1,309 posts categorized "Kosher Scandal"

December 24, 2009: Rubashkin Attorneys Appeal Detention Order
Comments: 7 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Yesterday, Nathan Lewin and Guy Cook Esq. submitted a Brief of Appellant on Motion for Release Pending Sentencing Lewin Appeals Judge’s Denial for Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin Matzav.com Yesterday, Nathan Lewin and Guy Cook Esq. submitted a Brief of Appellant on...

December 22, 2009: Layoffs At Agri Star
Comments: 34 | Categories: Agri-Star , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
A Christmas present to Postville from Hershey Friedman. A Postville source sends a list of supervisors and managers terminated by Agri Star in the past week: Dan Smith, shipping supervisor , who by the way has a child on the...

December 22, 2009: Mashgiach Files Discrimination Complaint Against YU's Teaching Hospital
Comments: 14 | Categories: Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , MO & Chardal
The OU has – so far – refused to back its now former kosher inspector and YU has been completely silent. How it came to this: Unkosher, Retaliation, "100 + Roaches.", An Anatomy of an Incident, OU Mashgiach to be...

December 18, 2009: Whistleblower OU Mashgiach Fired
Comments: 13 | Categories: Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Speaking the truth about unkosher food at Montefiore Medical Center gets Robert Frank fired. How it came to this: Unkosher, Retaliation, "100 + Roaches.", An Anatomy of an Incident, OU Mashgiach to be Fired?

December 17, 2009: Rubashkin Material Witnesses Won't Be Released
Comments: 3 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
20 undocumented former Agriprocessors workers designated as material witnesses for criminal cases will not be released as the government thought last month. Material witnesses in the Agriprocessors case will not be released Trish Mehaffey • The Gazette The 20 undocumented...

December 16, 2009: Convicted Agriprocessors Supervisor Wants Sentence Reduced
Comments: 8 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
A former Agriprocessors supervisor who was the first to be sentenced after the 2008 immigration raid filed a motion Monday in U.S. District Court to correct his sentence. Agriprocessors supervisor asks court to correct his sentence The Gazette former Agriprocessors...

December 11, 2009: As Whistle-Blowing Mashgiach Applies for Food Stamps & Welfare, OU Fat Cats Breathe Sighs of Relief
Comments: 16 | Categories: Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , MO & Chardal
"The OU is letting me hang out there to dry. They’re willing to lie, to say that everything is okay, just to cover their asses." Luke Ford has a brief interview with Robert Frank, the mashgiach at Montefiore Medical Center...

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 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 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: 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 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 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: Non-Kosher Food In An OU Supervised Kitchen: Anatomy Of An Incident
Comments: 16 | Categories: Kosher Scandal , MO & Chardal
YU-affiliated hospital kitchen has a non-kosher incident. Hospital blames mashgiach. What follows are two documents: an internal Montefiore report mentioning an incident that happened on a Shabbat (sabbath) last month and the discipline report on that incident given to the...

December 4, 2009: "100 + Roaches": NYC Bureau Of Pest Control Report On Montefiore Medical Center's Weiler Hospital OU Kosher Kitchen
Comments: 16 | Categories: Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , MO & Chardal
OU supervised, YU-affiliated hospital's kosher kitchen's "overall sanitation is poor," inspector's report says. Related Posts: Unkosher, Retaliation, Anatomy of an Incident, Mashgiach To Be Fired.

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: 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 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 2, 2009: OU Retaliation
Comments: 17 | Categories: Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , MO & Chardal
What happens when you cross the world's largest kosher supervision organization and a YU-affiliated teaching hospital? This: Please click to enlarge. Food cooked on Shabbat – as opposed to food rewarmed on Shabbat – can only be eaten by ill...

December 1, 2009: Unkosher: YU-Affiliated Teaching Hospital Under OU Supervision Allegedly Serves Non-Kosher Food, Discriminates Against Kosher Food Supervisors
Comments: 36 | Categories: Kosher Scandal , MO & Chardal
Non-Kosher food served on Passover, milk and meat pans mixed, non-kosher beef served to patients and doctors, mashgiach alleges. I've been exchanging emails and phone calls since last week with Robert Frank, a mashgiach (kosher supervisor) for five years at...

December 1, 2009: Is It Kosher? Scientists Grow Meat In Lab
Comments: 44 | Categories: Ethics , Food , Halakha , Kosher Scandal
The lab-grown meat could be on sale within five years. Scientists 'grow' meat in laboratory The move towards artificially engineered foods has taken a step forward after scientists grew a form of meat in a laboratory for the first time....

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 26, 2009: Ben Brafman, Unnamed Rubashkin Attorney, Newspaper Editor Speculate On Rubashkin's Sentence
Comments: 56 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
"Those who are concerned with justice will not be upset if the judge refuses to hand down a very long prison sentence. But those who are looking to destroy a man and his family will never be content." Sentence Structure...

November 25, 2009: Rubashkin "Didn’t Give A Damn About Anyone Or Anything — Except Making Money [His] Way."
Comments: 64 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
"Sholom Rubashkin’s actions reflected an mind-boggling sense of imperial disregard for just about everything that ethical, law-abiding people hold as plain and simple rules of civic and financial engagement.” Lynda Waddington of the Iowa Independent reports: …In the wake of...

November 25, 2009: Government Releases Undocumented Workers Held For Rubashkin Trial
Comments: 6 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
Release means many will be deported in the coming weeks. Government releases Agriprocessors material witnesses By Trish Mehaffey • Gazette The 24 undocumented former Agriprocessors workers designated as material witnesses in criminal cases will be released, according to a motion...

November 24, 2009: Pro-Rubashkin Signs Further Divide Postville
Comments: 81 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
[UPDATED] Rubashkin's face superimposed on an American flag angers some. Here's a link to the above video, which features Postville war veterans upset about the Rubashkin poster, just in case the embedded video won't play. [Hat Tip: AGRI-vated Angel.]

November 24, 2009: Rubashkin Appeals Bail Denial
Comments: 27 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Attorneys for Sholom Rubashkin asked the court to impose additional conditions to ensure he does not flee before his still-undetermined sentencing date. Rubashkin appeals bail denial By JENS MANUEL KROGSTAD • Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier CEDAR RAPIDS -- The former executive...

November 24, 2009: Letter from Miami: Postville Raid A Waste
Comments: 21 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Safety , Rubashkin Workers
The exemplary message to employers: It's OK to abuse human beings, so long as you don't lie to the bank. There are so many errors of logic and misstatements of fact in this piece, I had to point some of...

November 23, 2009: Postcard from The Netherlands: Old Rubashkin Meat Sold Retail By Chabad in Holland
Comments: 34 | Categories: Chabad , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
The meat carries a label stating it was "first frozen in 2007" and produced in Ecuador. A Jew from the Netherlands writes: There's Rubashkins meat for sale in the Chabad deli in The Hague (Netherlands). It's got Rubashkins label on...

November 23, 2009: Clergy: Government Wrong For Dropping Rubashkin Immigration Charges
Comments: 56 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Religion , Rubashkin Safety , Rubashkin Workers
We will "investigate and pursue all constructive options and legal recourse." Rubashkin "exploited and mistreated" undocumented workers "so extensively." Clergy say workers needed to air case ASSOCIATED PRESS Decorah, Ia. - Three Decorah clergy members who have been involved in...

November 22, 2009: Jews Face "Uncertain Future" In Postville, Bemoan Lost Rubashkin Largesse
Comments: 71 | Categories: Agri-Star , Chabad , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
"The generosity of the Rubashkins had created a company town atmosphere within the Orthodox Jewish community." Orthodox views: Jewish community faces uncertain future in Postville By JOHN MOLSEED • Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier POSTVILLE - The Agri Star kosher meat processing...

November 20, 2009: RUBASHKIN DENIED BAIL
Comments: 74 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Details… Here's the entire decision as a PDF file: Download Rubashkin Denied Bail 11-20-09

November 20, 2009: Rubashkin Bail Decision
Comments: 2 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
I just spoke with the Clerk of the Court… …the decision is expected late this afternoon. If it comes down before Shabbos, I'll try to get it posted.

November 20, 2009: Rubashkin Wants Acquittal, New Trial
Comments: 8 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
The motion contends there was insufficient evidence to sustain the conviction on the bank fraud, money laundering and other charges. Rubashkin wants acquittal, new trial on federal charges Trish Mehaffey • Gazette Former Agriprocessors vice president Sholom Rubashkin filed a...

November 20, 2009: Postville Church Leaders React To Rubashkin Dismissals
Comments: 27 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
"We see there is a complete lack of justice…" [Hat Tip: FGBA.]

November 20, 2009: Rubashkin Trial Witnesses Want To Go Home
Comments: 26 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
Undocumented workers held in "immigration limbo" since raid. Rubashkin trial witnesses wait ... and want to go home BY TONY LEYS • Des Moines Register Decorah, Ia. - The legal battle against Agriprocessors' Sholom Rubashkin has snared more than two...

November 20, 2009: RUBASHKIN ATTORNEY: "He's Presumed Innocent, The Court Has Now Dismissed These Charges – He Is Indeed Innocent"
Comments: 26 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Safety , Rubashkin Workers
Guy Cook explains why Rubashkin is "innocent." [Hat Tip: FGBA.]

November 19, 2009: Iowa Gives Agri Star $600,000 In Aid
Comments: 22 | Categories: Agri-Star , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Postville slaughterhouse also gets state tax credits. State gives new owners of Postville plant $600,000 in aid BY DONNELLE ELLER • Des Moines Register The new owners of the former AgriProcessors in Postville received $600,000 in state assistance, plus tax...

November 19, 2009: BREAKING! Government Dismisses All Immigration Charges Against Rubashkin
Comments: 152 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
UPDATED. The government basically says sentencing guidelines make the fraud charges so severe that they eclipse the penalties for the immigration charges. So the government has asked the judge to dismiss the immigration charges against Rubashkin and Agriprocessors without prejudice....

November 18, 2009: Rubashkin Gave Hosam Amara Money To Run To Israel, Gov't Tells Judge
Comments: 26 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
Former Agriprocessors manager ran at Rubashkin's request. Is now hiding in Israel. Left, Hosam Amara. Right, Zev Levi. The Courier's Jens Manuel Krogstad's Twitter feed notes that the government told the judge today that Hosam Amara, former Agri supervisor on...

November 18, 2009: H & H Bagels Owner Indicted On Tax Fraud Charges
Comments: 7 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Iconic Upper West Side-based operation that boasts of making 80,000 bagels a day. H&H bagel man may hand over lots of dough in tax cheat case By LAURA ITALIANO • NY Post The city's biggest bagel maker will suffer a...

November 18, 2009: Rubashkin At Bail Hearing: I've Never Run Away From A Fight
Comments: 36 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
“I’m man enough to stay.” Seeking release, Rubashkin says he’s ‘never ran away from a fight’ Trish Mehaffey • The Gazette Sholom Rubashkin says he had no intention of fleeing the county and leaving his family and the Jewish community...

November 18, 2009: Judge Takes Rubashkin Bail Request Under Advisement
Comments: 10 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin will… …remain in federal custody until chief Judge Linda Reade makes her decision. According to the Clerk of the Court's office, there is no set timeframe for this to happen.

November 18, 2009: Rubashkin Bail Hearing Over
Comments: 4 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Details… …are not yet being released by the court. We'll have to wait a little longer to know.

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