Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Child Rape

A man raped a thirteen year old girl.

The rapist plead guilty to the charge, so this is not an allegation.

The rapist, while out on bail awaiting sentancing, fled the country.

The rapist was arrested overseas on the outstanding warrant.

The rapist has generated support and calls for his freedom by artists and liberals worldwide.

The rapist is Roman Polanski, a famous movie director.

Why? Why does anyone want him to go free and unpunished? Why is there a double standard? If this was a story about a priest or Rabbi no one would bat an eye or shed a tear if a cleric recieved their judgment. Why does a movie director generate support to free him from the crime he admitted to of child rape?

Gilad Shalit

Guest Post

Dear Sir or Madame:

In the past I have contributed money to the Red Cross, but upon hearing that you have done nothing to free the captured Israeli solider Gilad Shalit from captivity in the Gaza Strip. Contrary to all international law Gilad is being held in captivity by Hamas and prevented from communicating with his family.

Your organization has given countless millions to the Palestinians; accordingly you have the ability to leverage them to comply with international law and basic decency. So, until there is a change in policy from your organization, I will actively encourage all of my friends and family to NOT contribute to the Red Cross.

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Thursday, September 24, 2009

Behaviors that don't add up

I believe that parents that do not vaccinate their children are making a wrong decision. The respected scientific community is in complete agreement on this issue. I do not debate the nuance of whether the child should get every vaccine available or should they get 4 a the same time or spread the shots out. On the macro level, parents have an obligation to vaccinate their children. The reasons for not getting vaccinations are based on lies and misinformation and a lack of understanding by the parents; and let us not forget narcissism.

I am troubled by the fact that in order to get around the vaccinations the parents claim a religious exemption. And yet, when there is a medical need these parents will receive doctor's care. They simply lie about the religious exemption to get around the law requiring vaccinations.
I do not understand why any of this is legal.

But my real issue here is with Jewish hippies. Maybe they dress better and take more showers than the mental image of hippies, but you know of whom I speak. These hippies are the new age sensitive types. They have no problem dismissing medical science for their love of nature even though no midwife or energy healer ever cured cancer. These hippies have no problem using modern technology but rail against all things unnatural, like vaccines. These hippies are secular but nature is their religion. They have the luxury of loving nature because they never were stricken with polio.

So I wonder, why would a jewish hippie cast aside the 100% consensus by the medical community on the need and safety for vaccines, but without a thought they will perform unnecessary medical surgery and give their child a circumcision because a god they don't believe on tells them so?


Wednesday, September 2, 2009

a step

in the right direction.

From Today's Haaretz newspaper:

Jerusalem rabbis call on protestors to avoid violence

The Edah HaChareidis rabbis who have lead the Jerusalem protests throughout the summer will Thursday issue new guidelines for their struggle against the opening of the municipal Karta parking garage on Saturdays, Haaretz has learned. While not calling for an end to the disputes, the rabbis are calling to avoid violence and damage to property.

The letter, set to be published Thursday, is the first step taken by the Edah HaChareidis rabbinical court, or Badatz, to rein in the violence - which reached new heights earlier this week. On Saturday, two drivers attempted to run over protesters who were blocking their path near the parking lot, while on early Wednesday morning several dozen young people attacked an Arab taxi driver.

The letter, titled "Declaration and Warning," states that "in protests for the dignity of heavens, and against those seeking to overrun the fortifications of religious wisdom, one must still conduct himself by Torah law and spirit, not to carry out acts of violence like stoning, burning and spitting or to cause any damage to any property." From now on, the rabbis command, the protests will only be held inside the ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods rather than by the parking garage itself. They also declared they were banning children and unmarried men from participating in the protests

The article continues. go to Haaretz.com for the full article.

It is nice to see this declaration. I hope they continue to make healthy choices on this and other disturbing issues.

Happy Birthday

To my dear Michael Lorenzo who turns three today.


A protest a day...



From today's Haaretz newspaper:

Haredi youths attack Palestinian taxi driver in Jerusalem

Ultra-Orthodox youths attacked a Palestinian taxi driver in Jerusalem late Tuesday, hurling stones at him and smashing the windows of his car eyewitnesses reported....


Here is my question. Why is orthodoxy defined by what you wear and where you live? Why do we not refer to these people and their leaders as terrorists or gangbangers or organized crime families? Because they speak yiddish?

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

The sickness of Orthodox Jewish Leaders

Having left the orthodox world long ago I am the first to admit that I have forgotten a significant amount of what I learnt all those awful years in Yeshiva. However, one item I do recall having been told over and over, which is especially timely given the upcoming high holidays, is the qualifications for a 'rasha'; a bad individual.
I remember that those who do bad to others, or with foresight cause bad to befall others, is the primary criteria. As all ortho jews are taught before Yom Kippur, God does not forgive sins that a person commits on other people. One must ask forgiveness from the individual or group that they have harmed.

an excerpt from today's Jerusalem Post:

The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected the appeal of Yisrael Wallis, who was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to six years in jail for killing his three-month-old son Yitzhak by shaking him so violently that the baby flew out of his hands and struck the wall with his head.

The incident occurred on August 2, 2006. Wallis was looking after the boy when he started to cry. According to the verdict of the Jerusalem District Court, the young father became impatient with the baby because he wanted to sleep. In his anger, he began shaking him violently.

Wallis also admitted that he had bitten the baby in the face, pinched him in the neck and chest, and slapped him.

Yitzhak fell into a coma and was taken to the capital's Shaare Zedek Medical Center suffering from internal bleeding and from bleeding in the retinas of his eyes. Doctors found other signs indicating physical abuse, including teeth marks on his face. The boy died eight days later.

According to the indictment, Wallis was upset with the baby because he was born with a defect in his neck muscles.

During the trial, haredim rioted against the fact that the suspect was being held in custody in jail. Eventually he was released until his conviction on July 2, 2008.

End Excerpt

And as we know this was merely one example of Haredim protesting to free one of their own from the clutches of the govt. We can review their protests against autopsies when their is suspected murder. We can review their protests to free the mother who nearly starved her child to death. We can review the haredi ability to block the govt from protecting the other children from that same mother. We can review the protests against the municipality of Jerusalem having allowed a parking lot to be opened in Jerusalem. And we can review the stoning of the police who are called to break up domestic disputes in the haredi society (read as spousal abuse).

I don't blame the haredi society as a whole for the individual acts of madness and repugnance that this father or that mother committed. However, when the community is told to rise up in protest, in violent protest, in these people's defense, how many more people are harmed?

Can the Rabbie who control (or at minimum closely guide) these people not be Rashas? Can these rabbis be anything but learned evil people? How many wives will be beaten with no savior because of these protests? How many children will be beaten or molested with no hope in sight because of these protests? How many murders will go free to kill again because of no autopsy? How many people will be threatened and maimed because of protests over a parking lot? And the rabbis not only sit by and do nothing to stop this behavior, they create this behavior and foment this behavior.


These rabbis are evil by the most basic definition of Jewish law. They cause immense and unending harm to others; to the weakest and most innocent others.

And then every ortho jew must ask themselves how they can admire those people and remain in that fold? Obeying such evil and rotten and sick minded leaders.