23 posts categorized "Media"
July 2, 2008: A Love Letter To Rubashkin, Penned By A Woman Who Protected Baruch Lanner For 11 YearsComments: 27 | Categories: Creative PR , Crime, etc. , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Media , Rubashkin Safety , Rubashkin Workers
Susan Rosenbluth of the Bergen County, NJ Jewish Voice and Opinion has written a love letter to Rubashkin in the guise of a news report. And the love letter is being circulated by 5W Public Relations, Rubashkin's PR firm. But...
June 4, 2008: The Dishonesty Of Menachem Lubinsky
Comments: 5 | Categories: Creative PR , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Media , Rubashkin Workers
A reader, Chaim Yankel, took Rubashkin mouthpiece Menachem Lubinsky to task for not coming clean on his financial relationship with the Rubashkin family and Agriprocessors. As many of you know, Lubinsky is often quoted by media without any disclosure being...
May 23, 2008: Sins of Omission, Part 2
Comments: 6 | Categories: Chabad , Chabad & the Media , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Media , Rubashkin Workers
Earlier this week, I highlighted two articles on the Agriprocessors Scandal that I believe missed the mark by a wide margin. One was a JTA piece by Sue Fishkoff. A second, less objectionable piece, was from the Forward. Now we...
May 21, 2008: Sins of Omission
Comments: 25 | Categories: Chabad , Chabad & the Media , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Media , Rubashkin Workers
Two major Jewish media stories on the Agriprocessors immigration raid deserve special mention – not for a job well done.
May 13, 2008: New York Times Blows Raid Coverage
Comments: 5 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Media , Rubashkin Workers
I'm running a contest. Whoever finds the most number of mistakes (including omissions) in the NY Times coverage of the raid on Rubashkin's Postville plant wins. I'll spot you…
May 9, 2008: How History Really Gets Made – The Rescue Of Ethiopian Jews, Part 1
Comments: 16 | Categories: Ethiopian Jews , Media
Here's something you didn't learn in Hebrew school…
March 21, 2008: The Problem With Jewish Journalism
Comments: 1 | Categories: Media
"People don't read Jewish newspapers for the reason they read regular newspapers. People read regular newspapers to get information, whether they agree with the paper or not. People read Jewish newspapers…
February 18, 2008: FailedMessiah on the Radio, part 2
Comments: 11 | Categories: Blogs , Chabad & EJs , Ethiopian Jews , Media
An mp3 of my interview on the Talkline Network's Mamash Radio show is posted after the jump in the extended post. The interview aired Saturday night-Sunday morning after Zev Brenner's show and Shmuel Butman's Moshiach on the Air. I want...
February 16, 2008: FailedMessiah on the Radio
Comments: 34 | Categories: Blogs , Chabad & EJs , Ethiopian Jews , Israel , Media
I'm interviewed on a radio show, Mamash Radio, running tonight after Shmuel Butman's Moshiach is on the Air program, which itself runs immediately after Zev Brenner on the Talkline Radio Network. A list of sources I cite are posted after...
January 24, 2008: PBS Bias: The Jewish Americans
Comments: 40 | Categories: History , Media
David Grubin's PBS film, The Jewish Americans, is perhaps the worst piece of documentary filmmaking I've lately seen. Why? Grubin's clear bias.…
November 21, 2007: The Jewish Press Gets It Right
Comments: 5 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Media
This week's lead editorial from the Jewish Press: As is being widely reported, longtime fugitive from justice Avohom Mondrowitz has been detained in Israel in anticipation of his extradition to the United States to answer to charges of sexual abuse...
August 30, 2007: The Jewish Press and Plagiarism, Part 5
Comments: 8 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Media
As noted previously, I notified the editor of the Jewish Press, Jason Maoz, of Rabbi Gershon Tannenbaum's plagiarism on Thursday 8-23-07. I sent an urgent email and followed up several hours later with a phone message. I emailed and called...
August 29, 2007: The Jewish Press – A Chronology of a Theft
Comments: 64 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Media
The Chronology of a Theft: 1. Rabbi Gershon Tannenbaum, "director" of the Rabbinical Alliance of America (Igud HaRabbonim) and weekly Jewish Press columnist publishes a column on 8-22-07 that is almost in its entirety plagiarized from the Catskill Institute website....
August 5, 2007: The OU Presses For Feldman's Removal, Times Apology
Comments: 33 | Categories: Media , MO & Chardal , Religion
Here is the Jewish Week report: …Feldman now says of the photo, “In life you can never be sure, and the truth is I never knew any of this until I saw the contact sheets, about two weeks ago. All...
July 12, 2007: Action Alert! [PSA]
Comments: 0 | Categories: Media
Action Alert! The future of Internet radio is in immediate danger! Royalty rates for webcasters have been drastically increased [disproportionately – the increase is much higher for Internet broadcasters than for Satellite or regular radio] by a recent ruling and...
June 6, 2007: Luke Ford Profiled In The LA Daily News Today
Comments: 11 | Categories: Blogs , Media , Rabbis & Sex
The LA Daily News profiles former Protocols blogger Luke Ford. The profile deals with his work covering the porn industry, breaking the HIV story that shut it down for a time, and his mistreatment by several rabbis, who banned him...
May 31, 2007: Forward Story On Rubashkin Nominated For Prestigious Loeb Award
Comments: 1 | Categories: Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Media , Rubashkin Workers
… given for best business writing. The piece, an exposé, In Iowa Meat Plant, Kosher ‘Jungle’ Breeds Fear, Injury, Short Pay, was written by Nathaniel Popper and deals with worker abuse at the Iowa plant that produces Rubaskin's, Aaron's Best,...
April 11, 2007: FailedMessiah.com in the London Jewish Chronicle
Comments: 9 | Categories: Blogs , Chabad , Media
Please click the image to enlarge. Thanks to the Chronicle staff for the shout out! My original post in its entirety can be read here. [Hat Tip: Ben Max.]
March 28, 2007: Heeb Hookups – Heeb Magazine In The NY Times
Comments: 2 | Categories: Media
The NY Times reports on Heeb Magazine's unique way of staying in print: AT a recent photo shoot in the garment district, Joshua Neuman was dressed all in white, except for a black bowler hat and black combat boots. He...
March 14, 2007: VIDEO: Paparazzi At Kotel Harass Leonardo DiCaprio & Israeli Girlfriend
Comments: 8 | Categories: Israel , Media
February 14, 2007: JTA "Reports" On The Current State Of Russian Jewry
Comments: 1 | Categories: Court Jews , Creative PR , Media , Turf Disputes
The JTA has two articles on the current sate of KEROOR, Chabad's rival for control of Russia's Jewish community. In typical JTA fashion, the pieces leave out the dirty tricks from Putin and Chabad that helped ensure Chabad dominance, instead...
January 24, 2007: Did Dennis Prager Praise A Plagiarist? A Paid Hack?
Comments: 4 | Categories: Blogs , Media
If Luke Ford is correct, the answer is yes. Luke has a great new site design, too.
January 18, 2007: REUTERS WATCH: Every Neo-Nazi Skinhead Thug An "Activist"
Comments: 5 | Categories: Israel , Media
From Reuters: Last year activists burned Holocaust victim Anne Frank's diaries and made a teenager wear a sign saying he was a Jew. Many Jewish establishments have police guards and a German all-Jewish football team suffers weekly abuse. The latest...
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