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May 31, 2005: Video Of Abandoned Rubashkin Mill
Comments: 5 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Kosher Scandal
WFMZ TV has video of Rabbi Moshe Rubashkin's burned out, long abandoned Allentown, PA mill. Here's the money quote: [City council person Gail] Hoover says in a perfect world the owner of this building would pay to fix the problem...

May 31, 2005: Flap Over Israel Organ Donations – How Haredim Prevent Lifesaving Transplants
Comments: 23 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Med-Ethics, Public Health
The Jerusalem Post reports: …Ninety of the Knessets 120 members were persuaded over several months by Knesset Labor, Social Affairs and Health Committee chairman MK Shaul Yahalom to sign a potential organ donor card distributed by the ADI organization. The...

May 31, 2005: The NY Times On the Resurgence Of Mikvah Use
Comments: 17 | Categories: Chabad
The New York Times has a piece on the resurgence of mikvah use in America: The effort to revive mikvahs has been largely motivated by a mandate from Rebbe Menachem M. Schneerson, of the Lubavitch movement, who died in 1994....

May 31, 2005: World Organization For Animal Health (OIE) Adopts Standards On Animal Welfare – Including Shechita
Comments: 0 | Categories: Kosher Scandal
The 167-member OIE has adopted standards on animal welfare: Standards on animal welfare, included in 4 chapters, were adopted (i.e. slaughter for human consumption, including religious slaughter; land and sea transport of animals; humane killing of animals for disease control...

May 31, 2005: Small Kosher Veal Slaughterhouse Loses Big Contract Over Failed Animal Welfare Audit – Slaughterhouse Used Shackle And Hoist Hanging Shechita
Comments: 5 | Categories: Kosher Scandal
From Kosher Today: SYSCO Pulls License from Veal Producer Over Kosher Slaughter (Brooklyn) Atlantic Veal, a 50-year old Brooklyn-based producer of veal with a slaughterhouse in Ohio, has lost its license to do business with SYSCO, the world s largest...

May 30, 2005: Official Chabad News Service Lies About Fire Inspection Flap, Endangerment Of Children, Violation Of City Health And Safety Laws
Comments: 42 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc.
The Lubavitch News Service has published Chabad's official spin on NYC's closure of a Chabad daycare center for health and fire code violations: …[N]ormal naptime at the preschool had been disturbed by an intrusive contingent of firefighters and city officials...

May 29, 2005: Washington Times On Bnei Menashe Aliya
Comments: 1 | Categories: Israel , Sefardim
… When Shlomo Amar, the Sephardic chief rabbi, announced recently in Jerusalem that he accepted the Bnei Menashe as one of the 10 "lost tribes" of Israel, Mr. Singson began to believe that God had finally smiled on him.… When...

May 27, 2005: Illegal Chabad Daycare Closed By NYC – Chabad Center Unlicensed, Had Many Fire, Health And Safety Violations
Comments: 4 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc.
From the New York Post: FDNY SHUTS TOT CENTER By ERIN CALABESEand JENNIFER FERMINO May 27, 2005 -- A Staten Island day-care center was shut down yesterday when firefighters — after reading about its grand-opening celebrations in a local paper...

May 27, 2005: Famine Ravages Southern Sudan
Comments: 4 | Categories: Refugees
Sudanese children eat boiled leaves – their only meal of the day. They'll run out of leaves soon.

May 26, 2005: Lag BaOmer
Comments: 8 | Categories: Haredim
From today's Jerusalem Post: "Lithuanian" haredim, who tend to be more rational in their devotion and shun emphasis on Kabbala, are less likely to trek to Meron. Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, the preeminent Lithuanian spiritual leader on halachic opinion, once...

May 26, 2005: First Ethiopian Jews Arrive In Israel – Attend Mizrachi Religious Zionist School
Comments: 0 | Categories: Ethiopian Jews , Israel
1955: The first Ethiopian Jews to arrive in Israel find homes at AMIT Kfar Batya. Most eventually return to Ethiopia as educators and community leaders. [Photo: AMIT.]

May 26, 2005: Allentown May Be Forced To Pay $400,000 To Raze Rubashkin Mill – Rubashkin, Rubashkin's Brooklyn-Based Orthodox Lender Refuse To Comply – Fire-Gutted Building Dangerously Unsafe
Comments: 0 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Jewish Leadership , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
The Allentown, Pennsylvania textile mill owned by Rabbi Moshe Rubashkin is so unsafe that the city may spend $400,000 to tear it down: City officials say the fenced-in site is unsafe and has suffered a series of break-ins and even...

May 26, 2005: National Geographic Has Story On Rubashkin, Postville
Comments: 3 | Categories: Kosher Scandal
The June issue of National Geographic Magazine has a story on Rubashkin, PETA and the Great Kosher Meat Scandal of 2004. Don't miss the pictures.

May 24, 2005: Evolution Meets Judaism – A.K.A., Rabbi Slifkin Gets Mugged By The 'Gedolim'
Comments: 3 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Haredim , Jewish Leadership , Science
The Scientist has a piece on the recent controversy surrounding Rabbi Nosson Slifkin: … "Intelligent design usually involves arguing that there are structures in living creatures which cannot be explained by naturalistic processes," [Rabbi Slifkin] writes via E-mail. "I think...

May 24, 2005: Operation Solomon 14th Anniversary Is Today
Comments: 2 | Categories: Ethiopian Jews , Israel
In 1991, Israel with the help of the United States began a mass evacuation of 14,500 Ethiopian Jews from Ethiopia to Israel. Operation Solomon took only 36 hours to complete. I hope to have an interview today or tomorrow with...

May 24, 2005: [Newly Updated] The Betrayed Messiah – The Truth Behind Lag Ba'Omer?
Comments: 17 | Categories: History
Aish.com has an article by Rabbi Pinchas Stopler on the mystery of Lag Ba'Omer. As Rabbi Stopler notes, Lag Ba'Omer is really Yom Yerushalyim, the anniversary of the day Bar Kokhba's army captured Jerusalem. I have also heard – but...

May 22, 2005: Chabad Disrupts Sharon NYC Speech – Sharon "False Messiah","Asshole" – "Shame On You Sharon"
Comments: 34 | Categories: Chabad , Israel , Jewish Leadership
Hundreds of Chabad hasidim disrupted Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's speech today in New York: Lubavitch crash Sharon visit Chabad Hasidim opposed to disengagement from Gaza interrupt Sharon’s speech to New York Jewish leaders, get ejected from hall; Outside hundreds of...

May 22, 2005: Israeli Police: "We Have Enough Evidence To Put Chief Rabbi Metzger On Trial
Comments: 2 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Jewish Leadership
Israel's police report that they have gather enough credible evidence to put Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger on trial for fraud and breach of public trust: The police national fraud squad announced on Sunday it has gathered enough evidence to...

May 22, 2005: Paul McCartney Attacks Shechita
Comments: 5 | Categories: Kosher Scandal
Paul McCartney of Beatles and Wings fame, has come out against shechita: Campaigners, who had hoped the legislation would tackle the issue of ritual slaughter, have been angered by what they see as the executive ducking politically sensitive issues. “I’m...

May 18, 2005: Ethiopian Jews And Intermarriage
Comments: 4 | Categories: Ethiopian Jews , Israel
Ben Krull writes in the New York Jewish Week: … We ate in Sderot with a group of people helping terror victims. I sat next to Mulualem, a social worker who emigrated from Ethiopia in 1982. He spoke excellent English,...

May 18, 2005: Chief Rabbi Amar – Has A Deal Been Made? What Was Shimon Peres Doing With Meir Amar?
Comments: 0 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Dirty Tricks , Haredim , Israel
Ynet is reporting that Meir Amar, the estranged son of Sefardic Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar who is reported to be underworld-connected and has no permanent address, visited his mother two days after the kidnapping and torture of his sister's boyfriend....

May 18, 2005: BREAKING! INDIAN WIG BAN NOT ENOUGH!
Rabbis: Hindu Hair Derivatives Used To Make Medicines May Make Medicines Forbidden – Buffalo Milk Can Be Dried, Added To Food – Would Make Food Treife – The Dark Ages Have Begun

Comments: 20 | Categories: Jewish Leadership , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Major kashrut "authorities" are convening in Jerusalem to tackle new kashrut 'issues': L-cysteine, derived from, among other things, human hair, is used as a dough conditioner. It is also used to produce a variety of chicken and beef flavors that...

May 18, 2005: Chabad & SUNY Downstate Sponsor Medical Ethics Conference
Comments: 2 | Categories: Med-Ethics, Public Health
Chabad and SUNY Downstate Medical Center have sponsored a conference on Jewish bioethics. Participanting were many luminaries in the field including Rabbi Dr. Moshe Dovid Tendler. Chabad of Rochester, Minnesota has sponsored several smaller events like this. Perhaps mini-versions of...

May 18, 2005: Chief Rabbi's Wife, Son Indicted In Kidnapping, Torture Case – Rabbi Blames Son
Comments: 0 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Dirty Tricks , Haredim , Jewish Leadership
The wife and son of Israel's Sefardic Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar have been indicted for kidnapping and beating the boyfriend of Rabbi Amar's 18-year-old daughter. Rabbi Amar had this to say about the indictments: "My wife and I raised our...

May 18, 2005: Chabad's Secret History Exposed: Most Descendants Of Rebbes Not Religious – Same True For The Descendants Of Their Hasidim
Comments: 13 | Categories: Chabad History
Historian of Chabad and hasidut Schneur Zalman Alpert writes: … By and large most of the great grand children of the Tzemach Tzedek were modern people and their children were no longer religious. The same process occurred with the Chasidim...

May 18, 2005: Ha'aretz: Rabbi Moshe Tendler Upset With OU, Young Israel Over Disengagement – RCA's Rabbi Fabian Schoenfeld Turns To Agudath Israel But Is Rebuffed – No Leadership Without The Lubavitcher Rebbe?
Comments: 2 | Categories: Israel , Jewish Leadership
… Moshe Tendler, an Orthodox rabbi and biologist who teaches at Yeshiva University, was one of the leading spokesmen against the Oslo Accords. In a long phone conversation, Tendler said that for several weeks he has been trying to enlist...

May 17, 2005: FAQ's: Ethiopian Jewry, Pekuakh Nefesh And A Kidney Transplant
Comments: 4 | Categories: Ethiopian Jews , Haredim , Hessed , MO & Chardal
Q: Are Ethiopian Jews really Jews? A: This is a complicated question. Halakhic authorities dating back almost 500 years have ruled that Ethiopian Jews are indeed Jewish. Perhaps the most famous of them is Rabbi David ibn Zimra, the Radbaz....

May 16, 2005: Gil Student And The Art of Censorship
Comments: 28 | Categories: Blogs , MO & Chardal
Gil Student has a post on Halav Yisrael (so-called Jewish milk). But, as is the norm for Rabbi Student, comments that raise questions that he cannot answer or that pointedly challenge his mentors are deleted. Rather than answer the challenge...

May 15, 2005: The Halakha Most Violated By Rabbis – And Chabad
Comments: 12 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Jewish Leadership , Kosher Business?
Rabbi Dr. Asher Meir has a column on taking donations from unscrupilous individuals: …There are many problems involved in accepting donations from unscrupulous individuals. In the worst case, the donation money itself is stolen or otherwise tainted. In this case,...

May 15, 2005: Agudath Israel's Spokesman Rabbi Avi Shafran Lies – Again
Comments: 2 | Categories: Jewish Leadership , Kosher Scandal
Agudath Israel's spokesman Rabbi Avi Shafran has again lied about PETA. In his new column, Rabbi Shafran writes: Although the headline of Ms. Newkirk's 1151-word press release describes it as an "apology," the actual expression of regret consists of only...

May 14, 2005: Bryan Mark Rigg Profiled By The Jerusalem Post
Comments: 10 | Categories: Books , Chabad History , History
Bryan Mark Rigg, author of Hitler's Jewish Soldiers and Rescued From The Reich: How One Of Hitler's Soldiers Rescued The Lubavitcher Rebbe has been profiled in the Jerusalem Post: "Shutting up about it" was what Rigg's great-grandparents had done when...

May 13, 2005: JPost Exclusive: NACOEJ Expelled From Ethiopia – JDC Acting Badly?
Comments: 6 | Categories: Ethiopian Jews , Jewish Leadership
The Jerusalem Post is exclusively reporting that the North American Conference On Ethiopian Jewry has been expelled from Ethiopia. Amir Shaviv, the Israeli hack now serving as the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee's assistant executive vice president, had this to...

May 12, 2005: Chabad Opens New Veterans Center In FSU
Comments: 1 | Categories: Chabad & Holocaust , Court Jews
The Chabad-dominated and controlled Federation of Jewish Communities of the CIS and the Zalman Foundation have opened a center for WW2 veterans in Moscow: [T]he Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia and the Zalman International Foundation have opened a Socio-Cultural...

May 12, 2005: Chabad's Idolotrous Wine
Comments: 46 | Categories: Chabad
Many of you may be aware that Chabad (outside of Israel) pours a drop from almost every liquid before drinking. This appears to be a custom of recent vintage, probably dating from the Geonic era or later, and is only...

May 12, 2005: Rabbi Elyashiv Seeks To Destroy Chief Rabbinate, Journalist Says – Facts Support Allegation
Comments: 4 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Dirty Tricks , Haredim , Jewish Leadership
The Forward has a good overview of the charges and allegations surrounding both of Israel's Chief Rabbis. Best and most accurate quote comes from Ha'aretz's Shahar Ilan: Metzger's victory was reported at the time to have been fueled by strong...

May 12, 2005: Pat Buchanan: Hitler Was Right
Comments: 22 | Categories: History
Pat Buchanan writes that he does not believe WW2 was a war worth fighting or that Hitler was worth stopping: If the objective of the West was the destruction of Nazi Germany, it was a "smashing" success. But why destroy...

May 12, 2005: Rubashkin's Allies Object To PETA "Holocaust On Your Plate" Apology
Comments: 12 | Categories: Jewish Leadership , Kosher Scandal
The Quotes: 1. Rubashkin's lawyer who just a few months ago equated PETA with the Nazis: Noted Orthodox lawyer Nathan Lewin said that the statement is "not really an apology." "It's an acknowledgment of a miscalculation," said Lewin, the lawyer...

May 11, 2005: Something Good, Something Bad, 60 Years After The Holocaust – Would The Frierdiker Rebbe Have Approved?
Comments: 6 | Categories: Chabad & Holocaust
From the Lubavitch News Service: Sixty years after WWII came to an end, communities Europe-wide conducted ceremonies of solemn remembrance this week. In many of the cities, Chabad rabbis marched with survivors and community members, remembering those who lost their...

May 8, 2005: The Rebbe's Army Conquers Europe
Comments: 5 | Categories: Chabad , Jewish Leadership , MO & Chardal , Turf Disputes
The JTA has a detailed report on Chabad's successes in Europe. As the report makes clear, Chabad often succeeds by filling vacuums – vacuums created by the failure of Rabbis Hershal Schachter and Mordechai Willig – the 'leaders of Modern...

May 8, 2005: Rabbi David Orlofsky Continues To Lie
Comments: 5 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Haredim , Jewish Leadership , MO & Chardal
Rabbi David Orlofsky has written a public letter on the Rabbi Slifkin Ban. While blaming those who released his earlier letters, he fails to mention that the first of those letters contained lies about Rabbi Slifkin, and that Rabbi Orlofsky...

May 8, 2005: Not Now, Not Ever – End The Genocide In Darfur
Comments: 12 | Categories: Jewish Leadership , MO & Chardal , Refugees
New York City Rally TODAY! Sunday, May 8th at 4:30pm at Cherry Hill on 72nd Street in Central Park (Click here for a map) Help spread the word: Download, print and distribute this poster! Confirmed Attendees*: Simon Dang - iAbolish...

May 8, 2005: Kidnap Victim: "Chief Rabbi Knew"
Comments: 3 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Jewish Leadership
The 17 year old haredi man kidnapped by Sefardi Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar's son Meir claims the Chief Rabbi knew of the kidnapping and beating while it took place. The police have requested indictments against Rabbi Amar's son Meir and...

May 8, 2005: Tzemach Atlas Finds Himself In Quasi-Excommunication After Criticizing Chabad
Comments: 2 | Categories: Chabad , Dirty Tricks , Jewish Leadership
Tzemach Atlas has been banned from receiving aliyot (and presumably from other communal functions) by his synagogue. Why? He publicly criticized Chabad.

May 8, 2005: Sefardic Chief Rabbi's Wife, Son, Daughter Charged With Kidnapping – Rabbi Amar Denies Involvement
Comments: 1 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Jewish Leadership
Sefardic Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar's wife, son and daughter are charged with kidnapping in a bizarre case reminiscent of Clockwork Orange. The victim was an 18 year old haredi man who met Amar's 17 year old daughter in an internet...

May 6, 2005: Sharon's Nephew Chabad Messianist Rabbi – Why No Disengagement? The "Messiah" Told Us!
Comments: 3 | Categories: Chabad , Israel , Jewish Leadership
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's nephew is a Chabad messianist rabbi teaching in the bastion of Chabad messianism, their yeshiva in Tzefat. While the Prime Minister's nephew declined to comment, other prominent messianists, including the Tzfat Rosh Yeshiva were more than...

May 5, 2005: Rubashkin Exposed? Why Texas Kosher Beef Is Better
Comments: 9 | Categories: Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
A.D. Rosenblatt Glatt Kosher Beef, a.k.a. Texas Kosher Beef is slowly making inroads in the kosher market. And that is a good thing: Rosenblatt said he prefers to work with grass-fed beef, because it tends to have a higher kosher...

May 5, 2005: Temple Grandin Resigns From KFC's Animal Welfare Board
Comments: 11 | Categories: Kosher Scandal
Dr. Temple Grandin (see links on the left of this page) has resigned from Kentucky Fried Chicken's animal welfare advisory board. KFC sought to limit her contact with the press. Dr. Grandin refused to be silenced. KFC – which has...

May 5, 2005: PETA Officially Apologizes For "Holocaust On Your Plate"
Comments: 2 | Categories: Kosher Scandal
PETA's founder Ingrid Newkirk has officially apologized for PETA's notorious "Holocaust On Your Plate" campaign. Note that the material used as the basis of that campaign was not considered to be controversial – until PETA used it in graphic fashion.

May 5, 2005: Fire At Rubashkin Mill Ruled Arson
Comments: 2 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Kosher Business?
Last month's fire at Rabbi Moshe Rubashkin's abandoned textile mill in Allentown, Pennsylvania has been ruled arson by the city and the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF). Rubashkin, brother of AgriProcessors Rabbi Sholom M. Rubashkin, is president...

May 5, 2005: Racism: Israeli City Removes 5 Ethiopian Jewish Children From City Kindergarten – "Too Many Ethiopians" In School, City Claims
Comments: 4 | Categories: Ethiopian Jews
Ynet reports that Arad, a city in the south of Israel, has removed five Ethiopian Jewish children from a city kindergarten. Why? "Too many Ethiopians" in the class. The parents are suing Arad. Israel's Education Ministry is supporting the parents.

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