Another spot-on post by Steve:
"An open letter has been sent from Rabbi Perlow requesting pidyon shvuyim funds for Sholom Rubashkin. After "divining" from the Torah that he must "vigorously" oppose the Child Victims Act which would protect Jewish children from sexual molesters, he has now "divined" that it is important to further support and protect the criminal element amongst us. He has "divined" that we must support the supporters of Chillul Hashem. To borrow Boog's terminology, does it get sicker than this?
This coming Shabbos is called Shabbos Chazon, the Shabbos before Tisha B'Av. It is called that because we read the haftorah of "Chazon Yeshaya" the first chapter of that sefer, where the navi rebukes the leadership of the Jewish people. The navi exhorts the people to do justice and to strengthen the downtrodden. He tells the masses not to follow the corrupt ways of their leaders. For the leaders had become wayward companions of thieves, who love bribes and illegal payments while they refuse to do heed the cause of widows and orphans. The navi commands the people to "Asheru Chamotz", strengthen the victim. The gemara in Sanhedrin further explains "Asheru Chamotz V'Lo Chometz", strengthen the victim, not the perpetrator.(Rashi: Hanigzal V'lo Hagazlan). Rabbi Perlow and the Agudah have followed the example of the leaders at the time of Yeshaya. They have prioritized supporting the criminals while thwarting any type of legislation to help the victims. Do you think Avi Shafran's love letter to Bernie Madoff was just a minor case of brainlock? It had to be sanctioned by the same group of chavrei ganovim!
When you read these words of the haftorah this Shabbos, you will realize why we are still in mourning and why we still have Tisha B'Av. It's time to wake up and face the reality: SARAYICH SORERIM V'CHAVREI GANOVIM!
It's not too late to rise up and say,....
ENOUGH! THESE ARE NOT OUR LEADERS!
THIS IS NOT DAAS TORAH! THIS IS PURE CORRUPTION IN SUPPORT OF MORE CORRUPTION!
Let's rise up and support the victims of child sexual abuse by "vigorously" supporting the Markey bill.
Let's rise up and protect our children from these sexual predators by exposing them, one at a time.
Let's rise up and condemn all types of criminal behavior in our community.
Let's rise up and condemn the rioting and Chillul Hashem that is taking place in Yerushalayim, which is burning yet again.
Let's rise up and condemn the apologetics of Pinny Lipshitz of the Yated who is now heading Rubashkin's pidyon shvuyim fund. The navi Yeshaya is once again calling upon us to act.
Let us listen this time."
"Let us listen this time."
ReplyDeleteAmen Steve, Awesome!
THIS SHOULD BE THE RABBIS' RESPONSE TO MOLESTERS AND OTHER NOTRIOUS CRIMINALS. THEY SHOULD NOT BE GIVING THEM BRACHOS AND SETTING UP PIDYON SHVUYIM FUNDS FOR THEM:
ReplyDeleteJerusalem - Three weeks ago a bochur yeshiva without a drivers' license caused a dreadful car accident on the Ramot Road. Now another bochur was caught with the same irresponsible behavior. In preparation for his trial and out of fear that he might be sentenced to prison, the bochur decided to seek a blessing from Rav Chaim Kanievsky.
After VIN News verified that accuracy of the exchange, we are bringing the recording of the conversation between them as a service for the public:
Bochur: I have a trial in another week. They want to put me in prison. Would the rav please bless me so I'll be saved from it.
Rav Chaim: What is the trial about?
Bochur: They caught me driving without a license, after I crashed into a wall.
Rav Chaim: So you're mamash a murderer! Adaraba, let them put you in prison. Very good.
Bochur (shouts) What? Chalila, I didn't kill anyone. I didn't wound anyone either. I just had a small accident with a wall involving only myself.
Rav Chaim: But you drove without a license, right?
Bochur: Yes.
Rav Chaim: Nu, so you're considered a real murderer. You could have caused an accident with people too.
Bochur: But I know how to drive well. Besides that, [being in prison] might ruin things for me with shidduchim and yeshiva.
Rav Chaim: There's no such things as "I know". Without a license, one doesn't know how to drive. Concerning shidduchim, whoever doesn't want you is right. It's dangerous.
Bochur: I'm mamash sorry. Just let the rav bless me that I be saved in the trial.
Rav Chaim: What do you mean, you're sorry? If you're given a car tomorrow you won't travel? For sure you'll travel. So the best thing is for you to sit in prison and learn not to be a murderer.
Bochur: Please, will the rav promise that I'll be saved if I'll be careful from now on?
Rav Chaim: I can't give a blessing. May Hashem help that they sentence you to what will really be good for you.
Rav Chaim's family says that it's rare that Rav Chaim speaks in such extreme language, but this is how he views a person who is caught breaking traffic rules or who drives without a license. Rav Chaim will refuse to bless him and doesn't hesitate to say that it involves no less than "murder."
It seems to me the core issue going forward is not how many years Rubashkin will sit in jail , but whether the new owners of the Postville plant will abide by the more ethical guidelines in their employment practises and treatment of animals.Kosher meat should not be produced at the expense of migrant workers. The Agudah could win back the hearts and minds of many if they would support the efforts of Hechsher Tzedek and other MO and Conservative groups in demanding higher standards for kashrus. Now in this transition period is the best time to bring about real change and do things right. Part of teshuvah is to accept responsibility for correcting the errors of the past.
ReplyDeleteI realize in the context of this blog the last paragraph sounds hopelessly naive and dreaming of pie in the sky. It is. And that itself is a good part of the problem ...people have become so cynical they have lost hope that moral standards will improve.
Check out Pinny's hopeless drivel. He masterfully denies that a frum person can possibly abuse their child. And, then claims Rubashkin is being treated as badly as the mother in Israel. But, reminds everyone to send checks for Rubashkin to PINNY'S HOME ADDRESS.
ReplyDeleteSteve, great post, as usual.
ReplyDelete"The Agudah could win back the hearts and minds of many if they would support the efforts of Hechsher Tzedek and other MO and Conservative groups in demanding higher standards for kashrus."---Anonymous
The'd close down their little romper room, busted toy organization before they'd approve of something the Modern Orthodox or Conservatives do. So there's no hope of that. My cynicism is not even needed.
And yes, it's time to ignore these men once and for all. They truly are a clueless, bad bunch. There's no other way to understand them.
"July 21, 2009
ReplyDeleteCamp counselor facing sex assault charges also taught at yeshiva
By ZACH PATBERG
TOMS RIVER BUREAU
A camp counselor who police say sexually assaulted a young boy is also a teacher at a private grade school, the yeshiva said Tuesday.
Officials at Yeshiva Orchos Chaim on Oberlin Avenue confirmed that Yosef Kolko taught there during the school season but referred further questions to an attorney, Karl Mohel, who said he would not "confirm or deny anything."
Kolko, 33, was released from jail Monday on $125,000 bail after being charged with aggravated sexual assault, authorities said. The assault occurred within the past year and the victim was under the age of 13, police said. No further details on the case were provided.
Officials at Yachad, the summer camp where Kolko was working, at the Bais Hatorah School on Swarthmore Avenue, did not respond to requests for comment.
No one answered the door at Kolko's house on Gefen Drive Tuesday. A woman answering the phone at Mohel's office said Kolko was to interview with the lawyer on Friday.
Kolko, according to sources and genealogical data, is the nephew of Yehuda Kolko, a Brooklyn rabbi accused of molesting three young students in an explosive case that rocked the Orthodox communities in New York and, in May 2006, was featured in a cover story in New York magazine. Kolko, 63, pleaded guilty last year to endangering the welfare of a child and was sentenced to three years of probation."
WHO POSTED THE $125,000 BAIL?
Me and O.J. Simpson are looking for the real molester. anyone with info contact Uncle Yudi, Johnny Cochran or Lipa Margolis.
ReplyDeleteJWB says:
ReplyDeleteOver the past few days, Rabbi Kolko's nephew has been arrested as has a former student. The former student, Sabo, has made interesting comments regarding Kolko.
Rabbi Kolko has relatives visiting from Israel currently spending a few days in Lakewood, NJ. Their response to all of this? An odd post with the following moral: "Until you know the facts - and most often you will never know the facts - you know nothing."
My response:
We know the facts.
We will shine our light on all the dark corners and expose the predators, the enablers and the protectors.
That's a fact.
JWB says:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.jewishpress.com/pageroute.do/40159
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Just in the last six weeks, OHEL has taken in a number of Jewish children of different ages. Four of these children do not currently reside with long-term and stable foster families.
...
When a Jewish child is removed by the Administration of Child Services (ACS) in New York State, OHEL is the foster care agency that welcomes and cares for such children.
...
JWB says:
ReplyDeleteBreaking News: Another of the Brooklyn 19 pled guilty yesterday to sexual abuse: sexual contact with an individual under 14.
Jewish Press PROVEN wrong, again.
Remember the Jewish Press white-wash?
1) Jewish Press White-Wash of Ickovits case
see: http:/www.jewishpress.com/pageroute.do/38076
...
Regarding that Brooklyn incident where it was reported that a male individual "with a walker" had lured a teenaged girl into his home by asking for her help, this story quickly and quietly disappeared from the media radar screen when it was learned that the so-called perpetrator (a formerly upstanding decent family man and prominent member of the Jewish community) had suffered a stroke a while ago and had been left somewhat physically disabled as well as mentally challenged.
Following this episode, the man's alarmed family members took immediate steps to ensure that he would no longer unwittingly create an embarrassing scene for himself or cause panic and trauma to a hapless victim.
2) Reality - Case of Arye Ickovits
http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/brooklyn/2009/02/28/2009-02-28_abuse_comes_to_light_hasidim_silence_on_-1.html
a. parents went to Rabbis BEFORE the police
b. Ickovits sexually abused the young teen after luring her into his bedroom
c. Ickovits DENIES the abuse in media interviews
JWB says:
ReplyDeleteSchedule of Court Proceedings for the Brooklyn 19.
The Brooklyn 19 refer to 19 felony sexual assault cases pending by the Brooklyn District Attorney in the Orthodox community. Yona Weinberg has an additional court proceedings at this time. In addition to the charges related to child sexual abuse he has been convicted on, Weinberg has been charged with criminal contempt. Jerry Brauner has been charged with new sexual abuse offences of May 9, 2009 and was arrested June 24, 2009.
The confirmed Brooklyn 19 to date:
1) Yona Weinberg (found guilty, awaiting sentencing)
2) Emanuel Yegutkin (trial scheduled)
3) Rabbi Avrohom Mondrowitz (extradition proceedings in Israel)
4) Stephen Colmer (pled guilty and incarcerated - parole hearing 01/2010 )
5) Yakov Kramer (?)
6) Arye Ickovits (pled guilty, awaiting sentencing)
7) Arthur Samet (pending)
8) Moshe Spitzer (trial scheduled)
9) Bernard Mutterperl (found guilty, awaiting sentencing)
10) Rabbi Jerry Brauner (has been charged with new sexual abuse offences)
11) Michael Sabo (pending)
12) Martin Vegh AKA Boorich Mordechai Vegg (convicted and incarcerated - parole hearing 07/2014 )
The unconfirmed:
13) Rabbi Avrohom Reichman (only civil case, is he part of the list?)
14) Rabbi Avraham M. Leizerowitz (only civil case, is he part of the list?)
15) Rabbi Yehuda Kolko (only civil case, criminal case settled with plea agreement, is he part of the list?)
16) The unnamed "well-known" storeowner in Brooklyn who took a kid upstairs for years to his office. The victim, now an adult, was interviewed on Hikind's show.(Is he part of the list?)
JWB says the rest of the scheduled court dates:
ReplyDelete1) July 30, 2009
Arthur Samet
Kings Criminal Court
Docket: 2008KN080814
Criminal Justice Tracking Number: 63248172R
NYSID Number: 9737574P
Arrest Number: K08695605
Judge: McGuire, W
2) August 4, 2009
Bernard Mutterperl
Kings Supreme Court
Docket 04570-2007
Criminal Justice Tracking Number: 59078829P
NYSID Number: 2582374H
Arrest Number: K07643253
Judge: Dimango, P
Tried and found guilty. Adjourned for sentencing - temporary order of protection issued remanded.
3) August 11, 2009
Emanuel Yegutkin
Kings Supreme Court
Docket: 00902-2009
Criminal Justice Tracking Number: 63379546L
NYSID Number: 1601530K
Arrest Number: K09607822
Judge: MCKAY,J K
Trial scheduled. Has pled not guilty
4) August 17, 2009
Moshe Spitzer
Kings Criminal Court
Docket: 2009KN018094
Criminal Justice Tracking Number: 63449911L
NYSID Number: 6889436J
Arrest Number: K09621762
Judge: Walsh, John P.
Trial scheduled. Has pled not guilty.
5) September 9, 2009
Yona Weinberg
b. Kings Supreme Court
Docket 04589-2008
Judge: Reichbach, G
Tried and found guilty. Temporary order of protection issued and bail continued. Sentencing shortly.
6) September 10, 2009 - sentencing
Arye Ickovits
Kings Criminal Court
Docket: 2008KN089893
Criminal Justice Tracking Number: 63302771K
NYSID Number: 179569K
Arrest Number: K08706105
Pled guilty July 21, 2009 to the PL 130.60 02 a misdemeanor, Sx Abse:sx Cntct W/ind<14
Judge: Godosky, D.
7) September 10, 2009
Michael Sabo
Kings Supreme Court
Case # 03880-2009
Criminal Justice Tracking Number: 63565996P
NYSID Number: 8360640J
Judge: Walsh, John P.
8) September 14, 2009
Jerry Brauner
Kings Supreme Court
Docket 01425-2005
Criminal Justice Tracking Number: 58659485K
NYSID Number: 9047326M
Arrest Number: K09659939
Judge: Laporte, E.
9) September 15, 2009
Yona Weinberg
a.Kings Criminal Court
Docket 2008KN044924
Criminal Justice Tracking Number: 63031782R
NYSID Number: 235728Z
Arrest Number: K08654460
Judge: Gubbay, J
Additionally:
1) Incarcerated
Stefan Colmer
Kings Supreme Court
Docket: 04314-2007
Criminal Justice Tracking Number: 59766853Q
NYSID Number: 2696869K
Arrest Number: K08602074
Judge: MURPHY,MARTIN
- convicted
Parole Eligibility Date: 05/08/2010
Conditional Release Date: 09/08/2012
Maximum Expiration Date: 01/08/2015
2) Incarcerated
Martin Vegh AKA Boorich Mordechai Vegg
DIN# 08A6196
- convicted
Parole Eligibility Date: 07/2014
Conditional Release Date:09/18/2014
Maximum Expiration Date: 09/18/2015
3) Yakov Kramer
New York Criminal Court
Docket: 2008NY084614
Criminal Justice Tracking Number: 63273183R
NYSID Number: 302829M
Arrest Number: M08696814
No proceedings scheduled. Anyone know the status of this?
WELLINGTON, New Zealand – Southern New Zealand has moved slightly closer to the east coast of neighboring Australia as a result of a massive earthquake last week off the country's South Island, a scientist said Wednesday.
ReplyDeleteThe magnitude 7.8 quake, centered in the ocean near Resolution Island in the country's Fiordland region, twisted South Island out of shape and moved its southern tip 12 inches (30 centimeters) closer to Australia, seismologist Ken Gledhill said.
http://drybonesblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/obamas-3am-phone-call.html
ReplyDeleteBim Bam, the Obamanible One gets a phone call at 3 am ...
My lawyer is Richard Finkel, the same guy who defends Boro Park child molester Arthur Samet. But what good is he? He couldn't spare my suspension and $10,000 fine.
ReplyDeletehttp://w3.health.state.ny.us/opmc/factions.nsf/0/0f16cf5535107f3b85256a4a0047c956/$FILE/lc154908.pdf
Respondent practices physical medicine and rehabilitation at his office at 1300 Avenue P, Brooklyn, New York 11229.
Respondent has knowingly and intentionally advertised himself as
being Board Certified in Physical Medicine. Such advertising was false and Respondent knew it to be false at the time he did it.
Respondent knowingly and intentionally advertised himself as
being an attending physician at the Hospital for Joint Diseases in
Manhattan. Such advertising was false and Respondent knew it
was false at the time he did it.
Respondent knowingly and intentionally advertised himself as
being an attending physician at Kingsbrook Hospital Medical Center in New York City. Such advertising was false and Respondent knew it was false at the time he did it.
Respondent knowingly and intentionally advertised himself as
being “assistant professor” at Downstate Medical Center. Such
advertising was false and Respondent knew it was false at the
time he did it.
Respondent knowingly and intentionally advertised that he
currently was or had been Director of Rehabilitation at Thomas
Jefferson Home for Adults, Scharf Manor and New Broadview Manor. Such advertising was false and Respondent knew it was false at the time he did it.
Respondent knowingly and intentionally advertised himself as
being a member of the American Congress of Rehabilitation and
American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Such advertising was false and Respondent knew it was false at the time he did it.
Respondent knowingly and intentionally advertised himself as
having graduated from Downstate Medical School with honors. Such advertising was false and Respondent knew it was false at the time he did it.
2 Lawyers Join 2 Rabbis Accused of Tampering
ReplyDeleteNew York Times - July 15, 1999
Two lawyers were charged yesterday in a widening witness-tampering case involving a Brooklyn man accused of raping his daughter.
The lawyers, George Meissner and Richard Finkel, pleaded not guilty to conspiring to intimidate the woman who accused her father of rape. Prosecutors say the lawyers were acting on behalf of a client, Rabbi Bernard Freilich. Rabbi Freilich is one of two rabbis previously charged with threatening to harm the woman, who is 22, if she testified against her father, a member of Borough Park's Orthodox Jewish community.
The father was charged last February with first-degree rape, incest and sexual abuse for attacks that prosecutors say occurred in 1996 and 1997. He was arrested again on April 22 on charges that he violated an order of protection by pounding on his daughter's door and warning her that it would be her last day unless she withdrew her accusations.
An indictment alleges that Mr. Meissner and Mr. Finkel arranged a meeting with the woman in May in which Mr. Meissner told her that if she did not drop her accusations, she ''would be punished for unrelated matters.''
Lawyers charged in probe of rabbis
JTA - August 6, 1999
http://www.jewishsf.com/bk990806/usreport.shtml
NEW YORK (JTA) -- Two lawyers were among those charged last month with conspiring to intimidate a witness in a widening incest-rape case involving two rabbis in Brooklyn.
George Meissner and Richard Finkel previously represented Rabbi Bernard Freilich, who is accused of attempting to prevent a woman from testifying that her father repeatedly raped her when she was a child. Freilich and Rabbi Pinchas Shor pleaded not guilty to separate charges last month.
Rabbi Is Acquitted In Death Threat Case
New York Times - March 7, 2000
A prominent Hasidic rabbi in Brooklyn was acquitted of felony charges yesterday that he had made death threats against a young woman who had accused her father of raping her.
The rabbi, Bernard Freilich, 48, of Borough Park, was charged with witness intimidation and witness tampering last June after prosecutors presented evidence that the rabbi had gone to the woman's home in April and warned her that she would ''end up in the cemetery'' if she testified against her father.
During the jury trial in State Supreme Court in Brooklyn, the prosecutors tried to show that Rabbi Freilich had been close friends with the father of the young woman, who told the Brooklyn district attorney's office that she was raped in 1997. Rabbi Freilich's lawyer, Peter R. Schlam, contended that his client was not friends with the man and thus had no motivation to have threatened her.
Two lawyers, George S. Meissner and Richard Finkel, and three other men continue to face charges of witness tampering; they are suspected of trying to prod the woman's husband into dropping charges. Another rabbi, Pinchas Shor, is facing charges of having threatened the woman. The woman's father is awaiting trial.
by Rebecca Segall
Village Voice - March 15 - 21, 2000
In a dramatic response to Freilich's acquittal, about 2000 Boro Park residents attended a celebration in his honor on Saturday at the Satmar Hasidic shul. On Sunday, the head rabbis of each ultra-Orthodox sect in Boro Park met with Freilich, and in speech after speech referred to him and their community as having survived "persecution and prosecution."
"This is a man with 25 years of service in the public life of Boro Park," Rabbi Glanz told the Voice. "He was instrumental in creating Tomche Shabbos," an organization that feeds thousands of Hasidic families each week.
FUN FACT #1: At his trial, “Rabbi” Freilich admitted under oath that he is not really a Rabbi.
ReplyDeleteFUN FACT #2: In revenge for the Freilich indictment, Dov Hikind endorsed Clarence Norman’s candidate for District Attorney, State Senator John Sampson against Charles “Joe” Hynes. Sampson’s candidacy was widely seen as an effort to get the DA to drop politically related indictments, including Norman’s
JWB says:
ReplyDeleteSeveral rabbis in NJ have just been arrested by federal authorities on corruption charges along with very high level politicians.
Names should be released shortly.
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/07/court_brooklyn_dummy_post.html
JWB says several NJ rabbis were just arrested in political corruption scandal:
ReplyDeleteAgents also raided religious institutions to make arrests and collect information. An employee at the Ohel Yaacob synagogue on Ocean Avenue in Deal said authorities searched the office early this morning.
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/07/nj_officials_ny_rabbis_caught.html
http://www.ytt.edu/
ReplyDeleteYeshiva and Mesivta Torah Temimah is an educational institution that is an exponent of the Orthodox Jewish faith. Our educational philosophy and objectives are essentially functions of a value system that predates modern - and even ancient - history. The philosophical tenets of the school are rooted in the time-honored religio-moral values of Orthodox Judaism as they are refracted through the prism of the contemporary American democratic experience. We subscribe to the belief that scholarship, and indeed the learning process itself, is the sine qua non of our life's calling.
Our overall educational objectives focus primarily on developing the student both as an observant and believing practitioner of the Orthodox Jewish faith and as a budding scholar. Students are expected to be conversant with the classic works of Jewish scholarship, as well as an ethical and moral human being from the unique standpoint of the teachings of Jewish ethics and philosophy. In addition we seek to develop these students as educated individuals, providing them with the primary elements of classical and contemporary secular scholarship, including the sciences, mathematics, language arts and history. In brief, our objective is to develop a scholarly Orthodox Jew, who is at the same time a functioning and productive member of contemporary American democratic society, capable of facing the challenges of the 21st century and of benefiting from the promises of the American workplace and its economic environment.
These objectives are achieved through a combination of classical and contemporary curricula, ethical and moral standards, religious beliefs and practices, all with one goal in mind: empowering our students to function as Orthodox Jews in the American democratic and economic experience.
Is it true, as mentioned on FM, that Gil Student wrote a comment on the Ex-Gadol Hador blog defending Dovid Cohen over his tax evasion remarks?
ReplyDeleteAnd did Gil ever try to cover up for his neighbor Michael Sabo or does he only do that for drug addicts who steal from shuls and yeshivos?
Dovid Bernstein • Matzav.com Newscenter
ReplyDeleteAmerican gedolim have signed a letter written by the Novominsker Rebbe, Rav Yaakov Perlow, Rosh Agudas Yisroel of America, encouraging Yidden to provide financial assistance to R’ Shalom Mordechai Rubashkin.
The letter, which was written on 9 Tammuz by the Novominsker Rebbe himself, was signed by Rav Shmuel Kamenetsky, rosh yeshiva of Philadelphia Yeshiva; the Mattesdorfer Rov, Rav Simcha Bunim Ehrenfeld; and Rav Moshe Wolfson, rov of Bais Medrash Emunas Yisroel of Boro Park and mashgiach of Yeshiva Torah Vodaas.
Shalom Mordechai Rubashkin faces trial in less than two months. Targeted for destruction by PETA and the very unions which have destroyed manufacturing in the country and sent millions of jobs overseas, he will be fighting for his life
Ever [sic] person is entitled to a presumption of innocence and the ability to have their day in court to absolve themselves of the charges being brought against them.
The Rubashkin family company ran an exemplary slaughterhouse which supplied Jews across the country with affordable kosher meat. Today, Shalom Mordechai is unable to afford adequate legal counsel which will be able to prove that he is being railroaded and unfairly scapegoated.
The family is renowned for their many acts of tzedakah and chesed which they conducted while they enjoyed financial success. Now, with their business taken from them and without sufficient income to pay their bills, they turn to fellow Yidden with their hands out asking to rescue their beloved husband, father, son and brother.
Those who can assist should make checks out to Pidyon Shvuyim Fund and mail to Pidyon Shvuyim Fund c/o Pinny Lipschutz, 53 Olympia Lane, Monsey, NY, 10952-2829.
If Yossi Kolko's lawyer is Karl Mohel, I bet he has a partner at his law firm named Wolfgang Metzitza
ReplyDeleteaccording to another report, this putz has also been convicted of shoplifting
ReplyDeleteTop Hadera rabbi's son suspected in deliberate hit-and-run
By Tomer Zarchin and Fadi Eyadat, Haaretz
The Supreme Court will announce its decision Thursday morning in the case of the yeshiva student who deliberately hit Noga Zoraish, a woman of Ethiopian origin, with his car. Wednesday the student's name was released, Itamar Biton, the son of the Sephardi chief rabbi of Hadera, Rabbi Shimon Biton.
Jerusalem District Court Judge Moshe Drori decided last September not to convict Biton, and the Supreme Court heard the state's appeal of the acquittal last week.
"I read the verdict and read it again, and couldn't comprehend how someone like that wasn't convicted. It's inconceivable," Supreme Court Justice Edmond Levy said in reference to the decision. The case has provoked considerable interest, partly because of Drori's candidacy for a Supreme Court seat. For now, he is no longer a candidate due to public pressure in light of the decision.
Zoraish, a supermarket checkout clerk, lay down on the hood of Biton's car when he tried to leave the parking lot without paying the fee. He continued to drive, and Zoraish was thrown off his car. She sustained minor injuries. In Drori's explanation for his failure to convict, he said he did not want to harm the defendant's chances of being appointed a rabbinical court judge.
Rabbi Shimon Biton has served as the chief rabbi of Hadera for more than 30 years. The rabbi is considered Shas' most important figure in the city and is sometimes called the Rabbi Ovadia Yosef of Hadera. "Shas ministers who visit Hadera first come to see him," said one local politician; Emanuel Biton, another of the rabbi's sons, was elected to the city council in the last elections on the Shas slate.
http://www.mishpacha.com/viewpdf/?.pdf
ReplyDeleteThe recent charge against Agriprocessors and the Rubashkin family ... left many wondering about the silence of the frum organizations.
(OU President) Mr. Savitsky responds. “There were many factors at play. While the fact that this family was singled out may have been strange, in all honesty, they did need more supervision. We were in a very delicate position as a major kashrus certification agency, and we also had a responsibility to ensure that there would not be a kosher meat shortage for the wider population.
So while some criticized our silence, we did what we had to do in view of the bigger picture.”
Dudi Spira is currently on summer schedule, so it's a little difficult to verify this right now but he has reportedly bought a brand new Bentley or Rolls Royce with all the money he is overcharging his customers.
ReplyDeleteThere happens to be a new store at Ave K & East 29th that sells stuff at a fraction of Spira's prices.
If you don't feel like getting ripped off or financing his fancy car, you can inquire about prices there.
Now all my SY neighbors can appreciate what I went through!
ReplyDeleteFBI & IRS agents are now swarming all over Boro Park & Williamsburg!
ReplyDeleteKaff's Bakery on Ave M is one of Rabbi Margulies's favorite bakeries. Despite rumors being spread by VIN, ich gloyb nisht that the FBI was there this morning over anything improper. They were surely there because of the geshmakke danishes.
ReplyDeleteThe networks are breaking in to all programming to show the SYs with their groysa yarmulkas being hauled off in handcuffs.
ReplyDeleteThe timing during the 9 days is something else.
Hey Pinter, aino domeh you kelb!
ReplyDeleteOur boys were just handing a little mezuman over to politicians. They weren't stealing from half the world like you.
The Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office and the IRS took out at least three boxes from the Deal Yeshiva, as students were arriving at the s school. The Deal Yeshiva, on the corner of Brighton and Norwood avenues, is a prestigious religious school in town.
ReplyDeleteAuthorities also searched the Ohel Yaacob synagogue on Ocean Avenue in Deal and removed several boxes.
The Skipper, the following are excerpts from comments that were made by Gil on the XGH blog regarding the criticism on the blogs of RDC's comments on tax evasion and gezel akum. I guess Gil thinks it is also unfair to criticize all the Rabbis that are being arrested as I write this for financial crimes. After all -- it is just a meshugas they have, and Rabbis like RDC who say that we can ignore the halahcos in CM on these matters are ok with this type of behavior.
ReplyDelete"I set it aside as, at most, a great man with an unhealthy idea -- a meshugas."
"I like both R. Dovid Cohen and R. Yisroel Belsky, and do not believe that the criticisms both have received on blogs are fair."
"I don't think the criticisms are fair because they do not look at the whole person."
There have been rumors that Gil Student has a connection to Belsky, and his good friend Bungalow Putz Neuhoff certainly does.
ReplyDeleteWhen Gil was criticized for this on Yudel Shain's blog, he personally responded in a post that he has never spoken to Belsky in his life.
There’s someone that posts on the yeshivishe sites that signs off as
ReplyDeleteKAJ WH TIDE
Figure it out?
Kahal Adas Jeshurin Washington Heights Torah im derech eretz
You think he’s the official spokesman for the heights? Self proclaims super yekke? Purebred Yekke P?
I wonder if it’s that yekke drech zhou professor that tortures her class in Touro (sit up straight! No going to the bathroom! You staring at me? Is my nose? My hair?).
Or that emontionally disturbed british yekke that sometimes comes to shachris and goes off the wall if he hears people speak or if the tissue boxes aren’t aligned properly. (he also walks the streets of midwood and harasses store owners to pull down signs that have a woman on it. Also saw him harass two guys eating ice cream in their car on coney island avenue).
Maybe TIDE stands for
Totally insane disturbed emotionally?
http://www.philly.com/philly/opinion/51374862.html
ReplyDeleteTHE AFRICAN-American professor from Harvard arrested at his own home for disorderly conduct:
Why did Professor Gates give police a hard time when they arrived to investigate reports of an attempted break-in at Gates' home? The professor should have been thankful that the police were there to investigate such a matter.
When asked for identification, what does Gates do? He gives the officers a hard time with the cliched "Why, because I'm a black man in America?"
That alone should send a red flag up that
they were dealing with a pompous person who thinks he's better than everyone else.
When Police do their job that's good. The only exception is when they do their job against Black people, which is called "acting stupid" since the Office of the President believes there should be a double standard for the brothas.
ReplyDeleteJuly 23 (Reuters) - One of Osama bin Laden's sons was probably killed by a US missile strike in Pakistan earlier this year, US National Public Radio reported, citing US intelligence sources.
ReplyDeleteIt's not clear if the Chief Rabbi of the Syrian community, R' Shaul Kassin was arrested. But when reporters showed up at the Kassin family compound in Deal, a bunch of women came running out of the house, yelling and waving them away.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.mycentraljersey.com/article/20090723/NEWS/90723028/Members+of+local+Jewish+community+react+to+FBI+arrests
ReplyDeleteMembers of local Jewish community react to FBI arrests
BY ALESHA WILLIAMS BOYD • GANNETT NEW JERSEY • JULY 23, 2009
An unidentified man in a suit and hat outside Ohel Yaacob said, in English, that he did not speak English.
http://www.mycentraljersey.com/article/20090723/NEWS/90723016/UPDATE--NJ-assemblyman-took--10-000-bribe-for-development--FBI-says
ReplyDeleteDisgraced real-estate mogul Solomon Dwek is apparently a key witness in the FBI corruption cases today, which have led to the arrest of about 30
In court documents, the FBI referred to a "cooperating witness" who was arrested in May 2006 on bank fraud charges. Dwek was charged with bank fraud that month when he tried to cash a bogus $25 million check.
United Airlines has announced that overweight passengers will be charged extra if they can't fit into a single seat, buckle the seat belts correctly or put down the arm rests when seated.
ReplyDeleteUnited claims it received more than 700 complaints last year from those who had uncomfortable rides due to sitting next to larger people.
Activists for overweight people, however, claim the airlines are to blame, saying they make the chairs too small and that this is just a way to get more money in a struggling economy.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124804796387763807.html
ReplyDeleteJULY 20, 2009
IRS Gets Tougher
Click on link to see indictments!
ReplyDeleteThis year at the Agudath Israel's annual convention we will have a sunday afternoon symposium (for fathers only) based on the arrests in New Jersey and in New York.
ReplyDeleteThe discussion will be titled - Are our boys receiving too much secular education ??
We will have the honor to have with us as the main speakers for this very important symposium, Rabbi Leib Glantz and Rabbi Bernie Madoff.
Due to out political connections,we were able to have Rabbi Madoff released from Maximum security.
Please reserve your reservation for this very important event. Admission fee is $50. We have also consulted with our gedoilim and they have assured us that because of the vital message that the Rabbis will impart, you may go into debt or even launder money to pay for the admission fee.
Political Corruption
ReplyDelete- Moshe Altman, 39, of Monsey, NY, charged with conspiracy to commit extortion under color of official right & money laundering
- Charlie Ammon, 33, of Lakewood, NJ, charged with conspiracy to commit extortion under color of official right
- Leona Beldini, 74, of Jersey City, charged with conspiracy to commit extortion under color of official right
- Peter Cammarano III, 32, of Hoboken, NJ, charged with conspiracy to commit extortion under color of official right
- Joseph Cardwell, 68, of Jersey City, NJ, charged with agreeing to offer bribe to public official
- Joseph Castagna, 53, of Jersey City, NJ, charged with conspiracy to commit extortion under color of official right
- Guy Catrillo, 54, of Jersey City, NJ, charged with attempted extortion under color of official right
- Edward Cheatam, 61, of Jersey City, NJ, charged with conspiracy to commit extortion under color of official right & attempted extortion
- Dennis Elwell, 64, of Secaucus, NJ, charged with conspiracy to commit extortion under color of official right
- Itzak Friedlander, 41, of Union City, NJ, charged with money laundering conspiracy
- Richard Greene, 45, of Jersey City, NJ, charged with conspiracy to commit extortion under color of official right
- John Guarini, 59, of Bayonne, NJ, charged with conspiracy to commit extortion under color of official right
- Shimon Haber, 34, of Brooklyn, NY, charged with money laundering conspiracy
- Denis Jaslow, 46, of Wall, NJ, charged with conspiracy to commit extortion under color of official right
- Maher A. Khalil, 39, of Jersey City, NJ, charged with conspiracy to commit extortion undercolor of official right & attempted extortion
- James P. “Jimmy” King, 67, of Jersey City, NJ, charged with conspiracy to commit extortion under color of official right
- Louis Manzo, 54, of Jersey City, NJ, charged with conspiracy to commit extortion under color of official right
- Michael Manzo, 53, of Jersey City, NJ, charged with conspiracy to commit extortion under color of official right
- Ronald Manzo, 65, of Bayonne, NJ, charged with conspiracy to commit extortion under color of official right
- Michael Schaffer, 58, of Hoboken, NJ, charged with conspiracy to commit extortion under color of official right
- Lori Serrano, 37, of Jersey City, NJ, charged with conspiracy to commit extortion under color of official right
- Jack Shaw, 61, of Jersey City, NJ, charged with conspiracy to commit extortion under color of official right
- L. Harvey Smith, 60, of Jersey City, NJ, charged with conspiracy to commit extortion under color of official right
- Anthony R. Suarez, 42, of Ridgefield, NJ, charged with conspiracy to commit extortion under color of official right
- Vincent Tabbachino, 68, of Fairview, NJ, charged with conspiracy to commit extortion under color of official right & money laundering
- Daniel M. Van Pelt, 44, of Waretown, NJ, charged with attempted extortion under color of official right
- Mariano Vega, 59, of Jersey City, NJ, charged with conspiracy to commit extortion under color of official right
- Lavern Webb-Washington, 60, of Jersey City, charged with conspiracy to commit extortion under color of official right
- Jeffrey Williamson, 57, of Lakewood, NJ, charged with attempted extortion under color of official right
For the charge of conspiracy to commit extortion under color of official right and/or attempted extortion under color of official right, the maximum statutory penalties are 20 years in federal prison and a maximum statutory fine of $250,000.
For the charge of agreeing to offer a bribe payment to a public official, the maximum statutory penalties are 10 years in Federal prison and a maximum statutory fine of $250,000.
Money Laundering/Illegal Money Remitting
ReplyDelete- Eliahu Ben Haim, 58, of Long Branch, NJ, charged with money laundering.
- Schmulik Cohen, 35, of Brooklyn, NY, charged with money laundering and illegal money transmitting.
- Levi Deutsch, 37, of Brooklyn, NY, charged with money laundering.
- Yeshayahu Ehrental, 65, of Brooklyn, NY, charged with money laundering and illegal money transmitting.
- Mordchai Fish, 56, of Brooklyn, NY, charged with money laundering.
- Yolie Gertner, 30, of Brooklyn, NY, charged with money laundering.
- David S. Goldhirsh, 30, of Brooklyn, NY, charged with money laundering.
- Saul Kassin, 87, of Brooklyn, NY, charged with money laundering.
- Edmund Nahum, 56, of Deal, NJ, charged with money laundering.
- Abe Pollack, 40, of Brooklyn, NY, charged with money laundering.
- Lavel Schwartz, 57, of Brooklyn, NY, charged with money laundering.
- Binyomin Spira, 28, of Brooklyn, NY, charged with money laundering.
- Naftoly Weber, 40, of Brooklyn, NY, charged with money laundering.
- Arye Weiss, 34, of Brooklyn, NY, charged with money laundering and illegal money transmitting.
Human Organ Trafficking
- Levy-Izhak Rosenbaum, 58, of Brooklyn, NY, charged with conspiracy to transport human organs
For the charge of conspiring to commit money laundering, the maximum statutory penalties are 20 years in Federal prison and a maximum statutory fine of $250,000.
For the charge of conspiring to conduct an illegal money transmitting business, the maximum statutory penalties are 5 years in Federal prison and a maximum statutory fine of $250,000.
For the charge of conspiring to transport human organs, the maximum statutory penalties are 5 years in Federal prison and a maximum statutory fine of $250,000.
http://thelakewoodscoop.blogspot.com/2009/07/breaking-news-housing-inspector-jeff.html
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, several Frum people involved with this massive corruption case, are local Lakewood residents. No names of parties involved will be posted.
From The Pinny-Lip-Shits Fence Sitting Dept:
ReplyDeletePity; why you didn't use Pathetic Putz Shafran's Sullenberger-Madoff comparison? At least we could get a laugh while navigating through your quicksand prose.
Note to Rabbi Perlow: "Pidyon Shvuyim" obligates you/Agudah to Support the Markey Bill and come out strongly against Obama's "Mengele" Healthcare Bill which will provide Federal insurance payments for Abortions and deprive Seniors of life-saving/life extending medical care. They'll be given a pain killer pill and sent home to die.
Davar B'Ito! Need I say more? "Sarayich Sorerim V'Chaverei Ganovim." Study the haftorah in depth this Shabbos and reflect!
ReplyDeleteRav Dov Kahan Av Mayshorim in Lakewood is also "Chavrei Ganovim" as recorded in Ocean County Lawsuits for his part in the Arlington Avenue Shul Fraud.
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