Religious Values Report

It's a Judeo-Christian nation: You just live in it. Not, however, a Shariah law nation, but a Halachic law nation, which of course is not un-Constitutional or anything. Where's the outrage over the impending Halachic law take-over?

A long-standing culture of non-cooperation with secular justice by Brooklyn's ultra-Orthodox Jews keeps many child sex offenders out of the courts and at large in their communities.

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Brooklyn's Jewish communities, home to the largest number of ultra-Orthodox Jews outside Israel, are insular and close-knit. They maintain their own shadow justice system based on religious halachic law, enforced by religious courts known as the beit din. In recent years, they have also established their own community police force, the Shomrim.

Like the Catholic bishops before them, the ultra-Orthodox rabbis who lead these communities are charged with the concealment of crimes stretching back decades, and of fostering a culture where witnesses are silenced through intimidation.

Jesus, have the little children not yet suffered enough at the hands of sick old men?

Yehuda Kolko was indicted for molesting two boys – but in a plea deal
was given a probationary sentence for child endangerment.
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