Extradition of senior Lev Tahor leaders to US from Guatemala approved

 https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/extradition-of-senior-lev-tahor-leaders-to-us-from-guatemala-approved-683635

A court in Guatemala has approved the extradition to the US of two senior leaders of the Lev Tahor ultra-Orthodox cult – brothers Yaakov Weingarten and Shmuel “Shmiel” Weingarten – where they face child exploitation offenses.

The Third Criminal Sentencing Court in Guatemala authorized the extradition of the two men on Thursday and Friday, after they were charged in April this year by the US attorney for the Southern District of New York for the kidnap of a 14-year old girl and for smuggling her across the US-Mexico border to reunite her with her adult husband.

According to media in Guatemala where the Lev Tahor cult is currently located, the court has verified that there are currently no legal proceedings against the Weingarten brothers and that the Guatemalan Foreign Ministry is therefore authorized to begin extradition proceedings.

Jewish Moderate Urges Believers to Take Stand

 https://www.nytimes.com/1988/03/24/us/jewish-moderate-urges-believers-to-take-stand.html

 Despite that outlook, Dr. Lamm said in response to a question that ''in 34 years of public life I've never experienced such open hostility toward the Orthodox'' from the non-Orthodox groups.

Rabbi Wolfe Kelman, a Conservative leader who is the executive vice president of the Rabbinical Assembly, acknowledged the animosity, but he said it came from efforts, particularly among ultra-Orthodox groups, to try to delegitimize non-Orthodox rabbis.

''The centrist Orthodox have not been our problem,'' Rabbi Kelman  said.

The Future is Haredi

 https://ejewishphilanthropy.com/the-future-is-haredi/

Regardless of what initially attracts people, Haredi branches of Orthodoxy are growing faster than Liberal, Modern, and Centrist Orthodoxy combined, and many Orthodox synagogues and institutions are shifting rightward. If trends continue, and there is no reason to suggest they won’t, Haredi Judaism will make up the largest swath of the Jewish American population.

Deadline for retraction by GOP Gov. candidate Ciattarelli on his support of Assisted Suicide

 I texted this to R Avi Richler, Jewish Liaison for the GOP Gov. candidate, within the past half hour or so:

"R.Richler,

On intensive consultation& deliberation,I was informed in no uncertain terms that I was dead wrong in my initial assessment that a statement from Mr. Ciattarelli that would not be properly publicized to Jewish media tommorow would suffice.

In reality,it would NOT alleviate the premier pikuach nefesh ("danger to life") concerns I articulated to you, regarding leftist republicans in NY,&MD, etc.deriving a takeaway from Orthodox support of a republican who voted 2x for A/S, &who articulated* in its defense.
Thus,we need a full, unequivocal disavowal& commitment posted in video online by noon tommorow, Mon., & publicized to Jewish media, in order to avoid the need for me to correct the record.

Rabbi Noson Leiter,
Executive Director,
Help Rescue Our Children"

"PS.
Rabbi Richler,
Our objective is not to assist candidates.
It's to save lives.

As I told you in our long talk earlier, even a properly publicized  statement, the one we've been waiting for- since Friday- falls far short of the ideal, in terms of alleviating aforementioned concern of a lethal takeaway by leftist republican governors & legislators, just itching to pass assisted suicide in NY, MD, CT, &beyond.

IF it's not CLEAR that the Orthodox street knows & has reason to trust any commitment Jack would hypothetically make to repeal Aid In Dying, we remain w/that aforementioned danger to NY et.al.

Rabbi Leiter"

~~~~~

* I refer to https://observer.com/2014/11/aid-in-dying-vote-deeply-personal-for-two-republicans-who-voted-against-party-line/


Rabbi Noson Shmuel Leiter,

Executive Director

Help Rescue Our Children

Why mandatory vaccination is nothing new

 https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20211029-why-mandatory-vaccination-is-nothing-new

 "The United States has had vaccination mandates in place since the late 1970s," says Lee Hampton, a paediatrician and medical epidemiologist with Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. And Italy requires children to be vaccinated against a range of pathogens, such as hepatitis B, diphtheria, pertussis, poliovirus, tetanus, Haemophilus influenzae type b, measles, mumps, rubella and varicella.

Rabbi Berland arrested on suspicion of involvement in murder case 30 years ago

 https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/rabbi-berland-arrested-on-suspicion-of-involvement-in-murder-case-30-years-ago-683696

 The Jerusalem Police arrested Rabbi Eliezer Berland on Monday morning at his current place of incarceration in Ramle prison on suspicion of involvement in kidnap and murder cases dating back more than 30 years. 

Berland is currently serving time in prison, his second custodial sentence, due to his conviction on fraud, attempted tax evasion, and other financial crimes. 

He was interrogated under warning at the prison on Monday for involvement in two murders from the 1980s and 1990s in which his Shuvu Banim sect allegedly was involved in.

Jailed rabbi Berland arrested in connection with murders linked to Hasidic cult

 https://www.timesofisrael.com/jailed-rabbi-berland-arrested-in-connection-with-murders-linked-to-hasidic-cult/

Jailed sex offender Rabbi Eliezer Berland was arrested Monday in connection with decades-old homicide cases linked to his extremist ultra-Orthodox sect, according to multiple Hebrew-language reports.

Berland entered prison last week after he was convicted of fraud in June, in a plea deal that saw him sentenced to 18 months.

He was arrested and questioned at the Nitzan Prison in Ramle.

Supreme Court rules against workers seeking religious exemption to vaccine mandate

 https://www.deseret.com/faith/2021/10/29/22753499/supreme-court-rules-against-workers-seeking-religious-exemption-to-covid-19-vaccine-mandate

 A doctor and eight other health care workers challenged the law’s approach to religion, arguing that state officials could not ignore their faith-based concerns. As a result of the court’s 6-3 decision, these workers will risk losing their jobs if they continue refusing the vaccine.

Vizhnitz bans single young men from weddings

 https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/316076

 Single young men from the Vizhnitz hasidic sect may no longer participate in community weddings, their rebbe (hasidic leader) said, according to Kikar Hashabbat.

According to Kikar Hashabbat, the instruction follows a speech by the Vizhnitzer Rebbe on Shabbat (Saturday), in which he said that, "Everyone is familiar with the history of Vizhnitz over the past seventy years, when during the time that the Vizhnitz neighborhood was built in Bnei Brak, a situation was created in which everyone knew everyone else, and therefore everyone participated in the weddings as one family."

He also said that when his father, the "Yeshuot Moshe," Rabbi Moshe Yehoshua Hager, became rebbe, he instructed that single young men not participate in weddings, since there are enough people who come to make the couple happy.

Pandemic restrictions were a blow to religious liberty - more nonsense!

 https://nypost.com/2021/10/30/pandemic-shutdowns-were-a-blow-to-religious-liberty/

I find that pandemic restrictions significantly reduced religious peoples’ well-being. These effects persisted even after controlling for a wide array of demographic features, such as age and education, and other characteristics, such as income and industry. For example, the restrictions led to a 4.1 percentage point rise in self-isolation among the religious, relative to their counterparts. And they reduced life satisfaction by 0.09 standard deviations, an effect nearly twice as large as the male-female difference in the same measure. 

Accused left-wing Capitol activist John Sullivan facing new charges

 https://www.foxnews.com/us/utah-left-wing-capitol-activist-john-sullivan-will-not-be-detained-pending-trial

 John Earle Sullivan, the left-wing activist who was charged in connection with the Jan. 6 Capitol riot in Washington, is facing three additional charges, according to reports on Monday.

An ‘Apolitical’ Rabble-Rouser Is at the Center of a Right-Wing Campaign to Blame the Capitol Riot on the Left

https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/john-sullivan-capitol-riot/ 

 ‪Prominent Trump supporters, including the President’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani, have seized on Sullivan’s prior involvement in protests for racial justice to claim that “antifa” and left-wing groups infiltrated and steered an otherwise peaceful protest toward violence. (The FBI has said there is “no indication” that antifa took part in the U.S. Capitol riot.)

“A known antifa member” dressed as a Donald Trump supporter “and caused the Capitol riot” on Jan. 6.

 https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jul/30/viral-image/no-proof-man-who-filmed-capitol-riot-led-it-or-was/

• Activist John Earle Sullivan, who has often posed as a journalist to record protests, joined supporters of Donald Trump in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol and is charged with crimes for his participation. 

• Sullivan extensively recorded the riot and he can be heard in his footage cheering on the violent acts as he followed rioters through the Capitol.

  We found no evidence that he is a member of antifa, or that he caused the riot.
  

Fact check: Misleading claim about 'antifa member' at Jan. 6 Capitol riot

 https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/07/29/fact-check-john-sullivan-not-antifa-member-jan-6-capitol-riot/5405679001/

 The claim: A "known antifa member" was paid $70,000 for his video of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot

Court documents show news outlets paid about the listed amount – $90,000 actually – to use Sullivan's footage, which captured the shooting death of protester Ashli Babbitt. But Sullivan is not a "known antifa member" – and antifa activists weren't behind the Capitol insurrection, as the post makes it seem.