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Israeli Bus Company Bans Space Alien Ads Due To Fears Of Haredi Violence

The Egged Bus Company has again refused to allow ads it believes will offend haredi sensibilities to be posted on its Jerusalem buses and stations. Previously, the company banned any ads that depicted women or girls, no matter how young or modestly dressed – even female toddlers and cartoon figures – for fear they would spark haredi violence. Now, Egged is banning an ad that features a space alien for the exact same reason.

Israel’s HMOs Ordered To Stop Haredi Gender-Segregation

Israel’s Health Ministry ordered HMOs to immediately halt gender-segregated medical services for haredim after a report by Israel’s Attorney General documented the questionable practices – which may have been previously concealed from the public by Israel's former (Deputy) Health Minister Rabbi Yaakov Litzman, a Gerer hasid.

Borough Park Store Offers Gender-Separate Shopping Hours For Yeshiva Students

A Borough Park store offers separate single-gender shopping hours for unmarried haredi yeshiva students.

Wife Of Haredi Cult Leader Escapes Cult After Being Beaten By Hasidim

The wife of haredi Lev Tahor cult leader Rabbi Shlomo Helbrans has reportedly fled the Quebec-based cult for safety in Israel after being beaten by a mob of her husband’s followers.

Unsigned Haredi Flyer Praises Burning Of "Immodest" Kosher Restaurant

Olympic Pita apparently burned down in a fire on May 31 – a Friday night. Now haredi flyers widely distributed in Williamsburg thank God it was burned down. Why/ Because of the "immodesty" that (allegedly) took place there.

Haredi Activists Try To Ban Commercial Air Travel

Do not travel on commercial airplanes because of the 'immodestly' dressed passengers and crew, and because of the 'immodest' movies, an ad placed by haredi kanoim (activists) says.

Haredi Family From Lev Tahor Cult Busted After Trying To Flee Israel By Illegally Crossing Into Jordan

The family apparently could not legally leave Israel because of an ongoing family court case initiated by the father’s relatives.

Hasidic Group Sells Special Eyeglass Stickers To Blind Hasidim From The “Immodesty” Around Them

A Breslov hasidic organization is selling eyeglass modesty stickers and a hood that, when worn in tandem provide “full eye protection,”  by preventing the wearer from seeing immodest things – or, for that matter, much of anything else.

Picture Of The Day

Make of this what you will.

New Haredi Book Series Tells Preschoolers Ponytails Are Immodest

A good Jewish girl should stay at home, comb her hair in two braids - not just one immodest ponytail – and close each button of her blouse.

Haredi Paper Blurs Out Faces Of Children's Dolls

The Monsey Community Connections blurs out the faces of children's dolls for "modesty reasons."

Satmar-Hasid-Owned Newspapers Cut Slain Woman Out Of Her Own Wedding Picture For "Modesty" Reasons

The Satmar-hasid owned Der Blatt and Di Tzeitung Yiddish newspapers cut out Raizy Glauber, killed with her husband Nachman and her unborn baby when their livery cab was struck by a hit and run driver in Brooklyn, from her own wedding picture for "modesty" reasons.

Queen Esther Banned

After being criticized in previous years for blurring out the faces of little girls in toy store Purim costume ads for "modesty reasons” normative halakha would seem to reject, this year some toy stores owned by or catering to haredim decided to completely remove all girls and women from their ads.

Women's Laughter May Cause Yeshiva Students To Sin

Women and girls should stay out of sight and out of hearing on Purim, a haredi modesty ad in Monsey says. And if they must be where men can see or hear them, they certainly should not laugh, because their laughter could cause "innocent" haredi yeshiva students to sin – i.e., to masturbate.

Haredi Modesty Squad Leaders Busted For Kidnapping, Assault, Other Crimes

During the undercover investigation leading uo to the arrests, police discovered that the two modesty squad leaders were known to haredim in the city but haredim preferred to ignore what the modesty squad was doing rather than speak out against it or call police.

Video: Rio's Orthodox And Haredi Jews Flee City

Rio de Janeiro's Orthodox and haredi Jews reportedly "flee" Rio to avoid the "danger" and "immodesty" of – Carnival, the Brazilian version of Mardi Gras.

Haredi Burka Cult Family Flees After Baby Dies From Alleged Neglect

A baby is dead, a haredi family is missing and in the face of a looming police crackdown, the anti-Zionist haredi umbrella organization Edah Haredit has reportedly put out its version of an all points bulletin to try to find them.

Burka Cult Baby Found Dying, Parents Nowhere To Be Found

There’s been another tragedy involving a child in the haredi Burka Cult sect, this time in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Mea Shearim where a one-yeear-old baby was found near death on the floor of an apartment.

Women Must Walk Behind Their Husbands But Never Along Side Them, Vizhnitzer Rebbe Says

The Vizhnitzer Rebbe released new regulations to his close hasidim, Behadrei Haredim reported – regulations that mimic some of the extreme modesty regulations of Gerrer (Gur) hasidim. The Rebbe instructed hasidim to make sure that grooms are instructed on the new regulations prior to marriage by an older spiritual guide from the Vizhnitz community.

Haredi Newspaper Hamodia Censors Images Of Women’s Shoes; Handbags Okay, Paper Says, Shoes Not

When asked about the censorship, Hamodia said that the paper allows the publication of photos of accessories such as handbags, but it censors feminine clothing items including shoes – even if no one is wearing them – due to modesty reasons.

British Hamodia Reprints Anti-Israel Cartoon But Blurs Out Women's Faces

That's right. Hamodia felt the need to blur out the faces of dying Arab women in a cartoon because in the mid of haredim showing those anguished faces – or the faces and bodies of any women – would not be tznius, modest.

Haredi Paper “Sternly” Warned Over Snowman Picture

A beit din, religious court, in the haredi town of Beitar Illit summoned a local weekly shopper-newspaper’s editor-publisher to a hearing Sunday after his paper allegedly caused a breech in the community’s modesty standards by publishing a scandalous picture of the mayor and his family posing with a snowman.

Netanyahu Government Tells High Court It Doesn’t Want To Draft Haredim Because It Costs The IDF Too Much Money Due To Haredi Gender Segregation

The Government of Israel has responded to High Court of Justice petitions demanding that haredim be drafted and serve in the country’s military as all other Jewish citizens do by claiming that haredi 'modesty demands' and their demands for complete and total gender segregation through all aspects of military life will cost the IDF too much money to make drafing haredim safe or feasible.

Pee Wee Basketball Team Forced To Forfeit Game When Orthodox Opponent Demands That It Bench Its Lone Girl Player

The Orthodox team of little 10-year-old boys demanded that a non-Orthodox team bench its lone little 10-year-old girl player or the Orthodox team said it would refuse to play the game. When the non-Orthodox team refused to comply with the demand, the Orthodox team walked off the court and out of the sports complex – and was awarded the game by forfeit for doing so.

Haredi Modesty Booklet Urges Women To Stay Indoors, Not To Use Shampoo If They Do Go Out

A woman's place is in the home, away from strange men she may arouse in the marketplace, claims a new haredi modesty booklet.

Schoolchildren Harassed By Screaming Haredi Man, Wife Over “Immodest” Dress

"It happened for the first time last year. Some girls wore shorts and were passing by his house. His wife came outside and began screaming to get out of there because they were wearing clothes that were too revealing. In response, several boys told her it was a public area, and then she called her husband and asked him to bring her a bucket of water and pour it on [them]. In response, one child told her that if she poured water on us he would break her window. While the husband heard this, he came out of the house and chased some kids with a shovel, until he was tired.”

Haredim Illegally Gender Segregate BOMB SHELTERS

Haredim in Ashdod, probably Gur hasidim, have reportedly illegally gender segregated bomb shelters, banning women and girls from a building's shelter that haredim have designated for men only.

Haredi Girl Who Joined Burka Cult Forbidden By Court From Leaving Israel

A source familiar with the case says the girl’s family suspects that cult members are trying to smuggle the girl outside Israel to an area near Montreal, Canada, where she could hide inside the Lev Tahor haredi cult.

Haredi News Site Reports Former First Lady's Speech But Only Posts Husband's Picture

The haredi news website Matzav dot com reports that former first lady Laura Bush is the keynote speaker at a fundraising dinner of a Detroit haredi school system. The problem? She's the keynote speaker, her husband isn't on the agenda, but the photo used to illustrate the story is of former President George W. Bush – not his wife. This is apparently another example of haredi gender censorship.

Daughter Joins Burka Cult, Haredi Parents Arrested

When Israeli haredim need a professional cultbuster, who do they turn to?

Haredi Daycare Playgroup Ad Blurs Out Pictures Of Little Girls

An ad for a haredi daycare center in Monsey, New York blurs out the faces and bodies of little girls.

Haredi “Taliban Woman” Reportedly Refuses To Go To Hospital On Shabbat, Gives Birth At Home

A pregnant haredi burka cult woman in labor refused transportation to a hospital because she did not want to violate Shabbat law.

Lakewood, New Jersey Modesty Sign

"Dear Sisters, Please be aware that when schmoozing an this corner, the streetlight shines directly on you, thereby making the nisayon [test] for men passing by far greater!!"

Egged, Cnaan Media Dodge High Court Appeal, Refuse To Run Ads Depicting Women – Again

The bus company that provides public bus service in Israel’s capital will not run ads on its buses that have any pictures or depictions of any human beings – even males or babies. Yerushalmim's ads depicting women in short sleeves are, “outrageous and defiant,” Egged claims.

Cartoon Images Of Women No Longer Kosher For Passover?

The iconic, stylized cartoon logo of a modestly dressed woman sprinkling salt has been removed from Salit salt packages sold in some haredi stores.

Haredi Rabbis Ban Tight Pants – For Men

“There is a strict Biblical prohibition against wearing tight clothing like the gentiles, as stated: ‘You shall not follow in their ways.’ Wearing tight pants is forbidden because of that reason.…And those who wear (such garments) are sinful and cause corruption and it is obligatory to protest their behavior.”

Report: Lev Tahor Cult Uses Violence, Extortion, Manipulation To Terrorize Members

Part One of an in-depth Hebrew series of reports on Rabbi Shlomo Helbrans and his haredi Lev Tahor cult exposes violence, extortion and manipulation by Helbrans used to keep his cult members under his control.

Haredi Eyeglasses Meant To Blur Out Women Also Come With Blinders

Discerning haredi male customers can not only buy those blurry eyeglasses meant to make it difficult for wearers to see women on the street, they can also buy blinders and special hoods to make it nearly impossible to see anything except your own feet.

New Haredi Eyeglasses Blur Vision So Men Don't See Women

New haredi eyeglasses marketed in the Mea Shearim neighborhood of Jerusalem are meant to blur vision to prevent men from seeing women on the street.

No Women's Faces

A small haredi organization in Queens, New York, Torah Anytime, has lots of free classes taught by women for women. But unlike the classes taught by men for men or by men for women, the female teachers' faces are not shown.

Monsey Haredi Weekly Blurs Out 'Immodestly' Dressed Cartoon Figures Of 4-Year-Old-Girls

Community Connections, a Monsey, New York haredi weekly paper, has blurred out the legs and chest of two cartoon figures depicting 4-year-old girls. The cartoon is part of advertisement for a haredi play group for 2-, 3-, and 4-year-old boys and girls.

“Taliban Mother” To Be Released From Prison Today

One of Israel’s most notorious child abusers will be released from prison today. The woman – who lived in Beit Shemesh with her husband and family and who became known as the “Taliban Mother” because she covered herself and her female children in black wool burkas and veils and refused to expose her face to any male, even to her own male children – used low voltage electrocution, burning with cigarettes, whipping, starvation, and other physical and emotional abuse to discipline her children.

Orthodox And Haredi Teen Girls Much More Likely To Visit Internet Porn Sites Than Non-Orthodox Teen Girls, Study Finds

Orthodox and haredi teen girls are almost two times as likely as secular teens to view Internet porn, a new Bar-Ilan University study has found.

Married Through A Hole In The Sheet

The haredi demand for 'modesty' and gender segregation reaches an extreme new low.

Walmart Has Magazine-Free Checkout Aisle For Hasidim

The Walmart store near the Satmar village Kiryas Joel promotes its magazine-free checkout aisle for Satmar hasidim.

Haredi Girls School Bans Aqua Colored Shoes

"Your daughter came to school with aqua- colored shoes. This is from the colors that are not allowed in school."

Birth Haredi Style

We had a patient the other day, very very Orthodox — he wouldn’t even make eye contact with his own wife. He would come in with his head down, staring at the floor — he probably couldn’t even describe me, always staring at the floor. I never once saw him look at her. They can’t expose their arms to their husbands so obviously the vagina is like a whole new level.

More Haredim Demand Gender Segregation On El Al Flights

Last month, a Hebrew Facebook page titled "Herem [excommunication against] El Al" featured an in-flight photograph taken during an El Al flight from Brazil to Israel that showed makeshift mechitzahs [partitions] taped to the backs of four passengers' seats.

Inside The Lev Tahor Haredi Cult

The book was published by the community in Canada and thousands of copies have been distributed throughout the haredi world. Some are sent by mail but mainly they are passed from hand to hand, under the table, in synagogues and yeshivas. Most of the Hasidim who have joined the community in recent years came to it after reading the book.

Haredim To Open Gender Segregated Market In Jerusalem

"It is our intention to establish a market that would be similar to Machne Yehuda and would include only strictly kosher (mehadrin) stalls. There will be no interaction between men and women, a complete separation of the sexes."