tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post5918590889611498144..comments2024-03-18T20:56:43.344-04:00Comments on <b><center>Unorthodox-Jew </center></b> <br><small>A Critical View of Orthodox Judaism</small>: Trouble in the CatskillsPaul Mendlowitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05887774341136059873noreply@blogger.comBlogger44125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-23199513314065795402009-08-02T15:58:30.189-04:002009-08-02T15:58:30.189-04:00Recently, Rabbi Yair Hoffman wrote an opinion piec...Recently, Rabbi Yair Hoffman wrote an opinion piece on another website. He was commenting on the Assifa and described what he considered "the Elephant in the room". He believes that the lack of education, beyond the ability to read, write and do math, is responsible for the crimes plaguing Yidden and perpertrated by Yidden. With great respect, I ask Rabbi Hoffman to go through the universities and colleges of this nation and publish his finding regarding the required ethics, moral behavior, and adherence to the law of the land courses that he finds. Not Plato and Socraties. Not the sociology of human relations. Not business law. The courses that an institution of higher learning requires to instill in their students the moral and ethical responsibility required to live in this nation as law abiding and productive citizens. I ask that he enlist the help of graduates of higher learning, such as Chaim Dovid Zweibel, Steven Mostofsky, Pesach Lerner and others educated beyond mesivta for their recollections of sitting and being instilled by their professors with a higher purpose. The elephant in the room, he may find, is not the ABC's but the entitlement that we have accustomed ourselves to and that we perpetuate by honoring those who have made more of entitlement than of effort. I await his findings.Boruchnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-75534910035849255112009-08-02T10:50:51.194-04:002009-08-02T10:50:51.194-04:00http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/02/nyregion/02demo....http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/02/nyregion/02demo.html?hpw=&pagewanted=print<br /><br />I never massered on anyone to save my own skin.Phil Schwabhttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/02/nyregion/02demo.html?hpw&pagewanted=printnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-82281102560265976502009-08-02T10:01:41.082-04:002009-08-02T10:01:41.082-04:00Fallsburg’s former fire chief cradled his eight-mo...Fallsburg’s former fire chief cradled his eight-month-old son in his arms and kissed his sobbing fiance on Tuesday after he was sentenced to prison in a conspiracy to burn down a bungalow.<br /><br />James Smith, 34, a longtime volunteer firefighter, was sentenced to 2-to-6 years on the top charge of arson after admitting to encouraging his uncle, described as mentally disabled, to burn down the Skopps colony bungalow on Laurel Avenue on Aug. 29. He was also sentenced on a lesser charge of conspiracy.<br /><br />“He put the life of his firefighters in jeopardy and the lives of the community in jeopardy,” Judge Frank LaBuda said before imposing the sentence.<br /><br />The uncle, Edward Smith, 44, who actually burned down the unoccupied bungalow, was sentenced to 1 1/3 to 4 years. The judge, the prosecutor and his attorney, Stephan Schick, described him in court as being mentally disabled.<br /><br />James and Edward both lived at the bungalow colony. James was the caretaker, and Edward did odd jobs for him.<br /><br />Authorities say James hatched the plan to provide a training opportunity for the fire department, and instructed Edward on how to make it look like an electrical fire. The bungalow was going to be torn down.<br /><br />James Smith’s attorney, Joel Proyect, said James casually mentioned the idea to Edward, who carried it out. As soon as James found out about the fire, he cooperated with police.<br /><br />“It was an offhand, stupid remark he made,” Proyect said. “It was 10 seconds of his life.”<br /><br />James Smith’s distraught fiance, Sonia Hatt, while standing outside the courtroom, said the two were sleeping when the fire broke out.<br /><br />“The fire chief didn’t do it,” she said. “He is innocent.”<br /><br />James Smith didn’t say anything or react to the sentence. Hatt brought their infant into the courtroom. Smith hugged the baby and kissed his fiance. His wrists were shackled behind his back and he was taken to jail.Fire Chief Bungalow Putz Smithnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-9814202228448871332009-08-02T07:11:45.648-04:002009-08-02T07:11:45.648-04:00though pinny IS a putz, I have it on reliable sour...though pinny IS a putz, I have it on reliable sources that r' dovid said that too. ( I heard this b4 pinny printed it) & regarding r'nosson tzvi etc. they didn't comment about the case itself but to denounce attending violent hafganos....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-69939935253634537792009-08-01T22:51:38.356-04:002009-08-01T22:51:38.356-04:00Barry Tannenbaum is laughing all the way to the ba...Barry Tannenbaum is laughing all the way to the bank. He defrauded half of South Africa in a ponzi scam and got his money out of the country before escaping to Australia. Now the politically correct Australian government won't extradite him back because South Africa is too tough on criminals for their liking.Australian Agudah Fressernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-5693638982540338932009-08-01T22:40:20.760-04:002009-08-01T22:40:20.760-04:00Saturday, August 1, 2009
Clunkers program dents u...Saturday, August 1, 2009<br /><br />Clunkers program dents used-car sales<br /><br />Dealers cry foul over ‘government handout’ to competition<br /><br />Sacramento Business Journal - by Melanie Turner Staff writer<br /><br />New-car dealers say the cash-for-clunkers program has helped jump-start sales, but financially strapped used-car dealers say the federal program could drive them out of business.Sleazy car salesmannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-41848876441673406392009-07-31T19:37:07.475-04:002009-07-31T19:37:07.475-04:00http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/07/federal_a...http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/07/federal_authorities_issue_subp.html<br /><br />Feds search for more as N.J. corruption investigation widens<br /><br />by Josh Margolin and Mark Mueller/The Star-Ledger<br /><br />Thursday July 30, 2009, 5:05 AM<br /><br />Seeking more evidence and, perhaps, additional targets, federal investigators have issued a flurry of subpoenas in connection with a wide-ranging corruption investigation that has rapidly altered New Jersey's political landscape.<br /><br />Officials in Hoboken, Jersey City and Ridgefield -- communities where mayors were led away in handcuffs last week -- confirmed Wednesday they have received subpoenas demanding records, e-mails and letters connected to those arrested and to any development projects they allegedly discussed with a wire-wearing FBI informant.<br /><br />Additional subpoenas were served at town hall in Secaucus, where Mayor Dennis Elwell resigned following his arrest, and at the state Legislature in Trenton, according to legislative and law enforcement officials.<br /><br />Many also called for the resignation of Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy, who has not been charged but who was heard on tape meeting with the informant in a Jersey City luncheonette to discuss development approvals.<br /><br />After the council meeting, a trembling and flushed Healy told a throng of reporters he had no intention of stepping down.<br /><br />Earlier in the morning, about 50 people demonstrated outside City Hall, chanting and hoisting signs that called for Healy, Vega and others named in court documents to step down.More perp walks cominghttp://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/07/federal_authorities_issue_subp.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-70736056127438241272009-07-31T19:18:54.222-04:002009-07-31T19:18:54.222-04:00The putz doesn't mention that his brother Mark...The putz doesn't mention that his brother Mark Borovitz is a convicted fraudster.<br /><br />http://www.jstandard.com/index.php/content/item/9247<br /><br />Rabbi Neal Borovitz of Temple Avodat Shalom in River Edge ... is “absolutely appalled” when rabbis cross the line into criminal behavior. “I have the sense that within their own communities they live according to Torah,” he said, and that somehow they think the ethical precepts don’t apply in their relations with the secular world.<br /><br />“There is one law for everyone,” he said. Jewish teaching doesn’t say “don’t steal from Jews, it says don’t steal.”<br /><br />When rabbis are arrested, it’s a “shanda,” an embarrassment to the Jewish community at large. “I find it tragic,” Borovitz said.<br /><br />Borovitz said he will be raising the issue in his sermons, and it is an especially relevant subject in view of the timing — the season of introspection that begins with Tisha B’Av and culminates with the High Holy Days.Reform Rabbi Neal Borovitzhttp://www.jstandard.com/index.php/content/item/9247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-6454546937888109152009-07-31T17:58:07.050-04:002009-07-31T17:58:07.050-04:00Three Bank of America Directors Resign
07/31/09 -...Three Bank of America Directors Resign<br /><br />07/31/09 - 05:35 PM EDT<br /> <br />CHARLOTTE, N.C. (TheStreet) -- Three Bank of America(BAC Quote) directors have resigned, the firm disclosed Friday in an SEC filing.Moetzes Resignnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-20714450640328858562009-07-31T12:03:14.887-04:002009-07-31T12:03:14.887-04:00Filed at 11:32 a.m. ET
LONDON (AP) -- The British...Filed at 11:32 a.m. ET<br /><br />LONDON (AP) -- The British government said Friday that it plans to ban private organ transplants from dead donors to allay fears that prospective recipients can buy their way to the front of the line.More fallout from Shlomo Drecknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-32663927656338208722009-07-31T12:01:03.652-04:002009-07-31T12:01:03.652-04:00Although Brisk holds that Tzionim are choshud on r...Although Brisk holds that Tzionim are choshud on retzicha, something doesn't sound right to me as Briskers are also careful to get facts from reliable sources, otherwise known in Brisker sforim as the ubiquitous "Ish Neeman".<br /><br />I don't think the Tzionim would go azoy veit here to doctor videotapes and I don't think R' Dovid would go that route either.Briskernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-86617749835357604002009-07-31T11:56:34.486-04:002009-07-31T11:56:34.486-04:00Peter Cammarano III, the mayor of Hoboken, N.J., w...Peter Cammarano III, the mayor of Hoboken, N.J., who was arrested July 23 in a huge state corruption sweep, resigned effective at noon on Friday<br /><br />Cammarano declared to FBI informant Solomon Dwek that, once in office, he would divide the world into three categories: “the people who were with us” all along, “the people who climbed aboard in the runoff,” and those who were “against us the whole way.”<br /><br />Of this last group, the complaint quotes him as saying, “They get ground into powder.”When will Margo and Belsky "take a powder"?noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-72345317856256395972009-07-31T11:08:47.233-04:002009-07-31T11:08:47.233-04:00Pinny Lipshitz is like the immature kids in yeshiv...Pinny Lipshitz is like the immature kids in yeshivishe high schools who are chalashing to get into Brisk and always make a point of mentioning AJ and various associations with Brisk.<br /><br />He plays the same game defending Rubashkin writing that the Agri rav hamachshir Weissmandel told him some vort from R' Berel.<br /><br />Pinny also looks at it as a marketing tool thinking the oylam will take his shtussim seriously if he drags in a mention of Brisk.Yeshivishnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-87485644583425195052009-07-31T09:57:42.900-04:002009-07-31T09:57:42.900-04:00Mich. man jailed for assault during Monopoly game ...Mich. man jailed for assault during Monopoly game <br /><br />Thu, 30 Jul 2009 06:04 pm <br /><br />AP - A game of Monopoly has landed a Michigan man in jail. WDIV-TV reported a 54-year-old man was playing the board game Saturday night with a female friend when he tried to buy Park Place and Boardwalk from her.Ronnie Schreiber Pidon Shvuyim Fundnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-65491283433495968452009-07-31T09:07:35.404-04:002009-07-31T09:07:35.404-04:00http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-...http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1200059/pigs-sea.html#ixzz0Lzc2lKPW<br /><br />If I get kicked out of South Fallsburg, Applegrad says he can get me a spot in this place.Yudi Kolkohttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1200059/pigs-sea.html#ixzz0Lzc2lKPWnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-72825242645189244502009-07-31T09:04:39.232-04:002009-07-31T09:04:39.232-04:00http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/07/31/after-182-b...http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/07/31/after-182-billion-taxpayer-rescue-is-aig-on-the-verge-of-colla/<br /><br />After $182 billion taxpayer rescue, is AIG on the verge of collapse?Outrageoushttp://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/07/31/after-182-billion-taxpayer-rescue-is-aig-on-the-verge-of-colla/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-85473604166180798132009-07-31T08:44:06.289-04:002009-07-31T08:44:06.289-04:00Can anyone verify this?
Pinny Lipschutz is runnin...Can anyone verify this?<br /><br />Pinny Lipschutz is running around saying R' Dovid Soloveitchik called the arrest of the Yerushalmi woman who injured her child an "alilas dam" aka blood libel.<br /><br />And even if it is true why is Pinny conveniently ignoring sensible opinions to the contrary from R' Nosson Tzvi Finkel and others?Fact Checkernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-65256115393378255102009-07-31T08:11:38.008-04:002009-07-31T08:11:38.008-04:00JWB says Rabbi Adler Speaks Out Against Rabbi Max:...JWB says Rabbi Adler Speaks Out Against Rabbi Max:<br /><br />1)The article:<br />http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/rabbi_adler_speaks_out_against_rabbi_max/13744<br /><br />Rabbi Adler Speaks Out Against Rabbi Max<br />MMAE spiritual leader addresses Rabbi Max situation.<br />July 31, 2009<br /><br />Phil Jacobs<br />Executive Editor<br /><br />2)The text of the sermon<br />http://www.mmae.org/rabbi_max_sermon.pdf<br />(Excerpts)<br />SHABBAT SERMON<br />July 11, 2009/Tammuz 19, 5769<br />Rabbi Elan Adler<br />The Rabbi Max story: What happened? What now?<br />Ever since the story about Rabbi Max’s conviction broke on April 12th, there has<br />been hushed talk about what happened, could it have happened, did it happen,<br />what else happened….for the past three months, our congregation has been in the<br />news- radio, newspapers, television and the Internet. A week hasn’t gone by<br />where the Jewish Times didn’t write an article, an op-ed, or print letters to the<br />Editor about Rabbi Max and the congregation he served.<br />....<br />And yet, while all of this is true, it doesn’t absolve Rabbi Max from taking<br />responsibility for the shame and embarrassment he has brought upon himself and<br />upon the synagogue, and it doesn’t excuse him from going to each person he has<br />harmed to confess and ask for forgiveness. After speaking with several clinicians<br />and therapists who have victims of Rabbi Max as quiet suffers because no one<br />would believe them, and after hearing victims themselves, most of whom have<br />no interest in having their names publicized and no axe to grind publicly, it is<br />clear that we don’t know the full extent of the story.<br />...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-91522711203093230712009-07-31T08:02:12.987-04:002009-07-31T08:02:12.987-04:00You can call the Agudah to find out who their arch...You can call the Agudah to find out who their archivist is. ALternatively search the web please. <br /><br />I thought the Agudah held of the shulchan oruch. draw your own conclusions...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-82022096981970638492009-07-31T07:08:53.786-04:002009-07-31T07:08:53.786-04:00Is Ben Brafman (great guy-Lawyer) going to be invi...Is Ben Brafman (great guy-Lawyer) going to be invited to deliver annual Mussar shmueses at Agudah organized ASS-IFFA's on Business Ethics?<br /><br />At what point does this moral rot/decay get reversed and eliminated?boognoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-87847034982903786102009-07-31T00:46:24.193-04:002009-07-31T00:46:24.193-04:00Many people would be surprised if I left my name w...Many people would be surprised if I left my name with this email. Yudi kolko tried to molest me many years ago. I was a smart enough 11 year old to run away. I never talked about it whixh is one of the greatest regrets of my life. He is a sick man that needs help and our tefelos but we must not let him be put in nisyonis since he refuses to keep away from them himselfAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-1983625317173574572009-07-31T00:43:04.671-04:002009-07-31T00:43:04.671-04:00I worked for a year with convicted sex offenders i...I worked for a year with convicted sex offenders in an incarceration unit here in Phoenix at the state hospital. These are the vilest vermin on earth. Not one took responsibility for their crimes, blaming the victims most of the time. I heard that, "she came on to me". The she was a five year old . Or "she/he consented". The "consent"was given by a child to have sex, can you imagine such thinking? Statistically, a pedophile will have dozens, if not hundreds of victims before they are caught, convicted, and jailed. Look it up, I'm not exaggerating the magnitude. Also,even if the perpetrator does t'shuvah,which I am doubtful of, the victims suffer all their life. That t'shuvah doesn't alleviate their pain. I believe that there's a special Gehinnom for these child molestors and the people who protected them . We have to be aware of this problem, and deal with it effectively, to protect our greatest treasures, our kinderlach.Moshe in Phoenix AZnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-12781564828794806482009-07-31T00:39:58.977-04:002009-07-31T00:39:58.977-04:00Kolko should be banished to a lepers colony. I rem...Kolko should be banished to a lepers colony. I rememeber, almost 30 years ago he molested my employee's kid, and guess what, when she went to complain to the Hanhalah, she was told to "Keep quiet, orwe'll throw your kids out of yeshivah and make sure that 'No other Yeshivah will accept them'".<br />Shame on these Mechanchim and Raabonim.<br /><br />As the Novi says "Yodeichem domim moleihu".In the knownoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-13723948919445438542009-07-31T00:38:22.443-04:002009-07-31T00:38:22.443-04:00http://www.vosizneias.com/35890/2009/07/29/south-f...http://www.vosizneias.com/35890/2009/07/29/south-fallsburg-ny-fallsburg-yeshiva-vigorously-denies-it-has-welcomed-acused-abuser/<br /><br />Yesterday at 05:51 PM<br />Anonymous Says:<br /><br />In Far Rockaway, a non-Jewish man was arrested and accused of molesting a Jewish child in the mikvah on Roosevelt Court. There were no witnesses. The boy was special needs. The case was dismissed. Guess where the man still works?Far Rockawayhttp://www.vosizneias.com/35890/2009/07/29/south-fallsburg-ny-fallsburg-yeshiva-vigorously-denies-it-has-welcomed-acused-abuser/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-65378153070274175842009-07-31T00:35:43.536-04:002009-07-31T00:35:43.536-04:00http://www.vosizneias.com/35890/2009/07/29/south-f...http://www.vosizneias.com/35890/2009/07/29/south-fallsburg-ny-fallsburg-yeshiva-vigorously-denies-it-has-welcomed-acused-abuser/<br /><br />Most VIN posters usually take the wrong side of every issue but most of the posters on the Yudi Kolko story say he is guilty and should get the hell out of South Fallsburg.<br /><br />One of the only putzes defending Kolko there compares the story to Kamtza & Bar Kamtza.UOJ gets resultshttp://www.vosizneias.com/35890/2009/07/29/south-fallsburg-ny-fallsburg-yeshiva-vigorously-denies-it-has-welcomed-acused-abuser/noreply@blogger.com