WFMZ TV has video of Rabbi Moshe Rubashkin’s burned out, long abandoned Allentown, PA mill.
Here’s the money quote:
[City council person Gail] Hoover says in a perfect world the owner of this building would pay to fix the problem … but he’s nowhere to be found.
Ever thought of looking in Brooklyn?
The Jerusalem Post reports:
…Ninety of the Knessets 120 members were persuaded over several months by Knesset Labor, Social Affairs and Health Committee chairman MK Shaul Yahalom to sign a potential organ donor card distributed by the ADI organization. The other 30, most of them secular, refused for "personal or family" reasons, while haredi and other [...]
The New York Times has a piece on the resurgence of mikvah use in America:
The effort to revive mikvahs has been largely motivated by a mandate from Rebbe Menachem M. Schneerson, of the Lubavitch movement, who died in 1994. He assigned rabbinical emissaries to set up Jewish communities worldwide and directed them to build mikvahs [...]
The 167-member OIE has adopted standards on animal welfare:
Standards on animal welfare, included in 4 chapters, were adopted (i.e. slaughter for human consumption, including religious slaughter; land and sea transport of animals; humane killing of animals for disease control purposes). For the 1st time, an organisation with a global mandate provides the international community with [...]
From Kosher Today:
SYSCO Pulls License from Veal Producer Over Kosher Slaughter(Brooklyn) Atlantic Veal, a 50-year old Brooklyn-based producer of veal with a slaughterhouse in Ohio, has lost its license to do business with SYSCO, the world s largest foodservice company, after an auditor failed the company because of its kosher production at the plant. Kosher [...]
The Lubavitch News Service has published Chabad’s official spin on NYC’s closure of a Chabad daycare center for health and fire code violations:
…[N]ormal naptime at the preschool had been disturbed by an intrusive
contingent of firefighters and city officials who came prodding and
poking their way into classrooms in search of building and code
violations. Turns out all [...]
… When Shlomo Amar, the Sephardic chief rabbi, announced recently in Jerusalem that he accepted the Bnei Menashe as one of the 10 "lost tribes" of Israel, Mr. Singson began to believe that God had finally smiled on him.…
When news of the March 29 announcement of Israel’s recognition of their tribe reached Bnei Menashe villages [...]
From the New York Post:
FDNY SHUTS TOT CENTER By ERIN CALABESEand JENNIFER FERMINO
May 27, 2005 — A Staten Island day-care center was shut down yesterday when firefighters — after reading about its grand-opening celebrations in a local paper — paid a surprise inspection and found it was unlicensed.
The Torah Tots Academy, which was [...]
Sudanese children eat boiled leaves – their only meal of the day.
They’ll run out of leaves soon.
From today’s Jerusalem Post:
"Lithuanian" haredim, who tend to be more rational in their devotion and shun emphasis on Kabbala, are less likely to trek to Meron.
Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, the preeminent Lithuanian spiritual leader on halachic opinion, once expressed this approach in a pithy statement, "Sure, Rabbi Shimon is alive, right here in my Talmud".
More [...]
1955: The first Ethiopian Jews to arrive in Israel find homes at AMIT Kfar Batya. Most eventually return to Ethiopia as educators and community leaders. [Photo: AMIT.]
The Allentown, Pennsylvania textile mill owned by Rabbi Moshe Rubashkin is so unsafe that the city may spend $400,000 to tear it down:
City officials say the fenced-in site is unsafe and has suffered a series of break-ins and even a small fire since an April 19 blaze gutted the clothing factory and was later [...]
The June issue of National Geographic Magazine has a story on Rubashkin, PETA and the Great Kosher Meat Scandal of 2004. Don’t miss the pictures.
The Scientist has a piece on the recent controversy surrounding Rabbi Nosson Slifkin:
… "Intelligent design usually involves arguing that there are structures in living creatures which cannot be explained by naturalistic processes," [Rabbi Slifkin] writes via E-mail. "I think that this is a potentially problematic approach, certainly from a Jewish perspective. Judaism has always focused [...]
