Author of "Hush" is Judy Brown, Daughter of the Publisher of Hamodia

We have been recommending this book ever since we started this blog.... this book should be required reading for all frum parents.....
It's time to admit that we as a frum community have severe problems with abuse, and it's time to deal with it..
We are supporting Judy Brown for "outing" herself! We admire her courage!
Read Judy's words
"Six months after my book, "Hush," came out, my publisher and I began receiving threats in the mail intended to intimidate us for daring to expose these unspeakable truths about my beloved community. The message was clear: I had violated the rule that said victims must protect the community from their own crimes. Now, I would pay.

For too long we have tiptoed around our flaws with fear and caution, pushing them into the shadows in hopes they will disappear. For too long, victims have been made to be the villains, and abuse was calledloshon harah, evil talk. For too long, we have refused to honestly discuss the horrific possibilities, and in doing so allowed our children to fall victim to them. And for too long, I have allowed my own fear to make me part of a wall of silence -- guilty for what I had seen, guilty for what I had written.

I refuse to continue to allow that fear to force me into hiding over a book that should have been written long ago. I no longer want to be known only as Eishes Chayil when my name is Judy Brown. I must find the courage to stand with the victims who carry the burden of our silence for the rest of their lives.

I originally wrote my book under a pseudonym to protect my family and friends from community retribution, but so far we have only hurt ourselves. Maybe now, because of Leiby's tragedy, things will change. Maybe now, we will finally teach our children what we should have taught them years ago: morality has no garb!"

Read more:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eishes-chayil/orthodox-jewish-child-abuse_b_915557.html

Bachelorette Show: Jewish Boy from Long Island, J.P. Rosenbaum gets final rose

J.P. Rosenbaum, a Jewish construction manager from New York, received the final rose from The Bachelorette, Ashley Hebert, a Christian girl.

Rosenbaum got down on one knee and proposed to Hebert during the ABC dating reality show's two-hour season finale Monday night.

Rosenbaum had been favored to get the final rose from the 26-year-old dental student.

Hebert said during the "After the Rose" special following the finale that she would move in with Rosenbaum in New York City after she finishes dental school next month. No wedding date has been set.

Monsey: Police Ask Other Victims To Come Forward In Child Abuse Case In Monsey

Shmuel Dym

Rockland County, NY - A Monsey man was arrested last Friday and charged with sexually abusing at least one child.

Ramapo police say 31-year-old Shmul Dym is facing two counts each of first-degree sexual abuse and second-degree course of sexual conduct for contact with an individual less than 11 years old, both felonies.

Dym was arraigned and released on $30,000 cash bail. He surrendered his passport to the court.

At this time, no further information regarding the case will be released to protect the victims. If any other person feels they may have been victimized, they are encouraged to contact the Ramapo Police.

Muslim Fathers kills 6 Daughters in Islamic "honor killing"

" He does not regret what he did. He boasted that he would do it all over again if he had to," Police Inspector Javed Sial.

FAISALABAD:

A man gunned down six of his daughters on suspicion that two of them were in relationships with boys in the neighbourhood.

On Tuesday morning, Arif Mubashir called his teenage daughters to his room and shot them while the rest of the family, including their mother, watched. His wife Musarrat called the police after the incident.

Mubashir shot the girls after their brother said two of them were in a relationship. He told police officials that he had killed his daughters because they were both “without honour”. The man said his daughters Sameena, 14, and Razia, 16, were in a relationship with college boys from the neighbourhood and the sisters had helped each other. “I should have been told immediately but the girls sided with each other. They were both corrupt,” Mubashir told Tandlianwala Police Inspector Javed Sial.

Police officials have taken Mubashir into custody and filed a case against him. “He does not regret what he did. He boasted that he would do it all over again if he had to,” Sial told reporters.

Pakistan has repeatedly been termed as one of the least women-friendly countries. In June, the Thompson Reuters Foundation ranked Pakistan as the world’s third most dangerous country for women.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 27^th, 2011.

Murderer of Rav Abuhatzeira, "I kissed his hand before killing him"

Asher Dahan

The murderer of Rabbi Elazar Abuhatzeira, the Kabbalah rabbi grandson of the Babi Sali Thursday says he kissed the rabbi’s hand before stabbing him. “I don't know what devil or Satan got into me” at the moment of the murder.
Asher Dahan, who is in police custody, told the Hebrew-languageMaariv newspaper, “I respect Rabbi Abuhatzeira and depend on him for everything. He was everything for me. I worshipped him.”
Dahan murdered the rabbi, grandson of the renowned “Baba Sali” Rabbi Yisrael Abuhatzeira,” in his conference room later Thursday night.
“Every time I left the rabbi, I had a feeling of happiness and joy,” Dahan told police investigators. He gave me hope there is a solution to everything in life, and I never tight for a moment that perhaps he was wrong.
Dahan had consulted Rabbi Abuhatzeira several times lately concerning marital problems.
“There were problem between my wife and me,” Dahan explained. "I went often to the rabbi for advice, and he told me to do allsorts of things, but the situation only got worse. It caused me personal damage, and it reached point that I was afraid of a divorce.”
He described his actions after he entered the rabbi’s conference room without anyone stopping him or asking him any questions. Dahan waited to be the last one to see the rabbi so he could be alone with him.
“I kissed the rabbi’s hand and said a few words” after entering, Dahan related. "Seconds later, I took out the knife and stabbed him in his chest. He screamed and fell to the floor.”

Shomrim's Policy of discouraging a Jewish Victim from going to Police, violates Federal Civil Rights Statutes!

Chaim Deutsch Flatbush Shomrim Founder shows off his $250,000 "mobile security commans center"

In an article in today's New York Post,  reporter Michael Lesher writes that Shomrim received $130,000.00 in taxpayer money yet refuse to follow New York's mandatory reporting statute. 
Jewish vigilante groups like Shomrim, unskilled and ill-equipped for police work, and all too often driven by religious prescriptions to keep their community’s crimes out of the public eye, are being paid to interfere with the authorities by New York City taxpayers — through the generous offices of some City Council members.
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/orthodox_cops_separate_and_unequal_KC3tF7T2mdzkNO7AQ03mIJ#ixzz1TgxyB6Kz

"Obama is a loser" "Nobody loves Obama" : Peggy Noonan

I want to talk about something that started to become apparent to me during the debt negotiations. It's something I've never seen in national politics.
It is that nobody loves Obama. 
This is amazing because every president has people who love him, who feel deep personal affection or connection, who have a stubborn, even beautiful refusal to let what they know are just criticisms affect their feelings of regard. At the height of Bill Clinton's troubles there were always people who'd say, "Look, I love the guy." They'd often be smiling—a wry smile, a shrugging smile. Nobody smiles when they talk about Mr. Obama. There were people who loved George W. Bush when he was at his most unpopular, and they meant it and would say it. But people aren't that way about Mr. Obama. He has supporters and bundlers and contributors, he has voters, he may win. But his support is grim support. And surely this has implications.
Read More in the Wall Street Journal

Disturbing Arab Propaganda Against the Jewish People! Video

New Trends in Arabic Anti-semitism from Henrik Clausen on Vimeo.

Thousands Attend Funeral for Murdered Rabbi Abuchatzeira

Tens of thousands mourned the death of Rabbi Elazar Abuchatzeira at his Jerusalem funeral on Friday afternoon, after he was stabbed to death in the early hours of the morning.

The funeral procession set out from the Porat Yosef yeshiva in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighborhood, where Abuchatzeria was eulogized by Shas spiritual leader RabbiOvadia Yosef among others.he procession proceeded to the Mount of Olives Cemetery, where, Abuchatzeira, the grandson of Rabbi Yisrael Abuhatzeira, known as the Baba Sali, was buried. The Baba Sali was was believed by his followers to work miracles and was one of the leaders of the aliya of Moroccan Jews to Israel.
The funeral was attended by Israel's chief Rabbis Yona Metzger and Shlomo Amar as well as by haredi MKs and ministers.
Rabbi Abuchatzeira was stabbed in a Beersheba yeshiva just after midnight on Friday.
Stunned followers told police Abuchatzeira was stabbed in the upper body by a man he had received as a visitor.
Rabbi Abuchatzeira was rushed to the Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba in critical condition. Paramedics attempted to resuscitate him, but he died en route to the hospital.
Police arrested a suspect, Asher Dahan, they said was delivered to officers by a crowd. The suspect was taken for questioning.
Judges in the Beersheba Magistrates' Court ruled Friday morning to extend the arrest of Dahan.
Dahan's arrest was extended and he will remain in custody until a further hearing on August 10.
Judge Amit Cohen also ordered that Dahan undergo a psychiatric evaluation.
The motive for the homicide has not been established at this stage. Dahan's attorney said that his client said that he did not intend to kill Rabbi Abuchatzeira and he was sorry for his actions, according to an Army Radio report.

The Murderer Asher Dahan

Rav Elazar Abuchatzeira , "Kabbalist" Stabbed To Death

Rabbi Elazar Abuhatzeira, the grandson of Rabbi Yisrael Abuhatzeira (also known as the “Baba Sali”), was stabbed to death in Be’er Sheva late Thursday night.
According to reports, the rabbi, who was known as the “Baba Elazar,” was stabbed in a yeshiva in the city. He was critically wounded and was taken by Magen David Adom paramedics to Soroka Hospital in Be’er Sheva, where he died shortly after arrival.
The Baba Elazar was 70 years old.
Channel 10 News reported that the police have arrested a suspect in connection with the stabbing. Though investigations are still under way, police reportedly believe the motive for the murder is criminal.
Two years ago, a man was arrested on suspicion of planning to stab the rabbi. At the time, the rabbi refused to file a complaint with the police, but his associates filed a complaint in his name.
Rabbi Elazar Abuhatzeira’s grandfather, the Baba Sali, was a Jewish Moroccan rabbi who was revered to have mystic healing powers.
The Baba Sali lived a spartan life devoid of material interests, often fasting and praying throughout the day. He was also one of the main leaders of the immigration to Israel and helped bring nearly the entire Jewish community from Morocco to live in the Holy Land.
His home in Netivot was a site for pilgrimages of people seeking his blessing and advice during his lifetime and more than 100,000 people attended his funeral in 1984; since that time, his tomb has become a shrine for pilgrims and petitioners who come often to pray for assistance and intervention in their daily troubles. Many bring their three-year-old sons to his tomb for the traditional "chalaka", i.e. first hair-cutting.

Updated 7:18 PM

According to Israeli media reports the man who stabbed the rabbi has been identified as Asher Dahan from Elad, and is under arrest.


From an eyewitness account, loose translation from hebrew

In recent months, a driver named Asher Dahan, a resident of Elad, would visit the home of Rabbi Elazar Abohtzira z"l. And so it happened tonight. He arrived around ten to Beersheba, and shortly after midnight went in to the rabbi. He was there for about four minutes and ran out.

When the Rabbis aides entered the rabbi's room , they were shocked and panic stricken. They knew Daha, his  face was familiar, and they immediately notified  police and was soon arrested.

Dahan has a criminal past and spent four years in prison.

 He worked as an educator in the Talmud Torah , and previously also served as Chairman of the welfare department for religious purposes in the Negev Histadrut.

He grew up in Dimona, and later lived in Pardes Katz, and during this period he became a Baal Tsuvah  he then moved to Elad.

The Murderer Asher Dahan

Michelle Obama on Bin Laden Killing:" It’s not good, but it’s good"

Michelle talking to her kids about the raid on the Bin Laden Compound and the subsequent assassination, couldn't explain to her kids that killing a terrorist and murderer was a good thing! She was in a quandary on how to break the news to her little daughter. She explains that telling her children that the USA took out a terrorist that was responsible for thousands of deaths around the world, is "a convoluted set of concepts."
Here read the interview

How much did Jill Biden & Michelle Obama know about the attack before it happened?

JILL BIDEN: “I didn’t have a clue. Joe left early and was gone all day. Didn’t come home for a meal—nothing. So I knew something was happening, but I thought it was about Libya. [When I heard,] I was grading papers and watching TV.”

MICHELLE OBAMA: “I knew something was happening, but when it gets down to that level of secrecy, there’s just a small number of people who know anything.”

She adds, “I was actually out to dinner with girlfriends, and I didn’t know until I walked in the door. It was later in the evening, and Barack had his suit on, because he was going to the press conference. And I said, ‘What’s going on?’”

Her reaction? “I was like ‘Wow.’ Then I wanted to know the details: ‘How did it happen? Then what? And then what happened?’ I was probably like every media person.”

On explaining the mission to her children:

MICHELLE OBAMA: “I think kids instinctively feel that ambivalence—is this good or is this bad? And then you have to explain in a way that says it’s not good, but it’s good. The older kids, I think, get it. It’s a convoluted set of concepts. But I think they understand, when it’s placed in context.”

Lockerbie Murderer of 270 People on Pan Am Flight 103, Seen On TV Rally!

The man convicted of killing 270 people in the Lockerbie bombing has been seen on Libyan television.

Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was released from a Scottish prison almost two years ago on compassionate grounds, after serving nearly eight years of a 27-year sentence.

Four days before Christmas in 1988, the Pan Am Flight 103 travelling from London to New York was targeted in a bomb attack, causing it to crash in Lockerbie, in Dumfries and Galloway.

In footage seen by the BBC on Tuesday night, a television presenter introduced Megrahi at what appears to be a pro-government rally, and said his conviction was the result of a "conspiracy". He also said his release had been a victory against oppression.

It was reported that during the apparently live broadcast, Megrahi was in a wheelchair.

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Scientists learn the hard way that you cannot turn a Monkey into a human!

Monkey business: Nim is taught sign language by volunteer Joyce Butler

An extraordinary experiment in which scientists raised a chimpanzee as their child... with chilling results

The woman volunteer thought Nim was coming to hug her, but instead the young chimp lunged, biting so deep into her cheek that his fangs pierced her mouth.

As she clutched her bleeding face, the little ape was beside himself, using the same piece of sign language again and again to attract her attention. ‘I’m sorry, I’m sorry,’ he repeated.

This haunting recollection is one of many contained in a riveting new film, Project Nim, by the director of the Oscar-winning Man On Wire, about one of the most bizarre scientific experiments of recent times.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2018391/The-extraordinary-experiment-chimp-raised-human-child.html#ixzz1TGk34QDk

Singer Amy Weinhouse gets Jewish Funeral: Video

No Aliens!! Scientists now say we are alone in the universe.....

Scientists engaged in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) work under the assumption that there is, in fact, intelligent life out there to be found. A new analysis may crush their optimism.

To calculate the likelihood that they'll make radio contact with extraterrestrials, SETI scientists use what's known as the Drake Equation. Formulated in the 1960s by Frank Drake of the SETI Institute in California, it approximates the number of radio-transmitting civilizations in our galaxy at any one time by multiplying a string of factors: the number of stars, the fraction that have planets, the fraction of those that are habitable, the probability of life arising on such planets, its likelihood of becoming intelligent and so on. [10 Alien Encounters Debunked]

The values of almost all these factors are highly speculative. Nonetheless, Drake and others have plugged in their best guesses, and estimate that there are about 10,000 tech-savvy civilizations in the galaxy currently sending signals our way — a number that has led some scientists to predict that we'lldetect alien signals within two decades.


But in a new paper published on arXiv.org, astrophysicist David Spiegel at Princeton University and physicist Edwin Turner at the University of Tokyo argue that this thinking is dead wrong. Using a statistical method called Bayesian reasoning, they argue that the life here on Earth could be common, or it could be extremely rare — there's no reason to prefer one conclusion over the other. With their new analysis, Spiegel and Turner say they have erased the one Drake factor scientists felt confident about and replaced it with a question mark.

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Nafissatou Diallo a Liar! "So many inconsistencies, it's incredible." DA will likely drop case against Dominique Strauss- Kahn!

Nafissatou Diallo

The DSK maid's bizarre media blitz has brought the case to the edge of ruin.

Furious DA sources yesterday told The Post that if there had been any doubt that hotel housekeeper Nafissatou Diallo would be destroyed on the stand with her already-wildly varying accounts of what happened between her and Dominique Strauss-Kahn, there is no more -- after she doled out even more conflicting statements during a round of interviews to ABC and Newsweek on Monday.

"There's so many inconsistencies now it's incredible," said one source, noting the slew of conflicting tales Diallo has allegedly told hospital staffers, cops, prosecutors, a grand jury and now the two media outlets. "It's like multiple choice -- pick a version."

For one, the DA sources said, the maid apparently suddenly and miraculously regained her memory of a conversation she said she had with Strauss-Kahn after he emerged naked from the bathroom in his Sofitel hotel suite -- after telling a hospital worker that he said nothing to her as he tried to rape her.

"I saw this little man come to me. He come naked," the 5-foot-10 woman told ABC News.

She told Newsweek that she exclaimed to him, "Oh, my God. I'm so sorry."

She claimed he responded, "You don't have to be sorry," as he reached for her breasts. "You're beautiful," she said he told her as he steered her toward the bathroom.

She said she told him to stop: "I don't want to lose my job."

He answered, "You're not going to lose your job," according to the account she delivered to her media interviewers.

But just hours after the attack, she told a hospital counselor that Strauss-Kahn -- then a French presidential hopeful -- did not speak, The New York Times reported on July 5.

Sources told The Post that there are "many" other discrepancies between her official accounts and the versions she's now telling the media -- all of which have essentially doomed her case.

"It's a mess," one flabbergasted source said.

Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance Jr. already had been weighing whether to drop the case against DSK, and now -- with the maid's new accounts handing DSK's lawyers powerful weapons to use in a cross-examination of her -- it's clear any prosecution of the former head of the International Monetary Fund would be a disaster, sources said.

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/gabby_maid_dooms_own_case_ooasBFj1RyCK9TnSQlpr4N#ixzz1TGFFmLBs

RCA (Rabbinical Council of America) : Report Abuse to Police

Apparently they disagree with the Agudah ....
Here read the statement:
The Rabbinical Council of America has today reaffirmed its position that those with reasonable suspicion or first hand knowledge of abuse or endangerment have a religious obligation to report that abuse to the secular legal authorities without delay. One of the unique features of Jewish law is that it imposes upon every member of the community an obligation to help others avoid danger. The biblical verse “do not stand by while your neighbor’s blood is shed" is understood by Jewish Law to mandate that one must do all in one’s power to prevent harm to others - even if monetary harm, but certainly physical harm.

Consistent with that Torah obligation, if one becomes aware of an instance of child abuse or endangerment, one is obligated to refer the matter to the secular authorities immediately, as the prohibition of mesirah (i.e., referring an allegation against a fellow Jew to government authority) does not apply in such a case.

As always where the facts are uncertain one should use common sense and consultations with experts, both lay and rabbinic, to determine how and when to report such matters to the authorities. False accusations are harmful to those falsely accused – but unreported abuse or endangerment can be life-threatening, as we have recently been tragically reminded.

In addition and as a separate matter, those within the Jewish community whom secular law deem to be “mandated reporters,” must certainly obey the particular reporting requirements, which vary from state to state in the US. A person covered by mandatory reporter laws must comply with those laws, even in a case in which Jewish law might otherwise not require a person to report such child abuse or endangerment.

Lubavitch (Chabad) Youth Praying and Chanting "Yechi" To An Empty Chair!

Doesn't get any crazier than this... see innocent children brainwashed to think that the Rebbi is still alive and sitting on this empty chair... these boys are our future leaders....

Tip! Failed Messiah

Washington Post: Obama is a Pathological Liar!