1,731 posts categorized "Kosher Business?"

April 1, 2012: Rubashkin Supreme Court Petition Due Tomorrow
Comments: 42 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Chabad and haredim organize prayer rallies in the hope the the US Supreme Court will agree to hear the appeal of Sholom Rubashkin, the former head of Agriprocessors glatt kosher slaughterhouse convicted on 86 counts of bank fraud and related...

March 24, 2012: Rabbi Almost Loses Arm In Glatt Kosher Slaughterhouse
Comments: 37 | Categories: Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Alle Processing Corp hired Rabbi Shapiro to serve as a mashgiach, but provided no formal training or safety instructions related to the plant's heavy equipment. The rabbi's arm was crushed after he was directed to stand dangerously close to a...

March 19, 2012: Blackmailing Brooklyn Rabbi Loses Appeal
Comments: 39 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Sholom Rubashkin's brother-in-law, Rabbi Milton Yehoshua Balkany lost the appeal of his extortion, blackmail, and wire fraud conviction. 'Shakedown' rabbi loses appeal By BRUCE GOLDING • New York Post This holy man never had a prayer at beating the rap....

March 16, 2012: Former Agriprocessors Manager Appeals Extradition Order
Comments: 3 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
Hosam Amara fled to Israel with the help of Sholom Rubashkin shortly after the May 12, 2008 immigration raid on Agriprocessors that resulted in 389 arrests of undocumented workers. He was indicted on harboring aliens for profit, aggravated identity theft...

March 14, 2012: Federal Judge Nominee Questioned About Agriprocessors Raid
Comments: 7 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
Stephanie Rose said Wednesday she was the deputy chief of the criminal division with the U.S. Attorney’s Office at the time of the raid. She said that title may be misleading because she was overseeing the “guns and drugs” cases....

March 13, 2012: Chabad Girls Write To Rubashkin
Comments: 56 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
A Chabad girls school in Crown Heights had their grade 1, 2 and 3 students write to Sholom Rubashkin, who is serving a 27 year sentence in federal prison for financial fraud related to Agriprocessors, his family's glatt kosher slaughterhouse....

March 8, 2012: A Purim Message For Children From Sholom Rubashkin
Comments: 47 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
I wish this was a Purim joke, but it isn't. Sholom Rubashkin sends a message to Jewish children for Purim – and it doesn't involve saying, "I'm sorry." Sholom Rubashkin Purim message from Sholom Rubashkin for children Shmais B"H Yud...

February 24, 2012: The New York Mets Kosher Hot Dog Controversy
Comments: 19 | Categories: Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Sports
An interview with Rabbi Shmuel Heinemenn explains the basis for the fight between the Mets and its kosher hot dog vendor. Here's the picture of the Kosher Sports vending area referred to in the interview, downloaded from the Kosher Sports,...

February 14, 2012: Video: Rubashkin's Daughter And Wife Speak
Comments: 31 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Chabad.org, Chabad's official website, posts video of Leah Rubashkin and her daughter Roza Weiss speaking at an "achdus" (unity) gathering for women in Toronto that was also a fundraising event for Sholom Rubashkin's legal defense fund.

February 10, 2012: Rabbis Stand Behind Caterer Accused Of Selling Treife – Because Accusers Are Goyyim
Comments: 24 | Categories: Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
“We are not changing anything or kashering anything. We have done our investigation and nothing was compromised. We stand behind them one thousand percent.…Halachically they have absolutely no ne’emanus,” said Rabbi Goldberg. “We have a reputable high end caterer, who...

February 8, 2012: Kosher Caterer Served Customers Treife, Employees Say
Comments: 48 | Categories: Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
The chef and the general manager at one of Long Island's largest kosher catering companies filed court papers Tuesday against the company's owner, saying the owner has been serving non-kosher food to his unwitting clients for more than a year....

February 2, 2012: Conservative Movement's Ethics 'Hechsher' Officially Opens For Business
Comments: 39 | Categories: Ethics , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Magen Tzedek, the Conservative Movement's ethics seal is now open for business and kosher food products can now carry the Magen Tzedek seal. Here are Magen Tzedek's newly released standards as a PDF file: Download Magen Tzedek Standards 2-2-2012 More...

January 29, 2012: Former Bush Solicitor General Now Rubashkin Lead Attorney
Comments: 39 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Paul D. Clement, the US Solicitor General who served under Georger W. Bush from June 2005 to June 2008, has replaced Nathan Lewin as Sholom Rubashkin's lead attorney. Rubashkin's request for a US Supreme Court review of his conviction, sentence...

January 19, 2012: Rubashkin "Emergency" Rally In Monsey
Comments: 99 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
An "emergency" gathering in Monsey for women only to aid Sholom Rubashkin's defense fund. Honoree: Rabbi Pinchos Lipshutz's wife Chanie.

January 11, 2012: Gristedes Drops Hasidic Food Brands Over Worker Abuse
Comments: 21 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Gristedes, the 31 store supermarket chain, is the latest food retailer to pull Flaum Appetizing's Sonny & Joe's brand hummus and related spreads from its shelves amid widespread concern about Flaum's labor practices. Flaum, a Brooklyn-based hasidic-owned kosher food producer...

December 26, 2011: Notorious Agriprocessors Manager To Be Extradited To US
Comments: 18 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
The extradition to the US of Hosam Amara, a former senior manager at Agriprocessors kosher slaughterhouse in Postville, Iowa, known as the Rubaskins' "enforcer," has been approved by the Jerusalem District Court. Hosam Amara Notorious Agriprocessors Manager To Be Extradited...

December 23, 2011: Large Chabad Charity Honors Rubashkin Family Members
Comments: 73 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
Family patriarch Aaron Rubashkin – whose kosher slaughterhouse employed more illegal alien workers than legal ones, and which was the site of horrific animal abuses and humane slaughter violations along with of abuses of those undocumented workers, many of them...

December 8, 2011: 5 Former Agriprocessors Workers Get Visas To Work, Live In US
Comments: 28 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
Life is about to change dramatically again for five Guatemalan men detained in the May 2008 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid on the Agriprocessors Inc. kosher slaughterhouse and meat-packing plant in Postville. Life changing again for five Guatemalan men...

December 7, 2011: Years After Immigration Raid, Postville Feels Poorer And Less Stable
Comments: 15 | Categories: Agri-Star , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
When the plant was raided one spring morning in May 2008, most of the workers on shift were Guatemalan and Mexican, and undocumented. Many workers later said they had been physically or sexually abused at the plant, and at least...

December 3, 2011: New Rubashkin Music Video
Comments: 50 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Music
The music video, Yedid Nefesh, features an original composition by Danny Finkelman performed by Bentzi Marcus of 8th Day and Dovid Dachs and shows exclusive footage from the upcoming documentary/promotional film “Rubashkin’s Game Plan” on the Rubashkin case and the...

November 27, 2011: Chabad Rabbis Say We Will Support Politicians In Return For Politicians' Support Of Convicted Felon Sholom Rubashkin
Comments: 76 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Meeting during the international convention of Chabad rabbis held in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, Chabad rabbis talk about freeing convicted felon Sholom Rubashkin, and say that of politicians want our support, they will have to help Rubashkin to get it. Rabbi...

November 22, 2011: Understanding Rubashkin's Sentence, And Why His Judge Is Not Hitler
Comments: 77 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
A Chabad news blog writes yemach shema ("Ym"s"), the female equivalent of "yemach shemo," "may his name be blotted out" – a curse reserved for arch enemies of the Jewish people like Adolph Hitler and Haman – after the name...

November 19, 2011: Satmar Slaughterhouse Fights County Over Hundreds Of Thousands Of Dollars In Waste Water Charges
Comments: 14 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
The Kiryas Joel Poultry Processing Plant has sued in state Supreme Court to challenge a $380,000 annual surcharge the county imposed in May — in addition to $211,000 in regular sewer charges and late fees — because of the added...

November 15, 2011: Tnuva To Drop Distribution Agreement With Flaum's Due To Poor Labor Practices
Comments: 23 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Tnuva, the huge Israeli dairy conglomerate, decided not to renew its distribution agreement with Flaum's Appetizing, the hasidic-owned Brooklyn-based food manufacturer and distributor, due to Flaum's ongoing legal troubles stemming from its illegal firing of immigrant workers who tried to...

November 3, 2011: Rubashkin Appeal Denied
Comments: 42 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Sholom Rubashkin's request for an en banc hearing of his appeal's earlier rejection by the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals was denied late this afternoon. JUDGE ORDER: denying…petition for enbanc rehearing filed by Appellant Mr. Sholom Rubashkin. Petition for panel...

November 3, 2011: No Comment On Rubashkin
Comments: 57 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
"It’s shameful and insensitive that Obama would not even take the time to acknowledge sentencing disparities in our justice system." No comment on Rubashkin It’s shameful and insensitive that Obama would not even take the time to acknowledge sentencing disparities...

November 2, 2011: Jewish Whistle Blower Blows Lid Off NYC Medicaid Fraud
Comments: 12 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Dr. Gabriel Feldman, a 50-year-old former kosher restaurant owner who works in public health, is the son of a Conservative rabbi. After two decades fo trying, Feldman blew the lid off NYC Medicaid fraud. His elderly mother hopes than he'll...

October 31, 2011: Satmar Schools May Go Down In Massive Bankruptcy Fraud Linked To Rubashkin Crony
Comments: 48 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Satmar’s massive United Talmudical Academy network of schools is being sued for $200 million dollars by the bankruptcy trustee for Allou Healthcare, the Satmar-hasid owned pharmaceutical, healthcare and beauty supply wholesaler whose owners were imprisoned for fraud. Satmar Schools May...

October 29, 2011: White House Turns Down Rubashkin Petetion
Comments: 56 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Thank you for signing the petition "Call an Investigation into Allegations of Prosecutorial & Judicial Misconduct in the Case of Sholom Rubashkin." We appreciate your participation in the We the People platform on WhiteHouse.gov.… Sholom Rubashkin Various Chabad and haredi...

October 26, 2011: Happy Birthday Rubashkin
Comments: 45 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Today is Sholom Rubashkin's 52nd birthday. Rubashkin, the former VP of Agriprocessors, once the largest kosher meatpacker in the world, is currently serving a 27- year prison sentence for bank fraud, related charges and perjury. He lost his appeal and,...

October 19, 2011: Rubashkin Robo Calls Violate Law
Comments: 59 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
"We have been receiving phone calls nightly between 10:00-10:30pm from 718-640-1870. It is an automated call to sign the [Sholom] Rubaskin [White House] petition. Not only are they waking me up, but my husband is going through chemotherapy…and they are...

October 12, 2011: Jewish Heroes?
Comments: 32 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Jewish Leadership , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
The Federations' Jewish Hero Awards quietly disqualified a left wing nominee from Jewish Voice for Peace. But its top vote getter so far is Leah Rubashkin, convicted felon Sholom Rubashkin's wife and the sister-in-law and aunt of convicted felons Moshe...

October 12, 2011: Rubashkin Files Petition For Appeal
Comments: 25 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Sholom Rubashkin has filed a a petition for enbanc rehearing and also for rehearing by panel, which means he wants all the judges of the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals to sit together enbanc and review his appeal. Originally published...

October 10, 2011: Kosher Meat Still Inhumanely Slaughtered, Forward Says
Comments: 33 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Extremely cruel methods of slaughter, including one banned in the US, are used in OU supervised slaughterhouses in South and Central America and imported to the US. At the same time, Agri Star is still using its infamous inverted pen...

October 6, 2011: Rubashkin Judge On Panel That Allows Anti-Gay, Anti-Jewish Church To Demonstrate
Comments: 16 | Categories: Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Still flush from their victory in the Supreme Court in March, Westboro Baptist Church congregants convinced the 8th Circuit to strike down a Missouri law that bans peaceful picketing outside of funerals. Westboro is considered to be a hate group...

September 23, 2011: Flaum Appetizing Tries To Cheat Workers – Again
Comments: 16 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Flaum Appetizing, the hasidic-owned Brooklyn-based kosher food manufacturer and distributor that distributes Tnuva products in the US, has long history of cheating its immigrant workforce. Now workers allege that a Flaum attorney tricked them into signing a document voiding claims...

September 22, 2011: "The Rubashkin Travesty: What You Can Do"
Comments: 62 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
On Friday, September 16, the Eight Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a draconian sentence on Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin, a sentence which is essentially a life sentence for him and his wife and 10 children. We now have a unique opportunity...

September 20, 2011: 35 Orthodox Rabbis Sign Petition For Prison Reform
Comments: 61 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Hessed , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , MO & Chardal
None of the rabbis who signed are Chabad or are linked to Sholom Rubashkin's defense fund, and few, if any, appear to be haredi. Our prison system is broken and we need to fix it! Join Uri L'Tzedek and over...

September 18, 2011: Sholom Rubashkin Writes To His Family After Appeal Denied
Comments: 129 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
"What really worried me all this time was that there were those that thought they had an idea of what to do to help, there was too much put in to thinking that the children of Eisov will have even...

September 18, 2011: The Sholom Rubashkin Appeal
Comments: 39 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Why it was rejected, and where Sholom Rubashkin and his legal team will go from here, along with remarks from his lead attorney, Nathan Lewin. Nathan Lewin. left; Sholom Rubashkin, right. On Friday, the United States Court of Appeals rejected...

September 16, 2011: RUBASHKIN APPEAL DENIED
Comments: 107 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
A federal appeals court has denied a former Postville meatpacking executive’s request for a new trial, saying he failed to show the judge in the case was unfairly biased in favor of the prosecution. Sholom Rubashkin Appeals court: Rubashkin doesn't...

September 14, 2011: Will Israel Extradite Notorious Agriprocessors Supervisor?
Comments: 12 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Israel , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
U.S. prosecutors are waiting to hear whether Israel will extradite a former supervisor accused of some of the worst abuses of workers at a former Postville meatpacking plant. Hosam Amara, left; Zev Levi, right Postville meat plant official's extradition weighed...

September 11, 2011: Chabad Member Beaten By Jews In Postville
Comments: 42 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Agri Star's Rav HaMachshir, it's main kosher supervisor Rabbi Meiselish, has allegedly been cracking down on Chabad messianism by firing as many Chabad employees as possible, with the goal of driving out all Chabad members from Postville. When a Chabad...

September 7, 2011: Spinka Fraudster Could Go Back To Prison Because He Refuses To Testify Against Fellow Haredi Criminals
Comments: 56 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business?
Two years ago, Rabbi Moshe Zigelman went to prison rather than testify against fellow Jews in a federal tax-evasion case. Now, federal prosecutors are threatening him with a return to jail unless the 64-year-old devout hasid agrees to testify before...

September 5, 2011: Video: An Example Of Postville "Anti-Semitism," Caught On Tape
Comments: 45 | Categories: Antisemitism , Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Postville city councilperson Ginger Medberry is caught on hidden camera saying things many Chabad hasidim consider to be antisemitic. But are they? The video posted below is part of the evidence Gabay Menahem gathered to support his discrimination lawsuit against...

September 4, 2011: Postville Officials May Have Hated The Actions Of The Town's Black Sheep Jewish Landloard – Not Jews, Postville Author Says
Comments: 79 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
"Maybe these local officials want the people who came to town to leave. It's not because they are Jewish. It may be because of the things they did," Stephen Bloom, a journalism professor and the author of a book on...

September 1, 2011: Postville Settles Discrimination Lawsuit Filed By Chabadnik
Comments: 39 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Gabay Menahem, a former businessman and property owner in Postville, has received $450,000 to settle discrimination and business interference lawsuits filed in state and federal court against the City of Postville, the city clerk and two members of the city...

August 27, 2011: Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv Eats Chicken Slaughtered At The Illegal Slaughterhouse Of A Notorious Haredi Street Thug
Comments: 17 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Shortly before the municipal and tax officials raided the establishment, they visited the houses of two ultra-Orthodox leaders suspected of operating the abattoir for years without reporting earnings for tax purposes, and without monitoring sanitation. The two leaders, Rabbi Avraham...

August 19, 2011: Empire Kosher Update
Comments: 42 | Categories: Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Filling in some key bits of information the JTA did not include in its profile of the kosher poultry giant. I noted last week that the JTA's report on Empire Kosher Poultry didn't ask or answer key questions: 1. How...

August 7, 2011: Was The Fix In? 2000 Agriprocessors Immigration Raid Blocked At Last Minute Due To Rubashkin Connection To Senator Joseph Lieberman
Comments: 44 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , MO & Chardal
Immigration agents were poised to raid the Agriprocessors meatpacking plant in late summer 2000, but their bosses canceled the action because of fears it might affect the presidential election. Agents had gathered from around the country and search warrants were...

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