If you weed through all the negativity and Chabad bashing that permeates the Jewish world and beyond, you begin to realize that Chabad is the most practical sect within Orthodoxy. People love to point out the negative cult like traits…
Tag: rubashkin
Are we making Rubashkin into some sort of hero?
There’s another video devoted to the “tragedy” of Rubashkin and the sadness that his family is going through. It seems in my mind that he’s being made into some sort of hero, there is no longer a focus on the…
Haven’t we learned anything from Rubashkin
Rabbosy, I am speaking to you today about a dangerous ailment that effects the frum community each year around Succos time. As we all know, our dear gadol Harav Shalom Rubashkin shlita has been ruined by an anti-Semitic decree against…
A kiddush Hashem from the kosher meat industry?
I know it seems impossible after the Rubashkin fiasco, but lo and behold a recent article in the JTA portrayed a good picture for the kosher meat industry from the daily plant life at Empire and I felt compelled to…
Lakewood bachur figures out Rubashkin conspiracy
I wanted to believe it was achdus. I wanted to believe that orthodox Jews from all walks of life could actually agree on something. I wanted to believe that despite what Rav Ahron, Rav Shach and so many others have…
Is the Rubashkin Trial anti-Semitic?
By Eliyahu Fink In a word, no. If you are like me, you have been reading about the Rubashkin saga for months. What began with a Federal raid at a meat processing plant to ferret out hundreds of illegal alien…
What do you think of the Rubashkin case?
I received a phone call last night from a good friend of mine asking me what I thought of the current effort to influence the proceedings of the Rubashkin trial. I had no answer for him and that bothered me.…
Fraud in the frum community: My thoughts and experiences
I am not shocked at all by the recent cases of business and money related fraud, its too bad I kind of expect this type of thing from the frum community, I am totally used to fraud, hearing about it…