tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post5046570439694773018..comments2024-03-27T15:07:31.495-04:00Comments on <b><center>Unorthodox-Jew </center></b> <br><small>A Critical View of Orthodox Judaism</small>: B'Tzelem Elokim?Paul Mendlowitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05887774341136059873noreply@blogger.comBlogger66125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-44428948033677061102010-07-08T11:11:53.825-04:002010-07-08T11:11:53.825-04:00"no parnassa...no skills...but needed to feed..."no parnassa...no skills...but needed to feed his mishpocho"<br /><br />Azoy hob ich gehert fun der tatte<br /><br />Here's how the tatte explained why he had to chop off the fingers of Mr. Satriale:<br /><br />http://www.movietranscriptions.com/187817_Sopranos_S3E0304.html<br /><br />I know you like Mr. Satriale.<br /><br />We all do. He's a lovely man.<br /><br />The man is a gambler.<br /><br />He got over his head in debt.<br /><br />He owed me money and refused to pay.<br /><br />He avoided me.<br /><br />That's why you should never gamble,<br /><br />Anthony.<br /><br />What was I supposed to do?<br /><br />That's my livelihood.<br /><br />It's how I put food on the table.Tony Sopranonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-63180649939276898502010-07-08T10:59:35.137-04:002010-07-08T10:59:35.137-04:00We need help to neutralize the Queens Vaad gangste...We need help to neutralize the Queens Vaad gangsters. There are a lot of them but the two most out of control right now are Yoel Schonfeld and his personal enforcer Chaim Schwartz.<br /><br />Schwartz who used to work for the Agudah is spending his whole day writing attacks on the internet and email to defend molesters and cover up for non-kosher food and grave robbing. They pay this putz 6 figures to do this when he is supposed to be overseeing kashrus. He even sent an email to taunt a victim of Eisemann in Baltimore. When he's not on the computer or Blackberry he is making phone calls to have people threatened.<br /><br />Schwartz is like Bungalow Putz Neuhoff, Avi Shafran and a shlemazal version of Margulies-Belsky all rolled into one.<br /><br />Schonfeld is a YU and yeshivat hesder guy who decided to improve his resume by capping off in Lakewood for a short time. He makes sure that the food in town never reaches an acceptable kosher standard and has Schwartz run around with his big payos and yeshivishe shprach to lie to everyone that it is lemehadrin.<br /><br />These unterveltniks are also working together with Peretz Steinberg & Elchonon Zohn to cover up the millions they make from grave robbing.<br /><br />Besides help from UOJ, any information about these creeps from the public is appreciated.S.O.S. from Queensnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-30959033877218637102010-07-08T10:31:32.098-04:002010-07-08T10:31:32.098-04:00...And R' Luca Brasi (Luzer Berish Fleishman).......And R' Luca Brasi (Luzer Berish Fleishman)...was a talmid of Lakewood with no parnassa...no skills...but needed to feed his mishpocho.<br /><br /> And Don Corleone needed a Jew on his team so Abe Foxman wouldn't go nuts!Paul Mendlowitzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05887774341136059873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-86624630792851829002010-07-08T10:20:40.430-04:002010-07-08T10:20:40.430-04:00In The Godfather, Luca Brasi is one of Don Vito Co...In The Godfather, Luca Brasi is one of Don Vito Corleone's personal enforcers. Brasi is portrayed as slow-witted and brutish, but his ruthlessness and his unwavering loyalty to Don Corleone means he is both feared and respected. Fluent in Italian and able to handle himself in any fight, he has a dark reputation among the underworld as a savage killer.Putzolanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-48274530096242284432010-07-08T10:13:41.402-04:002010-07-08T10:13:41.402-04:00UOJ, does it make sense, or does it make sense???
...UOJ, does it make sense, or does it make sense???<br /><br />*<br /><br />Dollars and Cents - Where's Luca Braza when you need him?Paul Mendlowitzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05887774341136059873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-718060258520932892010-07-08T09:40:48.503-04:002010-07-08T09:40:48.503-04:00http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/national/fbi_exp...http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/national/fbi_expands_probe_fraud_holocaust_claims_conference<br /><br />I wonder if Sruly Singer's name is going to pop up in the FBI investigation.Julie Bermanhttp://www.thejewishweek.com/news/national/fbi_expands_probe_fraud_holocaust_claims_conferencenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-77535092517462485872010-07-08T09:30:55.666-04:002010-07-08T09:30:55.666-04:00http://www.hamptons.com/Out-And-About/LifeNite/113...http://www.hamptons.com/Out-And-About/LifeNite/11377/Fourth-Of-July-Weekend-Star-Sightings-Four-Days.html<br /><br />Howard Stern dined (twice) at Nick & Toni's in the last week ... On Thursday, the glitzy eatery also provided kosher hors d'oeuvres for Ivanka Trump Kushner's private jewelry launch at London Jewelers in East Hampton. <br /><br />http://www.nickandtonis.com/<br /><br />That's very kosher with chazir on the menu.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-21262354361635857752010-07-08T02:36:57.132-04:002010-07-08T02:36:57.132-04:00http://www.jewishjournal.com/articles/print/who_ow...http://www.jewishjournal.com/articles/print/who_owns_the_young_israel_of_beverly_hills_20100706/<br /><br />Is UOJ going to blame me in the Young Israel of Beverly Hills machlokes?Chometz for Pesach Lernerhttp://www.jewishjournal.com/articles/print/who_owns_the_young_israel_of_beverly_hills_20100706/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-61624225225993411782010-07-08T00:17:52.768-04:002010-07-08T00:17:52.768-04:00Who stands to gain most by kool aide drinking foll...Who stands to gain most by kool aide drinking followers of the Lakewood Yeshiva cult choosing to stop "bringing Hamodia into their house" and having to look elsewhere for their charedi newpaper?<br /><br />ummmmm...could it be Yated Ne'eman?<br /><br />So why does Reb Malkiel owe Pinny Lipshutz anything for? After all, Pinny's unlce Reb Elya was the one who took away Reb Malkiel's opportunity for real malchus by splitting the yeshiva four ways?<br /><br />Ok, listen.<br /><br />Aron Kotler was worried that Hershel Herhskowitz was going to win the frum vote (which he did) and get elected to the city council (which he didn't). He ran on a platform to clean up corruption and help the little guy in Lakewood as opposed to the old boys club called the Vaad that is just the Yeshiva's frontmen for their own personal interests.<br /><br />Ok, still holding kup? Aron decides to threaten the Lakewood Scoop if they publish anything positive about Hershel, and it caves immediately. <br /><br />But Matzav. com had a beutiful article on it called "Why I'm voting for Hershel". And who really runs Matzav? Pinny F***ing Lipshutz! <br /><br />Right after Aron "goes to the mats" with the scoop, he calls Pinny and complains. Puts pressure and all of a sudden the pro-Herhsel post disappears faster than a big serving of cholent on Lipa Margolis's plate (paid for by money stolen from Torah V'daas, but that's for another time).<br /><br />Then the next day Yated Ne'eman runs an editorial attacking "individuals who go against Daas Torah, even if they claim they have agendas that will help people" comparing them to the Meraglim.<br /><br />So...now its payback time. Pinny was a good boy and did what Don Aron told him (he made him an offer he couldn't refuse) so now the Don showed his appreciation by getting his brother Fredo (I mean Malkiel) to attack his competition Hamodiah so that Yated will now be seen as the only "Daas Torah-true newspaper."<br /><br />UOJ, does it make sense, or does it make sense???Oliver Stonenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-79319012845449697532010-07-07T22:47:04.680-04:002010-07-07T22:47:04.680-04:00... because they are reading newspapers in the dor...... because they are reading newspapers in the dorm while living off the shver's check. But you can't blame the yeshiva for that.<br /><br />*<br /><br />Who should I blame, the Agudah?<br /><br />When was the last time these jokers took attendance at davening or at seder? Hashem yirachem that everybody in the yeshiva shows up for seder at the same time!Paul Mendlowitzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05887774341136059873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-74849847417185524232010-07-07T22:39:33.116-04:002010-07-07T22:39:33.116-04:00Lakewood yungerleit can easily take the undergrad ...Lakewood yungerleit can easily take the undergrad degree to a Jesuit or Ivy league law school which are the 2 school types most amenable to Talmudic degrees.<br /><br />Agreed, there are plenty of loafers in Lakewood who will never do that because they are reading newspapers in the dorm while living off the shver's check. But you can't blame the yeshiva for that.<br /><br />Law is not the only option available to the non-lazy types either.Ombudsmannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-27651218559319806882010-07-07T22:34:02.197-04:002010-07-07T22:34:02.197-04:001. Which of the gedolei haposkim told Yoel Schonfe...1. Which of the gedolei haposkim told Yoel Schonfeld he is mechuyev to put up signs in Queens Vaad shuls to warn about Bryks and why is Schonfeld ignoring him?<br /><br />2. Why is it too much of a concidence that all of the dumb talking points emailed by Schonfeld & Schwartz to JBAC are included in the hatchet job they are trying to do on Rabbi Dr. Asher Lipner?<br /><br />3. Why is the Queens Vaad trying to belittle everyone as nobodies and manhig Beyisrael wannabes when someone high up in the Queens Vaad took over a shul thanks to patronage, in a move that caused a huge uproar and a large chunk of the members to leave in disgust?Questions for the Queens Vaadnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-10663973276603010472010-07-07T22:23:21.507-04:002010-07-07T22:23:21.507-04:00But it's not like there are hordes of yungerle...But it's not like there are hordes of yungerleit being chained to their shtenders for life. <br /><br />*<br /><br />No skills, No self-confidence, no education, no money --- where are these guys going?<br /><br />Of course they're stuck -- add on the social derision factor -- candidates for the nut house!Paul Mendlowitzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05887774341136059873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-49504276116460160362010-07-07T22:16:56.394-04:002010-07-07T22:16:56.394-04:00I think you are all going a little overboard on La...I think you are all going a little overboard on Lakewood.<br /><br />Kollel should be for the best & brightest which all pi rov is who is getting into Lakewood.<br /><br />What percentage exactly stays there for a yovel that you are all getting worked up? Maybe things have changed but when my oylam was in yeshiva 15-20 years ago, most guys left for work after a little while. And BMG was just starting then to grant undergrad degrees that you could take (gasp) to a secular university. The only opposition to this was a loser who himself had a job in the office instead of learning in kollel but considered himself the big nosei degel of Rav Aharon Kotler ztl.<br /><br />Is there some corruption with the money? I won't argue on that. But it's not like there are hordes of yungerleit being chained to their shtenders for life.Ombudsmannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-67128565667722431922010-07-07T21:41:57.305-04:002010-07-07T21:41:57.305-04:00http://yudelstake.blogspot.com/2010/07/sheiris-has...http://yudelstake.blogspot.com/2010/07/sheiris-hashgocha-on-hakker-taam-man.html<br /><br />In today's comments to this post, the Queens Vaad is trying to do a smear job on Asher Lipner and JBAC. They have come out swinging and call them and UOJ a bunch of "reshoyim" and start getting evangelical like woe to those who associate with them. They call UOJ, Lipner and others a bunch of zavim, metzoraim and mithalters. This is after they were calling their kashrus critics all kinds of names like dog and chazir for the past 6 months.<br /><br />They blame UOJ for being the cause of kids who go off the derech. This is rich considering that the Queens Vaad is exposed day in day out for kashrus scandals which the seforim say is a major cause of kids going off the derech.<br /><br />It all started when Asher Lipner wrote to the Jewish Week about Bryks. Within a week, the Queens Vaad was forced to get rid of him because of the bad PR. Queens Vaad President Yoel Schonfeld is pishing in his pants and constantly emailing Lipner to figure out his next move. Someone else was emailing Lipner and bugging him with stupidities. He refused to identify himself but it was later learned that the email address is that of Queens Vaad Exec VP Chaim Schwartz.<br /><br />All of their dumb talking points that they emailed Lipner are included in the smear job that they have and are still not finished posting on Yudelstake.KGHhttp://yudelstake.blogspot.com/2010/07/sheiris-hashgocha-on-hakker-taam-man.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-71192555504020329052010-07-07T21:12:18.320-04:002010-07-07T21:12:18.320-04:00....And BTW - Who do you think wrote the song on &.......And BTW - Who do you think wrote the song on "Toras Hashem Temima?"<br /><br />:-)Paul Mendlowitzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05887774341136059873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-77348218256786686952010-07-07T20:58:25.684-04:002010-07-07T20:58:25.684-04:00They are forced to "grow" Lakewood, like...They are forced to "grow" Lakewood, like every smooth Ponzi operator they know they must constantly increase their "investor/donor" pool to exist.<br /><br />So while they are hitting on their new client base for money, paying the old "investors" with their new suckers' hard-earned money, the new guys have a 2 year wait until they can get their "returns"...and eventually it must burst!<br /><br />Therefore college is such a threat to these scam artists -- their pool of suckers become educated instead of defrauded!Paul Mendlowitzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05887774341136059873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-33325898922276779212010-07-07T20:56:22.568-04:002010-07-07T20:56:22.568-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Paul Mendlowitzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05887774341136059873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-59132387576456668002010-07-07T20:19:09.782-04:002010-07-07T20:19:09.782-04:00Kind of interesting to me, a product of the "...Kind of interesting to me, a product of the "real world" prior to finding out about the real world (that of Hashem) the comments about why Lakewood is so magical (my words). Why do people clamor to get into and stay put at Yale, Harvard, Stamford? Because of their aura and prestige. Lakewood (BMG) has been for a long time a factory churning out the stamped bochur who goes on to be the stamped yungerman. Boys run there because the pickings are better with the name Lakewood attached to the where did you learn question. As opposed to Sh'or Yoshuv, where the learning is as good, but the flocks don't fall over themselves to get in. Religion is a personal matter and the perception of d'veikus is also a personal perception. For those that would knock Touro they obviously don't feel the need to make a parnassah. Touro was established because Dr. Lander, OBM, obviously took to heart the six days you shall work. Dr. Lander, OBM, didn't wreck a boy who wanted to go to Lakewood after earning a degree at Touro. He may have harbored reservations, to himself, about the boy's sanity - but he would never derail such a plan. Pandering to starving yungeleit by ripping the very foundation of Hashem's blueprint so that these yungeleit feel good about being led and hungry is just pandering. The present Lakewood is Fakewood - this proves it again.Boruchnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-3250421464432293162010-07-07T18:53:16.234-04:002010-07-07T18:53:16.234-04:00http://yudelstake.blogspot.com/2010/07/sheiris-has...http://yudelstake.blogspot.com/2010/07/sheiris-hashgocha-on-hakker-taam-man.html<br /><br />Ploni said...<br />I have been following the fascinating commentary here for some time now and it's getting difficult for me to hold back a real juicy story. Back in the winter, Shonfeld from Queens Vaad was picked apart for a letter he wrote attacking bloggers who he called shluchim of Satan.<br />With the kvureh scandal, there was another crook in on it with Queens Vaad and Jacobbson, Rabbi Sidney Applebaum who was with the Flatbush Vaad until he escaped to Israel when the police were closing in on him. <br />When Moish Handler was investigating the story he went to Applebaum's house to speak to him along with a Chasidisha rov. Applebaum was polite and invited them inside. What happened next is truly eyepopping, more than any OU scam. Applebaum had a huge portrait of Lucifer the Devil in bright red, the way he is pictured by the goyim. Under the portrait were black candles burning like Devil worshippers use to do Black Magic. This would be kishuf which is mechayev meesah.<br />Needless to say, the visitors were extremely creeped out.<br />You can verify this story with Handler who is the cousin of Mechel Handler, the head of Flatbush Hatzolah.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-76418750370590071702010-07-07T16:14:40.349-04:002010-07-07T16:14:40.349-04:00Every imbecile was scrambling to give money to Ber...Every imbecile was scrambling to give money to Bernie Madoff!<br /><br />This Ponzi Scam will also collapse - while thousands of Jews will once again realize they've been had!Paul Mendlowitzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05887774341136059873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-23202535326920058332010-07-07T16:07:09.011-04:002010-07-07T16:07:09.011-04:00I can't chime in to much on the Lakewood chica...I can't chime in to much on the Lakewood chicanery since I am a nogeah bidover.I am a Lubavitcher and Lubavitch has not exactly had a "love affair", to put it mildly, with Lakewood.<br />My older sister has a number of grandchildren whose main goal and purpose in life is to gain entry into Lakewood and remain there ad meah viesrim.Some are already doing so. <br />What perplexes me is what is this aura of elitism and privilege associated with Lakewood and where does it come from?<br />Is the oilem truly goilem regarding Lakewood? How can they (Lakewood) get away with all their under handedness without the hamoin am catching on?Arthurnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-47784450536458254092010-07-07T14:33:25.391-04:002010-07-07T14:33:25.391-04:00The present Kotlers have de facto destroyed the li...The present Kotlers have de facto destroyed the lives of thousands of innocent Jews --- 3 - 4 generations of misery --- including thousands of kids and adults that went Off The Derech!<br /><br />For what?<br /><br />For their own corrupt malchus!Paul Mendlowitzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05887774341136059873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-59715326955945558522010-07-07T14:10:38.752-04:002010-07-07T14:10:38.752-04:00It says in the gemara that sometimes rabbinic laws...It says in the gemara that sometimes rabbinic laws are treated more stringently than biblical laws because the words of the sages needs strengthening whereas the words of the torah do not need strengthening. It is obvious that if words of sages need strengthening, it is obvious that the words of the fools and ignoramuses that are recognized as torah leaders today need strengthening. This is the obvious reason for why he people in lakewood are more concerned with their own agenda than with G-d's agenda. They feel that their words need more strengthening than the words of the Torah. Simple logic and an absurd conclusion is the foundation of the daas torah movement today.An Inside Observernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-68308919888731597552010-07-07T12:24:16.796-04:002010-07-07T12:24:16.796-04:00http://unorthodoxjew.blogspot.com/2005/05/religion...http://unorthodoxjew.blogspot.com/2005/05/religion-of-holocaust-museums.html<br /><br /><br />*<br /><br />The Religion Of Holocaust Museums!Paul Mendlowitzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05887774341136059873noreply@blogger.com