Now that Grapes also have insects, you can't dry & make raisins at all.
It's a well known fact that raspberries, blackberries, dried figs, dried dates, raisins are infested, yet "Oh nuts" has all of them. We don't think that a kosher consumer may even purchase any item in such an establishment.
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What do you expect from OK that certifies Oh Nuts!? The OK has always been at the forefront of inventing shortcuts in kashrus that they pretend is the same level as others.
Shufrah cocoa and their chiddush about asparagus come to mind.
They are also much more forgiving of clients committing violations if the clients happen to be fellow Lubavitchers.
Something strange is going on with the 5 Towns places that are also under the hashgocho of R' Yankel Reisman. Some are only using Bodek broccoli and say RYK doesn't allow fresh and some are using fresh broccoli with the claim that RYK approves.
I didn't call him because he is a tough guy who once chewed up my friend who called with a different question.
One place is completely contradicting themselves. They say yes we use fresh broccoli with RYK's approval. When you insist that many rabbonim do not allow fresh whatsoever, they change the story to "well, it comes in frozen", in the foolish hope that you don't mind thawed bugs.
Rabbi Moshe Rosenberg is the modern orthodox rabbi who is Vice President of the Queens Vaad.
The Queens Vaad's yeshivishe maniac (who diverts countless hours of learning hocking a chynik on the internet and tracking down his critics) goes ballistic when someone says over mayselach from Bais Brisk because he says the focus should instead be on real learning.
But it's ok when his bosses Rosenberg & Joel Schonfeld encourage kids to make their primary focus on Harry Potter books, goyishe music and prusta videos.
These are the people who say just trust us with kashrus while they make a churban. Proper chinuch to the Queens Vaad bosses is mocked as what some old fashioned nerds do "in some circles".
Thursday, 03 November 2011
The Young Israel of Kew Gardens Hills will host a seudah shelishis with Congregation Etz Chaim of Kew Gardens Hills on Shabbos Parashas Vayera, November 12, in the Simcha Room at the Young Israel of Kew Gardens Hills to mark the publication of Rabbi Moshe Rosenberg’s new book Morality for Muggles: Ethics in the Bible and the World of Harry Potter, published by Ktav Publishing House.
Rabbi Rosenberg is the first guest speaker in a new monthly series of seudah shelishis guest speakers at the Young Israel of Kew Gardens Hills under the rabbinic leadership of Rabbi Yoel Schonfeld
http://www.thejewishweek.com/special_sections/education_careers/enchanting_education_what_harry_potter_still_teaches_us
Moshe Rosenberg
Special To The Jewish Week
As an elementary school Judaic studies teacher, I have my own reason to mourn the end of this phase of the Potter phenomenon. When the Harry Potter books are just another title on the school’s library shelf, I will have lost a common language that I have shared with my students for over a decade, a language that helped me convey Jewish values more vividly and more effectively than many other educational tools.
In some circles there is a reluctance to resort to material outside of tradition even to reinforce traditional ideas.
And it doesn’t have to stop at books. Popular culture today encompasses music, videos, and social media, all of which are waiting for the bold and creative educators who will not see them as dangers to be avoided, but opportunities to be embraced
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UgBztYX_6P4/TsBN14cD1eI/AAAAAAAAB-8/gEBHycDF8rs/s1600/orig_FE5685B760F741EEBC51463853B711C3.JPG
The Badatz comes out again against that crazy women's group that is obsessed with tznius
http://www.mfy.org/wp-content/uploads/articles/mh3-18-01.pdf
Elly Kleinman, the hero of the Agudah, Artscroll and the new CEO at BMG, is known in the business world as Martin Kleinman.
"In October 2005, ACSS, Americare, Martin Kleinman, and their employee Diane Ahearn entered into a $1.2 million settlement agreement resolving allegations against them for their role in subjecting 17 mentally-disabled residents of the Leben Home for Adults to unnecessary prostate surgeries.
Leben Home had contracted with ACSS and Americare to perform home health and nursing care services at the facility. Diane Ahearn, an ACSS employee and "medical director" at Leben Home, took responsibility for
scheduling home health aides, acting as a liaison between LebenHome and home health aides, and acting as a liaison between nurses and doctors providing care to residents. Ahearn scheduled appointments for residents with the doctor performing the unnecessary surgeries, and signed transfer forms for residents sent "to other facilities, including Parkway Hospital, where the unnecessary surgeries were performed."
As reported in The New York Times:
"Inquiry Finds Mentally Ill Patients Endured 'Assembly Line' Surgery
By CLIFFORD J. LEVY and SARAH KERSHAW
Published: March 18, 2001
"Leben Home, a for-profit facility with about 360 mentally ill residents, remains open, despite a decades-old history of unsanitary conditions, state sanctions and even macabre incidents. In 1993, for example, a decomposed body was found to have been wedged behind a basement freezer for a year."
Can you present any mareh mekomos to back up Harry Potter? I don't think you would dare give a shiur on that in the beis medrash on Metropolitan Ave.
The people who know about the kashrus scandals you cover up are smeared as "liars" and "apikorsim". What are you going to do when bnei Torah vehemently disagree with your bosses's Haskalah-style introduction of Harry Potter into chinuch? How are you going to convince the oylam that they too are "apikorsim"?
http://theunorthodoxjew.blogspot.com/2011/10/child-abuse-in-ultra-orthodox-yeshivas.html
Moishe Lazer Blum is supposed to be a mumche in bedikas toyloim but that's not all he's known for
http://www.lohud.com/article/20111026/NEWS03/110260361/New-Square-man-accused-murder-try-arrested-charge-violating-court-order
The hypocrisy in Skver is incredible. The Rebbe's hoiz bucher who is on trial for burning down the house and trying to murder a critic of the Rebbe was arrested again while out on bail. His lawyer is the modern orthodox menuvol Kenneth Gribetz who was disbarred for 10 years after a scandal. Skver used to ba'red Gribetz all the time that he is a lowlife who took cases against Skver. Now they hire him to defend the Rebbe's shick yingle rotzchim.
How would you know what a 'bnai Torah' is? You have No saichus or understanding of a Ben Torah.
(Based on you past comments, min hastam, you never even went to a real Yeshiva.)
Pathetic response. YOU for sure don't have "saichus" (what's that?) to bnai Torah every day that you report to work at the Vaad HaEmpty Vacuum of Q.
"WE Don't think"
Who is the we
Shouldn't it read "I"?
Chaim Berlin, who are mesarvim by R' Moshe Feinstein for mistreating and stealing from Rav Carlebach, tried to cover up how they told one of R' Aron Schechter's weirdo BT chassidim that he should put his son in a goyish prison camp to be beaten if he doesn't work on Shabbos and eat treif food. When emissaries of the gedolim flew to Jamaica, Chaim Berlin actually had the gall to have Jamaican police detain the rabbonim on the rescue mission. They only backed down because YU's Dr. Pelcovitz threatened to expose them in the newspapers and because R' Zelig Epstein ztl screamed at them.
Chaim Berlin keeps trying to rehabilitate the weirdo in question, Michael Hersh, although they could not stop him from being fired as CEO of Flatbush Hatzolah. They did force his son upon returning to NY, to stay in the home of convicted sex offender and fraudster Shlomo Zakheim.
Chaim Berlin also funded a frivolous lawsuit launched by Hersh against 1000s of individuals for being mishtatef in the rescue mission AND anonymous bloggers. You see, the lawsuit demanded to know the identity of every blog owner and commenter, because the real purpose of the lawsuit was not Hersh taking revenge. It is because Chaim Berlin controls both the Agudah and Torah Umesorah and wants to know who is criticizing. R' Aron Schechter has Fruchthandler in charge at Torah Umesorah and the Novominsker, a Chaim Berliner, pulling the strings at the Agudah. And they named virtually every frum anti-establishment blog in the suit so they can hunt down & shut up whoever is spilling the beans or criticizing. A Federal judge recently threw the case out and ordered the weirdo to pay legal costs.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2JKSWm_YOOA/Tw9W9TVrw8I/AAAAAAAACDs/6L24qFePMAo/s1600/5.jpg
Chaim Berlin is so desperate to help out the weirdo that they must have pushed Hamodia to promote him in this article the other week.
I didn't call him because..
So you were m'kabel loshon Horah (instead of just being choshesh).
And You forwent calling a Rov for clarity.
Your immature.
Tue Nov 15, 08:10:00 AM 2011
This was constructive news????
Maybe Destructive yiddishkeit would be the more correct label.
Harry Potter, no matter how you slice it, does not qualify the Apikores title.
However, Nivul peh onto rabbonim, Stam loshon horah, r'chilus on a constant basis is the classic Apikores.
No wonder our good friend from Kew Gardens is so familiar with the Apikores title. Who else has so much apikores experience.
It was only because Yudel was screaming at them that they even put the caveat on the package to check for bugs yourself. But they draw the line at giving up the business.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4158597,00.html
Chassidishe are still putting raisins in chosson peklach?
The Queens Vaad's Chaim Schwartz (10:29 pm, 10:33 pm & 10:38 pm) who appointed himself as a one-man Lashon Horah Police Force is back to pick at every comment on this blog.
Typical nonsense from him like always, he jumps up & down and screams there is never any toyeles to say lashon Horah (how convenient so that his beloved Queens Vaad and Agudah can get away with anything and be completely unaccountable). And then he talks about immature? Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the .... of them all?
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4176971,00.html
Here's some more of his favorite word, "daas kelovim". Efshar dem hundt can help him track down some more boogeymen Queens Vaad & Agudah critics.
If you dry your own raisins at home what precautions should be taken to avoid attracting bugs?
Queens Vaad Executive Drecktor Chaim Schwartz while acting as the head of the Agudah's New England division in Boston told the Boston Globe that gays are toyavah and are the next step from mishkav behaymah. He was attacked by the Reform movement and probably got a big backlash from his old employer KVH which is affiliated with non-orthodox movements.
He "learned his lesson" and while continuing employment under modern orthodox orgs like the Queens Vaad, he is all smiles while he goes running down to shake the hand of every menuval pushing for gay "marriage".
First the Queens Vaad was pushing for the pro-gay menuval David Weprin who is not frum but attends a Queens Vaad shul. He misrepresented himself as "orthodox" and gave a disgusting speech to the Assembly in Albany that as an orthodox Jew he must support gay "marriage".
In this week's Yated, there is a picture of Schwartz smiling together with Assemblyman Rory Lancman who davens in the Young Israel of Queens Vaad co-President Rabbi Dr. Richard Weiss.
http://queenscourier.com/2011/marriage-equality-act-still-awaiting-senate-vote-7031/
Lancman is another menuvol who pushed for gay "marriage"
http://pflag.capwiz.com/bio/id/37538
Lancman is considered so in their interests by the gays that he is featured on the website of the radical group "Parents & Friends of Gays and Lesbians"
This same Queens Vaad wants a watered down kashrus standard because the roiv of their members like Weprin & Lancman don't want to be inconvenienced in not having all the fresserei they want. Guess who helps his bosses institute the shvach kashrus while he runs around Kew Gardens mit zein groysa payos to lie through his teeth that the kashrus is "mehadrin"?
Stop putting words in Rabbeinu's mouth. Avvadeh there is "toieless" to say lushen hureh. It's davka on someone who is a critic of Queens Vaad or Agudah. And Rabbeinu is mekayem the mitzveh min hamuvchar of bashmutzing mit motzi shem ra even people he is not sure if they are critics. Sufek anti-Queens Vaad lechumra.
"Harry Potter, no matter how you slice it, does not qualify the Apikores title"
- Chaim Schwartz defending Queens Vaad promotion of Harry Potter for children on Yudelstake, Thu Jan 26, 10:38 PM 2012
He will say any lie to cover up for kashrus scandals and his modern orthodox bosses who are like maskilim in promoting this to kids.
Religious debates over the Harry Potter series of books by J. K. Rowling stem largely from assertions that the novels contain occult or Satanic subtexts. All the poskim say those things are kefirah.
Much of the criticism of Harry Potter is from those who believe the series' pagan imagery is dangerous to their children. Paul Hetrick, spokesman for Focus on the Family, a group based in Colorado Springs, CO, outlined the reasons for his opposition to them: "They contain lessons packaged in a medium – witchcraft – that is directly denounced in the Bible." (1999-11-06 "Harry Potter expelled from school" - Denver's Rocky Mountain News)
In Harry Potter, drinking dead animal blood gives power, a satanic human sacrifice and Harry's powerful blood brings new life, demon possession is not spiritually dangerous, and that passing through fire, doresh el hamessim, and conversing with ghosts, others in the spirit world, and more, is normal and acceptable.
In 2001, journalist Richard Abanes wrote an article: "Harry Potter & the Bible: The Menace Behind the Magic" showing comparisons & contrasts between Harry Potter & the more overtly Christian works of C. S. Lewis & J. R. R. Tolkien. In an interview with CBN, Abanes remarked that, "One of the easiest ways to know whether a fantasy book or film has real world magic in it is to just ask a simple question, 'Can my child find information in a library or bookstore that will enable them to replicate what they are seeing in the film or the book?' If you go to "The Chronicles of Narnia" & "The Lord of the Rings" what you see in, story magic & imagination, it is not real. You can't replicate it. But if you go to Harry Potter, you can find references to astrology, clairvoyance & numerology. It takes seconds to go into a bookstore or library & get books on that & start investigating it, researching it & doing it."
In 2009, Matt Latimer, a former speechwriter for US President George W. Bush, claimed that during the Bush administration, "people in the White House" had denied Rowling the Presidential Medal of Freedom because the books "encourage witchcraft."
While many describe the books as secular or Satanic, many writers, including Rowling herself, have gone to great lengths to demonstrate that the books actively promote Christian symbolism.
A number of commentators have drawn attention to the Christian themes & references in "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows". In an August 2007 issue of Newsweek, Lisa Miller commented that Harry dies & then comes back to life to save mankind, like Notzrim say about Yoshke. She points out the title of the chapter in which this occurs — "King's Cross" — an allusion to Yoshka's cross.
Deathly Hallows begins with a pair of epigraphs, one by Quaker leader William Penn & one from Aeschylus' The Libation Bearers. "I really enjoyed choosing those 2 quotations because one is pagan, of course, and one is from a Christian tradition", Rowling said. (MTV 2007)
The decision to release Harry Potter in Israel angered many of Israel's rabbis (Reuters)
..."is not frum but attends a Queens Vaad shul."
Spotlight is also not frum (with all the avoda zaora and znus research, with all the blogging you do, with the internet in your house against the p'sak of your own poskim what makes you frum?? living in Kew Gardens??? Eating whatever you want when your hungery???) and attends a VERY frum shul.
It should come as no surprise either that Harry Potter does pro-gay indocrination of children, being that the Queens Vaad & lately also Chaim Schwartz are the first ones to actively support efforts to allow gay "marriage" in NY State.
On 19 October 2007, Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling spoke at New York's Carnegie Hall. When asked by a fan whether Albus Dumbledore, the books' wise baal kishuf mentor-figure, "who believed in the prevailing power of love, ever fell in love himself", Rowling replied,
"My truthful answer to you … I always thought of Dumbledore as gay. Dumbledore fell in love with Gellert Grindelwald, and that added to his horror when Grindelwald showed himself to be what he was … falling in love can blind us to an extent … he was very drawn to this brilliant person, and horribly, terribly let down by him." (Kadmonim say that wizards / baalei kishuf get koiach from doing maasei znus that's Bilam lived with his asson)
The statement was met with an ovation from the audience. "If I'd known it would make you so happy, I would have announced it years ago!" Rowling said.
In an appearance 3 days later, she responded to questions about Dumbledore's "outing" by saying that she had decided his sexuality "from very early on before the first book was published."
Moral people critical of both Harry Potter & homosexuality responded pointedly to the revelation. Author Berit Kjos wrote, "My first response was, "Thank you, because this shows that these books should not be used. Because Dumbledore has been revealed as a homosexual, it makes it very clear that these books are contrary to the Bible."
Laura Mallory responded to the Rowling's statement by telling ABC News, "My prayer is that parents would wake up, that the subtle way this is presented as harmless fantasy would be exposed for what it really is: indoctrination into homosexual lifestyles.
Linda Harvey, the president of Mission America, an organization which monitors the homosexual agenda directed at children as well as paganism among American youth, asked: "Will we allow our kids to believe it would be perfectly appropriate for the headmaster of any school to be homosexual? Will some find ways to re-cast homosexuality into something different than abomination?" (The Agudah will never allow calling the police on gay child molesters like Torah Temimah menahel Yudi Kolko or even removing him from his shteller like all the poskim say to do)
"It's very disappointing that the author would have to make one of the characters gay," said Roberta Combs, president of the Christian Coalition of America, "It's not a good example for our children, who really like the books and the movies. It encourages homosexuality." (London Daily Mail 2007)
Rowling commented on the dispute in an interview with the BBC. "Do I think a gay person can be a moral compass? I think it's ludicrous that we are asking that question in the 21st century. Religious people were never my base."
"Nivul peh onto rabbonim, Stam loshon horah, r'chilus on a constant basis is the classic Apikores."
- The Queens Vaad's Chaim Schwartz in the same comment
Yes, nivul peh onto rabbonim is a terrible thing. That's why when Belsky told Neuhoff to write a blog attacking Rabbi Mendlowitz, it was 100% wrong for Neuhoff to allow all kinds of nivul peh there. Thank you Chaim for keeping Belsky's talmidim on their toes.
Maybe Chaim knows a new halacha in the Torah that no one ever heard of before? Since when does lashon horah letoyeless make someone an apikoiress? Even if not letoyeless and constantly, it does not say it makes someone an apikoiress although someone with a tyeveh to be a za yenta that he NEVER holds back lashon horah will lose his chelek in Oylam Haboh. Do you have a mekor for this new halacha? Is it in the secret Queens Vaad handbook maybe in the perek after it says you can present non-kashrus as "mehadrin"?
"is also not frum (with all the avoda zaora and znus research, with all the blogging you do, with the internet in your house against the p'sak of your own poskim"
There goes Chaim Schwartz the hypocrite in typical form.
There is a masechta on avodah zara and many halachos in Shulchan Aruch. Chazal say that we have only a small fraction of Avrohom Avinu who had hundreds of perokim of the masechta that Mar bar Rav Ashi decided to leave out by the chasimas Hatalmud.
The reason why it drives Chaim Schwartz mad is because sushi places under the Queens Vaad have idols placed there by the goyish workers and he doesn't feel like removing them because he thinks he is some kind of almighty being himself who doesn't answer to anyone (except his melech malchei hamelochim Joel Schonfeld). Vayakam Executive Drecktor chodosh al Queens Vaad asher lo yada es Rav Katz (who would have removed the idols right away without akshening). But no, you ask Chaim Schwartz to do something normal and you get vayichbad es libo v'es lev avadav.
And znus? He is the menuvol who accused a woman of "being in bet" with Spotlight after someone questioned why the same woman who has questionable hashkofos was speaking in the shul where Chaim Schwartz's assistant is the rov. Chaim has also written comments that indicate he is mistakel at the sheitels of married woman that he knows every detail about them.
And HE OF ALL PEOPLE has the NERVE to question how long someone is on the internet when is on the internet begeder vehigisa bo yomam v'leiyla?
For Americans, the gedolim were mattir internet oib me darft es far gesheft. There are some machmirim by the chassidishe like R' Chaskel Roth. Since Chaim likes people to believe he is such a big machmir, let him get rid of his internet connection. It will sure make things much quieter around here.
Doesn't OH nuts have Belzer Dayan Eckstein Same guy as posotive hechsher, he is either good on toloim or bad, you can't pick & choose.
The VHQ VP Rabbi Moshe Rosenberg who is behind this Harry Potter HASKALA has the go ahead from the VHQ Head Honcho Yoel Schonfeld. They are both the bosses of Chaim Schwartz. Rosenberg teaches at co-ed Salanter Akiba Academy (SAR) in Riverdale, a hotbed of radical elements that cannot be considered orthodox. The Avi Weiss crowd and their women rabbis send their kids there and so do Yitz Greenberg's group who don't even try to hide their apikorsus like the Avi Weiss crowd do. Tonight is actually the SAR dinner and the "keter shem tov" award goes to Yitz Greenberg's son who is a SAR board member.
A lot of SAR graduates are big Maskilim like the novelist Chaim Potok who went off the derech.
Rosenberg thinks he's some big intellectual getting up in his Queens shul to quote from all the progressive thinkers like Haskell Lookstein's father Joseph Lookstein and non-Jewish ones. Joseph Lookstein's grandfather was Rabbi Moses Zebulon Margolies, the "Ramaz" that the elite modern orthodox school in Manhattan with the $45,000 annual tuition is named for. The Ramaz was involved with the anti-Nazi protests at Madison Square Gardens with Reform rabbis that the gedolim said not to organize.
For Americans, the gedolim were mattir
Yes,Spotlight.
There is a different Bible for you in America because:
me darft es far gesheft
Yeh, loshon Horah Gesheft.
Avodah Zora Gesheft.
M'vaazeh Rabbonim Gesheft.
Bitul Zman Gesheft.
Moishav leatzim Gesheft.
Blog every treifenah site Gesheft.
Its no secret that your gesheft is Geihinom Gesheft.
cannot be considered orthodox.
via a special shaliach-letter from REY's shamosim ???? attesting to that view.
A lot of SAR graduates ....off the derech.
As if from Spotlight's Holy molly, nothing-from-Queens-Vaad-in-my-house yeshivos no one went off the derech.
thinks he's some big intellectual
If der groise choochem fin de ma nishtana - Spotlight, UOJ, & JBAC
think their big intellectuals, why can't any other joe=shmoe ???
This is C.S. talking?
"Yeh, loshon Horah Gesheft"
The biggest motzee shem ra of them all is the Queens Vaad Executive Drecktor who will try everything to destroy you if you come up on his wide range radar screen that maybe efshar you said something about the Queens Vaad or know a dirty secret about them.
"Avodah Zora Gesheft"
Get rid of the idols set up at Queens Vaad sushi stations by the goyish workers.
"M'vaazeh Rabbonim Gesheft"
You did a pretty good job bashmutzing anyone you wanted, thinking no one would be able to unmask your hidden identity on this blog. All the rabbonim that compete with you in kashrus and/or belong to the organization that publicly exposed the Queens Vaad for shielding a child molester
"Bitul Zman Gesheft"
Yeah, from the guy who holds the record in hours logged off his Queens Vaad issued Blackberry.
"Moishav leatzim Gesheft"
You mean like your corny jokes when you made fun of Lubavitch?
"Blog every treifenah site Gesheft"
You must be referring to UOJ who you are there all the time to see the latest hock while you shrei chai vekayam against him.
"Its no secret that your gesheft is Geihinom"
The first time you had one of your "Geihinom" outbursts on this blog, people in the kashrus industry said there is only one guy they can think of who they would not be surprised that he is acting up like that. That person is YOU. Grow up already.
"cannot be considered orthodox"
Chaimel is always quick to quote from his Bible the Yated, that is always attacking the Avi Weiss gang as not orthodox. Now he backtracks because he ha$ to defend his bo$$ at the Queens Vaad.
You don't need a chuchem like Pinny Lipschitz in any case to know that women "rabbis" are not an orthodox innovation nor is forming joint "beit din" to sit with Reform & Conservative "dayanim".
What a hypocrite you are Chaimel. Anyone who knows you from your Agudah days would hear you lambast anyone like the people who today sign your paycheck!
"why can't any other joe=shmoe ???"
You are calling your bosses the Queens Vaad President & VP, "Joe Schmoes"? People always suspected you are just using each other.
You can bet that if the two top Queens Vaad rabbis were not the ones to start the Harry Potter push on yeshiva kids, that if it would have been a rabbi from JBAC whom Chaim Schwartz hates so much, we would never hear the end of it from him how JBAC rabbis are "madahniks" as he hypocritically calls them, and maskilim.
You can bet that if the two top Queens Vaad rabbis were not the ones to start the Harry Potter push on yeshiva kids, that if it would have been a rabbi from JBAC whom Chaim Schwartz hates so much, we would never hear the end of it from him how JBAC rabbis are "madahniks" as he hypocritically calls them, and maskilim.
The JBAC so called, rabbis are "madahniks" and Maskilim in either
case.
JBAC's posek is Rav Moshe Sternbuch, so that makes Chaim Schwartz a koifer for being mevazeh one of the gedolei hador by calling him a maskil. And he's a "recognized" gadol on top of it. Oh sorry, in Queens Vaadese he is worthless because he is Israeli like Rav Elyashev who the Queens Vaad bekumah zekufam don't have to listen to.
Moyradik! Here's what happens when the modern orthodox Queens Vaad VP Rabbi Rosenberg is entrusted with the Torah chinuch of children.
Such horvanya! And to think he has been busy with this maskilishe nonsense for over a decade!
Now extrapolate from here to Queens Vaad kashrus standards that are misrepresented as "mehadrin".
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/06/nyregion/neighborhood-report-riverdale-faster-than-owl-express-potter-fans-write-their.html?pagewanted=print&src=pm
May 06, 2001
Members of the Harry Potter club at SAR Academy, a yeshiva elementary school in Riverdale, are writing what they think should be the sequel to ''Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,'' the fourth volume of the series, published last July. The club members, all sixth graders, meet weekly at lunchtime to read aloud chapters they wrote at home, critique one another's work and propose new ideas.
''Everybody has really great plots,'' said Chana Wolpoe, adding that she had written so many chapters she had lost count. In one of her versions, American students join Hogwarts because sorcery schools in the United States provide an inferior education.
Talia Lavin, who has read each of the Potter books about 50 times, has also contributed chapters. Her efforts include a romance between Harry's godfather and a new magic teacher at the school.
The club was founded last September by Rabbi Moshe Rosenberg, a Talmud teacher. "I thought this could be a constructive impetus to get them to use their imaginations and write," said the rabbi, who has come up with five chapters himself. "I think one of my unspoken reasons for making the club is because I felt like writing it myself."
As Orthodox writers, some students were tempted to tie Judaism into the plot. But Talia felt there would be too many conflicts between wizardry and Jewish law. "How would they get kosher food all the way to Hogwarts?" she asked. The Sabbath poses other questions. "Can you carry your wand and ride a broomstick on the Sabbath?" Talia asked.
Sounds almost exactly like the reason why Maran Rav Schach ztl came out against Shteinzaltz - for making dumb comparisons to the Neviyim.
http://articles.nydailynews.com/2011-09-08/local/30147114_1_quidditch-games-harry-potter-club-boy-wizard
When the Hogwarts Express rolled to the end of its enchanting line, Rabbi Moshe Rosenberg was perhaps one of the more unlikely fans who mourned the conclusion of the series about the boy wizard.
Rosenberg became hooked on the Harry Potter books about a decade ago, when the 6th-grade students at his yeshiva were reading the first book.
He has since been dubbed "The Harry Potter rabbi" by congregants at his Kew Gardens Hills synagogue, Congregation Etz Chaim & the Bronx yeshiva where he teaches, the SAR Academy in Riverdale.
The Potterphile has utilized the series in his classroom & synagogue to teach Jewish values. And his book "Morality for Muggles: Ethics in the Bible & the World of Harry Potter" was published last month.
Author J.K. Rowling's books are valuable, Rosenberg said, because they deal with all of life's most essential questions.
He compares the relationship between Harry, Hermione & Ron to the biblical trio of Moses, Miriam & Aaron.
Rosenberg regularly brought up the connections between Judaism & the Potter series in classroom discussions. He also created a Harry Potter Club, which encouraged his students to write their own sequels to the Potter series between Rowling's releases of the volumes. In addition, he organized Quidditch games in the gym & took the students to see the Potter movies when they premiered in theaters.
In earlier eras, rabbis offered parables about horses & wagon drivers that resonated with the people of that time, Rosenberg said. The Potter books gave him a common language with his students, who are too young to appreciate the pop-culture references he was most familiar with - from Star Trek.
"It's a shame the Potter books have come to an end," he lamented. "You can do the same sort of thing with other literature, but Harry Potter has so much that's positive it's hard to find something quite as rich. We'll have to keep our eyes open."
All you meshugoyim and apikorsim out there who criticize the Queens Vaad should listen to Rabbeinu Chaim Schwartz to stop wasting your time with R' Chaim's & Brisker Rov's and get into some REAL learning. We at the Queens Vaad knew Rav Elyashev didn't have a clue that he locks himself in a room for 14 hours straight to learn Shas. We know better what's REALLY tachlissdik:
(Queens Vaad Vice-President) Rabbi Moshe Rosenberg, a **Talmud** teacher, became hooked on the Harry Potter books about a decade ago ... "I thought this could be a constructive impetus to get them to use their imaginations and write," said the rabbi, who has come up with five chapters himself. "I think one of my unspoken reasons for making the club is because I felt like writing it myself." ... he organized Quidditch games in the gym & took the students to see the Potter movies when they premiered in theaters.
"a kosher consumer should patronize the ones that don't sell infested products"
Name ONE company that is ok in your view.
'Everybody has really great plots,'' said Chana Wolpoe,
OH. So Spotlight is a she (working for the Queens Vaad - giving everyone a free plot.
There is a "Rabbi" Wolpo who is the head of the Meshichisten in Israel.
"nisgaaleh hoatorah said..."
Spotlight on the Queens Vaad is machzir hoatara leyoshna.
And only sicko Chaimel would make a joke about the plots of yesomim being stolen just like he's an achzar who laughs at the plight of molested children who are soivel episs vee yisurei Iyuv.
Spotlight on the Queens Vaad is machzir hoatara leyoshna.
Ah gutte patch in baicheleh....Greps.
EEEEEEECHCHCHCH bin der baale bauss in shtaut.........Greps.
"Ah gutte patch in baicheleh....Greps"
Is that what you give over in the shiur by Metropolitan Ave & 124th shul?
The rov is a really nice guy who puts up with a lot of garbage shelo lefi chevodo and doesn't say a word, but stooping that low should be grounds to get rid of you.
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