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Chabad Rabbi Convicted Of Aggravated Criminal Sex Assault Against 15-Year-Old-Boy

Forty-eight-year-old Chabad Rabbi Aryeh "Larry" Dudovitz was convicted today on child sex abuse charges in a bench trial. Although many Orthodox and Chabad rabbis in Chicago knew Dudovitz had confessed to the crime to the CRC's beit din, not one of the rabbis reported Dudovitz to police and Chabad allegedly stymied the original police investigation.

Chabad Yeshiva Has Holy Ark Shaped Like Chabad's International Headquarters

The aron ha-kodesh (holy ark that houses Torah scrolls) in Chabad's Yeshiva Tomchei Tmimim Lubavitch in Sao Paulo, Brazil is shaped as a replica of 770 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York – Chabad's international headquarters where the late Chabad-Lubavitch Rebbe Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson had his office.

Thousands Of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries Cheer Against The Peace Process

"It has nothing to do with the Temple Mount!,” Gerlitzky told his supportive fellow Chabad emissaries. “It has nothing to do with their economic situation and has nothing to with what you hear in the media in Israel or outside Israel. It is has to do with one thing only and that is – the Israeli leadership vacillates, they do not believe and are not confident themselves that Jews are the rightful owners of all of Eretz Yisroel [the biblical Land of Israel] and therefore the Arabs exploit this weakness as an opportunity to pressure more and squeeze out incessant concessions."

Disobey Orders, Top Rabbis Tell IDF Soldiers And Police

A group of prominent haredi and right-wing Zionist Orthodox rabbis joined by a Chabad extremist rabbi issued a public notice yesterday calling on IDF soldiers and other Israeli security personnel to refuse to follow orders to take part in the destruction of the Ayelet HaShachar synagogue in Givat Ze’ev, which illegally built on stolen Palestinian land.

Chabad's Interim Committee Of Management Stonewalls Parents Over Child Sex Abuse Reforms

Parents and Friends of [Chabad] Yeshiva Melbourne, the group that helped force Chabad's top Melbourne lay leaders to resign over Chabad's massive child sex abuse scandal, was promised full cooperation and transparency by the interim lay leaders appointed to manage Chabad. But instead of cooperation and transparency, Chabad's Interim Committee of Management (likely acting in concert with the supposedly ousted former CoM members and the rabbis who led Chabad's decades-long coverup of child sex abuse at its Melbourne Yeshiavah Centre) have completely stonewalled parents and activists, as these newly released details appear to show.

How Should A Chabad-Lubavitch Yeshiva Student Find His Future Wife?

According to Chabad's relationship expert Rabbi Manis Friedman – the man who equated being raped as child to have a case of diarrhea, who called for genocide against Palestinian civilians, even against Palestinian children, and said young people leave Chabad and go OTD because they hate their parents – it's like shopping for shoes. You go from store to store to store until you find the pair that fits, all the while acting completely selfishly and only for your own best interest. And then, when you meet a young woman and that meeting goes well, you marry her, because you've found your correct pair of shoes. 

You're Not Frum Anymore Because You Hate Your Parents, Chabad's Rabbi Manis Friedman Says

According to Rabbi Manis Friedman, the prominent Chabad emissary who compared being raped as a child to having a bout of diarrhea and who called for genocide against Palestinian civilians (even women and children), tells a class at Chabad's Bais Rivka girls school in Crown Heights that Chabad kids stop being Chabad or Orthodox for three reasons, two of which are the kids' own fault.

Video: Chabad Hasid Caught On Video Sexually Assaulting Young Woman In Bnei Brak

The apparent assault took place on Shabbat in the Israeli haredi city of Bnei Brak.

Chabad Pedophile’s Attorney May Be Disbarred Over Remarks Accusing Child Sex Abuse Victim Of Mesira

He spent years defending notorious criminals and survived a several attempts to kill or harm him, including a bomb placed in his house. But now Alex Lewenberg’s legal career may not survive his encounter with a victim of a Chabad pedophile.

It’s Okay To Call Me The Messiah, Chabad-Lubavitch Rebbe Allegedly Told Top Aide

In the federal court case between messianists and Chabad mainstream (but still messianist) faction over the right to use the official Chabad publishing house Kehat’s logo, Rabbi Leibel Groner, one of the late Chabad-Lubavitch rebbe’s secretaries, testified that late rebbe expressly allowed hasidim to identify him as the messiah.

You're Being Rightly Shunned And Ostracized Because You Sinned By Telling The Goyyim The Truth About Our Child Sex Abuse, Chabad Rabbi Allegedly Tells Victim

A current member of the executive of the Rabbinical Council of Victoria (RCV) reportedly told a victim of child sexual abuse at Chabad's Yeshivah Centre in Melbourne, Australia that when the victim testified at the Royal Commission investigating child sex abuse at Chabad institutions the victim caused a chillul Hashem (desecration of God’s name). The victim needs to accept that for that reason alone Chabad people want to have nothing to do with him, the good rabbi allegedly said.

29 Right-Wing Rabbis Sign Public Letter Calling On Government Of Israel To Execute Palestinian Terrorists

"Our holy Torah teaches us that punishing the murderer is the justice and right morals. ‘Whoever sheds human blood, by a human being will his own blood be shed.’ [Genesis 9:6]. The court must not have mercy on the killer, saying that a person has already been killed and there is no point in killing the other [Maimonides Hilkhot Sanhedrin].…When in a war against a cruel enemy, we must take a firm hand against [that enemy]. ‘Don't pity them because they won't pity you [a quote from Rashi’s commentary].’”

Rabbi Milton Yehoshua Balkany Loses Tax Appeal Because He Is “Completely Unreliable,” NY State Tax Panel Says

"…We note that Rabbi Balkany’s testimony is insufficient to overcome petitioners’ inadequate documentation, given the Administrative Law Judge’s finding that the Rabbi’s credibility was “completely unreliable,” a finding to which we defer…"

Chabad Hasid Stabbed In Possible Crown Heights Hate Crime Or Terror Attack

A Chabad hasid was stabbed in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn tonight as he and another man, both Hatzolah ambulance volunteers, were walking on Eastern Parkway between Nostrand and Rogers Avenues.

Dutch Government Agency Recommends Ban On Kosher Slaughter

Haredi, Chabad and Orthodox rabbis from across Europe lashed out at a new recommendation from the Dutch government’s official consumer safety watchdog that calls for all kosher slaughter to be banned.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.…"

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].…"

Don’t Employ Arab Construction Workers, Chabad Rabbi Says

Chief Rabbi of Kfar Chabad Meir Ashkenazi has released a public letter calling on residents, who are almost all Chabad hasidim, to stop employing Arab construction workers until the current security crisis ends. If that is impossible to do, hasidim must hire an armed security guard to watch the Arabs to make sure none of them attack Jews, Ashkenazi ruled.

Video: Matisyahu Talks About Leaving Haredi Judaism

He left Chabad in 2007 and the haredi and Orthodox world several years later. Now Matisyahu calls the decision to leave “one of the hardest things I had to go through.”

Do Chabad's Actions On Child Sex Abuse Speak Louder – And Truer – Than Its Words?

In a new letter today, the Committee of Management of Chabad's flagship Yeshivah Centre in Melbourne, Australia says it will not tolerate harassment of victims of child sex abuse. But yesterday Chabad's flagship Yeshiva Centre honored a man who has repeatedly harassed child sex abuse victims and their families.

Drug Raid In Crown Heights Sees Four Jews Arrested

An alleged drug den located at 704 Lefferts Avenue between Albany and Troy Avenues in the heavily Chabad Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights was raided by the NYPD Thursday night. Six people were arrested, including four Jews.

Did Chabad's Top Melbourne Rabbi Really Resign? Or Was His Resignation Merely A Ruse Meant To Fool The Government And Police?

Rabbi Zvi Hirsh Telsner supposedly resigned September 1 after again verbally abusing a victim of child sex abuse. Telsner previously embarrassed himself and Chabad when testifying at the Royal Commission inquiry into child sex abuse in Chabad institutions and has a track record of insensitivity to child sex abuse survivors and of bullying them. So why is he teaching an honored class at Chabad's flagship Yeshivah Centre this Shabbat – a class widely promoted by Chabad?

Chabad's Head Rabbi In All But Name Only

Rabbi Zvi Hirsh Telsner resigned as the top rabbi at Chabad's Melbourne Yeshivah Centre over one month ago after again being caught harassing and verbally attacking a victim of child sex abuse But over the holidays that just concluded, Telsner reportedly acted as the Chabad flagship's top rabbi in every way – just as if his resignation had never happened, just as if it might have been faked by Chabad to lessen the legal pressure against it caused by decades of covering up child sex abuse and persecuting child sex abuse victims.

Orthodox Jew From Prominent Chabad Family Busted For Alleged Heroin And Crack Cocaine Possession And Sales

Yochanan Levitansky, a 28-year-old Orthodox Jew from a prominent Chabad family, was arrested with another 28-year-old man, Miguel Blanchette, for possession of heroin and crack cocaine with the intent to sell.

Chabad Rabbi Sholom Doyber Levitansky Arrested On Child Sex Abuse Charges

Santa Monica, California police detectives are seeking information or additional victims in connection with the arrest of Rabbi Sholom Doyber (i.e., DovBer) Levitansky, who was booked into the Santa Monica jail Wednesday on a felony warrant for sexual abuse of a child. Levitansky allegedly met his victims while working at Chabad’s Living Torah Center in Santa Monica.

Understanding Chabad's Mass Delusion

"One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.” – Carl Sagan.

The Lubavitcher Rebbe's Esrog

Chabad's paradigm for moshiach never asked the US Government to save Jews from the Holocaust. He used money he raised to rescue Jews and instead used it to start his Brooklyn yeshiva while thousands of Jews were being incinerated in Hitler's ovens every day. But there was something special the Lubavitcher Rebbe wanted the US to do for him just before Sukkot 1944.

Chabad Messianists Lose Fight To Retain Control Over Most Of Rebbe's Books

Chabad messianists lost a their battle against Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky and his Merkos Chabad to retain control over the the sichot (printed talks) of the late Chabad-Lubavitch Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson when a federal judge dismissed most of their claims. However their claim for control over the late rebbe's Haggadah commentary will proceed to trial.

In Child Sex Abuse Blowback, Australia May Force Rabbis And Other Clergy To Be Licensed, Those Who Don't Comply Would Lose Tax Exempt Status

Rabbis and other clergy would be forced to undergo government-specified training in Australian law, child sexual abuse, family violence, women’s rights, and children’s rights. They would also be forced to annually renew a “license” to practice which would require meeting ongoing educational training requirements. A complaint process would also be set up for complaints – including complaints of child sex abuse – to be filed against clergy.

Israel's Chief Rabbinate Rejects Conversion Done By Chabad Rabbi Under RCA Auspices

The haredi-controlled Chief Rabbinate of Israel rejected a conversion done under the auspices of the Rabbinical Council of America (RCA) by a Chabad shaliach, Rabbi Moshe Feller of St. Paul, Minnesota.

Video: How Mystics, Kabbalists, And Even Many Hasidic Rebbes Can Often Fool You – And Even Fool Themselves

The Maggid of Mezeritch used a trick to deceive followers very much like the one Peter Popoff was caught using, except the Maggid did by having spies work the crowd who had gathered in Mezeritch to hear him. But if you watch this video you'll quickly learn that some of these charlatans also fool themselves. 

NYC Hid Haredi Baby’s Metzitzah B'Peh Herpes Infection From Public In Run-Up To Regulation Change

The city was notified of the infection in April but hushed it up until after it, at the urging of Mayor Bill de Blasio and health commissioner Dr. Mary Bassett, voted to end its weak informed consent requirement for MBP and move to an even less restrictive protocol based almost entirely on voluntary cooperation from haredim – cooperation that does not appear to be forthcoming.

Hasidim Lied: Video Shows Thousands Of Kapparot Chickens Dumped In Garbage

A video shot by an anonymous citizen shows thousands of dead, bloody kapparot (kaporos) chickens dumped in the garbage in Crown Heights, Brooklyn even though kapparot spokesmen have insisted the chickens are donated to the poor to eat.

Crown Heights Kapparot Turn Ugly As Hasidim Jostle Protesters And Media, Try To Block Cameras

"…A white-bearded man waded into the chaos brandishing two chickens by their wings in the face of Michelle and other activists gathered to protest the slaughter. Reaching over a barricade with both hands, he mashed the two chickens into a protester's shirt. Asked to explain his actions, he declined to identify himself, but said a woman had grabbed his wife and daughter. Another circle formed around a videographer and Michelle. This time she yelled, "You people are sick!" and "Don't fucking touch me!" The assembled men responded with chants of "Shiksa, shiksa," "Go fight ISIS," and "What about abortion?" A young man named Larry McDrew jeered from one side, "I'm gonna get you."…"

Chabad's Israel Head Reportedly On Verge Of Being Indicted Over Massive Embezzlement Scheme

Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Aronow, the head of most Chabad activities in Israel, is likely to be indicted on fraud, money laundering and tax evasion charges for the alleged embezzlement of tens of millions of shekels.

Chabad Leader Calls Animal Welfare Activists "Anti-Jewish…Forces"

"Certain anti-Jewish and anti-tradition forces have come to try and stop the Minhag [custom] of Kaporos with live chickens from taking place. [Chabad's] NCFJE, who sponsored the community kaporos for decades, is going out of its way to make special efforts in order to ensure that the opposing forces will not affect the kaporos operation.…"

Preliminary Royal Commission Findings Savage Chabad Child Sex Abuse, Coverups, Shunning And Harassment Of Victims, Rabbis' Lies

"…As late as July 2014, Rabbi Yosef Feldman did not accept there was a halachic obligation for any allegation of child sexual abuse, whenever committed, to be reported to the authorities.… The views articulated by Rabbi Yosef Feldman in his supplementary statement to the Royal Commission dated 6 February 2015 are not a true representation of his views on the issue of child sexual abuse but an attempt to rehabilitate his public reputation.…"

The Entire Kapparot Court Decision

Plaintiffs repeatedly asked New York City to enforce the law and stop the unsanitary and often cruel chicken slaughter-cum-haredi-ritual known as kapparot (kaporos) from being held on public streets and sidewalks. The city refused, despite more than ample evidence of animal cruelty and dangers to public health. But a Manhattan judge known in the legal community for her bizarre decisions ruled the city doesn't have to enforce the law. Now you can read her reasons for saying so.

Fight Over Chabad Hasid Haysha Deitsch's Unlicensed Nursing Home Continues

He allegedly cut heat and air conditioning to frail elderly residents, fed them spoiled food, and cut staffing to dangerous levels to try to force residents of his unlicensed nursing home to move so he could sell the building and make tens of millions of dollars in profit. And now the attorney representing many residents says he will continue to file $5 million orders of attachment against Haysha Deitsch for each every one of those individual residents so Deitsch cannot profit from his evil.

Picture Of The Day: The Chabad House Of Uman

Never a group to miss out on an opportunity, Chabad opened a Chabad House in the Breslov hasidic stronghold of Uman, Ukraine, where Rabbi Nachman of Breslov is buried. Chabad has always strongly opposed Breslov – the animosity between the two groups goes back to their founders, Chabad's Schneur Zalman of Liadi and Breslov's Rabbi Nachman. But apparently the only two hasidic groups who follow dead rebbes now have so much in common because of it that some of that old animosity against Breslov from Chabad has begun to fade, at least in Chabad open messianist circles. And this is what that fade looks like.

Kapparot Lawsuit Judge Viewed As Dense, Out Of League, By Attorneys

Judge Debra James, who issued a confused ruling Monday that essentially said citizens can't sue to force governments to enforce health, safety and other public codes, has a long history of befuddling rulings that make little – and sometimes no – legal sense.