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May 24, 2013: Video: Chabad's Postville Yeshiva Named For Convicted Felon Sholom Rubashkin
Comments: 15 | Categories: Agri-Star , Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Not only that, as you can see on this video, the yeshiva is openly messianist (the yellow flags in the yeshiva's Lag Ba'omer parade and the "yechi" yarmulkes worn openly by some students), and the parents of these messianist kids...

May 20, 2013: Lawsuit Against Giant Glatt Kosher Meat Provider Alle Processing Becomes A Class Action
Comments: 11 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
The Satmar-hasid-owned Alle Processing allegedly shorted workers paychecks, failed to pay required overtime, and forced employees to don and doff their protective clothing and safety gear on their own time – all violations of the law. Meal Mart, one of...

May 12, 2013: Editorial: Postville, 5 Years After
Comments: 28 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
"It’s important not to forget that the abuses and illegal behavior that had been taking place in the Agriprocessors plant were well known and publicly documented long before the 2008 raid. If the government had intervened earlier — if inspectors...

May 10, 2013: Video: Film About Abuse Of Undocumented Workers At Agriprocessors
Comments: 24 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Safety , Rubashkin Workers
"The U-Turn," a film about the abuse of undocumented workers at the Postville, Iowa Agriprocessors kosher slaughterhouse (owned by the Rubashkin family) and the masive immigration raid that took place on May 12, 2008 that victimized them all over again,...

May 9, 2013: A Shavuos Message From Convicted Felon Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin
Comments: 19 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
"…I think about the hashgocho protis and the symbolism of the name of the legal petition being presented to the appeals court. It’s a Latin expression called "Habeus Corpus,” which literally means, “Produce the body [from jail].” The emphasis is...

May 7, 2013: Rubashkin Launches Australian Fundraising Campaign With Major Chabad Endorsement
Comments: 22 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Former Agriprocessors VP Sholom Rubashkin's "pidyon shvuyim fund" has launched an Australian fundraising effort. Rubashkin is serving a 27-year prison sentence for bank fraud and related crimes and has exhausted all appeals save one. Meanwhile, as was reported Friday, $18...

May 3, 2013: Agriprocessors' Trustee's Attorney Tries To Quash Chabad Alleged Money Laundering Story
Comments: 25 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Paula Roby, an attorney for Agriprocessors' bankruptcy trustee Joeseph Sarachek (pictured at right), tells Sarachek that she won't let Chabad's alleged money laundering be a story here. Here is that email. Paula Roby, one of Sarachek's attorney's, made a bit...

May 3, 2013: Chabad Charities That Allegedly Laundered Millions Of Dollars For Agriprocessors Must Repay Only Thousands
Comments: 15 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Chabad charities that some allege were used to siphon millions of dollars out of Agriprocessors and to the Rubashkin family to avoid their loss during a possible bankruptcy filing have agreed to repay pennies on the dollars they were given...

April 29, 2013: Rubashkin Family Fundraising Email
Comments: 67 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
"…The deadline to file this petition is in 5 months and we have barely started yet (there is a massive amount of work) because we don’t have funds to move forward. We desperately need to raise the funds to pay...

April 27, 2013: Rubashkin Fundraising Continues
Comments: 76 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Former glatt kosher meat baron Sholom Rubashkin lost at trial, lost on appeal and was denied by the US Supreme Court. Now his family is raising money to file a 2255 motion in the hopes that this will set him...

April 7, 2013: Kiryas Joel Meat Company Sued By The US Department Of Labor For “Willfully And Repeatedly” Violating Minimum Wage And Overtime Laws
Comments: 27 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
The US Department of Labor found that Hatzlucha “willfully and repeatedly” violated labor laws, that Hatzlucha’s company records do not accurately reflect “the hours worked each workday, the total hours worked each work week, the regular rate of pay, the...

March 25, 2013: Video: Major LA Kosher Distributor Caught Selling Allegedly Treif Meat
Comments: 15 | Categories: Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
The distributor, Doheny Glatt Kosher Meats, allegedly used Aaron's best labels to repackage non-kosher meat. Rabbinical Council of California (RCC) says meat purchased before 3 pm Sunday is still kosher – even though an investigator videotaped the fraud over the...

March 24, 2013: $40 Per Pound Matzoh In Manhattan
Comments: 33 | Categories: Chabad , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
It may be the greatest kosher food rip-off on earth. Crown Heights handmade shmurah matzoh is selling at almost a 100% markup in Manhattan. $40 Per Pound Matzoh In Manhattan Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com It may be the greatest kosher...

January 29, 2013: Mordechai Ben David, Choir, Visit Rubashkin In Prison, Sing For Him In Honor Of Daughter's Wedding
Comments: 49 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Hessed , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Hasidic singer Mordechai Ben David and members of the Shira Choir visited former Agriprocessors VP Sholom Rubashkin in federal prison this week to help Rubashkin celebrate his daughter's wedding. Rubashkin is serving a 27-year sentence for bank fraud and related...

January 25, 2013: Rubashkin Daughter Marries, Chabad And Haredim Protest Because Rubashkin Not Allowed To Leave Prison To Attend
Comments: 59 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
"Family and friends packed the courtyard of 770 Eastern Parkway on Thursday night to celebrate the wedding of young chassidic couple Yehuda Zaltzman and Mushka Rubashkin. Absent was the father of the kallah, R' Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin, the former kosher...

January 5, 2013: Kashrut Council Of Canada Withdraws Appeal, Mashgichim Win Labor Action
Comments: 3 | Categories: Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , MO & Chardal
The Kashrut Council of Canada (COR) has withdrawn its appeal and the Ontario Labour Relations Board decision against it stands and is final, meaning that COR's attempt to cheat its mashgichim, kosher supervisors, out of their rightful pay has been...

December 26, 2012: Agudah Convention To Deal With 'Important' Issues Of The Day: Internet, Heretic Bloggers, Preserving Penis Sucking Ritual
Comments: 19 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Blogs , Circumcision , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Web/Tech
The theme of this year's Agudah convention is, "our responsibilities to one another in times of challenge." But judging from Agudah's convention program, these "responsibilities" apparently do not include responsibilities to sexually abused children, agunot, beaten wives and children, or...

December 6, 2012: Haredi Modesty Ad Placed In Rubashkin's Merit
Comments: 11 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
A haredi modesty ad "in the merit of Sholom Mordechai son of Rivka Rubashkin, may he get out of prison soon," is placed in the Monsey Community Connections shopper publication. Rubashkin is serving a 27-year sentence in federal prison for...

December 5, 2012: Non-Jewish Judge In Hebrew National Lawsuit Minored In Judaism
Comments: 2 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Judge Donovan Frank offered a bit of personal history. As a college junior studying abroad in England, Frank toured the sites of concentration camps on the European continent. “Preoccupied with the Holocaust and what I had seen there,” Frank decided...

November 25, 2012: Sholom Rubashkin, Jr. Violates Parole, Must Return To Prison
Comments: 30 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Moshe Rubashkin
Sholom Rubashkin, the son of Moshe Rubashkin and the nephew of the more well known Sholom Rubashkin of Agriprocessors infamy, violated his supervised release and now must return to prison. Here's what he did: Sholom Rubashkin, the son of Moshe...

November 21, 2012: Orthodox Jew Sentenced In $32 Million Ponzi Scheme
Comments: 11 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Kosher Business? , MO & Chardal
Joseph Greenblatt, an Orthodox Jew with a criminal history stretching back over two decades, was sentenced today in a Manhattan court to 6 to 18 years in prison for stealing $32 million in a Ponzi scheme that targeted Orthodox Jews....

November 21, 2012: Rabbis Threaten Woman Over Lettuce, Kosher Claims
Comments: 36 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
"People realize that my kitchen is Glatt kosher, only I don't have a certificate from the rabbinate.…I have kipa-wearing diners who tell me they come because I display [my own] 'kashrut certificate from conscience,' and not [a kosher certificate from]...

November 8, 2012: Haredi Groups Seek To File Amicus Brief In Support Of Hebrew National
Comments: 7 | Categories: Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
The National Jewish Commission on Law and Public Affairs, The OK Kosher Certification, Star-K Certification, Inc., Agudath Israel of America, The National Council of Young Israel, Agudas Horabonim, and Rabbinical Alliance of America jointly request to file an amicus brief...

November 2, 2012: Demonstration Today Against State Rabbinate Kosher Supervision Monopoly
Comments: 3 | Categories: Food , Food and Drink , Haredim , Israel , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , MO & Chardal
The demonstration is sponsored by the Yerushalmim movement, which includes Orthodox, non-Orthodox and secular members, and is backed by Orthodox rabbi and rosh yeshiva Aaron Leibowitz. Demonstration Today Against State Rabbinate Kosher Supervision Monopoly Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com An Orthodox...

November 1, 2012: Proposed Kosher Seal For Jerusalem Restaurants With No Official Kosher Supervision
Comments: 22 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
At least 10 Jerusalem restaurants, fed up with what they say are ever-increasing demands made by Israel's official haredi-controlled state Rabbinate kosher supervision, have dropped the Rabbinate's supervision, kicked out the rabbis, and gone it on their own, serving kosher...

October 30, 2012: An Agriprocessors Judge Writes About Harsh Federal Sentencing Guidelines
Comments: 32 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Judge Mark Bennett was appointed to the federal bench by President Bill Clinton in 1994 and was the chief judge of the Northern Iowa circuit before Judge Linda Reade, a Republican appointee who sentenced Rubashkin. Bennett was one of the...

October 26, 2012: Chief Rabbis Declare War On (Some) Kosher Restaurants
Comments: 9 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
"There is no desire to force businesses to have a kashrut certificate as long as they don't present themselves as kosher in writing. Publication in a newspaper, a flyer or on the web without a rabbinate certificate is against the...

October 25, 2012: Kashruth Council of Canada Tries To Cheat Employees Out Of Government Ordered Settlement Money
Comments: 48 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , MO & Chardal
The Kashruth Council of Canada, perhaps more familiar to kosher consumers as the COR seal, was ordered by the Canadian equivalent of the US National Labor Relations Board to pay its mashgichim and certain other employees for all the overtime...

October 18, 2012: Indian Restaurant Drops State Kosher Supervision Over Rabbis' Vegetable Demands
Comments: 39 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
An Indian restaurant in the Machane Yehuda market in Jerusalem is reportedly the latest in a long line of food businesses which have dropped kosher supervision after facing what they say are "impossible demands" made by the state Rabbinate’s kosher...

October 11, 2012: Ami Magazine Names Rubashkin Attorney "Person of the Year"
Comments: 14 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Despite (or perhaps because of) Nathan Lewin's misrepresentataions and untruths in defense of Sholom Rubashkin and Agriprocessors, the sleazy haredi Ami Magazine has named him "Person of the Year." Nathan Lewin Ami Magazine writes in an email: On Monday, October...

October 7, 2012: Nathan Lewin Deceives Again
Comments: 35 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
Sholom Rubashkin's appellate attorney tried to make Sholom Rubashkin's case tonight. But the only way Lewin could do it was to avoid the truth at all costs. Nathan Lewin Sholom Rubashkin's attorney Nathan Lewin was on Zev Brenner's Talkline show...

October 6, 2012: Rubashkin Attorney On Air Live Tonight
Comments: 13 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Nathan Lewin will be interviewed about the US Supreme Court's rejection of Sholom Rubashkin's petition to have his case heard, and will explain what Rubashkin and his legal team will do next. (And that will almost certainly not involve admitting...

October 4, 2012: Four Years After Its Founding, Magen Tzedek Ethical Supervision Still Has No Active Certifications
Comments: 10 | Categories: Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
The Conservative Movement's ethical kosher supervision has yet to sign up a company, and its seal of ethical compliance is nowhere to be found. Magen Tzedek is supposed to supervise the ethical aspects of doing business, similar to how kosher...

October 4, 2012: Nathan Lewin Pledges That Rubashkin Case Will Not Die
Comments: 52 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
The attorney for the kosher meatpacker who stole millions of dollars from his lenders, employed hundreds and hundreds of undocumented workers, and who was convicted on 86 counts of fraud calls the United States Supreme Court's refusal to take Sholom...

October 3, 2012: Understanding The Supreme Court Rubashkin Decision
Comments: 54 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) turned down Sholom Rubashkin's petition for a Writ of Certiorari (Cert) without comment. Here are facts you need to be able to understand this properly and put it into context. SCOTUS 1....

October 1, 2012: Sholom Rubashkin Supreme Court Bid Denied
Comments: 77 | Categories: Chabad , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Former Agriprocessors VP Sholom Rubashkin's petition to the US Supreme Court for a Writ of Certiorari has been denied. Justice Elana Kagan recused herself from the decision against Rubashkin, most likely because she was the attorney who argued the government's...

September 30, 2012: Blog Schedule
Comments: 5 | Categories: Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
The Jewish holiday of Sukkot begins tonight, and the first two holy days end Tuesday night about 45 minutes after sunset. The Jewish holiday of Sukkot begins tonight, and the first two holy days end Tuesday night about 45 minutes...

September 28, 2012: Chabad Rabbi Skirts Local Kashrut Council, Sparking Anger
Comments: 9 | Categories: Chabad , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
When Chabad Rabbi Mendel Jacobs took over the kosher Hello Deli in Glasgow, Scotland last month, he announced new kosher supervision as well as new ownership – himself and his wife Tzirl. Chabad Rabbi Skirts Local Kashrut Council, Sparking Anger...

September 25, 2012: US Supreme Court Releases Orders List – Without Rubashkin's Case
Comments: 33 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
The new list of orders from the United States Supreme Court was just released a moment ago. It lists cases whose Writs of Certiorari have been accepted. Rubashkin's case is not on it. Sholom Rubashkin This should might mean that...

September 24, 2012: Aaron Rubashkin's And Family's Bid To Hide Assets Litigated – With Mixed Results
Comments: 5 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Rubashkin bid "was wholly insufficient…The remaining contentions of the plaintiffs and the defendant are either without merit or not properly before this Court." Aaron Rubashkin, left, and Sholom Rubashkin Rubashkin v Rubashkin Rubashkin v Rubashkin 2012 NY Slip Op 06200...

September 24, 2012: What Do You Think?
Comments: 71 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
The United States Supreme Court is deciding as early as today if it will take the case of Agriprocessors former Vice President, Sholom Rubashkin, who is serving a 27-year-prison-sentence for 86 bank-fraud-related convictions. Sholom Rubashkin Rubashkin could hear whether the...

September 19, 2012: Rubashkin Propaganda Film Trailer
Comments: 67 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
A pro-Sholom Rubashkin propaganda film is in the works, as we reported previously. A trailer for the film has just been posted online, it plays like a propaganda film from the old Soviet Union. It is completely one-sided. It misrepresents...

September 15, 2012: Tel Aviv Rabbinate Bans Figs, Asparagus
Comments: 55 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
"This is absolute nonsense that only makes people loathe religion. This isn't Judaism as I see it. The reason for all these orders is corruption and a desire to add more paid kashrut supervisors while milking more money out of...

September 12, 2012: Rabbi Aryeh Ralbag, Others Summoned To Beit Din In Hebrew National Scandal
Comments: 14 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
The Beit Din Tzedek of Bnei Brak, headed by haredi gadol Rabbi Nissim Karelitz, has reportedly issued hazmanot, summonses, to Rabbi Aryeh Ralbag of Triangle-K, and to Shlomo Ben-David and Moshe Fyzakov of AER Services, Inc., in the Hebrew National...

August 24, 2012: Haifa’s Sephardic Chief Rabbi Suspected Of Fraud, Extortion
Comments: 13 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Religion , Sefardim
Haifa’s Sephardic Chief Rabbi Shlomo Shlush has reportedly been investigated by the the Anti-Fraud Unit of the Israel National Police. Police told the press yesterday that Shlush allegedly awarded kashrut certificates food processors in exchange for donations and comitted other...

August 24, 2012: An Unholy Relationship
Comments: 11 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Kosher Business? , Religion , Sefardim
Israeli business tycoons invested millions of dollars raised from public stock offerings in investment projects blessed by Sefardi haredi kabbalist rabbis. But the projects failed, costing pensioners and working Israelis millions of dollars. At the same time, these business tycoons...

August 16, 2012: Moshe Rubashkin Violates Parole To Go To Mikva
Comments: 33 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
The brother of former Agriprocessors VP Sholom Rubashkin violated his parole by cutting off his electronic ankle bracelet for Passover so he could immerse in a mikva. But Moshe Rubashkin got caught. Moshe Rubashkin, left The relevant excerpt from the...

August 16, 2012: Internal Hasidic Politics Causes Demise Of “Umbrella” Hasidic Kosher Supervision
Comments: 6 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Hisachdus, an Israeli umbrella glatt kosher supervision, launched three years ago to unify several disparate hasidic supervisions, has closed. Internal Hasidic Politics Causes Demise Of “Umbrella” Hasidic Kosher Supervision Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com Hisachdus, an Israeli umbrella glatt kosher supervision,...

August 16, 2012: Rubashkin Reply Brief To Govt's Opposition To Supreme Court Appeal
Comments: 24 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Here is the reply brief from Sholom Rubashkin's attorneys that was filed in response to the government's opposition to the US Supreme Court taking Rubashkin's case. Sholom Rubashkin There is no way to predict how the US Supreme Court will...

August 13, 2012: Kosher Ice Cream Truck “War” Leads To Arrests
Comments: 47 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
A kosher ice cream truck “war” in Sullivan County has led to two arrests and numerous police calls. Originally published at 9:59 pm CDT 8-12-2012 Kosher Ice Cream Truck “War” Leads To Arrests Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com A kosher ice...

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