Friday, May 24, 2013
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Nassau cops reopen 1986 slaying case of Chaim Weiss
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| Photo credit: Handout | Chaim Weiss was found by an adult dormitory supervisor sprawled across the bed of his single room at Mesivta of Long Island, an Orthodox Jewish yeshiva on East Beech Street, just before 8 a.m. Nov. 1, 1986. |
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Frum people in Boro-Park & Williamsburg getting measles because they refused to vaccinate their children!
Frum people are putting everyone in danger of getting sick from the dreaded disease, all because they refused to get their children vaccinated!
NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF
HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE
Thomas Farley, M.D., M.P.H.
Commissioner
May 21, 2013
ALERT # 12: Update on Measles in New York City
1) 34 cases of measles have occurred in Borough Park and Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Additional cases will likely occur, because a large number of children and adults have been exposed to infectious cases.
2) Providers are reminded to consider the diagnosis of measles in clinically compatible cases, immediately report and isolate suspect cases, and vaccinate children and adults.
3) Children need to receive their first dose of MMR vaccine at 12 months of age. Older unvaccinated children should be immunized immediately.
Distribute to All Primary Care, Infectious Disease, Emergency Medicine, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, Family Medicine, Laboratory and Infection Control Staff
Dear Colleague,
The measles outbreak in Brooklyn is continuing to grow. To date, there have been 34 confirmed cases, including 27 in Borough Park and 7 in Williamsburg. Additional suspected cases are being investigated. All cases are part of the Orthodox Jewish community and were unvaccinated at the time of exposure, including 5 cases too young to have been vaccinated, 23 cases who refused vaccine, and 6 cases whose vaccines were delayed. Cases range in age from 0 to 32 years (median 7 years), including 5 infants, 21 children, and 8 adults. Complications have included pneumonia, a miscarriage, and two hospitalizations. Measles is highly contagious. We have identified over 700 people who have been exposed, predominantly in health-care settings. Home isolation is required for up to 21 days for exposed persons without evidence of immunity to prevent further exposures. To interrupt the spread of measles in your community, we ask for your assistance regarding reporting, isolation, prophylaxis, testing, and vaccination.
Reporting
Report any suspected measles case with generalized rash and fever to the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) immediately. Do not wait for laboratory testing to report. Delays in reporting have resulted in missed opportunities to prevent disease using post-exposure prophylaxis. To report, call 347-396-2402 (weekdays 9-5pm) or 212-764-7667 (after hours and weekends).
Isolation
Place suspected cases immediately in an airborne isolation room. Alternatively, see them at the end of the day after all other patients have left the office. Avoid having patients with rash in the waiting room. Post a sign outside your office notifying patients with rash to call before entering.If an airborne isolation room is not available, place a mask on the patient, and don’t use the exam room for up to two hours. Tell suspected cases to stay home while contagious, until day five after rash onset.
Post-exposure Prophylaxis
If a suspected exposure occurs in your office, offer the 1st or 2nd dose of MMR vaccine within 72 hours to everyone aged 6 months and older who was in your office through two hours after the suspected case left and who does not have a contraindication to vaccine. Do not delay MMR if immunization records are not readily available; there is no harm to giving an extra dose to someone who is fully vaccinated. Wait at least 28 days between doses of MMR. Exposed staff without evidence of immunity should be furloughed from days 5 through 21 after exposure, regardless of receipt of post-exposure prophylaxis.
Immune globulin should be given as soon as possible to susceptible individuals exposed to measles who are at high-risk for complications: infants aged <6 months, infants aged 6 - 12 months who do not receive MMR within 72 hours, immunocompromised persons, and pregnant women who are not immune to measles. Immune globulin must be given within 6 days of
exposure to prevent or modify measles.
Laboratory Testing
Collect blood for measles IgM and IgG and nasopharyngeal swabs for PCR testing of suspected cases. DOHMH will pick up and test specimens. Synthetic (non-cotton) swabs and liquid viral transport media can be purchased from commercial laboratories. These are the same kits used for influenza testing. DOHMH can also provide kits as needed, while waiting for your supply. Do not send specimens to a commercial lab for testing as this will only delay the diagnosis and delay outbreak control measures.
Timely vaccination
Ensure patients are up to date with their 1st dose of MMR at age 12 months and 2nd dose at age 4 to 6 years. Administer immunizations at the start of recommended interval. Do not delay. For assistance generating recall letters for patients not up to date with MMR or for assistance ordering MMR vaccine, call 347-396-2400. Children aged 6 to 11 months who will be travelling internationally should receive a dose of MMR before travel, although this dose does not count towards completion of the routine schedule. Ensure all healthcare staff have two documented doses of measles-containing vaccine or a positive measles IgG titer.
Please call DOHMH if you have questions at 347-396-2402 (weekdays 9-5pm) or 212-764-7667
(after hours and weekends). Your cooperation is appreciated.
Sincerely,
Jennifer Rosen, MD
Director, Epidemiology and Surveillance Assistant Commissioner
NYC DOHMH
Jane Zucker, MD, MSc
Bureau of Immunization Bureau of Immunization
NYC DOHMH
Vishnitzer Chassidim lay off women for a couple of minutes and fight among themselves
One says "Sheigatz Orois" another calls the first guy a "rasha merusha"
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Shabbos makeup that stays all shabbos!
Holy Chic! Women dish on how they keep their makeup going
When Maddy Borch complained to her older sister about her makeup peeling off prematurely during Shabbat, her sister was ready with an unusual beauty tip: “Spray hairspray all over your face, to set the makeup.”
Instead of laughing it off, Borch complied.
And now?
“I’ve been doing it for the past year — it really works. My makeup can stay on for three days!” says the 24-year-old special-education teacher from Flatbush, who buys high-end Kenra spray on eBay for $25. “I spray each eye once, and cheeks once. If I use a cheaper one, like White Rain, the makeup doesn’t stay on as well.”
Anne Wermiel/NY Post
SIP SOUP FROM A STRAW! Kosher cosmetologist Elana Barkats employs this trick so her lipstick lasts all day and night.
Many women are known to go to great lengths for their beauty regimen, but beauty junkies in the Orthodox faith have an additional hurdle: Religious law forbids any kind of work — this includes retouching makeup or styling hair — for 24 to 48 hours on Jewish holidays and from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday.
As a result, many Orthodox women employ beauty secrets that can be shocking — from using a non-cosmetic Sharpie pen as eyeliner to slurping soup through a straw so lipstick remains undisturbed.
Long-lasting cosmetics are also prized, but their results aren’t always as advertised. Earlier this month, an upstate Orthodox woman sued makeup giant Lancôme on the grounds that its Teint Idole Ultra 24H foundation, which promises “24-hour wear for divine, lasting perfection,” “faded significantly” overnight.
While the lawsuit seemed a little “extreme and over-the-top” to Sharon Langert, the busy mom of five can also relate.
“I can’t judge her. If someone has bad skin and they depend on [the product] and it doesn’t last, then it affects their self-esteem,” says Langert, 44, who is Orthodox and the founder of fashion-isha.com, a style site for the modest Jewish woman.
A cosmetics hound who buys her MAC liquid eyeliner two at a time, Langert refuses to leave the house without makeup — as do many of her friends — and she knows first-hand the struggles caused by Shabbat.
“I know some women who sip their soup with a straw, so it won’t ruin their makeup,” says Langert. “Some women tell their husbands not to touch them on Friday night!”
Mimi Hecht, 27, a kosher style blogger at Ladymama.org from Crown Heights, admits that she once resorted to using a non-cosmetic Sharpie as eyeliner to get her through a two-day holiday.
“I’ve done it once, and then couldn’t bring myself to do it again,” she confesses. “But it did the trick!”
The married mom of two says she’s long battled “the challenge of not being able to apply makeup for Shabbat and extended holidays.”
“When I was single, I would literally use like a whole pound of gel and mousse in my hair to make it last for Shabbat,” recalls Hecht. “But you’ve got to do what you’ve got to do.”
Hecht’s hair woes have nothing on Ruti Horn, who recalls one, um, unorthodox beauty trick passed onto her from her mother.
“When I was little, my mother would tell me to sleep with my hair in a sock, so that it stays and I wouldn’t have to worry about touching it up with an iron the next day,” says the 20-year old accessories designer from Midwood.
Many Orthodox women say one of their biggest challenges is achieving lipstick that lasts.
“I would layer on some crazy [long-lasting] Max Factor Lipfinity lipstick and not eat anything with oil that can take it off,” says Amy Goodman Gross, 27, of Elizabeth, NJ.
And then there are those who go heavy on the makeup offensive: “Apply ‘drag queen’ foundation before Shabbat. That stuff doesn’t move!” swears Estee Gottlieb, 23, from Crown Heights. “Sleep on your back, and you’re good to go! I wear MAC; it’s heavy, like paint, and it stays on all day!”
According to Orthodox beauty experts, the key to long-lasting makeup — minus the clown face — is to layer. Kosher cosmetologist Elana Barkats, 27, of the Upper East Side, recommends using a primer, followed by foundation and powder to set.
She also dabs foundation on her lips before applying lipstick, to help it stay in place. And she recommends avoiding the sun, which will melt the makeup off any woman’s face.
She says women outside the faith could learn a thing or two from her advice.
“I think our knowledge would benefit a lot of people; they want to do it and be done with it, and not have to reapply,” says Barkats.
But even Orthodox women who go to extreme lengths for their beauty regime try to maintain perspective.
Says Langert: “I personally love makeup, but if you’re an Orthodox woman in an Orthodox community, you kind of accept that on Saturday, you won’t look the same as during the week.”
dlewak@nypost.com
Lakewood girl schools again turning away Jewish Children!
See this letter from a victim
DEAR PROPRIETORS OF LAKEWOOD’S BAIS YAAKOV HIGH SCHOOLS:
Once again, you have seen fit to send out acceptance letters to most of Lakewood’s eighth grade girls. The “undesirable” minority will go to their graduations publicly degraded – everyone knows who they are.
You say there is no room, “the boat is full.” That’s exactly what the Swiss government said when denying refuge to Jews during World War II. Incongruous with a “poor” community such as Lakewood, your mosdos scream wealth and plenty. Surely you can find room for a few extra desks – even a new classroom – in those enormous, grand high school buildings of yours?
Once again, you have seen fit to send out acceptance letters to most of Lakewood’s eighth grade girls. The “undesirable” minority will go to their graduations publicly degraded – everyone knows who they are.
You say there is no room, “the boat is full.” That’s exactly what the Swiss government said when denying refuge to Jews during World War II. Incongruous with a “poor” community such as Lakewood, your mosdos scream wealth and plenty. Surely you can find room for a few extra desks – even a new classroom – in those enormous, grand high school buildings of yours?
You say the unaccepted girls are “not tznius.” This may be true of a select minority, and being in the business of chinuch, they are also your responsibility. However, you have an evil practice of persecuting the less academic students, children of divorce, those who have difficulty paying tuition, and those whose parents you can blackmail before you grant them a precious seat in your mosad.
Young, fragile, impressionable children and their families are at your mercy. Their hopes for the future, their self-esteem, their sholom bayis, and their physical health are being sacrificed on the altar of your egotistic iron grip of power. It must take a lot of strength to overcome your genetic predisposition to be rachmanim b’nei rachmanim. Or perhaps we should examine your genealogy.
No one is fooled by your beard-stroking, yeshivish-talking imitation piety; not even your own employees or your own children. It only serves to remind us that you should know better. The Torah you appear to represent and impart in your schools does not condone your behavior.
Have yourselves an Evian conference and decide how to solve the problem of universal high school acceptance in a way that does not shame or destroy precious bnos yisroel. Treat them as you would your own beloved, superior, deserving children. Stop feigning innocence and blaming others; do the right thing.
Young, fragile, impressionable children and their families are at your mercy. Their hopes for the future, their self-esteem, their sholom bayis, and their physical health are being sacrificed on the altar of your egotistic iron grip of power. It must take a lot of strength to overcome your genetic predisposition to be rachmanim b’nei rachmanim. Or perhaps we should examine your genealogy.
No one is fooled by your beard-stroking, yeshivish-talking imitation piety; not even your own employees or your own children. It only serves to remind us that you should know better. The Torah you appear to represent and impart in your schools does not condone your behavior.
Have yourselves an Evian conference and decide how to solve the problem of universal high school acceptance in a way that does not shame or destroy precious bnos yisroel. Treat them as you would your own beloved, superior, deserving children. Stop feigning innocence and blaming others; do the right thing.
Vizhnitz Monsey Bans "Hot Color" clothing for ladies
Vishnitz Monsey, obsessed with women, now bans them from wearing clothing that are "Hot Pink, Hot Yellow, Hot Orange"......
Loose Translation from Yiddish:
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| This ad appeared in "The Community Connections " in Monsey! |
From the words of the Rabbi of Vizhnitz
and these are his holy words....
Women ought to go in the way of our ancestors, that clothing should be normal, and not to pursue the desires of this world.
Everyone wants children that are religious, and this is a Segulah to have religious generations.
The "nekeivos" (women) should follow the customs of our ancestors and not to deviate from those ideas.
Dear Daughters of Israel,
Wearing clothing with colors that are Hot Pink, Hot Yellow or Hot Orange are prohibited according to halacha, (see Oiz Ve'hadar Levusha, Chapter 7b)
Let's abide by the halacha, and that will bring Spiritual Nachas to Hashem and you will merit to have salvation and good tidings!
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
The Jewish Press continues to protect sex abusers!
The Jewish Press defended Mordechai Tendler years ago, and now they are defending a sexual predator, read the following by their clueless "reporter", I highlighted in red the offensive comments from this bastard Yori Yanover
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| Yori Yanover defender of sexual predators
Jewish Teacher Charged with Molestation and Fired on Dubious Grounds
The arrest was made based on the testimony of a 12-year-old babysitter's hearsay from a 6- and a 7-year-old. Yori Yanover • The Jewish Press Published: May 13th, 2013 Jordan Eareckson Murray, 32, father of three, known by his students as Rabbi Yaakov, taught first and second grade at the Torah Day School, on South Ferdinand Street in Columbia City, Seattle, and, reportedly, groped two female students, ages 6 and 7, after putting them on his lap behind his desk, in front of other students. He was arrested May 3 and spent close to 48 hours in the King County Jail before posting a $100,000 bond, according to jail and court records. Formal charges were filed last week, accusing Murray of touching the two girls under their clothes numerous times since the middle of the school year. Other students were unaware of the behavior because Murray’s desk blocked their view, according to the charges. Here’s how the evidence against Muray was collected: The two alleged victims were playing together at the younger girl’s house and told the girl’s 12-year-old sister, also a student at the Torah Day School, that “Rabbi Murray puts his hands in their pants,” according to the charges, which note that the two younger girls “were scared” and confused and didn’t know why it was happening. If it was happening. The 12-year-old sister brought the girls to her mother, and they disclosed the alleged abuse, according to the charges. The 12-year-old had baby-sat Murray’s children in the past, according to reports.
In other words, the arrest was made based on the testimony of a 12-year-old babysitter’s hearsay from a 6- and a 7-year-old.
The Seattle Police Department received two referrals from Child Protective Services on April 23 and launched an investigation, the papers say. Murray declined to speak with investigators, which means he’s getting good legal advice. Here’s what Senior Deputy Prosecutor Carol Spoor had to say on the case: “The defendant is a clear danger to children given the circumstances of this crime where he abused his position of trust as a first- and second-grade teacher, secretly molesting these girls in class in front of others.” Based on the hearsay testimony of a 12-year old who heard it from her 6-year-old sister and her 7-year-old friend. I’m not saying the man is innocent—how could I possibly tell? But I’ve been in this business a few years, and when it smells, I can sense it. These cases always depend on the quality of police investigation, most importantly: how much of the information came voluntarily from the child witness, and how much did the interrogating detective feed her. Children do not have a developed sense of right and wrong, children have magical thinking, children are incapable of reasoning the way adults do. It’s extremely tough for experts in the field to get untainted information from children, because children are constantly on the lookout for cues as to what the adult wants them to say. Here’s something about the quality of the detective work in this case: Seattle Detective Michael Moore told the court that a 6-year-old girl had told him that after she approached Murray to show him her school work, Murray put her on his lap and shoved his hands down her pants while he was seated behind his desk. As he did so, Murray stared at the girl’s school work as though he was reading it, Moore continued. The detective added that the rest of the first-grade class was unaware Murray was groping the child. Having spent two years of my life in the first and the second grades (one year each), I’m trying to imagine a situation whereby a teacher manages to pull off that feat of depravity with no one noticing.Of course, as is common in these cases, which often turn out to be nothing more than mass hysteria, once the news spreads about the alleged molestation by a rabbi, local children suddenly remember having been abused by the same man.The chilling documentary, Capturing the Friedmans, shows one such case, where an entire family was destroyed by mass hysteria, spun by confused children, frightened parents, and shoddy work, even, possibly, lies, of the detectives of the Great Neck PD. In 1988, one of the family members, Jesse Friedman, was coerced into pleading guilty to some incredible and imaginary crimes of child sexual abuse, and sentenced to 18 years in prison. In July, 2010, the Federal Second Circuit Court of Appeals said there was “a reasonable likelihood” that Jesse Friedman was wrongfully convicted.In the Seattle case, another 6-year-old has already come up with a description of sitting on Murray’s lap or standing between his legs, and said other girls in her class also sat on his lap, according to the charges. The girl said Murray often hugged her from behind and touched her over her clothing, the papers say.So, after having been unaware of anything out of the ordinary happening in the original report, all of a sudden we hear of busy molestation schedules in Rabbi Yaakov’s classroom.By now there are at least four other students in Murray’s classes, in addition to the original two, all ages 6 and 7, who have “routinely complained of anxiety, headaches and stomach aches,” but the girls’ parents said the children were fine and acted normally after being sent home early, the papers say.
So, after having been unaware of anything out of the ordinary happening in the original report, all of a sudden we hear of busy molestation schedules in Rabbi Yaakov’s classroom.
By now there are at least four other students in Murray’s classes, in addition to the original two, all ages 6 and 7, who have “routinely complained of anxiety, headaches and stomach aches,” but the girls’ parents said the children were fine and acted normally after being sent home early, the papers say. In today’s U.S.A. you’ll catch a better break planting bombs than being a rabbi accused of henky penky. Murray was fired following the allegations. According to Dan Donohoe, spokesman for King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg, he does not have a criminal history. Originally, the police told the press that Murray had a criminal record in another state, but then they issued a retraction. Gives you an idea of the quality of their police work?
Did you read the above from this animal??
Now here are the links and see the truth:
Here is the redacted charge sheet and other court documents. You can see what Murray allegedly did and how he was arrested.
Here are two previous FailedMessiah.com posts accurately reporting what happened:
Seattle Day School Teacher Charged With Child Sexual Abuse.
Why Didn't The Haredi Torah Day School Of Seattle Do A Background Check?
The above links supplied by FailedMessiah
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Rabbi Yosef Kolko, Ex-yeshiva Teacher, Admits Sexually Assaulting NJ Boy
With other accusers stepping forward, a former yeshiva teacher changed pleas Monday in the middle of his trial, admitting he sexually abused a boy he met while working as a camp counselor.
Rabbi Yoself Kolko, 36, shifted uncomfortably on the stand as he pleaded guilty to aggravated sexual assault, attempted aggravated sex assault, sexual assault and child endangerment. The abuse occurred from August 2008 to February 2009. It ranged from fondling to oral sex and stopped when the boy told his father, who confronted Kolko.
The change in plea came after the prosecutor's office was contacted Friday by a representative for a woman who said she had been a victim of Kolko and a man who said he had a victim, Senior Assistant Prosecutor Laura Pierro said.
The case may be a watershed for the prosecutor's office and the Orthodox Jewish community in Lakewood, which has in the past been reluctant to bring criminal matters to civil authorities, preferring instead to handle them through rabbinical courts and senior rabbis.
"I'm hoping that it's going to open the doors" to others in the community cooperating with authorities, Pierro said in an interview after the plea. "We broke ground with this case."
Prosecutors said they would not pursue the other two cases.
Kolko's bail was revoked, and he was ordered to undergo psychiatric evaluation before sentencing.
His attorney, Michael Bachner, said Kolko was "extremely remorseful," apologizes to the victim and hopes after treatment "to return to society as a benefit to it."
The plea came after only three of the prosecution's eight witnesses testified. The senior rabbi the father approached was due to testify, as were other members of the insular community who were expected to shed light on internal workings of Lakewood's Orthodox population and how such allegations were handled inside it.
When Judge Francis R. Hodgson asked Kolko if he had received any promises or was threatened or coerced in exchange for his plea, Kolko answered softly that there were things that were "not part of the court system."
Bachner would not comment on Kolko's statement.
The victim's father had initially wanted the case handled within Lakewood's Orthodox community, asking a senior rabbi to help ensure that Kolko stay away from children and go to therapy. In mid-2009, the father decided to take the case to authorities.
The Associated Press generally does not identify accusers in sex-crime cases and is not naming the father to protect the son's identity.
Testifying last week, the father said he went to prosecutors because he felt the case was not being handled appropriately. Kolko was still teaching and planning to work at the summer camp where he met the boy.
"I was more concerned that he was still at his jobs," the father said Thursday. "And I felt that children are being endangered."
The father acknowledged it is not common for members of the Orthodox community to take cases like this to law enforcement.
Prosecutors had said the boy's family was ostracized by the community for pursuing the case in state court. The boy's father, a prominent rabbi, lost his job and the family moved to Michigan.
"There certainly were members of the community who remain outspoken against what the father did on behalf of his son," Pierro said. "I can tell you that there are many more whom are perhaps silently or not as openly are swelled with pride that he took this rather historic step."
The boy, who was 11 and 12 when the abuse took place, testified last week, describing a series of encounters with the rabbi, including molestation and oral sex.
The boy, now 16, said he was uncomfortable but wanted to remain close to Kolko because they were friends and the boy had no other companions in school.
Pierro commended the boy's and his father's bravery.
Ocean County Prosecutor Joseph Coronato said that in "securing justice for the victim," prosecutors "have proven our ability to successfully intercede on their community's behalf, affording them the same protections under the law we so tirelessly apply to all Ocean County's citizens."
"We will make every effort to assure this is a major step toward a continuing relationship with Ocean County's religious communities," he said.
Kolko faced a maximum penalty of 50 years in prison and a $650,000 fine, but the judge said he will likely cap one count at 15 years and run sentences on any other counts concurrently.
Monday, May 13, 2013
Only Jews not "goyim" can have the wart pigeon cure
A recent ad in the Brooklyn-based, Yiddish-language Di Tzeitung newspaper boasts a use for the city’s most ubiquitous bird as a cure for warts.
The ad recommends that the bird blood be poured onto the offensive skin growth, left for an hour and then washed off. In two or three weeks, “with God’s help, there is no memory thereof.”
The woman who placed the ad told The Post her daughter had a wart on her hand that disappeared after the treatment.
“I did this to help people,” she said. “You go to the market, you buy a pigeon, and the blood goes on the wart. That’s it.”
The woman said she has no connection to the Wallabout Street poultry market in Brooklyn that the ad plugs and only went there because no one in her ultra-Orthodox Jewish community would perform the treatment on her daughter.
One caveat, she said — the cure only works on Jews: “Gentiles are not capable of taking this.”
The ad ruffled the feathers of some in the Orthodox community, who said that it would likely be an object of ridicule. “This isn’t for every Tom, Dick or Harry,” said one area rabbi. “It’s like a talisman — something that helps you, but you don’t know why.”
And pigeon advocates were appalled, too.
“It’s meshuggeneh,” said Anna Dove, who runs the People for the Preservation of Pigeons Facebook page.
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