3,107 posts categorized "Chabad"

January 30, 2011: Chabad Offers "Spiritual Healing" From Convicted Fraudster
Comments: 16 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
Mr Montlake, who was convicted of fraud and given a six-year prison sentence in 2007, said he had trained in reflexology, aromatherapy and massage, and said the spiritual healing had been "self-developed" from there. Meanwhile, in another British case, an...

January 29, 2011: Chabad Yeshiva, Accused Of Fraud, Returns $410,000
Comments: 8 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel
The Israel program fund provider Masa tightens control in wake of audit in which only a quarter of registered students were present. Yeshiva, suspected of fraud, returns $410k in stipends to Masa Israel program fund provider tightens control in wake...

January 28, 2011: As Most Chabad Rabbis Move To Oppose IDF Conversions, A Leading Chabad Rabbi Demurs
Comments: 9 | Categories: Chabad , Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal , Religion, Religion & State
The outspoken opposition of IDF-sanctioned conversions by two dozen Chabad rabbis has now put them at odds with Kfar Chabad's rabbi, Mordechai Ashkenazi, who categorically rejects their claims. R' Ashkenazi At Odds With All Chabad Rabbis Breaking News: The outspoken...

January 27, 2011: Chabad Rabbinic Group Wants To Teach European Public School And University Students About The Holocaust
Comments: 32 | Categories: Chabad , Chabad & Holocaust , Chabad History
But will the Rabbinical Center of Europe teach students about Chabad's unique role in opposing rescue attempts during the Holocaust, its claim that Reform and secular Jews caused the Holocaust, and its claim that only the messiah would stop Hitler?...

January 26, 2011: Senior Congressman Writes To AG Asking For Review Of Rubashkin Case
Comments: 61 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Jerrold Nadler writes a very respectful letter to Attorney General Eric Holder asking for a review of the Sholom Rubashkin case. But in the letter, Rep. Nadler makes several serious errors of fact that render most of his request moot...

January 24, 2011: Exclusive: Cholov Yisroel Dairy Loses License, Forced To Close Due To Contaminated Milk And Cheese
Comments: 18 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Scandal
Emes Milk, Lev Milk, Morning Select cheeses and Kahal cheeses are said to be impacted. Heavy bacteria contamination reported. A source tells me that the halav yisrael milk plant in Lowville, NY has been shut down by the state. The...

January 20, 2011: The Forward Gets It Wrong On Rubashkin
Comments: 71 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
A report on amicus briefs filed in support of Sholom Rubashkin misrepresents those filings and the facts of the case against Rubashkin. As you read the Forward's report posted below, keep the following facts in mind: 1. The ACLU brief...

January 18, 2011: Chabad Real Estate Developer Gets 33 Months In Prison In Mortgage Scheme
Comments: 60 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
Eliyahu Ezagui was sentenced to 33 months in prison for the scheme, which was first exposed by The Daily News in 2008 leading to his federal indictment. Brooklyn developer Eliyahu Ezagui gets 33 months in prison for fraudulent mortage scheme...

January 13, 2011: Exclusive: Jews For Sarah Website Has Foreign Private Domain Name Registration That Shields True Ownership
Comments: 151 | Categories: Chabad , Current Affairs
Sarah Palin's Jewish group's website, JewsForSarah.com, uses a foreign domain name registration to shield its ownership from the American public. Here is the JewsforSarah.com domain registration: The public head of Jews for Sarah is my old friend "Benyamin" Bertram "Buddy"...

January 12, 2011: Leading Settler Rabbi: Gentile Sperm Causes Children To Have Negative Genetic Traits
Comments: 74 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Chabad , Israel , MO & Chardal , Religion, Religion & State , Xenophobia
Rabbi Dov Lior rules that Jewish Law prohibits sterile couples from getting pregnant using non-Jewish man's sperm, because he says the child will have the "negative genetic traits that characterize non-Jews." On subject of single mothers he says, the "child...

January 11, 2011: Rubashkins Write A Torah Scroll
Comments: 46 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
A Sefer Torah is currently being written in Yerushalayim Ir HaKodesh in the merit of our father, R' Sholom Mordechai HaLevi Ben Rivkah Rubashkin. His ordeal has put the beautiful and eternal unity of the Jewish people on display in...

January 11, 2011: Inappropriate? A Chabad Rabbi Complains About Chabad's Unending Quest For PR, And Its Sleazy Attempts To Link Itself To National Tragedies In Order To Raise Money Off The Pain And Suffering Of The Victims
Comments: 18 | Categories: Chabad , Chabad & the Media
"After Shabbos we learned that while we were dining at the Shabbos table full of guests, the 'rabbi' of the reform temple where Giffords is a member (her father was Jewish) was busy being interviewed by various TV stations. It...

January 11, 2011: Chabad Opens Bar In Jerusalem
Comments: 37 | Categories: Bizarre , Chabad , Outreach
The "Chabar" targets both the religious and secular crowd and offers bi-weekly Torah classes side by side with regular performances. It's open daily between 7 pm and 11 pm and located inside an ancient Jerusalem building with stone walls that...

January 10, 2011: Baruch Dayan HaEmet: Moshe Yess
Comments: 25 | Categories: Chabad , Music
The singer-songwriter who was once a backup musician for Crosby, Stills and Nash, and who became a Chabad messianist who claimed to have seen the late rebbe in the flesh after he died, and frequented late-night radio talk shows like...

January 9, 2011: Why Fraudsters Succeed: The Rubashkin Crime Family, Bernard Madoff and Sonja Kohn
Comments: 26 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
This isn’t the first time that the Rubashkin family has been involved in financial fraud. One of the first victims, in the mid-1970s, was my grandfather, who Sholom Rubashkin’s father, Aaron, swindled out of his factory, driving my grandfather to...

January 8, 2011: Rubashkin Speaks At Grandson's Brit
Comments: 41 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
From federal prison via telephone, Rabbi Sholom Rubashkin delivers a Torah thought. Mazel tov, Getzel. To listen, click the gray bar: Rubashkin Dvar Hatorah from prison grandson's brit 1-7-11 Pictures.

January 6, 2011: Chabad Launches New Logo
Comments: 36 | Categories: Chabad , Israel
Advertising agency hired to design new logo with the input of hundreds of Chabad shluchim. Chabad's new logo heralds changing times Hasidic group hires ad firms to help it launch spunky new image among world's secular Jews Akiva Novick •...

January 4, 2011: Nathan Lewin Misrepresents Again
Comments: 26 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Rubashkin's attorney just can't tell the whole truth, so help him God. From the appeal brief Nathan Lewin filed today: ICE memoranda and emails reported additional pre-raid meetings between Judge Reade and the United States Attorney's office. [App. 276-282,308-309] At...

January 4, 2011: Rubashkin Appeal Based On Alleged "Prosecutorial Misconduct"
Comments: 38 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Former Agriprocessors manager convicted of bank fraud in 2009 filed a brief in the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals Monday, asking for a new trial based prosecutorial misconduct and a federal judge improperly presiding over on the trial. Former Agriprocessors...

January 4, 2011: Avi Moskowitz On The Rubashkin Appeal
Comments: 9 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
The former Assistant US Attorney for the Southern District of New York and current criminal defense attorney talks about what you can expect to happen from the Rubashkin appeal. Originally published at 9:40 pm 1-3-11. From Zev Brenner's Talkline radio...

January 3, 2011: Global Psalms-Reading Called For As Rubashkin Lawyers File Appeal
Comments: 60 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
People are asked to join in an international effort to recite Tehillim for Reb Sholom Mordechai Halevi ben Rivkah Rubashkin today, at 1 p.m. EST. Please recite kapitlach (chapters) 20, 52 and 150. Global Tehillim Effort as Rubashkin Lawyers Set...

January 3, 2011: The Rabbis Or The Money
Comments: 9 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Chabad , Israel , MO & Chardal
If you want your NIS 1 Million in government funding restored, fire your Chabadnik rabbis who incite violence against Arabs, government tells settler yeshiva. The Rabbis or the money Akiva Novick • Yediot Translation: Didi Remez • Coteret.com / Special...

December 31, 2010: Rabbi Arrested For Allegedly Molesting, Sodomizing Minors
Comments: 40 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
The rabbi is suspected of sodomizing a fourteen-year-old girl three years ago, as well as molesting additional minors, both male and female, over the course of this past year. Popular rabbi in north arrested for allegedly molesting minors Rabbis name...

December 31, 2010: The Appeal Of Haredi Orthodoxy To Young Secular-Born Jews
Comments: 17 | Categories: BTs , Chabad , Haredim , Outreach
A growing number of young Canadian Jews are finding meaning, community and a sense of peace in the rigorous practice of their faith. The appeal of Orthodoxy to young, secular-born Jews A growing number of young Jews are finding meaning,...

December 30, 2010: Rubashkin Fundraiser Nets $160,000
Comments: 180 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , MO & Chardal
Exhaling deeply after each breath, Rabbi Yaakov Perlow, the Novominsker Rebbe, blasted the federal judge that sentenced Sholom Rubashkin for what he called, “corrupt thinking” and a “corrupt way of acting." "What’s happening here?” Rabbi Perlow asked the over 1,000...

December 27, 2010: US Attorney Talks About Rubashkin
Comments: 40 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
“The goal of this case was to prevent future crimes like this, as well as to punish Rubashkin,” Rose said. “This case was important for those that are taking advantage of and employing illegal immigrants but all of that got...

December 26, 2010: A Phone Call From Rubashkin's Daughter
Comments: 66 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , MO & Chardal
Sholom Rubashkin's daughter robo-called Far Rockaway and the Five Towns last week before the big Free Rubashkin fundraising event held there. Here is a recording of that robo-call. Please click the gray bar to listen: Rubashkin Daugher Roza Weiss Phone...

December 24, 2010: A Chabad Christmas
Comments: 23 | Categories: Chabad , PARODY & SATIRE
A poem for the season by our very own Yochanan Lavie. A Chabad Christmas A Poem By Yochnan Lavie Twas the night before Nitel, when all through the shul Not a bochur was learning, not even Reb Shmuel. The mezuzot...

December 24, 2010: Chabad Financier Funds Pro-Rubashkin Film
Comments: 34 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Brooklyn financier Simi Jacobson is bankrolling a documentary about Sholom Rubashkin and has a plan to help free the jailed Lubavitcher. Simi's Plan to Save Rubashkin Brooklyn financier Simi Jacobson is bankrolling a documentary about Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin and tells...

December 24, 2010: Chabad Rabbi Threatens Government With Civil War
Comments: 59 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal , Religion, Religion & State
Rabbi Sholom DovBear Wolpe called for civil war if Israel evacuates even one West Bank settlement. Wolpe is a widely popular Chabad rabbi affiliated with the overtly messianist faction of Chabad. Rabbi threatens civil war at rally Thousands gather in...

December 22, 2010: USDA Unveils New Humane Animal Handling Enforcement Measures
Comments: 6 | Categories: Chabad , Haredim , Kosher Scandal
The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced several measures to better enforce humane handling laws for cattle slaughtered at FSIS-inspected facilities. They appear to be in response to violations at Agriprocessors uncovered by PETA in 2004 and 2007....

December 21, 2010: Guatemalan Families Reunite In Postville
Comments: 43 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
26 family members from Guatemala were reunited with 8 former Agriprocessors workers whom they had not seen in years. Many of the travelers were children whose mothers left Guatemala several years ago to earn money in Postville to send back...

December 17, 2010: Judge Orders Rubashkins To Pay $2 Million
Comments: 185 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
A judge has ordered members of the family that owned a kosher meatpacking plant in Iowa to pay more than $2 million after defaulting on financial agreements with one of their former banks. Judge orders ex-owners of Iowa kosher meatpacking...

December 17, 2010: Dumbest Quote Of The Week
Comments: 15 | Categories: Chabad
A Chabad hasid says he has a connection to God. Guess what that connection is… His beard: "My beard is my connection to God," said Stern, who supports his family with a day job as an operations manager in Manhattan....

December 16, 2010: Rubashkin Defense Fund Almost Broke, Chief Fundraiser Says
Comments: 63 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
The organization held similar rallies in Monsey, Borough Park, Flatbush and Miami and raised close to $2 million. The reason for the rally in the Five Towns and Far Rockaway area is simple, according to Rabbi Lipschutz. “We’re at the...

December 13, 2010: Israeli Wearing Tefillin Causes Terror Scare In New Zealand
Comments: 9 | Categories: Chabad , Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal
An Israeli tourist aboard a New Zealand ferry was questioned by police for wearing Tefillin, TVNZ website reported on Sunday. Tefillin sparks bomb scare in NZ Religious Israeli tourist forced to ground by police after praying with ritual leather boxes...

December 13, 2010: Grave Of The First Chabad Rebbe Vandalized
Comments: 20 | Categories: Antisemitism , Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc.
The grave of the Ba'al HaTanya, also known as the Alter Rebbe, Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Lyadi, in Haditch, Ukraine, was vandalized in what the local Chabad rabbi is calling a "pogrom," three weeks before the Alter Rebbe's 199th yahrtzeit....

December 11, 2010: Brooklyn D.A.: I Have Never Been Deterred By Anyone Incuding Brooklyn Beit Dins
Comments: 7 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
"In the 21 years I've served as Brooklyn's District Attorney I have never been deterred by anyone including the various Beth Dins in Brooklyn from fulfilling my responsibilities as the Chief Law Enforcement Official of Kings County." Brooklyn NY prosecutor...

December 10, 2010: Chabad's Crown Heights Rabbinical Court Bans Chabad Followers From Talking To The Media Or Publicizing Anything That Could Lead To A Jew's Arrest – Or Even To Investigation By Police Or The Government
Comments: 42 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc.
A Brooklyn rabbinical court has a new commandment for the thousands of religious Jews under its jurisdiction: Thou shall not snitch. Rabbinical court to Lubavitchers: Quit yer snitchin' about cops, crime to outsiders BY Simone Weichselbaum • New York Daily...

December 9, 2010: Video: Matisyahu Learns To Box From Dmitriy Salita
Comments: 18 | Categories: Chabad , Music , Sports
Matisyahu gets a boxing lesson from the Chabad boxer, Dmitriy Salita. The segment with Matisyahu and Salita starts at about 5 minutes into the video:

December 9, 2010: Former Beatle Paul McCartney Attends Chabad Fundraiser In New Jersey
Comments: 46 | Categories: Chabad
McCartney was attending the fundraiser because the father of McCartney's girlfriend, Nancy Shevell, is a Chabad House supporter. NJ gov introduced as 'rock star' to Paul McCartney By BETH DeFALCO • The Associated Press LIVINGSTON, N.J. -- New Jersey Gov....

December 9, 2010: Chabad Rabbi Sues Army Over Beard Ruling
Comments: 28 | Categories: Chabad
An Orthodox Jewish rabbi from Brooklyn sued the U.S. Army Wednesday for denying him a commission to serve as an Army chaplain because his faith prohibits him from shaving his beard. Rabbi sues Army over beard ruling By Spencer S....

December 6, 2010: Chabad Rabbi Busted For Smuggling Cocaine
Comments: 81 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc.
Eliyahu Hecht, 57, a father of six who works for the global charity organization Kollel Chabad, was returning to Israel from Costa Rica, where he was fund-raising for a soup kitchen operated by Kollel Chabad in Safed. He was arrested...

December 4, 2010: Holtzberg Family's Role In Chabad Of Mumbai Ended With Murders, Chabad Says
Comments: 8 | Categories: Chabad , Turf Disputes
Chabad moves to take Nariman House away from Moshe Holtzberg, the only surviving member of his immediate family to survive the terror attack that killed his parents and four others two years ago. ‘Trusteeship ended with Rabbi’ By Ashutosh Shukla...

December 4, 2010: Explaining Chabad: How Did A Small Hasidic Court Become The Worldwide Face Of Judaism?
Comments: 28 | Categories: Chabad , Chabad & the Media
How did a small Hasidic court become a phenomenon that is fomenting something of a revolution in the Jewish world? The 4,000 Chabad emissaries who convened in New York offer a simple answer: energy, motivation, love and tolerance. World Wide...

December 2, 2010: Rubashkin Compares Himself To The Biblical Joseph, Says Government Out To Get Him And "I Was Iowa's Jewish Problem"
Comments: 58 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
In a letter from prison, Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin accuses goverment officials in Iowa of plotting against him to fix "the Jewish problem." "I Was Iowa's Jewish Problem" In a letter passed on to COLlive.com by his family, imprisoned Sholom Mordechai...

December 1, 2010: Congresswoman Calls For U.S. Inquiry On Rubashkin Sentence
Comments: 37 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Saying the fraud sentencing of kosher meat king Shalom Rubashkin was disproportionate compared with sentences meted out to others who committed more serious crimes, Rep. Yvette Clarke of Brooklyn has called on U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to intervene. Congresswoman...

November 30, 2010: School For Disabled Sues Two Chabad Schools In Alleged Kohl's Contest Fraud
Comments: 21 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc.
In the race to win a grant, officials at Abi's Place, a school for 10 moderately to severely disabled children, say they were betrayed by their counterparts at two Chabad schools, Hebrew Academy Community School in Margate and the Rohr...

November 28, 2010: Chabad Rabbi Receives Death Threats
Comments: 22 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Israel
Written in what appeared to be a felt-tipped black marker, the letter said in Hebrew, "BEWARE FOR YOUR LIVES! If Yaakov does not step down from the position that he has taken at Chen 19, WE WILL TAKE HIM DOWN....

November 28, 2010: Lessons for Sholom Rubashkin: Supreme Court To Hear Appeal Of Iowa Sentence
Comments: 56 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
The questions: Does a felon's efforts at rehabilitation count toward a lighter sentence on resentencing? And how much is too much for a judge to depart from US Sentencing Guidelines? U.S. Supreme Court to ponder Iowa drug sentence By LEE...

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