Gerer Rebbe prohibits Chassidim to drive cars and to ride bicycles

Just a week after Rav Yitzchok Amnon called to prohibit Jewish women from driving, the grand rabbi of Gur has banned men from driving, according to a letter publicized among Gur Hasidim in London, England.

Rabbi Abraham Benjamin Silberberg, a senior rabbi in Gur, has issued eleven new decrees for Gur followers last week, according to a report in the Haredi World.

Rule number 8 on the list prohibits men from getting a driver’s license. “It is self understood that women are also banned from driving,” the letter states.

Rule number 9 prohibits men from riding bicycles.

Rule number 10 also prohibits families from going to a hotel.

These strict new rules come just after Amnon Yitzhak ruled that women should not drive.

As we reported earlier, a popular Sephardic rabbi wants women to be prohibited from driving just like in Saudi Arabia.

“A woman who drives is not modest, and women should not get behind the wheel of a car,” Amnon Yitzhak ruled.

Yitzhak, famous for persuading thousands of secular Israelis to embrace religious observances by warning them of the terrible fate that awaits them in hell, explained that women must not operate a “horseless carriage,” because in the past only men drove horse-drawn vehicles.

Yitzhak made ​​the statement at a conference held last week. Yitzhak falsely claimed that all rabbis agree that the driver's seat was only for men.

“No real rabbi would allow a woman to drive," Yitzhak said. “Just like Saudi Arabia,” he added.

When asked by a female member of the audience, if women are allowed to drive for a good cause, Yitzhak said that driving for a good cause is prohibited, comparing the situation to a person who steals to give to charity.

"It is indecent for a woman to drive under any circumstances," he asserted.

Chassidim in Ashkelon block ambulances from transporting the sick on shabbos!

Emergency workers are angry after Chassidim blocked ambulances from transporting the sick to hospitals on Shabbat, according to Ichud Hatzalah Ashkelon.

A spokesperson for Ichud Hatzalah Ashkelon said that on Friday night, at 11:00 p.m., they received a call about a woman, who fell unconscious, on Akavya Ben Mehalel Street.

Rescue workers of Ichud Hatzalah and Magen David Adom responded to the scene.

Paramedics began to treat a woman, 90, who was feeling dizzy and lost consciousness.

A Mobile Intensive Care Unit of Magen David Adom began administering CPR on the scene. Paramedics tried to revive the woman for about an hour, and she was transported to a local hospital in critical condition.

However, rescue workers were extremely angry after a crowd of Chassidim gathered at the scene, who began obstruction the work of paramedics while screaming “shabes.”

“This is a desecration of Shabbat. There is no need to come with so many ambulances to the scene,” the group of Haredim yelled at the rescue workers.

Since the woman was in critical condition, she required a greater number of EMTs, so paramedics disregarded the Haredi crowd, and went on with their business while suffering from insults.

Rescue workers reported that this was not the first time that Haredim obstruct their work. They urged local rabbis to persuade their followers to stop the practice of protesting and blocking ambulances during emergencies.

Bloggers targeting Yeshiva of Staten Island to oust Avrohom Meir from their Kollel

Rabbi Weiss who supports his son "The Tyrant" 

 A social media and phone campaign to bar an estranged husband from the Yeshiva of Staten Island is the latest gambit in an increasingly aggressive and professionally-orchestrated effort to extract a "get" from the son of a prominent Island Jewish family.    
Rabbi Yosaif Asher Weiss of Prince's Bay, who has defended his son and family against accusations by his estranged daughter-in-law, Gital Dodelson, reportedly has taken a leave of absence from Artscroll publishing house, which was the target of a boycott promoted on Ms. Dodelson's web site.
Rabbi Weiss is the father of Avrohom Meir Weiss, formerly of Staten Island, who now lives in New Jersey, as does his estranged wife Ms. Dodelson.
 
The Weiss family is well-known in the Island Jewish community and various relatives have worked for both Artscroll and the Yeshiva of Staten Island in Pleasant Plains. 
Ms. Dodelson first asked Avrohom Meir Weiss for a "get," which is a Jewish bill of divorce, four years ago, and their civil divorce was finalized in August 2012. Ms. Dodelson claims on her Facebook page that Weiss refuses to give her a "get" unless she agrees to myriad conditions.
"We turn to the administration of the Yeshiva of Staten Island, where he studies, to protest against him and to remove him from the Kollel" says a notice posted on Ms. Dodelson's web site. "Tell them in no uncertain terms that withholding a get is NOT acceptable."

Supporters are urged to call the yeshiva and the phone number and address are listed on the web site. Calls to the yeshiva for comment weren't immediately returned.

Shira Dicker, who described herself in an email to the Advance as "part of Team Gital," acknowledged that "Gital is one of my clients" and became defensive when asked whether she was paid for her services. 

"What is problematic about a victim taking her story public? said Shira Dicker. "Other women in Gital's position hired hit men."

"I have seen some people jump on the fact that the Dodelsons hired a publicist as if this is some kind of crime or sinister strategy," Ms. Dicker said. "That really confuses me. What is problematic about a victim taking her story public? I hope that is NOT what your question implied. Other women in Gital's position hired hit men."

Ms. Dodelson's Facebook page includes a letter from Rabbi Weiss and his brother, Rabbi Yisroel Weiss, who worked at Artscroll, describing the "get" dispute. Rabbi Yosaif Weiss declined to comment other than to verify the authenticity of the letter.
"As we believe you are aware, all the accusations and pressures attendant to the campaign of slander that has been leveled against our families, including the heinous desecration of G-d's Name recently perpetrated by the Dodelson family, are based on untruths and lies," the rabbis said in the letter.
The letter goes on to say that, with regret, they "ARE LEAVING ARTSCROLL/MESORAH UNTIL THIS SITUATION IS RESOLVED."

A get is given by a husband and received by his wife in order to end a Jewish marriage. Without a get, neither party is permitted to remarry according to Jewish law. 

An agunah is a woman whose marriage has functionally ended but whose husband refuses to give her a get, said the Organization for the Resolution of Agunot, which has championed Ms. Dodelson's cause on Facebook.

Itche Wolf, Kloizenberger Chassid buys pink diamond for 83 million dollars

Isaac Wolf, a New York-based diamond cutter, was the buyer of the 59.60-carat pink diamond that sold for $83 million in Geneva last night, a record for any gemstone at auction.

Wolf renamed the oval-cut stone the “Pink Dream,” New York-based Sotheby’s said. 

He competed against three others for the gem in bidding that lasted about five minutes before the strike of the gavel, followed by cheers and applause.

Itche Wolf in center with beard

Monsey Cheder prohibits 4 and 6 part Kipot???

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In a note to parents, made to look like the child is writing to his mother, 
it reads:
(loosely translated)
Dear Mommy,
Please send me to school with a regular yarlmulka, please no stiff  6 "slice" (part) and certainly no 4 "slice" yarmulka.
Because I want a kipa like the other children,
It is more appropriate for my sweet head.
Your sweet Tzadikal

Rav Amnon Yitzchok says Women shouldn't drive, just like in Saudi Arabia

Female drivers are “immodest” and woman should therefore not get behind the the wheel of a car, according to one Israeli rabbi

Amnon Yitzhak, renowned for convincing hordes of secular Israelis to embrace religious observance – by warning them, among other methods, of the grisly fate that awaits them in hell should they persist in their errant ways — explained that women should not operate the horseless carriage because in the past only men drove horse-drawn vehicles, Walla reported (Hebrew) on Tuesday.

Yitzhak made the assertion during a lecture last week — the report didn’t say where it took place — citing various rabbis who had all ruled, he said, that a driver’s seat was for men only. The stance is an outlandish one as the vast majority of Orthodox rabbis agree that Jewish law permits women to drive.

But “none of the wisest rabbis allow women drivers,” Yitzhak said, in Saudi-Arabian fashion. “After all, what is a car? It is a replacement for the carriage. There were never any female carriage drivers.”

Yitzhak, who ran a doomed, and sometimes dirty, Knesset campaign against the now-deceased Rabbi Ovadia Yosef’s Shas party in January’s elections, said rabbis who permitted women drivers were “fourth- or fifth-rate” populists.

Asked by a female member of the audience if women were nevertheless permitted to drive for a good cause, Yitzhak responded in the negative, comparing the scenario to someone who steals in order to give to charity.

“It is immodest for a woman to drive,” he asserted.

MK Aliza Lavie (Yesh Atid), who chairs the Knesset Committee on the Status of Women, dismissed Yitzhak’s point of view as outdated.

“From the comparison that Rabbi Amnon Yitzhak made between cars and the carriages of the past we can see that if it were up to him, things would still be like they were in the Middle Ages,” she said. “If that’s Rabbi Yitzhak’s preference, then he can go right ahead and turn in his luxury car for a carriage.”

Pinchos Tzitrenzon falls on subway tracks and get killed in Boro Park

An elderly Haredi man was killed after slipping onto the train tracks as a train moved into the station, according to emergency workers in New York. 

 Pinchas Tzitrenzon, 75, who was waiting for a train at the train station platform located on New Utrecht Avenue and Fort Hamilton Parkway, fell on the tracks and was run over by a train that entered the station.
 Tzitrenzon was waiting for a Manhattan bound train when he suddenly slipped and fell onto the tracks before dozens of horrified passengers. Tzitrenzon tried to climb his way out, but the oncoming train quickly ran him over. Emergency workers arrived and he was declared dead at the scene. 
 Volunteers of the Chesed Shel Emes organization, arrived at the scene to prevent the medical examiner from taking the body.

Lipa Breuer robbed and shot to death

A popular charity worker was robbed and shot while handing out charity food boxes in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, New York, according to a report by Behadrei Haredim.

 Just a week after Lipa Breuer, 64, was found seriously wounded on a street he died at a local hospital. Breuer was a volunteer for a charity named “Shabbat Pekelach,” which distributed food for the needy on a weekly basis.
 Breuer was reported missing by his family, and he was later found unconscious and beaten on a street. He was transported to a Queens hospital in serious condition.
 Hospital officials said that Breuer was admitted into the hospital about an hour after leaving the charity organization's storage facility with his car.

 Police said that Breuer was robbed and shot while waiting for a traffic light to change.
The suspect put the victim in the back of the car and drove off to Queens. When they arrived in Queens, the suspect dumped Breuer on the street.
The suspect later abandoned the vehicle and fled with the food boxes.
 Police are looking for the suspect, and so far, no arrests have been made.

 Breuer was the manager of a large Satmar girls school named Bracha Sima, in Williamsburg for many years. He also managed the popular Bracha Sima wedding hall.
 Four years ago, he retired and began volunteer work for several charity organizations

WEISS GANGSTERS CONTINUE CHARADE: PHONEY ARTSCROLL RESIGNATION, GREENWALD ADMITS, "GITAL NEVER HIRED ME', STILL NO GET!

READ THE ARTSCROLL "RESIGNATION" LETTER 

NOW READ THE ARTSCROLL LETTER
NOTICE WHAT I HIGHLIGHTED IN RED!

To all who have communicated with ArtScroll regarding the Dodelson-Weiss matter:

Posted on November 11, 2013 by mayerp

For the least several months, we have invested enormous time and effort to facilitate a mutually acceptable outcome to the very sad matter of the Weiss-Dodelson differences. We have been motivated by one desire: to help bring about a get so that Gital and Avrohom Meir can build new futures for themselves and so that their child should be provided for in the most positive manner, for his benefit. Unfortunately, these efforts have not yet borne fruit.

In order to avoid further distraction from the harbotzas haTorah of ArtScroll/Mesorah, Rabbis Yosaif Asher and Yisroel Weiss have decided to give up their positions with our firm until this situation is resolved. Their letter to this effect is attached.

May our shared hope be fulfilled: that Hashem will provide all parties with the wisdom and good will to bring a peaceful conclusion to this tragic situation, and may Klal Yisrael everywhere come together and enjoy the blessings of peace.

Rabbi Meir Zlotowitz

NOW READ RONNIE (TENDLER) GREENWALD'S LETTER SAYING THAT HE WAS HIRED BY A "THIRD PARTY" NOT BY GITAL!

Frum guy finds 98,000 in a desk that he bought in Craigslist and returns it," the money not the desk"

A New Haven rabbi found $98,000 in a desk he bought on Craigslist. He then returned the money to the original owner. 

News 8's Noelle Gardner has his amazing story.

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