It Doesn’t Get Much Stranger–Or Much Sadder–Than This:
Goldstein answered the door in high heels, makeup, lipstick — and a filthy pair of slacks. He initially told police he hadn’t seen his roommate, but cops noticed a foul smell and found Sultan’s body in a pool of blood on the living-room floor.
The cause of death was [...]
Entries from October 2004
October 28, 2004
Hasidic Transvestite Murders Rabbi–Pictures Of The Rebbe Found Plastered On Walls With Porn
October 21, 2004
The Documents
An English-language translation of the Rebbe’s letter on the rescue of Ethiopian Jews can be read here.
Information on Chabad, Holocaust Rescue and Ethiopian Rescue can be viewed here.
A rabbinic ‘protest’ to this website can be downloaded as a PDF by clicking here. [It is also posted on the Adath.com website.]
[It is important to realize that [...]
October 20, 2004
Corruption, Chabad-Style: A Deal To Make The Rebbe Proud
From Ha’aretz:
It is hard to stay apathetic about the tender results for purchasing properties in Kfar Chabad, which were published last week. For each of the 171 tenders that the ILA published, only one bid was submitted.
In almost all of them, the bid was pretty close to the minimum price required by the ILA, and [...]
October 18, 2004
Rabbi Steinsaltz On New Sanhedrin
A unique ceremony – probably only the second of its kind in the past 1,600 years – is taking place in Tiberias today: The launching of a Sanhedrin, the highest Jewish-legal tribunal in the Land of Israel.
The Sanhedrin, a religious assembly that convened in one of the Holy Temple chambers in Jerusalem, comprised 71 sages [...]
October 14, 2004
The Alter Rebbe’s Son Converted To Christianity
Yair Sheleg writes in Ha’aretz:
Very few among Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidim know this story, and those who do go to great lengths to deny it. After all, it is not easy for the Hasidim to accept that Rabbi Moshe, the youngest son of the founder of their movement, Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi (1902-1994) – better known [...]
October 14, 2004
Discrimination, Chabad-Style
"Habad, one of Israel’s stronger orthodox religious groups, doesn’t recognize Ethiopians as Jews or allow their children into its kindergartens."
October 14, 2004
Understanding Rav Ovadia Yosef, shelita
A new biography of Rav Ovadia Yosef has been published:
Rabbi Ovadia’s life story contains all the stuff of myth: growing up poor, setting oneself an ambitious goal from childhood, a meteoric rise to fame, and upon reaching the top, a tug-of-war between heirs and members of one’s inner circle. . . .
At the age of [...]
October 14, 2004
A Lesson For Rebbes & Hasidim: A Responsible Transfer of Leadership
Cambodia has chosen a new king:
For the ailing Sihanouk, King Sihamoni’s appointment will bring huge comfort.
The 81-year-old former monarch ruled Cambodia for more than half a century, and had been troubled by the prospect that the Khmer royal line would die with him.
He was also concerned that – even if the monarchy continued – there [...]
October 14, 2004
A Lesson For Rebbes & Hasidim: A Responsible Transfer of Leadership
Cambodia has chosen a new king:
For the ailing Sihanouk, King Sihamoni’s appointment will bring huge comfort.
The 81-year-old former monarch ruled Cambodia for more than half a century, and had been troubled by the prospect that the Khmer royal line would die with him.
He was also concerned that – even if the monarchy continued – there [...]
October 14, 2004
A Lesson For Rebbes & Hasidim: A Responsible Transfer of Leadership
Cambodia has chosen a new king:
For the ailing Sihanouk, King Sihamoni’s appointment will bring huge comfort.
The 81-year-old former monarch ruled Cambodia for more than half a century, and had been troubled by the prospect that the Khmer royal line would die with him.
He was also concerned that – even if the monarchy continued – there [...]
October 14, 2004
A Lesson For Rebbes & Hasidim: A Responsible Transfer of Leadership
Cambodia has chosen a new king:
For the ailing Sihanouk, King Sihamoni’s appointment will bring huge comfort.
The 81-year-old former monarch ruled Cambodia for more than half a century, and had been troubled by the prospect that the Khmer royal line would die with him.
He was also concerned that – even if the monarchy continued – there [...]
October 13, 2004
Status of Falash Mura Children Debated
The Conversion Section of the Prime Minister’s Office has indicated that it favors changing current procedures whereby single mothers in Falash Mura families must obtain the written consent of the other parent before their children can be declared Jewish, the legal adviser of an Ethiopian advocate organization said Wednesday. . . .
The Falash Mura are [...]
October 12, 2004
The Current State Of Chabad
Many Lubavichers descended on the depleted communities of Europe and the former USSR. Alas they found a fertile ground. They call themselves Chief Rabbis. They lay claim to real estate abandoned by dead Jews and in the case of Russia they are supported by Jews with “questionable sources of income”. They live in mansions and [...]
October 12, 2004
The Company They Keep
The recent publication of a Chumash (Pentatuch) with the commentary of the late Rebbe of Chabad-Lubavitch, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, has won rave reviews from non-Chabad sources including Yeshiva University’s Rabbi Norman Lamm, noted Sqverer posek Rabbi Gavriel Zinner, Great Britain’s Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, R. Gershon Tannenbaum of Igud HaRabbonim, and former Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi [...]
