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Haredi London Sex Abuse Cover-Up Established with Tape Recording of Rabbi Padwa
Next week, Britain’s Channel 4 BBC will be running an in-depth report about sex abuse in the ultra orthodox community in Britain. Miriam Shaviv reports that BBC’s Channel 4 has actively investigated...
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The Definition of Having an Agenda
Picture the situation. I am talking to someone inside the Haredi establishment about some case of abuse. I advocate some action. They agree that the abuser is terrible but claim they can’t do anything....
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Ephraim Padwa Issues a Clumsy, Agudah-Style Press Release to Deny Covering Up...
As previously reported, London’s Haredi Rabbi Ephraim Padwa, head of their Union of Hebrew Orthodox Congregations (UHOC) is up to his neck in a swamp of scandals whose common denominator is covering up...
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Is Hynes Manipulating Wikipedia to Burnish His Credentials on Ultra Orthodox...
There is a Wikipedia entry, Sexual Abuse Cases in Brooklyn’s Haredi Community. It reads like a propaganda puff piece generated by employees of Brooklyn’s District Attorney, Charles J Hynes....
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Satmar Attempts to Corrupt Justice and DA Should Respond According to Judge...
Satmar’s judicial shenanigans are well known among judges, prosecutors and defense lawyers in Brooklyn. In 2004, the Honorable Melvin S. Barasch, rejected an attempt by the Aron Teitelbaum Kiryas Joel...
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Judge Finds It Plausible That Hynes Is “Deliberately Indifferent” to...
"The Court concludes that Collins's allegations regarding Hynes's response—or lack thereof—to misconduct by Vecchione and other assistants make plausible his theory that Hynes was so deliberately...
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Agudah Announces Formation of OCHEL to Combat Kosher Fraud (Satire)
In anticipation of Purim, I am reposting this satirical item from my archives of previous years. Nosson Poppowitz, special for The Forvetz. May 7, 2010. Yesterday, Rabbi Chaim Dovid Zwiebel, Executive...
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Why Is Hynes Going So Slow on the Yoel Malik Prosecution
Yesterday the court set Malik's next scheduled court appearance for Friday, September 27,2013, over seven months from now, during chol hamoed Sukkot. This smells of a politicized scheduling decision...
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Yep, Tropper is Back!
According to Allison Hoffman, Rabbi Leib Tropper is back trying to rehab his reputation with all sorts of stuff on blogs. He is also supposedly a teacher in RJJ. I wonder how much help he got from...
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QOTD: Let He Who Is Without Sin Cast the First Vote
Every one of the prelates who’ll pick the pope … have ignored, concealed, or enabled child sex crimes. Zach Hiner, a spokesman forSNAP (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests) as quoted in on the...
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The Problem Isn’t Molesters, It Is Haredi Rabbinic Leadership
A colleague wrote me, That is one thing I never get, with any of these incidents. I get them not involving the police and courts and jail. I just don’t get why they insist the perp continues to be a...
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QOTD by JB Soloveitchik: Halakhic Man Cannot Be Cowed by Anyone
Neither ritual decisions nor political leadership constitute the main task of halakhic man. Halakhic man cannot be cowed by anyone. He knows, no fear of flesh and blood…Precisely because he is free...
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Hynes Delivers Scalps to Hasidim, Just the Wrong Ones
The recent exoneration of David Ranta for the murder of Rabbi Chaskel Werzberger is just one case where a Hasid was murdered and Charles Hynes sprang into action and delivered a guilty verdict, the...
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Yudel Shain on Doheny Kosher Scandal in LA
In a set of two posts (here and here) Yudel Shain makes some interesting points about the Doheny kosher meat scandal in Los Angeles. Shain makes a good case for negligent lax kosher supervision driven...
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QOTD About Criminality in the NYS Legislature
”The crime rate among NY politicians is out of control. In the past six years, members of the New York State Senate have been about three times more likely than average Americans to run afoul of the...
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QOTD about Broyde’s Anemic Apology
The International Rabbinic Fellowship (IRF) expresses its deep disappointment and dismay at the actions of Rabbi Michael Broyde, who acted deceptively in order to join our organization and its...
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Broyde Criticized Internet Pseudonyms Before His Were Exposed
If you want to be part of the solution, you need to step forward and take a position. Otherwise, you are part of the problem of those who stand by silently. Do not think you can vindicate yourself of...
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QOTD Rabbi Telsner Says OK for a Dayan to Be a “Little Bit Biased”
Rabbi Tzvi Telsner of Chabad in Melbourne "Testified ... it would be acceptable for a rabbi to sit in din torah zabala (rabbinical arbitration court) even if the rabbi is a little bit biased" (The...
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How Big a Win Was the Dascalowitz Guilty Plea?
Meir Dascalowitz who is guilty of multiple anal rapes of a teen boy agreed to reduced charges. Two years ago the DA was considering a much lower term but was pressured by an activist demonstration into...
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Complete Text of Email Exchange Between Broyde and “Purim Torah”
Earlier this week (4/16/13) I posted “Broyde Criticized Internet Pseudonyms Before His Were Exposed.” It consisted of various quotes from emails from Rabbi Michael Broyde to an individual using the...
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