Two men who say they were molested by Syracuse basketball coach Jim Boeheim’s longtime assistant will appear at a press conference in Albany later this month to urge lawmakers to pass a bill that would open a one-year window for… Read More »

A 64-year-old Teaneck, NJ rabbi was indicted yesterday on charges that he molested two 13-year-old boys in his home. Rabbi Uzi Rivlin in court after his arrest last year Teaneck rabbi indicted on sex charges BY KIBRET MARKOS • The… Read More »

The two yeshiva students apparently left from Yeshivas Toras Chochom, the yeshiva of (or went with) Rabbi Yitzchak Meir Morgenstern, a “kabbalist” who is a Breslov hasid, walked into the Old City and from there went to Mount Zion, to… Read More »

A 25-year-old documentary narrated by Sarah Jessica Parker and Leonard Nimoy, A Life Apart takes a largely nostalgic and hagiographic look at the hasidic community. [Hat Tip: Burich. Read More »

Upset with arrests of leading Edah Charedis activists on money laundering and embezzlement charges, by the Israeli government’s refusal to allow forced public gender segregation in Beit Shemesh and Mea Shearim, and by the arrests of haredim who spit on,… Read More »

An insult hurled at a Belzer hasid sparks a riot on an Egged bus. You stink! Insult hurled at hasid sparks bus riot Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com A 55-year-old Belzer hasid got on Egged’s Number 480 Jerusalem to Tel Aviv… Read More »

The 101-year-old leader of haredi Jewry is on life support in Sha’arei Tzedek hospital in Jerusalem. He is suffering from congestive heart failure, multiple organ failure or near-failure, and now he also is septic – meaning that he has a… Read More »

The new course, titled “Home, education and family,” will deal with contraception, premarital relationships, modesty and the status of women. It is also to deal with “family purity,” or the Jewish law that addresses married couples’ conduct during menstruation. Religious… Read More »

The chef and the general manager at one of Long Island’s largest kosher catering companies filed court papers Tuesday against the company’s owner, saying the owner has been serving non-kosher food to his unwitting clients for more than a year…. Read More »

Three out of every four Beit Shemesh children entering the first grade in the 2012/2013 academic year will be registered in ultra-Orthodox schools according to figures published by the city yesterday. Beit Shemesh has been a flashpoint for haredi violence… Read More »

There are those who knew that the school’s associate principal responsible for Judaic Studies – an ordained rabbi and congregational leader – was summoning students into his office and inviting them to his Washington Heights apartment under the guise of… Read More »

The ultra-Orthodox umbrella group Edah Charedis has begun raising money to file personal lawsuits against police in a move meant to block future arrests of Edah members caught breaking the law. The money will also be used to pay for… Read More »

Shaul Spitzer, the former butler (hus bucher) of the Skvere Rebbe, pleaded guilty to aggravated assault in the May arson attack that almost killed the entire Rottenberg family. The plea and what will almost certainly end up to be most… Read More »

Nathan Rothschild, the former Monsey fire commissioner and East Ramapo school board president who attempted to defraud the fire district to pay off a six-figure personal debt, was sentenced today to 12 months and one day in prison. Nathan Rothschild… Read More »

On the eve of the beginning of his trial for attempted murder and arson, the New Square beit din acting in the name of the Skvere Rebbe, Rabbi David Twersky, asked hasidim to pray for mercy for Shaul Spitzer. Spitzer… Read More »

“This view dictates the strict separation between the sexes in this hasidic sect, and primarily the practices of prishut [separation] that guide the relationship between spouses in this society, which is unparalleled in other ultra-Orthodox groups. Hasidism is doing more… Read More »

Next week, attorney and author Michael Lesher will argue before New York State’s highest court for the release by the Brooklyn District Attorney of documents he has been seeking since 2007, related to the failed extradition of Avrohom Mondrowitz –… Read More »

Charged with attempted murder and arson, Shaul Spitzer pleaded guilty today to first degree assault. Shaul Spitzer A sweetheart plea deal if there ever was one. The Journal News reports: An 18-year-old New Square man accused of trying to kill… Read More »

A Jerusalem monastery, built on the spot where tradition holds the tree from which Jesus’ cross was made, was defaced with graffiti bearing the hallmarks of militant Jewish settlers, police said on Tuesday. ‘Death to Christians’: Suspected Jewish extremists deface… Read More »

No one ever said the word “sex,” or even “vagina,” to me. We had no clue. We were like, “It’ll work out.” It never worked out. There is an actual rule that you learn before you get married that you… Read More »