It’s the Hasids vs. the hotties in a Brooklyn bike war. Leaders of South Wil liamsburg’s Hasidic community said yesterday that bike lanes that bring scantily clad cyclists - especially sexy women - peddling through their neighborhood are definitely not kosher. The red-faced religious sect is calling on city officials to eliminate the car-free […]
“They are leading the public astray and are causing a great negative influence on the young generation,” says Rabbi Efraim Luft, head of an ultra-orthodox organisation in Israel called the Committee for Jewish Music.Supported by leading Haredi rabbis, Rabbi Luft has drawn up a black-list of musicians and bands - music that he says that […]
Upd “N.Y. football teams end talks with company with Nazi ties over naming rights” The Giants and the Jets face moral and public-relations questions as they negotiate the possible sale of the naming rights to their new stadium with Allianz, a Munich-based insurer and financial services company with disturbing connections to Nazi Germany. Allianz insured facilities […]
A reader forwarded over this YouTube link, which features what appears to be a robocall in Yiddish that calls on Hadisic Jews to avoid Sunday’s pro-Dan Squadron rally held in Williamsburg because he supposedly opposes the controversial ritual circumcision practice known as Metzitza B’Peh. According to a source who listened to the call, it also repeatedly urges recipients to […]
The residents of Kiryat Yovel in Jerusalem are on a mission: To stop their neighborhood from becoming ultra-Orthodox. ”This neighborhood should be a pluralistic neighborhood with secular and national religious residents. In one month, the haredim have managed to cause so much tension in this city, something we haven’t seen in years… If we lose Kiryat […]
“The one person who consented to speak with us described himself as a “haredim, who is trying to carry out God’s will”. He continues, “they are corrupting our children with these videos”. One of the salesmen showed us a video that was filmed a few days earlier. The video shows ultra-orthodox protesters attacking the store’s employees, […]
Washington — The Justice Department has quietly hired one of the nation’s best-known litigators, former Walt Disney Co. vice chairman Sanford Litvack, for a possible antitrust challenge to Google Inc.’s growing power in advertising.Mr. Litvack’s hiring is the strongest signal yet that the U.S. is preparing to take court action against Google and its search-advertising […]
“In conjunction with the beginning of the Ellul zman in the yeshivos, the Shturem staff presents the “detailed notification” that Horav HaChossid Rabbi Moshe Rosenblum, compiled. Rabbi Rosenblum was the secretary of Tomchei Tmimim from the outset, and this document is the guide of basic rules for the talmidim.The “shaar blatt” states that the yeshiva […]
“A Yeshiva University professor left two years ago as a man - and returned last week as a woman.”“He’s not a woman. He’s a male with enlarged breasts,” said Rabbi Moshe Tendler, a senior dean at Yeshiva’s rabbinical school and a professor of biology and medical ethics. “He’s a person who represents a kind of […]
New York…Empire Kosher Poultry, founded in 1938 by Joseph Katz, is set to enter the kosher meat market, sources told KosherToday. The beef will not be sold under the Empire brand, due to trademark restrictions, but will be certified by the Star-K Kosher Certification and Khal Adas Jeshurun. Sources say that Neil Rosenbaum, the company CEO, has worked out […]
Satmar supporters of Daniel Squadron rallied for him last night in Williamsburg in hopes of boosting Hasidic turnout tomorrow to help the Democratic newcomer’s quest to oust Sen. Marty Connor.The event, which was hosted by supporters of Rabbi Aron Teitelbaum (the UJCARE crew), was touted as drawing some 10,000 people. I can’t vouch for […]
