THe Following article articulates the growing destructing that is prevelent in radical feminist run family courts. Many Catholics are driven and literally forced to be divorsed bercause of false alligations of domestic violence. There is an all out attack on the Family unit and Fathers. Our Catholic church is also being attacked with excessive cases of abused children. THis mode of hysteria is destroying not only the family unit but the very fabric that holds it together, out Church. The following article gives an example of how it has also infultrated the orthodox Jewish faith and how laws designed to protect are being used of weapons of mass destruction for profit. Read on

ALLIANCE FOR AUTHENTIC JUDAISM The M'sira Machine

By Menachem Ben David

M'sira, the handing over of a Jew or his property to the non-Jews or non-Jewish authorities, where the Jew is not endangering anyone's lives, is one of the most heinous crimes in the Torah. As expressed by our sages Shulchan Aruch, Choshen Mishpat, Chapter 388:

It is strictly forbidden to moser either a Jewish person or his property. One who mosers a Jewish person or his property has no share in the world to come.

Certain elements of the Orthodox Jewish community seem to be ignoring the Torah prohibitions on m'sira. The writer of this article personally observed the following events. In a large Orthodox and Yeshivish type community in the New York area, a Jewish women filed a false domestic violence charge against her husband. The husband was served a domestic violence restraining order by the local police and was forced to vacate his home immediately. He was granted about 15 minutes to remove his possessions from his home. For months he was forced to sleep in the basements of various friends, while stripped of his possessions, unable to see his children, and terrified of being caught near his home by the police.

The writer of this article also observed the woman bragging about how she was able to remove her husband from her home. During the whole incident there was not the slightest outcry or public censure of the woman from the local Orthodox rabbis, or the community. As in ancient Sodom, instead of punishing the criminal, the victim was punished instead. A major Jewish feminist organization, LBYI, apparently broadcast a series of e-mail messages claiming that the man's wife was an agunah, and asking the community to support her. None of the rabbis I consulted with considered the woman to be an agunah in any way, shape, or form, despite the fact she had not yet received her ghet. There was no evidence the woman had ever gone to Beis Din.

Last May this writer was informed of a case of m'sira far more heinous than the one previously described. The 05/23/2002 Internet edition of the NJ Star Ledger published an article about the plight of Mr. Gerald Weiss, Hashem Yatsilo. Mr. Weiss, from Short Hills, NJ, is an Orthodox Jew whose wife allegedly sued him for divorce after he contracted a rare and fatal form of cancer. A family court judge allegedly ordered him to pay $12000 per month in child support and he was unable to do so. Mr. Weiss has been jailed in Essex County, NJ at least 2 years. He is apparently dying of cancer in jail and is only expected to live a few more years. The judge refuses to release him and he is not allowed visits from his children. The constitutional prohibition of debtor's prison and rights to due process seem to be non-existent where divorced fathers are concerned. I have independently verified these facts with Mr. Weiss' rabbi.

Upon making some inquiries and doing some research, I learned this was not an isolated incident. Wicked and oppressive ideologies of the non-Jewish feminist world are penetrating into our Orthodox communities. A whole network of women's organizations, some of them secular, and some even calling themselves "modern Orthodox", have become experts at exploiting the anti-male, police-state apparatus of the family court systems. These organizations will eagerly assist corrupt and wicked women to quickly remove their husbands from their houses and confiscate their children and assets. For details on abuses in the civil court system, see: http://www.massoutrage.com/rodirtytricks.htm

Various Jewish woman's organizations in New York receive continuous prominent and favorable coverage in the Jewish Press and other periodicals. Some of these organization claim to be assisting woman to deal with spousal abuse by providing low-cost legal represenation in both Family Court and Beis Din. A number of these prominently featured Jewish feminist organizations seem to be continually spreading hysterical propaganda about an alleged widespread problem of abusive relationships in the Orthodox community, the only solution being of course domestic violence protection orders.

Domestic violence laws are being promoted by woman's groups under the pretense that they are needed to protect "battered woman". Lawyers, toens, and father's rights groups have informed me that the the vast majority of these protection orders are obtained under false allegations and that the woman shows no sign of physical abuse. Doctors, accountants, computer programmers, and other professionals with no criminal record are being routinely served these protection orders. These protection orders are in fact a trump card which enables divorcing woman to obtain primary custody of the children, obtain possession of the marital home, and to evict their husband in one quick court hearing. The hearing is ex parte, ie the husband is not present, and no physical evidence of harm done to the woman is necessary.

Various Jewish feminist organizations are attempting to foist this scam on a somewhat naive and gullible Orthodox community. This writer was able to obtain a large packet of materials provided to participants at a recent "Domestic Violence Conference" (DVC) in NY City. The conference materials listed a variety of Jewish and political organizations as sponsors of the conference, including the District Attorney of Queens County, the Queens Jewish Community Council, various local politicans, a variety of feminist activists, and several modern Orthodox rabbis. The participants were provided detailed materials on how to prosecute their husbands for alleged domestic violence crimes. Some of the actions which are implied to be "domestic violence" in the information packet include: "withholding information, withholding access to family finances, controlling where she goes, making gestures, making all the big decisions, acting like the master of the castle, being the one to define men's and women's roles, playing mind games, giving her an allowance". For these "violations" and others, the woman were urged to go to court, get an order of protection, and to think seriously about leaving the household with the children and moving into a temporary shelter.

Many of the definitions of domestic violence in the DVC information packet appear to be starkly at odds with Jewish law and tradition. According to halacha (Jewish law), only a woman whose life is truly in danger may be allowed to report her husband to the authorities, if there is no other way she can save herself. A tshuva (halachic responsa) Kol Koreh - Hebrew I obtained from leading rabbis in NY explains how m'sira is certainly one of the most heinous crimes in Judaism, the penalty for which one loses their share in the world to come.A moser may be chayav misah even b'zman hazeh. At a minimum we are obligated to publicize the names of the mosrim and their supporters.

The DVC material seems to casually equate a law suit in family court with a law suit in Beis Din. An unlearned person reading the DVC material might easily conclude that a Jewish woman is allowed to sue her husband in family court, and then come to Beis Din only to obtain the ghet. Apparently never explained in any of the material in the DVC packet are the halachic facts that false domestic violence charges against another Jew constitutes m'sira, or that halacha forbids suing another Jew in civil court. The fact that so-called "Orthodox" rabbis could participate in and encourage such a conference speaks volumes about the moral decay and inhumanity of these "rabbis" towards their Jewish brethren who are victims of m'sira.

Certain modern Orthodox clergyman and much of the Jewish media continually raise hysterical cries about the so-called "agunah problem". Yet our Jewish brothers are being dragged from their homes, robbed of their children and possessions in court, and thrown into jail if they refuse to concede their G-d given halachic rights. The silence of the Orthodox Jewish community is deafening, when one considers that m'sira is one of the most heinous violations of the Torah.

Importation into the Orthodox community of the feminist practices of informing on innocent men to the authorities is an unspeakable, heinous crime. The activities of certain Jewish feminist organizations may be resulting in the wholesale m'sira of Jewish men. It is time that the decent G-d fearing rabbis investigated and condemned the activities of such organizations. The names of individuals and organizations which commit m'sira must be publicized to the Jewish community.

I ask the Orthodox community: Because the family court systems, bureaucracies, and feminist groups are waging war against fathers, will we now emulate their example in the Orthodox Jewish community? Are there any rabbis left who will publicly denounce and oppose feminist m'sira? How long can we continue to live in a country and culture which makes war upon families and fathers?

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-- Mchael A (mg_comm@hotmail.com), June 17, 2003

Answers

What you suggest is what I know to be happening -it has impacted my family and several others that I am specifically aware of...

I started a similar discussion recently that recieved little fanfare -here is a link: Pastoral or Anti Family?

and here is a link to the inspiration of the thread: When I Call for Help: A Pastoral Response to Domestic Violence Against Women

-- Daniel Hawkenberry (dlm@catholic.org), June 17, 2003.