3,107 posts categorized "Chabad"

August 9, 2007: Mad Cow Safety Concerns, Repeated Fecal & Bile Contamination Alleged at Agriprocessors, America's Largest Glatt Kosher Slaughterhouse
Comments: 14 | Categories: Chabad , Kosher Scandal
USDA documents to be released later today by the United Food and Commercial Workers Union are said to show a pattern of food safety issues including recalled products, mad-cow-related safety concerns and repeated fecal and bile contamination at the plant...

August 7, 2007: 'Sanhedrin' Member: Israeli Police "Worse Than The Germans"
Comments: 58 | Categories: Chabad , Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal
Hilltop Youth and a few haredi supporters rioted when police attempted to evacuate them from dwellings in the Hebron marketplace where the Hilltop Youth and supporters had been squatting illegally. Watch this video of the evacuation. See the settlers wearing...

August 5, 2007: "He Was A Moral Failure" – The 6th Lubavitcher Rebbe And The Holocaust
Comments: 209 | Categories: Chabad , Chabad & Holocaust , Chabad History , Haredim , History
avrohom, a Chabad follower and frequent (and rude) commenter on this blog, continues to insist the 6th Lubavitcher Rebbe was a blameless tzaddik, a fount of perfection who never erred and who certainly never opposed Holocaust rescue. Of course, nothing...

August 3, 2007: PETA "Attacks" Jews Again? Yes, Say Haredi Rabbis
Comments: 5 | Categories: Chabad , Haredim , Kosher Scandal
On July 30, PETA sent a letter, a video and still photographs to Dr. Thomas Friedan, NYC's commissioner of health. PETA is concerned about the handling of chickens during the kapporot ritual held every fall during the week before Yom...

August 1, 2007: Disgraced Chabad Rabbi Snared In Kosher Fraud – Scandal Rocks Australia – Chabad Rabbi Collected Fees But Did Not Inspect Plants, Beit Din Covered Up, AJN Claims
Comments: 5 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business?
Rabbi Yosi Engel is in more trouble, adding to the possible criminal fraud charges stemming from a scam Hebrew school he ran that enlisted students without their or their parents knowledge or consent and then collected government funds for instruction...

July 31, 2007: An Early Hanukka Present: The Rebbe and the Menora, Part 2
Comments: 29 | Categories: Chabad , Hanukkah , History
Ynet reports: The renovation of the Jewish Quarter in Jerusalem that started in 1967 lasted over 15 years. During the construction of the Kotel Yeshiva over the Western Wall's plaza, an impressive building complex was discovered including the homes of...

July 30, 2007: Rubashkin Rabbi Misleads
Comments: 19 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Gordon , Rubashkin Workers
Rabbi Asher Zeilingold writes in the American Jewish World, July 27, 2007 (not online): I appreciate this opportunity to elaborate my thoughts on the Conservative movement's new Hechsher Tzedek (AJW 7-20-07). I am deeply concerned that the Hechsher Tzedek (justice...

July 30, 2007: In Defense Of Noah Feldman And Intermarriage?
Comments: 15 | Categories: Chabad , MO & Chardal , Religion, Religion & State
The most specious comparison I've seen in quite some time comes from Rabbi Shmuely Boteach, written in defense of his friend Noah Feldman: …MANY HAVE written to me that Prof. Feldman's circumstances are different, seeing that he was raised in...

July 25, 2007: Understanding The So-Called "Second Cut"
Comments: 1 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Halakha , Haredim , History , Kosher Scandal , MO & Chardal , Rubashkin Gordon
At the heart of both of the Rubashkin slaughter scandals is the so-called "second cut," a cut made after the ritual slaughter cut to speed bleeding. This was – until Rubashkin – a rarely used procedure. When it was done,...

July 25, 2007: BREAKING: USDA CLEARS RUBASHKIN; HOOK DISCONTINUED – AGAIN
Comments: 24 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Scandal , MO & Chardal , Rubashkin Gordon
I asked USDA FSIS chief spokesman Steven Cohen the following questions last night: Again, is the use of a meat hook by a non-rabbinic employee to make an "additional cut" within USDA regulations? Is it legal? Is thrashing and probing...

July 24, 2007: Special Prosecutor To Investigate Alleged Animal Abuse At Rubashkin's Gordon Plant
Comments: 1 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Gordon
The AP reports: A special prosecutor has been appointed to look into allegations of animal mistreatment at a Gordon meatpacking plant. In a complaint filed July 9 with the Sheridan County attorney, the animal rights group People for the Ethical...

July 20, 2007: OK Kosher and The Crown Heights Child Molester Suicide Mikva
Comments: 12 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Scandal , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Leah Kleim writes on SevenFatCow: When his body was found in the garage of the Chabad center,Don Yoel Levy, his brother and the CEO of OK Kashrut blamed the wife of his late brother, the mother of his children, for...

July 18, 2007: Chabad Rabbi Caught In Government Embezzlemet Scandal
Comments: 15 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
An Australian Chabad rabbi signs a contact with the board of a synagogue. When the contract expires, the board asks the rabbi to leave. He refuses and tries to take the synagogue to beit din, claiming halakha grants him his...

July 6, 2007: Judaism's Own Untouchables – The Sexual Gift That Never Stops Giving
Comments: 149 | Categories: BTs , Chabad , Ethics , Halakha , Haredim , MO & Chardal , Outreach , Rabbis & Sex
Writing on Jewschool, David Kelsey points out what would be the biggest stumbling block to recruiting new ba'alei teshuva – if the BTs knew about it. For the most part, potential BTs do not know. I think it's time to...

July 4, 2007: The Boymelgreen - Leviev Divorce
Comments: 0 | Categories: Chabad , Turf Disputes
The partnership between Chabad oligarch Lev Leviev and Chabad real estate developer Shaya Boylmelgreen appears to be over. Nathaniel Popper of the Forward chronicles the breakup: …Despite what has become of the relationship, there were good reasons to think that...

July 1, 2007: Rabbi Moshe Rubashkin Allegedly Assaults Employee
Comments: 17 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Moshe Rubashkin
A Crown Heights blog, affiliated with an opposing faction, details the latest violence committed by Rabbi Moshe Rubashkin, head of the government sponsored Crown heights Community Council and a convicted felon. Rubashkin in a son of Aaron Rubashkin, purveyor of...

June 27, 2007: Chabad Takes Major Donation From Fraudster; Rabbi Morris Esformes' Nursing Homes Have History Of Dangerous Care And Abuse
Comments: 16 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Ethics , Med-Ethics, Public Health
The Jewish Press reports on the new Chabad museum, community center, synagogue and school planned for Alaska: Chicago philanthropist Rabbi Morris Esformes has pledged to sponsor two new historic landmarks: the Alaska Jewish Historical Museum and Community Center, and a...

June 27, 2007: Messianic Rabbis In The US Military
Comments: 14 | Categories: Chabad , Religion, Religion & State
The US Military's only Messianic Jewish chaplain is profiled here. Long time FailedMessiah reader and military man Brian Kresge notes the potential problems with having a Messianic Jew serve as a chaplain. Does the military consider this chaplain to be...

June 27, 2007: How To Stop Chabad In Eastern Europe
Comments: 3 | Categories: Chabad , Turf Disputes
Visitors to any capital city in the former Soviet Union are likely to find a building much like the one at Kropotkina 22 in central Minsk. Situated on prime real estate and a stone's throw from the U.S. Embassy, it...

June 21, 2007: Another New Chabad Sexual Abuse Scandal
Comments: 9 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Recently, within the last week. A Chabad cheder in a haredi town not that far from Jerusalem or Tel Aviv. A 13 year old boy molests more than 10 younger boys, leading them into the bathroom and groping them. The...

June 21, 2007: Chabad Motto? If At First You Don't Succeed, Sue the Victim
Comments: 37 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
A Chabad man serves as the hazzan of a Chabad synagogue. Several years ago, outside another synagogue after a community event, the Chabad hazzan sexually assaults a woman who is a member of the Chabad synagogue. He is eventually arrested...

June 20, 2007: Chief Rabbi Meets With Rabbi Who Urged Rabin's Assassination
Comments: 19 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Homophobia and its Discontents , Israel
Rabbi Gershon Tannenbaum. a convicted swindler with a 30 year track record of shady dealings, is the director of Igud HaRabbonim, a haredi rabbinic organization. Rabbi Tannenbaum writes a regular column for the Jewish Press which, like Igud, seems not...

June 19, 2007: The Rebbe's Legacy, 13 Years On
Comments: 180 | Categories: Chabad
The OU's Executive Vice President Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb writes: …In the absence of a leader, there has been a messianic reaction. Based on fragmentary remarks by the Rebbe himself, many of his followers believe that he is the Messiah,...

June 18, 2007: Have A Drink On The King Messiah, Long May He Live!
Comments: 20 | Categories: Chabad , Israel
Rabbi Tzik Zimroni, perhaps the most extreme of the extreme Chabad messianists, has launched a campaign with some as-yet-unnamed US Chabad rabbis. Stewards and Stewardesses will visit bars in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem tonight, offering free drinks to patrons who...

June 15, 2007: The Newest Chabad Scandal
Comments: 144 | Categories: BTs , Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
[This Post Will Stay At The Top Of The Blog For A few Days. Newer Posts Are Immediately Below This Post.] A 14 1/2 year old girl from a Conservative Jewish home has a school project, of sorts – the...

June 14, 2007: The Jewish Week Defends Chabad's 'Chief Rabbi' Of Russia Berel Lazar
Comments: 5 | Categories: Chabad , Chabad & the Media , Court Jews
The Jewish Week has piece defending Chabad's "chief rabbi" of Russia Berel Lazar from charges that he is little more than Russian strongman Vladimir Putin's poodle. In it, a host of Jewish leaders from many different factions say, in effect,...

June 14, 2007: The Rebbe and the Holocaust: Chabad's Little White Lie
Comments: 11 | Categories: Chabad , Chabad & Holocaust , Ethics
Rabbi Yankie Tauber writes on Chabad.org: …In his writings and discussions on the subject, the Rebbe rejected all theological explanations for the Holocaust. What greater conceit -- the Rebbe would say -- and what greater heartlessness, can there be than...

June 14, 2007: Chabad Molestation Scandals
Comments: 9 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Case 1: An older Chabad rabbinical student molests a younger, teenage Chabad yeshiva student. The older student has a position of authority, the younger does not. When the abuse becomes known, the older student gets therapy and is pronounced "cured."...

June 11, 2007: Another Chabad Molestation Scandal
Comments: 38 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
This one involving an 11 year old boy molested at Camp Gan Israel in Montreal 25 years ago. His alleged abuser, a camp waiter (a position given to yeshiva students) went on to anally rape boys at knife point in...

June 7, 2007: Chabad Molestation Scandal
Comments: 23 | Categories: Chabad , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Link I was fifteen. He, the older mashpia-bochur - me, the young naive lesser religious, grossly convincing me as my mashpia not to run after chix and to study with him and become really really close to the rebbe…he did...

June 6, 2007: Leading Israeli Rabbis: Do Not Help Darfur Refugees Who Reach Israeli Soil
Comments: 50 | Categories: Abdication , Chabad , Chabad & EJs , Ethics , Israel , MO & Chardal , Refugees
Here is a piece by Matthew Wagner from today's Jerusalem Post. Wagner reports Rabbi Dov Lior, the rabbi of Hebron and Kiryat Arba and a leader of the National Religious right wing has ruled that Israel should not aid Darfur...

June 6, 2007: Who Is The Richest Man In Israel? A Chabadnik!
Comments: 7 | Categories: Chabad , Court Jews , Israel
Yes, that's right – Chabad's very own oiigarch, diamond and property magnate Lev Leviev is the richest man in Israel. Leviev owns Aftrica-Israel Corporation, and his net worth is said to be more than 6 billion dollars. Leviev – a...

June 5, 2007: Chabad Covers For Putin – Again
Comments: 6 | Categories: Chabad , Court Jews
How much of a shill for neo-Stalinist thug Vladimir Putin is Chabad's "chief rabbi" of Russia, Berel Lazar? Well, today President Bush gave a much anticipated speech sharply critical of Putin's Stalinist policies and his disregard for human rights and...

June 5, 2007: Chabad's Fight For Vilna Almost Over
Comments: 7 | Categories: Chabad , Dirty Tricks , Turf Disputes
The JTA has a piece about the fight between Chabad and the Lithuanian Jewish community. It seems the Chabad rabbi, Sholom Ber Krinsky (the nephew of the head of Chabad, Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky) is near eviction and has little support...

June 3, 2007: More On Chabad's Attempted Takeover Of Ukraine
Comments: 2 | Categories: Chabad , Dirty Tricks , Turf Disputes
Moshe writes in a comment to this post: And these strong arm tactics aren't restricted to non-Orthodox either. Last week, the non-Chabad but scrupulously Orthodox Conference of European Rabbis had its regular standing committee meeting, planned six months in advance,...

June 1, 2007: Chabad Tries To Take Over Conservative School In Ukraine
Comments: 6 | Categories: Chabad , Dirty Tricks , Turf Disputes
The JTA reports Chabad and its Ohr Avner network of schools, funded by Israeli billionaire Lev Leviev, tried to take the Conservative Movement's day school in Ukraine. The Schechter Institute claims the local Chabad rabbi, functioning as a representative of...

May 31, 2007: The Lubavitcher Rebbe "Justified" The Holocaust; A "Surgery" "Necessary" To Save The Jewish People
Comments: 89 | Categories: Chabad , Chabad & Holocaust , Chabad History
And Hitler, yemach shemo, a "servant of God" just like Nebuchadnetzer. Chabad tried to cover this up. Thankfully, the truth has finally come out: God as surgeon By Yehuda Bauer The panel discussion on "Haredim and the Holocaust" recently aired...

May 21, 2007: Free Book On Chabad
Comments: 0 | Categories: Books , Chabad , Chabad History
The Elder just sent me an extraordinary email with a link to M. Avrum Ehrlich's website, where he has a complete pdf copy of his book, Leadership In The Habad Movement available for free download. I think this is Ehrlich's...

May 20, 2007: On False Messianism
Comments: 54 | Categories: Chabad , Halakha
Stephen M. Tolany, once a frequent commenter on the old Protocols blog, wrote a piece for the YU Commentator about two years ago debunking Chabad messianism. It's a solid, well-argued piece that is also brief enough to easily read. I...

May 20, 2007: A Messianic Lag BaOmer In Queens
Comments: 14 | Categories: Chabad , Outreach
Chabad ran an outreach event for Lag BaOmer in Queens, NY. A reader sent me these pictures from that event. He noted that he had no idea the event was messianist until after he paid his money and showed up...

May 8, 2007: WSJ Publishes Explosive Article On Chabad in the Former Soviet Union, Details Bribes, Payoffs, and Kremlin Dirty Tricks
Comments: 6 | Categories: Chabad , Court Jews
In a truly stunning article, Guy Chazan of the Wall Street Journal gives a good overview of Chabad's takeover of the FSU. He notes: Critics charge its success is based on a Faustian bargain with the Kremlin. They say Rabbi...

May 7, 2007: The Story Behind The Story Of The Haredi Female Lawyer And Her Disapproving Neighbors
Comments: 13 | Categories: Chabad , Haredim , Israel
Ha'aretz has a nice profile on a Chabad woman living in Kiryat Belz, Jerusalem. She is an attorney, and shares an office with her husband, also an attorney. The article points out the problems the family has faced because she...

April 29, 2007: The Messiah Makes Miracles – Just Call Him On The Phone, And He Will Help You
Comments: 44 | Categories: Chabad
Chabad.info reports on a new Chabad advertising campaign in Israel: The Messiah Makes Miracles and Wonders! It encourages people to call a telephone number and get "answers" and "blessings" from the Rebbe, who passed away in 1994. The "answers" and...

April 29, 2007: Another Rebbe Thought He Was The Messiah
Comments: 7 | Categories: Chabad , Haredim
Immanuel Etkes reviews Zvi Mark's publication of the Hidden Scroll of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov. Long story short, Rabbi Nachman thought he was the messiah, redefined the defining factors of messiah to suit him, and was upset that other rabbis...

April 22, 2007: A Fictional "Antisemite"?
Comments: 12 | Categories: Books , Chabad , Haredim
Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Michael Chabon is under fire for a book that is not yet officially in print. Chabon – who is Jewish – writes about a fictional world where the State of Israel was not founded in 1948,...

April 19, 2007: Chabad Faction Creates 'Most Wanted' List Of Soldiers
Comments: 15 | Categories: Chabad , Chabad & Holocaust , Chabad Anti-Zionism , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Israel
Chabad Rabbi Sholom Dovber Wolpe wants to publish a book with photographs, names addresses and contact information of all police, soldiers, officers and politicians who backed the Disengagement from Gaza. Ynet reports: What do the police do when they are...

April 11, 2007: FailedMessiah.com in the London Jewish Chronicle
Comments: 14 | Categories: Blogs , Chabad , Media & Media Criticism
Please click the image to enlarge. Thanks to the Chronicle staff for the shout out! My original post in its entirety can be read here. [Hat Tip: Ben Max.]

March 25, 2007: 50 "Most Influential" Rabbis In The US – Chabad's Rabbi Krinsky #2
Comments: 51 | Categories: Chabad , Religion, Religion & State
Newsweek has an insipid listing of the 50 "most influential" rabbis in the US. Number one is the Wiesenthal Center's Marvin Hier. Number 2? Chabad's Yehuda Krinsky, who is described this way: Krinsky has truly built a “shul” on every...

March 21, 2007: The Rebbe Will Answer Your Questions – Just Ask!
Comments: 27 | Categories: Chabad
Rabbi Bruce Warshal was approached by messianic Chabad members in the NYC subway system and given literature proclaiming the Rebbe (who passed away in 1994) alive, the messiah, and a prophet. The Rebbe answers your questions 24 hours a day,...

March 19, 2007: Chabad Center Burns On Shabbos – "We got out the kids and the Torahs"
Comments: 0 | Categories: Chabad
Chabad's Staten Island Israeli Center burned down on Shabbos. The Staten Island Advance reports: Ice and snow were piling up outside as a barefoot Chaya Segal and her husband carried their four children and two Torahs from their burning home...

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