Posted on: January 1st, 2014

Chabad emissaries would share the same status as those who do national service.

Posted on: December 31st, 2013

Queen Elizabeth will grant Israeli Haredi Rabbi Yitzchak Shapira one of the Commonwealth’s highest civilian honors with an appointment as Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, the British Embassy announced Tuesday. Rabbi Shapira is the son of former Haredi Knesset Member Rabbi Avraham Yosef Shapira. The Embassy said he will be […]

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Posted on: December 30th, 2013

"I won't agree to officiate at a wedding if the Chupa is photographed," went the Rebbe's edict.

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Posted on: December 29th, 2013

The holy conference is not yet a done deal.

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Posted on: December 26th, 2013

Haredi political leaders across the board called a court ruling for new elections in Beit Shemesh” corrupt,” “racist” and a sign of “dictatorship,” among other less than complimentary adjectives. The court accepted a petition by Attorney General Yehudah Weinstein that documented corruption in the voting October 22 as ground for voiding the election results, which […]

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Posted on: December 26th, 2013

Court says the democratic process had been undermined.

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Posted on: December 23rd, 2013

The rabbinical leader of the Vishnitz Chas – the new Knesset law that Haredim must serve in the army just like every Jew in the country. The two rabbis spoke for approximately 15 minutes, a relatively long time, and spoke “words of Torah and subjects that are on the agenda,” the Haredi website Kikar HaShabbat […]

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Posted on: December 17th, 2013

The Lithuanian Council of Torah Sages and the Hasidic Council of Torah Sages organized two protests in Bnei Brak and Jerusalem Monday against a Knesset committee in the process of adding details to the new draft law requiring almost all Israeli Jewish youth to report for military duty. “They are trying to bring us closer […]

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Posted on: December 17th, 2013

The Haredi Gat Brothers, Aryeh and Gil, have become the first act named to the semi-finals of the popular new Israeli talent show “Rising Star.” The show, which allows Israeli viewers to vote in real time for their favorite performers using an app on their mobile phones, is designed to uncover the next hot Israeli […]

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Posted on: December 17th, 2013

A Tel Aviv court Tuesday has rejected arguments from embattled billionaire Nochi Dankner and has given its stamp of approval to allow a consortium, led by a South American Haredi businessman, to take control of the mammoth IDF holding company. Dankner’s lawyers said they are considering whether to appeal the decision that accepted a creditors’ […]

Posted on: December 17th, 2013

The Canadian Lev Tahor cult of about 200 is headed by convicted felon Shlomo Helbrans, an Israeli returnee who left Israel with his followers in 1990.

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Posted on: December 15th, 2013

The “snow siege” of Jerusalem is a God’s direct response to the recent jailing of yeshiva students who refused to accept draft orders to report for duty in the IDF, claimed Kabbalistic Rabbi Yaakov Addas Sunday. “There is a general principle that when there is an evil decree, such as a tsunami, everyone must do […]

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Posted on: December 15th, 2013

"Failed" and "Survivors" have been vending shmootz to their readers, both Jewish and gentile.

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Posted on: December 13th, 2013

When Haredim engage in violence, it's always, without exception, unequivocally, for a reason.

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Posted on: December 11th, 2013

What were a dozen Hasidim doing out on the street at 4:30 AM, and how could they tell the victim was gay?

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Posted on: December 11th, 2013

Of the 175 cases of measles in the U.S in 2013, a mere 23 were connected to Hare Krishnas in North Carolina. The 175 cases were triple the national average in previous years. Embarrassingly enough, the largest group of people infected with measles came from our very own anti-vaccination cult of Brooklyn Hareidi Jews. Thirty […]

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Posted on: December 10th, 2013

Jerusalem District Court to discuss appeals of election results today.

Posted on: December 9th, 2013

We don’t pretend to know how and why God works, but it can be speculated that the financial disaster of Israel’s giant IDB was the way for a Chabad Jew to enter Israel’s secular Big Business elite.

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Posted on: December 5th, 2013

Rabbi Auerbach and his merry band of Lituanian Haredim needed a pawn to serve their political aims, and Moshe A. volunteered.

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Posted on: November 29th, 2013

"The findings of the police investigation indicate serious criminal activity."

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