Background: Monsey shatnez test center is unqualified to test, and they put on non-shatnez labels on clothing that have shatnez. R"L = All clothing must be rechecked!
SHATNEZ TESTING: The Monsey Shatnez Test Center does testing in Monsey, Queens, Englewood & other areas as well.
While testing in Queens, there arose some questions by some of the Queens "Rabonim" as to the expertise of the tester. The Rabonim had garments that the Monsey tester labeled as non-Shatnez was re-tested by the National Shatnez Testing laboratory & found that they did in fact contain Shatnez.
The Rabonim confronted the Monsey tester, & was told that these garments contain Shatnez, yet he was unable to identify the places that contained the Shatnez. Other tests were prepared for the tester to ascertain his degree of expertise. After the conclusion of the testing of his expertise he was advised not to return to Queens.
We followed up with approaching Rabonim in Monsey, NY to advise them to follow up on the serious concerns of the conclusion of the Queens Rabonim. The Monsey Rabonim sent garments to the Monsey test center & had the same results; the National Shatnez The Monsey Shatnez Test Center does testing in Monsey, Englewood & other areas as well. The Monsey Shatnez Test Center used to go to Queens to do shatnez testing in Rabbi Friedman’s Shul & David’s Cleaners on Main Street every Sunday morning.
In June ’01-Sivan ‘61, some of the Queens "Rabbonim" (Rabbis Yigal Haimoff ,Shlomo Teitelbaum) began to suspect the validity of the Monsey tester. Therefore the Rabbonim acquired three garments that contained shatnez and sent them to the Monsey tester for testing via David Cleaners in Queens. All three garments the Monsey tester labeled as non-Shatnez. These garments were re-tested by the Directors of the National Association of Professional Shatnez Testers & Researchers (Lakewood) who confirmed that they did indeed contain Shatnez in obvious places, that any qualified tester should be able to find easily.
Rabbis Yigal Haimoff, Teitelbaum, Peretz Steinberg confronted the Monsey tester (June17’01-26 Sivan’61 in Rabbi Friedmans Shul), & they informed him that these garments contain Shatnez, yet he was unable to identify the places of the Shatnez.(?)
Another test was prepared for the Monsey tester to ascertain his degree of his expertise that took place on June 20th ’01 in front of Rabbis Oelbaum,Teitelbaum, Peretz Steinberg, Savitsky. They concluded by advising him not to return to Queens.
On July 17 ’01-26 Tamuz,’61 Rabbi Shain together with the Directors of the NAPSTAR met with Rabbis Yisroel Hager, Weissmandel, Schnebalg, Neiman to discuss the seriousness of the problem concerning the Monsey Shatnez Test Center.
The Directors of the NAPSTAR were asked to come to Monsey and demonstrate to the Rabbonim where was the shatnez in the garments that was certified as non–shatnez by the Monsey Test Center. The Directors of the NAPSTAR clearly showed Rabbis Yisroel Hager, Weissmandel, Schnebalg, Neiman the Shatnez, by use of Microscopes. The Rabbonim were shocked and dismayed how the shatnez was missed and that they all had labels non-Shatnez labels affixed to them by the Monsey tester.
Rabbis Yisroel Hager, Weissmandel, Schnebalg, Rottenberg, Neiman confronted the Monsey Shatnez Center with the facts on July 26th ’01-5 Av,’61 where he confessed that he is lacking the knowledge to be able to test properly & the Rabonim concluded that he is not qualified to test for Shatnez unless he attends extensive shatnez training sessions. (which the Monsey tester didn’t follow up)
Thereafter he went to the "Bnai-Brak" & Yerushlaim Shatnez laboratories to attempt to obtain a certification (August 12th- 15th). Rabbi Shain advised them to test his Shatnez knowledge.They interviewed him & advised him that he will require a least whole year of training in their Laboratory before they can consider certification. The Monsey tester informed them that he is leaving the Shatnez testing field altogether. Upon his return to Monsey he decided nonetheless to continue Shatnez testing.
A meeting of Rabbis Yisroel Hager,Weissmandel, Schnebalg, Rottenberg & the Belzer Dayan took place in Monsey on August 30th ’01-11Elul,’61 on how to proceed. Monday September 3rd ’01-15 Elul,’61 a comprehensive meeting took place. Rabbonim with the Bodkim of Lakewood, Williamsburg & Monsey. The purpose of the meeting was to try to get everyone to work as a unit.
Rabbonim attending were: Rabbis Yisroel Hager, Weissmandel, Schnebalg, Neiman, Rottenberg, Belzer Dayan , Satmar Dayan Also present were Rabbis Shain, Yeshaya Dovid Feier, and the Director’s of NAPSTAR R’ Yoel Schockett & R’Yosef Sayagh, & the Director of Lee Ave Shatnez Lab. R’ Yitzchok Gluestien and R’ Yakov Kreitman the Monsey tester. The conclusion of the meeting was that R’ Yakov Kreitman was going to be trained by R’ Yoel Schockett.
On Sept ’01-13 Elul,’61 Rabbi Schnebalg asked of R’ Schockett to please send R’ Yakov Kreitman the Monsey tester a garment that contains shatnez to see if he will find it, the shatnez was unfortunately missed. After Succos, by Nov 1st ’01-15 Cheshvan, ‘62 a total of nine garments were sent to the Monsey tester and all were certified as Non –Shatnez. All this was done under the auspices of Rabbi Schnebalg. On Nov 7th ’01-21 Cheshvan, ‘62 NAPSTAR were asked to come to Monsey & demonstrate to Rabbis Yisroel Hager, Weissmandel, Schnebalg, Neiman, Rottenberg where was the shatnez that was certified as non–shatnez by the Monsey Test Center.
Rabbi Rottenberg wrote everything that was said by the Directors of the NAPSTAR as to where the shatnez in every garment was, and then he sent the garments to WLSBG & Boro Park for further clarification. The Rabbonim met with the Monsey Tester and asked him to resign. Thereafter he obtained the certification of Bais Din "Mishpat-Sholom" in Brooklyn, NY despite “Mishpat Shalom” being advised by the Monsey Rabonim of the serious situation &; “mich’shol li’rabim”.
"Mishpat-Sholom" also certifies Lee Ave Laboratory. "Mishpat-Sholom Rabonim" admit that they don’t know the practical aspects of shatnez testing nor do they have a qualified expert in the practical testing of Shatnez in the Bais-Din. Lee Ave Brooklyn lab claims that they have retrained the Monsey tester. The fact remains that after retraining, we are confronted with the same problems, Shatnez garments having labels non-Shatnez.
Please Note: The writer, R' Yehuda Shain was trained in Shatnez testing under R' Yosef Rosenberger OB"M 45 +- years ago, and worked under his personal guidance. A meeting was called by Mishpat-Sholom Bais-Din (WLSBG) to update them of the findings of the Queens & Monsey Rabbonim as far as the Monsey tester.
The meeting took place in Wlsbg on Jan 16th ’02-3 Shevat, ‘62, Rabbi Shain & the Director of the NAPSTAR were present together with representatives of the Lee Ave Shatnez center. Why wasn’t the most important individual present, "the Monsey tester"?.
Some prominent Rabonim advised against going to the meeting called by the Bais-Din Mishpat Shalom as their intentions are to cover up & to make the accusers look foolish. We were not ready (at the time) to accept that a Bais-Din will be using such tactics. Also at the meeting was a CPA who brought some suits of his (purchased at the “British-American House” NYC) that were tested by the Lee Ave Shatnez center & labeled as Non-Shatnez. After retesting them at the Flatbush Lab (not affiliated with Lee Ave. Lab) they were found to contain obvious Shatnez.
Also present was a prominent Flatbush Rov, Rav Eliezer Ginsburg & a Flatbush askan. At first the Lee Ave. Lab told all of us & the Bais-Din that their tester has not been going to the British American House in NYC for 3 years (which was not true). The owner of the suits called the store from the Bais-Din & they said that the Lee Ave. Labs tester comes every 2 weeks to do Shatnez testing. The Bais-Din Mishpat Shalom was in a bind by certifying Shatnez garments as non-Shatnez.
Mishpat Shalom decided on a new tactic & wanted to know one thing only “why we brought this new problem to them"? This questions the qualifications of the current Lee Ave Laboratory as well. The current head of Lee Av Lab is the son in law of Mr. Rosenberger, OB"M who never let him get involved in Shatnez testing. (He obviously realized that he wasn’t qualified).
The CPA & Rav Eliezer Ginsburg asked the Mishpat-Sholom Bais-Din how they intend to deal with this additional serious problem. The Bais-Din responded that it's of utmost importance to know why I told the Flatbush group about this meeting & thereby putting them in a corner. And till they do not get a satisfactory response they will not address any real Shatnez issues.
Then one of the Judges said a long story about him eating a hot piece of Gefilte fish & going to the hospital, & it's hard for him to talk; yet all the Mishpat Shalom Judges had him do all of the talking.
We saw that the Monsey tester was not present & Lee Ave Lab was there, we realized the "set-up". At that point it was useless to remain any longer (2 + hours) at the meeting. We must confess that the Rabonim that advised us against going to the meeting, were regretfully right, as this is the outcome they foretold.
The facts as they are today, the Monsey Shatnez Center & the Lee Ave Lab. are certifying clothing containing Shatnez as "non-Shatnez", under Mishpat-Sholom Certification. The "Right Place" in Borough Park was advised that their tester is unqualified & is certifying suits containing Shatnez as "non-Shatnez", the Right Place refuses to stop deceiving the public and buyer beware.
All of the "Right Place" suits require re-testing by a qualified lab, which excludes the following labs: Lee Ave Lab & their affiliates, Monsey Test Center. They claim to be guided by a Psak of a Rov. The Shatnez testing fee is a fraud. We verified that the Rov was given wrong and misleading information.
There have been surfacing some fraudulent letters about Shatnez & other related issues. The Rabonim signed authentic letters that certain Shatnez testers are not to be relied upon. The fraudulent letters are known as the "Weinberg-letters". The Copy Express on Lee Ave. in Williamsburg is more than happy to provide anybody with copies of the fraudulent "Weinberg-letters".
Pps. Rabbis, among others were invited to the Shatnez meetings & turned it down as he is an” Erliche responsible tester” (e.g. Erlicher butcher) .This information is current.
CONCLUSION! YOU MUST RECHECK ALL YOUR CLOTHING!
For reliable Shatnez test centers in your area call 732–905–2628 or 732-364-7056
or
http://home.comcast.net/~shatnez/testing_labs.html
Since this past Rosh Hashonah, Lakewood "Kreitman" branch also is unqualified & misses shatnez.
55 comments:
I suggest that everyone learn an important lesson from Finkelgate, when an accusation is made by someone who mean it seriously, even if you are not sure whether to believe him or take him seriously, double check. Be on the safe side. Anyone who didn't believe Reb Yudel about Shevach years ago, but just to be on the safe side avoided buying from him, has not been kashering dishes this week. Same thing with Shatnez, maybe some of it is politics between the Shatnez labs, maybe Mr. Rosenberger's son-in-law is incompetent... who knows, but since it is a question of a Lav D'Oraysoh which is trasgressed every second the clothying is worn, perhaps double check and have the clothes tested by Flatbush or Lakewood labs. After all the Gemoro says better to be humiliated by walking home in underwear rather than face the humiliation in the wordl to come for wearing the clothes with Shatnez!
RE: the Shatnez issue in Monsey;
The Local Rabonim can't say "yuh'dainu lo shuf'chu etc"
I have serious problems beleiving your LH against The Right Place... Many are suggesting you are an alarmist...
If you accuse many of kashrus violations, and one, or some of the accusations turn out to have had some truth, that doesn't prove all of your accusations are true...
If you goes around accusing many, eventually one of the people you accuse may actually be caught with a wrongdoing, but that does not prove that you are always corect -- or even that you really were aware of the problem.
If you really knew Shevach was selling treif, as you so smugly intimate, how could you have not warned the public? I won't buy your version that no one cared... Is every rov in Monsey corrupt to the extent that not even one would investigate possible treif being sold to the public??? Do you expect us to buy that???
Furthermore, If you knew Shevach was selling treif, and no one would listen to you, why didn't you, yourself, go spread flyers about such a huge nichshal -- surely some people would have investigated... Surely the owners of Hatzlocha would have investigated.
I believe you are an alarmist...
If you truly have a reply to this, let's see you post it with a reply.
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just fyi I republished the comments I submitted to you on vosizneias. So whether you publish them or not, more people will see them than would on your site.
I gotta give you credit for publishing my comments. I didn't think you would.
yossi.
My information is very accurate. I will in due time publish to which Rabonim I have taken the hard evidence, including "bais-din mishpat sholom". All of their "Daiyonim" admited to me that their knowledge about shatnez is zero at best, yet they are certifying Wlsmbg & Monsey-both have serious problems.
Yossi,
Did you have any yeshiva education? How about the kashrus standards you have? It nebech seems to be that "timtum" got to you early in life, sorry to hear.
Rabbi Shain, which shatnez center from Mosney are you speaking about, krietman? from tree top
kreitman from tree top
Reb Yudel,
Where can i retest my clothing.. I live in Monsey.. I heard that there was another tester here.. Do you know/
Reb Yudel,
Where can i retest my clothing.. I live in Monsey.. I heard that there was another tester here.. Do you know/
I heard they teach shatnes testing in Lakewood. This is a 2 week course, and cost $1500. Is it reliable?
I don't know what they charge.
Lakewood's National assoc of Shatnez testers etc & their affiliates are the only qualified
Labs available
In monsey there is a Chaim Rosenberg a qualified tester.
For other names of qualified testers call 732-364-7056
you should update this Motsi Sham Ra.
Plese go to this tester and ask mechiallah; while you are there see all the haskamas and certifications on the wall.
The guy who is trained to test in Queens by the Lakewood lab is a person who for years gave people a psak after completing a sample taking course in Willamsburg without sending in the samples. Many things checked by him were found to have shatnez when rechecked by other labs. How could lakewood train someone who was machsil the rabbim for many years and never informed the public that he was unqualified to pasken
Which tester in Queens? Kew Gardens or KGH?
Spotlight on shatnez is #1.
who is this beis din in lakewood lmaan Shaatnez?
R' Zalz, R'Spitz, R' Kreitman?
Response from Lakewood Shatnez affiliated with International Shatnez Testers.
To Rabbi Kreitman of Monsey Shatnez,Bs'd
We were the ones who sent shatnez garments, and only after we had the evidence we went down to Queens and had a meeting with R' Haimoff.
The tester was happy to go and be trained in Lakewood. After months of training he became certified and he is now a reliable tester.
He was machshil people as long as he was affiliated with Lee Ave,
and didn't know any better the day we approached him he began training.
Kreitman hates him and he doesn't stop spreading rumors etc about this person
The Bais din in Lakewood wants to kasher the Monsey Shatnez center run by Y. Kreitman, so they are giving a hashgocha to Kreitmans son.
RESPONSE TO THE LAKEWOOD LAB : The guy on Main Street was not sending his samples in to Lee Avenue and they were informing people from Queens who came into the Lee Avenue lab that Ariel on Main Street was not sending in his samples and did not even complete the sample taking course
The one on Main Street in queensas not sending in while he was affialiated with 203 Lee Ave. All of those testerts, sample takers, Monsey Shatnez are all not to be relied upon.
Only use a Shatnez lab if they are certified by "The International Shatnez Testers".
Why aren't the girls not in school, The Headlines??
What's your problem?
http://testshatnez.com/ShatnezLabDirectory.aspx
Ariel Ben Mordechai on Main St in Queens is approved by IAPSL.
There is another tester in NY state however who was thrown out of a yeshiva over allegations of molesting kids. You should not send your kids alone to him for drop off & pick up like many parents do.
http://www.globalsources.com/gsol/I/Hair-extension/a/9000000112714.htm
Is this the latest Star K meshugass in China? A company claims to be making shaytelach under hashgocho with no Indian hair. The lower end offerings are using horse hair.
Get those girls in to a school
The heimishe hashgochos should no longer be able to use the flimsy excuse to cave in to chocolate & candy manufacturers that they must use resin from lac insects or else the product will deteriorate after 30 days.
http://www.multisorb.com/
This company makes an oxygen absorber that preserves for 9 months.
http://www.packworld.com/casestudy-30858
It was during the 2009 Fancy Food Show in New York that an oxygen absorber was recommended to Crown as a potential solution. After some research, Crown selected Multisorb Technologies as a potential supplier.
For the Crown project, Multisorb began by analyzing the candy & predicted its stability when exposed to oxygen once packaged. The initial information from Crown indicated loss of softness & sought a moisture-management solution. Quite logically, loss of softness in a confection correlates with loss of moisture. However, the analysis also included a review of packaging used by Crown — a standard film tray & lid, placed in a multilayer pouch — which was targeted as the cause of the problem. Due to the structure of the packaging, significant oxygen was trapped in the package once sealed. This led to oxidation, likely related to proteins in the formula, resulting in hardening of the product.
"We looked at freshness & shelf-life objectives & sent them potential oxygen scavenger samples to place in their candy packages for testing," says Quinn. "Crown Candies supplied Multisorb with candy samples, and we conducted our own tests on the product & packages both with & without the oxygen scavenger."
Based on the results, Multisorb recommended an oxygen scavenger in the form of a self-adhesive patch called FreshMax®, which can absorb both residual oxygen & oxygen permeating through the packaging over time. The standard-size label is supplied in strips of 6 for manual application; a continuous-spool format is available for automated equipment.
Multisorb also redesigned the candy package's film tray to include perforations that help eliminate trapped oxygen.
Who approves Kassirer in Kew Gardens?
The UOJ blog this week excerpts a court filing of Chaim Berlin selling an expensive piece of property in Manhattan & speculates if it might be to finance the lawsuit against bloggers. Non-profit organizations are required to file with the court & State AG before any real estate transaction.
http://www.yu.edu/Chag_HaSemikhah/page.aspx?id=21832
RIETS is supposed to be the frum part of YU, yet here they are disgracing the memory of R' Yitzchok Elchonon ztl by celebrating the shtellers that their musmachim have taken including many Conservative temple shtellers that they take the trouble to list.
yudel what about R.H. that tests by the hat box in brooklyn?
Why are you still beating a 5 yr. old story? Have you re-checked the operation lately?
Yudel,Who are you going to destroy today???
“If one is incarcerated due to a crime he committed (stealing, tax fraud or other serious crimes) there is no pidyon shevuyim, as he is being rightfully punished for his actions”
Psak of Rav Shlomo Zalmen Auerbach ztz”l. See also Pischei Teshuva Yoreh Deah (siman 251:1)
r' yudel is the shatnez tester in lakewood schmurak reliable?
Is gavriel finkel of vaad hadayonim in Lakewood the uncle of Moshe finkel from shevach non kosher meat from monsey? i was told that gavriel finkel of Lakewood is a MOSER and that he has no problem MASERING on other Yidden and having them arrested he allows his relitives and friends to have other frum Yidden Arrested and jailed over monetary issues or just to get revenge without going to Bais Din or even listening to The other side of the story
I try to use Zisow on rt9. always empty and does it on the spot- dont know why no-one goes there.
please explain who 'Lkwd' is referring to.
Yes Gavriel Finkel of Lakewood nj is Moshe Finkels uncle from shevach chicken in monsey ny it runs in the family believe it or not Gavriel Finkel runs the Kcl Kashrus in Lakewood
This whole thing is a mafia framing that's been going on for years. Yudel and co. know that Kreitman and any other levelheaded shatnez tester don't even check in places that are mutzoi to find shatnez in, so what they have been doing is putting on labels Non-Shatnez shatnez in shatnez garments, which are hallachically Genaivah & Machshil Bi'Maizid
The Kreitman group will continue to find new lows to reach. What's next labeling pork as kosher in a restaurants fridge?!
Yudel by posting comments exposing Shatnez fraud You will be changing the world of unsuspecting gullible consumers, you have exposed their guilt, thanks.
she works by shaniks
For those of you who mock R' Yudel for being obsessed with kashrus. Consider what it says in a sefer on the toldos of R' Elya Feinstein. R' Elya was R' Moishe's uncle who at a very young age was already considered from the gedolei hador & called to assifos together with zekeinim like R' Yitzchok Elchonon & the Bais haLevi.
He agreed to enter the rabbonus al tenai that no one disturb his learning unless there was an emergency. One of the items he listed as an emergency was kashrus problems.
At one assifa in 1882, the gedolim were trying to figure out how to appeal to the Czar to stop the pogroms. R' Elya who was still in his 30s was begging gedolim 5 decades older than him to not appeal to the Czar because it will make things worse. They didn't listen to him. R' Elya was correct. The Czarist Interior Minister in response encouraged even more pogroms according to the formula of the head of the Russian Orthodox Church whose plan was to kill a third of the Yidden, drive another third from the country and do shmad on the remaining third.
There are some corrupt hashgochos by the way who act like Czarists. Instead of correcting the problems, they try to persecute people who know too much.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:NF0mfRyjiYgJ:www.edentourspesach.com/hyatt/beta/index.html+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
Long Island's Hyatt Regency hotel was the scene of a fundraiser Pesach getaway hosted by Aish Hatorah / Project Inspire & Ohr Naavah. The caterer was Goldwasser from Eden Tours.
Our old friend Larry Gordon likes to fress every Pesach at the "in" hotel in yehupitz and report to us all about it from the front page of his 5 Towns Jewish Times but had to stay local this year at the Hyatt so his grandchild could be born at North Shore University Hospital.
http://5tjt.com/pdf-archives/13904-the-5-towns-jewish-times-april-20th-2012
Click on the small image of a 5TJT front page on the left. That produces a javascript pop up of the virtual newspaper. Larry's front page biofressography is headlined "Passover Reflections". Already in the first paragraph he attacks Goldwasser's catering as "sloppy & inadequate". Then you flip pages to continue his rant on page 18 where he informs you that while other Pesach hotels have been a fresser's delight, Goldwasser was disappointing. He claims that the whole guest roster was kvetching about it a gantz Pesach and wanted to leave but were stuck. Larry did not mention anything about the rumored outbreak of food poisoning or a virus that got many guests sick but I suspect it may have had something to do with it. Larry continues that Goldwasser was bickering the whole time with the kiruv org hosts which spilled out in public. Larry can't let go and blurts out that Goldwasser's food is "inedible" and calls the breakfast area both "small" & "overcrowded".
Now a real juicy story. A fresser was complaining by breakfast to Goldwasser about a certain food item that ran out. Goldwasser thought the guest was a nudnik so he ignored him. When the guest demanded to know why he was being ignored, Goldwasser offered that he thinks of him as something from the bais hakeesay. The guest then threw his coffee in Goldwasser's face. Goldwasser called 911. Before Suffolk County Police arrived the guest complained of chest pains and was transported to hospital.
Now Larry gets back to bashing Goldwasser for being "significantly understaffed", not setting tables for the Sedorim and even running out of dishes, glasses & cutlery.
While turning the page, Larry even sets his sights on the Bikur Cholim org in charge of the chessed room at North Shore for not leaving enough Pesachdik food for his kids.
In case anyone has forgotten, Larry's paper has tried to eviscerate anyone saying lashon horah about Rubashkin and is rewarded with a syndication of Shafran's column because they follow Agudah's orders to not report lashon horah on child molesters like another 5 Towns paper did which then had Shafran's column yanked away from them. It's not clear what the value of Shafran's column is but azoy iz ess.
The only time Larry Gordon will trash a caterer is when the caterer doesn't advertise in 5 Towns Jewish Times or advertised but didn't pay the bill.
Or maybe Larry tried to cut a deal that his whole mishpuche gets a freebie 9 day stay if he writes a glowing review but Goldwasser turned him down.
Rabbi Gringras from the Lower East Side is now certifying a restaurant in Queens. Watch the Queens Vaad have a fit even though they themselves stick their noses in every jurisdiction they don't belong like Manhattan, Westchester & Long Island.
I thought all these two bit non-VHQ hashgochos "burned all their bridges". So how did Rabbi Greengrass get across the Queensborough Bridge?
Rabbeinu needs to rally all the troops to make a mechooah in front of the restaurant! It's Queens Vaad or nothing!
http://newsdesk.tjctv.com/2013/04/investigation-reveals-additional-questionable-identity-with-connections-to-broydes-scholarship/
Rabbi Broyde caught lying in the 2nd scandal to emerge in 2 weeks.
Another fictitious rabbi invented by Broyde named David Tzvi Keter contacted the OU to support Broyde in claiming that Rav Schach told him in 1949 that women have what to be somech on in not covering their hair. Because Broyde had his employer Emory University fund the OU-published teshuva pushing this false line (Rabbi Shlomo Miller called it out as false at the time), experts believe Emory will be forced to kick Broyde out of his law professorship.
yudel- send kreitmans son something tough t ofind and check him out before you bash him too??
Rabbi Gil Student who is the head of the OU's publishing arm is also owner of a publishing house that has exclusive rights to the kesavim of Rabbi Broyde (and Slifkin too).
Student was publishing all the garbage from Keter-Broyde on his Hirhurim / Torah Musings websites that the OU refused to print in Tradition Magazine because they felt it was suspicious.
When confronted now that he aided the Keter-Broyde fraud, Student claims he is a victim and refuses to allow any comments on his website, where he says he will also not discuss it in person if people approach him.
When UOJ went after Student a few years ago for harboring a drug addict in his home who was breaking into shuls & yeshivos to steal sifrei Torah & pushkas, Student went into the same mode of refusing to comment.
http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/General+News/166252/Israel%3A-Five-Months-Imprisonment-for-Mashgiach-who-Attacked-Employee.html
The Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court on Monday, 19 Iyar 5773 sentenced a mashgiach to five months imprisonment and an 8,000 NIS fine for pouring scalding water on an employee of a factory that he supervised. The mashgiach is a resident of Betar Illit and father of 14 children.
The incident occurred two years earlier. The mashgiach stood accused of pouring a pot of scalding water on an employee, resulting in burns to his scalp, face, neck, shoulders, back and the palms of his hands.
The defendant admitted his guilt, explaining he decided to pour the boiling water on the employee who regularly taunted and punched him, explaining he endured the abuse for a long time before reacting. He told the court he warned the victim to back off and leave him alone a number of times, telling him if he does not he will pour boiling water on him. He filed a complaint with the factory’s management but nothing was done he explained.
The defendant warmed the water and then poured it on the victim, but expressed remorse over his actions. He told the court he did not realize the damage it would cause to the victim.
The court in its ruling acknowledged the fact that the mashgiach lost his job and was unemployed for the year following the boiling water attack as well as the realization that he is the father of such a large family. Taking this into consideration, the court sentenced him to only five months imprisonment despite the fact defendants who came before the same court for similar offenses were sentenced to longer prison terms.
Dr. Norman Lamm called Broyde the gadol hador.
And it shows you what the YU-controlled OU is all about that they allowed such a chaya to be in charge of their beis din.
They knew exactly what Broyde is trying to Reform veiber covering hair and making women rabbis without actually calling them rabbis.
This is the preferred hashkofoh with YU & OU leadership and this is why Broyde was their man.
http://www.jewishjournal.com/los_angeles/article/doheny_meats_buyer_shlomo_rechnitz_on_business_philanthropy
business expertise & an expansive view of philanthropy led Rechnitz to buy Doheny Glatt Kosher Meat Market, the scandal-ridden Los Angeles kosher meat distributor that closed its doors last month.
“The Rabbinical Council of California [RCC] approached me & said, ‘Shlomo, could this be one of your charity things?’ ” Rechnitz recalled. “Kosher meat is expensive enough.”
Rechnitz took less than a week to close the deal with Doheny owner, Mike Engelman, who was caught on video bringing unidentified meat products into his store at a time when the RCC’s supervisor had left the scene. Then he only held onto the purchase for about a week before arranging to transfer it to a 3rd party, David Kagan, owner of Western Kosher. Kagan declined to be interviewed, saying the deal had not yet been finalized.
“I love the rush of a deal. It’s like coke addiction,” Rechnitz, said, a tall glass of caffeine-free Coca-Cola on the table in front of him. “Not that I know what coke addiction is.”
Whether he’s in the hunt to acquire a new long-term care facility — through Brius, Rechnitz owns 62 across the state — or some other business or property, he enjoys the challenge of outsmarting, outbidding or outmaneuvering the competition.
“That is salesmanship,” said Rechnitz, a native Angeleno who inherited a peddler’s instinct from his grandfather, who sold women’s apparel, and his father, a closeout salesman. “You’re selling your business, you’re selling your service. You’re telling them why you should be the one that should be chosen.”
In his first big venture, Rechnitz and his twin brother, Steve, founded TwinMed, which offered nursing homes to buy supplies not on an item-by-item basis — ordering this many boxes of latex gloves or gauze — but by paying TwinMed a set daily rate for all supplies for each patient in their care.
This “per patient day” system helped TwinMed grow to become one of the largest distributors of supplies to nursing homes in the country, and has attracted attention within the business world.
In each of the past 2 years, the brothers have presented their business as a case study for students in the MBA program at Stanford, and, in 2011, Ernst & Young named Steve Rechnitz “Entrepreneur of the Year”.
The Rechnitz twins have clear business advantages. They can stand in for one another in a way that only identical twins can; their employees & even their 5-year-old sons occasionally get them confused.
And the Rechnitzes are, in a word, big.
“It never hurts when you have two 6'8", 300+ lb people walking into your office & strongly suggesting that you buy their product,” Steve Rechnitz said in accepting the entrepreneur award in 2011.
Steve is the active CEO of TwinMed, while Shlomo has moved into other businesses. He started by buying nursing homes and then began to get involved in businesses that nursing homes contract to, including a pharmacy, a pest control firm and an ambulance company.
Shlomo Rechnitz pursues similarly varied interests in his philanthropic work.
Within Orthodox circles, he is almost always called by his first and middle names, Shlomo Yehuda, and he has become known for his aid to prominent nonprofits at times of crisis.
In November 2011, when the head of the Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem died suddenly, leaving the 7,500-student institution $15 million in debt, Rechnitz, who had spent nearly five years studying there, donated $5 million. Others followed, Rechnitz said, and Mir’s debt was paid in full within three months.
In December of that year, Rechnitz purchased a creditor’s note against Chabad of California’s headquarters in Westwood for $2.35 million, helping the organization avoid foreclosure. Rechnitz, who also donates to Chabad in more conventional ways, said he still holds the note, adding that he’s hoping to be paid back “one day.”
And after Hurricane Sandy wreaked havoc on the East Coast, Rechnitz gave $1 million to aid in the rebuilding of Orthodox Jewish day schools and to assist the families whose children attend those schools.
“His business is a front for his charity,” said Rabbi Chaim Cunin, CEO of Chabad of California, who went to school with Rechnitz for a few years when they were boys growing up in Los Angeles. “Because he lives his charity.”
Many people seek Rechnitz’s help these days. Over the course of an hour-long conversation, his cellphone rang a dozen times and three people knocked on his door.
Rechnitz hasn’t maintained an office for many years, preferring to do business either from his home or over the phone while driving around the neighborhood around La Brea Avenue, so it’s possible those calls were business-related. But it’s equally plausible that Rechnitz was ignoring, temporarily, people soliciting his assistance.
Rechnitz calls himself “a nondenominational giver” and said that at times he reaches out to those who aren’t coming to him. Last year, Diana Aulger, a pregnant woman in Texas, decided to have her doctors induce labor so that her husband, Mark, who was dying of cancer, could meet their child. Mark got to hold their daughter, Savannah, for 45 minutes before he died.
Rechnitz saw the story online and sent Aulger a check for $20,000.
He also sends $10,000 checks to the families of police officers who are shot while on duty in Southern California. Those gifts are inspired in part by an urge to assist individuals who put themselves into harm’s way for the public good, but Rechnitz said he’s also driven by another motive.
“I don’t think that non-Jews should ever look back at the Jewish people and say, ‘You only care about your own,’ ” he said.
(A study done in 2013 found that anyone repeating uncomfortable truths about the Queens Vaad or even just suspected of doing so had their character assassinated. Various Vaad affiliated rabbis and mashgichim chipped in 100 hours each to to do a smear campaign on the internet, over the phone and while tummeling around shuls off Metropolitan.)
http://www.timesunion.com/living/article/Albany-Law-prof-considers-kosher-food-rules-4460254.php
A study done in 1925 in New York City found 40 percent of the meat sold as kosher was not kosher. Consumer groups and industry associations put the number higher, toward 60 percent. There were Jewish gangsters who mixed it up with meat cutters' unions, price-fixing scandals, threats and violence. A poultry seller who cooperated with police to expose the corruption was gunned down in Manhattan's Washington Market in a murder-for-hire paid for by a group of retail competitors, who chipped in $100 each to hire a hit man, Lytton said.
During this period of rampant fraud and corruption, government regulators tried to clean up the industry. By the late 1930s, there were six full-time kosher inspectors in the New York City Department of Markets and ten in the state Kosher Enforcement Bureau, but their numbers were insufficient to oversee the 18,000 kosher food establishments in New York City, Lytton wrote.
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