The Des Moines Register reports:  

A federal judge has denied Sholom Rubashkin’s request to be released on bail until he is sentenced on 86 financial fraud convictions.
Chief Judge Linda Reade ruled that Rubashkin, the former vice president of Agriprocessors, Inc. poses an escape risk if released.
Rubashkin should remain in jail because of [...]

In my limited experience, most right-wing Orthodox rabbis permit cheating on taxes and other cheating of the goyim. Most Modern Orthodox rabbis I know forbid this behavior.
A friend of mine recently wanted to pay cash to have his car repaired but first he got the permission of his chareidi rabbi.
Professor and Orthodox rabbi Marc B. [...]

Joe emails: You won’t get this in the mainstream media, but the first victim was apparently in the tile business and owed money to the israeli mafia. The second victim was hit as a witness and had no part in the mess.
I must say, as an orthodox leaning jew, it is time for us [...]

The New York Times reports: 

On the surface, the court was considering a straightforward challenge to the admissions policy of a Jewish high school in London. But the case, in which arguments concluded Oct. 30, has potential repercussions for thousands of other parochial schools across Britain. And in addressing issues at the heart [...]

Rabbi Michael Broyde discusses this issue and Jewish law.
Joseph Kaplan comments on Hirhurim: As always. R. Broyde’s clear and rigorous analysis is extremely helpful, certainly to me, in thinking through important issues, and we should be grateful to him for allowing Gil to share this analysis with us.
One question that I have about his analysis [...]

Jeff says: "Luke, here is the next scandal to hit the Orthodox world. Even though this is a New York-based deal, Leonard Grunstein’s daughter, Ruchie Fried, lives in Los Angeles and is on the board of Beth Jacob. She was one of Steven Weil’s people. Her in-laws are part of the Orthodox Shaarey Zedek community [...]

Hirhurim writes: "I sent a few questions to Sara Diament, author of an important new book for parents titled Talking To Your Children About Intimacy: A Guide For Orthodox Jewish Parents (link). My questions are in bold. You can also find a review of the book in a recent issue of The Jewish Star."
They can’t [...]

From The Guardian:
Britain’s most successful Jewish school told the supreme court today it had discriminated against a 12-year-old boy on religious rather than racial grounds.
Lord Pannick QC, representing the JFS, told nine judges and a standing-room-only crowd that the school denied the boy a place because the chief rabbi regarded his mother’s conversion to Judaism [...]

Jason "Elie" Parker emails me:
Dear Luke:
This same Howard Weiss (the rabbi of Chabad of Sherman Oaks) is taking over my Dr. Tima Honey Soda company after Marty Weiss, Berel Wilhelm (son-in-law) and Bob Sherman (lawyer) sued us out of business. I could not afford to pay the legal fees and run the company and offered [...]

An Orthodox friend explains to me why he doesn’t trust converts or baalei teshuva (returnees to Judaism): "Someone shows up to Canfield Elementary School with a lulav and says, shake this and you’ll go to Heaven. Suddenly the kid comes home and he wants to be Orthodox. You have another sucker into the Jewish fold. [...]