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Haredim Smear NY State Assemblyman Working To Protect Firefighters And Children

Sleazy hasidic PR flack Yossi Gestetner's OJPAC has released a new video smearing NY State Assemblyman Ken Zebrowski for using "a Yeshiva building outside his district as a negative backdrop in a media appearance." But there's much Gestetner and his equally sleazy counterparts won't tell you. But FailedMessiah.com will.

Picture of the Day: The Haredi Draft And The Holocaust

Haredim linked to the vehemently anti-Zionist Edah Haredit haredi umbrella organization and the non-hasidic haredi rebel faction headed by Rabbi Shmuel Auerbach held a large anti-draft protest in Jerusalem last night after two haredim who dodged the draft were jailed by the IDF. As a part of that demonstration, Edah Haredit staged the following street theater meant to show fellow haredim that serving in the IDF is a spiritual Holocaust that will decimate haredim just as the actual Holocaust did.

Haredi Scare Ads Claim Ramapo Election Opponents Are Anti-Semites

Haredi scare ads for the Ramapo, New York elections claim that opponents of the haredi-endorsed slate are anti-Semites who hate Jews – even though many of the opponents supporters are themselves Jews, although not haredi.

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.

New Kiryas Joel PR Mailing Touts Quality Of Life, Public Safety And Security

In its newest PR mailing, the Satmar hasidic Village of Kiryas Joel, New York wants its neighbors to know what it claims is its good track record on quality of life, public safety and security.

Rockland County Executive Encourages Anti-Semitism, Haredi Rabbi Says

A haredi group headed by a purported anti-abuse activist is accusing Rockland County Executive Ed Day of “encourag[ing] anti-Semitism.

New Kiryas Joel PR Mailing Makes It Seem If Noted Folk Singer Pete Seeger Endorses Satmar Village

The Satmar hasidic village of Kirays Joel, New York has long history of violations of EPA regulations and is widely considered by its non-hasidic neighbors to be a terrible neighbor. To overcome its horrible (and well-deserved) reputation as it tries to annex hundreds of acres from the neighboring town of Monroe, Kiryas Joel has launched a public relations campaign that often resembles Pravda under Soviet communist rule rather than actual truth. But its latest mailing, received in neighbors homes several days ago, uses the images and names of three very public figures – all of them dead and at least one of them very unlikely to endorse Kiryas Joel if he were still alive.

Hasidic Pol Denies Narrating Offensive “The Jew In Rockland County” Video – Despite The Fact That His Voice Seems To Be Clearly Heard Narrating It

After a large outcry from Rockland County residents of all religions, the majority leader of the Rockland County Legislature, Aron Wieder, now claims it is not his voice narrating the hateful video, The Jew in Rockland County, which was released late last month on YouTube by hasidic PR flack Yossi Gestetner’s OJPAC.

Satmar Falsely Claims Its Kiryas Joel Yeshiva Does Not Discriminate By "Race, Color Or Ethnic Origin"

Satmar has now taken out an ad that deceptively claims its Yeshivah Gedolah (i.e., its high school-level yeshiva) linked to the Satmar hasidic Village of Kiryas Joel, New York does not discriminate by "race, color national and ethnic origin."

A Grotesque Smear: Rockland County Haredi PR Video Plays Holocaust Card, Equates The Situation Of Haredim In Rockland To Paris Terror Attacks

Satmar hasidic PR hack Yossi Gestetner's Orthodox Jewish Public Affairs Council (OJPAC) has released a disgusting video that smears opponents of the haredi community as anti-Semites and potential terrorists without ever once mentioning the very real misbehavior of many haredim. It pulls from a tiny minority of opponents who are (or can be construed as) anti-Semitic and smears the vast majority of opponents with that very broad brush. And the video is narrated by the hasidic Majority Leader of the Rockland County Legislature Aaron Wieder.

Kiryas Joel PR Mailing

No, folks, this is not a Purim joke.

Satmar Hasidic Village Of Kiryas Joel Launches PR Ad Campaign Touting – Sustainability

The Satmar hasidic Village of Kiryas Joel, New York has launched a public relations advertising campaign that touts Kiryas Joel's "respect" and "sustainability" – two things non-Satmar locals overwhelmingly find to be untrue. Instead, from its community poultry plant with horrific EPA violations and KJ's near-complete disrespect for its neighbors, Kiryas Joel has proved itself to be the antithesis of sustainable and respectful, many locals say.

Deceptive Haredi Spin Exposed

A haredi spokesman gets caught with his pants down.

Haredim In Israel To Launch A “Kosher” Smartphone Despite Ban

Rabbi David Zilbershlag – who reportedly said the Internet is viewed by haredi rabbinic leaders as "the greatest threat of all time” – also asserted that haredi leaders will eventually need to set up their own private “Internet” in the future, something similar to the closed Internet owned and operated by the Pentagon, to create "a clean environment with [set] boundaries" so haredim do not come into contact with foreign ideas or immodest pictures and movies while surfing.

Yossi Gestetner Resigns

The New York State Republican Party's newly appointed Jewish Liaison resigns after 8 days in office. Gestetner's defense of haredi pedophiles and other haredi criminals, and his habit of calling opponents Nazis, antisemites and bigots, caused the GOP to rethink its appointment of the hasidic PR flack.

NY State Republican Party's Jewish Liaison Has History Of Calling Political Opponents Of The Haredi Community Nazis

Gestetner also allegedly offered to smear a political opponent – for money, of course – of another politician by publicizing this Jewish pol's marriage to a non-Jew. The pol he made the offer to declined. Should Yossi Gestetner have a position of authority in the Republican Party after doing all this?

Haredi Pedophile Innocent, Republican Liaison Intimates

Yossi Gestetner, the New York State Republican Party's new Liaison to the Jewish community, defends a haredi pedophile who admitted to molesting two little haredi brothers, one 7-years-old, the other 9-years-old.

Sleaze: Ostreicher Family Caught Paying Extras To Fill Congressional Hearing Room

The family of Jacob Ostreicher, a haredi man imprisoned in Bolivia, has been caught paying people to fill the gallery at today's Congressional hearing called to criticze the State Department's supposed inaction on the case. The paid stooges were recruited through an ad on Craig's List to fill a "ballroom" in Washington.  Apparently placed by an Ostriecher family member, it was allegedly placed on Craig's List in coordination with Congressman Chris Smith's (R-NJ) office. Smith is the Congressman who arranged the hearing and who has, apparently with the cooperation of Ostreicher's family its PR firm 5WPR, tried to turn a Human Rights case into an anti-Obama sideshow. Evidence shows the State Department has tried to help Ostreicher.

An Anatomy Of A Haredi 'Blood Libel'

You may have already heard the story. A hasid tries to enter an upscale shopping mall in North Tel Aviv but is denied entry by security. When asked by passersby why the hasid was not allowed in, security says that his dress upsets customers and that it upsets people at the food court who are eating to have to look at hasidim. A famous non-Orthodox Israeli singer tells the story on his radio show, and a haredi website releases a video of the event. Haredi blogs and Orthodox and haredi news websites pick up the story. It's worse than Berlin in 1939, the singer said – but is it? And is the story true? No, and no it isn't.

Cheap Political Gamesmanship In The Name Of Helping Haredi Businessman Jacob Ostreicher

Republican controlled US House of Representatives to hold hearing on "the U.S. State Department’s Inadequate Response to Human Rights Concerns in Bolivia: The Case of American Jacob Ostreicher."

The Lies Of Caroline Glick

The right wing columnist and apologist takes on media coverage of haredi attacks on women and girls – and lies to do it.

Political Hack Becomes Chabad Rabbi

Hank Sheinkopf, the political consultant and spin doctor who is currently spinning webs of lies on behalf of the Skvere Rebbe and the Village of New Square in an attempt to keep the Skvere Rebbe and the village government safe from indictment in the attempted murder-arson of the family of a local dissident, is awarded smicha, rabbinic odination, by Chabad.

'America's Rabbi'

But inside that brain of his, oh the stuff that comes out. Heady stuff. Weird stuff. Personal stuff. (Remember, this is the guy who talked with Oprah about kosher sex.) Stuff about success and life balance and principles and ambition.

An Ex-Hasid Spins A Hot Tale Of Imagined Tradition For Cold Cash

Shulem Dean writes a piece for the New York Daily News that completely misrepresents a facet of hasidic history.

Dishonest Reporting: How The Aish HaTorah Funded Media Watchdog Honest Reporting Distorts News

Honest Reporting wants you to believe that ultra-Orthodox children did not stone a dog in Jerusalem on the orders of haredi rabbis, who believed the dog to be a reincarnation of a secular lawyer they despised. To do so, Honest Reporting distorts the truth.

Spin Over Truth, Part 2: VosIzNeias, Skvere, And Spin

"Ami Magazine that presents an exclusive interview with the Skverer Rebbe, Rabbi David Twersky, who speaks out in depth about the horrifying events that occurred in New Square less than two weeks ago."

Ami Magazine Publisher: Our Coverage Of The Attack In New Square Is "Biased To The Extreme"

Ami Magazine's publisher Rabbi Yitzchok Frankfurter tells a reader that Ami Magazine's 'interview' with the Skvere Rebbe "is biased to the extreme, guided by the precepts of the Rambam and Shulchan Aruch, regarding the laws of respect for talmidei chachomim [Torah scholars] and prohibitions against assigning collective guilt upon a community." Those "precepts" are understood to forbid publishing embarassing or damaging information about a Torah scholar, even if that information is true.

Video: Rubashkin PR 'Documentary' Trailer

The men who made the Unity music fundraising video for Sholom Rubashkin are in the process of making a 'documentary' on Rubashkin's case. Here's the trailer:

Spin Over Truth

Whitewash: Ami Magazine's "hard-hitting interview" with the Skvere Rebbe turns out to be a fluff piece meant to kosher a man who many believe incited the violence that almost killed Aron Rottenberg and his family.

UPDATED: The Skvere Rebbe Speaks Again – But Is He Telling The Truth?

If by telling the truth we mean that his words are both accurate and presented in proper context, the answer would seem to be…

Who Is The Spin Doctor Hired By "Unnamed Residents" Of New Square?

He protected the Catholic Church from the legal ire of hundreds of victims of Catholic clergy abuse, helping to ensure many more children from all religions will be sexually abused in the future. He helped Rabbi Mordechai Tendler after he was booted out of the RCA for various improprieties sexual the RCA says it documented that fall into the category of clergy abuse. And now he spins for an "unnamed group" of New Square residents to protect corrupt New Square leadership. Who is Hank Sheinkopf?

The Jerusalem Post Alibis For Israel's Mistreatment Of Non-Orthodox Jews, Converts And Non-Jewish Russian Olim

An official State Department report on religious freedom in Israel raises valid points about the imperfect and intricate condition of faiths in the Holy Land, but inaccuracies and errors in it raise questions as to the methods of obtaining and analyzing the information employed, the Post claims.

Rabbi Avi Shafran, Haredi Dissembler

Rather than confront the problems of the haredi community, Agudath Israel of America's spokesman attacks the messengers who make those problems public.

Letter from Baltimore: Haredim Persecuted By Secular Media

Haredim, it seems, do little wrong – despite media reports to the contrary.

Rabbis Tell Government To Free Rubashkin

A group of the nation's "most prominent rabbis" will hold a news conference in Washington, DC Tuesday to oppose the premature imprisonment of Sholom Rubashkin.

Did The Haredi Head Honcho Tell A Haredi Charity It's Okay To Lie To Raise Money?

Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv denies he said it, and the haredi newspaper that printed it retracted. But is it true?

Kosher Industry Flack Wants A "Time Out" In Postville

Give new owners 6 months to settle in before making demands, Menachem Lubinsky tells Postville citizens and outside Jewish groups.

Annals of Censorship: How Haredim View History And Truth

Photoshopping away reality the haredi way.

Haredi Newspaper Says Rubashkin Charges Are "Antisemitism"

Yated Ne'eman thinks the American government is out to get Jews.

Letter from Lubinsky:Sleaziest Haredi PR Flack Waxes Imbecilic About Agriprocessors

"Old antagonists" like Rabbi Morris Allen and "liberal Jews" "are "breathing down" Agriprocessors' necks, Menachem Lubinsky says.

Annals of Wishful Thinking:"Proving" The Oral Law

Reasoning circularly, from conclusion to "proof."

Haredi PR Man, Upset Media Won't Buy His Spin, Quits, Cries Bias

Flack says: "It was wrong to be nice to the secular media."

BREAKING! Did Rabbi Yaakov Horowitz Call On Haredi Leaders To Condemn Haredi Violence?

The Jerusalem Post says he did. But is it true?

The Lies Of Kosher Today, Cont.

Rubashkin's 'former' PR flack 'reports' on the 'sale' of Agriprocessors.

Rabbi Yaakov Horowitz Sells Out, Part 2

The apologetics of of Agudath Israel of America's new hit man.

GUEST POST: Combating Kiruv Movement Wikipedia Censorship

Orthodox censors whitewash NCSY scandals, criticism.

What's He Smoking? Agriprocessors Trustee Waxes Insane

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Disgraced Agriprocessors PR Flack Honored With Award From Jewish Group

Remember Ronn Torrosian? Torossian heads 5WPR, the public relations firm caught illegally impersonating Agriprocessors critics online.

Torossian is slated to be honored by the (very right wing) Zionist Organization of America later this month.

What award is Ronn getting?

Zionist Organization Of America To Honor Agriprocessors PR Flack Ronn Torossian – 5WPR Was Caught Impersonating Agriprocessors Critics

Ronn Torossian, the PR flack whose company, 5WPR got caught sockpuppeting and illegally impersonating Agriprocessors' critics online is to be honored at the Zionist Organization of America's annual…

Menachem Lubinsky No Longer Represents Agriprocessors

That's what…