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July 7, 2009: Rubashkin Attorney Objects To Trial Scheduling
Comments: 10 | Categories: Chabad , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
Wants immigration trial held before bank fraud trial. Trial Date Set In Iowa Slaughterhouse Case IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) ― A lawyer for a former top manager of a kosher slaughterhouse is protesting a judge's decision to hold a trial...

July 7, 2009: Agriprocessors Asks Court To Suppress Evidence
Comments: 10 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Safety , Rubashkin Workers
Attorney for the company claims evidence against it was illegally seized during immigration raid. Agriprocessors asks court to suppress evidence By Trish Mehaffey • The Gazette CEDAR RAPIDS — An Agriprocessors’ attorney claims the evidence seized during the May 12,...

July 6, 2009: BREAKING! Hershey Friedman Agriprocessors Only Bidder – Hearing On Sale Next Week
Comments: 8 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
Unsecured creditors, Postville businesses, former and current workers to get nothing from sale of Agriprocessors. Canadian businessman makes only bid for Agriprocessor BY TONY LEYS • Des Moines Register Cedar Rapids, Ia. – No other bidders stepped forward today to...

June 30, 2009: BREAKING! Chabad of Miami Beach Faces Foreclosure
Comments: 55 | Categories: Chabad
Yeshiva, dorms, Chabad House, apartments all may be seized. Lubavitch Education Center faces foreclosure South Florida Business Journal - by Brian Bandell The Lubavitch Education Center’s 84,020-square-foot, seven-story building on seven acres, along with two other properties, is named in...

June 29, 2009: Why Is Sholom Rubashkin (Jr.) Not In Prison?
Comments: 35 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Moshe Rubashkin
Moshe Rubashkin's son Sholom, AKA Sam Sternberg, was supposed to report to prison earlier this month to serve a 4 month sentence in the Rubashkin Allentown scam. Why didn't he? This: Please click to enlarge.

June 29, 2009: RABBI ADIN STEINSALTZ: The Rebbe is "Like Elijah the Prophet" "Almost a Supernatural Being"
Comments: 44 | Categories: Chabad , Chabad & Christianity
Of course, Elijah the Prophet did not die… From Lubavitch.com: …The Rebbe is unlike so many heroes whose biographies you can’t sell a year after they’ve died. The Rebbe remains a very active figure even though he doesn’t move with...

June 26, 2009: AGRIPROCESSORS: Sale Hearing, New Auction Set
Comments: 13 | Categories: Chabad , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
If no other bidders come forward, Hershey Friedman wins. Auction: 1:30 pm, Monday July 6. Hearing on Sale: 1:30 pm Wednesday, July 15. Please click to enlarge:

June 26, 2009: Bank Sues Rubashkin Family Over Defaulted Loan
Comments: 7 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
$300,00 loan was taken out for Nevel Properties and personally guaranteed by Aaron, Heshy and Sholom Rubashkin. Bank suing Rubashkins for unpaid loan By Trish Mehaffey • The Gazette Related Story: Agriprocessors charges to be tried separately, judge rules CEDAR...

June 26, 2009: Rubashkin's New York Vacation
Comments: 25 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
Rabbi Sholom M. Rubashkin's very fine vacation, in pictures. All photos are taken in the main synagogue in Lubavitch World Headquarters at 770 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York Thursday, the 15th yartzeit of the death of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson,...

June 25, 2009: BREAKING! TWO TRIALS: Judge Splits Rubashkin Federal Charges
Comments: 14 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
Judge says it would be too difficult for a jury to keep all 142 counts straight. Judge separates charges in slaughterhouse case DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- A federal judge in Cedar Rapids has granted a motion to sever immigration...

June 25, 2009: "He Died, So We Come Here To Pray To Him."
Comments: 30 | Categories: Chabad , Chabad & Christianity
Chabad 15 years later. Tens Of Thousands Mark Anniversary Of Rabbi's Death By: Ty Milburn, NY1 News Tens of thousands of people filtered into a Queens cemetery Wednesday night to honor a former leader of the Jewish community. NY1's Ty...

June 25, 2009: Agriprocessors Sale Will Leave Little To Nothing For Unsecured Creditors, Workers
Comments: 40 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
Unsecured creditors owed $22 million, unlikely to recover anything. Agriprocessors sale could leave little for creditors By Dave DeWitte • The Gazette The Rev. Richard Gaul performs a blessing of the Agriprocessors plant and the crowd during a march to...

June 23, 2009: BREAKING! AGRIPROCESSORS SALE FILED WITH COURT [UPDATED]
Comments: 47 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
The buyer is… …Hershey Friedman's SHF Industries. Please click the icon in the viewer's right top corner to better read the document. Please click it again to return to this post. The process works like this. 1. The court must...

June 18, 2009: Beaten in Court, Rubashkins Battle to Keep Crown Heights Leadership
Comments: 18 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Even two felony convictions and his current location in a federal penitentiary may not be enough to bar Moshe Rubashkin from Chabad leadership. Beaten in Court, Rubashkins Battle to Keep Crown Heights Religious Leadership By Elizabeth Dwoskin • Village Voice...

June 18, 2009: BREAKING! JUDGE DENIES RUBASHKIN REQUEST TO MOVE TRIAL
Comments: 5 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
But Judge Lina Reade says she may reconsider as trial nears. Judge denies Rubashkin's request to move trial BY GRANT SCHULTE • Des Moines Register A federal judge has again denied a request to move the trial of former Postville...

June 16, 2009: BREAKING! Rubashkin Wants All Evidence Gathered During Raid Excluded From Trial
Comments: 15 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Safety , Rubashkin Workers
Argues raid violated constitutional rights of workers. He paid them at or below minimum wage; made them worked forced, unpaid overtimes; employed child laborers; shorted employees' pay, and and violated OSHA health and safety regulations. And now he wants to...

June 16, 2009: Chabad Rabbi And Wife Charged With Fraud
Comments: 13 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim
Rabbi Yossi Engel and his wife Chana charged with 39 counts of document fraud, expected to plead not guilty. Rabbi Yossi Engel. Adelaide rabbi and wife charged over school funding PETER KOHN, Australian Jewish News ADELAIDE'S Rabbi Yossi Engel and...

June 15, 2009: Chabad Donor Allegedly Runs Massive South African Ponzi Scheme
Comments: 22 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc.
Barry Tannenbaum gave Chabad a Sefer Torah in 2006. Audio from the Australian Broadcasting Company: Barry Tannenbaum holds the Torah Scroll under the canopy with Chabad's Rabbi Shlomo Wainer. MoneyWeb: Special investigations Reserve Bank, Sars, NPA to investigate SA's biggest...

June 11, 2009: "I Was Tortured By Rabbis…I Went Through Hell"
Comments: 22 | Categories: Chabad , Haredim , Med-Ethics
Chabad tries to stop a family from donating the organs of a brain stem dead child. Neil Steinberg writes in the Chicago Sun-Times: …Joseph C. Cox was looking for an unlit cigar on the floor of his gray 2002 Chevy...

June 7, 2009: The Lies Of Kosher Today, Cont.
Comments: 10 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Spin
Rubashkin's 'former' PR flack 'reports' on the 'sale' of Agriprocessors. As Agriprocessor Heads for a Comeback, Some Wonder How Menachhem Lubinsky, Kosher Today, June 1, 2009 New York…With each passing day, there are signs that the bankrupt Agriprocessor may soon...

June 5, 2009: Rubashkin Wants Two Trials
Comments: 16 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
Agriprocessors VP does not want to testify about bank fraud but wants to testify about immigration charges, claims he did not knowingly hire illegal immigrants. Rubashkin seeks two trials so he can tell his story By Trish Mehaffey • The...

June 3, 2009: Chabad: "We Vehemently Disagree" With Rabbi Manis Friedman
Comments: 35 | Categories: Chabad , Israel
But does Chabad's PR agree with the truth? Statement By Chabad-Lubavitch World Headquarters CHABAD-LUBAVITCH WORLD HEADQUARTERS -- (June 3, 2009) (lubavitch.com) Regarding recent comments made by Rabbi Manis Friedman in response to a question posed by Moment Magazine, we vehemently...

June 3, 2009: Popular Rabbi’s Comments On Treatment Of Arabs Show A Different Side Of Chabad
Comments: 22 | Categories: Chabad , Haredim , Israel
Expanded coverage on Chabad, Rabbi Manis Friedman, and the call for destruction of Muslim holy sites and the killing of non-Jewish civilians in war. Popular Rabbi’s Comments on Treatment of Arabs Show a Different Side of Chabad Nathaniel Popper •...

June 3, 2009: Chabad Rabbi Tries To Clarify Remarks On Killing Muslims, Destroying Muslim Holy Places
Comments: 42 | Categories: Chabad , Israel
Rabbi Manis Friedman explains his position as Chabad tries to distance itself from Friedman's remarks. Chabad rabbi aims to clarify remarks on killing civilians By Ben Harris NEW YORK (JTA) -- A prominent Chabad rabbi is seeking to clarify remarks...

June 2, 2009: Rubashkin Again Asks Judge To Move Trial Out Of Iowa
Comments: 37 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
Claims media reports have biased potential jurors. Rubashkin asks that immigration trial be moved Des Moines Register A former executive at Postville's kosher slaughterhouse asked a judge today to move his federal trial out of Iowa to protect his right...

June 2, 2009: Chabad Hasid-Owned Hotels Stripped Of Sheraton Name
Comments: 6 | Categories: Chabad , Israel , Kosher Business?
Woes continue for Chabad real estate developer Shaya Boymelgreen. 4 Israeli hotels to lose 'Sheraton' title International Starwood hotel chain decides to strip four Israeli hotels of their prestigious brand name, citing desire to preserve trademark's value Danny Sadeh, Ynet...

June 1, 2009: Chabad Rabbi: Destroy Muslim Holy Sites
Comments: 70 | Categories: Chabad , Israel
Rabbi Manis Friedman is a senior Chabad-Lubavitch rabbi and a former simultaneous translator of the Rebbe's televised talks. Chabad rabbi to Moment: “Destroy [Muslim] holy sites” May 21st, 2009 by Josh Nathan-Kazis, New Voices In the latest issue of Moment...

June 1, 2009: Sholom M. Rubashkin: Messianist
Comments: 22 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , MO & Chardal
Agriprocessors former boss and many of his Jewish employees – including schochtim – are Chabad messianists. How did KAJ and the OU put their kosher supervision marks on Agriprocessors' products? Sholom Rubashkin wearing a "Yechi" messianist yarmulke declaring the late...

May 27, 2009: Haredi Rabbi: Buy Only From Stores Owned By Orthodox Jews
Comments: 45 | Categories: Chabad , Haredim , Israel , Sefardim
"If we have before us two stores – one owned by a Jew and the other by a non-Jew (or a Jew that behaves like a gentile) – it is our duty to buy from the God-fearing Jew." Rabbi: Buy...

May 26, 2009: Chabad, Zionism and Israel
Comments: 19 | Categories: Chabad , Chabad Anti-Zionism , Israel
Spinning away the ugly truth. My old friend Yossi Katzman "interviews" my old enemy, Siman Jacobson about the troubles with Zionism and Israel. Both would have you believe Chabad plays no role in those troubles. But that is false. Chabad...

May 22, 2009: BREAKING! No Sale Yet [Updated]
Comments: 3 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Agriprocessors sale still being worked on, not a done deal. I spoke with Joseph Sarachek, Agriprocessors' court-appointed trustee a few minutes ago. At this point, Agriprocessors has not been sold. Sarachek said US Bankruptcy Court must be asked for a...

May 22, 2009: Agriprocessors Beef Line Said Flooded, Inoperable
Comments: 56 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
How will this impact the plant's new owner? I had a credible report from Postville earlier this week that Agriprocessors' beef line is flooded, with much of the equipment ruined and beyond repair. I just spoke with another extremely credible...

May 22, 2009: AGRIPROCESSORS SALE NEAR, ANNOUNCEMENT "SHORTLY"
Comments: 4 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Was Memorial Day weekend chosen to avoid unwanted media coverage? I think it was, and I told several players it would work out this way, with a sale announcement late today. Why? Because the buyer is problematic. Here's the beginning...

May 22, 2009: The Religious Runaway
Comments: 25 | Categories: Chabad , Haredim , Religion
The New York Times has a slide show featuring a woman who left Chabad for a secular life. The Religious Runaway. [Hat Tip: Dr. Rofeh-Filosof.]

May 20, 2009: Forward Reporter Wins Journalism Award For Reporting On Kosher Meat Industry
Comments: 8 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Safety , Rubashkin Workers
Nathaniel Popper wins for exposés on Agriprocessors and Alle. Popper Wins Journalism Award Nathaniel Popper, the Forward’s senior writer, was honored with a Deadline Club award for his coverage of illegal labor practices in the kosher meat industry. He won...

May 19, 2009: Chabad Messianists Missionize Little Kids, Parents Throw Fit
Comments: 23 | Categories: Chabad
Kindergarten kids targets of Chabad coercion. Kindergarten Parents Call Parade “Religious Coercion” Shmais.com The secular-religious divide in Israel reached a new low this week when parents of children at the city-run Elroy kindergarten in Katamon, Jerusalem, complained about a substitute...

May 18, 2009: Why Didn't The Feds Prosecute Agriprocessors Wage and Employment Crimes?
Comments: 7 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Safety , Rubashkin Workers
George Bush. His Department of Labor failed to enforce the law at hundreds of companies, including Agriprocessors. Wage theft victims fight for rights In a recession, some employers may try to shortchange their workers. But wage theft victims are fighting...

May 17, 2009: Uncertainty Tests Postville's Jews
Comments: 55 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
But will Postville's Jewish community ever come to grips with the crimes committed in its name? Uncertainty, change test Postville's Jews TONY LEYS • Des Moines Register Postville, Ia. - A few dozen Jewish families have left this northeast Iowa...

May 17, 2009: State Thinks Agriprocessors Sale Near
Comments: 11 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Trustee says business is up. Optimism about sale of Postville plant TONY LEYS •Des Moines Register State leaders say they are working aggressively to help attract a new, reputable owner for a bankrupt Postville meatpacking plant, and they are optimistic...

May 15, 2009: EXCLUSIVE: Rubashkin Alleged To Have Violated Conditions Of His Release, May Face Incarceration
Comments: 36 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Safety , Rubashkin Workers
Former Agriprocessors workers also allege health and safety violations, workplace discrimination and labor law violations. I spoke with two former Agriprocessors workers today. What they told me was quite disturbing. Carole and Tisha Doty are mother and daughter, Iowa natives...

May 15, 2009: BREAKING! RUBASHKIN CHARGED WITH 70 ADDITIONAL CRIMINAL COUNTS
Comments: 19 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
Now faces 140 federal counts. New indictment filed in kosher slaughterhouse case DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Former Iowa kosher slaughterhouse vice president Sholom Rubashkin has been named in a new 142-count indictment that adds 70 new charges. The superseding...

May 15, 2009: Yated Ne'eman: Government Prosecution Of Rubashkin Antisemitic "Blood Libel"
Comments: 34 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Safety , Rubashkin Workers
Haredi newspaper calls charges filed against Rabbi Sholom M. Rubashkin and Agriprocessors an antisemitic "blood libel." Please click to enlarge or download the pdf version linked at the bottom of this post: Here it is as a pdf file: Yated...

May 14, 2009: Breaking! Goverment Gives Former Agriprocessors Workers Visas
Comments: 9 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Safety , Rubashkin Workers
Visas awarded 20 former Agriprocessors workers under a law that protects crime victims. Former Agriprocessors workers get good news Jens Manuel Krogstad, Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courrier POSTVILLE -- The government has awarded 20 former Agriprocessors workers visas under a law that...

May 13, 2009: Postville Lag Ba'Omer Parade Video: "Agendas Destroy" Postville
Comments: 43 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
An "old" Postville tradition? Or an excuse to avoid communal responsibility? Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai was a student of Rabbi Akiva. He lived 1900 years ago in the Galilee, 600 years after Rabbi Vogel said. Also note the sign carried...

May 13, 2009: $1 Million Donated To Postville Relief Since Raid
Comments: 10 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Safety , Rubashkin Workers
Private donations far outstrip any government aid. Postville residents pray for healing, peace Janell Bradley, Gazette Online From the first sight of the helicopters that announced it, the May 12, 2008, raid on Agriprocessors Inc. tore apart the small town...

May 13, 2009: Postville Anniversary Video
Comments: 6 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Safety , Rubashkin Workers
What is the lesson of Postville? Two longer, better videos are posted on MinnPost.com: Part 1, Part 2. Illegal workers are paid less and exploited more – much more than legal workers. They drive down wages because they have no...

May 12, 2009: Why Has The Government Not Charged Agriprocessors With Civil Rights Violations?
Comments: 21 | Categories: Chabad , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Price-Fixing , Rubashkin Safety , Rubashkin Workers
Could it be because of this? The Kansas City Star reports: …Of the nearly 400 arrested, 290 already have been deported, some leaving family members behind. Many of the remaining workers are unemployed and unable to leave. Some have requested...

May 11, 2009: Government Wants To Drop Rubashkin Identity Theft Charges
Comments: 39 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
Supreme Court ruling, prosecutorial failures damage aggravated identity theft charges. Government seeks to drop charges against Rubashkin CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) -- The government is seeking to dismiss identity theft charges against the former vice president of a kosher meatpacking...

May 11, 2009: Agriprocessors Trustee: No Date For Sale, $10 Million Debt Buy One Step In A Long Process
Comments: 6 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
"This has been, in my 22 years of doing this, one of the most difficult, challenging, convoluted bankruptcies that I've ever dealt with," Sarachek said. Amid vigils, Iowa town pins hopes on sale of plant By NIGEL DUARA , AP...

May 11, 2009: EXCLUSIVE: The Man Who Bought Agriprocessors $10 Million Line of Credit – Updated
Comments: 23 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , MO & Chardal
How much did he really pay? Is he a union buster? I don't have many details but I do have a name and an amount. The purchaser is a Modern Orthodox or non-hasidic left wing haredi man from Canada named...

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