Woman sues missionary organization that gave her faulty menorah

by Heshy Fried on December 14, 2009 · 28 comments

free menorahA woman plans to sue the Jewish missionary movement known as Crushed Hats and Beards, claiming that the free menorah she received from them at a local mall, despite its model having been recalled by the manufacturer, to have caused her house to catch fire when it failed to hold up to the rigors of inexperienced chanukah candle lighters like her self.

The woman claims that she was walking through the mall, when a man who had been talking to a group of “Israeli looking” kiosk managers, turned to her very rudely and asked if she was Jewish. She described the man as unshaven and very religious looking and she was frightful, but she felt bad because he was so young and excited, after she replied yes – he asked about her lineage – before giving her a menorah, box of candles and a yellow flag.

She recalls thinking that the menorah looked “rather flimsy” and she assumed that due to the shaky economy and the fact she was a woman, she had received the batch reserved for questionably Jewish women. “I heard about these missionaries, getting unsuspecting non-practicing Jews to come over for meals, light candles and make donations to their movement,” the woman says. She didn’t give him any money, but claims that when she went home an overpowering urge to light the menorah took over her and she lit it.

The Crushed Hats and Beards Press Secretary told us that she was a lying misnaged and that she had made such claims before. “Did you know that she tried to sue Telze Yeshiva for choking on the free charoses they mail out before Passover? – Everyone knows that it’s just a sample of the wonderful outreach that Telze Yeshiva does and you’re not really supposed to eat it. To be honest, I use it to seal up my windows”, Menachem Mendel Hecht-Krinsky told Fs-News.

Many inside sources tell us that this woman is in fact a Kiruv scam artist, pretending to be non-observant and than scamming organizations for millions. Rumors have surfaced of her many different scams, including posing as a non-Jew and ripping off countless families during her chometz buying scams, getting free tefillin from the tefillin bank and reselling them, selling inauthentic kabbalah strings by the stairs to the kotel, posing as a beggar who doesn’t speak English that has six children needing to be fed and she may have been the mastermind behind the Uman scandal of fake flights earlier in the year.

“That’s preposterous,” she told us FS-News at a recent one-on-one interview, that she agreed to on condition of anonymity. “I have no idea what any of these things are – a bearded man gave me a faulty menorah, it caused damage to my house and suddenly they try and paint me as fraud, something doesn’t seem right, next I can imagine them trying to claim I had something to do with bringing Rubashkin down.” Angry words from a woman who according to fire investigators, placed her menorah on a shaky table, which has a remarkable resemblance to a table recently stolen from a nearby kosher pizza store.

Fortunately she has already garnered the support of anti-CHaB media throughout the world. Many websites claim that “Crushed Hats and Beards menorahs are notoriously flimsy” and “the candles tend to break and shave off important length when trying to place them inside.”

The woman is planning on filing suit for compensatory and pecuniary damages totaling $2 million.

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{ 28 comments… read them below or add one }

quasi-editor December 14, 2009 at 10:14 PM

I like Crushed Hats and Beards. This new ironic abbreviation kick is interesting. the inspiration?

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Heshy Fried December 14, 2009 at 10:42 PM

Well I didn’t want to be sued and I was thinking what sort of name I could use – I thought of a bunch but that really brought it home

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Yochanan December 15, 2009 at 1:05 AM

How about Schneersonistas?

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frumhockster December 14, 2009 at 10:35 PM

SATIRE

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Charlie December 14, 2009 at 10:40 PM

Hysterical!!!!

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TRS December 14, 2009 at 10:53 PM

Hesh, this was good. Very good.

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Anonymous December 14, 2009 at 11:08 PM

For some reason I really doubt that you wrote this, Hesh. Unless you had it edited by a real professional.

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Anonymous December 15, 2009 at 1:27 AM

Oh-No! I have the very same one…

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Heshy Fried December 15, 2009 at 2:09 AM

Wow the first person to notice that I got an editor, I have had an editor for the past month or so but you’re the first to notice anything was different. My editor doesn’t write for me – she – corrects my grammar and spelling.

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how about... December 15, 2009 at 2:57 AM

GAY!!!!!!

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Gila December 15, 2009 at 3:11 AM

I love this! So funny and the lack of run-on sentences is greatly appreciated.

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Anonymous December 15, 2009 at 3:55 AM

gsg

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Me December 15, 2009 at 5:22 AM

Herself is one word not two.

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Fetzel December 15, 2009 at 5:52 AM

And I think you meant “frightened”, not “frightful”.

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FrumGer December 15, 2009 at 11:00 AM

good post heshy

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Big Menorah December 15, 2009 at 2:51 PM

See the largest Lego Chanukiah in Jerusalem, and perhaps Israel.

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ha December 15, 2009 at 3:15 PM

heshey, whats with u and chabadniks?

oh and since chabad is essentially a group of satellite operations with no central body, you will have some serious problems finding someone to sue who can cough up 2 mil.

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CA December 15, 2009 at 11:13 PM

She described the man as unshaven and very religious looking and she was frightful

I think your editor meant “she was frightened” or “he was frighful”.

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Heshy Fried December 17, 2009 at 9:13 AM

Wow CA where have you been?

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Chris_B December 16, 2009 at 2:17 AM

Is it just me or is the one candle at the wrong end?

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Anonymous December 16, 2009 at 4:02 AM

There is no wrong end. You could light your one candle on the edge of a spoon and it would be just as good.

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PepGiraffe December 23, 2009 at 10:22 PM

I thought that was part of the satire . . . and a nice touch. (I come via Frume Sarah.)

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Dave Garr December 16, 2009 at 3:30 AM

Hey Hesh,

What category of SN does Extra Virgin Olive Oil belong to ?

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Yerachmiel Lopin December 16, 2009 at 9:19 AM

This one is gonna make me laugh for eight days!

BTW, why couldn’t they do the mitzvah mehudar with the aluminum foil?

Happy Chanukah, Heshy.

Check out my satirical chanukah drashah by the ChaptZemNisht Rebbe from the Otisville Correctional Institution about pidyon shvuyim

http://frumfollies.wordpress.com/2009/12/10/chaptzemnisht/

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Borrav December 17, 2009 at 6:32 AM

can i sue my rabbi if my prayers at the synagogue were not answered?

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danny December 17, 2009 at 11:23 AM

hesh, whats your love affair with chabadnicks? just go hook upwith one. just do it. btw i would love to…just dont think it would happen…your not to far from ch,,, go for shabbos…i hear there is good food and plenty of glen, goose, and smifnoff on shabbos as well.

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cma December 19, 2009 at 3:06 AM

lolol

awesome that u got an editor

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Jelen December 23, 2009 at 3:43 AM

dude. not cool. chabad does a lot of really awesome important things all over the world.

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