UPDATED: MURDER IN CROWN HEIGHTS

Voz Iz Neias is reporting a murder on Carroll Street between Schenectady and Utica in Crown Heights. A Lubavitch man was apparently shot in the head and his car set on fire.
Anyone have details?
UPDATE: Voz Iz Neis is now reporting the victim’s name, Ephraim Klein, a 47-year-old divorced father of three. Klein lived on Union [...]

What Should Jews Do? Darfur Genocide Spills Into Chad

The conflict and resultant genocide in Darfur has now worsened and spread into neighboring Chad. The New York Times reports:
ADRÉ, Chad — The chaos in Darfur, the war-ravaged region in Sudan where more than 200,000 civilians have been killed, has spread across the border into Chad, deepening one of the world’s worst refugee crises.
Arab gunmen [...]

“They Brought The Russians To Clean The Streets And The Ethiopians To Guard The Malls.”

The JTA has a new article on the tensions between the Ethiopian Jewish community in Israel and the Falash Mura, descendants of Ethiopian Jews who converted to Christianity 100 years ago and who are now returning to Judaism and immigrating to Israel with the backing of the Rabbinut:
Rabbi Yosef Hadane, the [Shas-affiliated] chief rabbi for [...]

More On The Halimi Murder

Caroline Glick has new column on the Ilan Halimi murder. In it, she complains about the lack of coverage given by the Israeli media to this story. She also complains about the silence of the interim government, blaming that silence on their political philosophy and supposed cowardice:
No Israeli government minister, official or spokesman has condemned [...]

Guest Post: Blame The Victim

[This guest post is a follow-up to Dr. Soller's earlier guest post on the Ilan Halimi murder.]
Blame The Victim:A Similar Story about the Handling of a Murder of a French JewJerome Soller, Ph.D.
One of the biggest issues for Ilan Halimi’s murder is whether the initial response by the French police was impacted by the victim’s [...]

Is The Bogeyman Pastor Out To get You?

Again proving that Israelis do not really understand America, Shlomo Shamir of Ha’aretz has this one-sided foolish article about the ‘threat’ Evangelicals pose to America and Jews. Shamir’s piece is based on the new book by Rabbi James Rudin, formerly of the American Jewish Committe. I knew Rabbi Rudin years ago from our work on [...]

Rabbi Aron Tendler – ‘Martyr’?

Rabbi Aron Tendler and a small group of his congregants in Israel for a bar mitzva were a barred from entering the Temple Mount because they did not have ID. Rabbi Tender is claiming discrimination. But the need for ID is very well known. Why didn’t Rabbi Tendler’s group have any ID?
Tendler, grandson of the [...]

Haredim Force Close Of Town’s Only Movie Theater

Ha’aretz has a story about Kiryat Gat’s only movie theater, which was closed after 18 months of operation, in part due to a Chabad-led haredi boycott of the shopping mall where the theater is located. The issue? The mall and the theater were open on Shabbat.
The secular population is up in arms. The haredim [...]

100,000 Protest Halimi Murder In Paris

100,000 people, including leading politicians, demonstrated in Paris Sunday to protest the murder of Ilan Halimi, the French Jew recently murdered by a Muslim gang.
In the first significant American coverage of this story, the Wall Street Journal ran a detailed piece (not online) Thursday.
Our coverage by Dr. Jerome Soller can be read here.

The yellow [...]

Kopul Rosen #4: Chabad & The Gospel Of Mark

Rabbi Jeremy Rosen writes in this week’s Something Jewish:
I find it fascinating that the Gospel of Mark in the
New Testament contains a similar story of a man being warned not to
reveal a miraculous healing, but publicizing it anyway. It seems that
it’s not just the Second Coming that some people in Chabad are
borrowing from Christianity! If [...]

Kopul Rosen #3: More Lies From Rabbi Tuvia Bolton

The publication of Rabbi Jeremy Rosen’s exposé of Chabad’s twisting and exaggeration of his father’s story has drawn a lot of attention inside Chabad. And the author of Chabad’s most deceitful version, Rabbi Tuvia Bolton of Kfar Chabad, Israel, has taken to promising at least some readers that he would correct and update his version. [...]

Guest Post: Muslim Gang Tortures and Murders French Jew, US Media Silent

"They lynched him alive, they burnt him, they cut him simply because he was Jewish,” Ilan Halimi’s mother told French Television. (Photo:EJP)
The following article by Dr. Jerome Soller, Ph.D., is the third in a series of guest posts. If you want to guest post, please send me an email.
Muslim Gang Tortures and Murders French Jew, [...]

CIRCUMCISION: Are Many Children In Special Ed Classes Becuase Of Metzitza B’Peh?

Writing for the JTA, Debra Nussbaum Cohen recaps the circumcision controversy generated by metzitza b’peh, the oral-to-genital sucking of  the open circumcision wound done by many haredim. The article is good, clear summary of events, and it has some extras that make it really stand out. The first is a quote from Rabbi Dr. Moshe [...]

The FBI v. Rabbi Meir Kahane

Rabbi Meir Kahane, the JDL, Kach and the FBI’s J. Edgar Hoover. The Forward reports.