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"It is strictly forbidden to maser (inform the non-Judaic authorities on) either a Jewish person or his property. One who masers a Jewish person or his property has no share in the world to come."

Shulchan Aruch, Choshen Mishpat, 388

Jewish code snarls probe into Crown Heights attack "Long before the first rapper stopped snitching or any Mafiosi swore an oath of omerta, there was the Jewish law of mesira. The tenet that forbids Jews from informing on fellow Jews is one of the hurdles facing Brooklyn prosecutors probing the April 14 attack on a black man by two Jewish men, sources told the Daily News,

"Authorities - invoking a complaint long cited in cases involving rappers —said the initial probe was hindered by the local Hasidim's refusal to cooperate. One source suggested the Orthodox community was taking a page from the rap world's 'stop snitching' handbook. But it was actually lifted directly from the Code of Jewish Law. The Hebrew word is mesira, which means basically you are not allowed to be an informant/ said Rabbi Shea Hecht, a well-known figure in Crown Heights. 'In essence, I am not allowed to snitch, period.'

"The attack in Crown Heights led Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes to empanel an investigative grand jury to try to shake loose reluctant witnesses. It's the same technique prosecutors tried unsuccessfully in the slaying of rapper Busta Rhymes' bodyguard in 2006. Rhymes and about 50 other witnesses refused to cooperate with cops. Their decision was based on street cred(ibility). The slaying remains unsolved.

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"When college student Andrew Charles was attacked in Crown Heights by two men wearing yarmulkes last month, police quickly identified a suspect —the driver of the getaway SUV. Menachem Ezagui came to the 71st Precinct stationhouse with a lawyer after the vehicle was discovered. Police sources said he refused to answer any questions.

"Charles, 20, the son of a city cop, was walking on Albany Ave. when a bicycle-riding assailant sprayed him with Mace. The SUV then pulled up, with a second man jumping out to smash the college sophomore twice with a nightstick, police said. Cops have made no arrests. A lawyer sought to broker a deal that would have led two Jewish suspects to surrender on reduced charges. Sources said the district attorney's office rejected the deal, insisting the attack was too severe.

"According to Hecht, mesira is not an all-encompassing concept — common sense supersedes the law, as does the responsibility of preventing injury to others. Tou're not allowed to stand on the blood of your brother,' he said. That comes with a loophole, too. If Jews are convinced that one of their own will not get a fair shake from authorities, they have no obligation to cooperate. 'There are double standards — sometimes they work to your advantage,' Hecht said. 'To think there's no political element to justice in America would be foolish." ⁴⁸⁴

Notice the contradiction between the statement, "In essence, I am not allowed to snitch, period," and "it's not an all-encompassing concept..." Rabbi Hecht can't keep his story straight. The Mafia is infamous for the code of "omerto," but Judaism's own omerta is largely unknown among the goyim. The ADL and other Zionist groups have a long history of soliciting and encouraging informants among non-Judaics.

A textbook case of homicidal animosity toward informants follows the trail of the alleged misdeeds of Rabbi Naftali Zvi Weisz: "The Hasidic Rebbe, or 'Grand Rabbi,' is no ordinary Jewish spiritual leader...the Rebbe in Hasidic communities is much more than a teacher, adjudicator of Jewish law and community leader. He is nothing less than a conduit between his followers and the Heavens; a man believed by the faithful to be immaculately holy, endowed with a direct line to God Himself and thereby blessed with supernatural powers that include miracle-healing, divination and the magical

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granting of every imaginable human need, from bequeathing children to the clinically barren to endowing wealth to the chronically impecunious. A classic Hasidic adage assures that it is within the Rebbe's power to bestow believers with 'offspring, long-life and sustenance." ⁴⁸⁵

At least one contemporary Hasidic Rebbe is allegedly also blessed with the power to grant sophisticated money-laundering and tax-evasion services to his supporters. When the Grand Rabbi of the Boro Park clan of the Spinka Hasidic dynasty, 59-year-old Naftali Zvi Weisz — or as he is reverently known to his followers, "His Honored Holiness our Master, Teacher and Rabbi of Spinka, Shlita" — was busted by federal agents in Los Angeles on December 19 (2007), along with his gabbai, or personal assistant, Rabbi Moshe Zigelman, and four co-conspirators, on charges of having defrauded the American government of almost $35 million, the Hasidic world entered

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into paroxysms of shock, dismay and anger.⁴⁸⁶ The mood of this deeply insular ultra-Orthodox community only darkened further as copies of the 45-page federal indictment detailing no fewer than 37 criminal charges against the Rebbe and his cohorts, as well as the juicy FBI transcripts richly documenting the surveillance methods employed to uncover the Spinker Rebbe's elaborate schemes, hit the Internet.

"But the lion's share of the Hasidic community's anger was directed not at the alleged crimes of their Rebbe, but rather at the FBI's informant. Referred to in FBI documents only as 'RK,' the informant cut an immunity deal with the government years ago and was the key figure in blowing the whistle on the Rebbe's alleged scam.⁴⁸⁷ The New York Yiddish weeklies published under Hasidic auspices, as well as numerous comments on a

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variety of Hasidic Web sites, all cried foul — demanding a community-wide inquest to unmask and root out the 'evil spy and informer' who betrayed and defamed the Holy Spinker Rebbe, Shlita.*⁸⁸

"The matter of second-greatest urgency expressed in the Hasidic media was fulfilling the mitzvah of pidyon shvuyim, or 'redeeming the captive' rabbi. Jewish history's most famous rabbinic captive, the legendary 13th century German sage, Rabbi Meir of Rotenburg, heroically refused to be released at any onerous expense to the Jewish community, choosing instead to spend the last seven years of his life in brutal imprisonment, despite his innocence of any crime. Indeed, it is this historical image of a sage held captive by a violent Jew-hating regime that established the centrality of the mitzvah of redeeming captives in the classic halakhic tradition. But the Spinka Rebbe is no Rabbi Meir of Rotenburg; Weisz, after pleading not guilty of all charges, apparently had no compunctions about accepting the $2.5 million bond scared up by his followers — and America is not 13th-century Germany. How are we to understand such charged corruption, hardly the first time by a Hasidic organization, but certainly the largest ever in scale, and the first allegedly directed personally by a bona fide Hasidic Rebbe? And more urgently, how can one explain his followers' reaction to the news of the charges against their leader? The anger directed by pious Jews at the American government, its law-enforcement agencies and especially their informant — as well as the great rush to bail out a man revered as an agent of God Himself, now accused of a host of very serious criminal counts — beg explanation.

"There has long been a violent hatred, especially within Hasidic culture, for informants....A dramatic illustration of the depth of hatred harbored by Hasidim for these informants is provided by one of the most unseemly episodes in Russian Jewish history. In 1836, two Jews suspected of being informants to...Tsar Nicholas I — Yitzhak Oksman and Shmuel Shvartzman — were brutally murdered. Oksman's badly beaten and frozen body was retrieved by fishermen from a river near the town of Wonkowcze, in the Podolia region, while Shvartzman's remains were never found. His body is believed to have been quartered by Hasidic butchers and incinerated in the oven that warmed the community's mikvah, after he had been strangled —

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according to some fanciful accounts, by the retsuos, or leather bands, of his own tefilin — during morning prayers in the shul in the town of Nowo-Ushits.

"...Rabbi Israel of Ruzhin...was suspected, though never actually convicted, of putting out the hit on Oksman and Shvartzman. Even if he had put out the hit, Rabbi Israel would have been merely following the dictates of Jewish law that classify an informant as a mortally dangerous rodef, or pursuer of Jewish lives, and thus mandate his murder. It was precisely the declaration by some extremist rabbis from the Gush Emunim settlers' movement that Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin was, according to Jewish law, a rodef, on account of his willingness to turn over parts of biblical Israel to her 'enemies,' that inspired Yigal Amir to assassinate him.

"...the FBI is quite simply enforcing the laws of a just and uniquely philosemitic land (with the assistance, by the way, of a small team of FBI Yiddish translators, as a fascinating little footnote in the Bureau's transcripts revealed). But this distinction is lost on the Spinker Hasidim, to whom the very idea of historical evolution is entirely foreign and whose main concern, now that the Rebbe is 'free,' is to wreak God's bloody vengeance upon the despised informant. Given the historical disdain for informants shared by all Hasidic sects, one imagines that some followers of any given one of them might react similarly. Still, there seems to me to be something unique about the Spinka case. Many other sects of Polish and Russian origin have found themselves mired in financial and legal scandals. But I believe their shady activities pale, both in magnitude and frequency, next to those of the Rumanian and Hungarian Hasidim. Why? The answer can be found mainly in a failure of historical and theological evolution among these groups, despite the dramatic evolution of their circumstances since arriving in America. The mind-set of numerous smaller, mostly Rumanian and Hungarian Hasidic sects is typically mired in a romance with the 'glory days' of their respective founding Rebbes. In the case of Spinka, this harkens back to the distinctly inglorious late 19th century era of what Jewish historians have dubbed "decadent Hasidism" in the loosely Austrian-ruled district of Bukovina, in the infamously lawless land of Rumania. Indeed, it may all go back to the father of 'decadent Hasidism,' Rabbi Israel of Ruzhin — who, you'll recall, was also the very man suspected of putting out the hit on Oksman and Shvartzman in the Mayseh Ushits.

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"Following his release from prison in February 1840, Rabbi Israel fled Tsarist Russia to the Austrian-ruled Rumanian district of Bukovina, there to establish the wealthiest and most unabashedly materialistic dynasty in Hasidic history. As the Israeli scholar David Assaf has richly documented in his magisterial biography of Rabbi Israel,⁴⁸⁹ this Rebbe inaugurated a uniquely opulent style of Hasidic leadership that spread like prairie fire to Hasidic courts all across Rumania...Rabbi Israel unabashedly demanded enormous sums of money from his Hasidim (presumably without offering kickbacks or illegally inflated tax-receipts). He wore outrageously lavish, silver and gold-laced outfits, favored royally decorative walking-sticks, was serenaded to sleep by his personal orchestra and was transported in a gilded chariot said to have been drawn by a dozen white stallions (some say six Arabians, while others argue three Rumanian nags). And he infamously was fond of declaring, as a kind of personal motto, 'All the money in the world belongs to me.'

"Historians of Hasidism have long considered the establishment of R. Israel of Ruzhin's palatial headquarters, and those of his followers such as the Rebbes of Sadigora and Buhush in Bukovina and Tchortkov in Galicia, as the inception of a period of...a steep rise in superstitious gullibility on the part of their Hasidim, particularly relating to the Rebbes' alleged supernatural abilities and personal immaculateness....It is for this reason that Rumanian Hasidism was rife with all manner of financial corruption and vulnerability to a host of criminal tendencies...

"Less than a hundred miles east of the palatial courts of the Hasidic dynasties established by the Ruzhiner Rebbe and his heirs, lies the tiny Rumanian hamlet of Spinka, in the Maramures region bordering on Hungary. It was there that the first Spinker Rebbe, R. Joseph Meir Weisz (b. 1838), known as the Imre Yosef after the title of his entirely unremarkable Torah commentary, established his small sect. His son, R. Isaac Weisz, inherited the leadership of Spinka in 1909..-After the war, the Spinka sect became fragmented among almost a dozen rabbinic descendants of its original founders. Spinka is today less a true Hasidic dynasty than a network of small shtibelekh (tiny synagogues) and charitable institutions in Williamsburg, Boro Park, Jerusalem, Bnai Berak, Antwerp and London, each

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of whose spiritual leaders is referred to as a 'Spinker Rebbe.' Perhaps the most tragic element in this terribly embarrassing scandal is that the only one of today's many Spinker Rebbes who will likely 'enjoy' historical posterity is the Boro Park Rebbe, Naftali Zvi Weisz... ⁴⁹⁰

"Los Angeles — The scandal that has emerged since a Hasidic rebbe and others were charged late last month with defrauding the federal government of tax dollars has caused shock waves beyond Hasidic circles, with even Modern Orthodox rabbis addressing the issue in impassioned sermons. The pressure was particularly great at the 900-family Modern Orthodox Beth Jacob Congregation, in Beverly Hills, where the government's chief informant in the case, Robert Kasirer, is a member. Rabbi Steven Weil delivered a sermon January 11, causing what must have been an awkward juxtaposition for many congregants: The prayer books they were using were donated by the Kasirers and emblazoned with their name. Indeed, the question of Kasirer — the FBI witness who turned state's evidence against the Hasidic rebbe in exchange for a lighter sentence on previous fraud charges stemming from his health care business — seems to be weighing most heavily on people's minds, according to Los Angeles rabbis interviewed by the Forward. In traditional Jewish law, if a Jew reports another Jew to the government, he is deemed a moser, and in some interpretations, a moser's actions are punishable by death. The issue of mesira, or informing, has prompted a round of collective soul-searching in segments of Los Angeles's Jewish community. 'People are very shell-shocked about the whole thing on many levels,' said Rabbi Daniel Korobkin, a West Coast representative of the Orthodox Union. 'Number one, that our neighbors and friends are implicated, and number two, that an act of mesira on this level was perpetrated by one of our own.'

"...A prominent Modern Orthodox rabbi here, who requested anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the case, said that Kasirer's plea bargain has compounded his problems. 'He's certainly a persona non grata across the board,' he said, referring to Kasirer. "Everybody is just disgusted with the idea that a person tried to save himself by hurting others/ Kasirer could not

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be reached for comment. In 21st-century America, the laws of mesira are up for a wide variety of interpretations. While a moser in the Talmud could be killed for his actions, and some in more right-wing corners still hold this to be the case, many others contend that given the high comfort level of Jews in America today, the same standard created when Jews lived under hostile governments cannot be applied... Kasirer, a fixture in this city's Modern Orthodox community who has ties across the denominational spectrum, was a regular attendee at Beth Jacob Congregation for more than 10 years. His father, Jacob Kasirer, was a prominent Jewish philanthropist who donated the funds to build the Bais Yaakov School for Girls, located on Los Angeles's Beverly Boulevard. Since word of the scandal broke, Kasirer has requested that his name be removed from the prayer books and from other dedications. The synagogue, however, has not yet determined how it will proceed. Kasirer and his wife, Debra, remain members of Beth Jacob, where her family has worshipped going back multiple generations. A room at the synagogue bearing the Kasirer name was dedicated six-and-a-half years ago by Kasirer's grandchildren and by his wife. Kasirer's legal troubles stretch back more than 15 years. In 2004, the Securities and Exchange Commission filed a civil fraud complaint against the health care entrepreneur, charging that from 1996 to 1999, he and his business associates at Heritage Healthcare of America defrauded hundreds of municipal bond investors who had invested $131 million to finance what they thought was the building of an facility to aid people afflicted with Alzheimer's Disease. According to a 2003 report in the Los Angeles Business Journal, Kasirer's wife also received more than $1 million in salary and consulting fees from Heritage Healthcare. Moreover, the article states, Kasirer cited a minimum of $122,208 in monthly living expenses. Ultimately, in October 2004, Kasirer struck a deal with the federal government in which he would plead guilty in exchange for serving as an informant in another investigation. This led Kasirer to wear a wire for the government until 2007, in order to help it nail down the Spinka tax-fraud case." ⁴⁹¹

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Sexual Intercourse with Little Girls is Permissible
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—Kitzur Shulchan Aruch: Classic guide to Jewish Law (Metsudah Publications, 1996), v. 2, p. 1023

"If a grown-up man has intercourse with a little girl, it is nothing, for having intercourse with a girl less than three years old is like putting a finger

in the eye."

-BTKetubotllb

Though the Talmud's permission for the heinous crime of child molestation is virtually unknown among the public and is never mentioned in the establishment media, among Talmud researchers it is notorious. This portion of tractate Ketubot concerns Halakhic definitions of sexual intercourse. In this particular ruling it is stated that copulation with girls below the age of three cannot be considered sexual activity because, although penetration ruptures her hymen, such intercourse is merely "like putting a finger in the eye," since the hymen at this age will eventually regenerate ("just as a finger stuck in an eye will cause the eye to water, yet the eye will heal and return to its former state, so the hymen of a girl under three will rupture during intercourse but will heal later").

Once her hymen grows back, the little girl is regarded as lawfully still a virgin. Hence the Talmud recognizes no sexual intercourse as having occurred and therefore exacts no penalty for coitus with a female child of less than three years of age.

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Pharisaic Rituals

Erubin 21b. "Rabbi Akiva said to him, 'Give me some water to wash my hands.'

"It will not suffice for drinking,' the other complained, 'will it suffice for washing your hands?'

Talmudic Aphorisms. Jonas Jeitteles (Prague, 1821)

"What can I do?' the former replied, 'when for neglecting the words of the Rabbis one deserves death? It is better that I myself should die than that I transgress against the opinion of my colleagues." (This is the oral tradition's ritual hand washing condemned by Jesus in Matthew 15:1-9 as "commandments of men" falsely represented as divine doctrine).

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Genocide Advocated by the Talmud

Soferim 15, Rule 10. This is the saying of Rabbi Simon ben Yohai: Tob shebe goyyim harog ("Even the best of the gentiles should all be killed")- This passage is from the original Hebrew of the Babylonian Talmud as quoted by the 1907 Jewish Encyclopedia, published by Funk and Wagnalls and compiled by Isidore Singer, under the entry, "Gentile," (p. 617). This Talmud passage has been concealed in some translations. The Jewish Encyclopedia states, "...in the various versions the reading has been altered, The best among the Egyptians being generally substituted." In the Soncino version: "the best of the heathens" (Minor Tractates, Soferim 41a-b). ⁴⁹²

Yohai's genocide injunction permeates Judaism. Israelis annually take part in a national pilgrimage to the grave of Rabbi Yohai, to honor the rabbi who advocated the extermination of non-Judaics. The obsession with the corpse of Rabbi Shimon (Simon) ben Yohai is at the center of the pilgrimage, which occurs in the spring, as part of Lag (thirty-third) b'Omer,⁴⁹³ which commemorates the Bar Kokhba revolt against the Romans, circa 132-135 A.D., after which, the seeming perennial canon of Jewish "Holocaust lore has it that "a terrible massacre of over one-half million Jews" followed.⁴⁹⁴ At Rabbi Yohai's purported grave, tens of thousands of both Khazar and Sephardic Judaics gather to receive "emanations" from his corpse. ⁴⁹⁵ Rabbi Yohai and his male companion spent most of their twelve years in the cave together sitting nude in sand up to their necks (BT Shabbos 33b). It was here that Yoahi allegedly learned the secrets of the Kabbalah. Lag Ba'omer marks the day the two finally left the cave. ⁴⁹⁶ Organizing a pilgrimage to Yohai's grave is tantamount to Germans organizing a pilgrimage to the burial place of Adolf Hitler. The world would be shocked and repelled by the latter (and

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rightly so) but smiles on the Lag B'omer festivities on behalf of the rabbi who sought to exterminate all gentiles and who hated all Romans and is credited with being the first to begin compiling a book of black magic (Kabbalah).

While Protestants mock Catholics for crediting various miracle stories associated with saints canonized by Rome, many of these Protestants do not seem to find anything objectionable or worthy of sarcastic comment in the outlandish miracle tales associated with "holy rabbis" like Yohai. The Talmud tells us that the Romans were hunting Rabbi ben Yohai and he was forced to hide in a cave for a total of thirteen years, during which time there would have been no food or drink available (BT Shabbos 33b), had it not been for a magical carob tree that began to miraculously grow in the vicinity of the cave, which gave Yohai and his son, food and drink. Every Friday, in honor of the Sabbath, the carob tree turned into a fig tree so that the most holy rabbi would have rich fare for the Sabbath. ⁴⁹⁷ After thirteen years in the cave, Rabbi ben Yohai was no longer hunted. He left the cave and God gave him permission to begin teaching the secrets of the Kabbalah to a Holy Group (Chavraya Kadish) of Judaics. These events are referred to as the Lag Ba'omer holiday. Yohai's teachings were eventually committed to writing, forming the basis for the Zohar. ⁴⁹⁸

According to the Talmud, during Rabbi Shimon ben Yohai's lifetime a rainbow never appeared on earth. God didn't need to show the rainbow while Rabbi ben Yohai was alive because the rabbi was so great a person that his own righteousness protected the whole world. God's rainbow was not needed⁴⁹⁹ On the anniversary of Lag Ba'omer, Rabbi ben Yohai knew he was dying. He called together his Chavraya Kadish and told them that he would, on this last day of his, impart to them even deeper magical secrets than the ones he had disclosed previously. While Rabbi Yohai taught these final secrets, a holy fire began to burn around his house and remained there for as long as he taught on that day. When he had disclosed all the arcana to his followers, he died in bed, at which time the bed began to fly, with a ring of holy fire accompanying it through the air! When Rabbi ben Yohai's body was taken to the cave in Meron to be buried, a heavenly voice declared, "This is

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Rabbi Shimon ben Yohai who gives Hashem pleasure every day!" ⁵⁰° Tens of thousands of Judaics travel to Meron every year on the anniversary of Lag Ba'omer, lighting fires to commemorate the secret inner fire of Kabbalah knowledge and to praise this would-be exterminator of all non-Judaics. This festival is also commemorated by hundreds of thousands of additional followers of orthodox Judaism throughout the world.

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