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Haredi Modesty Sheet For 1st Grade Girls Says Sleeves Cannot Be Tight Enough To Show The Shape Of Their Arms

Bais Yaakov of 18th Avenue in Brooklyn, New York, a haredi girls school, sent the following modesty sheet home with girls as young as first grade Friday. It tells the girls that sleeves that cover the elbow but which are tight enough to show the shape of the arm (!) are against halakha (Orthodox Jewish law), and make other similar assertions most haredi rabbis would have found laughable 75 years ago. It also adds a new humrah (stringency): it's better for righteous women and girls to wear sleeves which cover their entire forearms. 

RCA Passes Resolutions Against Ordination Of Women, Racism

The membership of the Rabbinical Council of America (RCA), the largest organization of Orthodox rabbis in the US and Canada, has resolved to educate and inform our community that RCA members with positions in Orthodox institutions may not: 1. Ordain women into the Orthodox rabbinate, regardless of the title used. 2. Hire or ratify the hiring of a woman into a rabbinic position at an Orthodox institution. 3. Allow a title implying rabbinic ordination to be used by a teacher of Limudei Kodesh in an Orthodox institution.

Haredi Yeshiva Student Accused Of Child Sex Abuse Doesn’t Show Signs Of Sexual Fantasies About Young Boys, Defense Psychiatrist Testifies

A 29-year-old haredi rabbinical student in Sullivan County, New York who allegedly sexually assaulted an 11-year-old boy in 2011 shows no signs of sexual interest in children, Dr. Richard Krueger, a defense psychiatrist, testified Friday.

4 Haredi Soldiers Indicted In Beating, Torture Of Palestinian Prisoners

Four soldiers from the IDF’s Nahal Haredi battalion were indicted yesterday for numerous instances of torture and abuse of Palestinian prisoners, and more indictments are expected Sunday.

Haredi Yeshiva Student Likely Murdered By Rabbi Or Fellow Student, Cops Reportedly Say

29 years ago on Halloween night, a 15-year-old boy, Chaim Weiss, was hacked to death with a hatchet-like object in his third floor dorm room in the haredi Long Beach, New York yeshiva. The murderer has never been found, but cops now reportedly believe the killer was a yeshiva rabbi or fellow yeshiva student.

Haredi-Controlled School District Discriminated Against Students Of Color, Feds Find

There is, at least in part, illegal education discrimination in the haredi-controlled scandal-plagued East Ramapo school district, the US Department of Education (USDOE) has found.

Secret Israeli 'Rescue' From Ethiopia Revealed

In a semi-secret mission in 1972 hastily organized and carried out in only days, the Israel Air Force rescued 12 precious lives from Ethiopia. But this isn't a rescue like you've ever heard of, and the lives Israel 'rescued' are not even Jewish.

Haredi Man Arrested In Alleged Real Estate Scam

A haredi man in Bnei Brak, Israel has allegedly carried out a wide ranging real estate scam in which he sold property rights to properties he did not own or have legal control of.

Yiddish Ad For Ramapo's St. Lawrence Says He Won't Close Dangerous Illegal Haredi Schools

A new campaign ad for Ramapo incumbent Christopher St. Lawrence says Mike Parietti will close 60 haredi schools – the illegal, unsafe, haredi schools recently exposed by a local fire captain and non-Orthodox rabbi, Justin Schwartz – and tells haredim to vote St. Lawrence so the 60 schools will remain open and won't close even for a short time. The schools have numerous health and safety violations.

“Stunning” Ancient Judean Seal Found – In Non-Jewish Grave In Southern Russia

A 2,700-year-old seal from ancient Judea was found in a 2,000-year-old unlooted grave this summer. The find is spectacular for several reasons, not the least of which is that the grave is located in southern Russia near the Black Sea, and the woman warrior buried in it does not appear to have been Jewish.

Disingenuous Deal To Create Equal Egalitarian Prayer Space At The Kotel Almost Dead

From day one, Failedmessiah.com reported that the proposal by Natan Sharansky to create and egalitarian Western Wall prayer area to the south of the Kotel proper equal in size, importance and visibility to the Kotel proper would never take place. I explained why. And now even the non-Orthodox leaders who fell for Sharansky's ruse have been forced to admit FailedMessiah.com was right.

Idaho Trucker Kicked Out Of Seminary For Self-Circumcision

Kevin G. Sloniker is in a whole lot of trouble, and his try at self-circumcision is only a tiny part of it (pun likely intended).

Is This Letter, Allegedly Submitted To Israel's Supreme Court, Forged?

A New York doctor treating kabbalist and convicted felon Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto allegedly wrote a letter to Israel's Supreme Court explaining why Pinto cannot return to Israel to serve his 1-year prison sentence given to Pinto in a plea deal for bribing a senior police officer. Is the letter real? Was it written without financial inducement or extortion? Was this letter even submitted to the Supreme Court? Take a look and decide for yourself.

Haredi Rent Collector Arsonist Charged

“By 4 [o’clock] you will not be able to liv [sic]…In apartment, don’t many [sic] any mistake. Iam [sic] sirios [sic] two minutes is up … I am almost their [sic], I am here, I have put on fire,” the alleged haredi arsonist wrote according to the criminal complaint filed against him.

Don't Stab Us, We Don't Go To The Temple Mount, Mainstream Haredi Newspaper Tells Arabs – In Arabic

“Could you please stop murdering us?" After all, we haredim do not go onto the Temple Mount! That’s the message for Palestinians the supposedly liberal mainstream haredi newspaper Mishpacha wrote in both Hebrew and Arabic in today’s edition.

Ramapo Haredi Politician Is Convicted Felon Who Really Lives In New Jersey, Investigation Finds

Samuel Tress, a haredi candidate on the Democratic slate for the Ramapo, New York town board and a current member of Ramapo's Zoning Board of Appeals, has a federal mail-fraud conviction related to a mortgage scam. And he lives in Lakewood, New Jersey – not Ramapo, New York.

ITIM Sues Haredi-Controlled Chief Rabbis Over Secret Rabbis List

The suit aims to force the Chief Rabbinate to release its secret list of foreign rabbis who are accepted by the Chief Rabbinate for the purpose of vouching for an immigrant’s Jewish status. Without having their Jewish status vouchsafed, immigrants cannot marry in Israel.

Haredi Soldiers Arrested For Allegedly Harshly Abusing Detained Palestinians

Seven soldiers from the IDF's Netzah Yehuda battalion, more commonly known as Nahal Haredi, allegedly committed a series of violent assaults on detained West Bank Palestinian prisoners. All were arrested. Six are expected to be indicted tomorrow.

Accused Pedophile Malka Leifer Carefully Chose And Groomed Her Many Victims, And Now Faces 74 Criminal Charges In Australia – If She Is Ever Extradited From Israel

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the religious outlook of Sarah, a pseudonym for one of Leifer's alleged victims, has changed drastically since the abuse began. “Honestly, I don’t know if I believe in God now, because after everything that has happened to me, I don’t know that there can be a God.”

According to Israel’s Interior Ministry, Having Smicha From An American Rabbinical School Does Not Sufficiently Prove Jewishness To Get Citizenship Or Extended Visas

According to Israel’s Interior Ministry, even prominent US rabbis must prove their Jewishness – especially, it seems, if they are female rabbis or beardless men, even Orthodox beardless men.

Israeli Soccer Fans Chant Rabin Assassin’s Name In Homage

The notoriously racist fans of Israeli soccer club Beitar Jerusalem chanted the name of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s assassin in homage Monday night in Tel Aviv’s Bloomfield Stadium Monday night during a game against Maccabi Tel Aviv.

Member Of Assassination Team That Killed Prime Minister Threatens To Kill Israeli President

Hagai Amir threatened to kill the president of Israel and got only house arrest – even though his brother murdered the prime minister and he assisted him.

 

Picture of the Day: Free Coffee In New Square Yeshiva In Honor Of Arsonist Shaul Spitzer

It was a happy day in the Skvere hasidic village of New Square, New York yesterday as the arsonist who tried to murder a village dissident and his entire sleeping family, including small children, was released from prison after serving only 3-1/2 years of an already drastically reduced 7-year sentence. Skvere hasidim danced and sang and staged large communal celebrations to celebrate the early release of Shaul Spitzer, who was the Skvere Rebbe's servant when he tried to firebomb Aron Rottenberg and Rottenberg's house about 4:30 am on Lag Ba'Omer 2010. 

Video: Skvere Hasidim Dance And Sing In Joy To Celebrate New Square Arsonist's Release Early From Prison

Hasidim in New Square dance and sing to celebrate the early release from prison yesterday of Shaul Spitzer, the New Square arsonist who tried to murder New Square dissident Aron Rottenberg and Rottenberg's entire sleeping family. Spitzer took a plea, was sentenced to 7 years in prison, and then was released after serving only 3-1/2 years. New York State 'justice.' Spitzer was the Skvere Rebbe's haus bucher (personal attendant; butler) when he committed the arson five years ago.

Preliminary Report: New Square Arsonist To Be Set Free

The information is preliminary, but Shaul Spitzer, the man who at 18-years-old tried to burn New Square dissident Aron Rottenberg and his entire family alive, will be set free after serving only 3-1/2 years.

Watch Documentary On Chabad Child Sex Abuse Scandal

Follow Manny Waks as he witnesses the dramatic hearings of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sex Abuse and then travels to the US to confront one of the two men he claims abused him. (The other man, David Cyprys, was convicted and is in prison in Australia.) Originally broadcast in Australia on Tuesday October 27, 2015. It will be online until 10:30pm Australia time November 10. 

Agudah Convention's Keynote Session Asks Why People Leave The Haredi Community But Has No OTD People On Panel

Agudath Israel of America's annual convention is fast approaching, and its keynote session is called "OTD: Why Are They Leaving?" But no people who have left the haredi community are on the panel. Instead, the panel has a haredi psychologist, a haredi kiruv rabbi, and a haredi pulpit rabbi known for kiruv-style work in Minneapolis before his move to Brooklyn several years ago. 

Prominent Chabad Rabbi Joseph “Diamond Joe” Gutnick Sued For More Than $28 Million

Chabad mining magnate Rabbi Joseph “Diamond Joe" Gutnick and one of his companies, Legend International Holdings, are being sued by India's largest fertilizer collective, Indian Farmers Fertiliser Co-operative (IFFCO), and its Kisan International Trading subsidiary for $40.4 million plus interest after Gutnick allegedly welched on a deal made in 2008. An arbitration panel has already found for IFFCO, but Gutnick has allegedly refused to pay even a penny of the award.

In Rural Kenya, A Small Community Of African Jews

“Kenyan Jews?!” everyone asked me incredulously when I explained where I was headed. Yes, Kenyan Jews. It’s a small community in the land of the Kikuyu tribe, with about fifteen families scattered around Kenya’s interior and centered on the small village of Kasuku.

Skvere Rebbe Orders Hasidim To Pray For Release Of New Square Arsonist

The Skvere Rebbe David Twersky and his hasidim have never apologized to Aron Rottenberg for the incitement against him that directly lead to the arson that disfigured him and almost killed him and his entire family. The arsonist, Shaul Spitzer, the rebbe's servant, has never sincerely apologized, either. Tomorrow his appeal asking for early release from prison is slated to be heard, and the rebbe ordered all of his hasidim to pray for Spitzer the arsonist so he should be released. But that order does not include any prayers or apologies for them man Spitzer almost killed.

Zionist Orthodox Schools Refuse To Visit Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Center, Rabin’s Daughter Says

The daughter of assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yithak Rabin, who was murdered 20 years ago this week by a Sefardi Zionist Orthodox man with a haredi background, lashed out today against the government funded Zionist Orthodox school system which she claimed does not visit the Rabin Center, a state-established and state-funded institute and museum.

Haredi Member Of Knesset Compares Women Of The Wall To Outlawed Muslim Group

“The Murabitat women receive money from the Islamic Movement to create provocation and prevent Jews from ascending the Temple Mount. Whereas the Women of the Wall get money from the Reform Jews to create disturbances at the Western Wall,” Rabbi Yisrael Eichler of the Ashkenazi haredi United Torah Judaism Party said yesterday during a meeting of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.

Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto Faints At Airport, Does Not Return To Israel As Ordered By Supreme Court

Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto was supposed to return to Israel last month from the US to meet his obligations in his plea bargain with state prosecutors. But Pinto was a no-show, and Israel’s Supreme Court issued an order demanding he return to Israel by today. But Pinto – a felon who tried to bribe one of Israel's top cops – didn't make that flight, either.

Haredi Rabbi Arrested For Prolonged Course Of Rape And Sex Assault Against Minor

During police interrogation, the rabbi, who was arrested Sunday, reportedly admitted to having sex with the girl but insisted what he had done was not wrong (likely because the Torah considers a 12-year-old girl to be an adult).

"Experts" Say Sheldon Silver Will Likely Be Found Guilty

The New York Post quotes a series of "experts" – one of them a political consultant, not a lawyer or law enforcement professional; another a former state assemblyman; but the third a former top FBI agent – who all claim the former speaker of the New York State Assembly, Sheldon "Shelly" Silver has a "mountain" of evidence against him and will likely lose at trial.

Satmar School Caught On Secret Video Cheating On Secular Testing

A hasidic teacher at the Satmar hasidic movement's Aron faction's main yeshiva school for boys,the Central United Talmudical Academy located on Whyte Ave. in Williamsburg, Brooklyn,is caught on video by the Daily News helping all of his young 5-year old students cheat to pass the Title III Stanford English Language Proficiency exam.

Magnesium During Labor May Reduce Risk of Fever in Mothers and Complications in Babies

Women who received magnesium sulfate during labor were less likely to develop maternal fever, a condition that can lead to a variety of complications in newborns including difficulty breathing, seizures, cerebral palsy and a condition known as “floppy baby syndrome,” characterized by inadequate muscle tone.

For The First Time, All Pediatricians In The US Are Asked To Screen Children For Hunger, Food Insecurity

For the first time, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is recommending that pediatricians screen all children for food insecurity. Children who live in households that are food insecure, even at the lowest levels, get sick more often, recover more slowly from illness, have poorer overall health and are hospitalized more frequently. Early childhood malnutrition also is tied to conditions such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease later in life.

Haredi Yeshiva Student Discovers There Aren't Enough Yeshiva Teaching Jobs To Go Around – And The Girls He Dates Don't Like It

A haredi yeshiva student writes the Ashkenazi non-hasidic Yated Ne'eman newspaper's Shidduch Forum (arranged marriage forum) asking a question: should he be honest and tell his shidduch dates that there are not enough yeshiva teaching jobs to go around, and he might have to join the American workforce some day?

Orthodox Associate Of Fraudster Scott Rothstein Indicted On 12 Federal Charges Pleaded Guilty To 1, Gets 2.5 Years

Michael Szafranski, 36, of Surfside, is charged with one count of wire fraud conspiracy and 11 counts of wire fraud. He was released on $250,000 bond after a brief appearance in federal court in Fort Lauderdale and later pleaded guilty to the wire fraud conspiracy charge.

Government Backs Bill To Fund Haredi Yeshiva Students

“This decision [to allow the bill to go forward with the government’s backing] does harm to the economy and sticks a knife in the back in the future of the economy and is a betrayal of social responsibility. In the shadow of an intifada and budget negotiations, Prime Minister [Benjamin] Netanyahu and Finance Minister [Moshe] Kahlon are conducting a general fire sale of the budget and the parties of the Opposition are simply ignoring it. These funds will leave yeshiva students in full-time study instead of going out to find work.”

Suspected Anti-Arab Arson Hate Crime In East Jerusalem

A car was set on fire in the Umm Tuba neighborhood in East Jerusalem Saturday night, in what police suspect was an anti-Arab hate crime. Hebrew graffiti reading "Death to Arabs" and "Administrative revenge" was found spray-painted near the car.

Top Chabad Rabbi Indicted For Embezzlement, Fraud

The Tel Aviv District Attorney has just indicted Rabbi Yosef Aronow, the head of Chabad Youth (“Tzeurei Agudat Chasidei Chabad;” Lubavitch Youth), the principal “mainstream” Chabad organization in Israel. Among other things, Aronow allgedly stole donations earmarked for Chabad's Children of Chernobyl charity.

Chabad Rabbi Who Enabled Pedophiles In Trouble With The Law

Thousands of false statutory declarations have been uncovered by investigators who have identified a multi-million-dollar fraud of the New South Wales traffic penalty system, and some of them were allegedly filed by Chabad's very own Rabbi Yosef "Yossi" Feldman. Feldman previously infamously claimed that reporting Jewish pedophiles to police was "mesira" (informing; a serious violation of Jewish law). His testimony before Australia's Royal Commission investigating child sex abuse in Chabad institutions was so bad, he was widely and openly attacked in the wider Jewish community and outside it.

Masked Jewish Defense League Mob Attacks BuzzFeed Reporter With Clubs, Tries To Storm AFP Offices

A mob of right wing Jewish extremists affiliated with the Jewish Defense League, which was founded by the late extremist Rabbi Meir Kahane, attacked and beat a prominent French journalist in Paris.

Words Have Consequences: Palestinian Authority Incitement To Violence

If Palestinians do not publicly acknowledge the Jewish connection to holy sites, violence could continue and possibly intensify.

Another Haredi Man Dies From Wounds Suffered In Shul Terror Attack

Another victim of the November 2014 terror attack on a Jerusalem haredi synagogue has passed away from his wounds.

Crown Heights Watch: New Series Of Robberies And Assaults By Extreme Chabad Messianists Against…Less Extreme Chabad Messianists

“We should kill you because you are a snitch, you went to the cops and put someone in jail,” the mob of mostly masked messianists reportedly shouted while beating the yeshiva student, according to court papers.

Court Rules Controversial Sale Of Lower East Side Shul Can't Happen…Yet

The Home of the Sages of Israel can't be sold until groups objecting to the sale, including shul members and the New York State Attorney General's office, get answers through discovery to questions they have about the legality of the supposed board and the sale. The purported board members live too far away to walk to shul, and the bulk of the sale's proceeds – $10 million – were slated to go to the Gur (Gerrer) hasidic movement in Israel, not to help aging Jews in New York City. The Gur hasidic rabbi, Samuel Aschkenazi, behind the alleged looting has a small synagogue in the garage of his expensive house in Queens. The remainder of the sale proceeds – $3 million – were slated to go there. The Home of the Sages, the only Lower East Side synagogue with a wheelchair ramp, would be demolished is the sale goes through.

Violent Attacks Continue Across The West Bank And Jerusalem, Jewish Family Burned In Firebomb Attack

Violence in Israel continued today across the West Bank And Jerusalem with a series of attacks and counter attacks – including at least one attack by a Jew on an innocent man mistaken for a terrorist.