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July 9, 2009: Israeli Rabbi Wants Virtual Kosher Supervision
Comments: 2 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Video surveillance could be used to augment on-site inspections. Israel rabbi proposes 'virtual' kosher supervision - via video cameras By Yanir Yagna, Haaretz The extended hours at Be'er Sheva bars and restaurants have brought the proprietors an additional expense: paying...

July 8, 2009: Empire Glatt Kosher Beef Now Available At Costco
Comments: 10 | Categories: Food , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Beef jointly under OU and Star-K supervision now sold at Costco in Brooklyn and the Five Towns. Shoppers have no beef with kosher meat at Costco By Malka Eisenberg • The Jewish Star You won’t find the cheapest kosher meat...

July 7, 2009: Rubashkin Attorney Objects To Trial Scheduling
Comments: 10 | Categories: Chabad , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
Wants immigration trial held before bank fraud trial. Trial Date Set In Iowa Slaughterhouse Case IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) ― A lawyer for a former top manager of a kosher slaughterhouse is protesting a judge's decision to hold a trial...

July 7, 2009: Agriprocessors Asks Court To Suppress Evidence
Comments: 10 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Safety , Rubashkin Workers
Attorney for the company claims evidence against it was illegally seized during immigration raid. Agriprocessors asks court to suppress evidence By Trish Mehaffey • The Gazette CEDAR RAPIDS — An Agriprocessors’ attorney claims the evidence seized during the May 12,...

July 6, 2009: Is It Friedman? SHF's Attorney Denies Friedman Bid On Agriprocessors, Won't ID Owners
Comments: 19 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Lack of transparency does not bode well for Postville, for Agriprocessors workers – or for the kosher food industry. Company bids $8.5 million for Iowa slaughterhouse By NIGEL DUARA CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — A newly formed Iowa company bid...

July 6, 2009: BREAKING! Hershey Friedman Agriprocessors Only Bidder – Hearing On Sale Next Week
Comments: 8 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
Unsecured creditors, Postville businesses, former and current workers to get nothing from sale of Agriprocessors. Canadian businessman makes only bid for Agriprocessor BY TONY LEYS • Des Moines Register Cedar Rapids, Ia. – No other bidders stepped forward today to...

July 3, 2009: Empire Kosher Doubles Production
Comments: 25 | Categories: Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
New proprietary equipment allows Empire to dramatically boost production. The press release: Empire Kosher Poultry Announces New Production Line More than Doubles Weekly Chicken Capacity MIFFLINTOWN, PA - Empire Kosher Poultry today announced plans to significantly increase its Kosher chicken...

July 2, 2009: Empire Kosher Announces New Organic, Antibiotic-Free Poultry
Comments: 10 | Categories: Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
"[T]he birds will be fed all vegetarian diets and will never be injected with antibiotics or hormones." Empire Kosher Poultry Expands Antibiotic Free and Organic Poultry Lines Producer to Offer Traditional Kosher, Kosher ABF and Kosher Organic Poultry MIFFLINTOWN, PA...

July 2, 2009: 44 Tons Of Rotting Meat? Solomon's Owner Tells His Story
Comments: 31 | Categories: Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
An interview with Ilan Parente and more, with several new updates since this was originally posted. (Caution: This may load a bit slowly.) This was recorded in the early evening of Tuesday, June 30, 2009. Listen: Update 7-2-09 4:50 PM...

July 1, 2009: BREAKING! Glatt Kosher Meatpacker Illegally Interfered With Union Election
Comments: 41 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Satmar hasid-owned Alle Packing tried to throw employees' election, block union. National Labor Relations Board orders revote. Alle's brands include: Meal Mart, Mon Cusine, New York Kosher Deli and Mrs. Schreiber. Please click to enlarge: […] The entire decision as...

June 29, 2009: Why Is Sholom Rubashkin (Jr.) Not In Prison?
Comments: 35 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Moshe Rubashkin
Moshe Rubashkin's son Sholom, AKA Sam Sternberg, was supposed to report to prison earlier this month to serve a 4 month sentence in the Rubashkin Allentown scam. Why didn't he? This: Please click to enlarge.

June 26, 2009: BREAKING! Bridgewater Quality Meats, Producer Of Solomon's Glatt Kosher Lets Tons Of Meat Rot In Bridgewater – Stench Filled City, Building May Be Condemned
Comments: 45 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
[Newly Updated 6-30-09] Could it have fed thousands of hungry people? Bridgewater city councilman Phil Heiberger removes wooden pallets Wednesday from the Bridgewater Quality Meats facility. Meat may have been rotting at the abandoned meat plant for the past six...

June 26, 2009: Streit's Caves In, Gets 'National' Kosher Supervision For Matzo
Comments: 5 | Categories: Food , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , MO & Chardal
“Obviously, we’re very delighted that they’re taking a national hashgacha…we’ll have to see how they proceed. That’s something that’s going to have to be left to our kashruth committee.” Streit’s Matzo to sport Kof-K in 2010 Mayer Fertig • Exclusive...

June 26, 2009: AGRIPROCESSORS: Sale Hearing, New Auction Set
Comments: 13 | Categories: Chabad , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
If no other bidders come forward, Hershey Friedman wins. Auction: 1:30 pm, Monday July 6. Hearing on Sale: 1:30 pm Wednesday, July 15. Please click to enlarge:

June 26, 2009: Bank Sues Rubashkin Family Over Defaulted Loan
Comments: 7 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
$300,00 loan was taken out for Nevel Properties and personally guaranteed by Aaron, Heshy and Sholom Rubashkin. Bank suing Rubashkins for unpaid loan By Trish Mehaffey • The Gazette Related Story: Agriprocessors charges to be tried separately, judge rules CEDAR...

June 26, 2009: Rubashkin's New York Vacation
Comments: 25 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
Rabbi Sholom M. Rubashkin's very fine vacation, in pictures. All photos are taken in the main synagogue in Lubavitch World Headquarters at 770 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York Thursday, the 15th yartzeit of the death of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson,...

June 25, 2009: BREAKING! TWO TRIALS: Judge Splits Rubashkin Federal Charges
Comments: 14 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
Judge says it would be too difficult for a jury to keep all 142 counts straight. Judge separates charges in slaughterhouse case DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- A federal judge in Cedar Rapids has granted a motion to sever immigration...

June 25, 2009: Agriprocessors Sale Will Leave Little To Nothing For Unsecured Creditors, Workers
Comments: 40 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
Unsecured creditors owed $22 million, unlikely to recover anything. Agriprocessors sale could leave little for creditors By Dave DeWitte • The Gazette The Rev. Richard Gaul performs a blessing of the Agriprocessors plant and the crowd during a march to...

June 24, 2009: Hershey Friedman's US Company
Comments: 15 | Categories: Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Friedman registered Favorite Plastic Corporation in Delaware as a foreign corporation. There is nothing illegal in this. However, companies use often Delaware to hide ownership details from the public. The address listed on Utica Ave. is the plant. Here is...

June 24, 2009: Rubashkin Allowed To Leave Iowa For "Jewish" Holiday
Comments: 70 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Event is of “exceptional religious significance for those of the Lubavitcher faith.” View Larger Map The purple line shows one of Google's routes from 770 Eastern Parkway, Lubavitch World Headquarters, to the Rebbe's grave in Queens. The large gray area...

June 23, 2009: BREAKING! AGRIPROCESSORS SALE FILED WITH COURT [UPDATED]
Comments: 47 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
The buyer is… …Hershey Friedman's SHF Industries. Please click the icon in the viewer's right top corner to better read the document. Please click it again to return to this post. The process works like this. 1. The court must...

June 23, 2009: Cooked Cockroach Closes Knesset Cafeteria
Comments: 18 | Categories: Israel , Kosher Scandal
Kosher conundrum caused when creature cooked and served to Knesset member. Cockroach closes down Knesset cafeteria Just as Shas MKs dine in parliament's eatery, pest pops up and snatches away establishment's kosher certificate. But don't worry too much about elected...

June 18, 2009: Beaten in Court, Rubashkins Battle to Keep Crown Heights Leadership
Comments: 18 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Even two felony convictions and his current location in a federal penitentiary may not be enough to bar Moshe Rubashkin from Chabad leadership. Beaten in Court, Rubashkins Battle to Keep Crown Heights Religious Leadership By Elizabeth Dwoskin • Village Voice...

June 18, 2009: BREAKING! JUDGE DENIES RUBASHKIN REQUEST TO MOVE TRIAL
Comments: 5 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
But Judge Lina Reade says she may reconsider as trial nears. Judge denies Rubashkin's request to move trial BY GRANT SCHULTE • Des Moines Register A federal judge has again denied a request to move the trial of former Postville...

June 16, 2009: BREAKING! Rubashkin Wants All Evidence Gathered During Raid Excluded From Trial
Comments: 15 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Safety , Rubashkin Workers
Argues raid violated constitutional rights of workers. He paid them at or below minimum wage; made them worked forced, unpaid overtimes; employed child laborers; shorted employees' pay, and and violated OSHA health and safety regulations. And now he wants to...

June 15, 2009: Kosher Industry: We Will Never Be Transparent
Comments: 7 | Categories: Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Menachem Lubinsky extols the virtues of backroom 'kosher' deals, alibis for Streit's ban. Rushing to Judgment in the Streit’s Fiasco It was an unfortunate incident for the Streit family when it learned just several weeks before Passover that its Matzoh...

June 14, 2009: Picture of the Day
Comments: 43 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Rubashkin at home. "Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin, flanked by his wife Leah and children, making Havdalah after Shabbos Beha'aloscha in their home in Postville, Iowa. The future of the local Jewish community has been in question ever since the May 2008...

June 14, 2009: Rabbi Milton Yehoshua Balkany Defends Rabbi Dovid Cohen & Ohel, Attacks Media, NY Jewish Week
Comments: 6 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Pedophilia
The rabbi who misappropriated a $700,000 federal grant meant to help disabled children defends rabbi who said Jewish law allows you to cheat on your taxes. Rabbi Milton Yehoshua Balkany is also the son-in-law of Aaron Rubashkin. And, like the...

June 14, 2009: Postville: A City Under Siege
Comments: 7 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Safety , Rubashkin Workers
CBS News takes a look at Postville, 13 months after the raid. Another weak effort from CBS. It doesn't mention 9300 counts of child labor violations, bank fraud, the ongoing attempt to sell Agriprocessors, the near-evictions, etc. God help us...

June 13, 2009: CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT LAUNCHES KOSHER SUPERVISION IN ISRAEL
Comments: 13 | Categories: Israel , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Hechsher will compete with Rabbinute and various independent haredi hechshers. A kashrut conundrum YAEL BRYGEL , THE JERUSALEM POST Most kashrut-observant Jews are accustomed to walking into an eatery and asking the restaurateur or waiter whether the establishment is kosher....

June 10, 2009: The Obscenely High Cost Of Kosher Living
Comments: 19 | Categories: Kosher Scandal , MO & Chardal
Money Magazine bares it all. Embedded video from CNNMoney.com Video Religion and money: The price of faith Three families, Christian, Muslim, Jewish, grapple with the financial challenges of staying true to their beliefs. By George Mannes, senior writer (Money Magazine)...

June 10, 2009: UPDATED: The Company That Would Buy Agriprocessors
Comments: 34 | Categories: Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Hershey Friedman forms an Iowa corporation. I'm told this is Hershey Friedman's new company set up to buy Agriprocessors. Daniel Hirsch is said to be operating it for him. Note SHF Industries, LLC was formed may 6, 2009. Please click...

June 7, 2009: The Lies Of Kosher Today, Cont.
Comments: 10 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Spin
Rubashkin's 'former' PR flack 'reports' on the 'sale' of Agriprocessors. As Agriprocessor Heads for a Comeback, Some Wonder How Menachhem Lubinsky, Kosher Today, June 1, 2009 New York…With each passing day, there are signs that the bankrupt Agriprocessor may soon...

June 5, 2009: Rubashkin Wants Two Trials
Comments: 16 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
Agriprocessors VP does not want to testify about bank fraud but wants to testify about immigration charges, claims he did not knowingly hire illegal immigrants. Rubashkin seeks two trials so he can tell his story By Trish Mehaffey • The...

June 2, 2009: Rubashkin Again Asks Judge To Move Trial Out Of Iowa
Comments: 37 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
Claims media reports have biased potential jurors. Rubashkin asks that immigration trial be moved Des Moines Register A former executive at Postville's kosher slaughterhouse asked a judge today to move his federal trial out of Iowa to protect his right...

June 1, 2009: Sholom M. Rubashkin: Messianist
Comments: 22 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , MO & Chardal
Agriprocessors former boss and many of his Jewish employees – including schochtim – are Chabad messianists. How did KAJ and the OU put their kosher supervision marks on Agriprocessors' products? Sholom Rubashkin wearing a "Yechi" messianist yarmulke declaring the late...

May 28, 2009: Whistleblower Calls For Investigation Of Iowa US Attorneys
Comments: 1 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
But is this a good idea? As you read this keep in mind that a group of defense attorneys who represented Agriprocessors workers – the same workers Camayd-Freixas translated for – have publicly stated Stephanie Rose did everything in her...

May 22, 2009: BREAKING! No Sale Yet [Updated]
Comments: 3 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Agriprocessors sale still being worked on, not a done deal. I spoke with Joseph Sarachek, Agriprocessors' court-appointed trustee a few minutes ago. At this point, Agriprocessors has not been sold. Sarachek said US Bankruptcy Court must be asked for a...

May 22, 2009: Agriprocessors Beef Line Said Flooded, Inoperable
Comments: 56 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
How will this impact the plant's new owner? I had a credible report from Postville earlier this week that Agriprocessors' beef line is flooded, with much of the equipment ruined and beyond repair. I just spoke with another extremely credible...

May 22, 2009: AGRIPROCESSORS SALE NEAR, ANNOUNCEMENT "SHORTLY"
Comments: 4 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Was Memorial Day weekend chosen to avoid unwanted media coverage? I think it was, and I told several players it would work out this way, with a sale announcement late today. Why? Because the buyer is problematic. Here's the beginning...

May 21, 2009: EXCLUSIVE: AGRIPROCESSORS BUYER REVEALED [Updated]
Comments: 23 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Safety , Rubashkin Workers
But why has the sale not yet been announced? [Updated at 11:15 pm. 5-21-09 and again at 3:45 cdt 5-22-09. Original Post 3:52 pm 5-21-09.] A senior government source told me today that Hershey Friedman bought Agriprocessors' $10 million line...

May 20, 2009: Forward Reporter Wins Journalism Award For Reporting On Kosher Meat Industry
Comments: 8 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Safety , Rubashkin Workers
Nathaniel Popper wins for exposés on Agriprocessors and Alle. Popper Wins Journalism Award Nathaniel Popper, the Forward’s senior writer, was honored with a Deadline Club award for his coverage of illegal labor practices in the kosher meat industry. He won...

May 18, 2009: Why Didn't The Feds Prosecute Agriprocessors Wage and Employment Crimes?
Comments: 7 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Safety , Rubashkin Workers
George Bush. His Department of Labor failed to enforce the law at hundreds of companies, including Agriprocessors. Wage theft victims fight for rights In a recession, some employers may try to shortchange their workers. But wage theft victims are fighting...

May 17, 2009: Uncertainty Tests Postville's Jews
Comments: 55 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
But will Postville's Jewish community ever come to grips with the crimes committed in its name? Uncertainty, change test Postville's Jews TONY LEYS • Des Moines Register Postville, Ia. - A few dozen Jewish families have left this northeast Iowa...

May 17, 2009: State Thinks Agriprocessors Sale Near
Comments: 11 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Trustee says business is up. Optimism about sale of Postville plant TONY LEYS •Des Moines Register State leaders say they are working aggressively to help attract a new, reputable owner for a bankrupt Postville meatpacking plant, and they are optimistic...

May 15, 2009: EXCLUSIVE: Rubashkin Alleged To Have Violated Conditions Of His Release, May Face Incarceration
Comments: 36 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Safety , Rubashkin Workers
Former Agriprocessors workers also allege health and safety violations, workplace discrimination and labor law violations. I spoke with two former Agriprocessors workers today. What they told me was quite disturbing. Carole and Tisha Doty are mother and daughter, Iowa natives...

May 15, 2009: BREAKING! RUBASHKIN CHARGED WITH 70 ADDITIONAL CRIMINAL COUNTS
Comments: 19 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
Now faces 140 federal counts. New indictment filed in kosher slaughterhouse case DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Former Iowa kosher slaughterhouse vice president Sholom Rubashkin has been named in a new 142-count indictment that adds 70 new charges. The superseding...

May 15, 2009: Yated Ne'eman: Government Prosecution Of Rubashkin Antisemitic "Blood Libel"
Comments: 34 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Safety , Rubashkin Workers
Haredi newspaper calls charges filed against Rabbi Sholom M. Rubashkin and Agriprocessors an antisemitic "blood libel." Please click to enlarge or download the pdf version linked at the bottom of this post: Here it is as a pdf file: Yated...

May 14, 2009: Breaking! Goverment Gives Former Agriprocessors Workers Visas
Comments: 9 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Safety , Rubashkin Workers
Visas awarded 20 former Agriprocessors workers under a law that protects crime victims. Former Agriprocessors workers get good news Jens Manuel Krogstad, Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courrier POSTVILLE -- The government has awarded 20 former Agriprocessors workers visas under a law that...

May 13, 2009: Postville Lag Ba'Omer Parade Video: "Agendas Destroy" Postville
Comments: 43 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Workers
An "old" Postville tradition? Or an excuse to avoid communal responsibility? Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai was a student of Rabbi Akiva. He lived 1900 years ago in the Galilee, 600 years after Rabbi Vogel said. Also note the sign carried...

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