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New Modern Orthodox Conversions Won't Force Children Into Orthodox Schools

"…Guided by rabbis of the mainstream of the tolerant religious Zionist community, Giyur Kehalacha meets potential candidates where they are. The process is completely transparent, candidates know where they can turn, know what's expected of them, and there is an expectation that candidates will be completely truthful. Mothers who are not Jewish but who want to bring their children up in Israel as Jews are not forced to convert with their children and…children are not required to go to religious schools. This makes the potential pool of converts much larger than before.…"

Haredim Riot In Jerusalem

Thousands of haredim in Jerusalem started Shabbat with a prayer gathering slash protest that morphed into a violent riot against the opening of a new movie theater multiplex which is open for business on Shabbat, angering haredim.

And Your People Were Holy? Adultery, Concubines And Affairs With Non-Jewish Women

"…Jewish men commonly kept Jewish and non-Jewish concubines in Moslem Spain and later in Christian Spain. The challenges that these relationships posed to the rabbinic leadership were complex. Prolonged affairs, even with Gentile women, were religiously and morally reprehensible. At the same time, the widespread nature of these relationships, and the presence of even more objectionable possibilities (i.e., relations with married Jewish women) also had to be considered…"

Playing Smartphone Game Tetris Reduces Cravings For Drugs, Food And Sex, Study Finds

Playing the Tetris game on a smartphone for as little as three minutes at a time can weaken cravings for drugs, food and activities such as sex and sleeping by approximately one fifth, according to new research.

Hasidic Development In Bloomingburg Gets Certificates Of Occupancy – Even Though Buildings And Streets Allegedly Fail To Meet NY State’s Fire Code

24 of the 396 units in Modern Orthodox developer Shalom Lamm’s high-density Chestnut Ridge housing development – better known in the hasidic community as a prospective Satmar  "shtetl" called Kiryas Yetev Lev – in semi-rural Bloomingburg, New York were issued certificates of occupancy Thursday morning, even though some civil authorities say the property does not meet New York State fire code and has other violations.

Tzedek Cancels Orthodox Psychologist's Talk After Apparent Homophobia Exposed

"…More recently, we have become aware of other matters and controversies relating to Dr Goldwasser. Amongst other things, we have taken on board concerns raised by the LGBTI community. As a result we have reviewed the matter and decided that it is no longer appropriate for Dr Goldwasser to speak at the forum.…"

State Appoints Monitor For Scandal-Plagued Haredi-Controlled East Ramapo Schools

New York State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia has appointed former New York City Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott as monitor for the scandal-plagued haredi-controlled East Ramapo school district. But there are problems with this appointment, including that Walcott is not trained as a schools administrator.

Competition From The Ancestors Of Cats Drove The Extinction Of Many Species Of Ancient Dogs

In very ancient times, in the battle between cats and dogs, cats won – big time.

Chabad Kosher, Melbourne Style

What was Chabad's standard of kosher when Rabbi Yitzchok Dovod Groner was still alive? Groner clearly covered up child sex abuse, helped abusers flee justice and enabled known pedophiles, giving them open access to the children put in Groner's care. But was Groner and his personally appointed kashrut team any better about enforcing kosher regulations? Apparently not.

Secret Recording Shows Accused Rapist Rabbi’s Wife Allowed Him To Have Sex With Other Women As Kabbalistic Cure

The wife of accused rapist kabbalist Rabbi Ezra Sheinberg admitted her husband told her of two cases in which he had sex with other women. But Sheinberg’s wife did not complain about it or divorce him because she believed Sheinberg when he told her having sex with these women was part of the blessing needed to cure them.

NY State To Appoint Toothless Monitor For Scandal-Plagued Haredi-Controlled School District

"A monitor who can advise a board that has historically refused to listen is not a solution. In some ways, it may feel like we're marching in place, given that Hank Greenberg [a special short-term monitor appointed by Governor Andrew Cuomo last year to asses the state of the school district] also studied the district, made recommendations, and concluded, 'at a minimum, there must be a vehicle to override, in real time, unreasonable decisions by the Board and Superintendent.'"

Disgraced Rabbi Now Teaching For Chabad School Run By His Father And Aunt

A disgraced [Chabad] rabbi forced to step down from a string of posts after he was caught intimidating and vilifying victims of child sexual abuse is now teaching Jewish Studies at a Chabad  girls high school in Melbourne – a school run his father, Rabbi Sholom Mendel Kluwgant, and his aunt, Nechama Bendet.

What Is Chabad Rabbi Meir Shlomo Kluwgant Trying To Hide?

Rabbi Meir Shlomo Kluwgant was in the Supreme Court of Victoria this week seeking an injunction to prevent disclosure of a confidential settlement agreement which he entered last month. He had initially sought that the matter be held in closed court to prevent the public from having access to the proceedings.In an affidavit from his lawyer it was argued that if any information about the matter were released, Kluwgant's 'reputation would suffer, as would his standing in the Melbourne Orthodox Jewish Community. But didn't Kluwgant's own testimony and behavior before Australia's Royal Commission already do that?

“Well-Known” Rabbi Arrested For Allegedly Throwing Bleach In Face Of Police Officer

A well-known Jerusalem rabbi who has not yet been publicly identified was arrested in his home Wednesday night after allegedly throwing bleach in the face of a police officer.

In South Tel Aviv, Locals Who Interact With African Asylum Seekers Tend To Like Them While Those Who Do Not View Them As Rapists And Criminals Who Seek To Destroy Israel’s Jewish Ethnic 'Purity'

“We are facing a time bomb, a threat that is bigger than the one from Iran. Filipino women are going to bed with Israeli men and staying here. I’m familiar with this. It’s no less a danger than the infiltrators. The women have learned the system. It’s a demographic catastrophe. I would prefer a million drug addicts to one infiltrator, because the infiltrators have come to swallow us up.”

In An Old Jerusalem Synagogue An Unexpected Piece Of Modernity Is Found

In the narrow winding streets of the neighborhoods which lie just outside the walls of Jerusalem's Old City lies an old synagogue where inside you will find something surprisingly new.

Israel’s Keystone Cops: Law Student Stabbed During Gay Pride Parade Says Cops Mishandled Parade Security And Aftermath Of The Attack

“The way the police dealt with me and my family was negligent in ways that make you question the way they’re dealing with the investigation itself."

Haredi Top Jerusalem Rabbinical Court Judge Gives Custody To Absentee Deadbeat Haredi Father Because Children’s Mother Is No Longer Haredi

Previously in a different case, the same haredi rabbinical court judge ruled that a man who beat his wife and who was considered to be a current danger to her by welfare authorities should have custody of the couple's children, primarily because the haredi rabbinical court judge didn’t like that the woman had taken refuge in a women’s shelter with her kids.

Brooklyn Hasid Arrested For Alleged Child Sex Abuse

A 21-year-old Brooklyn hasid, Amrom Mendlovitz, has been arrested and charged with several child sex abuse-related crimes.

Ladies, Are You Having Fertility Troubles? Try This Rabbinic Recipe For Baby Success On For Size

Ladies, you can even choose what sex your child will be – as long as you make sure to keep your eyes on the ball.

Cops Summon Head Of Racist Right-Wing Neo-Kahanist Organization Lehava

Earlier today, Israeli Police summoned Rabbi Bentzion “Bentzi” Gopstein – a hard right-wing follower of the late extremist Rabbi Meir Kahane – for questioning after Gopstein made public comments last week supporting church-burning and then doubled down on that incitement to violence in a Facebook post.

2 Brooklyn Haredi Girls Killed In Horrific Motor Vehicle Accident

Two haredi girls from Brooklyn, Raizel Morgenstern and and Hindy Spira, were killed in a car accident yesterday afternoon in Holbrook, Arizona. Two other girls in the car with them were seriously injured.

An Interview With Dr. Norman Goldwasser: In His Own Words, Goldwasser Tries To Explain What Appears To Many To Be His Open Homophobia

At a recent JCW event you allegedly described a patient who "was abused as a child and now lives in South Beach.…I don't need to tell you what's in South Beach.” Did you say this? “I don't remember each word that I say when I speak but I do remember something to that effect.” Did you say, “sexual abuse impacts sexual orientation in very bad ways”? “I do not recall that at all, but if I did, and if you heard that on a tape, then that was inappropriate and ill-advised.”

Report: British Government Knew About Illegal Inadequate Haredi Schools For Years But Failed To Act

“The DfE [Department for Education] are well aware of the problem. The argument is always that if they shut the schools down they’ll go undercover. But first and foremost, the government has to implement the law. Slow progress would be something – but the DfE hasn’t done anything at all,” a former student at one of these illegal haredi schools, who 'graduated' even though he could barely speak English let alone do basic math, said.

Gay Pride Parade Terrorist To Be Admitted For Extended Psychiatric Evaluation, May Not Be Fit To Stand Trial

Yishai Shlissel (sometimes spelled “Schlissel”), the haredi terrorist who stabbed six people during Jerusalem's Gay Pride Parade last month, killing one of them, a 16-year-old girl, will be admitted to a psychiatric hospital for extended observation to determine if he is fit to stand trial.

Report: Haredi School Disinvites Israeli President Over His Support For Tolerance For Gays

Israeli President Reuven “Ruby” Rivlin was supposed to go to the Kehillat Yaakov haredi school in the Ramot neighborhood of Jerusalem this coming Sunday to open the school year. But Rivlin’s visit to the school had to be cancelled after the school’s rabbis became enraged with Rivlin because he spoke out against Jewish terrorism and against homophobia.

Perhaps The Most Awful Haredi Anti-Smartphone Ad Ever Published

The only term I can think of to describe the following haredi anti-smartphone ad is "appalling." 

UK Government Refuses To Fund Belz Hasidic School That Issued Women’s Driving Ban

British government authorities have refused to fund the Belz hasidc Beis Malka School in north London, in part because of what they said is "non-compliance with the law of equality." But the hasidic school also failed miserably in almost every education category monitored.

Moderate Orthodox Rabbis Launch Independent Conversion Courts To Break Monopoly Of Haredi-Controlled Chief Rabbinate

Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky endorsed the new independent conversion courts, reportedly calling it an important step “in the process of ingathering the exiles from throughout the world in an era of lost identities and growing assimilation.”

Man Who Praised Haredi Terror Attack Against Jerusalem Gay Pride Marchers Indicted

A haredi man who praised haredi terrorist Yishai Shlissel’s stabbing attack late last month on marchers in the Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade has been indicted.

Haredim Riot In Jerusalem, Hurl Bricks, Glass Bottles, At Firefighters

"Only by luck and thanks to the fact that the [fire] crew members were wearing helmets on their heads were they not wounded by the bottles, the [projectiles] and the broken glass.”

Jerusalem To Build $3 Million Mikvah For Small Enclave Of Jews In East Jerusalem

The City of Jerusalem will spend almost $3 million to build a mikvah (Jewish ritual bath) in an East Jerusalem neighborhood that has only 117 Jewish families.

IDF Arrests Haredi Girl And Inducts Her To Active Duty After She Refuses To Answer Her Draft Notice

An 18-year-old haredi girl from the haredi town of Elad failed to fill out her IDF draft forms and request the automatic deferment given to all haredi girls who request it. And led to a chain of events that saw the girl put on active IDF duty against her will and then go AWOL and into hiding.

Government To Give Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars To Haredim, Despite High Court Rulings Against It

Haredim are about to get a financial windfall promised them by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the horse trading for the formation of his latest government despite widespread public opposition and High Court rulings against it.

New Waze Threat Against Previously Burned Jewish-Arab School

The Max Rayne Hand-in-Hand Jewish-Arab school in Jerusalem says it will file a criminal complaint with Israel Police after a threatening location identifying note was posted about it on Waze, an Israeli navigation app now owned by Google.

From Neturei Karta Child To Nude Model And Artist

"As an artist I needed to find a creative way to make ends meet." Removing her bra, [Sara] Erenthal…described how she started working as a nude model in an art school. "It felt very strange to sit up there like that, exposed to a group of strangers, afraid my imperfections were being judged," she said, removing the rest of her clothing. "But I needed to do that for my wellbeing. I needed to let go of that stigma, that shame, associated with nudity. It felt pretty good," Erenthal said, now fully naked. "I felt so powerful. Yet my mind was somewhere else."

9 Suspected Jewish Terrorists Arrested In West Bank Raids

Israel’s Internal Security Service (known as the Shabak or by its initials, the Shin Bet) and Israel Police arrested nine suspected Jewish terrorists Sunday morning. All are from West Bank Jewish settlement outposts.

Why Is A Psychologist Who Supports A Dangerous And Discredited Therapy Speaking To A Jewish Group About Child Sex Abuse?

A psychologist was suspended in Florida for breaching a patient's confidentiality and related issues, and then suspended again (twice) for failing to pay the fines and get the extra continuing education mandated by the state licensing authority in order for him to continue practicing. This psychologist also supports dangerous and discredited reparative therapy/conversion therapy which claims to able to change gay men into heterosexuals. And now Tzedek, the Australian Jewish group formed by Manny Waks and several others to fight child sex abuse, has invited this psychologist to speak. Who is this psychologist?

Israeli Baby Has Penis Severed In Circumcision Accident

An 8-day-old baby from northern Israel had part of penis severed last week while being ritually circumcised my a mohel.

Former Head of Shin Bet Says De Facto Jewish Terrorist State Being Formed On The West Bank

Yuval Diskin, the former head of Israel’s Internal Security Service (known as the Shabak or the Shin Bet) said the government of Israel does not want to deal with Jewish terrorism and that a de facto Jewish terrorist state is being formed in the West Bank. And he blames not only government apathy  – he also blames Zionist Orthodox rabbis who lobby for easy treatment of the few young settler terrorists Israel catches.

Small Anonymous Group Of Haredim Visit TA Gay Center

“The mere fact of my coming here means addressing my deepest fears,” one of the haredi men said. “We’re very homophobic,” another haredi man, who is reportedly prominent in the haredi community, said. “The haredi…community fears homosexuals and all those related concepts. As long as it’s in Tel Aviv that’s one thing, but when they come to Jerusalem it’s terrible.”

2nd Palestinian Injured In Alleged Jewish Firebomb Terror Attack Dies

Dawabsheh, a Palestinian, was mortally injured last week when two assailants – believed to be Orthodox Jewish terrorists linked to the alleged terror organization headed by Rabbi Meir Kahane’s grandson Meir Ettinger – hurled firebombs into his home in the middle of the night, killing his 18-month-old son Ali and seriously injuring all three remaining family members.

High Court Allows Bribe-Giving Money-Laundering Rabbi-Felon To Go To The US For Medical Advice

Sefardi haredi kabbalist Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto was sentenced several months ago to one year in prison for bribery, money laundering and other crimes – a slap on the wrist considering who he tried to bribe and his history of lying and cheating. But this is Israel, a country where justice is relative, and now this convicted felon will be allowed to travel to the US before he serves even a day in prison.

Hasidic Village Of New Square, NY Issues New Draconian Smartphone Ban

Religious authorities of the Skvere hasidic Village of New Square, New York issue new, even more draconian bans on smartphones and WhatsApp.

Haredi Man Leads Cops On Wild Reckless Car Chase Through The Heart Of NYC

A haredi man from Lakewood, New Jersey led Port Authority Police in New York City on a wild car chase yesterday, a chase that included racing the wrong way down Sixth Avenue and ended when he slammed into another automobile.

British Jewish-Founded Camp Closed By Cops Over Child Porn

A police spokesman said “the pictures may have been taken of children at the camp, but we don’t know.”

Accused Rapist Rabbi Claims To Be Doing Teshuva But Still Won’t Admit Breaking The Law

Rabbi Ezra Sheinberg, who is charged with raping and abusing at least 13 women, claims he is doing teshuva. Even so, he still refuses to admit he did anything illegal.

2-Year-Old Haredi Boy Found Abandoned In Public Park, Parents Don’t Report Child Missing For More Than 11 Hours

It was close to midnight when a two-year-old boy was found alone and asleep in a public park near the beach in the Israeli city of Netanya Wednesday night.

Senior Cop Warned Colleagues About Haredi Terrorist Before Gay Pride Parade Attack, But Cops Failed To Act To Protect Marchers

A senior police officer says he issued a special warning to his colleagues about Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade stabber Yishai Shlissel prior to the attack, and yet no action was taken by them to prevent Shlissel attack or even to monitor him.

Lakewood Scammer Reports To Prison Drunk, Ordered Into Substance Abuse Treatment

Rabbi Frederick "Fishel" Todd, the Lakewood, NJ haredi scammer and lawyer who was a partner in crime with haredi mega-scammer Eliyahu Weinstein, reported to federal prison last month to serve his sentence. Todd arrived so inebriated that he needed immediate medical treatment. He admitted to to drinking heavily every day for the past year, and was ordered into rebab (in prison).