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Sunday, September 21, 2008

Jewish 'ultras' defend morals with menace 



Four months ago in the middle of the night, six men dressed in wide-brimmed black hats, black coats, white shirts and black trousers burst into the Jerusalem apartment of a young Jewish woman and taught her a lesson.

Mikhail, who is reluctant to give her full name, had scandalised members of her ultra-orthodox Jewish community by leaving her husband and embracing a secular lifestyle. The men, all members of the theologically conservative Haredi branch of Judaism, tackled her to the ground, slammed her head against the floor and tied a rag around her mouth. One assailant sat on her head as the others kicked her while demanding to know the names of the men she was seeing.

They also threatened to kill her if she did not leave the neighbourhood, which contains many secular as well as religious residents. 'A woman is only OK if she has a family, kids and a husband,' said Mikhail with a sigh.

Welcome to the new, increasingly orthodox, Jerusalem. The attack on Mikhail, although exceptionally brutal, was only the latest in a string of assaults over the past two years against Jewish women accused of immoral behaviour in the city.

In relative terms, Orthodox Jews dominate Jerusalem to a greater extent than in any other city in Israel. More than 30 per cent of its Jewish residents are Haredi while only 22 per cent are secular. Of the remaining 47 per cent, 14 per cent say they are religious and 33 per cent say they are traditional Jews.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/sep/21/israelandthepalestinians.middleeast1

Comments:
Iran will not have to attack Israel in order to
destroy her. The crazies will
do it without firing a shot.
God save us from the Haredi.

 

Can someone please help me - Can someone provide a document of any sort that is signed by Rabbonim that condemn these people and they way they treat another human being (and Jew).

We have seen letters signed by the most well known Rabbonim of our time, on all sorts of topics that condemn, ban and require people to re-evaluate the way they practise Yiddishkite in todays day and age.

Please save my Neshoma - Please publish signed letters from these same Rabbonim condemning these animals for what they do, represent. Torah Jews need REAL leaders - I haven't seen any letter signed or not, but that doesn't mean they don't exist. Can someone help??

 

I might be wrong about this, but I could swear that there is something in the Torah, or maybe a d'rabanan that says that a group of men are not permitted to physically attack a woman and hurt her.

But I am probably wrong, since I was also mistaken about the ability of a man to get divorced and be able to get remarried (heter meach rabbanim) while simultaneously withholding the get from the woman so that she cannot remarry, which he apparently can do.

I am sure, though, that as long as I make sure to check my mezuzahs every few years, and give lots of money to Israeli religious charities, that these women who get physically and emotionally beaten up are of no account.

 

again usher friedman puts his nose where it dosen't belong

 

what makes you think that everything you read in anti semitic newspaper like the guardian is true? Im almost sure the story has been grossly exagerrated.
kesivo vachasimo toivo

 

Woman heckler is probably a nice lady that lost it that day. "Rebbitzen"y women rarely display flared tempers.

 

THIS story is not Halacha L'Moshe NiSinai

 

Her neck is showing, she is not tzniusdik enough. Where's the Burka?

 

?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!THIS story is not Halacha L'Moshe NiSinai?????

Is it really that unbelievable?Even the frum papers reported hooligans spray painting stores in Geulah because they sold "inappropriate" clothing!

 

And we say muslims are extreme!

 

they sat on her head?
shouldnt it be the other way around?

 

I would like to know who are these'men'..do they abuse their wives, too??The answer I am sure is yes! ANy man who would do this is a coward, and totally devoid of any 'frumkeit' I know of..shame on you..you will pay for this, don't worry...Hashem sees everything...

 

TAKE IT EASY!!!

she was doing inappropiate stuff with religious people.

how would u feel to now that your son was with her for the night.

JUST THANK THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE TRYING TO KEEP OUR NEIGHBORHOOD SAFE

 

Please tell me that last commenter is kidding! You have a problem with the son? Why not beat HIM up???!!

 

I don't know why anyone believes The Guardian. It isn't exactly a bastion of pro-Jewishness, or religious tolerance.

 

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