2,254 posts categorized "Kosher Scandal"

July 25, 2005: Rubashkin's Mill On Fire – Again
Comments: 11 | Categories: Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Moshe and Aaron Rubashkin's mill is on fire again: ALLENTOWN, PA-July 25, 2005 — Emergency teams remained on the scene of a building fire and hazardous material situation during the noon hour in Lehigh County. The flames apparently started just...

July 20, 2005: PETA Animal Abuse Case Hearing Postponed
Comments: 0 | Categories: Kosher Scandal
According to HamptonRoads.com: A court hearing was postponed Tuesday for two PETA employees charged with animal cruelty, illegal disposal of animal carcasses and trespassing after Ahoskie police say they saw dead animals being thrown into a grocery store trash bin...

July 6, 2005: The American Conservative On The Cruelty Of Factory Farming: Why Rabbis Conservatives Should Care
Comments: 0 | Categories: Kosher Scandal
The American Conservative has a cover story entitled "Cruelty On The Farm: Why Rabbis, errrr, Conservatives Should Care About Animal Cruelty." (As we all now know, rabbis do not care – tzaar ba'alei hayyim is no longer on their preferred...

July 5, 2005: More On The Politics Behind The Hummus Ban
Comments: 0 | Categories: Jewish Leadership , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
From NorthJersey.com: A former chief rabbi, Mordechai Eliahu, ruled that when sesame seeds used to make the tahini paste for hummus are roasted and shelled by non-Jews, the resulting hummus is not kosher, said the aide, Rabbi David Lahiani. He...

June 29, 2005: Iowa County Again Rejects Rubashkin Bid To Open Massive Factory Chicken Farm
Comments: 1 | Categories: Kosher Scandal
An Iowa county has again rejected a Rubashkin bid to open a massive factory chicken farm: [Rabbi Sholom M.] Rubashkin is manager of Agriprocessors, meat packing plant, which would take the broilers raised by Cottonballs. The Environmental Protection Agency has...

June 28, 2005: Rubashkin Ready To Open New Nebraska Slaughterhouse
Comments: 11 | Categories: Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
"We are excited to work with our local partners in Nebraska and South Dakota to make Local Pride a full part of the Gordon community," Sholom Rubashkin, whose family owns Local Pride, said in a press release. "For us, this...

June 25, 2005: Iowa Court Rejects Rubashkin Wastewater Discharge, Voids Permit
Comments: 1 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Kosher Scandal
Radio Iowa reports: A wasterwater discharge permit issued to a Postville business has been thrown out in court. A Polk County District Court judge has reversed the permit issued to AgriProcessors of Postville by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources....

June 23, 2005: Rubashkin Set To Open New Nebraska Slaughterhouse In Cooperation With Oglala Sioux And Pine Ridge Indian Reservation – USDA Must Approve But Is Expected To Do So Tomorrow – USDA Still Refusing To Release Results Of Last Year's Investigation
Comments: 9 | Categories: Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
GORDON, Neb. -- An Iowa meatpacking firm that has drawn fire from an animal-rights group has bought an old packing plant in Gordon, Neb., and plans to process kosher beef, lamb and bison products using workers from the nearby Pine...

June 22, 2005: More On PETA Animal Cruelty Charges
Comments: 4 | Categories: Kosher Scandal
More on animal cruelty charges against PETA. The Weekly Standard weighs in on PETA's opposition to animal testing.

June 17, 2005: PETA Responds To Charges Of Animal Cruelty
Comments: 11 | Categories: Kosher Scandal
PETA issued the following press release in response to the arrest of two of its employees on animal cruelty charges: It is against PETA’s policy to put the bodies of animals in dumpsters, and we are appalled that a member...

June 16, 2005: Two PETA Employees Arrested On Animal Cruelty Charges
Comments: 4 | Categories: Kosher Scandal
Two PETA employees were arrested today on animal cruelty charges. More to come soon.

June 6, 2005: USDA AgriProcessors Investigation: 6 Months After, Still Not Released
Comments: 5 | Categories: Kosher Scandal
It's now 6 months after the USDA sent inspectors into AgriProcessors, Rubashkin's Postville, Iowa slaughterhouse of throat-ripping infamy. In December, shortly after the inspectors left Postville, the USDA issued new training guidelines that would, if followed, shut down an operation...

June 3, 2005: Agudath Israel Rabbi Who Called PETA Nazis To Represent US In Antisemitism Conference
Comments: 8 | Categories: Jewish Leadership , Kosher Scandal
The Jerusalem Post writes: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice chose George E. Pataki, Governor of the State of New York, on Wednesday to lead the United States delegation to the June 8-9, 2005 conference on Anti-Semitism and on Other Forms...

June 2, 2005: The Legacy Of Rabbi Moshe Rubashkin
Comments: 3 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Jewish Leadership , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
… Regardless of how it is funded, administration officials, led by Eric D. Weiss, the director of building standards and safety, argued that there is an immediate need to demolish the building. The 41/2-story, shuttered textile factory was gutted in...

May 31, 2005: Video Of Abandoned Rubashkin Mill
Comments: 5 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Kosher Scandal
WFMZ TV has video of Rabbi Moshe Rubashkin's burned out, long abandoned Allentown, PA mill. Here's the money quote: [City council person Gail] Hoover says in a perfect world the owner of this building would pay to fix the problem...

May 31, 2005: World Organization For Animal Health (OIE) Adopts Standards On Animal Welfare – Including Shechita
Comments: 0 | Categories: Kosher Scandal
The 167-member OIE has adopted standards on animal welfare: Standards on animal welfare, included in 4 chapters, were adopted (i.e. slaughter for human consumption, including religious slaughter; land and sea transport of animals; humane killing of animals for disease control...

May 31, 2005: Small Kosher Veal Slaughterhouse Loses Big Contract Over Failed Animal Welfare Audit – Slaughterhouse Used Shackle And Hoist Hanging Shechita
Comments: 5 | Categories: Kosher Scandal
From Kosher Today: SYSCO Pulls License from Veal Producer Over Kosher Slaughter (Brooklyn) Atlantic Veal, a 50-year old Brooklyn-based producer of veal with a slaughterhouse in Ohio, has lost its license to do business with SYSCO, the world s largest...

May 26, 2005: Allentown May Be Forced To Pay $400,000 To Raze Rubashkin Mill – Rubashkin, Rubashkin's Brooklyn-Based Orthodox Lender Refuse To Comply – Fire-Gutted Building Dangerously Unsafe
Comments: 0 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Jewish Leadership , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
The Allentown, Pennsylvania textile mill owned by Rabbi Moshe Rubashkin is so unsafe that the city may spend $400,000 to tear it down: City officials say the fenced-in site is unsafe and has suffered a series of break-ins and even...

May 26, 2005: National Geographic Has Story On Rubashkin, Postville
Comments: 3 | Categories: Kosher Scandal
The June issue of National Geographic Magazine has a story on Rubashkin, PETA and the Great Kosher Meat Scandal of 2004. Don't miss the pictures.

May 22, 2005: Paul McCartney Attacks Shechita
Comments: 5 | Categories: Kosher Scandal
Paul McCartney of Beatles and Wings fame, has come out against shechita: Campaigners, who had hoped the legislation would tackle the issue of ritual slaughter, have been angered by what they see as the executive ducking politically sensitive issues. “I’m...

May 18, 2005: BREAKING! INDIAN WIG BAN NOT ENOUGH!
Rabbis: Hindu Hair Derivatives Used To Make Medicines May Make Medicines Forbidden – Buffalo Milk Can Be Dried, Added To Food – Would Make Food Treife – The Dark Ages Have Begun

Comments: 20 | Categories: Jewish Leadership , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Major kashrut "authorities" are convening in Jerusalem to tackle new kashrut 'issues': L-cysteine, derived from, among other things, human hair, is used as a dough conditioner. It is also used to produce a variety of chicken and beef flavors that...

May 15, 2005: Agudath Israel's Spokesman Rabbi Avi Shafran Lies – Again
Comments: 2 | Categories: Jewish Leadership , Kosher Scandal
Agudath Israel's spokesman Rabbi Avi Shafran has again lied about PETA. In his new column, Rabbi Shafran writes: Although the headline of Ms. Newkirk's 1151-word press release describes it as an "apology," the actual expression of regret consists of only...

May 12, 2005: Rubashkin's Allies Object To PETA "Holocaust On Your Plate" Apology
Comments: 12 | Categories: Jewish Leadership , Kosher Scandal
The Quotes: 1. Rubashkin's lawyer who just a few months ago equated PETA with the Nazis: Noted Orthodox lawyer Nathan Lewin said that the statement is "not really an apology." "It's an acknowledgment of a miscalculation," said Lewin, the lawyer...

May 5, 2005: Rubashkin Exposed? Why Texas Kosher Beef Is Better
Comments: 9 | Categories: Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
A.D. Rosenblatt Glatt Kosher Beef, a.k.a. Texas Kosher Beef is slowly making inroads in the kosher market. And that is a good thing: Rosenblatt said he prefers to work with grass-fed beef, because it tends to have a higher kosher...

May 5, 2005: Temple Grandin Resigns From KFC's Animal Welfare Board
Comments: 11 | Categories: Kosher Scandal
Dr. Temple Grandin (see links on the left of this page) has resigned from Kentucky Fried Chicken's animal welfare advisory board. KFC sought to limit her contact with the press. Dr. Grandin refused to be silenced. KFC – which has...

May 5, 2005: PETA Officially Apologizes For "Holocaust On Your Plate"
Comments: 2 | Categories: Kosher Scandal
PETA's founder Ingrid Newkirk has officially apologized for PETA's notorious "Holocaust On Your Plate" campaign. Note that the material used as the basis of that campaign was not considered to be controversial – until PETA used it in graphic fashion.

May 4, 2005: Unable To Pass Environmental Muster, Rubashkin Pulls Plans For Massive Cage-Grown Chicken Farms – Seeks Smaller Operations To Escape State Regulation
Comments: 4 | Categories: Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Plans for Rubashkin's proposed Cottonballs chicken farm, a massive cage-raised operation growing 200,000 chickens at a time, have been withdrawn. Rubashkin is reportedly planning smaller cage-raised operations that escape state regulation.

April 26, 2005: Iowa Rejects Bid For Massive Rubashkin Caged Chicken Farm – At Least 2 More Planned – Tzaar Baalyei Hayyim No Longer Part Of Jewish Law? Rabbis, Where Are You?
Comments: 16 | Categories: Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Iowa's Department of Natural Resources has rejected Sholom M. Rubashkin's attempt to open a massive chicken growing facility. The facility would have raised millions of chickens in tiny cages, unable to spread their wings or walk, in a similar fashion...

April 21, 2005: Mayor: City To Bill Rubashkin For "Excessive Resources" Needed To Put Out Mill Fire – Building's Code Violations Contributed To Blaze
Comments: 1 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Jewish Leadership , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Allentown mayor Roy Afferbach told reporters that the city intends to bill Skyline Industries (a.k.a. Rabbi Moshe Rubashkin, the newly-elected head of the Crown Heights Community Council and brother of AgriProcessors Rabbi Sholom M. Rubashkin) for the cost of the...

April 20, 2005: Montex Mill Burns In Suspicious Fire – Rubashkin-Owned Building A "Firetrap Waiting To Happen"
Comments: 20 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Jewish Leadership , Kosher Scandal
The former Montex textile mill owned by Rabbi Moshe Rubashkin, the convicted felon who is the newly-elected president of the Crown Heights (Chabad) Community Council and the brother of AgriProcessors Rabbi Sholom M. Rubashkin, burned to the ground yesterday: The...

April 12, 2005: The Saint Louis Post-Dispatch Taste-Tests 16 Hot Dog Brands – At The Bottom Of The List? Rubashkin.
Comments: 12 | Categories: Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
The Saint Louis Post-Dispatch taste-tested 16 different hot dog brands. At the bottom of the list? Rubashkin's chicken franks. In contrast, Empire's turkey franks earned high praise. In fact, the only product judged worse than Rubashkin is an all soy...

March 30, 2005: Jewish Vegetarians Of North America Learn A Lesson From Terri Schiavo – Go Veg! [Sadly, I Kid You Not]
Comments: 8 | Categories: Jewish Leadership , Kosher Scandal , Med-Ethics, Public Health
In the most despicible piece of opportunistic trash I've read in many years, Richard Schwartz, the president of Jewish Vegetarians of North America has weighed in on the Terri Schiavo case: Editor, the Jewish Week editor@jewishweek.org Dear Editor: Stewart Ain's...

March 29, 2005: Rubashkin Seeks To Open Massive Chicken Farm – 400,000 Chickens Raised In Cages, 100% Of Local Population Opposed
Comments: 7 | Categories: Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
The Rubashkin family is attempting to open a massive cage-raised chicken farm in Iowa. 400,000 chickens would be hatched, raised and then sent to slaughter every six weeks. The chickens would be raised in giant sheds, locked in tiny cages,...

March 28, 2005: ********** STRAWBERRIES BANNED! ********** No Joke – British Ultra-Orthodox Ban Strawberries Due To Fear Of Bugs
Comments: 14 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
The ultra-Orthodox Britain-based Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations (Kedassia Beis Din) has banned consumption of strawberries due to a fear of tiny, microscopic bugs: An emergency alert was released proclaiming that even with extensive checks and washing, the berries are...

March 21, 2005: Jewish Vegetarians President Richard Schwartz – Meat Eating Causes Terrorism
Comments: 45 | Categories: Jewish Leadership , Kosher Scandal
The president of the Jewish Vegetarians of North America, Richard Schwartz asserts that a vegetarian diet would reduce world terrorism. Why? Well, aside from the clearly disproved idea that poverty causes terrorism and the also disproved idea that meat consumption...

March 21, 2005: Do Jewish Vegetarians Have A Pulke To Stand On? Maybe Not …
Comments: 24 | Categories: Kosher Scandal
Sultan Knish has a rather strong attack on Richard Schwartz and his fellow travelers from Jewish Vegetarians of North America. In effect, the Knish is skewering Dr. Schwartz for the same errors in methodology that I have attacked him for...

March 15, 2005: BREAKING! FMI: OU's Portrayal Of Rubashkin Audit "Not Accurate"
Comments: 54 | Categories: Haredim , Jewish Leadership , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
I spoke a few moments ago with Karen Brown, the Vice President of the Food Marketing Institute (FMI) in charge of the FMI's Animal Welfare Audit Program (AWAP). I asked her about the recent AWAP audit passed by AgriProcessors, and...

March 13, 2005: Aaron & Moshe Rubashkin Took Union Dues From Employees – Kept The Money For Themselves
Comments: 26 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
In a sharply-worded decision, both Rabbi Moshe Rubashkin and his father Aaron (of Postville fame) were found guilty by the National Labor Relations Board of repetitively collecting union dues from their employees of Cherry Hill Textiles, Inc. and then refusing...

March 10, 2005: LA Jewish Journal Gives Rubashkin And The OU A Free Ride
Comments: 12 | Categories: Jewish Leadership , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
The LA Jewish Journal has a piece on the Rubashkin audit. To give you an idea of the quality of the Jewish Journal's reporting, note this quote from the Journal: [T]he meeting between the OU and FMI representatives is set...

March 10, 2005: And A Felon Shall Lead Them, Part 2 – Less Than A Year After Walking Out Of Fort Dix Federal Prison, Rabbi Moshe Rubashkin Elected Chairman Of The Gov't-Funded Chabad-Lubavitch Controlled Crown Heights Community Council
Comments: 8 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Jewish Leadership , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
As FailedMessiah.com reported several weeks ago, the government-funded Chabad-Lubavitch Crown Heights Community Council's newly-elected leader is convicted felon Moshe Rubashkin. New York Newsday has added some additional information to our brief report: Felon picked as leader No rules prevent convict...

March 9, 2005: BREAKING! Rubaskin Passes AWAP Audit – OU Claims Audit Done Under New Procedures "Vindicates" AgriProcessors, Implies Horror Seen On PETA Video Humane
Comments: 2 | Categories: Jewish Leadership , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
http://www.ou.org/oupr/2005/agri65.htm OU Department of Public Relations March 7, 2005 Orthodox Union Releases Industry Animal Welfare Audit of Agriprocessors NEW YORK, NEW YORK – Rabbi Menachem Genack, Rabbinic Administrator of the Kashrus Division of the Orthodox Union, today released the results...

March 1, 2005: Rabbi Elyashiv: ANIMAL TORTURE PERMITTED – Tzaar Baalei Hayyim Does NOT Apply – ONLY US GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION CAN SAFEGUARD ANIMAL WELFARE – RABBIS NO LONGER RESPONSIBLE
Comments: 17 | Categories: Jewish Leadership , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
Rabbi Yosef Sholom Elyashiv, banner of books, opponent of science, advocate for animal torture – and the leading rabbinic authority in today's Orthodox world. [Photo, but NOT the caption, courtesy of Hatzoloh Israel.] As you read this sad article from...

February 27, 2005: NY State Kosher Food Database Is Up And Running – With A Pregnant Double Standard From Agudath Israel Of America And Nathan Lewin
Comments: 1 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Haredim , Jewish Leadership , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Science
In 2000, New York State's kosher products law was declared unconstitutional due to its necessary entanglement of religion and state. At the time, Agudath Israel of America opposed the court decision to overturn and saw nothing wrong or unconstitutional in...

February 27, 2005: Did Rubashkin Really Pass An FMI/NCCR Humane Slaughter Audit? Maybe not …
Comments: 0 | Categories: Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
According to a highly-placed source in the food industry, the recent Rubashkin animal welfare audit done at Postville was in fact the complete Food Marketing Institute/National Council of Chain Restaurants audit including the section on humane slaughter. The audit (conducted...

February 24, 2005: PETA Ad Campaign Targets Rubashkin
Comments: 8 | Categories: Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
PETA has launched a new ad campaign targeting AgriProcessors. Why? Probably the continuing failure of Rubashkin and his rabbis to admit any wrongdoing. Look for the ad in your local Jewish newspaper this week.

February 24, 2005: Rabbi Shmuley Boteach – PETA Distorts Shechita
Comments: 0 | Categories: Kosher Scandal
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, the motor-mouthed conservative talk radio host and rabbi to the stars, believes that PETA's Rubashkin campaign has distorted shechita and made Jews look bad. But he won't defend Rubashkin shechita – because he cannot: "My area of...

February 23, 2005: Yated Ne'eman: Throat-Ripping At Rubashkin, Oral-Genital Contact During Circumcision Both Religious Freedom Issues – Government Has No Right To Tell Us What To Do – Links US Government Action To 'Czarist Russia' , Cooperation With Govt Sin
Comments: 1 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Haredim , Jewish Leadership , Kosher Scandal , Science
Chakira has the scoop on Haredi reaction to the scandal surrounding the New York state mohel who refused to stop using oral-to-genital suction. Interestingly, Yated Ne'eman sees this as a religious freedom issue – just as they do the scandal...

February 22, 2005: BREAKING! Rubashkin Passes FMI Audit – Actual Slaughter Not Part Of Audit – Removed To Accommodate Rubashkin
Comments: 7 | Categories: Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
AgriProcessors has apparently passed an independent audit done for Albertsons according to the Food Marketing Institute standards. However, the audit did not include any aspect of the slaughter itself. This special accommodation was made on a one-time basis until the...

February 17, 2005: PETA Demands Pols Return Rubashkin $$$ – Sees Clear Conflict Of Interest
Comments: 5 | Categories: Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
PETA (based on two reports that appeared on FailedMessiah.com) is calling on US Senators Charles Grassley (R, IA), Arlen Specter (R, PA) and US Representatives Tom Lathum (R, IA) and Katherine Harris (R, FL) to return thousands of dollars in...

February 3, 2005: Rubashkin Boycott?
Comments: 94 | Categories: Jewish Leadership , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal
A Conservative rabbi of some note has called for a boycott of Rubashkin and Alle processing meat: The Conservative movement has a constituency of more than one million members, 750 affiliated congregations, 70 Solomon Schechter day schools, and more than...

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