Rabbi Weisner's KCL put out a bulletin NOT to use any dried figs including Turkish figs, as the are INFESTED. Yet Rabbi Weisner's "KCL" wrote that in order to check the figs you need an experts expert. Yet the "KCL" gives a hashgocha on Nuts Galore that has dried figs.
The disclaimer on the package "the consumer is responsible for checking is a classical KCL deception, the KCL says you need an experts expert-the consumer is not qualified.
The KCL says the raisins are from a source that are not infested-THERE IS NO SUCH SOURCE.
It's a violation of לפני עיוור AND גניבה AS WELL.
Klein's & Yumees also have dried figs which can't be used as they can't be checked by the consumer. There are dried figs from Greece under the Star-K which should not be used.
After the KCL bulletin, You could find all types infested figs at NPGS. [Net Profit Grocery Store] Kashrus is not the criterea, profit is.
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Are you sure about the raisins? I heard R' Gavriel Finkel has a nephew, formerly of Monsey, who found a source for raisins in Puerto Rico that he vouches are not infested.
Rav Forcheimer once told me that one should seek out a posek to ask complicated inyanei shaatnez who is not only a talmid chochom but also bakant with the technical issues. I assume he would hold the same with kashrus.
I have a kashya how at least most of the dayonim on this Vaad can put their names to the KCL hashgocho. If what I'm hearing is true, KCL sounds like just another shvach kashrus organization in NY.
It was formed as a political Organization, with kashrus in its name.
Any BOKEI in bedika of raisins says they are ALL infested.
It sound like the one that claimed the Tuna in the ocean have a new dietician and they don't feed on crustaceouns.
Chabad took loads of money and gave him plenty of kovod even though he is married to a shiksa
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/01/27/us/AP-US-Lawyer-Millions-Missing.html
Filed at 10:02 a.m. ET
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) -- A disbarred attorney who courted politicians and star athletes and led a flamboyant lifestyle even by South Florida standards pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal charges that he ran a $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme.
Scott Rothstein, 47, pleaded guilty to all five counts against him, including wire fraud, money-laundering conspiracy and a racketeering charge commonly used to take down Mafia chieftains. The charges carry a maximum potential sentence of 100 years in federal prison. Sentencing is set for May 6.
The plea caps a downward spiral that began in late October, when court documents say Rothstein fled Florida on a chartered jet to Morocco carrying $500,000 in cash after wiring another $16 million to a Casablanca account he controlled. He returned to face charges and has been in federal custody since the FBI arrested him Dec. 1.
He gave generously to dozens of charities.
Prosecutors say it was all an elaborate facade, meant to lend an air of power and respectability to Rothstein's four-year scam. They say he used fake legal cases -- at least once forging the signature of a federal judge -- to lure people with promises of huge payouts over time in exchange for an up-front investment.
''He presented a dangerous mixture of public trust with the opportunity to make purported easy money,'' said Martin B. Goldberg, a former federal prosecutor now in private practice.
The ripple effects have been far-reaching.
Authorities have seized two dozen homes and other real estate once owned by Rothstein, along with 20 exotic cars -- Ferraris, a Bugatti Veyron, a Maserati among them -- as well as numerous bank accounts, an 87-foot yacht, expensive jewelry and other assets. All will eventually be used to repay dozens of jilted investors, many of whom have filed lawsuits seeking at least some of their money back.
The law firm Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler is now defunct, with as many as 50 of its 70 former attorneys under investigation by the Florida Bar for possible irregularities involving client trust funds, according to Bar spokeswoman Francine Walker. Prosecutors have also said former Rothstein associates may face criminal charges, along with bankers and others who might have been involved in the scheme.
Also under investigation by Fort Lauderdale officials is the city's police chief, Frank Adderley, who once flew with Rothstein on a private jet to attend a Miami Dolphins football game at the New York Jets. City officials are rewriting rules that allowed off-duty officers to provide security for Rothstein's home and business ventures.
Speaking of Moish Finkel, I thought hashgochos were supposed to stop letting "heimish" business owners do whatever they want without a mashgiach after he got caught.
Careful what you tell NPGS to get rid of, in case they dump all the dried fruits in the river or Lake Carasaljo like the time before they were fined big bucks when caught dumping-polluting.
R' Belsky & Weissmandel hold you can shoot cows after shechita. What about before shechita?
AP
COPAKE, N.Y. —
State police in New York say an upstate dairy farmer shot and killed 51 of his milk cows in his barn before turning the rifle on himself.
State police found the body of 59-year-old Dean Pierson in his Copake barn on Thursday. A visitor found a note Pierson had left on the barn door that said not to come in and to call police.
State police would only say that Pierson was having personal issues.
The Columbia County hamlet of Copake is about 115 miles north of New York City.
Local farmers buried the cows outside the barn Friday. They would not discuss Pierson or what had happened, but one of the men said these are hard times to be a farmer.
The raisins from Puerto Rico are treated with a new low sodium salt that inhibits infestation.
http://daattorah.blogspot.com/2010/01/tropper-scandal-is-this-what-lakewood.html
A demented moron in Lakewood writes a poison pen letter attacking UOJ and R' Doniel Eidensohn. He claims that people have been vandalizing Rav Eidensohn's seforim in Lakewood but if it's true, it's probably either him or some Tropper BTs from Monsey who came to Lakewood for shabbos.
http://www.blogger.com/profile/13178212221463356386
Rabbi Wexler of the Miami Beach Hebrew Academy told me at a kiddush he's in constant touch with R' Zwiebel and the Novominsker and that the reason nobody's said anything about Troppergate is that his "'yeshiva' is nothing, just a room, so there's nothing to say;" also, the gedolim want to legitimize EJF (I'm paraphrasing all this). I mentioned something about Rav Eidensohn's blog and he told me that he's "a nut" and cited the lashon hara disclaimer sidebar as evidence (not that I really understood that). FTR, Rabbi Wexler told me all this very loudly at a public kiddush in order to debate my claim that Tropper being a Rosh Yeshiva is the responsibility of the gedolim so the folks I was shmoozing with would view my opinion on this issue as stupid and his as enlightened -- I am thus doing Rabbi Wexler a public service by publicizing his opinion so that others may hear what he says the gedolim are saying (Rabbi Ribiat incidentally disagrees with Rabbi Wexler; his opinion is that if they "confirm the rumors" then they should "force him to resign."). 3 talmidim of Rabbi Zweig's yeshiva were listening closely to the conversation.
Baruch Pelta
There is an organization here in Lakewood called Mifal Shulchan Govoha that is selling products at extremely low prices. NPGS has discontinued carrying suppliers that sell them, and has thrown their sales reps out of the stores. Why? Because they are continuing to try to control the market. It will not work "Kain Yirbe V'Kain Yifrotz".
In the past you have not been shy from posting controversial topics and therefore I am sending you information regarding an issue that has the potential of causing many families in the community additional expense.
Mifal Shulchan Govoha is a local company that has been offering significantly discounted prices on cases of chicken, paper goods, cookies, fish, pizza, flour, etc. NPGS which has been known as the lowest price grocery store in town has declared war on them, as they are afraid of the loss of business. They declared war by throwing out any suppliers that are selling to them, in order to be able to maintain their inflated high markups.
If NPGS is successful this will cause a further increase in the price of food, which in the current economy no one can afford.
yudel,
what's the story with Ner Tamid K? Bshas Hadchak?
Ner Tamid K? Staten Island based. Know nothing about them.
Ner Tomid K with the torch look alike is Dov Hasden.
Stay away. Rabbonim told me he does not not even meet modern orthodox standard. I'm not sure if his restaurants even close on Shabbos.
Do Rabbis Lieberman, Forcheimer, and Katz agree with your assessment of the KCL? Then why are there names on the letterhead?
Or, is your opinion of Rabbis Lieberman, Forcheimer, and Katz the same as your opinion of the KCL? I think you will find very few who would agree with you on that.
Do Rabbis Lieberman, Forcheimer, and Katz agree with your assessment of the KCL? Then why are there names on the letterhead?
Or, is your opinion of Rabbis Lieberman, Forcheimer, and Katz the same as your opinion of the KCL? I think you will find very few who would agree with you on that.
See the article further down KCL "catering standards questioned"
THE RABBONIM NEVER VISITED ANY OF THE ESTABLISHMENTS.
Their names then were hijacked, abused & misused. Ask them & advise.
The Lakewood Matzo Bakery started with the hashgochas Of M.B. klein, satmar dayan & Rabbi Weisner's KCL.
The Lakewood Matzo bakery realized that by the KCL "no one is home" they got rid of them & took instead Rabbi S.M. Katz.
All of the other establishments are elated that Weisner's KCL "no one is home". Farshteist?
Yudel, if what you are saying is true (your reputation is that you are not a liar) then we have a situation known as "The Emperor hath no clothing". How could we know if we can rely on the owner, manager, workers? some advise please.
"Rabbi Weisner's KCL put out a bulletin NOT to use any dried figs including Turkish figs, as the are INFESTED."
Yudel, you can't read plain english. No where did he say NOT to use them. He said there are "serious concerns", "they are difficult and complicated to inspect", "it is advisable TO USE THEM only after inspection by ..."
HE DID NOT SAY **NOT** TO USE THEM!!!
"Yet Rabbi Weisner's "KCL" wrote that in order to check the figs you need an experts expert."
I don't know what you're hocking. He wrote they should be checked by "someone experienced". Why are you making up things which he never said?
"Yet the "KCL" gives a hashgocha on Nuts Galore that has dried figs.
The disclaimer on the package "the consumer is responsible for checking is a classical KCL deception, the KCL says you need an experts expert-the consumer is not qualified."
The KCL said its ADVISABLE to have them checked by someone experienced. He did NOT write its assur to use otherwise. You're simply nitpicking. Why? Why are you so out to get him?
"The KCL says the raisins are from a source that are not infested-THERE IS NO SUCH SOURCE."
Which source is he claiming that they're OK?
Rabbi Katz resigned KCL becuase they refused Babads chickens for political reasons. Rabbi Leiberman will tell you that he has nothing to do with the KCL other than "if they have a shayla they call me". Real 'posek' of KCL is Gavriel Finkel
THE KCL GIVES A HECHSHER ON GLATT BITE IN LAKEWOOD. THE Owners of Glatt Bite owners the Gelb brothers are taking someone to secular despite an ikul and with no heter. THE KCL refuses to get involved as they feel there are not responsible. It's incumbent that the patrons know the owner of where they are eating can be involved is such behavior! The KCL cannot turn a blind eye on Choshen Mishpat and enforce Yora Daya! If they won't bring this issue to the storeowner and force them to stop this behavior (under threat of losing their hechsher) who will!
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