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17 posts from May 25, 2008 - May 31, 2008

May 30, 2008: BREAKING! Labor Contractor Pulls Workers Out Of Agriprocessors, Cites Unsafe Working Conditions
Comments: 8 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Safety , Rubashkin Workers
A labor contractor hired to send workers to Agriprocessors, the Rubashkin family's Postville, Iowa kosher slaughterhouse, has pulled its workers after 10 days on the job citing… …unsafe working conditions, the Des Moines Register reports: Labor contractor pulls workers from...

May 30, 2008: Rubashkin: Bad Landlord, Still Abusive Employer
Comments: 30 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
It's not just GAL Investments that is reportedly pushing former Agriprocessors workers onto the streets – it is… …Agriprocessors itself, as the Forward reports: …Many Agriprocessors workers and their families live, or lived, in an apartment building owned by an...

May 29, 2008: OU Admits Replacement Of Sholom Rubashkin Ploy To Keep Kosher Supervision
Comments: 42 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , MO & Chardal , Rubashkin Workers
Rabbi Menachem Genack of the OU has admitted what many of us thought all along – the "ouster" of Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin as Agriprocessors CEO is… …nothing more than a ploy to help the OU leave its mark on Agri...

May 29, 2008: New Rubashkin Workers Claim Abuse; Rubashkin Also Alleged To Be Recruiting More Illegal Workers
Comments: 8 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
After reams of negative media attention in the wake of the largest immigration raid in US history, you would think the Rubashkin family would have learned behave in civilized society. But nothing, it seems, could be further from the truth....

May 28, 2008: Rabbi Ovadia Yosef In Slap Against Ashkenazi Haredim: "Conversion Courts Too Strict"
Comments: 32 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Sefardim
In what is clearly a slap at Ashkenazi haredi led by Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef – the leading Sefardic rabbi of this generation – says that conversions are being made… … too difficult, as the Jerusalem Post...

May 28, 2008: UPDATED: Chabad Landlord – Pay Rent Now Or Get Out; Gal Investments Largest Postville Landlord
Comments: 18 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
Allegedly, Gal Investments, a Postville landlord that may have connections to Agriprocessors management and the Rubashkin family… …has told tenants to leave immediately if they cannot pay their rent on time. Allegedly, Gal claims more tenants are on the way...

May 28, 2008: Is Rubashkin Scamming The Jewish Community? Move To "Oust" Sholom M. Rubashkin A Ploy To Avoid Prosecution?
Comments: 27 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , MO & Chardal , Rubashkin Workers
If Agriprocessors CEO (and its Vice President) Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin's nephew is telling the truth, the answer is… …yes. (And, as noted a bit earlier today, it would seem, the OU might very well be in on the deal.) The...

May 28, 2008: BREAKING! OU Pushed For Sholom Rubashkin Ouster, Jewish Star Reports – Is The OU Conning American Jews?
Comments: 17 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , MO & Chardal , Rubashkin Workers
Mayer Fertig of the Jewish Star is reporting that… …the OU was behind the ouster of Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin as Agriprocessors CEO: It is at the insistence of the Orthodox Union that Sholom Rubashkin is to be replaced as chief...

May 27, 2008: Did A Rubashkin Flee The Country?
Comments: 82 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
This is still an unconfirmed rumor, so take it with a large grain of salt. I've been told by a normally reliable source that… …a daughter of Aaron Rubashkin, the one who runs the Florida kosher food distribution company, fled...

May 27, 2008: BREAKNG! Rabbi Who Voided Druckman Conversions: Hearing And Speech Impaired Cannot Convert, Any Conversion Done Invalid
Comments: 64 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
Basing himself of the halakhic idea that… …deaf and dumb Jews are exempt from mitzvot, haredi Rabbi Avraham Sherman – a close follower of the haredi "gadol hador" Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv – ruled that people with severe hearing or...

May 27, 2008: Pravada Ne'eman Returns
Comments: 14 | Categories: Blogs , Haredim
Pravda Ne'eman, the insider haredi blog which set out several years ago to expose the lies and propaganda of Yated Ne'eman, the haredi newspaper mouthpiece is back – but with… …a twist: [O]ur Yated-only mocking, by definition, led to a...

May 26, 2008: Is This How Rabbi Zeilingold's "Independent Investigation" Of Agriprocessors Was Run?
Comments: 21 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
Formerly There writes: Rabbi Zellingold when he was there [at Agriprocessors, "inspecting" the plant in response to the Forward's award-winning exposé of Rubashkin worker abuse] only visited the beef side of the plant where workers were paid more then the...

May 26, 2008: Rubashkin's PR Spin Continues
Comments: 42 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
Rabbi Asher Zeilingold, the man whose kosher symbol appears on all Rubashkin non-glatt (but still kosher) meat, weighed in on the massive immigration raid at Agriprocessors… Several people told me they heard Rabbi Zeilingold make the following points on Shabbat:...

May 25, 2008: Kasztner's Train, Part Three
Comments: 30 | Categories: Haredim , History
Reuters has a brief but still interesting report on several new works documenting Rudolph Kasztner's attempts to save Jews during the Holocaust. And one thing is clear… …the story you heard in cheder is not true: New books, film find...

May 25, 2008: Comptroller: Most Rabbinic Court Cases Mishandled
Comments: 4 | Categories: Haredim , Israel
No surprise here, as… …Ha'aretz reports: The comptroller's review of administrative procedures at rabbinic courts found problems with 83 percent of cases at the Tel Aviv court, and 71 percent of cases handled in Petah Tikva. These two courts were...

May 25, 2008: When The State Pays The Rabbis
Comments: 12 | Categories: Haredim , Hessed , Israel , MO & Chardal
The Jerusalem Post has an interesting article on illness and mourning in Israel. While in the US (and in most other western countries) rabbis visit sick and console mourners, in Israel this really is not true. Why? In America, when...

May 25, 2008: Star K On Chabad Shochtim
Comments: 29 | Categories: Chabad , Kosher Scandal
On Zev Brenner's radio show last night, Dr. Avraham Pollack of the Star K was asked for the Star K's position of Chabad shochtim, especially Chabad messianist shochtim. Would the Star K hire them? Approve their shechita? The answer? Almost...

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