The Israeli Civil Courts Are Corrupt, but the Beth Din System is Much Worse...
A haredi Supreme Court judge – what does that really mean? There is therefore need for further thinking as to the prerequisites for serving in the state’s judicial institutions in general, and the...
View ArticleYeshiva followed a near textbook proper response. Administrators immediately...
Yeshiva story offers a glimmer of hope in Pennsylvaniaby Angela Liddle, Guest Columnist I have long heard that as people age the shock factor decreases and very little about human behavior is...
View ArticleAnother Naked Man Dies In Jump From Borough Park Office Building
From The UOJ Classics - More relevant today than in 2005 A naked man darted from a car into a Borough Park office building at lunchtime yesterday and then jumped to his death from the top floor,...
View ArticleIf Trump wants to get to a yes from the Palestinian side, he’ll have to...
“The president emphasized his personal belief that peace is possible and that the time has come to make a deal,” the White House said.When Trump meets Abbas: Will he deliver Israel? Why is Trump doing...
View ArticleThere will never be a peace or a Palestinian state because the PLO wants...
President Donald Trump is losing his focusTRUMP EMBRACES THE PLO FANTASYJason Greenblatt meets Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. If he doesn’t get it back soon, he will fail to make...
View ArticleThe discovery that your child — your baby — has been engaging in self-harm...
16 Things Parents Should Know About Raising a Child Who Self-HarmsThe discovery that your child — your baby — has been engaging in self-harm often comes with a flood of questions: “Why is this...
View ArticleBut might it not also have to do with the fact that the kosher food industry,...
HOWYADOIN? Is any meat today kosher? When I served on the Cape Beth Din in South Africa, I had to join my colleagues in visiting the slaughterhouses and checking up on the shochtim. The kosher...
View ArticleIN MEMORIAM: DR. SHLOMO SPRECHER MD Z"L --- Metziza B'Peh:Therapeutic Touch...
DR. SPRECHER Z"LMetziza B'Peh:Therapeutic Touch or Hippocratic Vestige? “I come to inform you that your letter regarding the permissibility of utilizing an instrument to perform mezizah arrived and I...
View Article“The cover-up was like something that all religious communities around the...
Private lessons: Dassi Erlich’s story of sexual abuse - Erlich herself would not understand what it all meant until years later, when memories haunted her and then almost killed her.Damages: Dassi...
View ArticleElizabeth attempted to advance her biased viewpoint not by offering false...
Elizabeth did an impressive job of reporting a misleadingly minimum amount of factual information about a tragic event in an effort to support claims of a link between vaccinations and SIDS — claims...
View ArticleOn Religious Extremism
It is ironic that with Jewish observance and spiritual values at unprecedentedly high levels in Israeli society, the established religious leadership has sunk to its lowest nadir.There are many wise,...
View ArticleI also believe that Rabbi Rosen doesn’t go nearly far enough in advocating...
In his recent blog post the honorable Rabbi David Rosen, a man I greatly admire, asks a provocative question,“Is any meat today kosher?” While never fully addressing the question posed in the article’s...
View ArticleI am talking about appreciating that, by and large, we are living the dream,...
This Is An Opportunity For Jews To Move Past Victimhood byBrad HirschfieldTalk about a bomb shell, even if that is not necessarily the nicest metaphor to employ in a story about terror threats. The...
View ArticleCommunity members did not report the information to authorities or social...
22 arrested in haredi neighborhoodsArrests and searches in Betar Illit, Bnei Brak, and Jerusalem for community sex crime cover up.The Israeli Police announced an undercover investigation into sexual...
View ArticleAwareness of sex crimes has risen in ultra-Orthodox communities in recent...
Exile, Therapy and Only Sometimes the Police: How ultra-Orthodox Jews Handle Sex Offenders Israel Police arrest 22 ultra-Orthodox Jews for sex crimes against minors and womenThe arrest Monday of 22...
View Article10% of Israeli Parasites ---- "It's better to be shot than to go in the army"...
THOUSANDS OF PARASITES TAKE THE GOVERNMENTS MONEY AND REFUSE TO WORKUltra-Orthodox Jews protest against Israel military serviceAFPMarch 28, 2017 Ultra-Orthodox Jews take part in a protest against...
View ArticleOn Child Molestation and Calling for the Murder of Fellow Jews...
Photo Credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90{Originally posted to the author’s eponymous blog}By Rav Zev Shandalov It is nothing new that certain elements among our fellow Jews want to have nothing to do with...
View ArticleUltra-Orthodox Parasites attack woman at anti-draft demo Protesters filmed...
A video of the incident shows the woman walking through the crowd of ultra-Orthodox men and boys, who yell at her to “Get out of here” and “We won,” while also repeatedly calling her a “shiksa,” a...
View ArticleYou Have To Be A Very Special Type of Filthy Human Garbage To Steal From...
AG: Lakewood rabbi stole more than $630,000 from special-needs education fundCLOSEState officials were seen at one of the offices for the School for Children with Hidden Intelligence entering with...
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