2,507 posts categorized "MO & Chardal"

July 17, 2008: Why The Hiring Of Agriprocessors New "Chief Compliance Officer" Is Spin – Workers Continue To Suffer While Jim Martin Collects
Comments: 13 | Categories: Bad Spin , Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , MO & Chardal , Rubashkin Safety , Rubashkin Workers
The guys over at Uri L'Tzedek should read this and ponder it deeply. State of the Jews writes: 1) Rubashkin's CCO made promises, but so far there have been no changes on the ground. 2) An anonymous hot-line doesn't mean...

July 16, 2008: Why Was That Boycott Ended Again?
Comments: 8 | Categories: Chabad , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , MO & Chardal , Rubashkin Safety , Rubashkin Workers
It's very hard to justify it, after reading… …this: In your own words, why do you feel comfortable eating meat from Agriprocessors again (assuming you do – if not, why not)? Given everything that has happened at Agriprocessors, I personally...

July 11, 2008: Tendler Case And The Future Of Clergy Abuse Law
Comments: 10 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , MO & Chardal
The Forward has a report on the recent decision by a NY State court to dismiss a suit against Rabbi Mordechai Tendler. Here's the heart of the piece: …In a unanimous decision, handed down June 25, the New York State...

July 8, 2008: Breaking! Uri L'Tzedek Cancels Rubashkin Boycott
Comments: 140 | Categories: Chabad , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , MO & Chardal , Rubashkin Safety , Rubashkin Workers
Full statement from Uri L'Tzedek is reprinted below. What is clear after reading that statement is that Uri L'Tzedek was, to say the very least, ill equipped to do the job it set out to do. The entire justification for...

July 8, 2008: Red Heifer Genetic Code Cracked – Rabbis Move To Reassert Jewish Claim To Temple Mount
Comments: 22 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal
…Late last week, on the eve of the Shabbat in week the Torah portion Hukkat is read, in which the red heifer is mentioned, it became clear that the people associated with the Temple Institute, who for 25 years have...

July 2, 2008: BREAKING! Serial Sex Abuser Rabbi Mordechai Gafni Returns, Denies Guilt
Comments: 26 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , MO & Chardal
The man has a 30 year track record of seducing and manipulating women he counseled and taught. At least one of those women was very much underage. He ran through a series of defenders in the Orthodox community until there...

June 25, 2008: Tendler Accuser Loses Appeal
Comments: 56 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , MO & Chardal
The NY State Court of Appeals ruled that Rabbi Mordechai Tendler did not have a fiduciary duty to the woman he counseled. If Tendler were also an attorney or psychologist, the court said, this outcome could have been different. What...

June 23, 2008: Head Of OU Shechita Uses Lanner Excuse: Rubashkin Is The Chabad "Kiruv" Of Kosher Meat, No Worse Than Other Meat Plants – Criticism Of Rubashkin Is Lashon Hara
Comments: 135 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , MO & Chardal , Rubashkin Safety , Rubashkin Workers
Well, either all other meat plants hire 13 year olds to illegally work chicken lines; recruit and hire illegal aliens and then provide them with forged ID; extort and abuse those same illegal workers; and engage in unfair and illegal...

June 22, 2008: Role Of Agriprocessors' New "Compliance Officer" Unclear, Uri L'Tzedek Says
Comments: 26 | Categories: Chabad , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , MO & Chardal , Rubashkin Safety , Rubashkin Workers
And, beside that, we also have a new, blistering attack on the OU and other Rubashkin kosher certifiers, as… …the Jerusalem Post reports: …At a meeting last week between company representatives and Uri L'Tzedek, Agriprocessors executives agreed to produce a...

June 19, 2008: Rubashkin Son-In-Law Rabbi Milton Balkany Threatens Orthodox Rubashkin Boycott Leaders – Rubashkin PR Flack Menachem Lubinsky Plays Holocaust Card
Comments: 15 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , MO & Chardal , Rubashkin Safety , Rubashkin Workers
It looks like that's what happened when Balkany, another Aaron Rubashkin son-in-law Sholom Baer Minkowitz, and Rubaskin PR flack Menachem Lubinsky met last week with the leaders of… …Uri L'Tzedek, as the Forward reports: …Uri L’Tzedek’s willingness to organize a...

June 18, 2008: OU's Head Of Shechita: Attacks Against Rubashkin Lashon Hara – PETA, Union Behind It All
Comments: 57 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , MO & Chardal , Rubashkin Safety , Rubashkin Workers
Rabbi Mendel Samuels writes about a visit Rabbi Seth Mandel, the head of shechita for the OU, paid to Hartford, Connecticut this week: We would like to take this opportunity to thank Rabbi Yitzchok Adler for taking the initiative by...

June 12, 2008: BREAKING! Israel's Commissioner of Complaints Against Judges Recommends Firing High Rabbinic Court Judge
Comments: 7 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal
Israel's official ombudsman of judges, Tova Strasberg-Cohen, has called for the firing of High Rabbinic Court judge Rabbi Avraham Sherman. Why? His obnoxious, disgusting… …treatment of Conversion Authority head Rabbi Haim Druckman, as the Jerusalem Post reports: Ombudsman recommends firing...

June 4, 2008: Tendler Case Reaches Highest Court – Rabbi Tendler's Lawyer: "What We Have Here Is Consensual [Sexual] Conduct"
Comments: 65 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , MO & Chardal
The Mordechai Tendler case has reached New York State's highest court on appeal and Tendler's arrorney appears to admit an ongoing sexual affair between… …a former member of Tendler's synagogue and Rabbi Tendler, as the Journal News reports: Arguments heard...

June 3, 2008: RCA: Believe Rubashkin, Not Workers, Not Evidence
Comments: 11 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , MO & Chardal , Rubashkin Workers
As you read this new RCA "policy statement" issued today, keep in mind that as of early last week almost 300 of those arrested at Agriprocessors in the largest immigration raid in US history had already pleaded guilty or been...

May 29, 2008: OU Admits Replacement Of Sholom Rubashkin Ploy To Keep Kosher Supervision
Comments: 42 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , MO & Chardal , Rubashkin Workers
Rabbi Menachem Genack of the OU has admitted what many of us thought all along – the "ouster" of Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin as Agriprocessors CEO is… …nothing more than a ploy to help the OU leave its mark on Agri...

May 28, 2008: Is Rubashkin Scamming The Jewish Community? Move To "Oust" Sholom M. Rubashkin A Ploy To Avoid Prosecution?
Comments: 27 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , MO & Chardal , Rubashkin Workers
If Agriprocessors CEO (and its Vice President) Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin's nephew is telling the truth, the answer is… …yes. (And, as noted a bit earlier today, it would seem, the OU might very well be in on the deal.) The...

May 28, 2008: BREAKING! OU Pushed For Sholom Rubashkin Ouster, Jewish Star Reports – Is The OU Conning American Jews?
Comments: 17 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , MO & Chardal , Rubashkin Workers
Mayer Fertig of the Jewish Star is reporting that… …the OU was behind the ouster of Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin as Agriprocessors CEO: It is at the insistence of the Orthodox Union that Sholom Rubashkin is to be replaced as chief...

May 25, 2008: When The State Pays The Rabbis
Comments: 12 | Categories: Haredim , Hessed , Israel , MO & Chardal
The Jerusalem Post has an interesting article on illness and mourning in Israel. While in the US (and in most other western countries) rabbis visit sick and console mourners, in Israel this really is not true. Why? In America, when...

May 23, 2008: Washington, DC Modern Orthodox Rabbi Calls For Rubashkin Ban
Comments: 32 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , MO & Chardal , Rubashkin Workers
The ban is temporary, meant to be in place only until allegations against Agriprocesors and the Rubashkin family are proved false or true. Still, once in place – and with the high probability of Rubashkin guilt, combined with so many...

May 23, 2008: Rabbi Shlomo Aviner and Child Abuse
Comments: 8 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Israel , MO & Chardal , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Over the past few years, I've often thought no group of people fails their public duty as often as rabbis. Rabbi Shlomo Aviner, a leading National Religious rabbi in Israel, gives us the latest example. First, the good news… Writing...

May 14, 2008: What Did The Rabbis Know And When Did They Know It?
Comments: 18 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , MO & Chardal , Rubashkin Gordon , Rubashkin Safety , Rubashkin Workers
In the wake of the largest immigration raid in the modern history of America, a question must be asked: What did the rabbis supervising Agriprocessors know and when did they know it? The Des Moines Register notes Rubashkin's previous legal...

May 13, 2008: INTERVIEW: OU's Rabbi Menachem Genack on Rubashkin
Comments: 59 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , MO & Chardal , Rubashkin Workers
I spoke briefly with the CEO of OU Kosher, Rabbi Menachem Genack. I asked him the following question: Shmarya Rosenberg: "Why don't you tell me in a nutshell why the business practices of a company you supervise and certify should...

May 12, 2008: BREAKING: Israeli Rabbis Refuse To Allow Converts To Marry – Thousands Of Converts In Jewish Law Limbo
Comments: 20 | Categories: Ethiopian Jews , Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal
Remember the thousands of converts who had their conversions revoked by haredi rabbis sitting on the Rabbinate's High Rabbinic Court? Well, official marriage registrars across Israel – rabbis all – are now refusing to register the marriages of these poor...

May 8, 2008: Conversion Revocation Update: RCA Appalled, Marc Shapiro Explains Why
Comments: 28 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal
In what the Jewish Week calls, "an unusually bold move," the Rabbinical Council of America (RCA) has… … come out strongly against the ruling issued by three Rabbinic High Court judges revoking all conversions issued by Conversion Authority head Rabbi...

May 4, 2008: Chief Rabbi To Try To Revoke High Rabbinical Court Decision Invalidating Tens Of Thousands Of Conversions
Comments: 21 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal
Sefardic Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar, who is also president of Israel's rabbinic courts, is trying to overturn the decision released last week by the High Rabbinical Court to void all conversions done by Conversion Authority head Rabbi Haim Druckman since...

May 2, 2008: Rabbi Aviner: Women Must Not Wear Pajamas, Even If Alone In The Dark
Comments: 50 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal , Women & Judaism
In another bizarre ruling from an Orthodox rabbi, Rabbi Shlomo Aviner, the rabbi of Beit El and a leader of National Religious rabbis, ruled that a woman… …may never wear pants, even if alone, if if those pants are pajamas....

May 1, 2008: Rabbis Ban Israel Bible Quiz Due To Messianic Jews – Can Chabad Messianists Compete?
Comments: 41 | Categories: Chabad , Chabad & Christianity , MO & Chardal
So, here's the deal. One of the finalists in this year's Israel Ministry of Education-sponsored International Bible Quiz is a Messianic Jew from Pisgat Zeev. Some Religious Zionist rabbis, including Rabbi Shlomo Aviner, have called on Jews to boycott the...

April 11, 2008: Senior National Religious Rabbi: Keep Child Abuse Within The Family
Comments: 19 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Israel , MO & Chardal
It's raining nutcase rabbis over in the Holy Land. First, we have Ashkenazi chief rabbi Yona Metzger's slur against ba'al teshuvas. Now, we have… …Rabbi Elyakim Levanon's 'words of wisdom' to a 22 year old young man who comes from...

April 6, 2008: How Racist Is This?
Comments: 51 | Categories: Israel , MO & Chardal
Rabbi Mordechai Greenberg, Rosh Yeshiva of Kerem B'Yavne… …writes:…[The Kuzari] explains elsewhere (II:60-64) why when refuse leaves the body it doesn't cause impurity, whereas the zav and seminal emission are impure. It is because impurity is an expression of lack...

March 18, 2008: MK: Religious Schools Treatment of Ethiopian Jewish Students "Blatant, Ugly Racism"
Comments: 14 | Categories: Ethiopian Jews , Israel , MO & Chardal
As part of the conversion negotiations taking place between the Knesset Internal Affairs Committee and the chief rabbis, the issue of Ethiopian Jews was raised by Sefardic Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar. Amar wants to convert… …Falash Mura in situ so...

March 15, 2008: Shin Bet: No Plot By Mercaz HaRav Students to Kill Islamic Leader
Comments: 49 | Categories: Israel , MO & Chardal
The Shin Bet now says there is no evidence of a plot by Mercaz HaRav students to kill an Islamic leader. But… …there is a hitch or two to this report, found in Ynet's Hebrew edition, Ma'ariv, and in the...

March 15, 2008: The Secret Agreement Behind The RCA-Rabbinate Conversion Deal – Rabbis Whose Synagogues Have Womens Prayer Groups May Not Sit As Conversion Judges
Comments: 48 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal
I wrote early Friday morning that the new conversion agreement between the Rabbinical Council of America (RCA) and Israel's haredi-controlled chief rabbinate has much more to do about power struggles within the RCA, and the power struggle between haredim and...

March 14, 2008: Is The RCA Lying About The New Conversion Agreement?
Comments: 15 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal
An interesting quote published today from a leading RCA figure lends some credence to the idea that the RCA is not telling the whole truth about its conversion deal with Israel's chief rabbinate. Rabbi… …Basil Herring is quoted by the...

March 13, 2008: More On Rabbis Who Backed Call For Vigilante Violence Against Arabs
Comments: 32 | Categories: Chabad , Israel , MO & Chardal
The Jerusalem Post has printed some of the names of the rabbis who called for vigilante violence against Arabs and Jewish terrorism against Arabs. Of course, the rabbis say… …it isn't so, even though it is clear the proclamation is...

March 12, 2008: Rabbi Hershel Schachter Runs Away?
Comments: 17 | Categories: Israel , MO & Chardal
It seems so. The New York Jewish Week has done some followup on the Rabbi Hershel Schachter "shoot the prime minister" controversy. What's new? This… 1. Rabbi Schachter cut his visit to Israel short, returning home before the weekend. Some...

March 12, 2008: UPDATED: Rabbis Call For Jewish Terrorism, Vigalante Violence
Comments: 27 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Israel , MO & Chardal
And they signed their names: …In notices posted along Jerusalem's Kiryat Moshe neighborhood, near the Mercaz Harav Yeshiva, the rabbis wrote: "Each and everyone is required to imagine what the enemy is plotting to do to us, and to match...

March 11, 2008: Mercaz HaRav Rabbi Approves Revenge Terror Attack Against Mufti By Yeshiva Students, Channel One Reports
Comments: 45 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Israel , MO & Chardal
That's right. If the unnamed security sources quoted by Channel One are … …correct, this almost happened: Seminary students planned revenge attack: TV JERUSALEM (AP) _ Students from a Jewish religious school where a Palestinian militant killed eight last week...

March 11, 2008: Yeshiva Students Kick, Harass Female MK
Comments: 9 | Categories: Israel , MO & Chardal
They have not learned. Ha'aretz reports: A senior minister Monday warned of another political murder, following the incitement and abuse that Education Minister Yuli Tamir faced from dozens of students at Mercaz Harav yeshiva on Sunday. Tamir was driven from...

March 10, 2008: Amar Breaks Promise – 8 of 10 New Conversion Judges Appointed Are Haredi
Comments: 32 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal
Here's how it was supposed to work. The government was to appoint 10 new conversion judges. These new judges were supposed to be from the moderate wing of the Religious Zionist movement – in other words, Modern Orthodox. The aim...

March 9, 2008: UPDATED: Senior Member of RCA Committee on Conversions "Abhors" Agreement, Fears For Converts
Comments: 43 | Categories: MO & Chardal
That's right. Despite the spin from Rabbi Basil Herring and others at the Rabbinical Council of America (RCA), the dissent within the organization over its capitulation to Israel's chief rabbis is deeper and wider than claimed. Rabbi… …Barry Freundel, the...

March 7, 2008: YU's Rabbi Hershel Schachter Calls For Murder Of Prime Minister – Retracts Statement Made "Off The Cuff"
Comments: 58 | Categories: MO & Chardal
Yeshiva University's rosh yeshiva and one of the two American rabbis who will decide which rabbis can and which rabbis cannot do conversions called for the assassination of Israel's prime minister and blanket refusal to serve in the IDF. Rabbi...

March 7, 2008: The New Conversion Agreement – Will Past Conversions Be Deemed Invalid?
Comments: 6 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal
Has the new conversion agreement between the Israeli chief rabbinate and the Rabbinical Council of America (RCA) created a situation where past conversions done by Orthodox rabbis who are not currently 'approved' by the RCA will be deemed invalid? A...

March 6, 2008: 8 Killed In Terror Attack On Mercaz Harav Yeshiva In Jerusalem
Comments: 34 | Categories: Israel , MO & Chardal
It's the one in Kirayt Moshe, which may also hold Mercaz Harav's BT yeshiva. There are many reported injured, at least three seriously. Medic Yaron Tzuker said he arrived as the gunfire was still going on. "They were still shooting...

March 4, 2008: Williamsburg Hasidim Refuse to Count Elderly Modern Orthodox Jew for Minyan
Comments: 49 | Categories: Haredim , MO & Chardal
Yochanan Lavie writes: Not only would they not eat at your table, but they might not count you in a minyan. I know an elderly MO gentleman who lives in W'burg. He has been frum all his life, and has...

March 2, 2008: Who Is A Jew? Who Is A Convert? Who Is A Rabbi? The New York Times on Israel's Conversion Crisis
Comments: 12 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Jewish Leadership , MO & Chardal
The New York Times Magazine has feature on the conversion crisis in Israel and the Rabbinical Council of America's participation in that crisis. How did the RCA participate? By caving in to Israeli haredi demands, as we noted last week....

February 27, 2008: Did The RCA Cave In? Are US Conversions Now Haredi Controlled?
Comments: 24 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal
Yes. The Rabbinical Council of America has caved in, adopting haredi standards for conversion and giving the haredi-controlled Israeli chief rabbinate control of the process: US conversion courts established By MATTHEW WAGNER The Rabbinical Council of America announced Tuesday the...

February 22, 2008: They May Not Be Jewish After All – Past Conversions Need To Pass Rabbinute-RCA Muster, Converts May be Ruled Non-Jews
Comments: 16 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal
The RCA and the Chief Rabbinate also agreed that conversions performed in the past by judges who are not on the new list will need the approval of Rabbi Gedalia Dov Schwartz, the octogenarian head of the RCA-affiliated Beth Din...

February 21, 2008: RCA Caves In? Rabbinute Deal on Conversions Appears to Heavily Favor Israeli Haredi View
Comments: 18 | Categories: Halakha , Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal
The Rabbinical Council of America (RCA) and the Israeli chief rabbinate have reached a agreement on conversion that appears to heavily favor the haredi understanding of conversion law. First, the Jerusalem Post report: RCA, Rabbinate reach conversion deal Matthew Wagner...

February 18, 2008: Should YU Cut Ties With Ohr Somayach?
Comments: 7 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal
Yeshiva University partners with many different Israeli yeshivot and seminaries for its S. Daniel Abraham Israel Program. Students earn, in effect, a year's worth of college credits for studying Torah. But there is a problem. Many participating yeshivot and seminaries...

February 14, 2008: Is YU Using Shackle and Hoist Meat?
Comments: 7 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , MO & Chardal
A Conservative rabbi, Adam Frank, has an op-ed in yesterday's Jerusalem Post that was timed to run when the newest kosher slaughter scandal broke. Frank is an activist with an Israeli animal rights group, Concern for Helping Animals in Israel....

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