Synagogue bans sex offender from premises
Andrew Josephs, 29, who is currently serving a sentence of two years and nine months for sexually abusing two boys in his barmitzvah class, is due for release in July.
But he will not be permitted to pray at the Stanmore Synagogue in North West London, where he is a member, because of parental fears about child safety.
Josephs, a former primary school teacher, was convicted in February last year and had requested to return to the synagogue's congregation upon his release.
A special committee appointed to decide his case recommended Josephs should be banned along with all those "charged or convicted of similar offences".
Dr Nigel de Kare Silver, a synagogue official, said after discussions with the United Synagogue the decision was made to "exclude the individual concerned from synagogue premises and activities, and that such exclusion should be indefinite."
Parents at the synagogue were asked in a questionnaire whether Josephs should be given limited or no access to the building.
A United Synagogue spokesman said: "The United Synagogue is extremely respectful of the very difficult decision that Stanmore's honorary officers reached, taking into account all the relevant circumstances."
http://www.ejpress.org/article/news/western_europe/16696
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Posted By Chaptzem to Chaptzem Blog! at 5/13/2007 11:42:00 AM
Sunday, May 13, 2007
Saturday, May 12, 2007
[Chaptzem Blog!] 5/12/2007 09:49:00 PM
Hasidic teen assaulted outside his school
A 24-year-old man was arrested after a Hasidic teenager was punched outside the Skver-Toldos Orthodox Jewish School in Outremont Thursday, but police deemed the case a "simple assault" and released the accused.
The man was ordered to appear in municipal court July 9 at 9 a.m. to answer to the assault charge, Montreal police Constable Robert Mansueto said.
Police arrested the man after a 16-year-old youth was punched in the head about 5:40 p.m. on Bloomfield Ave. near Ducharme Ave., Mansueto said.
Skver-Toldos's entrance was firebombed Sept. 2, but nothing suggests Thursday's incident was anything more than a common altercation, police said.
"There is no evidence this is a hate crime," Mansueto said.
The 24-year-old told police he thought the teen was somebody else, Mansueto said.
The teen's uncle told The Gazette his nephew was shaken up, but returned to school yesterday.
Officers released the man they arrested after confirming his identity and determining he did not pose a likely threat, Mansueto explained.
Video footage from a security camera at the school shows the boy walking along the middle of the street, then being approached by someone who punches him hard enough to knock him to the ground.
Reuben Poupko, a rabbi and co-chairperson of the Jewish Community Security Co-ordination Committee, a group of several Montreal Jewish organizations, said some witnesses surrounded a car that the attacker briefly returned to after the assault.
The assailant then fled on foot, Poupko said. Police arrested him a few blocks away.
http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=6c2f6008-270a-4d7c-9fb2-a525b2d54cff&k=95006
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Posted By Chaptzem to Chaptzem Blog! at 5/12/2007 09:49:00 PM
A 24-year-old man was arrested after a Hasidic teenager was punched outside the Skver-Toldos Orthodox Jewish School in Outremont Thursday, but police deemed the case a "simple assault" and released the accused.
The man was ordered to appear in municipal court July 9 at 9 a.m. to answer to the assault charge, Montreal police Constable Robert Mansueto said.
Police arrested the man after a 16-year-old youth was punched in the head about 5:40 p.m. on Bloomfield Ave. near Ducharme Ave., Mansueto said.
Skver-Toldos's entrance was firebombed Sept. 2, but nothing suggests Thursday's incident was anything more than a common altercation, police said.
"There is no evidence this is a hate crime," Mansueto said.
The 24-year-old told police he thought the teen was somebody else, Mansueto said.
The teen's uncle told The Gazette his nephew was shaken up, but returned to school yesterday.
Officers released the man they arrested after confirming his identity and determining he did not pose a likely threat, Mansueto explained.
Video footage from a security camera at the school shows the boy walking along the middle of the street, then being approached by someone who punches him hard enough to knock him to the ground.
Reuben Poupko, a rabbi and co-chairperson of the Jewish Community Security Co-ordination Committee, a group of several Montreal Jewish organizations, said some witnesses surrounded a car that the attacker briefly returned to after the assault.
The assailant then fled on foot, Poupko said. Police arrested him a few blocks away.
http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=6c2f6008-270a-4d7c-9fb2-a525b2d54cff&k=95006
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Posted By Chaptzem to Chaptzem Blog! at 5/12/2007 09:49:00 PM
Friday, May 11, 2007
[Chaptzem Blog!] 5/11/2007 12:22:00 PM
Lipa Schmeltzer - The hardest working Skverer
Lipa Schmeltzer, the hardest working Skverer yingerman, is calling thousands of homes today to let them know that he will be hosting the drawing for the Oorah Chinese auction, which he thinks is on Motzei Shabbos May 12th at night. Be sure to listen carefully when he speaks and if you have a hard time understanding his dialect of Yinglish, don't be shy to ask him to repeat himself.
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Posted By Chaptzem to Chaptzem Blog! at 5/11/2007 12:22:00 PM
Lipa Schmeltzer, the hardest working Skverer yingerman, is calling thousands of homes today to let them know that he will be hosting the drawing for the Oorah Chinese auction, which he thinks is on Motzei Shabbos May 12th at night. Be sure to listen carefully when he speaks and if you have a hard time understanding his dialect of Yinglish, don't be shy to ask him to repeat himself.
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Posted By Chaptzem to Chaptzem Blog! at 5/11/2007 12:22:00 PM
Thursday, May 10, 2007
[Chaptzem Blog!] 5/10/2007 10:48:00 PM
Anti-internet asifah big on musser, small on mentchlichkeit
The anti-internet asifah that took place tonight at Ateres Chaya in Boro-Park, put a great emphasis on doling out musser to the attendees about their vile and evil ways with using the internet. Ironically, the asifah showed how little middos they had and how little value they put on others lives. In an effort to draw an enormous crowd, the asifah was broadcast over loud-speaker outside the hall on the street into late hours in the night. Each and every word uttered over the mike was blasted across town, waking babies, keeping them up and disturbing the peace and quiet of their parents. Maybe an example of ehrlichkeit and mentchlichkeit on from the asifah organizers would have proven to be a more effective tool to accomplish their goal.
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Posted By Chaptzem to Chaptzem Blog! at 5/10/2007 10:48:00 PM
The anti-internet asifah that took place tonight at Ateres Chaya in Boro-Park, put a great emphasis on doling out musser to the attendees about their vile and evil ways with using the internet. Ironically, the asifah showed how little middos they had and how little value they put on others lives. In an effort to draw an enormous crowd, the asifah was broadcast over loud-speaker outside the hall on the street into late hours in the night. Each and every word uttered over the mike was blasted across town, waking babies, keeping them up and disturbing the peace and quiet of their parents. Maybe an example of ehrlichkeit and mentchlichkeit on from the asifah organizers would have proven to be a more effective tool to accomplish their goal.
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Posted By Chaptzem to Chaptzem Blog! at 5/10/2007 10:48:00 PM
[Chaptzem Blog!] 5/10/2007 05:00:00 PM
Anti-internet asifah
If you are reading this, you should be attending this.
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Posted By Chaptzem to Chaptzem Blog! at 5/10/2007 05:00:00 PM
If you are reading this, you should be attending this.
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Posted By Chaptzem to Chaptzem Blog! at 5/10/2007 05:00:00 PM
[Chaptzem Blog!] 5/10/2007 10:23:00 AM
Estonia Jews to get first synagogue
Estonia is preparing for the opening of its first synagogue since the country's Jewish community was destroyed in the Holocaust.
Speaking ahead of the building's official opening ceremony on May 16, Chief Rabbi Shmuel Kot, the country's first Rabbi since the early 1940s, said the occasion was the best answer to "fascism, communism and Nazism".
Kot, of the Chabad Lubavitch Orthodox Jewish movement, said: "I am the first rabbi after the Holocaust. The last rabbi was killed by the Nazis."
He was reluctant to speak about Estonia's recent decision to remove a Soviet-era war memorial which riots by mainly Russian-speaking Estonians - a significant minority of 300,000 in the country of 1.3 million.
But he said, on Thursday, it had been a sensitive issue for Jews living in Estonia as many were Russian-speaking war veterans.
The new synagogue was built at a cost of about $2 million with money from the US-based Rohr family foundation and Estonian Jews and non-Jews.
It will fit 180 people in the main worship area.
The Jewish population of Estonia is about 3,000.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/8E844DB1-C5F4-454F-843F-77290323D846.htm
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Posted By Chaptzem to Chaptzem Blog! at 5/10/2007 10:23:00 AM
Estonia is preparing for the opening of its first synagogue since the country's Jewish community was destroyed in the Holocaust.
Speaking ahead of the building's official opening ceremony on May 16, Chief Rabbi Shmuel Kot, the country's first Rabbi since the early 1940s, said the occasion was the best answer to "fascism, communism and Nazism".
Kot, of the Chabad Lubavitch Orthodox Jewish movement, said: "I am the first rabbi after the Holocaust. The last rabbi was killed by the Nazis."
He was reluctant to speak about Estonia's recent decision to remove a Soviet-era war memorial which riots by mainly Russian-speaking Estonians - a significant minority of 300,000 in the country of 1.3 million.
But he said, on Thursday, it had been a sensitive issue for Jews living in Estonia as many were Russian-speaking war veterans.
The new synagogue was built at a cost of about $2 million with money from the US-based Rohr family foundation and Estonian Jews and non-Jews.
It will fit 180 people in the main worship area.
The Jewish population of Estonia is about 3,000.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/8E844DB1-C5F4-454F-843F-77290323D846.htm
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Posted By Chaptzem to Chaptzem Blog! at 5/10/2007 10:23:00 AM
Wednesday, May 9, 2007
[Chaptzem Blog!] 5/09/2007 10:08:00 AM
New Kosher flyers in Williamsburg
Due to the controversy over immodest flyers in Williamsburg, here is the prototype for the new Kosher flyers to be distributed in the near future.
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Posted By Chaptzem to Chaptzem Blog! at 5/09/2007 10:08:00 AM
Due to the controversy over immodest flyers in Williamsburg, here is the prototype for the new Kosher flyers to be distributed in the near future.
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Posted By Chaptzem to Chaptzem Blog! at 5/09/2007 10:08:00 AM
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