2,254 posts categorized "Kosher Scandal"

November 5, 2006: CONSERVATIVE RABBIS – What Would Heschel Have Done?
Comments: 11 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Jewish Leadership , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Price-Fixing , Rubashkin Workers
So, the Conservative rabbis charged five months ago with investigating the abuse at Rubashkin's AgriProcessors plant in Postville are sitting on their findings. Why? I know some of the reasons, perhaps all of them. Soon, I'll list them. But not...

October 29, 2006: How Frum Is The Reform Movement? More Than Most of You Think
Comments: 30 | Categories: Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Religion, Religion & State
Sue Fishkoff writes for JTA: … According to two recent studies, more Reform Jews are putting their mouths where their values are. In a 2000 survey that was never published, 344 congregations — about half the movement’s affiliates — showed...

October 23, 2006: Temple Grandin on MPR
Comments: 0 | Categories: Kosher Scandal
The noted animal welfare expert Dr. Temple Grandin is being interviewed now on MPR's Midmorning. Here's a link to listen. The show should be archived, as well.

October 5, 2006: Rubashkin and the Conservative Rabbis
Comments: 1 | Categories: Jewish Leadership , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Price-Fixing
Sukkot is upon us, and it seems the Conservative rabbis sent so long ago to investigate worker abuse at Rubashkin's Postville, Iowa slaughterhouse have still not released a report of their investigation, let alone announced a verdict on Rubashkin's guilt...

October 5, 2006: The OU, OK, KSA, etc. on the Monsey Chicken Scandal
Comments: 6 | Categories: Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
The JTA reports: A recent case of retail fraud could lead to wholesale changes in the kosher meat industry. The changes were discussed at two recent meetings of high-level rabbis and kashrut supervisors, one at the Orthodox Union headquarters in...

October 4, 2006: BREAKING KOSHER SCANDAL?
Comments: 7 | Categories: Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
The Jewish Press editorial board reports: As per our recent reports and editorials, kosher consumers are up in arms over the recent Monsey kashrus scandal. Now we learn of startling new allegations – allegations that come to our attention too...

September 28, 2006: Kapparot Chickens Treife?
Comments: 10 | Categories: Kosher Scandal , MO & Chardal , Religion, Religion & State
There is mention of an interesting halakhic ruling in an otherwise pedestrian Ynet article about abuses surrounding the practice of kapparot – the pagan ritual of waving a chicken over ones head to symbolically cast ones sins into the chicken,...

September 26, 2006: BREAKING: RUBASHKIN SUPPLIER FAILS ANIMAL WELFARE AUDIT, Shackle & Hoist Used, RABBIS APPROVED
Comments: 29 | Categories: Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Here's the lowdown: AgriProcessors (Rubashkin) purchases veal and lamb from other slaughterhouses. I'm told the reason for this is, at least in the case of veal, primarily economic; Holstein cattle are notorious for having defects that render them non-kosher, and...

September 7, 2006: Monsey Kosher Meat Scandal and G & G Pot Bust Updates – Forward Reports
Comments: 6 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Nathaniel Popper of the Forward reports: The incident in Monsey also has brought to light the fact that for all the careful kosher supervision in the meat industry, many distributors — the middlemen in the food chain — are not...

September 7, 2006: More On Monsey Kosher Meat Scandal
Comments: 8 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
The Associated Press reports: …"To sell non-kosher as kosher is one of the biggest acts of betrayal that a Jewish person can do to another," said Rabbi Menachem Meir Weissmandel of Chemed Shul, a local synagogue. "This is the darkest...

September 6, 2006: Kosher Meat Scandal Update, Monsey – Spring Valley
Comments: 7 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Hessed , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
As reported below, non-kosher meat and chicken was sold as (glatt) kosher in Monsey. This announcement comes from the kosher supervisors of the establishment(s) in question: The following revised kashrus alert is from Congregation Bes Tefilla on September 5, 2006....

September 4, 2006: OU Non-Glatt Policy Discussed On Hirhurim; Price Fixing; Answer to Our Kosher Quiz
Comments: 12 | Categories: Divre Torah , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Price-Fixing
Rabbi Gil Student posted (uncritically, of course) on Rabbi Menachem Genack's shameful and misleading article on the OU's non-glatt policy. I noted here why Rabbi Genack is less than completely honest. Now let me address a comment by Michael Rogovin...

September 3, 2006: New Kosher Meat Scandal Rocks Monsey
Comments: 46 | Categories: Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
A new kosher meat scandal, this time involving a dishonest butcher/wholesaler, is rocking Monsey. It appears that almost everyone in Monsey ate non-kosher chicken and beef, including the biggest rabbis. Click on the link above to read LamedZayin's blow-by-blow report...

September 1, 2006: Rubashkin Agrees To Pay Federal Govt $600,000 In Settlement
Comments: 2 | Categories: Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
The Cedar Rapids Gazette reports: AgriProcessors, Inc., has agreed to pay a $590,756 civil penalty to resolve federal claims that the company failed to comply with wastewater pretreatment conditions and limitations, and other issues, in Postville. The settlement resolves a...

September 1, 2006: Marijuana Worth $1 Million Seized At Kosher Slaughtering Plant
Comments: 18 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
The ReadingEagle.com reports: Federal agents arrested about a half-dozen people and seized 700 pounds of marijuana with an estimated street value of $1 million at a kosher poultry processing plant in Exeter Township, authorities said Thursday. The raid at G&G...

August 31, 2006: The Dishonesty of OU Kosher – Plus, A Kosher Quiz
Comments: 14 | Categories: Haredim , Jewish Leadership , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , MO & Chardal
This week's Forward has a response written by the head of OU Kosher, Rabbi Menachem Genack, to Marc Shapiro's piece criticizing the OU's move to more stringent kosher standards, specifically to glatt-only meat. Rabbi Genack, also a YU rosh yeshiva,...

August 31, 2006: Kosher Class Action Lawsuit?
Comments: 5 | Categories: Israel , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Ha'aretz reports: A woman and her daughter petitioned the Tel Aviv District Court Monday to recognize a suit they were filing against Elite-Strauss and the Israeli Chief Rabbinate as a class action. The two, residents of Givat Shmuel, keep kosher....

August 23, 2006: Rubashkin Sued Over Groundwater Pollution
Comments: 0 | Categories: Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
And it's not even built yet: A Winneshiek County man is claiming a chicken confinement facility on neighboring property is contaminating the groundwater. Mike Meyer alleges construction by Cottonballs Poultry Barns created a sinkhole near a farm he owns, according...

August 23, 2006: Major Fire At Empire Kosher
Comments: 2 | Categories: Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Price-Fixing
A major fire at Empire kosher. No details yet as to the amount of damage or as to when production will resume. [Hat tip: BK.] UPDATE: Production to resume today.

August 17, 2006: How The OU Moved Kashrut – And Modern Orthodoxy – To The Right
Comments: 8 | Categories: Haredim , Jewish Leadership , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , MO & Chardal
Marc Shapiro writes in the Forward: …It was the O.U.’s move to glatt [only, in the 1970s], however, that had a truly momentous impact and changed the religious landscape of American Orthodoxy. Other hashgachot soon followed the O.U.’s path, leaving...

August 17, 2006: Rubashkin To Workers: Steer Clear of Union "Devils" Conservative rabbis still mum as non-glatt meat flows to Conservative outlet
Comments: 1 | Categories: Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
The Forward reports: Already facing scrutiny over its treatment of workers, the country’s largest kosher slaughterhouse is being accused of distributing a leaflet that warns its employees against the return of “union devils,” and of telling workers not to get...

July 20, 2006: FORWARD: Lack of Meat Choices Not Kosher
Comments: 39 | Categories: Haredim , Jewish Leadership , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
The Forward has a report on the misbehavior of Rubashkin and his primary national distributor, Twin City Poultry, based in Minnesota. Everything in the report related to these abuses is true. How do I know that? Because when I owned...

July 10, 2006: Temple Grandin Interview #3 – Rubashkin's Spokesperson's Statement "NOT True!"
Comments: 17 | Categories: Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
I spoke with Dr. Temple Grandin, the noted animal welfare expert who recently went to Postville and inspected AgriProcessors (Rubashkin). What follows is a summary of that interview: The Good Dr. Grandin said the plant would now be able to...

July 9, 2006: Aish.com Misrepresents Shechita
Comments: 6 | Categories: Jewish Leadership , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Aish.com explains kosher slaughter: Besides being from a kosher species, kosher meat requires that the animal/bird be slaughtered in the manner prescribed by the Torah (Shechita). (Fish do not have this requirement.) In this procedure, a trained kosher slaughterer (shochet)...

July 6, 2006: Temple Grandin Endorses Rubashkin Slaughter – For Now
Comments: 24 | Categories: Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
The Forward's Nathaniel Popper reports Temple Grandin, the renowned expert on animal handling and the slaughter process, has given Rubashkin's reformed process a thumbs up – of sorts, for now: Temple Grandin, an animal science professor, issued her endorsement last...

July 4, 2006: Rubashkin, OU, KAJ, UMK Rebranding To Avoid Consumer Wrath?
Comments: 43 | Categories: Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Stephen Mendelsohn writes: I was in ShopRite this evening and noticed in their circular that they were offering their own new brand of glatt kosher hot dogs, certified by the OU and KAJ. In the kosher hot dog section, there...

June 30, 2006: Anti-Trust In Kosher Saint Paul
Comments: 24 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Rubashkin's distributor in the upper midwest has consistently refused to sell non-glatt meat – even Rubashkin non-glatt – in the Twin Cities. Rabbi Morris Allen, the Saint Paul-based Conservative rabbi leading the Conservative Movement's investigation of Rubashkin, has been fighting...

June 30, 2006: MORE ABUSE? Rubashkin And His Workers, cont.
Comments: 16 | Categories: Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
The Rubashkin family opened a sister plant to Postville last year in Nebraska. The JournalStar, seemingly oblivious to the legal and ethical troubles plaguing the Rubashkin operation, reports on the plant's first year of operations. First, what's in it for...

June 28, 2006: The OU, etc.
Comments: 21 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , MO & Chardal
It seems to me the OU and other kosher supervising agencies may be targets of the new federal investigation of price fixing and collusion in the kosher meat industry. This is a good time to point out that, with only...

June 28, 2006: RUBASHKIN HIT WITH FEDERAL ANTITRUST SUBPOENA – "CRIMINAL COLLUSION" INVESTIGATED
Comments: 0 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Price-Fixing
Larry Cohler-Esses of the Jewish Week reports AgriProcessors and other unnamed glatt kosher meat providers have been hit with federal anti-trust subpoenas. The justice Department is investigating apparent price-fixing. The Jewish Week notes this appears to be part of a...

June 25, 2006: Rubashkin Is Not Alone
Comments: 6 | Categories: Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Rubashkin is not alone in his reprehensible treatment of workers. Here's an example from a North Carolina plant owned by Smithfield Foods as reported by Bob Herbert writes in the New York Times (sorry, no direct link is available for...

June 25, 2006: Why Is The Rubashkin "Investigation" By Conservative Rabbis Taking So Long To Start?
Comments: 11 | Categories: Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
So, why is the much-ballyhooed "investigation" of alleged worker abuse at Rubashkin's Iowa plant taking so long to get off the ground? It is more than 3 weeks since the Forward broke the story, and the "investigation" has still not...

June 25, 2006: The Ethical Omnivore And Why Judaism Is (Now) Irrelevant To the Discussion
Comments: 4 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Jewish Leadership , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Can waterfowl be force fed to produce foie gras? Can lobsters be boiled alive? Can chickens be raised in hellish conditions? what is the line between an acceptable level of animal suffering and the unacceptable? Frank Bruni writing in today's...

June 23, 2006: Rabbi Moshe Rubashkin Physically Assaults Opponent
Comments: 5 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Jewish Leadership , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
A Crown Heights-based blog, DaasHakohol, claims that Rabbi Moshe Rubashkin, the convicted felon who heads the Crown Heights Community Council, assaulted a political opponent during a meeting, breaking the man's glasses, fracturing (or dislocating) the man's jaw, knocking out a...

June 22, 2006: PETA, Rubashkin and the Forward
Comments: 0 | Categories: Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Rubashkin's defenders have attacked a claim made by PETA and reported last month in the Forward that their investigator, when employed at AgriProcessors, was denied health care for a bacterial infection caught from handling diseased chickens. PETA has quietly released...

June 22, 2006: Rubashkin's New Website Touts Rubashkin, Rubashkin Employees As "Independent Experts"
Comments: 11 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Jewish Leadership , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , MO & Chardal
Agriprocessors has put up a new website to counter charges of worker abuse. The site touts Nathan Lewin (Rubashkin's attorney), Rabbi Asher Zeilingold (a kosher supervisor at Agriprocessors and a close Rubashkin friend), the Jewish Press editorial board, Carlos Carbonera,...

June 22, 2006: Think Tom DeLay, But With A Black Hat And Untrimmed Beard
Comments: 0 | Categories: Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
The Forward reports: Stephen Bloom, the author of the book "Postville," believes that the current tensions have less to do with the immigrants and more to do with the Jewish owners of AgriProcessors. Bloom said that residents have long standing...

June 22, 2006: Should The Conservative Rabbis be Trusted?
Comments: 2 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Jewish Leadership , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
The Forward quotes their leader this way: "We are very much interested in the continued production of kosher meat," said Rabbi Joel Meyers, executive vice president of the Conservative movement's Rabbinical Assembly. "We just don't want those plants that produce...

June 22, 2006: Rabbi Inside Rubashkin Plant Confirms Charges Of Worker Abuse, Conservative Rabbis To Investigate – KAJ Rabbi: "We can't get involved in issues of labor, because that's not our job there, and they have not hired us to do that"
Comments: 6 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Jewish Leadership , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , MO & Chardal
So, what's new with Rubashkin and his rabbis? While the OU and RCA move to whitewash allegations of worker abuse and unethical business practices, and two groups of Conservative rabbis prepare to investigate Rubashkin, a rabbi working inside the plant...

June 19, 2006: Rubashkin, Illegal Aliens And Worker Abuse
Comments: 22 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
The New York Times has a damning report on the saturation of unskilled and lightly skilled jobs by illegal aliens and the corrosive egffect this has on workers who are not illegal. One example. Janitors in NYC make $19 per...

June 15, 2006: Rubashkin Attorney Nathan Lewin Exposed
Comments: 2 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Jewish Leadership , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Steven I. Weiss makes mincemeat out of Nat Lewin's defense of Rubashkin. For a look at what happened to another attorney who lied for the Rubashkin family, read this. Suspension and disgrace, all for a few dollars. A lesson Nat...

June 15, 2006: Will You Stand Up?
Comments: 12 | Categories: Jewish Leadership , Kosher Scandal
The new edition of the Forward has an editorial on the newest Rubashkin scandal. The paper claims the scandal has raised a storm, and that most viewed their coverage of it kindly. It closes with this way: For the record,...

June 14, 2006: Wiretapping, Resignations And Racism
Comments: 0 | Categories: Kosher Scandal
Wiretapping, resignations and racism. Washington? Paris? London? New York? Tel Aviv? Nope. Postville.

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: Ethnic Discord Erupts In Postville
Comments: 5 | Categories: Kosher Scandal
The AP reports: Growing discord over ethnic diversity in the community has resulted in cancellation of the town's festival. The controversy erupted when City Councilman Jeff Reinhardt wrote a letter to the local newspaper in May 24. In it, Reinhardt...

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...

June 4, 2006: Rabbi Slifkin: Factory Farming Not Kosher
Comments: 14 | Categories: Kosher Scandal
Rabbi Natan Slifkin's new book deals with issues of the interface between the animal world and mankind. While noting that animal cruelty does not make the meat produced from that cruelty treife, Rabbi Slifkin notes today's factory farming methods are...

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...

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