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December 10, 2009: Rubashkin Hires Nathan Lewin For Appeal
Comments: 14 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
The family is also working in close cooperation with a legal committee of attorneys including Professor Aaron Twerski, Irving Seidman, Robert Simins and Jeff Schwartz. Nathan Lewin To Lead Rubashkin Legal Defense Team Friends, Family Ask Help Raising Funds For...

December 10, 2009: Chabad Rabbi Accused Of Hit And Run
Comments: 55 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim
Rabbi's story contradicts witness, police. Aspen rabbi accused of market hit and run by Troy Hooper • Aspen Daily News Aspen police say Rabbi Menachem Mendel Mintz’s driving isn’t so kosher. The head of the Jewish Resource Center Chabad of...

December 9, 2009: One Minor Conviction In Crown Heights Shomrim Trial
Comments: 21 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim
5 of 6 acquitted, all major charges dropped. UPDATE 4:45 am 12-10-09: Yeshiva fight ends in one minor conviction BY SCOTT SHIFREL • New York DAILY NEWS A jury acquitted five of six Orthodox Jews charged in a wild fracas...

December 9, 2009: Rubashkin's Wife Speaks
Comments: 64 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Leah Rubashkin says the Rebbe, who passed away in 1994, answered their questions many times since the May 2008 immigration raid at Agriprocessors. . Leah Rubashkin got a standing ovation before she spoke. She mentioned that Rabbi Moshe Feller, the...

December 8, 2009: Rubashkin Asks Court To Dismiss Child Labor Charges
Comments: 54 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Safety , Rubashkin Workers
Rubashkin's attorneys claim Division of Labor officials ignored Agriprocessors' requests to identify the workers suspected of being minors Rubashkin asks court to dismiss child labor charges By JEFF REINITZ • Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier WATERLOO - Attorneys for the former Agriprocessors...

December 8, 2009: Exclusive: Rubashkin Family Has Hidden Meat Business
Comments: 42 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Their name is hidden but their involvement is real. Any image in this post can be clicked on to enlarge. I noticed an ad in a Chabad Hanukkah publication for the KosherMeatStore.com. KosherMeatStore.com ships fresh glatt kosher meat and poultry,...

December 8, 2009: Rubashkin To Appeal Detention
Comments: 16 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Attorneys for Sholom Rubashkin filed notice Monday with the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that they intend to appeal a decision to hold the former meat plant executive in custody before he is sentenced on 86 financial fraud charges....

December 7, 2009: Erotic Art Museum Owner Donates Torah Scroll To Chabad, Chabad Makes Party And Parade
Comments: 26 | Categories: Chabad
Chabad rabbi: ``We're here in South Beach. There's a lot going on here. A combination of extremes: really physical, and really spiritual.'' Erotic art dealer donates Torah scroll to temple An erotic art dealer donated a restored Torah scroll to...

December 6, 2009: Conditions Better At Agri Star, Workers Say
Comments: 36 | Categories: Agri-Star , Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
Pay better than under Agriprocessors, supervisors less demanding, nicer. Postville, immigrants inching toward closure BY GRANT SCHULTE • Des Moines Register Postville, Ia. - Forty-year-old Juventino Lopez Pichia wants to bring his wife and children to Iowa. But he knows...

December 5, 2009: Chabad Journal: Yes, Miky, There Are Rabbis In Montana
Comments: 60 | Categories: Chabad
When a Hasidic one walked into the State Capitol last December, with his long beard, black hat and long black coat, a police officer grabbed his bomb-sniffing German shepherd and went to ask the exotic visitor a few questions.… Yes,...

December 3, 2009: OU Head: Rubashkin Got "A Raw Deal…[He] Never Fleeced A Single Customer…If Anyone Is Deserving Of Sympathy, Support And Leniency, It Is Sholom Rubahskin."
Comments: 59 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
I never saw "cutting of corners in either halacha or ethical conduct," Rabbi Menachem Genack said. "USDA inspectors were in the plant at all times, and they never reported a violation of any kind." From Yated Ne'eman via COL Live:...

December 3, 2009: Chabad Kids Write Letters To Rubashkin
Comments: 30 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Safety , Rubashkin Workers
"Hope you get your money & company back." Chabad.info reports: Over the past week the 6th grade English class at United Lubavitch Yeshiva in Crown Heights took to heart the fact that Shalom Mordchai Rubashkin is sitting in jail. The...

December 3, 2009: Rubashkin Denied Bail – Again
Comments: 20 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Rubashkin will remain in jail, at least until an appeal. Rubashkin bail reduction denied again By JENS MANUEL KROGSTAD • Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier CEDAR RAPIDS - A judge on Thursday upheld a decision to deny bail pending sentencing to a...

December 3, 2009: Underage Girl Alleges Sexual Harassment At Agriprocessors
Comments: 14 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Safety , Rubashkin Workers
Supervisors at the now-defunct Agriprocessors Inc. in Postville sexually harassed an underage girl who worked at the meat processing plant and had intercourse with other female employees in a storage room, according to state court papers. Teenager alleges sex harassment...

December 2, 2009: National Campaign: School Children Write To Rubashkin
Comments: 32 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Matzav.com starts a kids national letter writing writing campaign for Sholom M. Rubashkin. Kids Write to Reb Sholom Mordechai Matzav.com Note: Matzav.com would like to spearhead a national writing campaign for Reb Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin. We are asking all rabbeim...

December 2, 2009: Cattle Growers Reject Agriprocessors Payment Demands
Comments: 14 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
It's not often that someone demands $1.7 million from Jeff Reed, so when the Minnesota cattle seller opened an ordinary envelope with a surprising letter inside, his jaw dropped. Rubashkin and Agriprocessors – The gift that keeps on giving: Cattle...

December 1, 2009: Rothstein Indicted On $1 BILLION Fraud
Comments: 87 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc.
Mega Chabad donor was led into the Miami FBI office in handcuffs following his early morning arrest on five charges, including a violation of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations, or RICO law, often used against the Mafia and other...

November 29, 2009: Waiting, Hoping For Deportation
Comments: 16 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
More than 24 former Agriprocessors workers find themselves in an unusual impasse: The government has ordered them deported, and many can't wait to leave. Yet they remain, waiting for the American legal system to give them the boot. Former Agriprocessors...

November 29, 2009: Sholom Rubashkin: Saint – The Hagiography Continues
Comments: 55 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
As the jury foreman was reading the verdict, Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin passed a note to his wife Leah. “I am [a servant of God] wherever I am, and whatever happens I remain [a servant of God].” Shalom Rubashkin: Community Patron...

November 26, 2009: Ben Brafman, Unnamed Rubashkin Attorney, Newspaper Editor Speculate On Rubashkin's Sentence
Comments: 56 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
"Those who are concerned with justice will not be upset if the judge refuses to hand down a very long prison sentence. But those who are looking to destroy a man and his family will never be content." Sentence Structure...

November 25, 2009: Rubashkin "Didn’t Give A Damn About Anyone Or Anything — Except Making Money [His] Way."
Comments: 64 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
"Sholom Rubashkin’s actions reflected an mind-boggling sense of imperial disregard for just about everything that ethical, law-abiding people hold as plain and simple rules of civic and financial engagement.” Lynda Waddington of the Iowa Independent reports: …In the wake of...

November 25, 2009: Government Releases Undocumented Workers Held For Rubashkin Trial
Comments: 6 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
Release means many will be deported in the coming weeks. Government releases Agriprocessors material witnesses By Trish Mehaffey • Gazette The 24 undocumented former Agriprocessors workers designated as material witnesses in criminal cases will be released, according to a motion...

November 25, 2009: Why Are So Many Jews Atheists Or Agnostics? It's Their Stupidity, Stupid
Comments: 89 | Categories: Chabad , Haredim , Skepticism
The real cause of overwhelming Jewish atheistic tendencies seems to be a tragic ignorance of Judaism’s most profound teachings and ideas and therefore a juvenile understanding of the Jewish idea of a monotheistic God. Why so many Jews are atheists...

November 24, 2009: Pro-Rubashkin Signs Further Divide Postville
Comments: 81 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
[UPDATED] Rubashkin's face superimposed on an American flag angers some. Here's a link to the above video, which features Postville war veterans upset about the Rubashkin poster, just in case the embedded video won't play. [Hat Tip: AGRI-vated Angel.]

November 24, 2009: Rubashkin Appeals Bail Denial
Comments: 27 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Attorneys for Sholom Rubashkin asked the court to impose additional conditions to ensure he does not flee before his still-undetermined sentencing date. Rubashkin appeals bail denial By JENS MANUEL KROGSTAD • Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier CEDAR RAPIDS -- The former executive...

November 24, 2009: Rabbis Tell WBA Champ Boxing Is Against Jewish Law
Comments: 56 | Categories: Chabad , Halakha , Jews In Sports , Med-Ethics
"When you're in the ring after five rounds, going on 12, it's very spiritual, and I'm saying my own little prayers throughout the fight, 'Please, God, protect me.'" Full of the fighting spirit: Brooklyn boxer contends he can be rabbi...

November 23, 2009: RCA Bans Chabad Messianist Rabbis
Comments: 83 | Categories: Chabad , Chabad & Christianity , MO & Chardal
13 years after first opposing Chabad messianism, the Modern Orthodox rabbinical group finally takes a step to make that ruling have a concrete impact. RCA Bans 'Messianic Rabbis' The Rabbinical Council of America (RCA) is banning Chabad rabbis with messianic...

November 23, 2009: Postcard from The Netherlands: Old Rubashkin Meat Sold Retail By Chabad in Holland
Comments: 34 | Categories: Chabad , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
The meat carries a label stating it was "first frozen in 2007" and produced in Ecuador. A Jew from the Netherlands writes: There's Rubashkins meat for sale in the Chabad deli in The Hague (Netherlands). It's got Rubashkins label on...

November 23, 2009: Clergy: Government Wrong For Dropping Rubashkin Immigration Charges
Comments: 56 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Religion , Rubashkin Safety , Rubashkin Workers
We will "investigate and pursue all constructive options and legal recourse." Rubashkin "exploited and mistreated" undocumented workers "so extensively." Clergy say workers needed to air case ASSOCIATED PRESS Decorah, Ia. - Three Decorah clergy members who have been involved in...

November 22, 2009: Jews Face "Uncertain Future" In Postville, Bemoan Lost Rubashkin Largesse
Comments: 71 | Categories: Agri-Star , Chabad , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
"The generosity of the Rubashkins had created a company town atmosphere within the Orthodox Jewish community." Orthodox views: Jewish community faces uncertain future in Postville By JOHN MOLSEED • Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier POSTVILLE - The Agri Star kosher meat processing...

November 20, 2009: RUBASHKIN DENIED BAIL
Comments: 74 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Details… Here's the entire decision as a PDF file: Download Rubashkin Denied Bail 11-20-09

November 20, 2009: Rubashkin Bail Decision
Comments: 2 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
I just spoke with the Clerk of the Court… …the decision is expected late this afternoon. If it comes down before Shabbos, I'll try to get it posted.

November 20, 2009: Rubashkin Wants Acquittal, New Trial
Comments: 8 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
The motion contends there was insufficient evidence to sustain the conviction on the bank fraud, money laundering and other charges. Rubashkin wants acquittal, new trial on federal charges Trish Mehaffey • Gazette Former Agriprocessors vice president Sholom Rubashkin filed a...

November 20, 2009: Postville Church Leaders React To Rubashkin Dismissals
Comments: 27 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
"We see there is a complete lack of justice…" [Hat Tip: FGBA.]

November 20, 2009: Rubashkin Trial Witnesses Want To Go Home
Comments: 26 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
Undocumented workers held in "immigration limbo" since raid. Rubashkin trial witnesses wait ... and want to go home BY TONY LEYS • Des Moines Register Decorah, Ia. - The legal battle against Agriprocessors' Sholom Rubashkin has snared more than two...

November 20, 2009: RUBASHKIN ATTORNEY: "He's Presumed Innocent, The Court Has Now Dismissed These Charges – He Is Indeed Innocent"
Comments: 26 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Safety , Rubashkin Workers
Guy Cook explains why Rubashkin is "innocent." [Hat Tip: FGBA.]

November 19, 2009: BREAKING! Government Dismisses All Immigration Charges Against Rubashkin
Comments: 152 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
UPDATED. The government basically says sentencing guidelines make the fraud charges so severe that they eclipse the penalties for the immigration charges. So the government has asked the judge to dismiss the immigration charges against Rubashkin and Agriprocessors without prejudice....

November 19, 2009: Chabad's Lost Messiah
Comments: 68 | Categories: Chabad , Chabad & Christianity
Did the Rebbe really believe he was the messiah? Chabad's Lost Messiah Tomer Persico • Azure For several terrifying days in late November 2008, all Jewish eyes were on the Indian city of Mumbai. Muslim terrorists had launched a series...

November 18, 2009: Picture of the Day
Comments: 1 | Categories: Chabad
Moshe one year later… Moshe Holtzberg, one year after the terror attack in Mumbai that killed his parents and four others at Chabad of Mumbai. Photo: Ben Hartman, Jerusalem Post.

November 18, 2009: Rubashkin Gave Hosam Amara Money To Run To Israel, Gov't Tells Judge
Comments: 26 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
Former Agriprocessors manager ran at Rubashkin's request. Is now hiding in Israel. Left, Hosam Amara. Right, Zev Levi. The Courier's Jens Manuel Krogstad's Twitter feed notes that the government told the judge today that Hosam Amara, former Agri supervisor on...

November 18, 2009: Rubashkin At Bail Hearing: I've Never Run Away From A Fight
Comments: 36 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
“I’m man enough to stay.” Seeking release, Rubashkin says he’s ‘never ran away from a fight’ Trish Mehaffey • The Gazette Sholom Rubashkin says he had no intention of fleeing the county and leaving his family and the Jewish community...

November 18, 2009: Judge Takes Rubashkin Bail Request Under Advisement
Comments: 10 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin will… …remain in federal custody until chief Judge Linda Reade makes her decision. According to the Clerk of the Court's office, there is no set timeframe for this to happen.

November 18, 2009: Rubashkin Bail Hearing Over
Comments: 4 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Details… …are not yet being released by the court. We'll have to wait a little longer to know.

November 18, 2009: Should Rubashkin Get Bail?
Comments: 71 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
What do you think? The bail hearing is this morning in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Here's what I think will happen: 1. He'll get bail. 2. He'll be restricted to a small geographic area or 3. His house. 4. He'll continue...

November 18, 2009: Creepy Chabad Messianist Video Made By Father Of Hatan Who Lept To His Death
Comments: 23 | Categories: Bizarre , Chabad
Shmuel Borger's video made in a joint production with Jem Studios. The narrator is Shmuel Borger.

November 17, 2009: Orthodox Come To Rubashkin's Defense
Comments: 64 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Safety , Rubashkin Workers
Rubashkin’s defenders and sympathizers insist that Agriprocessors was hardly unique among slaughterhouses in its hiring of illegal aliens. They also argue that many allegations against the company have yet to be substantiated. Orthodox Come To Rubashkin’s Defense by Julie Wiener...

November 17, 2009: Letter from Washington: Is Rubashkin The Victim In Agriprocessors Verdict?
Comments: 35 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Notwithstanding the jury’s verdict, it is still an open question whether the Rubashkin scandal is truly what was done by Sholom Rubashkin rather than what has been done to Sholom Rubashkin. Is Rubashkin The Victim In Agriprocessors Verdict? by Nathan...

November 17, 2009: Rabbi Who Endorses Killing Babies Has Unexpected Donor
Comments: 32 | Categories: Chabad , Haredim , Israel , Racism , Xenophobia
Chabad rabbi also authorized the killing of leftist Jews. Rabbi who endorses killing babies has an unexpected donor By Akiva Eldar • Ha'aretz Right-wing spokesmen, including some elected officials, rushed to place Yaakov "Jack" Teitel in the fringe group alongside...

November 15, 2009: South Dakota Prison Officials Strip Rubashkin, Deny Him Kosher Food And Religious Items, Supporters Claim
Comments: 190 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Rubashkin was asked to disrobe and change into the prison uniform. He complied, but stopped short of removing his tzitzis and yarmulka, explaining that, as a religious Jew, he was required to wear these garments at all times, that it...

November 15, 2009: US Arrests Alleged Muslim Terrorist Said To Involved In Attack At Mumbai Chabad
Comments: 12 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc.
Alleged terrorist pretended to be Jewish and had book on Jewish prayer in his bag on arrest. 'Mumbai terrorist pretended to be Jewish' US citizen of Pakistani origin arrested in Chicago on suspicion of planning Denmark attack, but investigation reveals...

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