what they called haredi "coercion" and have launched a campaign to allow all store, restaurants and entertainment venues to open on Shabbat if their owners so choose.

The Complete List Of Jewish Communal Leaders Who Asked AG For Leniency For Man Who Stole Millions From Poor Jews

Here's the complete list of all the Jewish community leaders who wrote to New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman asking for leniency for William E. Rapfogel, the Modern Orthodox former head of the the New York City Jewish community's anti-poverty charity, the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty. Rapfogel and his buddies stole at least $9 million from the Met Council, taking the money right out of the mouths of the poor and using it to line their own pockets and the pockets of their friends. But these leaders – including at least 19 rabbis – wanted Rapfogel to get a sweetheart deal.

Eating Green Leafy Vegetables Keeps Mental Abilities Sharp, Researchers Find

Something as easy as adding more spinach, kale, collards and mustard greens to your diet could help slow cognitive decline, according to new research. The study also examined the nutrients responsible for the effect, linking vitamin K consumption to slower cognitive decline for the first time. “Losing one’s memory or cognitive abilities is one of the biggest fears for people as they get older,” said Martha Clare Morris, Sc.D., assistant provost for community research at Rush University Medical Center and leader of the research team. “Since declining cognitive ability is central to Alzheimer’s disease and dementias, increasing consumption of green leafy vegetables could offer a very simple, affordable and non-invasive way of potentially protecting your brain from Alzheimer’s disease and dementia.”

Report Haredi Voter Fraud And Intimidation, Top Rabbi Says

“Since we heard that there were many cases of fraud and intimidation at the polls, and the Yachad Party as a result did not pass the threshold [of votes necessary to hold any Knesset seats], I hereby give notice that according to my Torah opinion anyone who has seen or heard of these things [the fraud and intimidation] must give testimony to the proper [legal] authorities [i.e., the police and the state prosecutor's office]…[in order] to bring truth, justice and integrity into their proper place – and as it says in the Torah, ‘if he does not tell [then] he will carry the sin.’”

Kosher For Passover…Poison?

That's right folks, direct from the Holy Land, mehadrin (super kosher; 'glatt) kosher for Passover poison.

Recording Of Official Hatzolah Radio Transmissions For Horrific House Fire That Killed 7 Haredi Children

The audio is an official recording of the radio transmissions between Flatbush Hatzolah EMT/ambulance service and its EMTs and ambulances. Based on eyewitness accounts and other information, it appears to begin about 10 minutes after the FDNY arrived at the Sassoon home to fight the fire, which was already out of control, at about 12:23 am on Saturday, March 21.

Ex-Chief Rabbi, Deemed A Severe Flight Risk, Is Barred From Leaving Country For Family Celebration

Former Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel Yona Metzger stepped down from his position after being arrested 15 months ago. He allegedly exploited his office to obtain hundreds of thousands of dollars in illegal payments, fraudulent charitable donations and bribes.

5 Babies Of African Asylum Seekers Die In Ad Hoc Daycare Centers In Tel Aviv Over Past Two Months, Government Slow To Act

Five babies of African asylum seekers died in ad hoc daycare centers in South Tel Aviv over the past eight weeks, and dozens more reportedly died in similar unsafe, overcrowded and unsanitary ad hoc centers under similar circumstances over the past two years – all while the government of Israel failed to do anything to protect those children or help.

Haredi Kosher Food And Supervision Mag Runs Article On "Kosher Marijuana"

Need some kosher medicinal herb? Kashrus Magazine has the answer for you.

6-Year-Old Haredi Child Drinks Bleach In Passover Cleaning Mishap

A 6-year-old haredi boy remains hospitalized today after drinking bleach yesterday which was brought into the child’s home on Ben-Zakai Street in Bnei Brak in an empty soda bottle and was meant to used to clean the home for Passover.

Video: 'Kosher For Passover' Cigarettes

Cigarettes cause cancer, heart attacks and other health problems and are forbidden by an increasing number of rabbis (mostly Modern Orthodox). But lots of haredim smoke anyway and now a group of Israelis is taking advantage of that sad fact by selling "loosies" and packs of "kosher for Passover" Israeli cigarettes, complete with several kosher seals of approval from haredi rabbis, to haredim in Brooklyn.

Former Israeli PM Convicted Of Bribery

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has been convicted of bribery and public corruption.The Jerusalem District Court this morning found that Olmert took envelopes filled with hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash from American Jewish businessman Morris "Moshe" Talansky.

Video: Father Of 7 Haredi Kids Killed In Brooklyn House Fire Speaks About His Family

Gabriel Sassoon, the father of the seven children killed in a horrific Brooklyn house fire 9 days ago, talks about his kids and the importance of family.

Hasidic Candidate Aaron Tzvi Rabiner Wins Bloomingburg Election By 9 Votes – But Was It Legal?

Modern Orthodox developer Shalom Lamm's hasidic candidate Aaron Tzvi Rabiner won the Board of Trustees election in tiny 420-person Bloomingburg, New York by 9 votes – but only after the county's board of elections changed its own ruling without informing the non-hasidic incumbent and allowed questionable voters, all of whom were hasidim, to have their votes counted. If the board had followed its own original ruling, the non-hasidic incumbent would have won in a landslide. "Under these circumstances," the incumbent's attorney wrote in a letter to a local judge, "appellate authority dictates that petitioner’s remedy as to this election now rests with the attorney general…” [emphasis added]

Haredi Modesty Squad Mashgiach Bans Ad Showing 2-Year-Old Girl’s Clothed Ankles And Feet

Two local haredi newspapers in the Israeli town of Beit Shemesh refused to publish an ad for a stocking shop that showed the shod feet and clothed ankles and shins of a two-year-old girl.

Child Sex Abuse Victims Ask Australian PM To Take Over Melbourne Chabad Schools

Victims of the child sexual assault scandal that rocked Melbourne’s Chabad-Lubavitch Jewish community have called on Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott and federal Education Minister Christopher Pyne to intervene in the running of Chabad’s Yeshivah College in a bid to rid the school of the influence of leaders tainted by the child-abuse royal commission.

Dozens Of Jewish Leaders, Including At least 19 Rabbis, Pleaded To Get William E. Rapfogel A Sweetheart Deal In $9 Million Theft From Jewish Poor

Who sent letters to New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman asking him to go easy on William E. Rapfogel, the Modern Orthodox former head of the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty who stole at least $9 million from the UJA-Federation's New York City area anti-poverty organization, causing the nonprofit to eventually collapse? Who wanted Slick Willie to get a get out of jail free card? Take a look.

Rabbi Yosef Mizrahi Blames A Specific Jew's Supposed Lack Of Shabbat And Mitzvah Observance For The Deaths Of 7 Haredi Children In Tragic House Fire

"a mechalel shabbat garbage like you have no right to open their fealty mouth ,jews are dying because of your crime and then you have the audacity to blame others such a moron"

Yeshiva Chofetz Chaim's $100 Million Lawsuit Against Ramapo NY Villages Thrown Out Of Court

For more than ten years, Mosdos Chofetz Chaim has pursued a policy of filing what many claim are largely frivolous lawsuits and related legal actions against the villages of Pomona, Chestnut Ridge, Wesley Hills, and Montebello, all located in Ramapo, New York. Friday, it its biggest lawsuit to date was thrown out of court – for the second time.

Fire In Viznitz Yeshiva Caused By Unattended Candles

Only a week after the horrific house fire in Brooklyn that killed seven haredi children and critically injured two other members of that family, hasidim apparently left lit candles unattended in an Israeli yeshiva last night, sparking a fire.

Video: Why Smoke Alarms Might Not Protect Your Kids And What You Can Do About It

Smoke alarms might not protect your kids because kids sleep differently than adults do. Here's a brief video explaining what that means for your kids' safety and what you can do to make their odds of surviving a fire better.

Obama Is Haman, Rabbi Shlomo Riskin Says

In rabbinic thought, Haman is considered the archenemy of the Jewish people, the prototype for all anti-Semites who followed after him – like for example, Hitler.

NYC Mayor Bill De Blasio's Policy Makes Some Abused Youths' Lives Worse, Advocates Charge

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is an atheist who has been pandering to religious groups – especially to Satmar hasidim – in likely preparation for a gubernatorial run or an appointment to national office by Hillary Clinton if she is elected president next year. De Blasio promised during the 2013 campaign that all homeless youth in the city would have shelter beds if he were elected mayor. But he reneged on that promise, even though many of these homeless youths are survivors of child sex abuse and even though sexual predators openly wait outside youth shelters like Covenant House to try to sexually exploit youths turned away due to lack of space.

Video: Atheists – Inside The World Of Non-Believers

A CNN special report on atheism – in this case, mostly of the formerly Christian kind.

Satmar Falsely Claims Its Kiryas Joel Yeshiva Does Not Discriminate By "Race, Color Or Ethnic Origin"

Satmar has now taken out an ad that deceptively claims its Yeshivah Gedolah (i.e., its high school-level yeshiva) linked to the Satmar hasidic Village of Kiryas Joel, New York does not discriminate by "race, color national and ethnic origin."

Don't Give Charity To Haredim Who Did Not Vote For An Approved Haredi Political Party, Haredi Newspaper Editor Says

Regarding his call not to give them any help, even though among them there are needy families, Greenbaum justified his position by saying: "There is no need to say a lot regarding the fact that they are not justified in taking part in the haredi consensus whether for good or bad. Whoever separates himself from the group in a time of trouble, chazal [the sages of the Talmudic era] taught us that he cannot be included with us in a time of joy. He even added and said "There is no choice but to not give [charity; tzedaka] to those who are not a part of us what we work hard to get with little power."

101-Year Old Top Haredi Rabbi In Critical Condition

The leading posek (decisor of halakha, Orthodox Jewish law) for hasidim worldwide, Rabbi Shmuel HaLevi Wosner, is reportedly in critical condition in Mayanei HaYeshua Hospital in Bnei Bak.

The Vaccine Wars

All opponents of vaccines, including haredi opponents like Rabbi Shmuel Kamenetsky and his wife, should be encouraged to watch this video.

To Circumvent Israeli High Court Ruling, Haredim Set Up Rabbinic Arbitration Panels

It is unfathomable that Israel of all places should not have an official rabbinical court for choshen mishpat [financial disputes],” said marketing expert Menachem Lubinsky. “Who but our Torah set the standards for fairness and justice in mitigating business disputes,” he asked.

As Shabbat Approaches, Haredim Wonder If Their Kitchens – And Families – Are Safe

“Basically, everyone is trying to figure out what should they do this Sabbath,” said Edgar Gluck, a prominent rabbi in Borough Park who has been helping to counsel people. He personally uses a hot plate, he said, but places it on a granite countertop, next to a stainless-steel sink, and feels that it is safe.

Video: Rabbi Yosef Mizrahi Blames Death Of 7 Sasson Children On Facebook, Women's 'Immodest' Wigs

Mizrahi blames the deaths of the seven Sassoon children – who were all killed early last Saturday in a Brooklyn house fire started by a Shabbat hotplate left on and unattended – on Facebook, text messages, immodesty, lack of proper Shabbat observance, lack of shomer negiah, and women's wigs that are too long, as well as "sins" committed by the children in previous lifetimes, a position based on 'normative' Lurianic kabbalah.

Video: Yossi Gestetner Interviewed About Grotesque Video Smearing Opponents Of Haredi Community In Rockland County

Satmar hasidic PR hack Yossi Gestetner's Orthodox Jewish Public Affairs Council (OJPAC) has released a disgusting video that smears opponents of the haredi community as anti-Semites and potential terrorists without ever once mentioning the very real misbehavior of many haredim. It pulls from a tiny minority of opponents who are (or can be construed as) anti-Semitic and smears the vast majority of opponents with that very broad brush. The video is narrated by the hasidic Majority Leader of the Rockland County Legislature Aaron Wieder. Richard French interviews Gestetner and his henchman Benny Polatseck about the smear, and Gestetner doubles down repeatedly on it.

4-Year-Old Found Alone, Neglected, Dirty, Malnourished And Sleeping On The Street In A Cardboard Box In The Haredi City Of Elad, Father Arrested

"It was "shocking to see the toddler's condition,” a police source reportedly said. "The boy suffered severe neglect, and although we have seen almost everything, it was difficult to see his condition. We were shocked when we saw him and realized that he had apparently been wandering in the streets alone and sleeping in a cardboard box for the past several days."

Cut Off Funding To Chabad Schools Until Chabad Takes Responsibility For Child Sex Abuse Coverups And Ostracism Of Victims And Takes Real Steps To Protect Children, Lawmaker Says

"…Worst of all was to learn that these same people, respected and learned rabbis, leaders of our community, had engaged in slander and abuse of former Yeshivah students who had the courage to come forward and testify about the abuse they had undergone, and that they and their families had suffered ostracism from some sections of our community. To learn that this same ostracism is continuing today is nothing short of shameful.…"

Video: Rabbi Zecharia Wallerstein On The Horrific Fire Deaths Of 7 Haredi Children

Early last Saturday morning, 7 haredi siblings from the Sassoon family died in a horrific house fire in Brooklyn. There were no smoke alarms on the first or second floors of the house, and a Shabbat hotplate had been left on and unattended. It caused a fire that the sleeping family did not notice in time to get out of the house. Seven kids died, one other and their mother jumped from the second floor and is hospitalized in critical condition with injuries, burns and smoke inhalation. Wallerstein attempts to explain what the lesson is from this fire and why the kids had to die. Wallerstein, you see, thinks he knows why God killed the kids, because kabbalah and Jewish tradition told him – we are not careful enough with our own Shabbat observance. It isn't smoke alarms we need to check, it's our Shabbos observance.

Video: The Torah's Buried Secrets

What science and history really show about the creation of Judaism and the truth – or the opposite – of the Torah's claims.

Chabad Bosses Allegedly Refuse To Make Necessary Changes To Fully Protect Children, Prompting The Only Well-Liked Chabad Educator In Melbourne To Consider Leaving

The well-liked principal of Chabad’s Beth Rivkah school located in its Yeshivah Centre campus in Melbourne, Australia is reportedly about to leave the school after the school’s Committee of Management allegedly stonewalled needed changes highlighted by the horrific testimony about Chabad child sex abuse coverups at Australia’s Royal Commission investigating child sex abuse in Chabad institutions.

Votes Opened; Hasidic Candidate Now Leads By 9

“The question is whether we have a tainted election with a large number of people who shouldn’t have voted.”

Planning Board Gives Green Light For Bloomingburg Satmar Girls School

Modern Orthodox Developer Shalom Lamm’s proposed Satmar hasidic girls school was was finally approved by the Town of Mamakating, New York’s Planning Board Tuesday night, after which the spokesman for Lamm and the hasidic community Michael Fragin lashed out at the board for purportedly being anti-education.

Chabad’s Top Australian Rabbi Tells Child Sex Abuse Victim He Was Wrong To Call Police Without Getting Permission From Rabbis

Chabad’s Yeshivah Centre of Melbourne’s top rabbi, Tzvi Hirsh Telsner, allegedly told a member of the Yeshivah Centre’s synagogue this week that he was wrong to have reported child sex abuse to police without first getting permission from a rabbi. Telsner allegedly did this intentionally in a way that other Chabad members – who had been bullying the victim – could hear.

Non-Hasidic Bloomingburg Residents And Neighboring Elected Officials Demand DA Investigate Alleged Hasidic Voter Misconduct

Residents of a tiny 420-person village in the Catskill Mountains in New York State are demanding that Sullivan County District Attorney James Farrell investigate the Sullivan County Board of Elections. The outraged Bloomingburg residents and elected officials from the adjoining Town of Mamakating claim a substantial number of unregistered voters were improperly allowed to vote in the local village election held earlier this month.

Queens Fire Safety Event Combined With Memorial For 7 Children Killed In Horrific Brooklyn House Fire

A haredi community in Queens, New York is holding a Saturday night memorial for the seven Sassoon children killed early last Saturday in a horrific house fire caused by a dangerous Shabbat hot plate known as a plata. The memorial will be combined with a fire safety presentation from local FDNY firefighters.

De Blasio Likely To Replace Bloomberg-Era Health Board Members Before Controversial Circumcision Vote

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has the ability to fill a majority of the seats on the New York City Board of Health with his own appointees before he asks that board to repeal the city’s informed consent requirement for all circumcisions involving metzitzah b’peh (MBP), the dangerous mouth-to-bleeding-penis sucking done by haredi mohels after cutting off the baby’s foreskin. And so de Blasio delayed asking the board to toss the existing informed consent requirement and has allegedly set out to fill the board with his own appointees, who will then likely rubber-stamp whatever the mayor wants done, even if it goes against what a majority of pediatric infectious disease specialists and public health experts believe is safe.

22 Haredim Arrested In Massive Extortion Scam Meant To Save Failing Haredi PR Organ

Israel Police arrested 21 haredim from Jerusalem, Bnei Brak, Ashdod, Yeruham, and Modi'in Illit Tuesday night and a 22nd haredi person Wednesday morning in a massive extortion scam meant to keep the floundering haredi HaPeles newspaper afloat.

Video: Interview With Conservative Jewish Couple Who Called 911 To Report Horrific Brooklyn House Fire That Killed 7 Haredi Children

Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Rosenblatt talk about calling 911 to report the horrific Brooklyn house fire that killed seven haredi children early Saturday morning and their attempts after the fire to get and distribute fire safety information to their neighbors.

Father Of 7 Children Killed In Horrific House Fire Wants More Children, Asks Rabbi For Blessing

“He’d prepare special drinks for every kid every morning, all the right proteins, that kind of guy,’’ the friend said, adding that it appears that Sassoon is turning to his faith to try to deal with any guilt he may be struggling with over the home’s lack of smoke alarms. “If he had been as meticulous about smoke alarms as about proteins, it wouldn’t have happened,’’ the friend said. “But sometimes if you move into a house that’s already furnished, you don’t think about it.”

Free Smoke Alarms In Rockland County

Rockland County, New York, located about an hour north of New York City and the home to tens of thousands of haredim, is offering free smoke alarms to eligible residents through its Healthy Neighborhoods Program. Here are the details…