Rabbi Lavel Schwartz, 59, and David S. Goldhirsh, 29, both of Brooklyn, were arrested on charges of conspiracy to commit money laundering tied to their dealings in 2008 and 2009 with the now-infamous FBI informant and real estate developer Solomon Dwek.
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According to a food proprietor who wished to remain anonymous, haredi elements brought soiled, reeking diapers on the first night in a bid to keep people away. Another person involved in the event said that electric cables were cut.
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Dennis Glick, who abruptly resigned as president of B'nai B'rith International, has been indicted on federal charges of tax fraud, JTA has learned.
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A Bank of Israel survey reveals the number of ultra-Orthodox students in study programs designed for haredi sector has gone up from 2,000 in 2005 to 6,000 in 2010. The haredi participation rate in the workforce stands at 40%, compared to 80% among non-haredi Jewish public.
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'It is a popular myth that Shechita is a painful method of slaughter. In fact, there is ample scientific evidence to the contrary. The Shechita process requires the rapid uninterrupted severance of major vital organs and vessels which produces, inter alia, instant drop in blood pressure in the brain which results in the immediate and irreversible cessation of consciousness and sensibility to pain. Shechita incorporates an effective and irreversible stun, and it is both humane and efficient - producing a painless and effective stun and instant insensibility – followed without delay by immediate death.'
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Although the Katsav trial elicited some shocking support in Orthodox circles for the ex-president - even after his rape conviction - overall, the case has increased awareness and discussion of sexual abuse among religious women.
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"…Even here in prison, we encounter many nisyonos, or difficulties. There are those who laugh and mock our holy Torah and mitzvos, and we need all our strength and courage not to become influenced by them. Thus, I would like to introduce the 'Rubashkin Purim Contest.' I beg all Jewish children across the world to write down, in about 200 words, how you learned from the story of Purim to be strong against the tide, against those who mock our faith.…"
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A Union City real estate developer who pleaded guilty last year to laundering $668,000 in dirty checks for government informant Solomon Dwek was sentenced this morning to 41 months in prison today.
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The state budget plan that moved toward enactment on Wednesday calls for 10 percent cuts in aid to public colleges and universities, but it would add about $18 million a year in tuition assistance for students attending some private religious schools, primarily yeshivas.
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Did the Lakewood beit din, Jewish religious court, disband rather than receive evidence that proved Kolko's guilt? It looks like that may very well be true.
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Shimon Cohen of Shechita UK branded the new proposal as "the 21st century equivalent of the yellow star, but on our food." Cohen and others fear that labeling non-kosher meat produced in the shechita process would lead to a massive hike in kosher prices because the vast majority of shechita meat goes to unwitting non-kosher consumers who may now decide to opt for other meat. Shechita could then become financially untenable.
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Rabbi David Twersky, leader of the Rachmastrivka Hasidic dynasty, says the recent tsunami in Japan, which has left thousands of people dead, was the result of the arrest of two yeshiva students by Japanese authorities after being convicted of smuggling drugs.
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Channel 2 reported on Monday that the principal of Emmanuel's Ashkenazi elementary school for boys, Rabbi Moshe Nussboim, is currently on trial behind closed doors in the Kfar Saba Magistrate's Court on suspicion of sexually abusing three boys from Sephardi families in his school between the years 2002-2008.
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The Association of Jewish Aging Services fires a talented employee in the midst of a life-threatening health crisis.
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A new haredi music video made to publicize the plight of two Satmar yeshiva students imprisoned in Japan for drug smuggling implies God caused the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster that devastated part of Japan because the Japanese won't release the two Satmar yeshiva students.
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