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15 posts from January 2, 2005 - January 8, 2005

January 8, 2005: Is The OU's Rabbi Menachem Genack Telling The Truth?
Comments: 4 | Categories: Kosher Scandal

The OU's Rabbi Menachem Genack has written a letter to the LA Times criticizing its story on Shechita-gate. Rabbi Genack – who told me he would not have stopped throat-ripping (a.k.a., trachea excision) if he had seen it happening –...

January 7, 2005: Bad Journalism 101: FrontPage Magazine.com
Comments: 1 | Categories: Kosher Scandal

FrontPage Magazine has published an error-filled article on Shechita-gate, written by attorney Michael Rosen. A few examples follow: Mr. Rosen writes: [The kosher supervising agencies] also vowed to stamp out the unauthorized practice of tracheal and esophagal tearing, a method...

January 6, 2005: Glatt On Demand? A 2nd Interview With Dr. Temple Grandin
Comments: 9 | Categories: Kosher Scandal

I spoke with Dr. Temple Grandin today about the yield of glatt-kosher meat, the rate of unconciousness after shechita, and other matters. According to Dr. Grandin: All things being equal, the rate of unconsciousness using a Facomia upside-down pen and...

January 5, 2005: The Future Of Kosher
Comments: 1 | Categories: Kosher Scandal

The Washington Post has a story on Albertson's, the grocery behemoth that has been expanding its kosher food presence. Many experts believe this type of model – as opposed to the mom and pop kosher stores of today – will...

January 5, 2005: Operation Noah's Ark – Innovative Tsunami Relief
Comments: 0 | Categories: Hessed

The Minnapolis-based American Refugee Committee and Nehama, a Minnesota-based Jewish disaster relief organization have come up with a brilliant way to aid tsunami victims: OPERATION NOAH'S ARK (A project of Nechama - Jewish Response to Disaster & Justice Squared, an...

January 5, 2005: AgriProcessors: USDA Mandates "One Minor Addition" To Slaughter Process
Comments: 9 | Categories: Kosher Scandal

The Waukon Standard reports on PETA's call for criminal prosecution against AgriProcessors: In a statement from Mike Thomas, spokesman for Agriprocessors, he explains that Agriprocessors has always strictly followed the federal and Jewish laws, and they treat their animals humanely...

January 4, 2005: Was Rabbi Shain Fired?
Comments: 18 | Categories: Kosher Scandal

Was Rabbi Yudel Shain fired from B'datz Mehadrin because of his opposition to Rubashkin shechita or did Rabbi Shain quit in protest as he has claimed? One hint might be that Rabbi Shain's resignation letter appears to have been sent...

January 4, 2005: Kosher Poultry Processing Pictures
Comments: 0 | Categories: Kosher Scandal

Rabbi Dovid Bendory has posted photographs of kosher poultry processing in Israel. (No actual shechita is shown.) A glossary follows after the jump: Shochet / Shochtim = slaughterer(s) Sagan Shochet = shochet's helper Mashgiach / Mashgichim = kosher supervisor(s) Dom...

January 4, 2005: ~~Rubashkin Ripple Effect~~ – Leader Of Jews For Judaism Considers Vegetarianism
Comments: 3 | Categories: Kosher Scandal

Michael Skobac, head of Jews For Judaism in Toronto writes: According to Maimonides’ Guide to the Perplexed, Rabbi Moshe Cordovero’s Tomer Devorah and numerous other sources, the Torah’s method of ritual slaughter was designed to kill animals as humanely and...

January 4, 2005: HumaneKosher.com
Comments: 10 | Categories: Kosher Scandal

HumaneKosher.com, new rabbinic group made up of predominantly non-Orthodox rabbis, has come out against shechita as practiced at Rubashkin: As Rabbis and lay-leaders from across the Jewish world, we come together to express our deep concern about the mistreatment of...

January 3, 2005: No, Of Course It's Not Racism
Comments: 8 | Categories: Ethiopian Jews

Ha'aretz has a sad report on Israel's attempt to deport an elderly Christian Ethiopian who helped save Jews from the persecutions of Ethiopia's former communist government. The Jewish Agency recognizes his heroism. His children and grandchildren converted to Judaism and...

January 3, 2005: NY Times Reports On Falash Mura
Comments: 0 | Categories: Ethiopian Jews

The New York Times has a report on the stalled immigration of the Falash Mura to Israel. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/03/international/africa/03jews.html?oref=login&pagewanted=print&position= The New York Times January 3, 2005 Ethiopian Jews Yearn for Entry to Promised Land: Israel By MARC LACEY and GREG MYRE...

January 2, 2005: US Head Of Israel's B'Datz Mehadrin Kosher Supervision Resigns – Faults Israeli, US Supervisions' Handling Of Shechita-gate
Comments: 23 | Categories: Kosher Scandal

Rabbi Yehuda Shain, the USA representative for B’Datz Mehadrin Certification (Israel) has resigned over Israel's handling of the Rubashkin Shechita-gate Scandal: Kosher Consumers Union To the kosher consumers at large: Rabbi Yehuda Shain was the USA representative & office manager...

January 2, 2005: Poorly Designed Head Restraint?
Comments: 3 | Categories: Kosher Scandal

Tzemach Atlas quotes Rabbi Yudel Shain of the Kosher Consumers Union on Rubashkin's Facomia upside-down slaughter pen: Due to the metal head restrainer design, the Shoichet is afraid that his "chalef" (ritual knife) will hit the metal frame and nick...

January 2, 2005: PETA Responds To OU's Rabbi Genack
Comments: 1 | Categories: Kosher Scandal

PETA's Ben Goldsmith has written a response to a widely circulated article on Shechita-gate by the OU's Rabbi Menachem Genack: We at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) deeply appreciate Rabbi Menachem Genack’s thoughtful consideration of the issues...

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