http://www.jewpi.com Jewish Press International Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:04:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.jewpi.com/orthodox-jews-mount-appeal-for-eruv-in-sydney-1328798764/ http://www.jewpi.com/orthodox-jews-mount-appeal-for-eruv-in-sydney-1328798764/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:46:04 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/orthodox-jews-mount-appeal-for-eruv-in-sydney-1328798764/ Orthodox Jews have appealed to a court in Sydney to overturn a decision to deny them an Eruv. Plans for a symbolic religious enclosure have been underway for more than five years on Sydney’s north shore, but last year the local council voted against allowing the construction to go forward. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/plea-averts-trial-in-ny-hasidic-firebombing-case-1328733021/ http://www.jewpi.com/plea-averts-trial-in-ny-hasidic-firebombing-case-1328733021/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:30:21 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/plea-averts-trial-in-ny-hasidic-firebombing-case-1328733021/ A Hasidic teenager pleaded guilty Tuesday to assault, averting a trial in an attempted murder case that brought unusual attention to a religious dispute in a Jewish enclave. Shaul Spitzer, 18, accepted a plea bargain as jury selection was about to begin at the Rockland County Courthouse in New City, said defense attorney Deborah Lowenberg. [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/u-s-tourists-to-israel-advised-to-dress-modestly-1328631064/ http://www.jewpi.com/u-s-tourists-to-israel-advised-to-dress-modestly-1328631064/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:11:04 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/u-s-tourists-to-israel-advised-to-dress-modestly-1328631064/ The U.S. State Department is advising visitors to Jerusalem to dress modestly when visiting certain neighborhoods, or to avoid the areas entirely, in hopes of not provoking local sensitivities. The State Department guidance did not specify which neighborhoods are considered problematic, or what, exactly, constitutes “modest” attire. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/building-a-better-gefilte-fish-1328540824/ http://www.jewpi.com/building-a-better-gefilte-fish-1328540824/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:07:04 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/building-a-better-gefilte-fish-1328540824/ What in the world has gotten into Jeffrey Chodorow?” muttered one of the food snobs at my table as he took a perfectly brined pickle from the exceptional “delicatessen” board at the rashly conceived, surprisingly accomplished “modern Jewish-American” restaurant Kutcher’s Tribeca and crunched it happily between his teeth. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/escape-from-williamsburg-1328471047/ http://www.jewpi.com/escape-from-williamsburg-1328471047/#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:44:07 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/escape-from-williamsburg-1328471047/ Deborah Feldman’s memoir, “Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots,” begins with Feldman describing her father, a mentally disabled Hasid employed by pitying community members to preform simple tasks, like picking up people from the airport. Sometimes he takes along 5-year-old Deborah. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/gur-hasidim-and-gender-separation-1328470454/ http://www.jewpi.com/gur-hasidim-and-gender-separation-1328470454/#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:34:15 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/gur-hasidim-and-gender-separation-1328470454/ One day in 1976, a student entered our classroom at Beit Yaakov Seminar in Tel Aviv, weeping passionately. She informed us that the revered Gerer rebbe – the so-called Beis Yisroel – Rabbi Israel Alter, had died. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/katz-womens-hosp-delivers-baby-no-1-1328279779/ http://www.jewpi.com/katz-womens-hosp-delivers-baby-no-1-1328279779/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:36:19 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/katz-womens-hosp-delivers-baby-no-1-1328279779/ In the four times Rosa Kichikova has given birth, she never mistook the hospital for a hotel. But that almost happened the fifth time, when the Flushing mother last week became the first woman to deliver a baby at the new Katz Women’s Hospital in New Hyde Park. Little Avital Kichikova was brought into the [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/new-square-arson-trial-starts-tuesday-teen-charged-with-attempted-murder-1328194589/ http://www.jewpi.com/new-square-arson-trial-starts-tuesday-teen-charged-with-attempted-murder-1328194589/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:56:29 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/new-square-arson-trial-starts-tuesday-teen-charged-with-attempted-murder-1328194589/ An 18-year-old New Square man who worked for the Hasidic Jewish community’s rabbinical leader is scheduled for trial next week on a charge of attempted murder stemming from accusations that he set fire to a fellow village resident who had defied the edicts of the community’s spiritual leader. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/ramapo-backs-down-on-zoning-1328106624/ http://www.jewpi.com/ramapo-backs-down-on-zoning-1328106624/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:30:24 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/ramapo-backs-down-on-zoning-1328106624/ Once again, Ramapo proves that, when it comes to land use, it is easier to seek forgiveness than ask permission, even if it takes almost two decades. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/new-hempstead-moves-to-close-religious-schoolnew-hempstead-moves-to-close-religious-school-1328024645/ http://www.jewpi.com/new-hempstead-moves-to-close-religious-schoolnew-hempstead-moves-to-close-religious-school-1328024645/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:44:05 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/new-hempstead-moves-to-close-religious-schoolnew-hempstead-moves-to-close-religious-school-1328024645/ After coming under fierce criticism from Hillcrest firefighters, the mayor today will begin the legal process to shut down a Route 306 religious school that continues teaching children amid what firefighters consider unsafe conditions. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/the-allure-of-the-burka-1327932969/ http://www.jewpi.com/the-allure-of-the-burka-1327932969/#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:16:09 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/the-allure-of-the-burka-1327932969/ Why do fundamentalists always end up wrapping women in shmattes?I ask because, as we’ve seen in Israel’s Beit Shemesh recently, ultra-uber-Orthodox men have been spitting on less-ultra-but-still-Orthodox girls as young as age 8 for wearing clothes that aren’t “modest” enough. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/hasids-can-use-former-synagogue-building-in-uman-1327932390/ http://www.jewpi.com/hasids-can-use-former-synagogue-building-in-uman-1327932390/#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:06:30 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/hasids-can-use-former-synagogue-building-in-uman-1327932390/ Cherkassy, January 30, Interfax – Hasids who come to Uman, Cherkassy region of Ukraine, to visit the grave of their spiritual leader tsadik Nahman every year can now use the building of a former synagogue, Sergey Tulub, the head of the Cherkassy Region’s administration, said. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/torah-burned-in-second-synagogue-fire-in-old-ramle-1327814891/ http://www.jewpi.com/torah-burned-in-second-synagogue-fire-in-old-ramle-1327814891/#comments Sun, 29 Jan 2012 05:28:11 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/torah-burned-in-second-synagogue-fire-in-old-ramle-1327814891/ Jewish congregants arrived at the Algriva synagogue in Old Ramle on Saturday morning to find fire fighters trying to put out a blaze that had erupted inside their house of worship.By the time the fire was subdued a Torah scroll, a pair of tefillin [phylacteries – ed], the library of holy books, and seating inside [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/man-53-dies-after-getting-hit-by-2-vehicles-1327694290/ http://www.jewpi.com/man-53-dies-after-getting-hit-by-2-vehicles-1327694290/#comments Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:58:10 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/man-53-dies-after-getting-hit-by-2-vehicles-1327694290/ A 53-year-old man, Noah Foxman, was left to die on a Brooklyn street after two motorists plowed into him in a grisly hit-and-run Thursday night, police sources and witnesses said.A white van first hit the man, clipping him while he was in the crosswalk at Coney Island Ave. and Avenue K in Midwood, witnesses said. [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/orthodox-jews-in-united-kingdom-offer-kosher-certified-cell-phones-1327674366/ http://www.jewpi.com/orthodox-jews-in-united-kingdom-offer-kosher-certified-cell-phones-1327674366/#comments Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:26:06 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/orthodox-jews-in-united-kingdom-offer-kosher-certified-cell-phones-1327674366/ Friday afternoon can be a stressful time in Stamford Hill, a working class neighborhood in northern London.The ultra orthodox Jews, are in a rush to buy challah, rugalach and other Jewish baked goods so they can take it easy after sunset, when the Sabbath starts. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/haredi-sector-cutting-wedding-costs-1327589764/ http://www.jewpi.com/haredi-sector-cutting-wedding-costs-1327589764/#comments Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:56:04 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/haredi-sector-cutting-wedding-costs-1327589764/ The cost of an average wedding in Israel may reach some NIS 100,000 (about $26,750) – a sum not every family can afford, especially with the recent social protest. The ultra-Orthodox sector has found a way to cut these expenses. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/hasidic-landlord-sick-of-sun-tanning-goyim-in-crown-heights-1327502293/ http://www.jewpi.com/hasidic-landlord-sick-of-sun-tanning-goyim-in-crown-heights-1327502293/#comments Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:38:13 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/hasidic-landlord-sick-of-sun-tanning-goyim-in-crown-heights-1327502293/ The yuppie goyim are TAKING OVER Crown Heights, turning the once idyllic neighborhood into a wicked G-dless hellhole known among interlopers as “ProCro,” a veritable Sodom where they party half-naked on rooftops and corrupt the area youth! So says Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/attack-on-chabad-emissaries-thwarted-1327416873/ http://www.jewpi.com/attack-on-chabad-emissaries-thwarted-1327416873/#comments Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:54:33 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/attack-on-chabad-emissaries-thwarted-1327416873/ It was revealed, this week, that the security forces of Azerbaijan arrested three Azerbi citizens on suspicion of planning to attack Rabbi Shneor Segal of the Chabad Lubavitch hasidic movement and Rabbi Mati Lewis, principal of the Or Avner school in Baku. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/idf-personnel-chief-all-israelis-including-ultra-orthodox-should-serve-in-military-1327331171/ http://www.jewpi.com/idf-personnel-chief-all-israelis-including-ultra-orthodox-should-serve-in-military-1327331171/#comments Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:06:11 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/idf-personnel-chief-all-israelis-including-ultra-orthodox-should-serve-in-military-1327331171/ Head of the Israel Defense Forces’ personnel directorate Major-General Orna Barbibai said on Monday that the IDF should enlist every Israel “into meaningful service. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/suspended-amsterdam-rabbi-wont-visit-out-of-fears-for-his-life-1327282244/ http://www.jewpi.com/suspended-amsterdam-rabbi-wont-visit-out-of-fears-for-his-life-1327282244/#comments Mon, 23 Jan 2012 01:30:44 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/suspended-amsterdam-rabbi-wont-visit-out-of-fears-for-his-life-1327282244/ Amsterdam’s chief rabbi who was suspended last week because of his controversial views on homosexuality believes his life would be in danger if he came to the Netherlands, the NRC reports on Sunday.Aryeh Ralbag told the paper: ‘I have strong indications that my wife and I would not be sure of our lives if we [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/orthodox-rabbis-rack-up-megillah-of-charges-1327201089/ http://www.jewpi.com/orthodox-rabbis-rack-up-megillah-of-charges-1327201089/#comments Sun, 22 Jan 2012 02:58:09 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/orthodox-rabbis-rack-up-megillah-of-charges-1327201089/ A drive through this picturesque central New Jersey “shore” town (pop. 750) leaves many with a puzzling thought: How can these people afford such grandeur? The latest fallout from Operation Bid Rig (OBR), a joint Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and U.S. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/bridge-at-rabbi-bar-yochais-grave-demolished-without-protests-by-ultra-orthodox-jews-1327200372/ http://www.jewpi.com/bridge-at-rabbi-bar-yochais-grave-demolished-without-protests-by-ultra-orthodox-jews-1327200372/#comments Sun, 22 Jan 2012 02:46:12 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/bridge-at-rabbi-bar-yochais-grave-demolished-without-protests-by-ultra-orthodox-jews-1327200372/ A bridge built illegally at the grave of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai was demolished without incident on Thursday.Some 100 policemen came to guard the operation, fearing violent ultra-Orthodox protests, but no demonstrators showed up and the demolition was completed in an hour. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/kars4kids-charity-loses-big-on-real-estate-1327077252/ http://www.jewpi.com/kars4kids-charity-loses-big-on-real-estate-1327077252/#comments Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:34:12 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/kars4kids-charity-loses-big-on-real-estate-1327077252/ A multimillion dollar nationwide advertising campaign featuring an inescapable radio jingle and a freckle-faced boy in a convertible has brought the Orthodox Jewish charity known as Kars4Kids more than 60,000 donated vehicles a year. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/orthodox-jews-outraged-by-calvin-klein-naked-glamour-advert-1327023366/ http://www.jewpi.com/orthodox-jews-outraged-by-calvin-klein-naked-glamour-advert-1327023366/#comments Fri, 20 Jan 2012 01:36:06 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/orthodox-jews-outraged-by-calvin-klein-naked-glamour-advert-1327023366/ An official complaint was made to the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) by a man, described by LBC News, as an ‘ultra-Orthodox Jew’. The complaint claimed that the poster was objectionable to himself and others of the Orthodox Jewish north London Community as their beliefs do not allow them to view pictures of women in lingerie. [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/shyne-and-diddy-make-peace-during-a-phone-call-1326895569/ http://www.jewpi.com/shyne-and-diddy-make-peace-during-a-phone-call-1326895569/#comments Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:06:09 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/shyne-and-diddy-make-peace-during-a-phone-call-1326895569/ At the height of his career Shyne was signed to a deal under Diddy’s label Bad Boy Records, but things went sour when the “Bad Boyz” rapper had to serve an almost nine-year sentence in prison after assault and gun possession charges that stemmed from a club shooting in New York in 1999. Read More [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/historic-reconciliation-between-hassidic-dynasties-1326811447/ http://www.jewpi.com/historic-reconciliation-between-hassidic-dynasties-1326811447/#comments Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:44:07 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/historic-reconciliation-between-hassidic-dynasties-1326811447/ A wave of excitement is gripping parts of the hareidi religious world as a historic reconciliation between the hassidic dynasties of Belz and Satmar is underway. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/sheriff-who-arrested-mel-gibson-will-get-day-in-court-1326652087/ http://www.jewpi.com/sheriff-who-arrested-mel-gibson-will-get-day-in-court-1326652087/#comments Sun, 15 Jan 2012 18:28:07 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/sheriff-who-arrested-mel-gibson-will-get-day-in-court-1326652087/ The sheriff’s deputy who arrested actor Mel Gibson and was the subject of his anti-Semitic rant should be able to take his workplace discrimination case before a jury, a Los Angeles judge ruled. James Mee, who is Jewish, says he was subject to religions discrimination and a hostile work environment after arresting Gibson in 2006. [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/brother-of-sex-offender-busted-for-covering-up-alleged-sibling-crime-1326651253/ http://www.jewpi.com/brother-of-sex-offender-busted-for-covering-up-alleged-sibling-crime-1326651253/#comments Sun, 15 Jan 2012 18:14:13 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/brother-of-sex-offender-busted-for-covering-up-alleged-sibling-crime-1326651253/ The younger brother of a convicted sex offender was busted for destroying evidence that may have implicated his brother in another sex crime, said a police source.Myer Zimmer, 37, was arrested on Friday after he allegedly trashed clothing that police believe was evidence in an investigation into his older brother, David Zimmer. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/russian-culture-minister-slams-us-claims-to-sacred-jewish-books-1326465368/ http://www.jewpi.com/russian-culture-minister-slams-us-claims-to-sacred-jewish-books-1326465368/#comments Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:36:08 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/russian-culture-minister-slams-us-claims-to-sacred-jewish-books-1326465368/ U.S. claims to the Schneerson library are provocative and spoil cultural ties with Russia as the sacred Jewish books are the unalienable property of the country, Russian Culture Minister Alexander Avdeyev said on Friday. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/straight-talk-a-new-breed-of-fashion-bloggers-1326378486/ http://www.jewpi.com/straight-talk-a-new-breed-of-fashion-bloggers-1326378486/#comments Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:28:06 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/straight-talk-a-new-breed-of-fashion-bloggers-1326378486/ MORDECHAI RUBINSTEIN is the rare fashion blogger who first made a name for himself offline. Raised Hasidic, Mr. Rubinstein was in rabbinical school in Israel before moving to New York in 1994, where he fell in with a downtown street scene. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/four-suspected-in-swastika-graffiti-incident-1326294990/ http://www.jewpi.com/four-suspected-in-swastika-graffiti-incident-1326294990/#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:16:30 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/four-suspected-in-swastika-graffiti-incident-1326294990/ At least four perps were involved in the Sunday graffiti spree that left four Midtown storefronts vandalized with swastikas, cops say. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/chabad-rabbi-donates-kidney-1326225383/ http://www.jewpi.com/chabad-rabbi-donates-kidney-1326225383/#comments Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:56:23 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/chabad-rabbi-donates-kidney-1326225383/ A New Jersey Chabad rabbi’s kidney donation to an Israeli living on a secular Moshav in central Israel didn’t make news as the headline-grabbing, purportedly bitter religious vs. secular Jewish divide always does. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/doctors-ordered-to-pull-out-of-gender-separated-conference-1326218297/ http://www.jewpi.com/doctors-ordered-to-pull-out-of-gender-separated-conference-1326218297/#comments Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:58:17 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/doctors-ordered-to-pull-out-of-gender-separated-conference-1326218297/ The Israel Medical Association has barred its member physicians from participating in an infertility conference geared for haredi Orthodox men and women that did not invite female speakers. The annual Innovations in Gynecology and Halacha conference of the Puah Institute for Medicine and Halacha is scheduled for Wednesday. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/three-arrested-in-suspected-pedophilia-ring-in-israel-1326118569/ http://www.jewpi.com/three-arrested-in-suspected-pedophilia-ring-in-israel-1326118569/#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:16:09 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/three-arrested-in-suspected-pedophilia-ring-in-israel-1326118569/ Israeli police say three men have been arrested in a suspected pedophilia ring thought to have preyed on dozens of Jerusalem children.Police spokesman Shmuel Ben-Ruby says the ring is suspected of molesting 70 children between the ages of 2 and 7 in their religious Jewish neighborhood.In all, six men have been arrested, including three on [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/arab-hackers-targeting-israeli-civilians-1326077050/ http://www.jewpi.com/arab-hackers-targeting-israeli-civilians-1326077050/#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2012 02:44:10 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/arab-hackers-targeting-israeli-civilians-1326077050/ Israel has vowed to crack down on cyber terrorists after hackers stole the credit card details of tens of thousands of Israeli consumers and posted them online.Hackers claiming to be from a known Arab cyber group infiltrated various consumer websites to get the details. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/neighbors-outraged-after-vandal-scratches-swastikas-into-parked-car-1325997847/ http://www.jewpi.com/neighbors-outraged-after-vandal-scratches-swastikas-into-parked-car-1325997847/#comments Sun, 08 Jan 2012 04:44:07 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/neighbors-outraged-after-vandal-scratches-swastikas-into-parked-car-1325997847/ Nassau County Police are investigating swastikas on a 1998 Mercedes Benz parked at the Babylonian Jewish Center in Great Neck.Police say they believe the two swastikas were scratched into the car sometime between 4: 30 p.m. Friday and 11: 00 a.m. Saturday. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/ex-jail-rabbi-pleads-not-guilty-in-housing-scam-1325862851/ http://www.jewpi.com/ex-jail-rabbi-pleads-not-guilty-in-housing-scam-1325862851/#comments Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:14:11 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/ex-jail-rabbi-pleads-not-guilty-in-housing-scam-1325862851/ The former jailhouse rabbi who lost his job for granting favors to Jewish inmates pleaded not guilty this morning to charges he scammed more than $220,000 in federal housing benefits. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/judge-blocks-citys-broadway-triangle-project-in-williamsburg-calling-it-discriminatory-1325773212/ http://www.jewpi.com/judge-blocks-citys-broadway-triangle-project-in-williamsburg-calling-it-discriminatory-1325773212/#comments Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:20:12 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/judge-blocks-citys-broadway-triangle-project-in-williamsburg-calling-it-discriminatory-1325773212/ A judge slammed the breaks on the city’s controversial plan to build housing at Williamsburg’s Broadway Triangle Wednesday. Opponents went to court to block the massive housing project, charging it illegally favored Hasidic families over blacks and Latinos. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/fbi-says-man-threatened-to-kill-jews-and-blacks/ http://www.jewpi.com/fbi-says-man-threatened-to-kill-jews-and-blacks/#comments Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:46:10 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/fbi-says-man-threatened-to-kill-jews-and-blacks/ Abraham Foxman, the leader of the Anti-Defamation League leader, may have been targeted by a white supremacist planning to kill Jews and blacks, the FBI said, according to the Jewish news website JTA. Danny Lee Warner, 33, told his wife about the plan before being arrested on Dec. 28 outside of an Arizona McDonald’s, according [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/never-ride-with-hasidic-handlebars/ http://www.jewpi.com/never-ride-with-hasidic-handlebars/#comments Tue, 03 Jan 2012 21:06:23 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/never-ride-with-hasidic-handlebars/ Hasidic Handlebars? “Handlebars with loose, loopy bits of handlebar tape,” says velominati.com, a blog for hardcore road bike riders. Think of the Profanisaurus dictionary of swear words from Viz, but for bikes.As well as a funny lexicon of road bike speak, the Velominati blog has a list of 89 rules, first codified in 2009. Read [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/american-enclave-stands-up-to-extremists-2/ http://www.jewpi.com/american-enclave-stands-up-to-extremists-2/#comments Tue, 03 Jan 2012 04:44:11 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/american-enclave-stands-up-to-extremists-2/ Little Na’ama Margolese is not the first Israeli child to be harassed on her way to school by members of a fundamentalist ultra-Orthodox sect who resent her presence in or around their neighborhood. But the 8-year-old girl is the first to have her plight featured on Israeli television and turned into an international news story. [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/holocaust-survivors-blast-nazi-garb-at-protest/ http://www.jewpi.com/holocaust-survivors-blast-nazi-garb-at-protest/#comments Sun, 01 Jan 2012 16:46:22 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/holocaust-survivors-blast-nazi-garb-at-protest/ Israeli Holocaust survivors and political leaders expressed outrage Sunday over a Jerusalem demonstration in which ultra-Orthodox Jews donned Star of David patches and uniforms similar to those the Nazis forced Jews to wear during World War II. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/extreme-jews-wear-yellow-stars-in-protest/ http://www.jewpi.com/extreme-jews-wear-yellow-stars-in-protest/#comments Sun, 01 Jan 2012 01:44:12 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/extreme-jews-wear-yellow-stars-in-protest/ The bearded men and young boys in Jerusalem’s ultra-Orthodox Mea Shearim neighbourhood on Saturday were ostensibly gathered to protest about the jailing of a member of their community for leading vigilante attacks against a local religious bookshop, which was considered not religious enough by hardliners. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/extremist-vilifies-female-soldier-on-bus/ http://www.jewpi.com/extremist-vilifies-female-soldier-on-bus/#comments Fri, 30 Dec 2011 15:04:14 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/extremist-vilifies-female-soldier-on-bus/ An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man was arrested in Jerusalem yesterday for allegedly calling a 19-year-old female soldier a slut when she refused to move to the back of a public bus. It was the first such arrest since the issue of gender separation demands by the ultra-religious became a public issue in Israel in recent days. [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/matisyahu-bans-beard-questions-rips-new-times-before-tonights-kravis-center-show/ http://www.jewpi.com/matisyahu-bans-beard-questions-rips-new-times-before-tonights-kravis-center-show/#comments Thu, 29 Dec 2011 14:38:13 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/matisyahu-bans-beard-questions-rips-new-times-before-tonights-kravis-center-show/ It pains us to say so, but there’s reason to worry about Matisyahu’s show at the Kravis Center tonight. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/after-1500-years-an-index-to-the-talmuds-labyrinths-with-roots-in-the-bronx/ http://www.jewpi.com/after-1500-years-an-index-to-the-talmuds-labyrinths-with-roots-in-the-bronx/#comments Wed, 28 Dec 2011 14:54:19 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/after-1500-years-an-index-to-the-talmuds-labyrinths-with-roots-in-the-bronx/ The Talmud is a formidable body of work: 63 volumes of rabbinical discourse and disputation that form Judaism’s central scripture after the Torah. It has been around for 1,500 years and is studied every day by tens of thousands of Jews. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/israeli-police-act-against-haredi-jews/ http://www.jewpi.com/israeli-police-act-against-haredi-jews/#comments Tue, 27 Dec 2011 14:08:17 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/israeli-police-act-against-haredi-jews/ Israeli police and ultra-orthodox jews have clashed on the outskirts of Jerusalem after demands to crack down on religious zealots accused of harassing women. Several people were arrested and one policeman was injured by a flying rock in Beit Shemesh. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/oy-vey-yiddish-making-a-comeback-at-colleges-4/ http://www.jewpi.com/oy-vey-yiddish-making-a-comeback-at-colleges-4/#comments Mon, 26 Dec 2011 18:18:25 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/oy-vey-yiddish-making-a-comeback-at-colleges-4/ A group of American college students stands in a semicircle, clapping and hopping on one foot as they sing in Yiddish: “Az der rebe tantst, tantsn ale khsidim!”In English, the lyrics mean: “When the rebbe dances, so do all the Hasidim.”This isn’t music appreciation or even a class at a synagogue. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/haredi-man-arrested-on-suspicion-of-assaulting-woman-in-beit-shemesh-2/ http://www.jewpi.com/haredi-man-arrested-on-suspicion-of-assaulting-woman-in-beit-shemesh-2/#comments Sun, 25 Dec 2011 18:06:18 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/haredi-man-arrested-on-suspicion-of-assaulting-woman-in-beit-shemesh-2/ An ultra-Orthodox man suspected of a cursing and spitting at a religious woman in the central Israeli town of Beit Shemesh last week, was arrested Saturday night.According to the indictment, a number of men assaulted Alisa Coleman, who was helping girls onto a school bus to the religious-Zionist “Orot Banot” elementary school for girls. Read [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/battling-legal-hurdles-stubborn-m-e-to-provide-kavod-hames/ http://www.jewpi.com/battling-legal-hurdles-stubborn-m-e-to-provide-kavod-hames/#comments Sun, 25 Dec 2011 05:16:09 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/battling-legal-hurdles-stubborn-m-e-to-provide-kavod-hames/ On Sunday, December 11th, Dr. Brian Grobois decided to go hiking. The 54 year old doctor, who was a psychiatrist and lived with his family in New Rochelle, loved to hike. He was in Washington State at the time because of a simcha, and he planned to wrap up his trip with a vigorous walk [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/jewish-mans-rainier-death-fuels-unusual-autopsy-fight/ http://www.jewpi.com/jewish-mans-rainier-death-fuels-unusual-autopsy-fight/#comments Sun, 25 Dec 2011 05:06:13 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/jewish-mans-rainier-death-fuels-unusual-autopsy-fight/ The death of a 54-year-old Jewish man on a snowy slope on Mount Rainier this month set the stage for a Pierce County court fight pitting religious belief against scientific certainty. Brian Grobois of New Rochelle, N.Y., died on a solo shoeshoe hike, apparently from hypothermia. His body was recovered Dec. 13. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/israels-real-rosa-parks-takes-to-the-buses/ http://www.jewpi.com/israels-real-rosa-parks-takes-to-the-buses/#comments Fri, 23 Dec 2011 16:04:59 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/israels-real-rosa-parks-takes-to-the-buses/ On a sunny afternoon early this week, an ultra-Orthodox woman boarded a bus in the enclave of the Gur Hasidic community in Ashdod and took a seat in the second row. The bus, Egged line 451, was headed for Jerusalem. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/matisyahu-apologises-for-breaking-photographers-camera/ http://www.jewpi.com/matisyahu-apologises-for-breaking-photographers-camera/#comments Fri, 23 Dec 2011 15:52:10 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/matisyahu-apologises-for-breaking-photographers-camera/ Jewish reggae star Matisyahu has apologised to a photographer for breaking her camera during a New York concert on Wednesday night (21Dec11), confessing he “reacted impulsively out of frustration”. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/inbred-outrage-jewish-insult-by-leiby-slay-lawyer/ http://www.jewpi.com/inbred-outrage-jewish-insult-by-leiby-slay-lawyer/#comments Thu, 22 Dec 2011 14:26:32 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/inbred-outrage-jewish-insult-by-leiby-slay-lawyer/ A lawyer for the Borough Park man accused of butchering little Leiby Kletzky sparked a firestorm yesterday by blaming the accused killer’s crime on “inbreeding” in the close-knit Hasidic community.”Look, everybody knows when blood relations have offspring, there can be genetic defects. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/judge-tosses-lawsuit-over-jimmy-kimmel-sketch/ http://www.jewpi.com/judge-tosses-lawsuit-over-jimmy-kimmel-sketch/#comments Thu, 22 Dec 2011 04:36:23 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/judge-tosses-lawsuit-over-jimmy-kimmel-sketch/ At a taping for the ABC show on August 10, 2010, host Kimmel told audiences that James had met with Rabbi Yishayahu Yosef Pinto to seek “business advice” — a meeting which had in fact occurred that month, according to the website TMZ. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/when-a-mystical-rabbis-charity-spends-77000-on-a-3-week-hamptons-rental/ http://www.jewpi.com/when-a-mystical-rabbis-charity-spends-77000-on-a-3-week-hamptons-rental/#comments Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:30:52 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/when-a-mystical-rabbis-charity-spends-77000-on-a-3-week-hamptons-rental/ Today, the NY Times delved into the world of a mystical rabbi, his celebrity followers, high-power publicists, and, not least of all, the rabbi’s charity’s missing millions as it reported on Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto: “The rabbi’s close followers are disclosing what they say is the source of many of his troubles. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/israeli-synagogue-silences-pre-shabbat-melody-after-neighborhood-outcry-2/ http://www.jewpi.com/israeli-synagogue-silences-pre-shabbat-melody-after-neighborhood-outcry-2/#comments Tue, 20 Dec 2011 15:06:30 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/israeli-synagogue-silences-pre-shabbat-melody-after-neighborhood-outcry-2/ For the past several months, the Belz Hasidic synagogue on Ahad Ha’am Street in the center of Tel Aviv has been playing a Jewish melody from loudspeakers on the roof of the building just prior to the onset of Shabbat. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/hasidic-teen-critically-hurt/ http://www.jewpi.com/hasidic-teen-critically-hurt/#comments Mon, 19 Dec 2011 19:26:17 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/hasidic-teen-critically-hurt/ A Hasidic teen was fighting for his life this morning after he lost control of a machine in a Brooklyn armory last night. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/hanukkah-boosters-light-a-fire-under-holiday/ http://www.jewpi.com/hanukkah-boosters-light-a-fire-under-holiday/#comments Sun, 18 Dec 2011 00:52:09 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/hanukkah-boosters-light-a-fire-under-holiday/ The Lubavitch Jewish Center of Alaska traditionally hosts an art show to celebrate Hanukkah. This year, however, Rabbi Joseph Greenberg wanted to go bigger.So on Tuesday, the first night of the holiday, the center will present Cirque de Hanukkah. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/a-store-where-toys-must-be-kosher-2/ http://www.jewpi.com/a-store-where-toys-must-be-kosher-2/#comments Fri, 16 Dec 2011 15:34:30 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/a-store-where-toys-must-be-kosher-2/ IN this toy store, Batman and Spider-Man are not heroes. For one thing, said Barbara Shine, manager of Double Play Toys in Borough Park, Brooklyn, the characters encourage interest in television, and the ultra-Orthodox Jewish families who make up her clientele do not watch television. Read More »]]> 0