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Category Archives: Yisroel Pensack
Yisroel Pensack: Some Thoughts on the Sentencing Hearing of Sholom Rubashkin
A sentencing hearing in the financial fraud case of former Agriprocessors kosher slaughterhouse manager and Lubavitcher chassid Sholom Rubashkin is scheduled to begin tomorrow (Wednesday) in federal court in Iowa. There is a concept in Judaism that each Shabbat “blesses,” … Continue reading
Posted in Agriprocessors, Chabad, Ethics, Fraud, Judaism, Kashrut, Torah, Truth, Yisroel Pensack
Tagged animal slaughter, chillul Hashem, conduit for blessing, confession, egypt, federal court, Iowa, lubavitcher, lubavitcher rebbe, Pesach sheni, Rashi, sacrificing animals, second Passover, sentencing hearing, shabbat, Sholom Rubashkin, wages, weights and measures, yom kippur
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Yisroel Pensack: Nazi-era Luftwaffe Nurse, Founder of Chile-based Anti-Semitic Religious Sect and Convicted Child Abuser, Dies In Prison; Was Under Investigation in 1985 Disappearance of Jewish Penn State University Math Professor
The New York Times reports: A former Nazi-era German soldier who founded a secretive German cult in southern Chile, where he sexually abused about 25 children, died of heart failure at a prison hospital early Saturday, Chilean officials said. He … Continue reading
Posted in Abuse, Anti-Semitism, Crime, Cults, Germany, Nazi, Predators, Yisroel Pensack
Tagged 20-year sentence, Boris Weisfeiler, Chile, Colonia Dignidad, died in prison, disappearance, drowned, executed, German cult, held captive, kidnapped, luftwaffe, mystery, Nazi-era German soldier, never charged, Paul Schaefer, Pennsylvania State University, Russian-born Jew, sexual abuse of minors, tortured, Villa Baviera
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Yisroel Pensack: Today’s Self-Appointed Chareidi Tznius Police Lack Support in Halacha
In 2001, “The Edah Journal” ran what it said was the first publication in English of a 1920 responsum (opinion on Jewish law) regarding women’s electoral rights by Rav BenZion Meir Hai Uziel, who was Sephardic chief rabbi of Jaffa … Continue reading
Posted in Women, Yisroel Pensack
Tagged Edah Journal, entering a shop, halachah, inconceivable issues, licentiousness, prohibited, R. BenZion Meir Hai Uziel, responsum, Sephardic chief rabbi, tznius police, walking in the street, women's suffrage
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Used Car Fraud
Yisroel Pensack posts on Failed Messiah: The original corrupt multimillion-dollar “charity” used-car fraud king was Chabad-Lubavitch “Rabbi” Bentzion Pil from San Francisco. He and his wife Mattie Plotkin even made the front page of The Wall Street Journal for their … Continue reading
Posted in Chabad, Yisroel Pensack
Tagged business acumen, car fraud, chabad lubavitch, charity gift, charity money, jewish educational center
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Yisroel Pensack: ‘Global Warming’ Rears Its Pretty White Face over the U.S. East Coast
Just in time to punctuate the ending of the much-hyped global conference on climate change in Copenhagen, the Great Weatherman in the Sky sent a season’s greetings reality check message to the eastern United States, including the nation’s capital. The … Continue reading
Posted in New York Times, Yisroel Pensack
Tagged biggest snowstorm in years, blizzard-like conditions, climate change, copenhagen, eastern United States, global warming, Great Weatherman in the Sky, Mid-Atlantic States, nation's capital, pretty white face, snow blankets East Coast, two feet of snow
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Swiss Vote to Ban New Minarets
The New York Times reports: Switzerland’s political right on Sunday scored a surprising victory in a referendum on banning construction of minarets, denting the nation’s cherished image as a bastion of tolerance and threatening to set it at odds with … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, New York Times, Yisroel Pensack
Tagged ban, kosovo, minarets, mosques, muslims, referendum, S.V.P., Swiss People's Party, Switzerland, Turkey
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Yisroel Pensack: The National Football League’s Headless Head Injury Committee
The New York Times reports: In the latest indication that the National Football League will redirect its approach to players’ concussions, the co-chairmen of the league’s committee on brain injuries resigned from the group Tuesday, the league announced. Dr. Ira … Continue reading
Posted in New York Times, Sports, Yisroel Pensack
Tagged co-chairmen, cognitive decline, Commissioner Roger Goodell, committee on brain injuries, concussions, Congress, dementia, Dr. David Viano, Dr. Elliot Pellman, Dr. Ira Casson, football players, N.F.L., National Footbal League, scientists
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Judge Denies Rubashkin Bail Bid
The Des Moines Register reports: A federal judge has denied Sholom Rubashkin’s request to be released on bail until he is sentenced on 86 financial fraud convictions. Chief Judge Linda Reade ruled that Rubashkin, the former vice president of Agriprocessors, … Continue reading
Posted in Agriprocessors, Orthodoxy, Yisroel Pensack
Tagged 86 financial fraud convictions, bail, des moines register, escape risk, flee the country, Hosam Amara, Judge Linda Reade, kosher slaughterhouse, Linn County Correctional Facility, northeast iowa, postville, sentencing, Sholom Rubashkin
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Feds Dismiss Immigration Charges Against Sholom Rubashkin
The Des Moines Register reports: Federal prosecutors dismissed all immigration charges against former Postville [Iowa] meat plant manager Sholom Rubashkin today, one week after a South Dakota jury convicted him of 86 business-fraud charges. The decision spares Rubashkin a second … Continue reading
Posted in Agriprocessors, Yisroel Pensack
Tagged bail hearing, business fraud charges, Cedar Rapids, convicted, des moines register, Guy Cook, immigration charges, Iowa, Judge Linda Reade, meat plant, Peter Deegan Jr., postville, Sholom Rubashkin, South Dakota
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