The rabbi, who is a leading Zionist Orthodox figure in Israel, also attacked his own community. "I'm saying these harsh things [about the Zionist Orthodox community] because it [the religious extremism that led to Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's assassination by...
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Rabin Has "No Heritage" As Leader, Rabbi Says
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Last Dance Company In Jerusalem Open Drapes To Protest Haredim
A Jerusalem dance company will join the series of protests against the exclusion of women from public spaces in the capital by removing the curtains that hide the company's rehearsal hall from the street so passersby will be able to...
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An Ashkenazi Zionist Orthodox Rabbi Who Devotes His Life And Career To Ethiopian Jews
For Rabbi Chananya Blumert - who threw in his lot with Ethiopian Jewry 20 years ago, married a woman from the Ethiopian community and, with her, is raising their six Ashkenazi-Ethiopian children - his appointment as rabbi of an Ethiopian...
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Audio: A Knockdown Drag Out Fight Over Haredi Child Sex Abuse
MIchael Salamon, PhD. dukes it out with Ami Magazine's dishonest publisher Rabbi Yizchok Frankfurter and Pinny Taub, the Patty Hearst of haredi child sex abuse survivors. In the process, Salamon threw bloggers and advocates under the bus, Frankfurter was sleazy...
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Haredim Protest Burka Women Cult
Followers of the extreme haredi groups that make up the Mea Shearim-based Eidah Charedit umbrella organization demonstrated against the so-called burka cult, the haredi women who wear burkas and veils to completely hide all of their bodies. This hyper-modesty has...
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Avoiding Israel's State Rabbis, Even In Death
By choice, hundreds of Jews are buried in civil cemeteries every year in Israel. In nearly all cases, the funerals and burials were done in compliance with Orthodox Jewish law – but without the state-employed rabbis that have become figures...
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Haredi Pressure To Force Women Off Panel To Select Rabbinic Judges
Backroom deals and pressure from haredi politicians will keep women off the government committee that selects state rabbinic court judges. Ultra-Orthodox pressure may keep woman off Israel's rabbinic committee Senior Shas official confirms reports that the party closed a deal...
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Yeshiva Students Burn Cellphones, Rabbis Rejoice
Yeshiva students from Darkei Shalom Yeshiva in Telz Stone, Israel built a bonfire and burned their cellphones as yeshiva rabbis watched, rejoicing. Israel: Yeshiva Celebrates Burning Cellular Telephones Yeshiva World Perhaps a unique ‘seudas mitzvah’ or a new trend, but...
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Court Rejects Haredi Thug's Appeal
Shmuel Veisfish, an activist in the haredi street gang cum mafia known as the Sicarii or the Sikrikim, was convicted for rioting, extortion, assault and grievous bodily harm. Court denies appeal by haredi extremist over J'lem attack Shmuel Veisfish, an...
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Save Our Kids From Pedophiles
Details continue to unfold about the shocking scandal over allegations of child sexual abuse and cover-up at Penn State University. I think this is one of those "teachable moments" where other, similarly terrible incidents don't usually get these same front-page...
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Mentally Ill Chabad Follower Tries To Kill Rabbi Ovadia Yosef
A mentally ill man who had previously run over a Chabad rabbi and was recently indicted for murder tells police: 'I came to Kotel to kill Rabbi Ovadia', but the rabbi cancelled his appearance at last minute. Rabbi Ovadia Yosef...
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Frum Woman Gets Rhodes Scholarship
Also winning the prestigious scholarship is Woody Allen's son Ronan. An Orthodox woman has won a Rhodes Scholarship. Miriam Rosenbaum, who attends Princeton and lives in the Bronx, was one of 32 Americans chosen for the prestigious award. She told...
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Racist Rabbi To Be Criminally Investigated, But Only For Hate Speech – Not For Hate Halakha
Chief Rabbi of Sefat Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu will be criminally investigated for anti-Arab remarks he made – but not for a halakhic ruling he issued telling Jews not to sell or rent homes to Arabs. Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu AG: Investigate...
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Haredi-Driven Deal To Exclude Women Sparks Outrage
Human rights groups voiced outrage on Monday at an emerging political deal that will apparently leave the committee to appoint dayanim (rabbinical court judges ) without a single female member for the first time in 12 years. Haredi attorney Mordechay...
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Haredi Combat Soldiers Ask To Serve Extra Year
The haredi infantry battalion Netzah Yehuda in the Kfir Brigade could undergo dramatic changes next year. The duration of military service might be extended from two to three years to match other combat units. The plan, which was initiated following...
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Understanding Rubashkin's Sentence, And Why His Judge Is Not Hitler
A Chabad news blog writes yemach shema ("Ym"s"), the female equivalent of "yemach shemo," "may his name be blotted out" – a curse reserved for arch enemies of the Jewish people like Adolph Hitler and Haman – after the name...
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13 More Arrested In SAT Cheating Scandal
The arrests announced Tuesday make for a total of 20 people caught up in the SAT cheating probe since the first seven arrests in September. Three of the defendants in the latest wave of arrests have not yet surrendered, but...
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Haredi Street Gangs Fight For Control Of Jerusalem
Gangs of opposing haredim fight each other for control of valuable Jerusalem real estate – just as similar gangs fought in Eastern Europe 150 years ago. Haredi gang wars aren't a new phenomenon, Here's why.
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Die Rather Than Bring The Internet Into Your Home, Haredi Rabbi Says
Haredi leader Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky issues an "unprecidented" letter against the Internet. Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky Maran Rav Kanievsky Warns To Stay Away From The Internet Yeshiva World Once again, Gedolei Yisrael Shlita [important Ashkenazi haredi rabbis] are calling on the...
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The Uphill Battle To Expose Haredi Pedophiles
The Brooklyn DA allows predators to make sweetheart plea deals that keep them out of prison and off sex offender registries. Haredi rabbis demand to be the gatekeepers who decide which, if any, allegations of pedophilia are reported to police....
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