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Thursday, November 29, 2018

UOJ - "Don't be taken in. Never explain. Never retract. Get it done and let them howl!"

One of my all-time favorites from a good friend - The UOJ Classics!

Dear UOJ:

"......With reference to your recent correspondent: beware the well-meaning critic who "only " wants you to curb your language. Language is the key to humanity itself, so show me a censor and I'll show you a prison guard -- however well-intentioned. I do not advocate -- I do not practice -- indiscriminate brutality in language any more than in deed. In fact, I see plenty of writing on blogs that makes me worry for the future of civilized discourse. But NOT because of the language involved, nor because it attacks a sacred cow here, an overrated human icon there. Talk radio is infinitely worse than blogs; have the rabbis banned THAT? Au contraire: brutality aimed at "liberals" is still groovy.

Avigdor Miller could be as coarse in scorning his opponents as anything I've read on Jewish newsgroups -- has anyone lately pointed this out? There's the Jewish Observer, which indulged personal attacks against the author of Holy Days (who deserved better) and lately ran an obscene rant that condemned as sinners all people who write unpleasant truths about powerful rabbis, a piece so destructive of logic and decency that the author apparently never noticed the irony of condemning slander while committing it himself -- wholesale. Has this been condemned?

We are all fallible, and in controversy we inevitably irritate or disappoint at least some of our readers. Sometimes with reason. But it is a great mistake to be guided by a wish not to offend. Let the "gentle" critic who "only" wants you to tone down your rhetoric, or your graphic allusions, or your offensive imagery, or your subject matter, or your this or your that, assert in no uncertain terms -- if he dares -- that something he objects to in your work is, in fact, wrong, bad, untrue. If he can make that claim, and convince you of its correctness, well and good.

Otherwise: he is a temptation to be politely but firmly set aside. The man who wants to tell the truth but not offend the respectable is like someone who wants to scale a wall without using his hands. You can't do it. You want to do serious work -- well, some people aren't going to like it. They tell you they like your buildings but find the shadows they cast a little excessive? "Sorry, lady, but the shadow comes with the building. I'm sure you can find a spot without either one, if that's your choice." You can't write anything without tripping over somebody's sensitivities. So why worry about it?

Once you're offending -- OFFEND.

I don't mean blowharding. But OFFEND. If you're not offending someone, you're saying nothing... which of course is why so many rabbis, idolized by the "civil" crowd, are rising through the ranks by repeating the same sermons again and again, telling us nothing -- but giving no offense.

As for the claim -- the civilians are never without it -- that the same goals can be accomplished with different language -- well, if that's really so, why haven't they done it? I say the objection to the tools used is only valid true when the tools are truly the wrong ones... in which case, you won't be getting any results. Otherwise the methods are inseparable from the goals. Which is why Mozart had to use so many notes (in spite of fashion), Beethoven had to use bold dissonances, Ibsen had to refer to adultery and venereal disease. Even Lenny Bruce was told once that he could be a great comic without the "filth" (whatever that meant)... have you ever tried paraphrasing one of his great routines on sexual frailties -- minus the four-letter words? Having tried it once, would you ever want to again?

I do not believe the straitjacketing of language in Orthodox communities is a coincidence. I think it is a matter of deliberate strategy.

As Orwell pointed out, curbing language curbs thought: if there is no vocabulary to explain why Big Brother is evil, then the idea itself becomes impossible to hold. In our communities things are much the same. "Elchanan Wasserman was a religious tyrant who sacrificed thousands of people to his rigid piety" is no easier for the average Orthodox Jew to articulate than "Big Brother is ungood" would have been in Oceania. Breaking this barrier is not incidental to the kind of cause you're engaged in -- on the contrary, it is a fundamental part of it.

The Agudah crowd instinctively knows that the moment people can say "Reb Moshe sometimes misrepresented Talmudic sources to advance a personal ideology" or "Avigdor Miller emotionally manipulated ba'alei t'shuvah," etc., etc., they will begin to think for themselves and will never again be under Agudah's control. So, of course, they condemn such "language" as coarseness, as gossip, as slander, as slights to sages, whatever... rather than addressing themselves to the ONLY thing that matters, the truth or falsity of the statements in question.

Isn't it a commonplace that we can never learn from anyone's greatness until we can separate it from his frailties? Is Abraham Lincoln less inspiring a figure when we know about the messes in his personal life and his rough-and-tumble political background? Human beings emulate other human beings -- if you want to know what happens when people, instead of learning from fallible models, become the apes of God, look at R. Elchanan. I think he would have been a greater man if he had seen HIS heroes as human. He didn't: and just look at the results.

I may misquote him here, but Thomas Hardy, frequently under attack for his subject matter in his lifetime -- now accepted without question as one of the great novelists and poets of the early modern period -- had the right idea when he wrote in his journal: "Never explain. Never retract. Get it done and let them howl." It's taken me, a shy, diffident type, a long time to learn this, but no approach but Hardy's EVER works.

The moment you start trying to appease one critic, another pipes up; take something back, everything starts to collapse; cast around for consensus -- none will appear. If you want to be loved, don't write, or at least don't write honestly; there were vastly more popular writers than Hardy back in the 1890s. They wrote what the public liked and turned out bestsellers. Not one of them is ever mentioned today.

Don't be fooled by the number of hits on your blog -- most are curiosity seekers; the really popular speakers are the Frands, the Krohns, the Salomons, the Kotlers, etc., who never tell their audiences a word they don't want to hear. Our community will embalm them, and 75 years from now they will be exactly what they are now -- just as they are already the inarticulate corpses they will be then.

If a few words from your blogs survive, you at least will have a chance to live forever... not because of your "language," nor in spite of it, but because you wrote a few words that were true, right, clear, pure and necessary . . . and good Lord, what else can any of us hope for? It's a rare enough accomplishment as it is, while using every sensibility God gave us and every word he lent us for the purpose. Start censoring yourself, even for "good" reasons, and you don't have a chance.

Don't be taken in. Never explain. Never retract. Get it done and let them howl."

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Anonymous said...

I have done a heck of a lot of research and have found no solid evidence on Potyi Lipshitz being a child molester. Has anyone some real info on the alter kakker?

Anonymous said...

JWB says Ner Israel Rabbinical College graduate and convicted sex offender suspended from synagogue he founded:

http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/shul_breaks_from_rabbi_max/13286

Shul Breaks From Rabbi Max
Alan H. Feiler
Managing Editor
...
(Excerpt)
By a majority, the board of directors at Moses Montefiore Anshe Emunah (MMAE) Hebrew Congregation voted last Sunday, June 28, to discontinue, at least in the interim, the synagogue’s longtime relationship with its rabbi emeritus, Rabbi Jacob Aaron Max.

On Apr. 13, Rabbi Max, 85, was convicted in Baltimore County District Court of sexual offense in the fourth degree and second-degree assault for the molestation of a former Sol Levinson & Bros. funeral home employee last December. A month later, the rabbi decided not to appeal Judge Nancy Purpura’s conviction of one year’s sentence of suspended incarceration and unsupervised probation.

Rabbi Max served as spiritual leader of MMAE, formerly known as Liberty Jewish Center, from the early 1950s until his retirement seven years ago. A Ner Israel Rabbinical College graduate, Rabbi Max resigned in May from the Baltimore Board of Rabbis a day before that organization was slated to discuss and vote on his expulsion from the group because of his conviction.
...

Anonymous said...

JWB says pedophile Amir Gilboa gets slap on wrist:

(Excerpts)
http://www.times-series.co.uk/news/4470494.Judge_spares_internet_paedophile_jail_term/

Judge spares internet paedophile from Finchley a jail term
2nd July 2009
By Kevin Bradford »

AN internet porn addict who was found to have more than 650 indecent images of children on his computer has been spared jail in what a judge described as a “mercy” sentence.

Former fitness instructor Amir Gilboa, of Nether Street, Finchley, was given a three month suspended sentence at Wood Green Crown Court yesterday.

The 36-year-old had pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to downloading the files which included images and videos of children as young as seven.

The court heard how police raided the home of Gilboa and his wife, which they were sharing with others, last September. Officers discovered the 676 images on his personal computer and recorded them as levels one to five on the police scale of severity.

More than 450 images were level one, regarded as the least serious in terms of child pornography, although 89 were levels four and five.
...
His Honour Judge Francis Sheridan, said the use of the images over a six month period indicated a problem that needed addressing as well as an “unhealthy interest”.

He sentenced Gilboa to a three month sentence, suspended for two years and ordered him to attend an internet users treatment programme.

Judge Sheridan also handed down a sexual offences prevention order meaning Gilboa cannot work or be around children unsupervised for five years, during which time he will have to sign on to the sex offenders register.

Judge Sheridan said: “Every child in these images is a victim “If there wasn't people doing this the manufactures wouldn't have a market. Vile is insufficient to describe the images I have seen.

“A normal virile man of 36 doesn't usually have an interest in children under 16.

“This is a serious case because everybody treasures their children and no child should be subjected to such disgraceful abuse.

“This sentence is serious but I am going to suspend them as an act of mercy. If you do not stick to the terms I will guarantee a custodial sentence.”

Addressing Gilboa directly across the court room, he added:“You come from a distinguished family of hard working, decent people.

“What would your grandparents have thought of you robbing those children of their innocence for your own gratification?

“As victims of the holocaust, take a moment to think what they would have made of you.

“The Jewish community is proud of their emphasis on family life and it is little wonder that you have been shamed by the people who know you and liked you.”

Anonymous said...

Putz-chu Lipshitz took off to Florida when the heat was on in Monsey. Did you ask around over there where some kids fathers are swearing vengeance on him? That at least is the latest.

There is other stuff that happened earlier in Brooklyn.

One of these days when I have the time, I'm going to spill the beans on the lowlife to UOJ and others. I have actually seen some documented stuff from professionals.

And the child molestation says nothing of his thievery spanning decades which is hakol modim. Same thing goes for his causing machlokes in every shul and bungalow colony he has ever stepped foot in.

What's wrong with this picture? said...

Read the last paragraph

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/02/business/02lawyer.html

All his life, Robert Bowman wanted to be a lawyer. He overcame a troubled childhood, a tragic accident that nearly cost him a leg and a debilitating Jet Ski collision.

He put himself through community college, worked and borrowed heavily to help pay for college, graduate school and even law school. He took the New York bar examination not once, not twice, not three times, but four, passing it last year. Finally, he seemed to be on his way.

In January, the committee of New York lawyers that reviews applications for admission to the bar interviewed Mr. Bowman, studied his history and the debt he had amassed, and called his persistence remarkable. It recommended his approval.

But a group of five state appellate judges decided this spring that his student loans were too big and his efforts to repay them too meager for him to be a lawyer.

“Applicant has not made any substantial payments on the loans,” the judges wrote in a terse decision and an unusual rejection of the committee’s recommendation. “Applicant has not presently established the character and general fitness requisite for an attorney and counselor-at-law.”

Mr. Bowman, 47, appears to have crossed some unspoken line with his $400,000 in student debt and penalties, accumulated over many years.

New York’s courts have overlooked misconduct like lawyers’ solicitation of minors for sex, efforts to deceive judges and possession of cocaine. Those instances have led merely to temporary suspensions from practice.

Anonymous said...

There is a Young Israel in Hauppauge

(AP) -- Prosecutors have added a child endangerment charge against a Long Island, N.Y., mother accused of posting a suggestive Craigslist ad to target a 9-year-old girl.

Margery Tannenbaum, of Hauppauge, is accused of posting an ad that said in part, ''I need a little affection.'' Authorities say she gave respondents the phone number for her daughter's rival, generating at least 22 harassing calls.

Tannenbaum was charged in May with aggravated harassment. She was freed without bail after her arraignment Thursday in Central Islip on that count and the new endangerment accusation.

She pleaded not guilty. Her attorney did not immediately return a telephone call for comment.

Arthur said...

Laugh and cry

http://www.col.org.il/show_news.rtx?artID=48204

What a putz said...

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/07/kozinski-admonished-for-posting-.html

Alex Kozinski, chief judge of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, was admonished by a panel of his colleagues, in a report made public today, for posting sexually explicit material on a publicly accessible Internet server.

“We find that the judge’s possession of sexually explicit offensive material combined with his carelessness in failing to safeguard his sphere of privacy was judicially imprudent,” said the report by Anthony J. Scirica.

The panel, headed by Scirica, found that Kozinski allowed such material to remain on the Internet, even after discovering that it could be accessed by the public.

The panel admonished Kozinski for “exhibiting poor judgment ... [that] created a public controversy that can reasonably be seen as having resulted in embarrassment to the federal judiciary.”

Because Kozinski offered an apology and took “corrective action,” the judges ruled that the disciplinary proceeding should end with an admonishment.

The Los Angeles Times reported on the existence of the site last year while Kozinski was presiding over a federal obscenity trial. He declared a mistrial in the wake of the public controversy that ensued.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-kozinski12-2008jun12,0,6220192.story

Alex Kozinski, chief judge of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, acknowledged in an interview with The Times that he had posted the materials, which included a photo of naked women on all fours painted to look like cows and a video of a half-dressed man cavorting with a sexually aroused farm animal. Some of the material was inappropriate, he conceded, although he defended other sexually explicit content as "funny."

Kozinski, 57, said that he thought the site was for his private storage and that he was not aware the images could be seen by the public, although he also said he had shared some material on the site with friends. After the interview Tuesday evening, he blocked public access to the site.

Asked whether the contents of his site should force him to step aside from the pending obscenity trial, Kozinski declined to comment. Opening statements in the trial are scheduled for this morning. In the case, Ira Isaacs, a filmmaker based in Los Angeles, is accused of distributing criminally obscene sexual-fetish videos depicting bestiality and defecation.

Stephen Gillers, a New York University law professor who specializes in legal ethics, told The Times that Kozinski should recuse himself from the Isaacs case because "the public can reasonably question his objectivity" concerning the issues at hand.

Kozinski said he would delete some material from his site, including the photo depicting women as cows, which he said was "degrading … and just gross." He also said he planned to get rid of a graphic step-by-step pictorial in which a woman is seen shaving her pubic hair.

The sexually explicit material on Kozinski's site earlier this week was extensive, including images of masturbation, public sex and contortionist sex. There was a slide show striptease featuring a transsexual, and a folder that contained a series of photos of women's crotches as seen through snug fitting clothing or underwear. There were also themes of defecation and urination, though they are not presented in a sexual context.

The judge said he began saving the sexually explicit materials and other items of interest years ago.

"People send me stuff like this all the time," he said.

He keeps the things he finds interesting or funny with the thought that he might later pass them on to friends, he said.

This is sick said...

http://www.thejc.com/articles/michael-jacksons-children-may-be-jewish

Michael Jackson's children may be Jewish

By Jessica Elgot
Created 29 Jun 2009 - 8:42am

Michael Jackson's two elder children could be returned to the custody of their Jewish mother, Debbie Rowe.

The children are Prince Michael I, who is 12, and Paris Michael Katherine, 11, who — according to halacha — would also be considered Jewish.

Jackson’s youngest child, Prince Michael II, had a surrogate mother , whose identity is not known.

When Rowe's Jewish identity first came to light, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, a close friend of Jackson, expressed his astonishment.

"It seems incredible to me that Michael Jackson would not have told me that Prince and Paris are Jewish, unless he did not know," Rabbi Boteach said. "It's possible that Michael never knew that Debbie Rowe is Jewish. I don't know that she is a committed Jew.

But since the children are Jewish, they should be raised Jewish." Jackson married Rowe, his former dermatologist 's nurse, in 1996, after his divorce from Lisa-Marie Presley. They divorced three years later and Rowe signed a contract waiving her parental rights after accepting a £2.4million pay-off.

But she later contested the contract, among other arguments expressing her fears that the children were being exposed to the teachings of the Nation of Islam through their nanny and Jackson’s siblings.

The Nation of Islam is considered by some Jewish leaders to be antisemitic. Under Californian law Rowe would be likely to regain custody, even if Jackson had designated another guardian in his will.

Iris Finesilver, Rowe's lawyer, who has previously confirmed that her client was Jewish, said she was certain Rowe would seek custody of the two children.

Albany yenta said...

Democrats doctored New York Senate records after coup

by The Associated Press
Wednesday July 01, 2009, 6:40 PM

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- The Republican-dominated faction claiming control of the New York Senate says a Democrat-appointed legislative staffer doctored the original, official minutes of the session three weeks ago to delete the GOP-staged coup to seize the majority.

In court papers, the faction claims the change was criminal, making it appropriate for a judge to intervene in the three-week-old power struggle and order the record corrected. That would officially show dissident Democrat Pedro Espada of the Bronx as Senate president, put in charge by his Republican allies.

"There was a vote. The majority voted to elect Espada," said John Ciampoli, his lawyer. "There's an official record, and one of the issues really is if the record was illegally altered."

The Republicans accused Senate Secretary Angelo Aponte of having the final record changed, as well as shutting off lights and microphones, locking chamber doors and taking other steps to keep the mainly Republican group from taking over. Saying Aponte works for the Democrats, they asked the judge to make him stop obstructing them.

UOJ GETS RESULTS! said...

http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2009/07/childrens_groups_cant_access_f.html

by Delen Goldberg / The Post-Standard

Thursday July 02, 2009, 4:36 PM

A person applying to be a summer camp counselor in New York could have been convicted of assault in Ohio or sexual abuse in Florida, and camp officials would have no way of knowing.

A loophole in federal law prevents camps, children's groups and other non-profits that work with children from accessing federal criminal background checks on new employees and volunteers.

Groups can check the state's criminal database, but it doesn't list crimes committed out of state.

"The critical information being withheld could allow a predator to work" with children, said U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y. "Our local law enforcement has access to the federal files. Why can't our organizations?"
Schumer came to Syracuse today to unveil new legislation that would close the loophole.

The Child Protection Improvements Act of 2009 would give children's groups universal access to nationwide background searches. If a conviction or arrest pops up that would bar the person from becoming a foster or adoptive parent, the potential employer would be notified.

"Those standards are good standards," Schumer said. "They're not higher than they should be."

More than 30 child advocates and local officials surrounded Schumer as he explained his bill.

Dr. Ann Botash, director of University Hospital's Child Abuse Referral and Evaluation program, called the legislation "impressive."

"To be able to know we have a better way to limit access is the best way to prevent abuse," she said.

5 Towns Jewish Times publisher Larry Gordon said...

http://www.5tjt.com/news/read.asp?Id=4497

I had no problem naming Bernie Madoff, but in the same piece I refused to name Chaim Weiss. He might not be frum anymore either but he was fort once a heimish guy from Boro Park.

Avi L. Shafran said...

http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/07/staten_island_ferryboat_slams.html

A rush-hour Staten Island ferryboat lost power and hit a pier while entering its slip at the St. George Ferry Terminal last evening, sending 15 people to the hospital with minor injuries and evoking memories of the lethal 2003 ferry disaster.

Barry Rothman said...

Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray is suing a Long Island, N.Y., state coin dealer as part of a multistate crackdown on alleged consumer fraud.

Cordray said Wednesday that his office has filed suit in Hancock County Common Pleas Court against Amityville-based Alliance Coin Inc. and its president, Barry Rothman. The state alleges Alliance violated Ohio consumer protection law, and it wants to levy financial penalties and hold the company responsible for reimbursing consumers.

Cordray’s office said the dealer of rare coins allegedly has used high-pressure sales tactics over the phone and is targeting senior citizens in its business pitches. Cordray claims the company has misrepresented the value and investment grade of the coins in its business dealings and operated without registering in the state as a telephone solicitor.

Kim Kowalski, a spokeswoman for Cordray’s office, said the state’s investigation began after it received a complaint from an 82-year-old Hancock County resident who allegedly spent more than $25,000 on Alliance coins to later discover they were worth much less.

I thought only Margo could be this callous said...

http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-5phone070209-cn,0,3952707.story

Police said man made obscene calls through a phone service for the deaf for fun of it

A Lackawanna County man was arrested by Fountain Hill police for sending 72 obscene messages through an instant-message service for the hearing impaired for the fun of it.

Police said Andrew S. Brunell, 24, of Hawley told them he sent the messages because "because it was hilarious and entertaining to him."

He was charged yesterday with unlawful use of a computer, stalking, and harassment.

boog said...

Mark Levin on Hannity's Fox show the other night said this of Obama:

"Obama is Bernie Madoff a thousand times over".

Bill Ayers must be kvelling.

The Bim-Bam Identity.

Anonymous said...

Did Joseph Ungar used to be involved in nursing homes and/or healthcare businesses?

Anonymous said...

>Goldberger was charged with grand larceny, criminal possession of a forged instrument and scheme to defraud. He faces up to 25 years in prison, if convicted. Goldberg’s attorney, Robert McDonald, of Mineola, could not be reached for comment<

Anyone know what's up with gentiles often having Jewish lawyers and Jews often having gentile lawyers?

Chevra Chazerim - Congressional division said...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124650399438184235.html

WASHINGTON -- Spending by lawmakers on taxpayer-financed trips abroad has risen sharply in recent years, a Wall Street Journal analysis of travel records shows, involving everything from war-zone visits to trips to exotic spots such as the Galápagos Islands.

The spending on overseas travel is up almost tenfold since 1995, and has nearly tripled since 2001, according to the Journal analysis of 60,000 travel records. Hundreds of lawmakers traveled overseas in 2008 at a cost of about $13 million. That's a 50% jump since Democrats took control of Congress two years ago.

The cost of so-called congressional delegations, known among lawmakers as "codels," has risen nearly 70% since 2005, when an influence-peddling scandal led to a ban on travel funded by lobbyists, according to the data.

The Journal analysis, based on information published in the Congressional Record, also shows that taxpayer-funded travel is a big and growing perk for lawmakers and their families. Some members of Congress have complained in recent months about chief executives of bailed-out banks, insurance companies and car makers who sponsored corporate trips to resorts or used corporate jets for their own travel.

Although complete travel records aren't yet available for 2009, it appears that such costs continue to rise. The Journal analysis shows that the government has picked up the tab for travel to destinations such as Jamaica, the Virgin Islands and Australia's Great Barrier Reef.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi led a delegation of Democratic lawmakers to visit U.S. troops in Afghanistan for a day. Before landing in Kabul, the eight lawmakers and their entourage of spouses and aides spent eight days in Italy, spending $57,697 on hotels and meals.

Bim Bam said...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124649366875483207.html

By ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ

Many American supporters of Israel who voted for Barack Obama now suspect they may have been victims of a bait and switch. Jewish Americans voted overwhelmingly for Mr. Obama over John McCain in part because the Obama campaign went to great lengths to assure these voters that a President Obama would be supportive of Israel. This despite his friendships with rabidly anti-Israel characters like Rev. Jeremiah Wright and historian Rashid Khalidi.

At the suggestion of Mr. Obama's Jewish supporters -- including me -- the candidate visited the beleaguered town of Sderot, which had borne the brunt of thousands of rocket attacks by Hamas. Standing in front of the rocket shells, Mr. Obama declared: "If somebody was sending rockets into my house where my two daughters sleep at night, I'm going to do everything in my power to stop that. And I would expect Israelis to do the same thing." This heartfelt statement sealed the deal for many supporters of Israel.

Now, some of them apparently have voters' remorse. According to Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, "President Obama's strongest supporters among Jewish leaders are deeply troubled by his recent Middle East initiatives, and some are questioning what he really believes." I hear the same thing from rank-and-file supporters of Israel who voted for Mr. Obama.

OU certified said...

http://www.courthousenews.com/2009/06/30/Farm_Accused_of_Selling_Unfit_Vitaminwater.htm

By JONATHAN PERLOW

BUFFALO, N.Y. (CN) - The maker of Vitaminwater energy drinks hired a family farm to feed 100,000 cases of "unsalable" beverage to its livestock and recycle the packaging, but the farm instead sold the tainted drinks to parties that passed it on to retailers for public sale, Glaceau claims in Federal Court.

The manufacturer claims the products marked for destruction "started showing up on shelves" of retailers across the country.

Jorgensen Farms and Food Waste Recycling Systems offered to pick up unfit or expired food and drink from manufacturers for free, saying it would convert the products into livestock feed and recycle the packaging, Glaceau claims.

On its Web site, the Nebraska farm states that for the past 70 years, it has tended crops and raised livestock, but that "times have changed, and we have found ways to feed our animals using food companies' waste product."

Glaceau took up the offer and had Jorgensen pick up "unsalable" energy drinks from its bottling plants. The farm's owner, Dexter Jorgensen, allegedly sent an email saying the cases were destroyed and even provided certificates of destruction.

A few months later, Glaceau says it learned that an unauthorized retailer was reselling the Vitaminwater that was supposedly fed to animals. Jorgensen sold the drinks to Avers Merchandise Group, Hoffmans Trade Group and other parties, which then resold the drinks to retailers, the lawsuit claims.

Sonja Kohn said...

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-business/article-23715137-details/City+probes+fund+manager+for+taking+Madoff+money/article.do

City investigators are investigating a former Austrian fund manger alleged to have been paid kickbacks for funnelling investments to disgraced financier Bernard Madoff.

The Serious Fraud Office believes Madoff paid Sonja Kohn through his London subsidiary Madoff Securities International £7 million over five years while she was chairman of Bank Medici. The money was allegedly to encourage her to supply Madoff with cash from investors.

The SFO is investigating Kohn in connection with potential criminal charges of money laundering and falsifying documents to receive kickbacks. US and Austrian prosecutors are also investigating allegations Kohn was paid kickbacks by Madoff. The three separate probes allege she received a total of $40million (£24.4million).

But the investigations do not claim Kohn knew the nature of Madoff's Ponzi scheme, which lost $50 billion. "I am actually the greatest Madoff victim," said Kohn, 60. "It is a tragedy for my family, my compnay and for me personally."

Madoff, 71, was jailed for 150 years on Monday after pleading guilty to charges that his investment advisory business was a pyramid scheme.

Chabad BT Dan Gertler said...

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1097400.html

Late one night earlier this year, a private plane landed at Ben-Gurion International Airport, and from it emerged the diamond tycoon Dan Gertler. To his astonishment, he was greeted by officers from the National Fraud Investigations Unit, who asked him to accompany them to the unit's headquarters in Bat Yam. There, Gertler was told that he was suspected of bribing his friend, Avigdor Lieberman, now Israel's foreign minister. The interrogators asked Gertler whether he had conducted business with Lieberman or had ever transferred - by himself or through others - money to companies suspected of being under Lieberman's control.

"There is a good connection between them," says a person who knows both Lieberman and Dan Gertler well. "One of the traits they share is that they are both very suspicious of others."

Lieberman for years removed batteries from his mobile phone during meetings and constantly changed his number; Gertler has not hesitated to hire private detectives and record conversations himself for use in his business affairs. Often he seems to be operating out of a metaphorical war room.

Politically incorrect said...

Shmarya mentioned today that he no longer attends any kind of synagogue services. Maybe he will soon start attacking the Reform and Conservative as well.

Camp Agudah Fresser said...

Belsky is sending a hazmana to Chuckie Schumer for the camp legislation.

Who knew that Schumer would do something for the UOJ crowd when they always bash him as a putz?

Johnny Depp said...

http://movies.nytimes.com/2009/07/01/movies/01enemies.html

Who knew that playing gangster John Dillinger in the movie Public Enemies would generate so many angry phonecalls to my agent?

Jack Abramoff says I'm obviously trying to impersonate him and Avi Shafran accuses me of trying to cash in on his good looks by wearing a shtatty, yet slightly dusty yeshivishe black hat.

Ho Ho Hoenlein said...

Kolko was not Ungar's only neighbor. I still live down East 22nd from him and directly across from me is Margo & Belsky supporter Morris Fuchs.

Oh, and one of the Pinters is directly across from Kolko's old house.

Archie Bunker said...

After SHmarya was exposed for smearing NYPD Officer Yoeli Witriol by only posting the one blog report that makes him look bad and completely ignoring that a Hispanic witness said that Chrissie Brodigan called him a sub-human Jew, he is still not backing down.

Today he posts another entry from the same blogger, John Del Signore, that accuses the NYPD and newspapers of "inventing" the Hispanic witness.

John Del Signore, shares a lot in common with Shmarya, if you know his history of anti-Semitism and manufacturing conspiracies against Orthodox Jews.

Del Signore wrote on the Gothamist blog about yeshiva bochurim collecting tzedaka on Purim. He says that they are "racist" because one of them dressed like a Negro and held an image of Obama. (Apparently Michael Jackson is allowed to dress like a white guy but whites may not dress as Blacks).

Del Signore went on to write obvious lies that in his estimation, yeshiva bochurim steal from donors by pocketing the tzedaka they collect and that he "witnessed" several incidents where donors gave a small amount leading the bochurim to angrily yell at the baal habatim that they are "pigs".

Archie Bunker said...

Incidentally, the ONLY other outlet that agrees with Shmarya and Del Signore is the neo-Nazi Vanguard blog.

If you ask me, Shmarya is an enemy of the Jewish people of the highest order and he should not be given any kind of credence.

Shea Fishman said...

Where was David Mandel? He was supposed to make sure this remained covered up.

EPA May Have Suppressed Anti-Global Warming Study

by Terrence O'Brien — Jul 2nd 2009 at 5:01PM

Accusations are flying over leaked e-mails (warning: PDF) that the EPA suppressed an internal report that casts a skeptical light on using regulations to reign in carbon emissions and reduce global warming.

The 98-page report (warning, PDF), primarily authored by Alan Carlin, argues that there is no reason to regulate carbon dioxide in the U.S. since much of the science cited by the Environtmental Protection Agency (EPA) in its recent pro-regulation recommendation to President Obama is outdated. Carlin claims that recent studies show that long-held assumptions about hurricanes in the Atlantic, the shedding of ice sheets in Greenland, and the trend of rising temperatures worldwide may be misguided.

Moetzes Resign said...

Breaking News Alert
The New York Times
Friday, July 3, 2009 -- 3:52 PM ET
-----

Sarah Palin to Resign as Alaska Governor

Sarah Palin, the governor of Alaska, announced she would step
down before the end of the month, citing a desire to affect
change outside of government.

NY State Supreme Criminal Court said...

New York Supreme Court - Criminal Term

Case # SCI-03108-2009

Defendant Ungar, Joseph R

Birth Year: 1962

Incident
Date:September 22, 2003 09:00
Summons/Ticket #:
CJTN:63642081R
Arrest
Date & Time:June 24, 2009 08:05
Arrest #:M09657482
Officer
Agency:LIRR

Defense Attorney
Name:Moskowitz, Avi (Putz who works for Margo)
Type:Private (Retained)
Court Date:June 24, 2009
Court Part:1
Address: 345 7 Avenue,21fl, Ny, NY 10001
Phone:212 - 221 - 7999

Next Appearance
Date:September 16, 2009

Company owned by Ungar in the Brooklyn Navy Yard said...

http://www.warehouse-express.com/cmp.html

Joseph R. Ungar, CEO

Anonymous said...

The putz didn't pay his wife's OBGYN bill?

Sounds like his uncle Potyi who tries to stiff everyone he owes money to.

Kings County Civil Court
Index Number: CV-052082-97/KI
Case Name: BORO PARK OBSTETRICS & GYNEC
vs.
UNGAR, JOSEPH
Case Type: Civil
Classification:
Filing Date: 12/18/1997
Disposition Date: 03/10/2007

Menachem M Ungar said...

Queens County Civil Court
Index Number: CV-039658-01/QU
Case Name: ALLSTATE INSURANCE COMPANY
vs.
UNGAR, JOSEPH
UNGAR, MENACHEM M.
Case Type: Civil
Classification:
Filing Date: 03/12/2001
Disposition Date: 06/02/2007

Menachem Ungar involvement said...

http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/1998/04/19/1998-04-19_mikvah_meters_stir_up_midwoo.html

CITY HALL'S EFFORTS to help a Brooklyn bathhouse get parking spaces for its Orthodox female clients has set off a political brouhaha in Midwood.
It's pitting neighbor against neighbor, Jew against Jew, politician against politician and in the end has backfired against the mayor's office, with part of the community furious about perceived favoritism and the influence of political contributions on city policy.
The uproar involves the unusual installation of parking meters on a residential block, outside a religious institution, with no traffic study or other normal city protocol.
It has embroiled two Brooklyn councilmen already locked in battle for Charles Schumer's seat in Congress in a dogfight over whose credentials in the largely Jewish district are more Jewish.
Even the person at the heart of the uproar Venezia Zakheim, the executive director of the Jewish ritual bath says it has turned into a mess.
"It's just a political battle that puts the city in a very silly light," Zakheim said.
The fury centers on Mikvah Yisroel, a bathhouse used by Orthodox Jewish women for ritual cleansing. Built in 1996 at 1080 Avenue L, it has a 12-space parking lot. But the owners were concerned some women had to park around the corner and felt unsafe, so they asked Community Board 14 to put 25 meters on the block between Ocean Ave. and E. 19th St.
They were turned down because the request didn't meet city standards. The city normally installs meters in commercial areas to encourage turnover of shoppers. The mikvah is on a street of single-family homes and apartments.
The mikvah appealed to Councilman Anthony Weiner (D-Brooklyn) and to Councilman Noach Dear (R-Brooklyn), who represents the adjoining district but has close ties to Mayor Giuliani.
Dear took the mikvah's case to Bruce Teitelbaum, the mayor's chief of staff and liaison to the Jewish community.
The mikvah had a second link to City Hall: Zakheim is the sister-in-law of Steve Zakheim, a Brooklyn powerbroker and owner of Metropolitan Ambulance, the city's largest privately owned ambulance company.
Steve Zakheim is a mayoral fund-raiser and personally contributed $11,800 to Giuliani's 1993 and 1997 campaigns, records show. His wife gave $4,000 last year.
Shortly after Dear's appeal to Teitelbaum, poles for 25 parking meters went in last spring.
But that enraged residents on the block. Menachem Ungar, an Orthodox Jew who lives a half-block from the mikvah, called Giuliani's weekly radio show to complain. The mayor, in the thick of his reelection campaign, responded that the meters seemed unusual.
No meters were installed last year. But the poles stayed.
Until last month, when residents awoke on March 26 to find 14 meters on the block.
The meters' hours of operation were unusual: 5 p.m. to 11 p.m., except Friday and Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath, when driving is forbidden.
Residents were furious, saying they didn't want to come home from work and have to feed meters all night. They hounded the politicians.
Weiner now switched sides, saying the meters were proof of favoritism.
"Show me another place in the city that has such a thing," Ungar agreed. "It's favoritism, no question about it."
That night, a Department of Transportation work crew was back on the block this time to yank the meters out, poles and all. But four were left in front of the mikvah.
"Obviously, it was a rapid decision," DOT spokesman David Billig said. "After careful reevaluation, we realized there were other people in the community affected."
Weiner accused Dear of pushing a "bonehead idea." Dear, defending the mikvah owners, shot back that his opponent is "out of touch with the Jewish community."

Shimon Ostreicher involved with Yossi Ungar frauds said...

Kings County Civil Court
Index Number: CV-074438-04/KI
Case Name: INDEPENDENCE COMMUNITY BANK
vs.
ABEC INDUSTRIES, INC.
UNGAR, JOSEPH
OSTREICHER, SIMON
Case Type: Civil
Classification:
Filing Date: 07/07/2004
Disposition Date: 03/10/2007

Kings County Civil Court
Index Number: CV-310285-03/KI
Case Name: LOVEJOY, INC.
vs.
PATRON TRANSMISSION CORP.
UNGAR, JOSEPH
OSTREICHER, SIMON, DBA PATRON TRANSMISSION
Case Type: Civil
Classification:
Filing Date: 10/21/2003
Disposition Date: 03/10/2007

Leib Glanz said...

In honor of Ungar and Kolko who was visiting last Shabbos, I sponsored the kiddush at Weinfeld's shul.

Wickliffe, Ohio said...

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DCGOA_RlajQ/SlCj3Xa7dDI/AAAAAAAADzM/CZ6AhsVMJY4/s1600-h/Telz-feldman.jpg

Why is Telz misinterpreting Rav Elyashev to go to court against the psak beis din?

Frankel's Shul (Youth Division) said...

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/05/us/05prison.html?hp

With More Prisoners Comes a Tide of Troubled Children

NY Times Editorial Board of Putzes said...

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/05/opinion/05sun1.html

They realize that banks cutting interest for losers who bought houses they could never afford isn't enough to prevent foreclosure so they are demanding Obama pull another Marxist stunt and force banks to forgive the principal.

In other words, the bums get the house for basically free.

Selfish putz said...

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/04/business/04nocera.html?em=&pagewanted=print

This article explains how most of Madoff's so-called victims are acting like a bunch of selfish putzes.

NYC Dept of Buildings nails Margo said...

http://a810-bisweb.nyc.gov/bisweb/ActionViolationDisplayServlet?requestid=3&allbin=3127249&allinquirytype=BXS3OCV3&allboroughname=&allstrt=&allnumbhous=&doblowhseno=&dobhighhseno=&allisn=0001422236

555 OCEAN PARKWAY BROOKLYN

BIN: 3127249 Block: 5400 Lot: 76

Issue Date: 04/22/2009

Violation Category: V - DOB VIOLATION - ACTIVE
Violation Type: E - ELEVATOR
Violation Number: 9011/302831 Device No.: 003P7270

steve said...

As I predicted last year, they have started a Pidyon Shvuyim fund for Elior Chen, the monster who is most responsible for the brutal abuse of the Shenbaum children. The 4-year old remains in a vegetative state. There are posters of "Alilas Dam-Blood Libel" going around London. Does it get any sicker than this? First Mondrowitz, then Kolko, and now Chen. Shem Reshaim Yirkav!

http://www.bhol.co.il/forum/topic.asp?cat_id=4&topic_id=2647015&forum_id=771

Margo Resign! said...

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/06/us/06palin.html

At the news conference, Ms. Palin cited numerous reasons for quitting, including more than $500,000 in legal fees that she and her husband, Todd, have incurred because of 15 ethics complaints filed against her during her two and a half years as governor. She said all of the complaints had been dismissed, but she still had to pay lawyers to defend her.

Yankel Applegrad said...

At no time did YTT have an elevator safety violation.

Feuerlöscher said...

PART 1 OF 2
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Most of his sinful life the mobster Yitzchok Feuereisen has been spying on innocent Jewish children fishing out for future blackmailing their and their families harmful personal information for the managing hucksters of Ner Israel Rabbinical College. Yet when I read this past February about a Jewish World Review reporter "Robert Feuereisen" who was detained by the Secret Service for climbing over the media cordon in a frantic attempt to get Obama's autograph I foolishly couldn't even dream up that he and Ner Israel scamp "Yitzchok Feuereisen" were one and the same. I kid you not: recently I had to be at Ner Israel once again and verified this thing!!!

All of us who were at Ner Israel in Baltimore in the 70s knew a sneaky sycophant Yitzchok (Yitzchak) Feuereisen: an "alter bocher" running a "shabbos table" for yeshiva kids. Of course with a "blessing" of the Ner management. Feuereisen then moved in with his spinster sister in NYC but was making a buck as a proprietor of a bus service to Baltimore where he spent weekends. On my visits to Ner Israel after I got married I again always saw that man and his giant "shabbos table" with dozens of high school kids sitting around it. Ner Israel management never raised a finger against this obvious intrusion into THEIR right to coach THEIR kids. Guess why.....

We then knew little of the cover-ups at Ner though we knew that some rebbeim and many guys at the office were not so ehrlich but that's a different story. There were sickening whispers that Feuereisen had orgies with the high school children (Yitzchok Feuereisen was a perpetual "alter bocher" who had his own room in the packed Ner Israel high school dorm where he lived for years up until he was in his 40s!) and we heard that he was in bed with the compulsive liar and pedophile rabbi Moshe Eisemann and also a secret spy of the Ner mesivta principal rabbi Joseph "Yossi" Tendler & Associates and other stuff, but at that time that was weird and unbelievable at least to me.

Feuerlöscher said...

PART 2 OF 2
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Thereabout in the 90s the "alter bocher" Yitzchok Feuereisen at last married a shady Australian woman but continued (and continues now!) with his shabbos-spying&grooming-table: this time both at yeshiva and his newly built lavish mansion located one minute walking distance from the yeshiva dorm. This White House jumping incident first made me think what the hell else we could be expecting from a philanderer who was never able to hold his dick in his pants, who spied on kids wholly screwing their innocent lives and families with his falsified dossiers, who never kept shabbos while hiding behind his "shabbos table": to uncivilly chase after President Obama to fetch his autograph!

Yet I spoke about this stuff with my good buddy who has worked for the military for the past 20 years and knows Feuereisen too. This is what I heard: "Yitzchok (Feuereisen) has always been a bozo racist and sexist. Of course he came up to Mr. President whose skin color he absolutely loathes just because he wanted Obama to remember him and so have a trouble-free access to him or his team in the future. In matter of fact "journalism" is just a cover for Feuereisen: like the "vending machines" he has to let others see that his riches don't appear out of thin air. And yes he is spying: maybe for NIRC, maybe for some intelligence agency, or maybe even for himself: big-time trading of the White House insider secrets to the Mafia or fat cats of Big Business."

There is something spooky that for more than 10 years that Feuereisen was a JWR reporter at the White House (JWR editor is one more Ner affiliate Binyamin Jolkovsky) no pieces of writing came out in print under the name "Robert Feuereisen"!!! So what was he actually doing at the White House all that years, how did he even get into the White House??? For Feuereisen spying on powerless yeshiva kids was NOT enough, molesting kids at the dorm was NOT enough, covering up for super bastards was NOT enough: Ner Israel has to have their FBI man inside the White House!

NOBODY DARES TO SAY IT SO I WILL: IF YOU STILL HAVE A CHILD AT NER ISRAEL TELL HIM TO STAY AWAY FROM THE DANGEROUS PHONY RABBI YITZCHOK ROBERT FEUEREISEN AND HIS "FREE" COKE AND CAKE: UNLESS YOU WANT TO FIND OUT FOR YOURSELF WHAT IN REALITY THE WORD "FREE" MEANS AT NER ISRAEL!!!

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