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Masked Settler Uses Knife, Stones To Attack Head Of Rabbis For Human Rights

Rabbi Arik Ascherman, the head of Rabbis For Human Rights, was attacked near the West Bank Jewish settlement of Itamar, a stronghold of the outlawed Kach Movement and of other groups linked to the late extremist Rabbi Meir Kahane, by a masked Jewish settler who used rocks and a knife to threaten and then strike Ascherman.

Security Camera Footage Shows Mob Screaming “KIll Him!” As Severely Wounded Eritrean Man Lay Helpless In Pools Of His Own Blood

“From the moment that person was lying on the ground in his blood and unable to do anything that endangers the people around him, there was no place, justification or need on the respondent’s part to join in the violent acts,” the judge said. And he released him and three other suspects without house arrest.

Plague In Humans “Twice As Old” As Previously Thought, Ancient DNA Reveals

New research dates plague back to the early Bronze Age, showing it had been endemic in humans across Eurasia for millennia prior to first recorded global outbreak, and that ancestral plague mutated into its bubonic, flea-borne form between the 2nd and 1st millennium BC. (It was an outbreak of this plague and the false belief that people were dying because the "Jews poisoned the wells" that led to the first European pogroms and other forms of persecution against Jews.)

New Film On Chabad Child Sex Abuse Scandal To Air On ABC Tuesday

Code of Silence won awards when it was first released two years ago. Now a sequel that includes footage from the Royal Commission investigating child sex abuse at Chabad institutions in Australia and much more new material has been completed. It will air Tuesday on ABC.

IDF Soldiers May Have Lied About Facts in Shooting Of Haredi BT

Rabbi Menachem Goldstein of the Dvar Yerushalayim yeshiva, where [Simcha ] Hodadtov studied, gathered testimonies about the fatal confrontation. Based on these testimonies and his acquaintance with the deceased, he said, “I assume he was shot after being suspected of being not Jewish. Things unfolded in a crazy manner. I heard from someone who was there that all he had in his hand was a bag of bread.”

Will New Square Arsonist Shaul Spitzer Now Walk Free?

"No one from the community or the family has apologized. They had 3 1/2 years to apologize. Instead, he's become a hero for them and a role model for their teenagers. [And now] they're asking me to ask the judge to give him youthful offender [status so he can be released from prison early]. I won't."

Court Rules Bloomingburg Mikvah Is A "Place Of Worship"

A New York State appeals panel has ruled that Bloomingburg's former day spa that developer Shalom Lamm wants to turn into a mikvah is a place of worship and that a local zoning board there must allow it to be used by hasidim as a mikvah because the local zoning law allows places of worship on that site.

They Killed Him Only Because He Was Black, African Asylum Seekers Say

“You call us 'infiltrators' and other racist words. A man who came to Israel was brutally murdered because of that racism, and not one politician from the government even comes to express their sympathy!"

Israel's Haredi-Controlled Rabbinic Courts And Haredi Rabbis Allegedly Hurt Battered Women And Their Children In Effort To Control Them

Fleeing to a secular battered women's shelter can be used against an Orthodox woman in rabbinic court. Several years ago, one battered haredi woman had to be moved to a secular shelter for security reasons. “The week after she went to a nonreligious [shelter], her husband’s lawyer went to the rabbinic court.” The lawyer argued that the children were being subjected to secular influences at the shelter. “The court immediately decided to take the children and give them to the father.” It took three months for the mother to get her kids back.

Four Arrested But Not Yet Charged In Beersheba Mob Beating Of Eritrean Man

Four Israelis were arrested last night for participating in the beating of a 29-year-old Eritrean man, Haptom Zarhum, in the immediate aftermath of the Beersheba Bus Station terror attack Sunday.

In Jerusalem, Soldiers Shoot, Kill, Confused Martial Arts B.T. Who Tried To Steal Their Weapons And Screamed, “I Am ISIS!”

IDF soldiers sent to guard the population of Jerusalem due to a spate of Palestinian terror attacks against Jews shot and killed a 28-year-old ba’al teshuva haredi man who yelled “I am Daesh [ISIS]!” in Hebrew and tried to take a rifle from one of the soldiers.

Level 2 Haredi Sex Offender Lives Less Than 500 Feet From Mesivta Chofetz Chaim

Hilllel Selznick is a Level 2 sex offender. He lives just steps from Mesivta Chofetz Chaim in Flushing, Queens, New York even though New York State law prohibits Level 2 and Level 3 sex offenders from living within 1,000 feet of a school.

Eliyahu Weinstein's Attorneys File For Appeal, Claim Verdicts Against Him Should Be Voided

Conclusion: "The judgments in Weinstein 1 and 2 should be vacated, the indictment in Weinstein If should be dismissed, and Weinstein 1 should be remanded to the district court for further proceedings, including a determination of Weinstein's application to withdraw his guilty plea in Weinstein 1."

Video: An Agunah's Story

Adina Porat and her children explain how her estranged husband, Dovid Porat – now known as Eli Shur and living in Dayton, Ohio – had tortured them all for the past 8 years. 

Haredi Rabbi Charged With Molesting And Sodomizing Girls Who Came To Him For Advice

Yet another Orthodox rabbi has been arrested and charged with allegedly using his rabbinical position to sexually assault females who came to him for advice.

Autopsy Claims Slaughtered Eritrean Man Killed Only By Security Guard’s Bullets, Not By Savage Beating By Jewish Mob

Haftom Zarhum was shot 8 times even though he was unarmed and was threatening no one. He was then savagely beaten by a Jewish mob as he lay defenseless and profusely bleeding on the floor. But the guard who shot him says he only fired one shot, police failed to gather critical evidence from the scene in a timely fashion, and the mob who savagely beat Zarhum will likely escape any significant punishment – and the same is true with Bedouin security guard.

Life On Earth Started Much Earlier Than Previously Believed, New Discovery Shows

Geochemists have found evidence that life likely existed on Earth at least 4.1 billion years ago — 300 million years earlier than previous research suggested. The discovery indicates that life may have begun shortly after the planet formed 4.54 billion years ago (roughly 4.54 billion years before Adam and Noah, in haredi and fundamentalist Christian terms).

Israel's Prime Minister Says Holocaust Was All The Idea Of Palestinian Leader

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu falsely claimed this week that all Hitler wanted to do is expel the Jews from Europe. But the Mufti of Jerusalem convinced him to murder them all.

Haredi Girls' Schools Refuse To Give Graduates Documentation In Order To Stop Them From Going To University

Two haredi girls seminaries, one affiliated with the Gur (Gerrer; Ger) hasidic movement, are refusing to give graduates their full academic records or transcripts. Instead, the girls are given the equivalent of a diploma only. This illegally stops the girls from enrolling in institutions of higher learning like colleges and universities. And until forced by a potential lawsuit, the Government of Israel turned a blind eye.

Overtly Racist Hasidic Boys' Journal Published, Widely Sold In Brooklyn

"…So some stupid Democratic ideologues come, and claim that it is not 'humane' to keep the sons of Ham [a euphemism for Black people] enslaved. [They claim that] we have to free them and provide 'human rights'!... - Master of the Universe! We're talking about lowly people! What 'human', when 'human'?! How can you compare these lowly people to civilized people?..All goyim are also low and shameless... [but] white goyim have a slightly more human lifestyle than the Sons of Ham.…..All goyim are also low and shameless... [but] white goyim have a slightly more human lifestyle than the Sons of Ham.…"

Who Owns Chabad's Crown Heights Kosher Seal?

The Va'ad HaKashrus of Crown Heights is suing several Chabad-hasid-owned businesses and a Chabad rabbi for allegedly misusing their CHK kosher symbol. The parties being sued apparently allege that the CHK doesn't actually control the symbol – the hasidic Jews of Crown Heights do.

Could Mob That Beat Defenseless Eritrean Man Be Charged With Murder?

“Even if a person is dying and the blows only hasten his death, that is sufficient cause for a charge of manslaughter, and if the intention was to kill, it could also be murder.”

Israel's Supreme Court Orders Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto To Return To Israel

Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto has six more days to return to Israel and go to prison or he will forfeit a 3 million shekel (about $780,000) bond, Israeli Supreme Court Justice Noam Sohlberg has now ruled.

Doctor At Center Of Sheldon Silver Corruption Case To Testify Against Silver

The doctor at the center of the corruption charges against former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver “disapproved” of him and his law firm and referred cancer patients there only as long as Silver was funneling him state money for research, new court papers claim.

New Study Shows Jewish Affiliation Of Children Of Intermarriage Rising Sharply

Jewish affiliation of children of intermarriage is rising steeply. That rise is largely dependent on inclusion of children of intermarried couples in college-age Jewish programs like Hillel and Birthright, and it will change the composition and outlook of the American Jewish community, a new report from Brandeis University has found.

As The Intimidation And Harassment Of Chabad Child Sex Abuse Victims Continues, A Survivor Asks Why

As the abuse of child sex abuse victims at Chabad in Melbourne, Australia continues, a victim asks an important question: What good are Melbourne Chabad's policies against harassing child sex abuse victims and their supporters when members who violate those policies are never punished for doing so and are still allowed to have unrestricted contact with the victims they harassed?

Holocaust Survivors’ Memories Help Researchers Map Brain Circuitry Of Gratitude

“In the midst of this awful tragedy, there were many acts of bravery and life-saving aid,” said lead author Glenn Fox, a post-doctoral researcher at the Brain and Creativity Institute at USC who led the study. “With the Holocaust, we only typically associate the awful things. But when you listen to the survivors, you also hear stories of incredible virtue, and gratitude for the help they received.”

Some Patients In A Vegetative State Are Aware Of Their Surroundings, Doctors Find

New insight into a vital cerebral pathway has explained how some patients in a vegetative state (not brain dead or brainstem dead patients)  are aware of their surroundings despite appearing to be unconscious and being behaviorally unresponsive.

Men Who Beat Innocent Eritrean Man In Aftermath Of Terror Attack Say It Was All An Innocent Mistake – Even Though Video Footage Appears to Prove It Wasn’t

Nonsensically, police investigators only began collecting evidence and security footage from the scene of the attack, which took place Sunday evening, on Monday morning, about 12 hours afterward.

Hasidic PR Flack Claims The Only Reason Hasidic Yeshivas Don't Teach Secular Subjects Is That They Don't Get Enough Of Your Public Money To Do It

Brooklyn's BRIC TV hosts a roundtable discussion between Yaffed's Naftuli Moster, hasidic PR flack Ezra Friedlander and Amy Sara Clark of the Jewish Week on the lack of secular education in hasidic boys yeshivas. Friedlander repeatedly uses trickery and lies to try to make his points – points that are disproved by empirical facts.

Haredi Deputy Mayor Demands IDF Not Use Haredi Troops To Protect Über-Haredi Neighborhoods Of Jerusalem

“In the framework of freedom of expression, every haredi Jew is entitled and obligated to voice his opposition to gate crashers [i.e., rule breakers] such as these [haredi soldiers who serve in the IDF despite rabbinic bans against doing so] who hope to diminish the pure atmosphere of our neighborhoods."

Video: Life After Leaving Orthodoxy: Basya Schechter & Shulem Deen

Two ex-haredim, musician Basya Schechter (“Pharaoh’s Daughter,” “Darshan”) & author Shulem Deen (All Who Go Do Not Return), discuss their journeys with The Jewish Week’s Sandee Brawarsky at NYC’s Rodef Sholom Synagogue.

Whooping Cough Outbreak In Haredi Brooklyn

"…An outbreak of pertussis is ongoing among the Orthodox Jewish communities in Crown Heights, Williamsburg, and Borough Park, Brooklyn. From October 2014 through October 2015, 109 cases of pertussis have been reported to the New York City (NYC) Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), with an increase in cases over the past four months. The majority of cases (90%) are children aged  less than 19 years (median age 4 years), of whom 52% were unvaccinated or not up to date with pertussis-containing vaccine. Infants aged less than 1 year account for 34%…of cases. Of the 37 mothers of infants with pertussis, only 3 (8%) received the recommended tetanus-diphtheria-acellular pertussis (Tdap) vaccination during their most recent pregnancy.  Five infants were hospitalized, including one who had pneumonia.…"

Feds Issue Multiple Subpoenas In Criminal Probe Of Former Brooklyn DA

“The bottom line is, did anyone who worked on the campaign get paid with city funds or state funds or [public] forfeiture funds? That’s really the issue."

Cops – Belatedly – Agree To Investigate Killing Of Eritrean Man After Terror Attack

Israel Police now say they will "cautiously" investigate the killing of an Eritrean man, Haftom Zarhum, who was gunned down after a terror attack, apparently because he was Black, looked foreign, and was nearby. As he lay bleeding, a mob of Jews kicked, stomped and beat him. Zarhum died several hours later.

Videos: Eritrean Asylum Seeker Shot And Beaten By Jews During Aftermath Of Beersheba Terror Attack Dies Of His Wounds, No Arrests Made

Haftom Zarhum was killed by a security guard who appears to have shot him only because Zarhum had dark skin and looked like an Arab, and by a small number of Jews who kicked him, beat him and hit him with a bench even though he was profusely bleeding and completely defenseless. And not one Jew who did this has been arrested.

2nd Terrorist In Beersheba Attack Was Innocent Bystander Shot By Security Guard And Then Savagely Beaten Only Because He Looked Like An Arab

Security camera footage captures a bus station security guard shooting an unarmed Eritrean man who was not posing a threat to anyone. He was not approaching anyone and was a significant distance from other people as he tried to flee the shooting. The man’s sole reason for being shot appears to be that he looked like an Arab. This was the “second terrorist” police originally thought carried out the attack.

Palestinian Terror Attack In Beersheba Wounds 6

2 Palestinian terrorists opened fire in a bus station in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba today, wounding 6 – 2 of them seriously.

Former Porn Queen Takes To Twitter To Defend Israel

And not only that, Jenna Jameson, the former "Queen of Porn," is converting to Judaism.

Cops Allegedly Give Satmar Hasidim Fewer Traffic Tickets To Please NYC Mayor

One of the perks of belonging to a large and powerful voting bloc appears to be getting fewer moving-violation traffic tickets than you actually deserve.

Breslov Hasidim Illegally Sneak Into Palestinian Territory To Pray At Joseph’s Tomb, Sparking Violence, Arrests

Israeli Jews – all thought to be Breslov hasidim – entered Palestinian Authority land without permission and illegally tried to enter Joseph’s Tomb, located on the edge of the West Bank town of Shechem/Nablus.

The History You Didn't Learn In Yeshiva: The Taboo Against Eating Pig Predates The Torah And Predates Jews

Many Middle Eastern societies had strong taboos against eating pork, taboos that predate the giving of the Torah. Here's why.

Terror Attacks Continue, Settlers Block Ambulance Carrying Severely Wounded Terrorist

When a Magen David Adom ambulance tried to evacuate the gravely injured terrorist to a hospital, the ambulance was blocked by West Bank Jewish settlers who wanted the terrorist to be denied all medical care (or lynched).

Andrew Goodman Gets 10 Years On Federal Child Rape Related Charge

Convicted child rapist's NY State sentence was so disproportionately light, the feds stepped in and charged Goodman with transporting a minor across state lines for the purpose of having sex. And now Goodman will spend 10 years in federal prison.

How Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak HaKohen Kook Unintentionally Helped Provoke Anti-Jewish Violence

"…[Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak HaKo[h]en Kook’s] greatest strength — the lucid vision of his mysticism that encompassed both the sanctity of the Jewish people and that of the Temple’s location — was also his great blind spot. Two days before the [1929] massacre in Hebron…the British turned to the leaders of the Arab and Jewish communities in Palestine, asking them to call on their respective communities to exercise restraint and refrain from further inflaming the situation. The Arab leadership took upon itself to do so, even if perhaps only perfunctorily. Rabbi Kook, however, [refused].…"

Rabbi Ephraim Karp Sentenced To Serve 22 Years In Prison

He’s going to prison for a very, very long time. Rabbi Frederick “Ephraim “ Karp was sentenced to 35 years in prison (with 13 of those years suspended, leaving a total of 22 years to be served) to be followed by five years of supervised probation for sexually abusing two children and one teenage adult over the course of several years.

Jewish Peace Activists, Arabs, Human Rights Groups To March For Peace In Jerusalem

"We will not surrender to despair - We will stand together! Jews and Arabs march together in Jerusalem - Saturday night, Oct. 17…"

Palestinian Youths Burn Joseph's Tomb

The purported tomb of the biblical figure Joseph near the West Bank city of Shechem/Nablus was set on fire overnight by a mob of Palestinian youths.

Video: Israeli-Arab Reporter Lucy Aharish Talks About The Current Wave Of Terror Attacks

In flawless Hebrew (with English subtitles), Lucy Aharish talks about the weakness of Israeli-Arab political leaders and their alleged incitement of terror. When she was only 5-years-old, she and her parents survived a terror attack while shopping in Gaza.

Video: Spring Valley Fire Captain Rabbi Justin Schwartz Tells Haredi-Controlled School Board And State Monitor About Unsafe And Illegal Conditions At Many Haredi Yeshivas

Here's video of Fire Captain Rabbi Justin Schwartz telling the scandal-plagued haredi-controlled East Ramapo (New York) school board and its state-appointed monitor about the widespread and dangerous conditions at many illegal haredi yeshivas in the district at Tuesday night's board meeting.