Eliyahu Federman
ARTICLES BY: Eliyahu Federman
How Prayer and Reflection Can Counter Gun Violence
Earlier this week, another school shooting near Portland, Oregon, rocked this country. Tragically, the teen shooter killed another student and wounded a teacher, before taking his...
New York Post Jokes About Chasidic Murder Victim
Menachem Stark, a Brooklyn Chasidic real estate developer, was abducted, murdered, and thrown into a dumpster. Stepping to a new low, the New York Post...
A Double Standard on Kaparot: Chickens Suffer More on Factory Farms
This week thousands of chickens are being slaughtered as part of the 'Kaparot' ritual performed by some Orthodox Jews before Yom Kippur. A live chicken is rotated...
NBC Deceptively Edits Rabbi, Repeating Stereotypes, Rather Than Using Honest Quotes (VIDEO)
The narrative the prosecution in George Zimmerman's trial may claim is that Zimmerman was motivated by racism. This narrative reached a pinnacle of acceptance...
NBC Misrepresents Chabad Rabbi on Sexual Abuse (UPDATE)
NBC recently ran an important story on Judy Brown's heroic efforts fighting the culture of silence in her insular Hasidic community. The segment highlights her award...
School Dean Suppresses Sexual Abuse Discussion Under Pretext of Religious Modesty
"I do maintain our position that it is not in keeping with the standards of Tznius [modesty] and fundamentally unsafe to post intimate...
Censoring the Language of Sexual Abuse
Numerous Orthodox Jewish websites censor the word "sexual" in the context of discussing sexual abuse. Such censorship sends the message to young people...
Gratuitous Use of Holocaust Imagery in the Israeli-Arab Conflict (VIDEO)
A video circulating on the Internet shows a group of Palestinian youth violently bullying and mocking two young Jewish men as they are chased...
Exposing Child Predators Without Defaming the Innocent
One Orthodox Jewish website exposes people accused of sex crimes against children, such as rape, even when no criminal charges have been filed. They...
The Irony of Celebrating Chanukah in a Sports Arena
The Miami Heat hosted a Jewish heritage night at the basketball team's Dec. 12 game at American Airlines Arena, with tens of thousands in attendance. Chabad of...
Brooklyn DA Recognizes Jewish Organization That Exposes Sexual Predators (VIDEO)
On Dec. 10, 2012, hours after Nechemya Weberman was convicted of repeatedly sexually abusing a girl he was supposed to be mentoring, the Brooklyn DA Charles...
Officers in NYPD Beating Case Need to be Charged With Lying Under Oath
A homeless man sleeping at a Jewish youth center in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, was roused from his sleep, wrongly accused of trespassing, then repeatedly and violently...
Use Fish, Not Chicken for Kaparot
Thousands of Orthodox Jews are preparing to swing live chickens over their heads before Yom Kippur, symbolically transferring their sins to the chicken. The chicken...
The Bible and Constitution Protect the KKK’s Right to ‘Adopt-A-Highway’
When Free Speech Collides with Hate Speech, Truth is the Remedy Conspicuously wearing my kippah, I walked out of a TJ Maxx in Cincinnati,...
