tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post3726448238100832900..comments2024-03-27T15:07:31.495-04:00Comments on <b><center>Unorthodox-Jew </center></b> <br><small>A Critical View of Orthodox Judaism</small>: Yeshiva Torah Vodaath Versus Lipa Margulies!Paul Mendlowitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05887774341136059873noreply@blogger.comBlogger83125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-89260706943792635472010-04-21T18:15:55.075-04:002010-04-21T18:15:55.075-04:00Who is Rabbi James Burgess who is listed as co-dir...<i>Who is Rabbi James Burgess who is listed as co-director with Tropper? </i><br /><br />The 2008 tax return was already published on Daat Torah last year.<br /><br />James (AKA Yaakov) Burgess is another crook BT (like David Jacobs) from Boston. They worship Tropper and eat from his hands.<br /><br />I can tell you for sure that their REAL salaries are much much higher than the ones on the returnSt. James of ק'ק Monseynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-7348695826540262452010-04-21T14:18:30.357-04:002010-04-21T14:18:30.357-04:00B’nai Brith has expressed its outrage over a decis...B’nai Brith has expressed its outrage over a decision by the British Advertising Standards Authority (BASA) to ban an Israeli Government Tourist Office ad promoting Israel which included clips of the Western Wall. BASA’s decision was reportedly based on the grounds that it considered the Western Wall “occupied” territory, as it is situated in the Eastern part of Jerusalem. In a letter to the British High Commissioner in Ottawa, B’nai Brith called BASA’s decision an “egregious insult” to the Jewish community and called for it to be rescinded.<br /><br />“BASA’s decision to ban the Israeli Government Tourist Office’s use of Western Wall imagery in its advertisement is an egregious insult to the Jewish community, and we have called for it to be rescinded,” said Frank Dimant, B’nai Brith Canada’s Executive Vice President. “Jerusalem has been, and always will be, the historical, national, and religious capital of the Jewish State.<br /><br />“With this most current British decision to ban use of imagery of the Kotel, Judaism’s holiest site, we cannot help but be reminded of the decisions of the British Mandate authorities who banned the blowing of the shofar at the Kotel on Yom Kippur while the area was under their rule and inexcusably denied refuge in the Holy Land to Jews fleeing the Nazi killing machine. As we get ready to celebrate Yom HaAtzmaut, the anniversary of the miracle of Israel’s independence, we would have hoped that Britain would have learned from its past mistakes, but this most recent anti-Israeli and anti-Jewish decision by BASA seems to affirm that it has not.”Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-16538863513464367302010-04-21T13:12:40.149-04:002010-04-21T13:12:40.149-04:00http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2008/520/566...http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2008/520/566/2008-520566794-0586fff5-9.pdf<br /><br />R' Moshe Heinemann $172,878 (not including shul salary)<br /><br />Avrom Pollack $155,003<br /><br />Shmuel Heinemann $71,904 or $89,414 if Rivka is his wifeStar K Baltimorehttp://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2008/520/566/2008-520566794-0586fff5-9.pdfnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-34343750505089280252010-04-21T12:54:34.414-04:002010-04-21T12:54:34.414-04:00UOJ "friend" Rabbi Adlerstein is a profe...UOJ "friend" Rabbi Adlerstein is a professor here:<br /><br />http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/01/retroactive-grade-inflation/<br /><br />Apparently in response to the poor job market for law school grads, one school is trying to give its students a boost: retroactive grade inflation.<br /><br />Loyola Law School of Los Angeles is increasing all grades by a third, so that “what previously was a B- would be a B, what previously was a B would be a B+, and so forth,” according to a dean’s memo published by Above the Law. It also applies to grades already earned, so that the grade-point average of every student will automatically increase by .333.<br /><br />Far be it for me to judge a school’s grading policy, but I have a feeling employers are capable of seeing through this ploy and resetting their expectations accordingly.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-39201440402777900332010-04-21T12:24:30.154-04:002010-04-21T12:24:30.154-04:00http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2008/116/078...http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2008/116/078/2008-116078704-05107122-9.pdf<br /><br />Life is good at Ohel. <br /><br />The latest tax return made available shows I got a raise in 2008 for an annual salary of $331,322, up from $312,000 in the previous year.<br /><br />And you should see how many others are making well into the six digits here.Ohel CEO David Mandelhttp://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2008/116/078/2008-116078704-05107122-9.pdfnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-15400654449169700762010-04-21T12:18:18.494-04:002010-04-21T12:18:18.494-04:00http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/19/nyregion/19zippe...http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/19/nyregion/19zipperman.html<br /><br />I've got a fix for Avremel Schorr Habor's mouth before he gets to Chicago.Eddie Feibuschhttp://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/19/nyregion/19zipperman.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-88753786301054739162010-04-21T11:51:11.719-04:002010-04-21T11:51:11.719-04:00http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2008/134/077...http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2008/134/077/2008-134077539-058fa44d-9.pdf<br /><br />Latest Tropper-Horizons filing has been made public.<br /><br />Latest recipients of Kaplan-Tropper largesse are R' Dovid Feinstein's yeshiva which the filing says was payment for researching seforim to justify EJF shitos, the DATA kollel in Dallas, Ohr Sameach (surprising Tropper would give them once cent), something called Roots Inc and outreach programs in various yehupitzvilles.<br /><br />A bunch of the grants were labeled as being for the purpose of doing outreach to intermarried couples. All the while EJF's rabbonim are in denial that this is so.<br /><br />Who is Rabbi James Burgess who is listed as co-director with Tropper?Eternal Jewish Fraud Watchhttp://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2008/134/077/2008-134077539-058fa44d-9.pdfnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-12923073370026900372010-04-21T11:11:47.516-04:002010-04-21T11:11:47.516-04:00Filed at 10:48 a.m. ET
NEW YORK (AP) -- Federal a...Filed at 10:48 a.m. ET<br /><br />NEW YORK (AP) -- Federal authorities raided a government-funded clinic run by the state Senate's majority leader, one day after New York's attorney general accused him of siphoning $14 million from it.<br /><br />About a dozen FBI and IRS agents and investigators from the attorney general's office appeared Wednesday at the Soundview Healthcare Network in the Bronx, where a big canopy above the front door lists Sen. Pedro Espada Jr. as its president and CEO.<br /><br />Some agents went into the clinic's offices. Others used bolt cutters to open an 8-foot-tall, 25-foot-long storage container behind the building and removed Espada campaign posters and other items. They also stacked boxes on the grass, and agents wearing blue or green gloves leafed through the contents and wrote notes.<br /><br />One box was marked, ''Payroll 205.'' Another said ''Timesheets 205-206.''<br /><br />Espada spokesman Steve Mangione didn't immediately respond to requests for comment left on his cell phone and through e-mail.<br /><br />FBI spokesman James Margolin called it a criminal investigationUOJ gets resultsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-75517257587824528952010-04-21T11:08:49.287-04:002010-04-21T11:08:49.287-04:00http://daattorah.blogspot.com/2010/04/rav-pam-chil...http://daattorah.blogspot.com/2010/04/rav-pam-child-abuse-conference-2000.html<br /><br />Rav Eidensohn uploaded the audio here.<br /><br />It sounds like R' Yisroel Reisman is talking about Yankel Pfefferkorn when he says that a strange person in Brooklyn who tapes (brissen?) is touching people.<br /><br />Is this for real? I have seen Pfefferkorn many times and have not seen him touch people. It was not clear to me either if Rav Reisman meant that Pfefferkorn's touching had a sexual element to it.<br /><br />I will add that one Boro Park meshugenna who I believe is a danger to children is the math genius known as "Yuk Yuk". He becomes very angry when taunted with the nickname and it seems he would attack the kids if adults did not stand between them.<br /><br />Suprisingly, Rav Pam ztl says that a spouse should not tell the other that they are a molestation victim - they should only tell a doctor.<br /><br />The last voice seems to be R' Dovid Cohen who says that molesters should be exposed to the public. If so, then why does he do nothing about Yudi Kolko and others?Ohel molestation seminar 10 years agohttp://daattorah.blogspot.com/2010/04/rav-pam-child-abuse-conference-2000.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-54173357011898879242010-04-21T10:18:24.398-04:002010-04-21T10:18:24.398-04:00http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2007/650/619...http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2007/650/619/2007-650619773-03d62c4a-9.pdf<br /><br />The Boca Raton kollel filings are here but Shmeltzer won't release his.Miami Beachhttp://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2007/650/619/2007-650619773-03d62c4a-9.pdfnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-11454572235007578992010-04-21T10:04:46.245-04:002010-04-21T10:04:46.245-04:00Here is proof that Rubashkin is not the target of ...Here is proof that Rubashkin is not the target of overt "anti-Semitism" which the rabbonim are allowing the Yated and the rabble on the street to shout at the top of their lungs.<br /><br />Prosecutors usually ask for an extreme sentence which they know will be whittled down by the judge.<br /><br />It is not necessarily the most fair way of going about it but Rubashkin is not being singled out.<br /><br />This guy, like Rubashkin is refusing to take achrayus for his crimes. But what makes him better than Rubashkin is that he is at least cooperating to make restitution. And still, the prosecutors won't give one ounce of leniency.<br /><br />http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2011556195_apuspetterssentencing.html<br /><br />A federal judge sentenced fallen Minnesota tycoon Tom Petters to 50 years in prison on Thursday for orchestrating a $3.7 billion Ponzi scheme that counted hedge funds, pastors, missionaries and retirees among its victims.<br /><br />U.S. District Judge Richard Kyle said he didn't believe Petters, the one-time owner of Polaroid and Sun Country Airlines, was unaware of the fraud within his operations at Petters Group Worldwide, as he has claimed.<br /><br />Prosecutors had argued that Petters deserved the statutory maximum of 335 years.<br /><br />Since Petters was convicted, he has cooperating with the court-appointed attorney attempting to recover losses in the scheme.Oylem Goylemhttp://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2011556195_apuspetterssentencing.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-40432167163805085372010-04-21T08:21:17.707-04:002010-04-21T08:21:17.707-04:00Filed at 6:33 a.m. ET
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope B...Filed at 6:33 a.m. ET<br /><br />VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Benedict XVI promised Wednesday that the Catholic Church would take action to confront the clerical sex abuse scandal, making his first public comments on the crisis days after meeting with victims.<br /><br />Neither Benedict nor the Vatican has elaborated on what action or measures are being considered.Shea Fishmannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-43878428473065420692010-04-21T07:58:39.950-04:002010-04-21T07:58:39.950-04:00NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Another guilty plea in New Jer...NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Another guilty plea in New Jersey’s largest corruption scandal came from a Brooklyn man last week.<br />Akiva Aryeh Weiss, 54, of Brooklyn, admitted to operating an unlicensed money transfer agency. Weiss was among 44 defendants arrested in July in a political corruption and money laundering probe. He’s the 17th person to plead guilty. Two other Brooklyn men pled guilty last week to money laundering.<br /><br />Prosecutors say Weiss supplied up to $400,000 over a two-year period. He allegedly funneled the money to Rabbi Eliahu Ben Haim at the Congregation Ohel Yaacob in Deal, N.J. The case is pending against Ben Haim, who was arrested in the same probe.<br /><br />Weiss also allegedly gave money to a man who was cooperating with federal authorities. He could face up to five years when sentenced July 26.Akiva Aryeh Weissnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-5431324079558263572010-04-21T07:53:43.200-04:002010-04-21T07:53:43.200-04:00http://www.wfmz.com/slideshow/entertainment/178760...http://www.wfmz.com/slideshow/entertainment/17876034/detail.html<br /><br />Gil Student, I've been looking for you.<br /><br />I made a big mistake by not inviting you and these people to the 3 hour tour of Rubashkin.Chometz for Pesach Lernerhttp://www.wfmz.com/slideshow/entertainment/17876034/detail.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-68856044664585480552010-04-21T07:52:11.744-04:002010-04-21T07:52:11.744-04:00http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/new_york/orthodo...http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/new_york/orthodox_patrol_group_says_call_911_pedophiles<br /><br />“The Flatbush Shomrim’s message will help people gain the courage to do the right thing and report abusers to the authorities,” said the group’s president, Ben Hirsch, in a statement. “Established halacha (Jewish Law) clearly dictates an obligation to protect our community by reporting pedophiles to the police.”<br /> <br />Hirsch cited Rabbi Shalom Yosef Elyashiv, a 100-year-old halachic arbiter in Jerusalem and a leader of the Degel Hatorah religious political party, as a proponent of reporting suspected abusers to the police.<br /> <br />“We are pleased that some, albeit unnamed, Flatbush ultra-Orthodox rabbis are now encouraging the reporting of sexual abuse to the police,” Hirsch said. “We remain very troubled by the lack of courage shown by these local rabbis who choose to remain anonymous and the steadfast refusal of our rabbinic leadership to come out publicly in support of established halacha which mandates the reporting of abusers to the police.<br /> <br />In response to an inquiry by The Jewish Week, Shomrim founder Chaim Deutsch released a statement via e-mail that said, in part:<br /> <br />The Flatbush Shomrim sees firsthand what devastation abuse can cause, not only to the victims and their families, but to the community as a whole and even the perpetrators and their families. <br /> <br />Because of this, we must take a proactive role in educating parents about how to protect their children, this includes reporting abuse directly to the authorities. Our Rabbinical leaders have urged us to advise the community that it is not only halachically permissible, but mandated.<br /><br />Deutsch said the organization usually gets about a dozen complaints a year involving sexual abuse and regularly consults with rabbinic authorities, which he declined to identify.Ben Hirschhttp://www.thejewishweek.com/news/new_york/orthodox_patrol_group_says_call_911_pedophilesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-91493770658863236732010-04-21T07:19:32.709-04:002010-04-21T07:19:32.709-04:00Benyamin Cohen is a little weasel who used to publ...Benyamin Cohen is a little weasel who used to publish the online magazine Jewsweek. For years before he got married he was chasing shiksas and promoting his fantasies in the magazine that Jewish guys with a shiksa is the ultimate thing.<br /><br />I heard that he was living with his wife before she "converted" and because the appearance of that was too much even for Rabbi Broyde, he at least forced them to get separate apartments so that it didn't LOOK as bad as it was.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-12916097503367774892010-04-20T23:20:24.689-04:002010-04-20T23:20:24.689-04:00http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2008/136/156...http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2008/136/156/2008-136156031-05766e9f-F.pdf<br /><br />Here are the financials for the Frutchthandler Foundation although I managed to keep Chaim Berlin's a secret that is not displayed by Guidestar.Abe Fruchthandlerhttp://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2008/136/156/2008-136156031-05766e9f-F.pdfnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-71691318578198867732010-04-20T23:17:36.524-04:002010-04-20T23:17:36.524-04:00that atlanta rabbi is also mechuten with r' sh...that atlanta rabbi is also mechuten with r' shmuel kaminetzkyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-36441388696323803672010-04-20T22:21:57.412-04:002010-04-20T22:21:57.412-04:00Please don't expose that Michael Broyde does s...Please don't expose that Michael Broyde does suspicious conversions like Haskell Lookstein.<br /><br />It's not good for my book business as I am the exclusive distributor for Broyde.Gil Studentnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-79618069476435818862010-04-20T22:10:35.925-04:002010-04-20T22:10:35.925-04:00Get ready for another newspaper op-ed where Shafra...Get ready for another newspaper op-ed where Shafran throws a temper tantrum.<br /><br />The last time that happened was right after UOJ published his home address & telephone number.<br /><br />Publishing his salary could provoke an even more violent response.Joe Putznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-67334271339691080722010-04-20T21:50:28.100-04:002010-04-20T21:50:28.100-04:00http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments//2008/363/52...http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments//2008/363/529/2008-363529801-052c7b4f-9.pdf<br /><br />Yitzchok Ehrman $84,000<br /><br />Yechiel Kalish $97,000<br /><br />Avrohom Motzen (Cincinnati) $72,000<br /><br />Why does Chicago Agudah own a bus company?Chicago Agudah Fresserhttp://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments//2008/363/529/2008-363529801-052c7b4f-9.pdfnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-19201647857065268762010-04-20T21:41:53.569-04:002010-04-20T21:41:53.569-04:00http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2008/133/975...http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2008/133/975/2008-133975090-05184d37-9.pdf<br /><br />Director Dovid Seeve (Flatbush) is making $109,000<br /><br />Director Allen Gluck (Monsey) is making $140,000Agudah Community Serviceshttp://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2008/133/975/2008-133975090-05184d37-9.pdfnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-55959660320112807762010-04-20T21:34:45.032-04:002010-04-20T21:34:45.032-04:00http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2008/135/604...http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2008/135/604/2008-135604164-053742bf-9.pdf<br /><br />The Agudah itself has a huge budget.<br /><br />The camps alone bring in 4 and a half million dollars.<br /><br />The fresser convention only nets $112,000 after they give away the rooms to fill them up.<br /><br />Avi L. Shafran made $131,000 in 2008.<br /><br />And there are a bunch of fat cats that most people probably didn;t realize are making almost as much money as Shafran & Bubba Cohen.<br /><br />They are Milton Frischman from Brooklyn, Avrohom Perl from Brooklyn & Jeffrey Feinstein from Staten Island.<br /><br />Shmuel "Boom Boom" Bloom $185,000<br /><br />Chaim Dovid Zweibel $171,000<br /><br />Shlomo Gertzulin $185,000<br /><br />Yosef Friedenson $94,000<br /><br />And you'd be surprised who is getting some of the allocations.<br /><br />All in all, UOJ and friends will have a field day with this.Agudah Fresserhttp://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2008/135/604/2008-135604164-053742bf-9.pdfnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-65171703226437813602010-04-20T21:15:04.572-04:002010-04-20T21:15:04.572-04:00http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2008/113/245...http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2008/113/245/2008-113245314-05944b50-9.pdf<br /><br />Agudah's Vaad leHatzolas Nidchei Yisroel run by our boys in Lakewood, Rothschild & Cukier, raises almost $2 million a year.Agudah Fresserhttp://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2008/113/245/2008-113245314-05944b50-9.pdfnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-78195510458778203402010-04-20T20:51:08.499-04:002010-04-20T20:51:08.499-04:00Eisenstien;
What the heck are you talking about? ...Eisenstien;<br /> What the heck are you talking about? Topper is not my idol. You have me confused with someone else. You're an ignoramus. <br /><br />It's obvious "Rabbi" Lookstein got a lot of money to sponsor a phony convert. Do you think that's ethical and good for Judaism?<br /><br />You are an employee of Ivanka or you're Jared Kushner. You're not fooling anyone. "Rabbi" Lookstein and the RCA need to be investigated for authorizing one of the most public fraudulent "conversions" ever.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com