$1000 Dollar Reward Offered for Return of a “Holy” Dollar Bill
Materialists are often accused of worshipping money but they’re pikers compared to the congregation of the Chabad Palm Beach Synagogue in Florida. Until Tuesday night, they had a dollar bill which had been especially blessed by the late Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the seventh and last leader of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement of Hasidic Judaism. Before [...]
Rabbis Sentence Dog To Death
A Jerusalem rabbinical court recently sentenced a wandering dog to death by stoning. The cruel sentence stemmed from the suspicion that the spirit of a famous secular lawyer, who insulted the court’s judges 20 years ago, had been transferred into the dog’s body. Dog sentenced to death by stoning Rabbinical court rules spirit of [...]
Researchers Prove Bible Grossly Mistranslated
A research group in Canada, has proven that the Old Testament has been massively mistranslated. This follows three years of research, which have uncovered the actual system for translating ancient Hebrew. The group discovered that each letter is not a letter at all, but a full word, and what was believed to be a word, [...]
Hasidic Newspaper Photoshops Hillary Clinton from Iconic Photo
A big hat-tip to Failed Messiah (who gave a hat-tip to Critical Minyan) for breaking the news that an Ultra-Orthodox Hasidic Jewish newspaper, Der Tzitung, has determined that the photo of top U.S. leaders receiving an update on the mission against Osama bin Laden was too scandalous. What was so offensive about the image? U.S. Secretary of [...]
Neo-Nazi Gets Maximum Sentence For Defiling 57 Jewish Graves – Huffington Post
Cook County Judge Larry Axelrood put his disdain for the defendant before him in no uncertain terms in his Skokie, Illinois courtroom on Friday. “You’re a person who’s bigoted and espouses hate,” he said to 24-year-old Mariusz Wdziekonski, as he gave the Polish immigrant the maximum sentence for two charges of felony vandalism. Wdziekonski was [...]
Oregon School Says Christmas Holiday Tree Must be Decorated With Muslim and Jewish Symbols – DailyTidings.com
By Hannah Guzik Ashland, Oregon public schools can display a decorated pine tree if it is surrounded by symbols from other religious holidays, but they should not display a Christmas tree alone, in order to remain religiously neutral, Superintendent Juli Di Chiro told the School Board Monday. District officials have implemented new holiday guidelines this [...]
Top Israel Rabbis: Don’t Sell Property To Non-Jews – Huffington Post
Three dozen top Israeli rabbis threw their support Tuesday behind a religious ruling barring Jews from selling or renting homes to non-Jews – an indication of growing radicalism within the rabbinical community at a time of mounting friction between Israeli Arabs and Jews. The action by the clerics – chief rabbis in some of Israel’s [...]
Brooklyn Rabbi, Sons Accused Of Sexual Molestation – Gothamist
In a sickening story echoing several other similar sickening stories, a Brooklyn Rabbi and three of his sons are suspected of sexually abusing four female relatives. Rabbi Gershon Kranczer, 58, has been accused of sexually abusing two underage relatives; the eldest victim, a 20-year-old woman, told a co-worker at a Brooklyn yeshiva that she was [...]
Overweight Rabbi Accused of Calling Hit On Ex-Cop – Gothamist
A Brooklyn man was charged yesterday with hiring two ex-cons to carry out a hit on a former suburban cop and his nephew. And by Brooklyn man, we mean an overweight, gun-toting Rabbi who claims to suffer from seizures. Basically, the whole thing sounds highly unkosher. Rabbi Victor Koltun, 41, allegedly hired the two ex-cons [...]
