2,142 posts categorized "Crime, etc."

December 14, 2009: Moshe Rubashkin Gets Out Of Prison Early
Comments: 41 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim
Convicted felon gets to celebrate his son's near-coming of age in Lubavitch world headquarters. Mendel Rubashkin Celebrates his Hanochas Tefillin, with his Father CrownHeights.info CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] – The early release of Reb Moshe Rubashkin came as some welcomed...

December 12, 2009: Massive Money Laundering Ponzi Scheme Ensnares Oorah, Kars4Kids, Other Haredi Charities
Comments: 70 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Oorah Kars4Kids , Sefardim
Money went in and money came out – laundered. Alleged Ponzi scheme ensnares Kars4Kids By Ted Sherman • The Star-Ledger Kars4Kids has a punchy radio jingle that drives some people crazy. But the Lakewood-based nonprofit organization — which solicits car...

December 12, 2009: The Law of the Land is the Law – Yes? Maybe? No?
Comments: 4 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim
If it is, what does that mean for kashrut, Jewish ethics and the current crop of haredi crime? Read articles by: Agudath Israel of America's Rabbi David Zwiebel The Beit Din of America's Rabbi Michael Broyde Chabad attorney Benjamin Gluck...

December 11, 2009: Settlers Torch Mosque – "We Will Burn All Of You"
Comments: 25 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Israel , MO & Chardal , Racism
According to reports, settlers allegedly set fire to a carpet and to a library in the mosque's second floor, destroying holy books. They also sprayed abusive statements on the walls including "We will burn all of you." Settlers allegedly vandalize...

December 10, 2009: Rubashkin Hires Nathan Lewin For Appeal
Comments: 28 | 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: 58 | 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: Did The Brooklyn DA Really Try To Extradite Avrohom Mondrowitz?
Comments: 2 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Pedophilia
Mondrowitz currently sits in an Israeli jail; his extradition is being decided by Israel's High Court. Did Brooklyn DA Chase Sex Abuser? By Nathaniel Popper • The Forward Brooklyn’s district attorney has lost a key fight in his effort to...

December 9, 2009: Rubashkin's Wife Speaks
Comments: 72 | 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 9, 2009: Cops Bust Williamsburg Bike Lane Painters
Comments: 24 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim
"The cops told them they wouldn't get arrested, but the police must have come under pressure by the Hasidim," said Baruch Herzfeld, the unofficial spokesman for the pro-bike-lane group. Bikers in the spokey Cops haul in W'burg lane painters By...

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: 3 Haredim Arrested For Killing Arab In "Nationalistic" Attack
Comments: 18 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Racism , Xenophobia
The teens walked up to an Arab man in Meah Shearim and asked him for the time, in order to ascertain that he was indeed of Arab descent. When he answered they sprayed pepper spray in his eyes, beat him...

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: Video: Repainting Williamsburg Bike Lanes
Comments: 29 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim
Video shot in the middle of the night, just before the arrests. UPDATE 11:25 am CST 12-8-09 – Here's the Post's coverage, which includes a quote from a source close to the mayor admitting removal of the bike lanes was...

December 7, 2009: Hipsters Busted For Repainting Bike Lanes City Removed At Satmar Request
Comments: 14 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim
Hasidic street patrol calls cops, nabs hipsters. [UPDATED.] Sources: Men Arrested Trying To Repaint Bedford Bike Lane Gothamist We haven't been able to verify this one with the NYPD yet, but sources tell Gothamist that police — and South Williamsburg's...

December 6, 2009: Haredim Riot In Meron
Comments: 4 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel
Eight haredim were arrested yesterday morning after "particularly violent" riots at the burial site of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai. 8 people arrested after riots at holy burial site By Eli Ashkenazi • Ha'aretz Eight men were arrested yesterday morning after...

December 6, 2009: Rabbi Baruch Lanner Back On Florida Sex Offender Registry
Comments: 3 | Categories: Crime, etc. , MO & Chardal
Lanner is still missing from the New Jersey registry, where he lives. The Awareness Center writes: The Awareness Center along with several other people have sent Laura Hook, Assistant Prosecutor - Union county, a copy of the original Jewish Week...

December 6, 2009: Accused Haredi Pedophile Has A Brand New Job
Comments: 40 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Pedophilia
Rabbi Avraham M. Leizerowitz is now counseling troubled boys. Word from Israel on accused pedophile Rabbi Avraham M. Leizerowitz: Avraham M. Leizerowitz has started working at a new job. He is the mashgiach ruchani (religious counselor) in a Jerusalem yeshiva...

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 6, 2009: Settlers Torch Palestinian House
Comments: 11 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Israel , MO & Chardal
Israeli security forces believe the arson was carried out as part of the rightists' "price tag" policy following the cabinet decision to freeze constriction in settlements. Rightists suspected of torching Palestinian property Police believe extreme right-wing activists set house, two...

December 5, 2009: What Is The Brooklyn DA Hiding?
Comments: 10 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia
A judge finds Charles Hynes must release all information related to the Avrohom Mondrowitz extradition proceedings – but Hynes won't do it. Michael Lesher writes: Some good news -- and some bad news. The good news: I won my Article...

December 5, 2009: Police Called When Haredi Man Refuses To Sit Next To Elderly Woman On Bus
Comments: 34 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Women & Judaism
"He started elbowing me and shoving me. He also swore at me and warned me not to sit next to him." Haredi man delays bus after refusing to sit next to woman Bus from Kiryat Gat to Kiryat Malachi forced...

December 5, 2009: Haredim Continue Shabbat Protests
Comments: 24 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel
Haredi leader: "All those [non-haredim] who are fomenting [against us] are a very small group of young people consumed by hatred. It's nothing. We have no reason to be intimidated by them. We are growing bigger and will continue to...

December 5, 2009: US Attorney, IRS Move Against Dwek, Spinka Donors
Comments: 4 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Sefardim
The tax inquiry could be a ticking bomb for anyone else who gave money and expected kickbacks from the religious institutions and schools at the focus of the ongoing criminal probe. Trouble for Dwek donors as IRS follows the money...

December 4, 2009: OU Mashgiach To Be Fired?
Comments: 15 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , MO & Chardal
Mashgiach at Montefiore Medical Center's Weiler Hospital blew the whistle on problems in the hospital kitchen. Robert Frank called me at 1:44 pm CST today. "They told me not to come to work Sunday and to come to the legal...

December 4, 2009: Man Sues Haredi Rabbi Who Blocked His Marriage
Comments: 22 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel
"This country has a Knesset and it has laws, and if some punk rabbi decides to take the law into his own hands, then I will not remain silent about it." Never mind the rabbis, here's the chuppah By Cnaan...

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: Former Agriprocessors HR Worker Sentenced
Comments: 11 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
Laura Althouse was sentenced this morning at 10:00 am. She was sentenced to 2 years probation: [Hat Tip: AGRI-vated Angel.] UPDATE 12-4-09 4:35 am CST – Here is the Des Moines Register report: Ex-meat plant worker receives probation Des Moines...

December 3, 2009: East Ramapo Rehires Lawyer Fired By Haredim
Comments: 7 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim
But controversial attorney favored by haredim may still be hired for special projects – like providing public goods or services to haredi schools. 650 people attend public meeting. Why did so many people show up? This: Undo lawyer vote in...

December 3, 2009: Rabbis Rule Woman Must Take Lie Detector Test
Comments: 18 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Halakha , Haredim , Israel , Women & Judaism
In an unprecedented move, the Haifa Rabbinical Court has ordered a woman in a divorce case to answer questions about her relations with men and alleged drug abuse while connected to a lie detector. Rabbis: Woman must pass polygraph test...

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 3, 2009: "Haredi Madoff" Steals Millions
Comments: 11 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel
Moshe Zussman bilked about $50 million from Bnei Brak residents and wealthy families overseas. 'Haredi Madoff' bilked Bnei Brak families Nati Toker • Ha'aretz Another Ponzi has been uncovered in the ultra-religious sector. Kikar Shabbat, a news Web site caters...

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...

December 1, 2009: Elior Chen Child Abuse Trial To Open In February
Comments: 5 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel
"Such a crooked person, who burns children, what kind of punishment can you give him? Want kind of punishment can you give a Nazi? This is what he did, let him live with it," the father said. 'Abusive rabbi' trial...

December 1, 2009: Secular Protestors Use God's Name – And Porn – To Terrify Haredim
Comments: 58 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel
The secular underground also dispersed pornographic material, which caused the haredi protesters to flee in disarray at the sight of the smut. Seculars use God's name against Haredim in Jerusalem fight By Nir Hasson • Haaretz During the ultra-Orthodox demonstrations...

November 30, 2009: Thugs: Haredim Take Over Ramapo School Board
Comments: 107 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim
This might be be the best reality TV you've ever seen. This is only part one. Watch the entire meeting, featuring haredi thuggery as clear as you'll probably ever see.

November 30, 2009: Agudah Head: We Can No Longer Pretend Child Sexual Abuse Does Not Exist
Comments: 12 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia , Women & Judaism
When something is hidden, Rabbi David Zwiebel told the Agudah convention, it's up to God to deal with. But when something is revealed, it's up to us. All I'll add – besides the obvious need for Agudath Israel of America...

November 30, 2009: Department of Circular Reasoning: Haredim Blame Secular Mayor For "Incitement" Against Haredim
Comments: 5 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel
After a summer laced with haredi riots and attacks on secular Jews – including the mayor – and Arabs, a haredi spokesman told reporters secular "incitement" began last week during the protest outside Intel, when secular counter-protestors wrote God's name...

November 29, 2009: Lakewood Rosh Yeshiva Speaks At Fundraiser For Convicted Haredi Baby Killer
Comments: 34 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel
Rabbi Dovid Schustal calls conviction a "blood libel," asks for donations to help the family and murderer. Rav Dovid Schustal Addresses Parlor Meeting for Mishpachas Wallis Matav.com Last night, a parlor meeting was held to raise funds for the family...

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 28, 2009: The Syrian Rabbi's "Shocked" Flock
Comments: 29 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Sefardim
Rabbi Saul J. Kassin, charged with money laundering in this summer’s epic federal sting, is the leader of the nation’s Syrian Jews. He has met with presidents, presided over countless weddings and hails from a rabbinical line dating to 15th-century...

November 28, 2009: Haredim "End Silence" On Sex Abuse
Comments: 18 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia
A few months ago, a high-ranking rabbi and spiritual leader at the Beth Medrash Govoha yeshiva, Matisyahu Salomon, quietly closed a rabbinical court, a Bais Din, that handled many of Lakewood's sex abuse allegations. Orthodox end silence on sex abuse...

November 28, 2009: Mouths Filled With Hatred
Comments: 90 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal
"Every [Christian cleric] who's been here for awhile, who dresses in robes in public, has a story to tell about being spat at [by haredim and National Religious Jews]." Mouths filled with hatred Larry Derfner • THE JERUSALEM POST Father...

November 28, 2009: Haredi Scam Steals Millions Of Shekels From Government
Comments: 7 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel
Haredi schools registered students from Edah Charedit schools as their own in order to cheat the government out of millions of shekels in subsidies. Haredi schools falsely register students to get funds Education Ministry inquiry reveals ultra-Orthodox schools in Jerusalem...

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