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via Shearim “Last night, a special report about Chassidut Toldot Aharon from Mea Shearim was broadcasted on Israeli TV. The report also mentioned the “abusive” Toldot Aharon mother. The report as a whole is quite good and it really looks like Arutz 10 got a permission from Rebbe David Kahn to film.”(non tznius ads)  Here […]

“Jerusalem District Court Judge Moshe Ravid ruled Tuesday that the mother from Mea Shearim suspected of starving her toddler son will remain under house arrest and will not be separated from her children. Judge Ravid, however, ruled that she and her children must remain outside of the Jerusalem haredi neighborhood and that they will be […]

“During a hearing in the Jerusalem District Court to discuss the terms of the Meah Shearim mom’s release, Justice Moshe Ravid indicated he is inclined to accept the state’s position, that the mother and her children must be relocated to another home, outside of Meah Shearim, to permit social services professionals access and an ability […]

“Yehuda Meshi-Zahav, the hareidi-religious Jew who heads the Zaka emergency service, said Thursday that hareidi demonstrations will continue. Interviewed by Arutz 7, Meshi-Zahav said that the public does not recognize the dynamic under which the community acts. He explained that the community does not recognize the secular state and that demonstrations are the community’s only […]

“An Ultra Orthodox Jewish man, who attempted to block traffic at a central Jerusalem road, is pushed away by an Israeli police officer during a protest against a public parking lot that is open on the Jewish Sabbath August 22, 2009. ” DayLife.com

“Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat visited the Shaare Chessed home of HaGaon HaRav Shmuel Auerbach Shlita, accompanied by Deputy Mayor Yitzchak Pindrus and Chareidi Affairs Advisor Avraham Kroizer. Seeking to avoid a repeat of the rock attack against the mayor during his recent visit to the Kalever Rebbe Shlita, security this time around was far more […]

Yerushalayim Magistrate’s Court Judge Shulamit Dotan has placed Yenti, the Meah Shearim mother accused of starving her son, Chaimkeh, under house arrest and has ruled that she can see her other children. At the same time, askanim, led by the indefatigable Rebbetzin Yocheved Grossman, have created a website containing accurate information about the case, as […]

“Eventually she was evaluated by Dr. Weil, who was acceptable to both the State and the (ultra-Orthodox) community. Dr. Weil offered unequivocal conclusions, and determined that my client poses no danger to her children and can return home.”The police apparently found this conclusion unsatisfactory, because the district psychiatrist was called on… and in some peculiar, […]

“With regards to the lady from Yerushalayim being accused of mistreating her child;
What we have to strongly protest here, in a peaceful manner, are the barbaric actions of the police force in arresting a women who is allegedly sick according to their claims, and chaining her, putting her in a cell with dangerous criminals. If […]

“Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men gesture towards a mounted Israeli police officer during a protest against the arrest of a woman accused of child abuse in Jerusalem, Thursday, July 16, 2009. Ultra-Orthodox Jews clashed with police using horses and water cannon to control the crowd in Jerusalem on the third day of rioting over the arrest of […]

“There is a difference between the desecration of the Sabbath on an individual basis and the cancellation of the Sabbath,” said Rabbi Shimon Weiss, a leader of the Eda Haredit movement, which has promised weekly protests until Mayor Nir Barkat reverses his decision. “The opening of the parking lot will bring about the opening of […]