AgriProcessors leader Sholom M. Rubashkin has quite an interesting family.
His brother-in-law, Rabbi Milton Balkany, has been in the news for misappropriating almost one million dollars of Federal money meant for disabled students and for his habit of "bundling" campaign donations that has earned him the nickname "The Brooklyn Bundler."
Now it appears that the Rubashkin-Balkany [...]
Entries from January 2005
January 27, 2005
Rubashkin Campaign Donations – Just A Coincidence?
January 27, 2005
Should The Allies Have Bombed Auschwitz?
Should the Allies have bombed Auschwitz? Sir Martin Gilbert addresses this issue in today’s London Times.
His short answer? No.
January 26, 2005
Burning Books, Ruining Lives, Destroying Truth – The Slifkin Ban In Perspective
Jeffery Woolf of Bar Illan University has this to say about the Slifkin ban:
800 years ago, the kind of witch hunt this ban has generated led
‘Frummer Yidn’ to invite the Holy Office of the Inquisition to burn the
writings of the heretic from Cairo. They did so in the center of
Montpellier. That act of fanatical mesira [...]
January 25, 2005
Stalin Back In Favor As New Putin-Approved Statue Goes Up In Moscow … And Chabad Rehabilitates Stalin
A NEW statue of the Soviet dictator Josef Stalin is to be erected in Moscow, returning his once-ubiquitous image to the streets after an absence of four decades, a top city official said yesterday.
Since Vladimir Putin became president in 2000, a number of Soviet symbols – including the national anthem and an army flag – [...]
January 24, 2005
Misuse Of Memory: Chabad To Decorate Putin With Medal – AT AUSCHWITZ
Russia’s Chabad Chief Rabbi and Mr. Putin’s favorite Court Jew Berel Lazar announced the most sickening public relations stunt I’ve ever seen:
Russian President Vladimir Putin will be decorated at Auschwitz with the Salvation medal as a symbol of gratitude to the Soviet people for the liberation of the notorious Nazi death camp, Russia’s Chief [...]
January 24, 2005
Auschwitz 60 Years After
Today, the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, raises a question:
Why are there no Jewish holidays to commemorate events like this?
Should not the day the Auschwitz death machine stopped be remembered? What about a holiday commemorating the end of WW2 – should we not show gratitude to G-d for the end of those horrible [...]
January 22, 2005
Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan, z”l On The Age Of The Universe
Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan’s, z"l, position of the age of the universe based on early Kabbalistic sources is highlighted after the jump.
January 22, 2005
Jewish Press & NY Jewish Week Run Openly Messianist Chabad-Lubavitch Ad
According to a NYC-based reader, the Brooklyn-based Jewish Press and the Manhattan-based Jewish Week this week published an openly messianist Chabad-Lubavitch ad.
January 22, 2005
Jewish Press & NY Jewish Week Run Openly Messianist Chabad-Lubavitch Ad
According to a NYC-based reader, the Brooklyn-based Jewish Press and the Manhattan-based Jewish Week this week published an openly messianist Chabad-Lubavitch ad.
January 22, 2005
Jewish Press & NY Jewish Week Run Openly Messianist Chabad-Lubavitch Ad
According to a NYC-based reader, the Brooklyn-based Jewish Press and the Manhattan-based Jewish Week this week published an openly messianist Chabad-Lubavitch ad.
January 22, 2005
Jewish Press & NY Jewish Week Run Openly Messianist Chabad-Lubavitch Ad
According to a NYC-based reader, the Brooklyn-based Jewish Press and the Manhattan-based Jewish Week this week published an openly messianist Chabad-Lubavitch ad.
January 21, 2005
Cross-Currents Skewered
The best satire of the thinly-veiled, Pravda-like Agudath Israel ‘blog’ Cross-Currents can be found here. Enjoy!
January 21, 2005
Israel: YU Degrees Not Accepted Here
In an attempt to cut down on the number of fraudulent academic degrees used to scam Israel’s socialized pay-scale system, the education ministry has decided to refuse recognition of any undergraduate degree issued by universities overseas universities that accept one year of yeshiva studies in Israel as university-level credits. In effect, this leaves all YU, [...]
January 21, 2005
Bad Journalism 102 – FrontPage Magazine
FrontPage Magazine has an exchange between Michael Rosen and PETA’s Ben Goldsmith.
As I noted previously, Rosen and FrontPage Magazine will win no reporting awards for their coverage of this story.
