1,731 posts categorized "Kosher Business?"

June 12, 2006: Rabbi Zeilingold's Supervision
Comments: 9 | Categories: Chabad , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Rabbi Zeilingold's kosher symbol, the UMK, prominently displayed on a package of Rubashkin non-glatt meat. Picture taken in Trader Joe's today.

June 11, 2006: Has The OU "Cleared" Rubashkin?
Comments: 5 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Jewish Leadership , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , MO & Chardal
Carlos Carbonera, the Spanish-speaking friend of Rabbi Asher Zeilingold who served as Rabbi Zeilingold's interpreter on his recent "investigative trip" to Postville, attended the Minneapolis Community Kollel dinner tonight and spent a considerable amount of time telling people that Rubashkin...

June 7, 2006: Rabbi Zeilingold's "Co-Investigator" On His Postville Trip: "I cannot see, in the case of AgriProcessors, Inc., any wrongdoing."
Comments: 0 | Categories: Chabad , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Rabbi Zeilingold's driver and friend Casriel Carbanera writes about his "investigation" of Rubashkin worker abuses: Who am I, and where do I stand on workers’ issues? I earned a B.S. in Physics and Mathematics from the University of Puerto Rico,...

June 7, 2006: Rubashkin Attorney Nathan Lewin: Forward Lies, Misrepresents, Violates Journalistic Ethics; Rubashkin Subject Of Forward "Hatchet Job"
Comments: 6 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Jewish Leadership , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , MO & Chardal
Rubashkin attorney and OU/Agudath Israel flack Nathan Lewin has a long article in the new Jewish Press making serious – although largely unfounded – allegations against the Forward and their coverage of the newest Rubashkin scandal. In the article Lewin...

May 31, 2006: One More Thing …
Comments: 2 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Jewish Leadership , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
… With regard to Rabbi Asher Zeilingold's "investigation" of the alleged worker abuse at Rubashkin's Postville slaughterhouse. Rabbi Zeilingold is visually impaired, legally blind. He sees shapes, and can distinguish between faces at close range, although he does not see...

May 31, 2006: Rubashkin Innocent, Chabad Rabbi Claims
Comments: 12 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Jewish Leadership , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Chabad Rabbi Asher Zeilingold, the rabbi who called me "Adolf Hitler" and 'excommunicated' me, has launched a defense of Rubashkin. Rabbi Zeilingold visited Postville with my (former) friend Carlos Carbonero to "prove" the Forward wrong. In essence, what happened is...

May 30, 2006: Rabbi Aaron Rubashkin Abuses Workers
Comments: 7 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Jewish Leadership , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , MO & Chardal
Rabbi Aaron Rubashkin, owner of AgriProcessors (Aaron's Best™, Rubashkin's™, Shor HaBor™, etc.), and his son Rabbi Moshe Rubashkin collected union dues from employees and pocketed the money themselves, rather than turning the funds over to the union as required by...

May 26, 2006: Orthodox Judaism In Action
Comments: 10 | Categories: Jewish Leadership , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
The Forward reports: In 2004, an undercover investigator for the animal rights group PETA worked in the chicken department at Agriprocessors, the country’s largest kosher slaughterhouse. A few days into the job, the investigator contracted campylobacter, a bacterial infection common...

May 25, 2006: CONVICTED FELON RABBI MOSHE RUBASHKIN IN CORRUPTION SCANDAL
Comments: 4 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Jewish Leadership , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
The New York Jewish Week reports: A state court in Brooklyn is weighing whether to require the chairman of the Crown Heights Jewish Community Council to turn over financial records to his officers after two directors alleged that he has...

May 25, 2006: FORWARD: RUBASHKIN ABUSES WORKERS, SHORTS PAY CHECKS, ENDANGERS WORKER SAFETY, OTHER ABUSES - RABBIS: DOES NOT MATTER, PLANT STILL "KOSHER"
Comments: 11 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Jewish Leadership , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , MO & Chardal
In a damning report by the Forward's Nathaniel Popper, Rubashkin's Iowa slaughterhouse stands accused of serious fraud and worker safety violations, as well as serious charges of other worker abuse. I can add that cattle growers have complained for years...

March 13, 2006: Why Wasn't Rubashkin Prosecuted?
Comments: 0 | Categories: Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
To understand the Rubashkin scandal, it is helpful to see how the USDA enforces regulations in other areas of the meat industry. The Senate held hearings last week on the USDA's enforcement of GIPSA, the Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyard...

February 22, 2006: Halal – Equivalent To Kosher?
Comments: 9 | Categories: Kosher Business?
I recently noticed a new symbol on a line of (non-dairy, non-meat) Arab deli items produced in Minnesota, including hummous, tabouli and the like: "Halal – Equivalent to Kosher"* Have any of you seen this symbol or something like it?...

February 1, 2006: Kashrut Alert! Fake Rubashkin Meats Being Sold!
Comments: 2 | Categories: Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
From Kashrut.com: Unauthorized Turkey/Meat Products Bearing KAJ Logo* - January 18, 2006 Turkey or Meat products bearing this symbol - “Khal Adath Jeshurun - KAJ-Canada” are not authorized by “KAJ”-Breuer’s as they do not shecht in Canada and they do...

January 31, 2006: Bnei Brak Rabbi Moves To Ban Scotch Whiskey
Comments: 8 | Categories: Kosher Business?
Ynet reports on a renewed controversy in the kosher world – scotch whiskey. It seems Rabbi Moshe Landau, the chief rabbi of Bnei Brak, a Chabad follower, has decided that scotch whiskey is not kosher because some brands are aged...

January 10, 2006: UPDATED: OK Kosher Behaving Badly; Crown Heights-Based Agency Bullies Competition
Comments: 9 | Categories: Chabad , Kosher Business?
Here is a small example of how kashrut agencies misrepresent kashrut. This alert from the Crown Heights-based OK, if not clarified by the editor of kashrut.com, would lead one to believe the restaurant in question is not kosher supervised, and...

November 15, 2005: PETA To Protest Rubashkin At KosherFest, Calls For Boycott
Comments: 7 | Categories: Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
PETA has announced that they will be protesting Rubashkin at Kosherfest (staged at the Javits Center), which starts today in NYC: Holding signs that read, "Cruelty Is Treif: Boycott AgriProcessors," PETA members and supporters will protest against AgriProcessors, the world’s...

November 14, 2005: Gov't To Sieze Rubashkin Property, Shell Game Continues
Comments: 0 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Jewish Leadership , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Rabbi Moshe Rubashkin's torched Allentown, PA mill is about to be siezed by the city after the "property owner" refused to pay for the site's cleanup. But who really owns the property? As the Allentown Morning Call reports: Allentown officials...

October 30, 2005: Rubashkins' Pollution Problem
Comments: 3 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Jewish Leadership , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Rubashkins' pollution problem: Postville, Iowa; Allentown, PA.

October 27, 2005: Chicken Abuse In Israel? Why Are Rabbis Silent?
Comments: 0 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Jewish Leadership , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , MO & Chardal
Ha'aretz reports on chicken-raising in Israel: Arik Ben Moshe, chief nutritionist at the Amir-Dagan feed mill, said the source of protein in the chicken feed is grains, feathers, and sterilized meal mead from bodies of chicken, fish and meat. After...

October 22, 2005: EPA Forced To Clean Up Former Rubashkin Mill
Comments: 0 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Jewish Leadership , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Crown Heights Community Council President Rabbi Moshe Rubashkin's former Montex mill in Allentown, PA is back in the news again after a series of arson fires. Rubashkin oews the city hundreds of thousands of dollars in back taxes and fees....

September 26, 2005: The OU Spins Kosher To New Lows
Comments: 40 | Categories: Kosher Business?
The OU has announced it is now certifying Maalox as kosher. Why? The OU (incorrectly) notes: Kosher certification is not required for prescription medications, but it is a requirement for over-the-counter medications – such as Maalox® and Triaminic® – which...

September 11, 2005: Kashrut Alert
Comments: 6 | Categories: Kosher Business?
According to an e-mail just received from Rabbi Yudel Shain: The Mezonos Maiven wholesale bakery in Brooklyn under the "OK" & Hisachdus was caught by a group of frum yidden operating on Shabbos Parshas Shoiftim (Sept. 10th) at 6:30 PM....

August 21, 2005: OU Branches Out In For-Profit Sector
Comments: 9 | Categories: Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
The OU has branched out into gluten-free certification through it's "subsidiary" Food Services, Inc.: … The Gluten-Free Certification Organization (GFCO), a program of the Gluten Intolerance Group® (GIG), is the first program of its kind in the world. The addition...

August 2, 2005: More On Rabbi Moshe Rubashkin's Gutted Mill
Comments: 4 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Jewish Leadership , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
More on Rabbi Moshe Rubashkin's abandonded mill from the Allentown Morning Call: With the last of a mysterious flammable substance contained, demolition of the burned-out Montex Mills building in south Allentown will resume. Mayor Roy C. Afflerbach announced Monday that...

July 27, 2005: Rubashkin Mill Burns For 2nd Time In Two Days
Comments: 1 | Categories: Jewish Leadership , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Rabbi Moshe Rubashkin's abandoned Allentown mill has burned for the 5th time since April. The last fire at Montex Mills was Monday. The Allentown Morning Call's Daryl Nerl reports: Contractors hired by the city to dismantle part of the Montex...

July 26, 2005: Rubashkin Fire Involved Hazardous Waste – 3 Hospitalized
Comments: 4 | Categories: Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
The fire at Aaron and Moshe Rubashkin's abandoned Allentown mill (see the post immediately below this) involved undocumented hazardous waste. According to WFMZ-TV, three people were hospitalized and the immediate neighborhood around the mill was evacuated while the fire burned....

July 25, 2005: Rubashkin's Mill On Fire – Again
Comments: 11 | Categories: Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Moshe and Aaron Rubashkin's mill is on fire again: ALLENTOWN, PA-July 25, 2005 — Emergency teams remained on the scene of a building fire and hazardous material situation during the noon hour in Lehigh County. The flames apparently started just...

July 5, 2005: More On The Politics Behind The Hummus Ban
Comments: 0 | Categories: Jewish Leadership , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
From NorthJersey.com: A former chief rabbi, Mordechai Eliahu, ruled that when sesame seeds used to make the tahini paste for hummus are roasted and shelled by non-Jews, the resulting hummus is not kosher, said the aide, Rabbi David Lahiani. He...

June 28, 2005: Rubashkin Ready To Open New Nebraska Slaughterhouse
Comments: 11 | Categories: Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
"We are excited to work with our local partners in Nebraska and South Dakota to make Local Pride a full part of the Gordon community," Sholom Rubashkin, whose family owns Local Pride, said in a press release. "For us, this...

June 23, 2005: Rubashkin Set To Open New Nebraska Slaughterhouse In Cooperation With Oglala Sioux And Pine Ridge Indian Reservation – USDA Must Approve But Is Expected To Do So Tomorrow – USDA Still Refusing To Release Results Of Last Year's Investigation
Comments: 9 | Categories: Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
GORDON, Neb. -- An Iowa meatpacking firm that has drawn fire from an animal-rights group has bought an old packing plant in Gordon, Neb., and plans to process kosher beef, lamb and bison products using workers from the nearby Pine...

June 2, 2005: The Legacy Of Rabbi Moshe Rubashkin
Comments: 3 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Jewish Leadership , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
… Regardless of how it is funded, administration officials, led by Eric D. Weiss, the director of building standards and safety, argued that there is an immediate need to demolish the building. The 41/2-story, shuttered textile factory was gutted in...

June 1, 2005: Rabbis Rule Non-Jewish Tehina Treife
Comments: 9 | Categories: Jewish Leadership , Kosher Business?
Itim is reporting that former Chief Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu and other non-haredi rabbis have ruled that non-Jewish produced tehina is not kosher: The problem cropped up during a visit by Rabbi David Lahiani of Safed to Arab-owned tehina factories in...

May 26, 2005: Allentown May Be Forced To Pay $400,000 To Raze Rubashkin Mill – Rubashkin, Rubashkin's Brooklyn-Based Orthodox Lender Refuse To Comply – Fire-Gutted Building Dangerously Unsafe
Comments: 0 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Jewish Leadership , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
The Allentown, Pennsylvania textile mill owned by Rabbi Moshe Rubashkin is so unsafe that the city may spend $400,000 to tear it down: City officials say the fenced-in site is unsafe and has suffered a series of break-ins and even...

May 18, 2005: BREAKING! INDIAN WIG BAN NOT ENOUGH!
Rabbis: Hindu Hair Derivatives Used To Make Medicines May Make Medicines Forbidden – Buffalo Milk Can Be Dried, Added To Food – Would Make Food Treife – The Dark Ages Have Begun

Comments: 20 | Categories: Jewish Leadership , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Major kashrut "authorities" are convening in Jerusalem to tackle new kashrut 'issues': L-cysteine, derived from, among other things, human hair, is used as a dough conditioner. It is also used to produce a variety of chicken and beef flavors that...

May 15, 2005: The Halakha Most Violated By Rabbis – And Chabad
Comments: 12 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Jewish Leadership , Kosher Business?
Rabbi Dr. Asher Meir has a column on taking donations from unscrupilous individuals: …There are many problems involved in accepting donations from unscrupulous individuals. In the worst case, the donation money itself is stolen or otherwise tainted. In this case,...

May 5, 2005: Rubashkin Exposed? Why Texas Kosher Beef Is Better
Comments: 9 | Categories: Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
A.D. Rosenblatt Glatt Kosher Beef, a.k.a. Texas Kosher Beef is slowly making inroads in the kosher market. And that is a good thing: Rosenblatt said he prefers to work with grass-fed beef, because it tends to have a higher kosher...

May 5, 2005: Fire At Rubashkin Mill Ruled Arson
Comments: 2 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Kosher Business?
Last month's fire at Rabbi Moshe Rubashkin's abandoned textile mill in Allentown, Pennsylvania has been ruled arson by the city and the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF). Rubashkin, brother of AgriProcessors Rabbi Sholom M. Rubashkin, is president...

May 4, 2005: Unable To Pass Environmental Muster, Rubashkin Pulls Plans For Massive Cage-Grown Chicken Farms – Seeks Smaller Operations To Escape State Regulation
Comments: 4 | Categories: Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Plans for Rubashkin's proposed Cottonballs chicken farm, a massive cage-raised operation growing 200,000 chickens at a time, have been withdrawn. Rubashkin is reportedly planning smaller cage-raised operations that escape state regulation.

May 3, 2005: Empire Kosher Strikes Back
Comments: 9 | Categories: Kosher Business?
Ynet has an interview with Empire Kosher's new president. Although not mentioned in the article, Empire uses only free-roaming chickens while Rubashkin's are all cage-grown. Also note that Empire's major effort to reclaim its base was to add KAJ supervision...

April 26, 2005: Iowa Rejects Bid For Massive Rubashkin Caged Chicken Farm – At Least 2 More Planned – Tzaar Baalyei Hayyim No Longer Part Of Jewish Law? Rabbis, Where Are You?
Comments: 16 | Categories: Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Iowa's Department of Natural Resources has rejected Sholom M. Rubashkin's attempt to open a massive chicken growing facility. The facility would have raised millions of chickens in tiny cages, unable to spread their wings or walk, in a similar fashion...

April 21, 2005: Still Need Your Kitchen Kashered For Pesach? There Is Hope
Comments: 2 | Categories: Kosher Business?
The New York Times on 1-888-GO-KOSHER.

April 21, 2005: Mayor: City To Bill Rubashkin For "Excessive Resources" Needed To Put Out Mill Fire – Building's Code Violations Contributed To Blaze
Comments: 1 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Jewish Leadership , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Allentown mayor Roy Afferbach told reporters that the city intends to bill Skyline Industries (a.k.a. Rabbi Moshe Rubashkin, the newly-elected head of the Crown Heights Community Council and brother of AgriProcessors Rabbi Sholom M. Rubashkin) for the cost of the...

April 12, 2005: The Saint Louis Post-Dispatch Taste-Tests 16 Hot Dog Brands – At The Bottom Of The List? Rubashkin.
Comments: 12 | Categories: Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
The Saint Louis Post-Dispatch taste-tested 16 different hot dog brands. At the bottom of the list? Rubashkin's chicken franks. In contrast, Empire's turkey franks earned high praise. In fact, the only product judged worse than Rubashkin is an all soy...

March 29, 2005: Rubashkin Seeks To Open Massive Chicken Farm – 400,000 Chickens Raised In Cages, 100% Of Local Population Opposed
Comments: 7 | Categories: Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
The Rubashkin family is attempting to open a massive cage-raised chicken farm in Iowa. 400,000 chickens would be hatched, raised and then sent to slaughter every six weeks. The chickens would be raised in giant sheds, locked in tiny cages,...

March 28, 2005: ********** STRAWBERRIES BANNED! ********** No Joke – British Ultra-Orthodox Ban Strawberries Due To Fear Of Bugs
Comments: 14 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
The ultra-Orthodox Britain-based Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations (Kedassia Beis Din) has banned consumption of strawberries due to a fear of tiny, microscopic bugs: An emergency alert was released proclaiming that even with extensive checks and washing, the berries are...

March 17, 2005: New Israeli Hechsher Supervises Business Practice, Not Food
Comments: 5 | Categories: Kosher Business?
A new Israeli hechsher ('kosher' supervision) has been started to supervise business practices and protect workers from abuse. It requires employers to meet seven requirements. The first six are already law in Israel. The seventh is to provide handicap accessibility....

March 16, 2005: Where The Money Is: Rabbis Charge For Blessings – One Rabbi Pays $3,000,000 In Back Taxes – Millions More Due
Comments: 11 | Categories: Haredim , Jewish Leadership , Kosher Business?
http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=894600&fid=942 Mazuz orders tax collected on rabbis and kabbalists' blessings Until now, blessings and talismans were gray market items. Hadas Magen 16 Mar 05 15:14 Attorney General Menachem Mazuz recently ordered the Israel Tax Authority to collect taxes on rabbis'...

March 15, 2005: BREAKING! FMI: OU's Portrayal Of Rubashkin Audit "Not Accurate"
Comments: 54 | Categories: Haredim , Jewish Leadership , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
I spoke a few moments ago with Karen Brown, the Vice President of the Food Marketing Institute (FMI) in charge of the FMI's Animal Welfare Audit Program (AWAP). I asked her about the recent AWAP audit passed by AgriProcessors, and...

March 13, 2005: Aaron & Moshe Rubashkin Took Union Dues From Employees – Kept The Money For Themselves
Comments: 26 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
In a sharply-worded decision, both Rabbi Moshe Rubashkin and his father Aaron (of Postville fame) were found guilty by the National Labor Relations Board of repetitively collecting union dues from their employees of Cherry Hill Textiles, Inc. and then refusing...

March 10, 2005: LA Jewish Journal Gives Rubashkin And The OU A Free Ride
Comments: 12 | Categories: Jewish Leadership , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
The LA Jewish Journal has a piece on the Rubashkin audit. To give you an idea of the quality of the Jewish Journal's reporting, note this quote from the Journal: [T]he meeting between the OU and FMI representatives is set...

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