2,050 posts categorized "Kosher Scandal"

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: 22 | 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 4, 2013: Tel Aviv Rabbis Issue Smart Phone App And Bar Codes To Check Restaurants’ Kosher Status
Comments: 13 | Categories: Israel , Kosher Scandal
The Chief Rabbinate of Tel Aviv has begun to issue kashrut certificates to restaurants with QR codes printed on them. Smartphone users can scan the QR code to determine whether the restaurant complies with the level of kosher observance they...

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...

May 3, 2013: Former Agrigrocessors Supervisor Extradited From Israel To Face Trial
Comments: 18 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Israel , Kosher Scandal
Hosam Amara, one of two former Agriprocessors supervisors who fled to Israel as indictments against them were being drafted by the US Attorney has finally been extradited to the US after years of delay. Hosam Amara, left, and Zeev Levi,...

May 2, 2013: Deported Agriprocessors Worker Arrested After Reentering US
Comments: 3 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Kosher Scandal
Armando Ramiro Garcia-Arenales, a former Agriprocessors kosher slaughterhouse worker with a long criminal history, pleaded guilty today to illegally reentering the US after being deported and to to illegally possessing ammunition. Deported Agriprocessors Worker Arrested After Reentering US Shmarya Rosenberg...

April 30, 2013: Mashgiach Intentionally Pours Pot Of Scalding Water On Employee, Gets Unbelievably Short Sentence
Comments: 15 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Kosher Scandal
The Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court sentenced a haredi mashgiach (kosher supervisor, often but not always a rabbi) from Betar Illit to only five months in prison and a $2,226 fine for intentionally dumping a pot of scalding water two years ago...

April 30, 2013: Video: Alleged OU Extortion And Mafia Tactics
Comments: 26 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Israel , Kosher Scandal
A restaurant owner in Jerusalem alleges the OU bullied him, extorted him, and tried to ruin his business. Related articles OU: "The Chassidish and Chareidi World: An Unsustainable Economy And The Onslaught Of Self-Hating Jew-Bloggers OU Won't Certify Quinoa For...

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 16, 2013: LA Kosher Scandal– The Israeli Version: Kosher Meat Swapped For Glatt, Sold To Unsuspecting Butchers And Consumers
Comments: 4 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Israel , Kosher Scandal
Pe’er Meats and Poultry in the Beer Tuvia Industrial Zone in Kiryat Malachi is alleged to have distributed for Passover regular kosher meat products deceptively labeled mehadrin kosher, the Israeli designation for glatt kosher. The meat had apparently fraudulent or...

April 14, 2013: Audio: Interview With P.I. Who Exposed LA Kosher Meat Scam
Comments: 2 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Scandal , MO & Chardal
Eric Agaki tells the story of why he began to investigate Doheny Glatt, how the kosher meat fraud was committed, and what he thinks should be done to make sure that something like this does not happen again. Agaki also...

April 13, 2013: Feds Seize $1 Million In Food From NY Kosher Food Manufacturer
Comments: 23 | Categories: Kosher Scandal
The government’s claims arose from an investigation conducted by the FDA which revealed widespread rodent infestation, other insanitary conditions, and issues with V.I.P.’s building structure which provide entryway for insects and rodents. The complaint alleges that FDA inspectors observed live...

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...

April 6, 2013: Video: The Coming Rise In Kosher Meat Prices
Comments: 55 | Categories: Kosher Scandal
Drought is decimating US farmers, especially cattle, goat and sheep growers. And barring a shift in government policy, that will eventually mean your food – already priced higher than ever – will go up in price even more. That could...

April 5, 2013: Agri Star Sells David's Kosher To Best Chicago Meat Company
Comments: 5 | Categories: Kosher Scandal
Postville, Iowa's Agriprocessors successor company Agri Star has sold its David's Kosher brand to Best Chicago Meat Company. In the better late than never category, here is the press release from Best Chicago Meat Company issued in February: Best Chicago...

April 5, 2013: How Haredi Rabbis Helped To Unwittingly Destroy Kosher In Israel
Comments: 50 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Kosher Scandal
“The meat passes from truck to truck en route, drivers change, shipment certificates designating destinations are faked and the meat for Palestinians finds its way to butcher shops in Israel. The recipients stick on labels attesting that the meat is...

April 5, 2013: Israeli Court Decision May Bring Back Force-Feeding Of Geese
Comments: 15 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Israel , Kosher Scandal
An Israeli court decision that found a farmer not guilty of animal cruelty for force-feeding his geese to fatten their livers may herald the return of the cruel practice that was banned by the High Court of Justice eight years...

April 3, 2013: Scandal-Plagued Kosher Meat Distributor Sold To OU Kosher Rabbi’s Son-In-Law
Comments: 32 | Categories: Chabad , Haredim , Kosher Scandal
Shlomo Rechnitz, a prominent LA-area businessman and philanthropist who is a son-in-law of Rabbi Yisroel Belsky, the rosh yeshiva of Torah Vodaas in Brooklyn and the OU’s co-kashrut authority for its meat division, has purchased troubled distributor and retailer Doheny...

April 3, 2013: LA Kosher Meat Scandal Deepens
Comments: 14 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Kosher Scandal
The USDA reportedly opens an investigation as a class action lawsuit against Doheny Glatt is launched by a member of the LA Jewish community. Doheny Glatt's owner also had a special relationship with Agriprocessors and Sholom Rubashkin. Originally published at...

March 29, 2013: Chabad Rabbi Gives Kosher Supervision To Store Caught Smuggling And Selling Unapproved Meat
Comments: 17 | Categories: Chabad , Haredim , Kosher Scandal
“We’re not going into it naïve. These are the precautions that we’re putting into place to allow him to stay in business from now until April 1. What happens after that, we’ll have to see.” As you probably remember, Doheny...

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...

March 21, 2013: Rabbi Ovadia Yosef Certifies Kosher For Passover Cigarettes
Comments: 24 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Kosher Scandal , Med-Ethics , Sefardim
For the first time ever, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef is putting his kosher supervision mark on Passover cigarettes – even though Yosef opposes smoking and urges people who smoke to quit. Rabbi Ovadia Yosef Rabbi Ovadia Yosef Certifies Kosher For Passoever...

March 12, 2013: OU Won't Certify Quinoa For Passover Because Haredi Rabbi Says It's Used Like Wheat And Therefore Isn't Kosher
Comments: 51 | Categories: Haredim , Kosher Scandal , MO & Chardal
“We can’t certify quinoa because it looks like a grain and people might get confused,” Genack said. “It’s a disputed food, so we can’t hold an opinion, and we don’t certify it. Those who rely on the O.U. for kashrut...

March 7, 2013: Could A Plague Of Near-Biblical Proportion Ease Poor Israelis Hunger Pangs?
Comments: 20 | Categories: Halakha , Haredim , Israel , Kosher Scandal , Sefardim
As locusts descend on Southern Israel, controversy erupts over whether or not the winged pests are kosher to eat. Above right: A file photo of one type of locust used for illustrative purposes only Could A Plague Of Near-Biblical Proportion...

March 5, 2013: Animal Rights Vandalism In Tel Aviv And Jaffa
Comments: 6 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Israel , Kosher Scandal
A severed sheep’s head was found in a public fountain in Jaffa. The water in the fountain was dyed red and "the slaughter houses are now transparent" was spray-painted on the fountain’s exterior walls. Animal Rights Vandalism In Tel Aviv...

March 2, 2013: Empire Kosher Poultry Suffers One Day Shutdown
Comments: 4 | Categories: Kosher Scandal
Empire Kosher Poultry had to shut down production for (at least) one day Thursday, allegedly because a shipment of chickens that arrived for Thursday’s slaughter were underweight. But because chickens are bred to grow very quickly, holding the chickens over...

February 18, 2013: Attorney Suing Hebrew National Says He Will Appeal Lawsuit's Dismissal
Comments: 19 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Scandal
The class action lawsuit against Hebrew National thrown out of court January 31 because it required a judge to rule of issues of Jewish law will be appealed, the suit's lead attorney claims. The American Jewish World reports: …Hart Robinovitch,...

February 8, 2013: Israel’s Haredi-Controlled Chief Rabbinate Wants To Regulate Shape And Size Of Baked Goods
Comments: 31 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Kosher Scandal
The Kashrut Department of Israel’s haredi-controlled state-funded-and-sanctioned Chief Rabbinate and the owners of large commercial bakeries and cookie factories recently met in Jerusalem to determine a course of action to resolve a crisis – the currently unregulated shape of baked...

February 6, 2013: Eat This Endanged Species, Please
Comments: 10 | Categories: Kosher Scandal , MO & Chardal
Perhaps the only person in the world whose mission is to save these ugly birds, in fact, is Rabbi Chaim Loike, a rabbinic coordinator at the Orthodox Union. And his concern is less ecological than gastronomical: Philby’s Partridge, Loike says,...

January 31, 2013: Class Action Lawsuit Against Hebrew National / ConAgra Thrown Out
Comments: 15 | Categories: Haredim , Kosher Scandal
"The Court recognizes that the laws of Kashrut and other issues of Biblical and Talmudic interpretation are quite properly the subject of rabbinical debate and have evolved over the course of many centuries. …whether [Hebrew National] products are indeed “100%...

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 25, 2012: No Matter How Cruel, Your Meat Is Still Glatt Kosher, Israel’s Chief Rabbis Say
Comments: 22 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Kosher Scandal
The chief rabbis eat with a forked tongue. If a restaurant hires belly dancers or dresses its waitstaff in skimpy costumes, it can lose its kosher supervision. The same is true if it puts a Christmas tree in its lobby...

December 18, 2012: The Orthodox Union Lies To The New York Times
Comments: 30 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Scandal , MO & Chardal , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Michael Powell of the New York Times asked the Orthodox Union's president Simcha Katz yesterday about the conviction of Rabbi Nechemya Weberman on child sexual abuse charges. Here is what Katz reportedly told Powell: From today's New York Times: On...

December 14, 2012: Animal Cruelty At Israel's Premier Glatt Kosher Slaughterhouse Causes International Outcry
Comments: 16 | Categories: Israel , Kosher Scandal
Tnuva's Beit She’an slaughterhouse was caught in a PETA-style undercover hidden camera investigation willfully abusing and torturing animals. Because many of those those animals came from Australia and their handling and slaughter is governed by international agreements, the Government of...

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...

December 3, 2012: Updated: Rabbi Meisels Removes Hechsher From Agri Star
Comments: 6 | Categories: Haredim , Kosher Scandal
Rabbi Chaim Meisels removed his kosher supervision from Agri Star in Postville, Iowa, the successor company to Agriprocessors, effective November 29. Update 1:42 pm CST – Agri Star has added a new hechsher. Details are posted below. Agri Star has...

November 27, 2012: Polish Court Bans Kosher Slaughter
Comments: 22 | Categories: Kosher Scandal
The court’s ruling, publicized earlier today, says the government acted unconstitutionally when it exempted kosher and halal slaughter from the requirement to stun animals immediately before slaughter. Polish Court Bans Kosher Slaughter Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com A constitutional court in...

November 26, 2012: Government Seizes Bank Assets In Alleged Halal Fraud
Comments: 7 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Kosher Scandal
A large Iowa-based maker of halal meat products is facing a crippling federal investigation. The Midamar Corporation allegedly deceptively mislabeled meat and meat products as halal (the Islamic equivalent of kosher) when they were not actually halal slaughtered or certified,...

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: 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 13, 2012: Chief Rabbinate Allegedly Stonewalls, Blocks Women From Working As Kosher Inspectors
Comments: 14 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Kosher Scandal , Women & Judaism
An investigative report has found that women trying register for courses that train them to be a mashgiach, kosher food inspector, are being turned away because Israel’s haredi-controlled Chief Rabbinate is blocking the courses for modesty reasons" – even though...

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...

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