Sao Paulo – Outrage, As Charedi Jew Humiliated, Cut Off ‘Beard Peyos’ By Brazilian Authorities [video]

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    Sao Paulo Guarulhos International AirportSao Paulo – An Orthodox Jew aged 56, arrested on landing in Guarulhos International Airport with jewels, diamonds and watches undeclared denounces have suffered humiliation in jail in Sao Paulo. Electrical Engineer, with American passport, he left for Germany on July 6 and said he would visit friends in Sao Paulo. He was arrested when he passed the landing.

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    Now he claims to be traumatized.

    “I was very ill, wondering what the Germans did to the Jews 60 years ago. And that is what they did to me now in Brazil” he said.

    The engineer spent three days detained at the Federal Police, in Guarulhos Airport and then was transferred to a Provisional Detention Center (PDC) .. He says that in the town, after passing a screening, he was the victim of religious intolerance.

    He says that a jailer threw on the floor his yarmulke a small hat mandatory for all Orthodox Jew.

    He then began talking with a colleague who was on the side, laughing at me. Then they said ‘Heil Hitler’

    The engineer says that, after insulting him, the guards found in his luggage two religious objects, the tallit and tefillin, and threw on the floor of the accessories that are considered sacred.

    When a person engages with the tallit, this time, he is reminding you that has to fulfill the 613 commandments of God. When a Jew puts on tefillin in the morning, is his connection with God – explains Rabbi Richard Tamezgui.

    But the worst was yet to come.

    The jailer asked me how long I had a beard. I said that since it had started to grow. He replied, then, that from that day, I will not have no beard.

    The engineer says they put him in a chair, handcuffed hands and feet. Then, his beard was shaved completely.

    – It is on our Torah, which is our bible, which is banned you destroy part of his beard. According to Kabbalah, the mystical part of Judaism through the beard, we receive divine blessings explains the rabbi.

    They also cut off the curls [Pies] he kept since birth, and symbolizing devotion to God.

    In some camps, the humiliation they did with the Orthodox Jews was to cut his beard and mock them. I see this as an anti-Semitic act, an isolated act but an act of disrespect and humiliation to him says the rabbi.

    I feel a great shame. I sit in my house without leaving for a year until my beard grow says the engineer.

    According to the Secretariat of Penitentiary Administration, the prisoners are treated in a standardized manner and have the beard and hair cut. With respect to American, the Secretariat also explained that his beard was very long, at the navel.

    In a statement, the Secretariat reported that there was no physical aggression, moral or psychological, but that will investigate the case properly.

    It is a standard procedure, but that it contains exceptions. These agents have practiced some crimes, such as abuse of authority and certainly the crime of racism, and practice to encourage prejudice against religion, belief and ethnicity said the lawyer representing the engineer, Augusto de Arruda Botelho.

    This is the same opinion of Judge Sergio Mazina Martins, human rights expert and president of the Brazilian Institute of Criminal Sciences (IBCCrim).

    You want to prevent the individual to have a certain beard, a certain hair, when in fact it makes him part of their culture and their own religious beliefs points.

    Now released, the engineer uses fake beard. He hopes the court will decide whether to wait for the progress of the process in Germany, where he says live.

    I want to go home. I hope they do not do this anymore to Jews who want to keep his beard – he says.


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    Obamanation
    Obamanation
    14 years ago

    yes he might of done a crime, but they did evil and shame on them. NATZI, shaim rishu’im yirkuv. nebach. from all the news i read here is that we are hedding alittle backwards in the world as a hole, we are hedding back to being the dogs of the world. nebach

    Nuts
    Nuts
    14 years ago

    This story is nuts. The guy decides to smuggle across an international border. He is caught smuggling. Surprise, surprise, he is put in jail for smuggling. In jail, surprise, surprise, there are guards who are not well versed in orthodox Jewish practice (maybe this is the 1st frum goniff they have caught) and they apparently forcibly shave his beard, and perhaps his peyos. Guess what? This is what happens to criminals when they are in jail.

    The chutzpah of this thief comparing himself to truly frum Yidden who were tortured and died al kiddush Hashem at the hands of the Germans, yimach shemam, is unbelievable.

    One way to lower one’s chances of being imprisoned and humiliated is to obey the law and not smuggle.

    formally
    formally
    14 years ago

    If true, (he was arrested for having jewels, diamonds and watches undeclared ) this is disgusting and hopefully Brazil will get to the bottom of this.

    However, I am a little suspicious or unconformable that he is saying this is like Germany during the holocaust, Maybe is is making more than it is to get off. I do not know the law in Brazil to say if that is standard to cut off a beard.

    He is ashamed of the beard being cut off, but not that he was caught trying to bring in (smuggle) undisclosed jewelery, Interesting

    Raphael Kaufman
    Raphael Kaufman
    14 years ago

    How about the humiliation of being caught with contraband? A sure way to get into trouble in foreign countries is to try to beat their customs. Don’t smuggle.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    They should never treat an orthodox jew or anyone from any religion with such intolerance. I’ll reserve judgement as to whether this was stupidity or blatant anti-semitisim. At the same time, for this frum yid to stay home from his job as an engineer”for a year” to grow back his beard (or walk around with a fake beard, the article is a bit unclear) and then also claim he was traumatized by having his beard shaved is also a bit extreme. It sounds like this person needs some counseling by his rebbe or a a professional.

    Lebediger
    Lebediger
    14 years ago

    I was in Brazil a couple of times and didn’t go to jail
    why did he get to jail

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    I agree with 5 I love most how all of a sudden this guy needs his talis to remind him of all 613 mitzvos I guess he has a different version than I couse in mine it’s says somthing about not stealing ok I admit I’m a big talker I also don’t always say the gantseh emes at the borderf but to smugle jewls dimonds that’s a different story but anyway I still agree that this guy shouldent whine he took the chance pay the price but that still dose not excuse this antisemates if the story and facts are true than they are exactly like the natziz

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    I find it amazing how so many are looking for ways to justify how this Yid was treated. Maybe he smuggled, maybe he did not, you cannot tell from this article, yet there are those who want to justify the treatment of this person.

    OMG
    OMG
    14 years ago

    It is self-evident that this guy was caught with his hand in the cookie jar and he will be tried and if found guilty he will and should pay the price according the law of the State, and under no circumstances should we whitewash this sorry episode, however that doesn’t minimize the blatant anti-Semitism displayed by this the police and it that is true every Jew, regardless if you’re religious or not, should speak up

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    we are all jews commenting on this website, why do we only have to talk about the negative side?this person was a victim of anti semitism

    PMO
    PMO
    14 years ago

    This guy disrespects the laws of Brazil by smuggling diamonds, and then wonders why they disrespected him?

    I agree that what they did was wrong. However, he asked for it when he decided to be a smuggler. When are we all going to learn that we cannot spit in the face of everyone else on the planet and still expect to be treated respectfully?

    The guards who did this were 100% wrong and should be punished. What they did was an insult to every yid. However, I have no sympathy for a criminal like this. He asked for it by trying to smuggle in diamonds.

    Nuts
    Nuts
    14 years ago

    No one wishes to justify the actions of anti-semites, but the mussar haskel here is to refrain from committing crimes which result in one being imprisoned. We simply have had too many cases wherein people who dress as orthodox Jews commit crimes, and then complain when they have to deal with the low lifes who run prisons and inhabit them.

    Any tape or sefer from Rav Avigdor Miller ztl would doubtless contain advice not to be stupid. Read for example the sefer, Rabbi Avigdor Miller Speaks, by Rabbi Simcha Bunim Cohen, Vol 2, the last chapter–on common sense.

    I maintain that to compare these low life prison guards to Nazis is problematic, and for this person to somehow compare himself to the millions of innocent Yidden, including many frum Yidden, humiliated and tortured and killed by the German barbarians simply for being Jewish (not for committing any crime) is a bit much.

    medina shel chesed
    medina shel chesed
    14 years ago

    People don’t fully appreciate the rights and freedoms that we enjoy in this malchus she’ll chesed we call home. Althogh some other countries may be democracies with so called rights, that doesn’t mean that people are actually treated that way, especially criminals in Jail. You can begin to imagine the mindset of an american corrections officer, but think of a Mexican one for example. Less Din veloy Dayan… Sure there are antisemites out there but as far as this story goes, DON’T DO THE CRIME you won’t end up in jail, there is abetter chance the staff in the hilton will treat you a bit nicer than the staff at the PDC

    Nuts
    Nuts
    14 years ago

    While I personally tend to believe much or all of this happened to this alleged thief, I should mention that all too often we frum Jews are too gullible and too willing to accept whatever someone who is dressed like a frum Yid says. There are thieves and liars among us. Someone who is smuggling across an international border may not be the paragon of moral virtue.

    We simply have to stop bifurcating our approach to morality. We should begin to expect that someone who wishes to be considered a frum Yid has to act that way bein adam lchavero (interactions between people) as well as bein adam lmakom (ritual laws). We should not call someone who is a thief ‘frum’, especially someone who has created a chillul Hashem.

    Indeed, these goons may have removed his Yiddish appearance, but by his public complaints in the media, this fellow may have compounded the chillul Hashem he created by international smuggling! Now, thousands will read about the ‘Jewish rabbi smuggler’v and think that we frum Jews think it is acceptable to smuggle across international borders!

    enough of this phoniness
    enough of this phoniness
    14 years ago

    Someone who dresses like they are very pious, like this guy, has to behave very pious. If this fellow did what he did, he has caused all of us harm, causing us to be viewed with suspicion.

    I would like to know what this allegedly pious individual is doing to repent for all the harm he has caused to the image of Jews.

    I have had enough of this phony piety, if he dresses like a pious man, he better act that way. It is more important to act properly than to have a beard, hey, even goats have beards. Let him start acting properly, instead of making a big ruckus trying to cover up his misdeeds.

    formally
    formally
    14 years ago

    why all the attack on this guy

    but most defend the action of the New Jersey frum people

    B.P
    B.P
    14 years ago

    I have been in Brazil allot of times and never came threw with problems in the Air Port accutally very polite staff,and always trying to help.

    Gefilte Fish
    Gefilte Fish
    14 years ago

    I guess he got a brazilian on his beard… Jokes aside, this story is scary.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    dont steal. when you do. PLEASE, take off you kippa!!

    Lemming
    Lemming
    14 years ago

    My Rebbeh always said that the greatest segulah for not going to jail is: DON’T DO ANYTHING ILLEGAL! This guy probably thinks he’s like the rebbeh R Zishe and R Elimeilech. Zechusam yugain olaini

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    OMG, we are living in scary times. WAKE UP YIDDIN

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    I guess you’ve forgotten the story of years ago when a yid was kidnapped by the police in Brazli and murdered, leaving behind a wife and small children….

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    Horrible… Horrible… Horrible a person should never be treated that way!!!!!

    YitzchokAizik
    YitzchokAizik
    14 years ago

    fake beard? Is this guy serious?

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    cutting off one beared, specially if its there for religios purposess, is a shamefull act..
    specially if its not the standerd way of dealing with criminals.

    those who say otherwise, know that they are wrong, they only do it to draw attention, (as seen in other posts..)

    reffering to the Natzis, is wrong and right..
    wrong, since they dont humiliate as the Natzis did..
    right, cuz they are doing a act that the Natzis practiced..

    Brazil has the right to Jail him, prosecute him.. but not do as was reported here..

    if it would be the normal thing to do in Brazil, the whole world would condem it, since its self understood, that its a shamefull act..

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    look as a brasilian he probably got in contraband but still in the jail they made fun of him with antisemitism, someting we have to take care to dont happen again, still he should be happy they didnt …. him