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Jews Obligated To Support Putin And Keep Him In Power, Top Chabad Rabbi Claims

Rabbi Alexander Boroda, the head of Chabad’s Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia, warned Friday that Jews would be endangered if Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has favored Chabad over other Jewish groups in Russia – allegedly in exchange for the support of Chabad-linked oligarchs and in exchange for Chabad’s pro-Putin anti-democracy advocacy in the West.

Near-Riot In Beit Shemesh Between Haredim And Opponents Over Memorial Day Ceremony

A public Yom Hazikoron (Memorial Day) ceremony today in Beit Shemesh was disrupted by haredim, leading to violence.

Video: Newly-Elected Hasidic Village Trustee Refuses To Answer Questions On His Alleged Voter Fraud

Newly-elected village of Bloomingburg, New York trustee Aaron Tzvi Rabiner refuses to spell his name or admit whether he used a Monroe, New York address as his personal residence for a state corporation filing in October – months after he told the Sullivan County Board of Elections he had already established his full time residence in Bloomingburg. If the documentation found by activists is correct, that could mean Rabiner committed voter fraud and also made a false declaration or filed a false instrument, which are also crimes.

Lower East Side Nursing Home And Synagogue, Now Run By Gerrer Hasid Who Allegedly Seeks To Loot It, Locks Out Long Time Worshipers

"As I’m sure everyone is aware, those of us who daven at the nursing home were prevented from entering the building.  A Court Order was obtained this afternoon directing the nursing home not to interfere with anyone who wants to enter the building to daven in the shul. …"

Modern Orthodox Developer Shalom Lamm, Others Sued Over Alleged Racketeering

In a federal lawsuit filed today, two Hudson Valley communities argue that Shalom Lamm, a real estate developer seeking to take control of local government for his personal benefit, has engaged in racketeering activity consisting of repeated instances of deception, corruption, bribery, mail fraud, wire fraud, and voter fraud. The suit goes on to assert that, to secure his hold on local government and to divert attention away from his actions, Lamm has engaged in repeated lawsuits in which he has made false claims of anti-Semitism to mislead would-be sympathizers and intimidate local government officials and agencies.

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 Family's Lack Of Respect For Rockland County 9-11 Memorial Sparks Outrage

"…The ethnic or religious makeup of the family in question is not what matters here. What matters, and what I would ask everyone to focus on, is the desecration of this sacred site. I have reached out to Sheriff Falco and our Environmental Resources/Parks Coordinator to discuss ways to prevent this sort of behavior in the future through signage and patrols, and urge all parents to discuss with their children the importance of respecting site such as this one.…"

Over-Broad Subpoenas Issued By Slippery Modern Orthodox Developer’s Supporters Blocked By Federal Judge

Modern Orthodox developer Shalom Lamm’s supporters wanted to go fishing for “anti-Semitic” and “anti-hasidic” private correspondence between opponents of Lamm’s controversial – and some say, illegal – Chestnut Ridge development in the tiny 420-person village of Bloomingburg, New York in the foothills of the Catskill Mountains, but a federal judge has now stopped them.

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.

Attempt To Block Modern Orthodox Developer Shalom Lamm’s Bloomingburg Development Fails First Appeal

Opponents of Modern Orthodox developer Shalom Lamm have failed in their latest legal challenge meant to stop Lamm’s deceptive high density 396-unit townhouse development in Bloomingburg, New York. The development is marketed as a hasidic shtetl, but the land annexation and other permissions that made it possible were first based on a low density golf course and vacation home community pitched to the tiny 420-person village located in the Catskill Mountains by a local front man hired by Lamm’s company to pose as the straw man developer.

Town of Mamakating and Village of Bloomingburg Officials Call for State’s Legal Response to Repeated Voter Fraud

"As the Town of Mamakating and the Village of Bloomingburg continue to call for integrity in the local voting process and prosecution for voting fraud that has become systemic, the two are now calling for New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to step in and engage on matters that Sullivan County District Attorney James Farrell has neglected. The results of the March 18, 2015, Village of Bloomingburg election remain inconclusive because fraudulent votes by those who do not live in Bloomingburg were counted; incumbent Village Trustee Katherine Roemer has not conceded.…"

Hasidic Candidate Aaron Tzvi Rabiner Wins Bloomingburg Election By 9 Votes – But Was It Legal?

Modern Orthodox developer Shalom Lamm's hasidic candidate Aaron Tzvi Rabiner won the Board of Trustees election in tiny 420-person Bloomingburg, New York by 9 votes – but only after the county's board of elections changed its own ruling without informing the non-hasidic incumbent and allowed questionable voters, all of whom were hasidim, to have their votes counted. If the board had followed its own original ruling, the non-hasidic incumbent would have won in a landslide. "Under these circumstances," the incumbent's attorney wrote in a letter to a local judge, "appellate authority dictates that petitioner’s remedy as to this election now rests with the attorney general…” [emphasis added]

Yeshiva Chofetz Chaim's $100 Million Lawsuit Against Ramapo NY Villages Thrown Out Of Court

For more than ten years, Mosdos Chofetz Chaim has pursued a policy of filing what many claim are largely frivolous lawsuits and related legal actions against the villages of Pomona, Chestnut Ridge, Wesley Hills, and Montebello, all located in Ramapo, New York. Friday, it its biggest lawsuit to date was thrown out of court – for the second time.

Video: Yossi Gestetner Interviewed About Grotesque Video Smearing Opponents Of Haredi Community In Rockland County

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. The video is narrated by the hasidic Majority Leader of the Rockland County Legislature Aaron Wieder. Richard French interviews Gestetner and his henchman Benny Polatseck about the smear, and Gestetner doubles down repeatedly on it.

Votes Opened; Hasidic Candidate Now Leads By 9

“The question is whether we have a tainted election with a large number of people who shouldn’t have voted.”

Planning Board Gives Green Light For Bloomingburg Satmar Girls School

Modern Orthodox Developer Shalom Lamm’s proposed Satmar hasidic girls school was was finally approved by the Town of Mamakating, New York’s Planning Board Tuesday night, after which the spokesman for Lamm and the hasidic community Michael Fragin lashed out at the board for purportedly being anti-education.

Non-Hasidic Bloomingburg Residents And Neighboring Elected Officials Demand DA Investigate Alleged Hasidic Voter Misconduct

Residents of a tiny 420-person village in the Catskill Mountains in New York State are demanding that Sullivan County District Attorney James Farrell investigate the Sullivan County Board of Elections. The outraged Bloomingburg residents and elected officials from the adjoining Town of Mamakating claim a substantial number of unregistered voters were improperly allowed to vote in the local village election held earlier this month.

After Long Fight, Disputed Secular School Building Given To Haredim

The school had been divided earlier in the school year, with roughly half remaining a secular school and half becoming a haredi girls school. But the manner in which that division took place – including city workers erecting makeshift walls without warning so the haredi students would not be able to see the secular students and teachers or interact with them in any way – sparked protests from secular parents and a court case. Even the playground was divided by an 8-foot wall so haredi children and teachers would not be 'corrupted' by the seculars.

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.

Support State Fiscal Monitor For Scandal-Plagued Haredi-Controlled School District, County Executive Says

…Gov. Andrew Cuomo last year appointed Hank Greenberg, a former federal prosecutor, to assess the East Ramapo school board's conduct and fiscal management. He found that board members had shown favoritism to the Orthodox Jewish students who attend private schools in the district and recommended legislative action to give an appointee veto power over the board's "bad decisions." His findings didn't reveal school board members acting "out of base or venal motives," but rather so influenced by the community from which they've come that it has "blinded them to the needs of the entire community.…"

Video: Aron Tzvi "Aaron" Rabiner Talks About His Bloomingburg Election Win

Aron Tzvi "Aaron" Rabiner talks about his (as yet unofficial) election victory Wednesday. Rabiner is the first hasidic person to hold a seat on the tiny village of Bloomingburg, New York's village board. Hasidim and Modern Orthodox developer Shalom Lamm have used what many say is deception (and, some allege, bribery and other illegal tactics) to gain control of the 420-person village in the Catskill Mountains and convert it to a hasidic shtetl.

Video: Hasidic Candidate For Bloomingburg Village Board Has Reportedly Won By A Two Vote Margin

Aron Tzvi "Aaron" Rabiner is the hasidic candidate in today's election for the village board of Bloomingburg, New York, the tiny 420-person village in the Catskills that had the misfortune to have a stealth front man for Modern Orthodox developer Shalom Lamm sell it on a low-density golf course vacation home complex only to find later that the new development was really a 396-unit high-density Satmar hasidic village called Kiryas Yated Lev. Satmar has moved to take over the tiny village, and many locals – a number of them non-Orthodox Jews – are fighting to prevent that from happening. This may be the last election which will see a non-hasidic majority elected.

An Open Letter To The Citizens Of The Satmar Hasidic Village Of Kiryas Joel

"…Let's face it, the community of Kiryas Joel is a massive financial leech on Monroe, on Orange County, and on New York State. You trade votes for favors with corrupt politicians as a means of furthering your cultural goals. And you do all this with no regard for your neighbors, or for the degradation of the quality of life of the people around you that your behavior results in. This disgusts me.…"

Satmar Hasidic Village Of Kiryas Joel Sends Out New PR Mailing Touting Its High Density Housing As A Boon For The Environment – Which It Clearly Is Not

The Satmar hasidic Village of Kiryas Joel, New York issued a new PR mailing this week that claims Kiryas Joel is avoiding urban sprawl by building high density housing – the same high density housing neighbors oppose because it destroys the almost rural feel of the area. Kiryas Joel is a serial polluter and violator of EPA regulations with a horrible record on everything from environmental protection to its frequent failure to follow NY State's Open Meeting Law.

Opponents Sue NY State Over Kiryas Joel Annexation

Opponents of an annexation petition to move 507 acres from the Town of Monroe into the Satmar hasidic Village of Kiryas Joel are suing the State of New York for appointing Kiryas Joel lead agency for the proposed annexation's environmental review, noting that Kiryas Joel has fined by the DEC and the Environmental Protection Agency for failing to comply with state and federal environmental laws.

Hasidim, Lamm, Sue Sullivan County Over Alleged Voter Discrimination

Modern Orthodox developer Shalom Lamm and a group of Satmar hasidim are suing the Sullivan County Board of Elections over alleged discrimination – even though some of these same hasidim and Lamm were caught attempting to commit what many call voter fraud.

Satmar Hasidic Village Holds Public Hearing In Middle Of Dangerous Snowstorm, Shutting Out Many Opponents

County Executive Steve Neuhaus issued a statement before the hearing calling on Kiryas Joel to reschedule it for the safety of the public. Kiryas Joel’s leaders ignored him.

Right-Wing Activist Banned From Temple Mount By Police Unjustly, Court Finds; Orders State To Pay $126,000 In Damages

Judge Malka Aviv of the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court ordered the State of Israel to pay Temple Mount activist Rabbi Yehuda Glick 500,000 shekels (about $126,000) for banning him from the Temple Mount from 2011-2013. She also awarded Glick 150,000 shekels (about $38,000) in court costs and lashed out at Israel Police for banning Glick from the Temple Mount.

Beit Shemesh Moderates Fight Back Against Extreme Haredi Modesty Rules

The group took out advertisements in the local papers and launched a Facebook campaign in both English and Hebrew, all centering around an image of an ultra-Orthodox woman sitting with her young daughter looking through a magazine. The girl in the ad asks: “Mommy, why did they erase the little girl’s face?”

An "Enormous" Day For East Ramapo, Pro-Public Schools Group Says

"Today was simply an ENORMOUS day for East Ramapo children and families. Our local lawmakers, Ellen Jaffee, Ken Zebrowski and David Carlucci, delivered big time with an oversight bill (Assembly Bill 5355, Senate Bill 3821) that would create the strong state oversight [of the scandal-plagued haredi-controlled East Ramapo school district] that we have been writing, calling, tweeting, and recording videos about: proactive authority to set a vision and strategic plan for the district's improvement, veto power when the board makes poor decisions…"

Bill Appointing State Monitor For Scandal-Plagued Haredi-Controlled School District Introduced In NYS Assembly

A bill to appoint a State Monitor to the troubled East Ramapo Central School District has now been brought before the New York State Assembly. This legislation follows the recommendations made by Fiscal Monitor, Hank Greenberg, to impose strong oversight in the haredi-controlled, scandal-plagued school district.

Head Of Chabad Front Group Again Calls To Arm Europe's Jews

Rabbi Menachem Margolin wants European countries to make an exception to gun control laws and allow Jews to arm themselves – a call many actual European Jewish leaders strongly oppose.

Intifooda: Kosher Food-Cart Vendor Says He‘s Blocked By ‘Halal Mafia’ In NYC

“Why doesn’t he go to 47th Street?” Mossad shouted, referring to the Hasidim-heavy Diamond District. “He’s just coming to this particular spot, and he wants to grab it from me — and kill me, actually. Kill my business.”

Government, City Of Beit Shemesh Put Up Modesty Fence To Wall Off “Immodest” Little Children In Playground And Protect Haredim From Temptation

The sight of children in a public playground is too “immodest” for haredi eyes to see. So haredim covered the playground walkways with tar, removed benches (so men and women would not be able to sit next to each other), and destroyed equipment. In response, the playground was shut down by the city. No arrests were made. Instead, a privacy fence was erected to shield the haredim from seeing the "immodest" children.

A Vote Of No Confidence In Scandal-Plagued Haredi-Dominated East Ramapo Schools Administration

"Make no mistake about this. The defeat of this $40 million dollar bond was a resounding no-confidence vote against Superintendent Joel Klein and School Board President Yehuda Weissmandl.…"

Voters Say No To $40 Million Bond Proposal Of Troubled Haredi-Controlled School District

The bond proposal was likely defeated because many haredim oppose spending money on schools they don’t use, while many activists working to save the public schools opposed the bond because they feared the haredi-dominated school board would misuse the money. Those activists wanted the vote on the bond to be delayed until after the state appoints a fiscal monitor with real veto power to watch over the scandal-plagued haredi-controlled board.

Citizens Group To Take Legal Action Against NY State Over Satmar Control Of Controversial Land Annexation

The citizens group United Monroe is preparing to take legal action against New York State’s Department of Environmental Conservation after the DEC gave lead agency status in the proposed annexation of 507 acres from the Town of Monroe to the Satmar hasidic Village of Kiryas Joel to the hasidic village.

In Scandal-Plagued Haredi-Controlled NY School District, Public School Parents Worry That Haredi Support For $40 Million Bonding Bill Is The Basis For Another Fraud, Not For Safer Schools For Their Children

In 2010, two schools in the haredi-controlled scandal plagued East Ramapo (New York) School District needed no repairs to their physical plants: Hillcrest and Colton. Bot of those schools were closed by the haredi-controlled board under false pretenses and sold to haredi yeshivas at well below market rate. Now the district needs money to fix the crumbling schools it still has, and activists point to severe irregularities in the district's management and wonder, if the $40 million bond passes, how much of it will end up fixing public schools and how much will end up (largely illegally) financing haredi non-public religious education?

Blood Flows, 10 Yeshiva Students Allegedly Stabbed During New Rioting In Poneviz Yeshiva

Riots broke out again tonight between rival factions in non-hasidic haredi Judaism's second largest yeshiva, Poneviz (Ponevitch; Ponevizh) in Bnei Brak. There were allegedly several injuries and police swat teams flooded the yeshiva along with emergency medical responders. 10 yeshiva students were allegedly stabbed and a rosh yeshiva (dean) was beaten. Police alleged shut down the yeshiva.

Chabad Buries Donor On Its Property And Then Mortgages The Property And Loses It – And The Grave – In Foreclosure

Chabad of California took money from a major donor to buy a historic scenic mountain retreat, with the condition that Chabad would bury the man on the site when he died. Chabad complied, but shortly after the man died, Chabad mortgaged the property, including the man's grave, and lost in foreclosure. Here's what happened next.

More Rioting In Poneviz Yeshiva

The nearly decade-long succession battle for control of the Israel’s second largest non-hasidic Ashkenazi haredi yeshiva got even more heated tonight.

Police Raid Major Haredi Yeshiva In Middle Of The Night, Make Wave Of Arrests

Israel Police raided the Poneviz (Ponivitch) Yeshiva in Bnei Brak in the middle of the night and made a wave of arrests and detentions.

Community Groups Press NYC Mayor Over Satmar Hasidic Housing Discrimination Against Blacks And Latinos

More than 40 community activist groups say the hasidic developers are reserving apartments for fellow hasidim and excluding non-Jews – especially Latinos and Blacks.

Associate Of Shalom Lamm Allegedly Physically Attacks Lamm Opponent

Shalom Lamm’s former front man Duane Roe Jr. is in trouble with the law after attacking an opponent of Lamm's controversial high-density hasidic townhouse development in tiny Bloomingburg, New York.

Beit Shemesh: Secular School Given To Haredim; Secular Students To Be Forced To Move To Distant, Decrepit School Building

The haredi-controlled government of the City of Beit Shemesh has reportedly decided to move 150 secular children out of the Safot Vetarbuyot (Languages and Cultures) school in the Ramat Beit Shemesh neighborhood and put haredi girls in the school building in their place.

Video: Attorney For Scandal-Plagued Haredi-Controlled School Board Throws Served Legal Papers In Trash

Legal papers were served to two members of the haredi-controlled scandal-plagued East Ramapo school board during Tuesday's meeting. The papers are part of the new petition to block the sale of Hillcrest Elementary school to a Skvere girls school, Avir Yaakov – the same school that allegedly bribed the appraiser in the earlier sale fo the property to Avir Yaakov. That first below market rate sale was voided by the state and the new petition asks the state to annul this new, second sale. Watch as the district's high-priced and notoriously combative attorney, Albert D'Agostino, picks up the papers and throws them in the trash with a flourish.

Petition Filed With State To Void Sale Of School By Scandal-Plagued Haredi-Controlled School Board To Hasidic School At Below Market Rate

"The fact that they're selling [Hillcrest School] to the same people, that they sold it in an emergency meeting and the fact that enrollment is increasing — I think that these three facts alone should require that [the sale] be annulled."

Modern Orthodox Developer Shalom Lamm Allegedly Ignores Village Engineer’s Warnings, Causing Sewage System To Fail

Shalom Lamm's response to all the complaints against him and the development has been a constant. He has repeatedly accused critics of being anti-Semitic – even though some of the most prominent critics are non-Orthodox Jews - and claimed the demands made by village officials are unreasonable.

Lawsuit Against Westhampton Eruv Fails Again

A six-year legal battle over the Westhampton, New York eruv – a fiction in Jewish law which allows a thin wire strung around an area to be deemed a fence or wall that encloses that area, thereby allowing Orthodox Jews to carry items like keys, or to push baby strollers on public sidewalks, on Shabbat – may now be over.