THE MASSES ARE ASSES!
CHEVRAH ALZHEIMERS!
Which street-corner, soapbox preacher did you hear this ignorant blather from? Berel Wein, Yissocher Frand, Noah Weinberg, Mattisyahu Salomon, Paysach Krohn? Did they stand there playing the accordion with a monkey and a tin cup - when they told you this garbage? Did you ever hear it from an honest Jew - who does not make a living off this nonsense? A person with integrity and depth? A person who truly understands - that is exactly how you are suppose to judge Judaism?How else do you judge anything - if not by what the results are! It either works - or it does not! And if it does not - you need to fix it by throwing out the idiots that are responsible for the deranged state of Orthodox Judaism --- calling themselves Jewish leaders!
ORTHODOX JUDAISM IS BROKEN! DOES ANYBODY HEAR ME? YOU CAN'T HAVE CHILD RAPISTS AND ALL THEIR RABBI ENABLERS --- GETTING A FREE PASS TO RAPE OUR KIDS, PHYSICALLY, SPIRITUALLY AND EMOTIONALLY, AND SCAR THEM FOR LIFE ---- FROM THE RABBIS - WHO PROTECT THEM AND COVER FOR THEM - AND CLAIM JUDAISM --- AS PRACTICED TODAY - IS THE REAL McCOY!
The "virus" of fraud, deceit and outlandish corruption that has so infected the world at large, has crept in -- and malignantly spread to every facet of the Jewish world . It is a virus that can't be cured by traditional doses of tefillah, tehillim, tzeddaka or learning more Torah.
Torah Temimah --- the "school" (not a yeshiva) that permitted and sanctioned Kolko's behavior, has began a fund-raising campaign --- claiming their broke! Any idiot that gives a dime to these menuvalim should be ridiculed publicly! Any parent that sends their child back to this concentration camp called Torah Temimah, where child-rape is no big deal, should be stoned! It's time for the community to shout out in no uncertain terms - WE'VE HAD IT - THIS SCHOOL CAN NOT BE PERMITTED TO REMAIN OPEN!
Welcome home to all the idiots from the hotels - rabbis - shysters in residence - free-loaders - included,--- who probably ate their way to illness! Welcome back to the real world - where you must deal with the ugliness that you stare in the face! Is this the Yiddishkeit you want to pass along to the next generations? We're now auctioning off brachas from the chevrah Alzheimers? Is that believable how low we've sunk?
For three years now I've been "screaming" at the top of my lungs --- we're sick --- we're in serious trouble! --- WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE? Ate some sushi in Arizona? Did you book next year already? Z'man Cheiruteinu??? We've never been more enslaved to our desires and indifference since "Chet Ha'Egel Hazahav! Who are we? ----- What do we stand for?----- What meaning do our lives have? When children and morality are sacrificed in the name of daat Torah -- IT'S THE END OF CIVILIZATION!
How else are we to judge Judaism --- by the Catholics? Of course - you judge Judaism by the Jews, their actions and their "leaders" --- and it's rotten to the core, at it's core....and you put on ten pounds over Pesach eating yourselves sick! Pathetic!
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«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 253 of 253There is a "Beth Abraham" shul on the corner of Cortelyou & East 2nd. The rov there used to be an alter Litvak who learned in Kletzk or the like. I don't think that shul has their own mikva though.
You left out 2 lines from the article with Silbermintz in Arizona:
"He was at the Biltmore with his wife, who taught Israeli dancing and CPR during the week, and his three sons, two who worked as mashgichim and one as a camp counselor"
After fressing azoi goot from the supervised food and then trying to dance, I can definitely see why CPR would be needed.
In additon to the resort cost, let's not forget transporation!
I'm calling them now, I'll be the resident instructor on Internet usage - featuring how to navigate OUJ's website. Maybe I can get some free fress!
Maybe the Baltimore reader can tell us if Yona Weinberg is related to the Ner Yisroel clan.
What block is Rav Oshry's shul on?
Pesach in Arizona is way too blah. You don't get all those scantily clad women on the beach like by us.
Do you mean that Weinberg works at the local clinic here? Tel# for the Interborough Clinic in CH is 718-778-1375.
That's right, Acapulco. There's still se'orr sheba'issah no matter how much shmurah matzoh you fress!
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http://www2.nysun.com/pf.php?id=75844&v=1946100121
Almost 200 rabbis and Jewish leaders signed on to a statement issued last week arguing that the Beijing Games "are not kosher" because of China's "complicity in severe human rights abuses abroad and at home."
The statement, which was circulated by two Orthodox rabbis, Irving Greenberg and Haskel Lookstein, won the endorsement of the American Jewish Congress.
"There are a lot of bad things about China, but we don't think targeting a superpower as an enemy of human rights is what a group of rabbis ought to be doing," Rabbi Avi Shafran of Agudath Israel said. "Anytime a superpower is challenged by a country or an ethnic group and painted with a broad brush, it always carries the potential for negative repercussions, political, re: Israel, or economic, vis-à-vis business."
Too much $$ MONEY $$ to give up!
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1209627009745&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FPrinter
The Orthodox Union and Agudath Israel, the two largest Orthodox organizations in the US, rejected a call last week by more liberal-minded Jewish leaders to boycott the Beijing 2008 Olympics.
In separate statements, the OU and Agudath Israel, who represent more conservative political and religious views within American Orthodoxy, expressed concern that a Jewish-led boycott against China would do more harm than good.
China's human rights violations are well documented. The Chinese provide essential aid to Sudan, where government-allied militias have murdered hundreds of thousands of civilians in the civil war in the Darfur region.
The country has also cracked down viciously on independence movements in Tibet, and has been involved in involuntary organ harvesting among political and religious dissidents and criminals. It has also cultivated ties with Hamas.
"We at Agudath Israel of America understand the motivation behind the effort," read one statement. "We, too, are deeply concerned about reports of human rights violations in China. We believe, however, that it is presumptuous, and perhaps even counterproductive, for a group of private citizens to urge a boycott of the Beijing Olympics - and to direct their appeal specifically at members of the Jewish community."
The OU issued a similar statement: "Jewish law indeed teaches that the preservation and saving of human lives is of paramount value. But Jewish law cautions that we must act with exceptional care lest we cause more harm than good. The leadership of the Orthodox Union believes such exceptional care is demanded in these circumstances with regard to relations with the Chinese government."
The OU and Agudath Israel were responding to an appeal issued by 185 Jewish leaders - mostly rabbis - who called on Jews not to attend the Beijing Olympics as tourists.
The appeal, narrowly directed at only potential Jewish tourists, was carefully worded to avoid harming the interests of athletes or Israel. It is limited to tourism surrounding the Olympics and does not target all business and diplomatic dealings with China.
The appeal coincided with Holocaust Remembrance Day, and drew parallels between China's attempts to use the Olympics ceremonies to cover up human rights abuses and Nazi Germany's attempts to do the same at the Munich 1936 Olympics.
These parallels were rejected by the OU and Agudath Israel, as well as the Anti-Defamation League, as "inappropriate".
"We believe that these comparisons are inappropriate," read an ADL press release. "China is a complicated society that is changing and opening up in many ways, and one simply cannot equate the Beijing Olympics with those games in Nazi Germany on the eve of the Holocaust."
Two more liberal-leaning Orthodox rabbis, Haskel Lookstein, head of Manhattan's Kehilath Jeshurun synagogue, and Irving "Yitz" Greenberg, the former chairman of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum Council, were instrumental in organizing the appeal.
Greenberg and Lookstein recruited other Orthodox leaders, including Rabbi Norman Lamm, the chancellor of Yeshiva University; Rabbi Dov Linzer, the dean of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, a rabbinical school in New York City; and David Bernstein, the dean of the Pardes Institute for Jewish Studies in Jerusalem.
"I don't think people should spend their discretionary time or funds in support of an activity which serves to give legitimacy to a government which is doing some terrible things," Lookstein said.
Cuomo seeks another $90 million in damages because the fraud was intentional.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/02/nyregion/02health.html
May 2, 2008
Home Care Company’s Chief Is Accused of Grand Larceny
By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE
ALBANY — The president of a Brooklyn-based home health care company was indicted Thursday on charges that his company employed more than 1,000 aides who lacked proper training. The case is the most significant brought by Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo in his investigation of the home health care industry.
According to prosecutors, the company, which operated as Nursing Personnel Home Care, coordinated with corrupt training programs to certify prospective aides without requiring them to complete required training, then hired them out to Medicaid patients throughout the New York City region.
Both the company and its president, Walter Greenfeld, are charged with first-degree grand larceny and offering a false instrument for filing.
Mr. Cuomo also filed a civil lawsuit against the company and its shareholders to recover what he said was more than $30 million in improperly billed Medicaid funds, the largest amount his office has tried to recover from any such agency. In addition to Mr. Greenfeld, the suit names the principal owner, Isaac Schwartz, and others associated with the company. Both the criminal indictment and the civil lawsuit were filed in State Supreme Court in Brooklyn.
“Companies in this industry have a moral and legal obligation to ensure that their employees are qualified to provide this care, and not use it as a vehicle for personal profit off the taxpayers,” Mr. Cuomo said in a statement.
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/nassau/ny-limedi025670626may02,0,5466095,print.story
Greenfeld, who lives in Brooklyn, was arraigned yesterday in Kings County Supreme Court on charges of grand larceny and offering a false instrument for filing. Though prosecutors sought $500,000 bail, he was released without bond, his attorney said.
http://www.nursingpersonnel.com/contact.html
I am vorking for da company of Greenfeld & Shvartz. Vee are based in Villiamsburg.
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I don't know, Ich hub nisht any "in" at Ner, I left Ner to earn parnossa a long time ago. Besides, we in the city still have the Tendler shuckling away in various shuls here.
Tell Greenfeld & Schwartz to take a hike. It's getting too crowded in Otisville.
http://www.1010wins.com/pages/2050247.php?
A Manhattan Diamond District dealer is facing criminal charges after business associates accused him of stealing about $3.4 million worth of stones.
Alfred Avi Taub said in a police complaint in June that a mugger with pepper spray stole over $1 million worth of diamonds from him. But 45 dealers who consigned jewels to him claimed in a lawsuit that Taub is the thief -- and that the value of the missing merchandise is even bigger.
Taub, 29, of Long Beach, Long Island, pleaded not guilty Tuesday to grand larceny, insurance fraud and other charges in Manhattan court. Acting State Supreme Court Justice A. Kirke Bartley ordered him held on $100,000 bail.
Taub told Fifth Precinct police on June 13 that he had been visiting jewelry stores in Chinatown and carrying more than $1 million worth of diamonds in a leather bag, said Barbara Thompson, spokeswoman for the Manhattan district attorney's office. Taub said someone came up behind him, squirted pepper spray in his face and snatched the bag. He said he never saw his attacker.
Taub filed an insurance claim for the loss, which he said was far more than the policy's $100,000 limit, Thompson said. Taub gave police and his insurance company consignment memoranda that he said verified the stolen diamonds' value.
On June 27, two weeks after the purported robbery, detectives with a search warrant went to the home of Taub's parents. When they entered, they saw Taub run through the house and into a bedroom closet, Thompson said.
In the closet, Thompson said, detectives found four diamonds and more than $12,000 cash. She said that in another part of the house, detectives found four other diamonds, two of them stones Taub had reported stolen that matched descriptions in consignment memoranda he gave to police and his insurer.
Meanwhile, Taub and his father, Shalom S. Taub, were sued by the 45 dealers who had given them stones on consignment. The two ran A. Taub Diamond Corp. from April 2006 until June 2007 when they abandoned their office on Manhattan's West 47th Street diamond district and vanished, court papers said.
In court Tuesday, Assistant District Attorney Hope Korenstein told the judge that Taub fled to Israel after taking 70 diamonds from the 45 dealers. She argued he was a flight risk.
But defense lawyer James Roth said Taub had returned to the United States voluntarily.
``He's not running away from this case,'' he told the judge.
The dealers' court papers said the Taubs got their hands on the large number of diamonds by carefully building trust in the industry during the preceding year.
That lawsuit is still pending.
http://www.idexonline.com/portal_FullNews.asp?id=30142
Alfred Avi Taub, 29, who was accused by more than 45 diamond dealers in New York of taking more than $3.3 million in diamonds on consignment and not returning them, has been arrested and indicted.
Taub was ordered held on $100,000 bond on charges of grand larceny and insurance fraud, the New York Post reported Wednesday.
He was arrested after allegedly finding some of the diamonds he reported stolen to an insurance company.
Last July Taub, his brother, Oren, his father, Shalom an associate, Shiran Atias, were named in a civil suit by the diamond dealers who accused them of not returning diamonds they had been given on consignment.
Taub reportedly told police and the insurance company that he'd been robbed of $1 million in diamonds while visiting jewelry stores on Canal Street in New York.
A letter from David Rosenberg, president of the Diamond Bourse of the Southeast United States, was posted on the Diamond Information Center Web site on June 20, 2007 seeking “information regarding Avi Taub, his whereabouts or possible reasons for his behavior,” including “the location of the diamonds and who holds them.”
In the letter, he promised that sources would remain confidential and warned that “this fraudulent act has the potential to destroy our trust based business relationships and permanently change the way the diamond industry operates”
Rosenberg told IDEX Online that he is aware of over 60 diamond dealers that gave Taub goods that were not returned.
http://www.forbes.com/2008/05/05/boa-countrywide-mortgages-biz-wall-cx_lm_0505countrywide.html?partner=links
Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis, not one to shy away from a challenge, might be better off dumping his plan to acquire Countrywide Financial.
That's the assessment of a growing number of analysts who say the risks of tens of billions of dollars in new exposure to potentially bad loans, not to mention litigation and an ongoing criminal probe, aren't worth even the rock-bottom $4 billion price Lewis negotiated in January for the biggest independent U.S. mortgage lender
Ronnie Schreiber said...
I sniff in Vegas.
Proof that you don't know RS. Ronnie has his flaws, but anybody who knows him knows that his drug of preference isn't sniffed or snorted.
http://www.nwanews.com/adg/News/224005/
In New York, the state Department of Correctional Services ’ food production center in Rome, N. Y., includes a kosher kitchen certified by the Orthodox Union rabbinical organization that prepares kosher cold cuts and cheese for about 3, 000 inmates statewide, said Erik Kriss, a department spokesman. That food is supplemented with kosher items purchased from vendors, he said. The Greenhaven Correctional Facility about 75 miles north of New York City has its own kosher kitchen that provides food to about 50 inmates at the prison, Kriss said.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hTK533FRIuOvQJ9rSRagDlQxvRjgD908DF180
JERUSALEM (AP) — A rivalry between two of Israel's most famous cantors has spilled over from the exalted world of prayer into allegations of a sexual entrapment plot that includes hidden cameras, a police inquiry and a female private detective hired by one of the men to seduce his adversary.
The saga pits Naftali Herstik, a revered and influential cantor, against his former student, Israel Rand, an up-and-coming talent in the exclusive community of Jewish liturgical singers.
Prosecutors allege Rand tried to topple his one-time mentor in a fit of jealousy that began three years ago at a synagogue in the Hamptons outside New York.
The Justice Ministry said it has prepared an extortion indictment against Rand. He is scheduled to appear soon at a hearing where prosecutors will decide whether to press charges.
A cantor leads Jewish services with traditional melodies and arrangements. Some, such as Herstik and Rand, have obtained celebrity status, recording albums and performing in prestigious symphony halls in Europe and the United States.
Prosecutors believe Rand hired the detective to pose as a musicology student, lure Herstik to a hotel and photograph intimacies. Rand allegedly sent pictures to the Great Synagogue of Jerusalem, where Herstik is the longtime cantor, to get him fired.
In an interview, Herstik said he didn't fall for the scheme. He said he agreed to meet the woman at a Tel Aviv hotel because she said she was interested in classical music. He said he entered her hotel room, noticed hidden cameras and immediately fled.
He has since filed a complaint against Rand and the private investigators he allegedly hired. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld confirmed an investigation was launched, and the Justice Ministry said it would soon decide whether to indict Rand and three others, including the detective.
When reached by The Associated Press, Rand declined to comment, saying "I don't want to talk about it." The Haaretz newspaper published what it said was a transcript of Rand's police statement in which he was quoted as saying he hired the detective to gather information on his rival because "the man has been persecuting and defaming me for years. He has been making up stories about me. In the last two or three years he has harassed me. When they invited me to appear in the Great Synagogue, he prevented it with all sorts of excuses."
The Great Synagogue in central Jerusalem is popular with visiting Jewish dignitaries and often hosts national ceremonies. Worshippers have included presidents and prime ministers.
Herstik was briefly suspended, then reinstated after the synagogue established his innocence.
"Basically, he was entrapped. He is certainly a victim of a bizarre plot and fortunately didn't succumb to the aspirations and goals of the plotters," said Rabbi David Fuld, president of the Great Synagogue's board. "If indeed it was Rand, it brings into question why he would be allowed among civilized Jews."
But Herstik's spokesman, Amir Dan, said the cantor believes the conspiracy ran even deeper and has filed a police complaint against the synagogue's chairman and vice president, accusing them of taking part in a plot to topple him. The vice president's brother runs a cantorial school with Rand that is competing with Herstik for students, Dan said.
The synagogue's director declined to comment on the police complaint and lawsuit.
Herstik has been the Great Synagogue's chief cantor since 1981. He also has performed with the London Festival Orchestra, the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.
The scion of a Hungarian cantorial family, he emerged as a major cantor in the early 1970s at London's Finchley Synagogue. In 1984, he founded the Tel Aviv Cantorial Institute, which has trained many of the world's leading cantors.
One of his students was Rand, who is in his mid-40s and is currently chief cantor at the Great Synagogue of Ramat Gan near Tel Aviv.
Herstik's brother, Natan, said Rand's antagonism toward his former teacher began in 2005, when Rand was dismissed from the Hampton Synagogue and its New York City affiliate, the New York Synagogue, and replaced by Herstik's son, Netanel, an up-and-coming young cantor.
Banks tightening mortgage standards
Fed: Standards on consumer and business loans near historic highs in response to the credit crisis.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Federal Reserve reports that more banks are tightening lending standards on home mortgages, other types of consumer loans and business loans in response to a spreading credit crisis.
The Fed reported Monday that the percentage of banks reporting tighter lending standards was near historic highs for nearly all loan categories.
The survey, conducted in April, found that nearly two-thirds of banks surveyed had tightened lending standards on traditional home mortgages with 15% saying those standards had been tightened considerably.
The current credit crisis began last year with rising defaults in the market for subprime loans, loans extended to borrowers with weak credit histories. Many of those subprime loans were packaged into mortgage-backed securities and sold to investors around the world.
Those investors, however, have pulled back from the subprime market and from other types of credit as losses have soared with the rising mortgage defaults.
As losses have mounted, more and more banks have grown reluctant to make loans and have been tightening up on standards. The Fed has been pumping billions of dollars into the banking system in an effort to encourage banks to keep lending to guard against the threat that the tighter credit could push the country into a deep recession.
The latest Fed survey found that banks tightened their lending standards on not just prime or traditional mortgages, but also on nontraditional mortgages such as "Alt-A" loans given to people who supplied only limited income verification. The survey found that about 32% of the banks responding to the survey had tightened "considerably" their standards for nontraditional mortgages and another 43% had tightened standards in this category "somewhat."
The survey found that only nine banks are currently making loans in the subprime category, and of that group, seven had tightened lending standards either considerably or somewhat.
Diaries show Margo feared getting AIDS in prison By SALAH NASRAWI, Associated Press Writer
Brooklyn, New York - Margo Saddam feared catching AIDS or other diseases during his U.S.-supervised captivity, a leading Arab newspaper said Monday in publishing excerpts of his prison writings.
The London-based Al-Hayated said the comments came in portions of Margo's prison dairies that it obtained from U.S. authorities. The U.S. military confirmed some of the late Ocean Parkway Putz leader's writings had been released.
When Margo Saddam found out his U.S. military guards were also using his laundry line to dry clothes, he wrote that he demanded they stop, according to the excerpts.
"I explained to them that they are young and they could have young people's diseases," Margo wrote. "My main concern was to not catch a venereal disease, an HIV disease, in this place." He said some soldiers ignored his request.
A U.S. military spokesman in Brooklyn, Maj. Matthew Morganstern, declined to describe the writings as a formal diary, but said the former Maran Rosh Hayeshiva produced thousands of pages of writing while in custody.
"The select material that has been previously released was viewed here by Yiddish speakers and reported on accordingly," he said in an e-mail to The Associated Press.
Margo Saddam was captured by Brooklyn soldiers on Dec. 13, 2006, just over eight months after his regime was toppled by a U.S.-led invasion. An Iraqi tribunal convicted him of crimes against humanity and he was hanged at the end of 2006.
In the excerpts,Margo Saddam also described having an intimate relationship with his American doctor woman, and said his English gradually improved by talking to his captors.
"I was speaking it using my hands and signs if I could not find the exact word," he wrote. "But our language (Yiddish) is more beautiful and deeper. Margo also wrote how hard it was to have to ask for things, such as once when he requested a flower.
"It was a serious sacrifice from me to ask for the first time in my life," he wrote.
Al-Hayated also published excerpts from what it described as poetry written by Saddam in his prison.
In April 2004, the world had the first glimpses of Margo's cell when two newspapers printed pictures of him emerging from the bathroom in his underwear after washing clothes. The Sun in London and the New York Post said the pictures were provided by U.S. military sources to "undermine the Jewish rebellion."
"The synagogue's director declined to comment on the police complaint and lawsuit."
That would be accused molester Rabbi George Finkelstein, formerly of YU. The Great Synagogue did nothing when UOJ told them to get rid of him.
Payback for Finkelstein = Herstik affairs
http://www.legalnewsline.com/news/211578-bill-would-allow-fla.-child-porn-victims-to-sue-for-150k--per-image
by Lin Young
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Legal Newsline) -Florida victims of child pornography will be able to sue for no less than $150,000 per incident, under legislation championed by Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum.
McCollum applauded the passage of the Exploited Children's Rights Act by members of the Florida state Legislature late Monday.
Child pornography has reportedly become one of the fastest growing Internet-based businesses estimated to bring in billions of dollars a year, experts say.
The landmark legislation McCollum championed entitles victims of Florida-based child pornography to sue for no less than $150,000 per incident from individuals who transmit or merely download images of sexual abuse of a child.
Applegrad tried to get Kolko into my hotel but we were already fully booked with all the other fressers. Maybe he went to Chevrah Chazerim?
Parsha Summary
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Parshas Emor
Summary of The Weekly Torah Reading:
BY RABBI ARON TENDLER
Note: The Shabbos Torah Reading is divided into 7 sections. Each section is called an Aliya [literally: Go up] since for each Aliya, one person "goes up" to make a bracha [blessing] on the Torah Reading.
1st Aliya: Specific restrictions for Kohanim and the Kohain Gadol pertaining to marriages, sexuality, and mourning.
2nd Aliya: Laws pertaining to physical blemishes of the Kohanim and who can and can not eat from the priestly gifts.
3rd Aliya: Laws defining what constitutes an acceptable and unacceptable blemish on an animal designated to be a Korban.
4th Aliya: The establishment of Shabbos, Pesach, the Omer, the counting of the Omer and Shavuoth.
5th Aliya: The establishment of Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur.
6th Aliya: The establishment of Sukkoth.
7th Aliya: Laws of the Ner Tamid, the Showbread, the incident with the Blasphemer, and the penalties for Blasphemy.
Summary of The Haftorah:
Haftorah Emor
Yechezkel 44:15
This week's Haftorah is among the prophecies of Yechezkel describing the third Bais Hamikdash. Yechezkel's prophesized after the destruction of the first Bais Hamikdash in the year 3352-410 b.c.e.
In the Haftorah, Yechezkel instructed the Kohanim in their unique laws. It relates to this week's Parsha which also details many of the laws imposed specifically on the Kohanim.
Parsha Summary, Copyright by Rabbi Aron Tendler and Torah.org.
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For the umpteenth time, that is a different Aron Tendler.
Hamodia Hypocrisy!!!
We all know that the editors of Hamodia will never print any negative stories regarding crime and corruption in the frum community. That's why you will never see an article there about Mondrowitz, Kolko or any other sexual predator. Nor will you find any articles about the Spinka case or any other financial shenanigans that take place. Nor will you ever read anything negative about Rubashkin and the several scandals surrounding them. The perception they like to give is that they are a positive, family oriented frum newspaper that is always dan lkaf zchus.
That's why in today's paper you will not find any mention of this Weinberg fellow who was arrested last night on child molestation charges. However, on page 11 of today's paper there is an article about a certain IDF rabbi who is accused by Hamodia of being mechalel Shabbos. What were the circumstances? In turns out the rabbi was with a platoon in the border town of Yerucham on Shabbos Erev Pesach. That day at the nearby border crossing of Kerem Shalom, Hamas terrorists attacked the troops stationed there by blowing up two jeeps. In all 13 IDF troops were wounded in the attack. Upon hearing the news and fearing the worst, this IDF rabbi got into a jeep and drove to the attack site. The Hamodia article blasts the rabbi, claiming that his presence was not needed at the site. It goes on to further condemn him for returning to his platoon on Shabbos in order to conduct the Seder that night. When the Hamodia asked the rabbi to explain his actions, he refused saying that he "owes the newspaper nothing." The article lists the full name of the rabbi and calls his actions a "public chillul shabbos".
So a rabbi who's in a war situation where there is pikuach nefashos involved is villified, while rabbis that commit the ulitimate crimes and sins along with major chillul hashem get a free pass. That is what they call balanced and unbiased reporting at Hamodia- all the news that they see as fit to print.
http://www.legalnewsline.com/news/211866-dann-admits-affair-with-staffer-refuses-to-resign
COLUMBUS, Ohio (Legal Newsline) - Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann says he has no plans to step down despite a report Friday criticizing his leadership and admitting that he had an extra-marital affair with a subordinate.
"I have not conducted myself in a way that is consistent with my values as a husband, a father and my responsibilities as attorney general," the Democratic attorney general said at a news conference Friday.
"In a difficult time in my marriage, I got involved in a romantic relationship with a member of my staff. That conduct was intrinsically wrong," the 46-year-old Democrat said.
Dann, a former state senator who was elected attorney general in 2006, said he was surprised that he was elected as attorney general and conceded that he "was not as well prepared for the office as I should have been."
He admitted to the affair on Friday morning, after the release of a 57-page report substantiating allegations of sexual harassment against Dann aide and friend Anthony Gutierrez.
The report found that: "Management employees encouraged and tolerated a workplace atmosphere of frequent profanity, extremely casual and improper personal interactions with subordinates and a general lack of professionalism and respect."
On the heels of the scathing report, Gutierrez and the attorney general's communications director Leo Jennings III were fired for trying to coax an assistant attorney general to lie to investigators, while Dann's chief of staff, Edgar Simpson, was forced to resign.
Dann had the affair with Jessica Utovich, 28, who voluntarily resigned her position as AG office's travel coordinator.
The report also found that Dann "exercised poor judgment by engaging in and permitting (employee) Cindy Stankoski to come to his home for drinks and pizza."
The report continued that, "When it was obvious that she was intoxicated, arrangements should have been made to have her escorted home in a safe manner."
Among those who have called on Dann to step down is Kevin DeWine, deputy chairman of the Ohio Republican Party, who said the attorney general allows an immoral and unethical atmosphere to thrive under his watch.
"He turned the attorney general's office into a raunchy frat pad, lied to the press, and lied to his own investigator," Dewine said.
"It's simply not acceptable that everyone but Dann himself will be held accountable. I'm confident the voters will terminate Mr. Dann's employment at the end of his disgraceful term if he does not do so himself sooner," he added.
From Legal Newsline: Reach reporter Chris Rizo by e-mail at chrisrizo@legalnewsline.com.
Doubts Raised on Big Backers of Mortgages
By CHARLES DUHIGG
Published: May 6, 2008
As home prices continue their free fall and banks shy away from lending, Washington officials have increasingly relied on two giant mortgage companies — Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — to keep the housing market afloat.
But with mortgage defaults and foreclosures rising, Bush administration officials, regulators and lawmakers are nervously asking whether these two companies, would-be saviors of the housing market, will soon need saving themselves.
The companies, which say fears that they might falter are baseless, have recently received broad new powers and billions of dollars of investing authority from the federal government. And as Wall Street all but abandons the mortgage business, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac now overwhelmingly dominate it, handling more than 80 percent of all mortgages bought by investors in the first quarter of this year. That is more than double their market share in 2006.
But some financial experts worry that the companies are dangerously close to the edge, especially if home prices go through another steep decline. Their combined cushion of $83 billion — the capital that their regulator requires them to hold — underpins a colossal $5 trillion in debt and other financial commitments.
The companies, which were created by Congress but are owned by investors, suffered more than $9 billion in mortgage-related losses last year, and analysts expect those losses to grow this year. Fannie Mae is to release its latest financial results on Tuesday and Freddie Mac is to report earnings next week.
The companies are sitting on as much as $19 billion in additional losses that they have not yet fully acknowledged, analysts say. If either company stumbled, the mortgage business could lose its only lubricant, potentially causing the housing market to plummet and the credit markets to freeze up completely.
And if Fannie or Freddie fail, taxpayers would probably have to bail them out at a staggering cost.
http://web.israelinsider.com/Views/12821.htm
Rabbi Avi Shafran is director of public affairs for Agudath Israel of America. This article appears courtesy of Am Echad Resources.
shafran@agudathisrael.org
I spent my childhood in a racially mixed neighborhood; one of my best friends was a black boy a bit older than I. Junie and I would wrestle, play ball and ride our bikes on the rocky hills near where we lived in Baltimore. We had "kid to kid" conversations, too. He learned a lot about how religious Jews lived, and I learned things from him too. (Quite the critical thinker, he once knit his brow when we passed a local synagogue advertising the availability of High Holiday seats for purchase, and asked me incredulously, "You gotta PAY to PRAY?" It was a good point.)
Another black presence in my formative years was Lucille, our "cleaning lady." She would come to my parents' modest home once or twice a week and help my mother with ironing and housekeeping. We children, following our parents' example, always treated Lucille with great respect, and, not to be clichי, she really was in many ways part of the family. My mother, may her memory be a blessing, would serve her lunch each day she came. And when Lucille grew older and unable to do any real work, my mother, mindful of our housekeeper's financial neediness, made a point of continuing her "employment," having her come over and wipe off a counter or two, so that she could be given her wages -- and lunch, of course -- as compensation, not charity.
Then there was Dhanna, the librarian in Providence, where my wife and I raised our children, who was so kind to them during their frequent visits to the public library, always smiling at them, helping them find what they were looking for and proudly placing the artwork they produced for her on her desk for all to see. And Desi, our own young daughters' friend from those years, who became quite conversant with the laws of kashrut and Shabbat.
To be sure, I have had unpleasant encounters with blacks. Like in my youth, when a group of boys who had asked my classmates and me to join our baseball game, once at bat, decided to turn the Louisville Sluggers on us. Or the "Heil Hitler" that one teenager delighted in shouting at my father and me when we walked to the synagogue. Even today, I come across the occasional anti-Semite of color.
But more than the occasional pale-faced one too. There are good and bad people in every population. Mindful of the Talmudic imperative to judge "all men favorably" (Avot 1:6), I have never measured any human being by any yardstick other than his own words or deeds. And my wife and I always sought -- and I think successfully -- to instill that attitude in our children.
Mere months ago, I would have imagined that preachers in black churches speak to their flocks about serving G-d and living moral lives, about humility, self-respect and love. And maybe most do. But the current presidential campaign's sideshow of "Wright stuff" has been sadly educational. If even a minority of black church leaders are of the Trinity mold (both the word's senses intended), feeding their congregants the sweet poison of suspicion and hatred, the dream of a truly color-blind society will have been set back a century -- even if an African-American is elected to the very highest office in the land.
And, of course, as elsewhere in the world, the general anti-American and anti-white ravings of black religious leaders like Wright and Farrakhan exhibit an undercurrent of anti-Israel sentiment -- today's "respectable" proxy for anti-Semitism. The latter famously sneered at Israel's "dirty religion" (he meant Zionism, he later clarified helpfully). And the former, pairing Israel with South Africa, charged that both countries "worked on an ethnic bomb that killed Blacks and Arabs."
I can't imagine Junie or Dhanna or Desi sitting through such tripe. What anguishes me is that, for all I know, their children or grandchildren may be.
http://www2.nysun.com/pf.php?id=75269&v=8406400121
President Bush will highlight the increasing alarm over the plight of the nation's inner-city Catholic schools today with a summit at the White House.
Several New York City education leaders will be in attendance, including the general counsel of a Jewish advocacy group, David Zwiebel of Agudath Israel of America; a former Democratic congressman of Queens, the Reverend Floyd Flake, and a professor of public policy, Joseph Viteritti, who directs the graduate program in urban affairs at Hunter College.
http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2008/05/vito-fossellas-life-sucks-right-now.php
It's been four days since Republican Congressman Vito Fossella was arrested for drunk driving and it's beginning to look like he's got bigger, blonder problems on his hands. Not only is the Staten Island pol facing a possible five days in jail and calls for his resignation, but a New York City tabloid is on his tail and it smells affair.
The Daily News tracked down Fossella's "friend" Laura Fay, who he called to pick him up from jail, but was unable to get comment from the blonde 45-year-old. Or from her ex-husband. Or his mom. What it did get, though, was a reaction from D.C. insiders wondering why Fosella would call Fay when his chief of staff lives just as far away from the jail as she does. The most important question of all—are they more than friends?—remains unanswered. But the evidence (she's a blonde divorcee, he's a married Republican who makes bad decisions) says something.
Not that a "mystery woman" is the most of Fossella's worries. He's also got a potential jail stint to deal with, watchdog groups barking down his neck for spending campaign cash to hire a "damage control expert," and Staten Island Advance columnist Cormac Gordon wondering "What's Vito done for us?"
http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2022604/From-Ethiopia-to-Estonia-From-Pulpit-to-Potatoes-Chabad-Students-Toil-for-the-Seder.html
Last year, in Accra, Ghana, two of them helped Pinchas Ben Elazar HaCohen put on tefillin. A Holocaust survivor living in Israel, HaCohen lost his only daughter in a bus bombing and his wife to a heart attack a few weeks later. He had severed all his ties to Judaism save one: putting on tefillin. But that morning, HaCohen had left his tefillin behind.
In Nigeria, last year, Rabbi Yaacov Behrman, 25, was shopping for vegetables in a bustling marketplace. A young woman stopped to ask a very technical question regarding the use of new dishes in a kosher home. Startled, because the question went well beyond the usual beginner repertoire, Behrman asked about her story. A divorcee from Bnei Brak, Israel, the woman had married a Nigerian but was raising her children as Jews. Behrman helped her hang up mezuzahs and brought her a package of frozen kosher meat.
if they make a big deal about taub stealing diamonds they should go after little shorty but BIG GANEV potchie lipshitz from frankel shul too
A major development is expected Tuesday in the criminal probe against Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
The media has quoted senior law enforcement officials as saying that this affair is likely to remove him from office.
While the nature of the development cannot be revealed due to a court-imposed gag order, law enforcement sources on Monday said it may lead to an indictment against the prime minister.
They added that the former head of the Prime Minister's Office under Olmert, Shula Zaken, may be indicted for similar charges. Zaken is currently under house arrest.
When the story first broke last week, Channel 1 quoted a senior legal source as saying, "Olmert is in a grave situation. It is doubtful whether he will be able to continue to hold his position."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/980601.html
The first Vishnitz vs. the original Vishnitz
By Yair Ettinger
http://yudelstake.blogspot.com/2008/05/hospital-kosher-certified-cafeterias.html
Some of the comments on this blog are schocking! Anyone familliar with the WEILER Hospital in the Bronx Re: the kosher cafeteria?
We would like to hear your experiences with the cafeterias & the kosher hospital food.
Anonymous said...
Hamyvin yovin about the kashrus horrors at Maimonides Hospital in Boro Park. Even after a complaint was made to NY State kashrus enforcement, it's not clear if all the problems were fixed. The chutzpa of the Hivnover Rov that he called it "mehadrin" when it was taaruvas basar becholov of ben yomo. He used the kula that a yoledes is allowed to eat treif. What about everyone else eating there?
Anonymous said...
I'M A MEDICAL STUDENT IN AECOM IN THE BRONX, THE COLLEGE CAMPUS HAS 2 CAFETERIAS, ONE ON CAMPUS AT THE MAZER BLDG AND ONE RIGHT NEXT DOOR AT WEILERS HOSPITAL.
BOTH ARE UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF THE OU. AT THE MAZER CAFETERIA THERE IS A HIGH PROFILE OF NOTICED SUPERVISION WHICH MAKES MOST OF THE "FRUM" STUDENTS AND DOCTORS COMFORTABLE EATING THERE. ANYTIME THERE IS A QUESTION THE MASHGIACH IS ALWAYS AVAILABLE TO EXPLAIN AND ANSWER ALL QUERIES.
AT THE WEILER CAFETERIA ITS VERY DIFFICULT TO NOTICE ANY SIGNS OF HASHGOCHA, AND THEY ARE ALWAYS PUSHING OFF THE QUESTION TO THE HEAD SUPERVISOR IF YOU CAN GET A HOLD OF HIM.
I DON'T REALLY BELIEVE THAT THE OU HAS 2 STANDARDS. COLD YOU SHEDSOME LIGHT ON THIS MATTER
Anonymous said...
Perhaps the younger readers know if the situation has improved in the YU cafeteria.
20 years ago, students who didn't care much for kashrus would put whatever they wanted in the microwave, creating a taaruvas basar becholov. Some may have even warmed non-kosher food. When a frummer student would put up a sign warning the microwave is treif, the signs would be torn down almost immediately.
Who is responsible for the kashrus?
Anonymous said...
How many hospitals are using Rubashkin?
http://yudelstake.blogspot.com/2008/05/hospital-kosher-certified-cafeterias.html?showComment=1210022340000#c1526001216722147793
Anonymous said...
I have information from inside the OU about Manhattan restaurants. My source tells me he could get in trouble for "leaking" this poshutta info that is against the OU's Iron Curtain policy.
The Prime Grill has long been receiving Alle meats & Kiryas Yoel chickens. They are the same owner as Solo and use the same provision orders.
Talia's Steakhouse on the Upper West Side is using Rubashkin.
http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/brooklyn/2008/04/29/2008-04-29_new_hollywood_film_immortalizes_gravesen-1.html
Among the five or so "Law & Order" episodes that appeared on primetime television last week, one that hit closest to home - for some, at least - involved an investigation into possible pedophilia in Williamsburg's Hasidic community.
Although watching TV is shunned among Satmar Hasidim, it didn't stop one local leader from critiquing the portrayal, to which - no surprise - he gave two thumbs down.
"It was a rerun," sighed Isaac Abraham, who watched the episode from his computer a month or so earlier after someone sent a link for the show to his e-mail account.
In American dollars it's about 3 quarters of a million.
http://www.thejc.com/home.aspx?ParentId=m11&SecId=11&AId=59352&ATypeId=1
Charity told to repay rabbi £322k
11/04/2008
By Simon Rocker
A North London rabbi has won a High Court claim to be repaid more than £322,000 by a strictly Orthodox charity which he says was intended as a loan, not a gift.
Rabbi Moshe Meisels, from Stamford Hill, had sued supporters of the anti-Zionist Satmar Chasidic sect who raised funds for a charity, the Yetev Lev Jerusalem Trust.
On Wednesday, Mr Justice Blake hoped “that the bitter controversy this claim has created within the synagogues of Stamford Hill will now abate”.
Rabbi Meisels, who himself attends a Satmar synagogue in Stamford Hill and is a businessman with 50 UK properties, issued his writ against Menachem Lichtman, currently a trustee of Yetev Lev, and Berish Berger and Solomon Weiss, who were fellow trustees at the time of the transaction.
The dispute came after Rabbi Meisels transferred £322,000 to Yetev Lev in two instalments in December 2004. The transaction was recorded in what the judge called a “hastily written document” in Hebrew drawn up between Rabbi Meisels and Mr Lichtman. The absence of the word for “gift”, matana, was “striking”, the judge said.
A year later, Rabbi Meisels — described by the judge as “a reserved man who would avoid conflict and social turmoil if he could”— approached an American rabbinic court to recover his money, but Mr Lichtman argued that the case should have been heard in a British Beth Din.
Mr Lichtman claimed that the money had been an “outright donation”, but he should have been aware that it was repayable, the judge said.
Between September 2004 and March 2005, the charity’s books showed receipt of £6 million in donations, but by June 2006 its fundraising activities appeared to have wound down, leaving a number of creditors.
Mr Justice Blake said that the fact that the charity had transferred the funds from Rabbi Meisels to Israel “does not make it unjust” that the defendants should have to repay them. “There is no reason, now that its legal obligations have been made clear, that it cannot revive its fundraising activities to meet them,” he remarked.
Although Mr Berger and Mr Weiss were not directly party to the agreement, the judge said, they had relied on Mr Lichtman’s “efforts as fundraiser and director for the trust when it was active, and they must take its failures along with the successes, the rough with the smooth. I imagine that there is an apposite Yiddish phrase.”
Malka Tova bas Chaya
Mother of 5 with yenner machleh
Or the "Heil Hitler" that one teenager delighted in shouting at my father and me when we walked to the synagogue.
Sounds like the wiseass can do with a punch in the mouth.
Also I do not know how you can compare evolution to atomic theory or the theory of relativity.
E=MC squared is a fact. Just ask any Japanese person about it. Also millions of homes are not powered everyday from a theory.
The theory of relativity is a fact. Otherwise interplanetary (space probes) travel would be impossible to negotiate.
It is evident that, like all too many Americans, you have no idea what a scientific "theory" is. It's not a guess or somebody's half-baked idea. A theory in science is a construct that explains a large body of observations. The observations (data) are the "facts" on which the theory stands. Millions of homes are indeed powered by a theory. All of our appliances work on another theory - electromagnetic theory. And when drug companies test new drugs in rats before trying them out on people they are using another theory - evolution. The business of scientists and engineers is to make, refine and use theories. No scientist claims that science is always correct; our theories (unlike
Divine revelations) are always being refined and updated in light of new evidence. The catch is you need empirical evidence. Revelations won't do. And evolution remains the central unifying principle in all of biology regardless of the unwillingess of the Feinsteins of the world to deal with it.
Science and Torah can't conflict because both are true and truth cannot contradict truth. If they appear not to be in sync, either the science is mistaken, our understanding of Torah is incomplete, or both. "Torah is always right, contrary evidence exists, Eliyahu Ha-navi will solve the problem" is a valid approach, though not mine. It becomes unacceptable only when evidence is deliberately withheld from students, which is exactly what happens when pages are torn out of books.
I don't know what you are alluding to with the Ritbaz and a meat freezer, but I know that kosher meat was available, albeit hard to find. My father a"h shlepped to Washington Hts in the '50s for Breuer's hashgaha and my mother (may she live and be well) learned to soak and salt her meat in the '40s because the kosher meat in McKeesport, PA didn't come soaked and salted. I would not have given a dime to Torah V'Daas or any yeshiva that taught in Yiddish, which is precisely why Yeshivah ("H" for Hebrew) of Flatbush was set up in 1927. We used the blue and yellow books of the Biological Science Curriculum Study with every page included; if the limudei kodesh teachers had a problem with it they could and did address it in their classrooms.
http://www.thejc.com/home.aspx?ParentId=m11s18s186&SecId=186&AId=59670&ATypeId=1
Yeshua Stobietsky
68 (New) The low-profile businessman who has built up the UK franchise of Hamodia newspaper from small beginnings to be, in the view of many, the main voice of the strictly Orthodox community. Writing in this month’s 10th-anniversary magazine of British Hamodia, Mr Stobietsky defines its aim as providing “kosher reading for the whole family... It is important that people should see the Charedi world in a positive light”. He is also helping to establish Hamodia in France.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1207649994396&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FPrinter
One of the more urgent matters he has had to deal with is a recent outbreak of measles. About 1,000 cases have been registered, and there is no end in sight. It began in August 2007, after a 22-year-old Satmar hassid from London attended a Jerusalem wedding along with 2,000 others and went to the TEREM urgent care clinic with a rash - one of the usual symptoms. Dr. Brendon Stewart, director of TEREM's Talpiot branch, said the hassid didn't show the oral sores and eye infections that also characterize measles. Stewart remembered reading about a measles outbreak in London a few weeks earlier and realized the hassid was infected. He learned that the man had never been vaccinated against measles and immediately called Dr. Nitza Abramson, the deputy chief district health officer in Jerusalem, who gave him advice. But the ministry did not act immediately to contact Satmar rabbis and synagogues, even though numerous parents in this community refuse to have their children vaccinated against numerous diseases, which they regard as "not serious."
Although the ministry's epidemiology department thought the chain of infections would be halted when haredi children went on their Succot vacation, it continued nevertheless. Months later, a vaccination campaign in the haredi community was launched, but the chain of infection continues, reaching a secular Hebrew University student, hospital personnel, people outside Jerusalem and even airline and bus passengers.
There is still a problem with some haredim. Bnei Brak has a 99% vaccination rate, but in Jerusalem, there are some whole streets where parents have refused vaccination. We tried to use pashkevilim [printed messages hung on walls - the major form of communication in haredi communities] to inform residents of the urgency of vaccinating those who have not received shots. The outbreak will end, but I don't want to predict when."
Asked whether the ministry might offer material incentives, such as a bag of disposable diapers, for bringing children in, Grotto said this was "a good idea that we might consider, even though the Treasury might oppose it."
Rav Dovid Goldwasser in siruv of Crown Heights Bais Din
http://goldwasserstory.blogspot.com
Dear Chicagoans,
We’ve been living in Dallas since the early 90’s. At the time, Dallas was very small, it had Rabbi Fried and DATA (the kollel) but the community was still trying to establish its identity. The Orthodox community had to work hand-in-hand with the Traditional/Conservative movements in order to maintain the harmony. Akiba (day school) was the beacon of Orthodoxy while Yavneh (college prep school) was newer and was trying to establish its direction. It was a very difficult era for Yavneh with constant pressure from the board to move left. The Shaarei Tefilah community was relieved when Yavneh decided to hire a young, energetic rabbi from New York.
From less than a week after signing a binding contractual agreement with Yavneh, until his departure in June 1998 the community was barraged with libelous, slanderous rumors spread by Mr. and Mrs. Finkel and their representatives. These incidents gave the community a glimpse at a completely dysfunctional religious family. This gave the Traditional/Conservative leaning member’s ammunition to use against the schools sense of direction. They jumped right onto how they are concerned about Tikkun Olam and creating peace and harmony while Orthodox parents are trying to destroy their own child’s career. The desecration of God’s holy name caused by this was huge. This was the community’s first encounter with an Orthodox Jew with a criminal mind. As a direct result of Mr. and Mrs. Finkel’s continuous attempts to slander their own child the board decided to change the school’s direction.
Rabbi Motty Finkel was an outstanding role model for our teenagers, community members, and those interested in becoming Jewish. Rabbi and his wife had an open home and inspired many. His individualized approach, creativity and straight talk have kept students contacting him years after graduating.
We are heartsick that eleven years and your father’s kosher scandal haven’t dulled the animosity your family feels towards you. We are appalled by the hatred in the religious community. Rabbi, be strong, we are rooting for you.
We are in awe how you never responded in kind or revealed what caused the tremendous rift.
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I would like to apologize for my diatribe above, it was misdirected at the wrong organizations. Having actually read the press releases, the OU and Agudah are correct in condemming the call. If my previous post could be deleted I would appreciate it
Traumatic genital mutilation of babies is an obscene child sex crime.
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