Chaos broke out at Chabad-Lubavitch’s headquarters in Crown Heights on Monday after the NYPD moved to seal a newly discovered tunnel the Orthodox Jewish Hasidic dynasty built in secret under the synagogue. From CrownHeights.info, Dec 22, “BREAKING: Tunnel Found Burrowed Under Women’s Section of 770, Possibly Destabilizing The Building”: A Union Street homeowner who spoke with CrownHeights.info... 

It is “dangerous” for women to be university-educated and the practice is now banned among the Satmar sect of ultra-Orthodox Jews, according to a decree viewed by The Independent. The ban is to prevent “secular influences” in the “holy environment.” “It has lately become the new trend that girls and married women are pursuing degrees in special education. Some attend classes and others... 

A U.S. court ordered Russia to pay 50,000 dollars a day for using of the so-called Schneerson Library – a collection of ancient Jewish religious literature. Moscow will have to pay the money to Jewish Chassidic movement Chabad Lubavitch until it returns the Schneerson Collection. This collection of books and manuscripts used to belong to one of the leaders of the movement – late Rabbi... 

Rabbi Avrum Friesel An admittedly un-kosher rabbi was sentenced this morning to 27 months in the slammer for an unholy fraud for which four fellow crooks walked free after getting their sentences commuted by then-Preisdent Clinton. Rabbi Avrum Friesel — who spent more than 11 years on the lam in Israel and Great Britain — said he was “deeply ashamed” for breaking American civil...