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Who Has The Most Dollars In Unpaid NYC Parking Tickets? Apparently A Hasid Does

Last month, a Daily News reporter saw a man get into a car with Montreal plates in front of that address near 50th Street and 13th Avenue. The man, who refused to identify himself, said the car was a rental and claimed not to know anything about the parking tickets. "What is a parking ticket? Why is it illegal?," the man repeated over and over again. Then he called the Shomrim street patrol to claim the reporter was harassing him.

Israeli Hasidic Rebbes Issue Warning About Shabbat Violations, Order Followers To Boycott Stores

"…Do not support stores which operate on Shabbat or stores which are part of national chains that operate on Shabbat – even if the particular store in question is kept closed on Shabbat.Do not support shopping centers which operate on Shabbat – even if the particular store in question is closed on Shabbat.…"

RICO Lawsuit Against Shalom Lamm To Be Dismissed

The federal civil RICO lawsuit filed by the Town of Mamakating, New York and its neighbor, the Village of Bloomingburg, against Modern Orthodox real estate developer Shalom Lamm will be dismissed, a federal judge said last week.

Israeli Researchers Use Ancient Tools To Reconstruct–And Eat–Prehistoric Cuisine

A group of intrepid Israeli researchers recently went back to the dawn of the Stone Age…and made lunch.

Haredi Principal Loses Court Fight In Failed Bid To Discriminate Against Sefardi Girls

The principal of the Bais Yaakov HaYoshon haredi girls high school in Jerusalem faced a tough hearing at the Education Ministry and punishing sanctions after he refused to accept 21 girls, almost all Sefardim, assigned to the school by the City of Jerusalem’s haredi education division. Instead of appearing at the hearing, Rabbi Yisroel Levine sued the ministry in secular Jerusalem District Court to try to keep the 21 girls out of his 'elite' Ashkenazi haredi school.

Haredim Threaten To Stop Jerusalem Public Bike Rentals Over Potential “Shabbat Desecration”

“There is not a shadow of doubt that we view [bike rentals] with the utmost seriousness. We will do everything we can to prevent [the bike rentals]. I know that there are similar initiatives in Tel Aviv and other places, but Jerusalem is not Tel Aviv. Jerusalem is a holy city. That’s how it needs to be run."

Video: Why Not Vaccinating Your Kids Helps Sicken And Kill Others

The PBS Nova program's documentary on vaccines, Vaccines—Calling the Shots, which first aired last year was rebroadcast last night. And since it's that time of year again, here's clearly presented information proving haredi 'gadol' Rabbi Shmuel Kamenetsky, his wife, and other haredi anti-vacciners wrong. 

Sefardi Man Commits Suicide After Haredi School Refuses To Accept His 5-Year-Old Daughter

“It is a mafia here in Rechasim. I will not give my name for if I do I will be a dead man. Tomorrow my daughter will be thrown out of school and they will make sure to ruin my life and that of my family."

Video: Haredi Yeshiva Students Dance On Highway On Ramp

Haredi yeshiva students dance on a highway on ramp as traffic backs up behind them.

Controversial Kosher Meat To Be Commerically Available

"…You are most likely aware, that for the last ten years or so I have been the consulting Rabbi for the development of a line of very special Ben Pekuah cows and sheep…These animals are unique: they are Kosher without the trouble or the expense of needing to check their lungs, so there is zero risk of hurried or improper checking. They are all Glatt Kosher. Their hind-quarters may be eaten without the trouble or the expense of removing the forbidden fats nor the sciatic nerve, the Gid HaNasheh, so there is zero risk of incomplete removal of these forbidden components.…"

New Chief Rabbi Of Kfar Chabad Launches Modesty Campaign

Skirt too short? Stockings inadequate? Wrong type of head covering worn? Neck exposed? Ladies, it's time to correct these 'problems.'

Rabbis Who “Harass” Israel’s Chief Rabbinate Are Rodefs, Leading Right-Wing Rabbi Says

Don’t like Israel’s haredi-controlled Chief Rabbinate and say or do anything about that, even something completely non-violent and legal? If you do, you’re a rodef (pursuer), a person who under halakha (Orthodox Jewish law) can be murdered by any Jew to stop the rodef from completing his mission.

Chabad's Top Melbourne Rabbi Allegedly Attacks Abuse Victims, Defends Chabad Rabbis Who Harass Them, Accuses Activists Of "Mesira"

After repeated incidents like this, why is Rabbi Tzvi Hirsh Telsner still employed by Chabad?

Top Hasidic Rabbis Order Haredi Girls High Schools To Keep Discriminatory Admissions Policy

The existing system of admissions tests and other requirements – like barring all girls from admission who come from homes in which both parents or the father works (outside the haredi educational system) – has been repeatedly used to discriminate against Sefardi girls. Nonetheless, the Council of Torah Sages ordered that discriminatory system remain in place.

Children's Clothing Store Gets Warning Note After Its Ad Features Non-Jewish Clothing

The store owner is warned that s/he is "[acting in a way that causes] Jewish children in the neighborhood to stumble."

Kabbalistic Magic Knife Will Bring You "Abundance And Livelihood" – But Only If You Pay For It First

Open the Gates of Heaven to get a year of good fortune and income with the magic kabbalistic knife. It's the "key to opening the gates of abundance and livelihood." And all you need to do to get one is make an unspecified (but likely very large) donation to a haredi charity to get one.

Sign In Lakewood Yeshiva Warns Students Not To Bring 'Immodest' Taster's Choice Coffee Jars Into The Yeshiva

Banning 'immodest' coffee jars seem to be the latest modesty craze in the haredi community.

Chabad’s Iconic Yeshiva At 770 Eastern Parkway Bans Unfiltered Cellphones, Tablets

"Whoever does not do one of the two above mentioned options is removing himself immediately from the Yeshiva without any warning or additional notice."

JCC Camp Counselor Faces Federal Child Porn Charges After JCC Ignored Warning Of Inappropriate Behavior With Children

Supervisors at the Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit’s day camp did not tell the JCC’s senior management that one of the counselors might be involved in child sex abuse and now that employee is facing federal child porn charges and may soon face child sex abuse charges, as well.

European Pigs, Opium, Cumin All Introduced Into Israel By…The Philistines

The results of this research indicate that the ca. 600 year presence of the Philistine culture in Israel had a major and long-term impact on local floral biodiversity. The Philistines left as a biological heritage a variety of plants still cultivated in Israel, including, among others, sycamore, cumin, coriander, bay tree and opium poppy – and also brought a new type of pig into Israel.

"Notice For VIPs And Rich People"

"Notice for VIPs and Rich People: If you are willing to pay $1,800…This is a segula [mystical charm, remedy, protection] which has already performed many miracles. Serious inquiries only."

NY State Announces New Vaccine Rules For School Kids

Yesterday, the New York State Department of Health announced new vaccine rules for school children. Children now require two doses of the measles, mumps, rubella vaccine and children in grades K-5 need five doses of DTaP, while children entering kindergarten and grades 1,6 and 7 must have four doses of polio vaccine. This new protocol follows recommendations made by the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC).

Video: Ladies, Don't Shave Your Heads

Jewish music superstar Lipa Schmeltzer has a word for women who shave their heads and for the men who rule they must do so.

2-Year-Old Drinks Bleach Left In Plastic Cup

A 2-year-old child in the haredi city of Bnei Brak was rushed to a hospital yesterday after he drank bleach that had been left in a plastic cup.

Was The Election Rigged? Haredi-Opposed Ward Referendum Defeated, Supporters Cry Foul

"We believe if the town had acted honestly and not tried to deceive, the propositions would have passed."

SEC Charges Moshe Yehuda Dunoff With Securities Fraud

"The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Moshe Yehuda Dunoff, of West Palm Beach, Florida, with participating in a "boiler room"-type offering fraud that raised over $1.5 million from 58 investors in 14 countries through the purported purchase and sale of discounted U.S. securities.…in reality, Gruber and Green did not exist, the proposed investment strategy was a sham, and the statements made to investors were lies. Investors not only failed to receive the profits that they were promised, but also lost their entire investments.…"

Almost 100 Haredi Kindergarten Assistants Refuse To Be Transferred To Secular Kindergartens

“Putting us with the secular Jews is like fire and water. What will happen when I light Shabbat candles and a non-religious child will ask me what these candles are about? It is simply not compatible."

Haredi IDF Soldiers Get Death Threats, Cops Do Nothing

“If you [haredi IDF soldiers] are Jews, we're ISIS.…Itbach Al-Yahud! [Death to the Jews!].”

Police, Shin Bet Raid High Level Meeting Of Extreme Right Wing Jewish Settlers, Rabbis

Israel Police surrounded and then raided a high-level meeting of right-wing Zionist Orthodox rabbis and community leaders today. At least four people who violated government orders to stay out of the West Bank have reportedly been arrested at the meeting – which was held in Nof Ayalon in central Israel – so far.

Haredim Launch Campaign To Remove Woman's Photo From Coffee Jars

Haredim want this photo of a woman removed from a major coffee label's jar, and there's now a campaign to call the company's 800 number and complain about the 'immodest' packaging of it product.

NYC Issues New Bris Safety Brochure

The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene has issued a new brochure on metzitzah b'peh (MBP), the dangerous direct mouth-to-bleeding-penis sucking done primarily by haredi mohels after removing the baby's foreskin. MBP transmits disease to babies, including Herpes Simplex 1, which can kill or maim them. But haredi rabbis refuse to stop MBP, even though some important haredi rabbis in previous generations banned it, and the city and state refuse to ban it, supposedly because they fear it will just continue to be done underground. So instead of a ban, we have a brochure. Here it is, in both Yiddish and English.

Government And Jewish Agency Allegedly Took Bribes From Ethiopian Jews Desperate To Reunite Their Families

A number of Ethiopian Jews living in Israel allege they were forced to bribe the Jewish Agency and government officials in order to reunify their families. "This is high-level corruption from employees in the establishment, while senior officials closed their eyes."

Haredim Issue Ban On Non-Kosher…Taxis

The Ashkenazi haredi Va’ad HaRabbonim for the Purity of the Camp (i.e., the Israeli Ashkenazi haredi national modesty squad linked to the Ashkenazi haredi United Torah Judaism Party) has issued a new ban – on non-kosher taxis.

Video: Satmar And The Iran Deal

Satmar hasidim held a children's rally in upstate New York to showcase its opposition to the opposition to the Iran nuclear agreement. Watch how Satmar children are indoctrinated in a way that any survivor of a destructive cult will immediately recognize:

Mikvah Voyeur Rabbi Barry Freundel Released From “Solitary Confinement,” Victim's Husband Says

According to Jeffery Shulevitz, the husband of Emma Shulevitz, who is one of Rabbi Barry Freundel's victims, Freundel has been released from segregation (solitary confinement) in the DC Jail and was given a prison job – teaching GED classes to inmates.

Netanyahu Government Games High Court Again, Persecutes African Refugees Just Released From Israeli Detention

The head of Enforcement and Foreign Workers at Israel's Population Authority, Yossi Edelstein, came to Holot to supervise the African asylum seekers release process. “We hope they keep to the restrictions,” he said, referring to the [newly issued government] ban on [these newly-released asylum seekers living in] Tel Aviv and Eilat. When asked why the asylum seekers weren’t receiving help finding housing and work, Edelstein said: “They weren’t born in Tel Aviv.”

Video: What Do You Get When You Buy Some Cholov Yisroel Yogurt?

Take a look:

Gang Of “Haredi-Appearing” Males Attack Public Bus In Jerusalem

A gang of "haredi-appearing" males slashes the tires and breaks the windows of a public bus as it waited near a crosswalk.

Keep Vaccinated Kids Out Of Haredi Schools, Haredi Rabbi Says

Rabbi Eliezer HaLevi Dunner says Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky's anti-vaccine ruling means that parents of vaccinated children who complain about allowing non-vaccinated children into haredi schools should shut up and keep their vaccinated children home if they don't like Kanievsky's ruling. A second letter from a group of haredi rabbis says anyone who forces a parent to vaccinate her children against her will is liable for whatever harm those children suffer from the vaccine(s). However, the reverse, the harm caused by disease outbreaks that are caused by un-vaccinated people, does not cause the un-vaccinated or their parents to incur any liability.

Judge Asked To Stop Public Kapparot Chicken Slaughter Over Health And Animal Welfare Concerns

The Alliance to End Chickens as Kaporos was in Manhattan court today to back 19 Brooklyn residents who have asked a judge to issue an order to stop the ritual slaughter of chickens on public sidewalks and streets during the run-up to Yom Kippur.

Top Haredi Rabbis Ban New Generation ‘Almost Kosher’ Smartphones

The top Bnei Brak rabbis of the non-hasidic Ashkenazi haredi Degel HaTorah faction of the haredi United Torah Judaism Party (UTJ) have lashed out against new “non-kosher” smartphones that are advertised as being compatible with “kosher” SIM cards.

Federal Bankruptcy Court Orders Haredim To Withdraw Beit Din Proceeding, Rules Beit Din's Actions Void From The Moment They Were Taken

"…I have…imposed coercive sanctions on Bais Chinuch and each of the individuals named in the Motion, at the hearing giving them until the close of business on the following day to request the beis din to cease its proceeding and to vacate the ekul. The coercive sanction for each one of them was $10,000 a day until they make that request.…"

Rabbi Shmuel Kamenetsky, Top Lakewood Haredi Rabbis Rule Non-Vaccinated Children Must be Allowed To Attend Haredi Schools

Two top Lakewood haredi rabbis and Shmuel Kamenetsky have ruled that non-vaccinated children must be allowed to attend haredi schools, despite the danger these children pose to others. The ruling claims to be based on a ruling by Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, the #2 non-hasidic Ashkenazi haredi rabbi in world, who is based in Bnei Brak, Israel.

African Asylum Seekers To Be Released From Detention On High Court’s Orders, But Netanyahu Government Issues Order Banning Them From Tel Aviv, Eilat

1,178 Eritrean and Sudanese asylum seekers will be released from the Holot detention-facility-cum-prison today and Wednesday, but few have any idea where they will live or how they will survive after the government issued a new decree that cuts off many of them from their friends, family and communities.

How The Ancient Hebrews Viewed The Universe

“And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day. And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.” – Genesis 1:6-10

New “Sanhedrin” Praises Alleged Jewish Terrorists

"…The Sanhedrin, which sits on Mount Zion in Holy Jerusalem, hereby strengthens your spirits and reduces your sorrow, as you were seized while acting for the respect of God and the nation of Israel, risking your lives for the holiness of the nation and the Land.…"

Haredi Yeshiva Illegally Fines, Expels Students Who Have A Drivers License

“Any decision made in this matter was done after rabbis of 23 yeshivas met to discuss the matter, including gedolei hador [top haredi rabbinic leaders] and profound Torah scholars,” a source in Ohr Baruch reportedly said, adding that no student was expelled for having a drivers license. Instead, he asserted, they were expelled for violating Ohr Baruch’s regulations.

Haredi Terrorist Indicted For Gay Pride Parade Murder, Says Parades Must Be Cancelled To "Elevate The Soul" Of His Teen Victim

“The [Gay] Pride Parade must be canceled to elevate Shira Banki’s soul. If you care for her wellbeing, you must cease this blasphemy against God. The [Gay Pride Parades] bring harsh decrees on Israel.…Whenever there is a Gay Pride Parade, stop the blasphemy against God. Stop the madness and all the people of Israel should repent."

Haredi News Blogs Fail To Report Haredi Rabbis' Letter On Reporting Child Sex Abuse

Do top haredi rabbis and their mouthpieces really care about stopping child sex abuse?

New Hasidic Ban On…Monkey Bars

Monsey-area hasidim have issued a ban on the venerable piece of playground equipment known to generations of kids as monkey bars. The reason for the ban? Monkey bars, these hasidim claim, are immodest.