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West Coast Chabad Leader Rabbi Boruch Shlomo Cunin Gets $18 Million From Roland Arnall’s Estate
Many of L.A.’s biggest rabbis were salivating at the shiva for subprime billionaire Roland Arnall. Rabbi Cunin got the biggest jewish payout. Roland’s son Daniel holds the $3 million note for the loan Roland extended to Shalhevet. Daniel could call … Continue reading
Posted in Boruch Cunin, Chabad, Daniel Arnall, Roland Arnall, Shalhevet
Tagged 30 million, beneficiary, big trouble, billionaire, boruch, ceo, Chabad, cunin, hermine, palisades, Purim, rabbi, rabbi shlomo, Rabbis, Roland Arnall, Shalhevet, shiva, shlomo, son daniel, stern, weinberg, west coast
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Monsey’s Yeshiva Of Spring Valley Fires Rabbi For Sexually Abusing Kids
The victims were under ten years of age. The firing happened a few weeks ago. It’s been kept hush hush at the Orthodox co-ed educational school. I want to learn more details before I publish the rabbi’s name. Oct. 2010 … Continue reading
Posted in Abuse
Tagged co ed, educational school, fires, hush hush, Monsey, rabbi, spring valley, Yeshiva
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He Always Wanted To Talk To A Room Full Of Jews About Jesus Christ
Gavriel Sanders used to be a Christian minister (under the goyisha name he was born with). Now he’s an Orthodox Jew who’s married to a Bais Yaakov girl and works for Artscroll. He operates GavrielSanders.com. Here’s a recording of his … Continue reading
Posted in Gavriel Sanders
Tagged aron, Artscroll, baptist revival, christian minister, definition of judaism, elevator, Gavriel Sanders, jesus christ, Jews, minyan, orthodox jew, rabbi, Torah, word definition
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Shalom Aleichem
On a Friday night walking home from shul, I’m stopped by a stranger in a car. He wants to know where Preuss is. I don’t know. I ask my friend. She doesn’t know. A rabbi comes out of his home … Continue reading
Posted in Orthodoxy, Personal, Pico/Robertson
Tagged favorite phrase, friday night, intimate communion, Jews, new moon, one saturday, orthodox judaism, rabbi, saturday night, scorecard, shul, stranger, walking home
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What’s Up With The Daily Yid?
I got this email: "[Rabbi] Hersh Wolf Krauz is a willi residence and Contrib of Yiddish Wikki and Bchadrei Charedim Yiddish. All of them is down." I emailed the Daily Yid what was going on. He replied that it was … Continue reading
Posted in Daily Yid, Leah Kleim
Tagged child molesters, dy, email, hasid, hersh, hot pursuit, large families, mean time, payos, predator, private matter, rabbi, Satmar, satmars, sexual predators, wikki, williamsburg, wolf, yid, Yiddish
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The Rabbi Who Raped His Daughters
Joe emails: Luke, Apropos the story in Austria…. There is an extremist rabbi by the name of…. He used to live in Monsey, NY and now resides in Bet Shemesh. He is part of the whole extremist Haredi scene in … Continue reading
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Tagged bet shemesh, extremist, period of time, rabbi
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Emma’s Great California Vacation
From my live cam chat: Emma: You know…. Emma: I think its time for a trim YourMoralLeader: trim of what? Emma: Of… Emma: Your… Emma: Beard…….. YourMoralLeader: charisma? Emma: lol YourMoralLeader: I’d lose my moral strength YourMoralLeader: like samson Emma: … Continue reading
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Tagged admin user, beard, boss, broadcaster, california vacation, charisma, Emma, feast of weeks, hairs, jewish calendar, kindness, lass, live cam chat, lol, moral strength, nbsp, Passover, rabbi, sefira, shavuot
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I’m Live With Rabbi Gadol, Rev Des
Click here to join the fun. Rabbi Gadol is my Jeremiah Wright. ArielSokolovsky: i bought a laptop ArielSokolovsky: and a wbcam ArielSokolovsky: and web studio ArielSokolovsky: tools ArielSokolovsky: so i’ll be able to outleader you ArielSokolovsky: RabbiGodol is a real … Continue reading