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Rubashkins Accused Of Diverting Agriprocessors' Loan Collateral To Private Accounts

It seems the propensity for bank schemes is not Moshe Rubashkin's alone, as…

BREAKING! AGRIPROCESSORS DEFAULTS ON $35 MILLION DOLLAR LOAN – BANK TO FORECLOSE

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Rubashkin Uses Cousin's Home For Bail

Rabbi Sholom M. Rubashkin is pleading not guilty. According to his attorney, all Rubashkin wants…

BREAKING! Agriprocessors Loses 1/2 Of Workforce – Jacobson Staffing Pulls Out

It turns out Jacobson dumped Agriprocessors, not the other way around. Details below:

BREAKING! Agriprocessors Killing And Disposing Of Thousands Of Baby Chicks

Why?

Rubashkin Bail Set At $1 Million Dollars

GPS bracelet, surrender of passport…

BREAKING! Agriprocessors Moves To Fire Most New Workers

I'm told Agriprocessors is about to fire all workers hired through Jacobson Staffing. That would mean firing almost every worker hired after the May 12 immigration raid, because…

Rubashkin Arrest Photo

Agriprocessors Closed, Forward Reports

I believe the Forward is in error. The beef line is certainly closed, as I reported yesterday. The chicken line was open…

Hella Winston and Larry Cohler-Esses Interviewed On Zev Brenner's Show Tonight

Talking about the new group formed by haredi survivors of…

Menachem Lubinsky No Longer Represents Agriprocessors

That's what…

Rabbi Sholom M. Rubashkin Court Documents

Here are the federal complaint and affidavit:

BREAKING! RABBI SHOLOM M. RUBASHKIN ARRESTED, TO APPEAR IN FEDERAL COURT LATER TODAY

Charges are federal. Details below:

Agriprocessors' CEO: We'll Fight Fines

Bernard S. Feldman says he has "grave doubts" about the charges and fines:

May This Chicken Atone For Your Sins

Recovered from the …

Exposed: The Jewish Week Uncovers Aish HaTorah's Illegal Election Meddling – New Film Produced By Aish's Clarion Fund Claims Muslims Seek Sharia Law In US

It's the best article yet on Aish HaTorah's illegal attempt to influence the US presidential election.

What makes it so good?

Althouse Pleads Guilty – Agriprocessors HR and Payroll Supervisor Faces Up To 12 Years In Prison

And a fine that could be as large as $500,000, as…

Haredi Rabbi-On-Boy Sexual Abuse Victims Form Group – Victims Urged To Call Police, Group To Lobby For Tougher Laws Protecting Children

And they're very clear: Do not rely on…

In Guatemala, Deported Agriprocessors Workers React To $10 Million In Fines

Agriprocessors is hit with $10 million in fines for state tax and wage violations. What do Agriprocessors former workers, now back home in Guatemala, think about this?

Agriprocessors Beef Kill Workers Told No Work For Rest Of Week

So says a reliable Postville source who has spoken with several beef kill workers.
Meanwhile GIPSA. a federal agency…

BREAKING! $10 MILLION DOLLARS: IOWA FINES AGRIPROCESSORS FOR TAX AND WAGE VIOLATIONS

As you might expect, the biggest fines in the history…

No Beef Kill At Agriprocessors Last 2 Days

The entire Rubashkin family was in Postville over Shabbat and word is…

Joe The Plumber: A Vote For Obama Is A Vote For The Death Of Israel

See it here. (Please scroll down for the video.)

Did Aish HaTorah Try To Illegally Influence US Elections?

By now many of you know about the controversy surrounding the film "Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West." In brief, the Clarion Fund, which is closely related to Aish HaTorah, send DVDs of Obsession to…

BREAKING! Agriprocessors Payroll Head To Plead Guilty To Federal Charges

Laura Althouse worked in Agriprocessors HR department and was in charge of…

Leading Haredi Politicians Testify On Behalf Of Convicted Haredi Baby Killer

Leading haredi rabbis and politicians testified as character witnesses during sentencing for convicted haredi child killer…

God The Exploiter

I made a pilgrimage yesterday to the supermarket that tries to serve the needs of local kosher consumers. The kosher meat supply is overwhelmingly…

A Song For Wall Street

A classic, by…

Agriprocessors: Postville Residents See A Complicated Picture

But that picture is still largely unfavorable to…

Were Judaism And The Enlightenment Friends?

A new book by a Jewish studies scholar argues…

Reform Movement Launches "Non-Fundamentalist Alternative" To Aish

But will it work? And, if it does…

Haredim Rumble In Mea Shearim

Having separate sides of the street for women and men wasn't enough. Having entirely separate entrances to large community sukkot wasn't enough. Only…

The Haredi Fundraising Crisis Continues

As haredi leaders squabble over the best way to get more money out of the Israeli government during coalition talks – Shas and the Gerrer Rebbe want…

Simchat Torah and Shabbatai Tzvi

A slightly edited repost from 2005, judiciously held over until after…

How A Jew Became President Of Yemen

Sometimes the truth…

British Police Find Link Between Child Porn Websites And Muslim Terror Cells

Islamic terrorists are using child porn and pedophiles websites to…

Chabad Rabbi Gives Molester Plane Ticket, Sent Away – Later Molests Children Elsewhere

The Chabad rabbi? Yitzchok Dovid Groner. His brother Leibel was one of the late rebbe's secretaries for many years. Yitzchok Dovid, who was sent to found Chabad in Australia by the rebbe and was one of the most senior of Chabad rabbis, passed away late last (Jewish) year.

The molester…

Doing The Orthodox Hechsher Tzedek Right?

L.A.'s Modern Orthodox pulpit rabbis are banding together to form a local Hechsher Tzedek-like organization to deal with labor abuses and other problems in businesses that are providers for or operate within the Jewish community.

Are they doing this honestly? Or is is this simply another RCA-like toothless tiger meant to…

Top 13 Yochanan Lavie Parodies

Picked by the master himself…

A Rabbi Baruch Lanner Sukkot

A friend writes:

Postville 5 Months After

CNN has a two part feature on…

Our Pagan Yom Kippur

…For more than 25 centuries, we Jews have stood atremble before the highest of benches during the first days of the seventh lunar month, which we call Tishrei. The peculiar rites we perform during the Ten Days of Penitence are designed to ensure us another year of life.

That, at least, is the belief of the 15% of Jews who think that God simply dictated the Torah and all Jewish laws — even those laws promulgated by the rabbis in the Middle Ages — to Moses at Mount Sinai.

The remaining 85% of us, however, might be comforted to know that Jews haven’t been the only nation performing such elaborate rituals of sin-purging around this time of year.…

The Deep Dark Secret Of Agriprocessors And Chabad

…The revulsion that non-Orthodox Jews in the Upper Midwest have for the Hasidim of Postville is visceral and undeniable. Over and over, while talking to non-Orthodox Jews in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area—arguably the Jewish community outside of Postville that has the most at stake in this story—I have heard one constant refrain. “How could this have happened?” they ask rhetorically. “I’ll tell you…,” and then their voices drop a register: “These Hasidim do not think their workers are human beings.”

What these Jews are saying is probably…

Kosher Wars: The New York Times Gets Kosher Food Right

You won't find a better overall article on the current upheaval in the kosher food business than…

Bank Robber Steals Shul Van Belonging To Agriprocessors Foe

The funniest thing is…

BREAKING! Rubashkin Son-In-Law Hit With New Charge Of Sexual Molestation – Second Alleged Victim 13 Year Old Boy

As i noted in an earlier report, the Postville yeshiva had at least two different abusers. One now lives in Crown Heights. The other…

ROTFL! Palauans Promised Fair Treatment At Agriprocessors By None Other Than…

If this wasn't such a serious issue, I'd still be laughing. You just can't make this stuff up. The Rubashkins are their own best parodies, as you can…

Agriprocessors Workers Arrested May 12 Still Owed Back Pay, Vacation Pay, Consultant Claims

And that consultant is the professor-translator who blew the whistle…

Weingarten Claims Frame: Says Ex-Wife Made Up Abuse Stories, Hires Disgraced Former D.A.

Rabbi Israel Weingarten's attorney claims…

BREAKING Torah Temimah Rabbi Raped Own Daughter For Years

The guy is a Satmar hasid, too.