Magen Zedek wrote a glowing report on Empire Poultry describing how well they treat all of the workers. Is it perhaps because they are unionized? They missed the boat!In fact the kosher staff including Shoichtim, Bodkim, Mashgichim are intimidated, harassed, etc by some of their superiors. Management is aware & they are enjoying the Rokeach style "slave driver". Is it perhaps because they are not permitted to be unionized, therefore they do not work directly for Empire.
Magen Zedek can serve a very important function by banning all far Eastern products, as the employees are treated as slaves. They will also increase the job employment in the USA.
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Magen Zedek is the Conservative movement's trick to pretend they care about kashrus. It was started by one misguided loser "rabbi" in Minnesota who changed his last name to something goyish sounding (Allen). The reason why the Conservative movement is backing him is because the leader of the whole movement now is a very unladylike lady Julie Schonfeld from Westchester who has a big sinah of frumma Yidden and wants to be combative. She was egged on by Shalom Lewis in Atlanta, a kofer ba'ikur Conservative rabbi whose father was a YU musmach who went off the derech. Shalom Lewis has allegedly said in public that he does not believe in G-d. The story they tell all the Conservative tinokos shenishbu is that the Orthodox are insulting them by not allowing Conservative standards like sturgeon caviar and that the Orthodox do not care about human rights of workers so all that forces them to get involved in kashrus.
Who is this Rabbi Rokeach and where is he from?
Sounds like you are a 'NON YU MUSMACH" and yet you are the way out too. Why would you or anyone else be so knowledgeable or want to know the detailed 'yichus' AND history of these (by your own addmission) 'tinokes shenishboo' ?
The reason why haymishe people know about these Conservative chayos is because Shalom Lewis has been fighting with the rabbonim in the Southern states and because his father had a shul years ago in a frum neighborhood in the NYC area before he went off the derech. When Lewis got backed by Julie Schonfeld, some of the major hashgochos wanted to know if she was planning on starting Conservative hashgochos to compete. They had a rabbi call her to feel her out and she said yes. There have been Conservative hashgochos popping up all over the country since two years ago.
And you sound like the kind of guy who considers the Yated to be the Bible. You would then know that the Yated has raved against Morris Allen for stabbing Sholom Rubashkin in the back or something like that.
what about those meshugoyim with avi weiss and that stupid tav hayosher certification? do they also hold of empire?
157 people sickened by Meal Mart liver.The quality of their meat is "Garbage"!!!! But who cares as long as it's Triple Glatt
Sun Nov 13, 06:00:00 AM 2011
Keep on eating your hebrew national stuff. They say its the best stuff.
It's always nice when you can not only be informed, but also get knowledge, from these type of blog, nice entry. Thanks
I came across the website of what I thought was a shul with a specific page outlining their in house kashrus guidelines. They had a list of acceptable hashgochos to bring in which are all orthodox. As I continued reading I thought maybe they are Conservative. I finally figured out they are Jews for J.
It is still interesting however if what they write is accurate. Among the claims:
Most American cheeses including Kraft brand are made with chazir mamash.
Many commercially available Oriental sauces are made with pork derived gelatin.
Cetyl esters are sometimes made from Sperm whale oil.
I investigated the 3rd claim on the internet and found it to be true. Related ingredients that are also sometimes whale derived include Ester wax, Cetyl alcohol, Spermaceti, Cetyl palmitate, Palmitic acid (which is not always derived from palm trees), Hexadecanoic acid, Trigyceride, Triacylglycerol & Triacylglyceride.
The same thing goes for Retinyl palmitate, or vitamin A palmitate added to low fat milk. There is only a slight chance it is whale derived. It is more likely derived from livers of pigs, cows, poultry or cod fish.
to zeldes
Yes, its called rent you idiot
Amazing that people insinuate impropriety with out the slightest clue as to what they are reading
yes in Prague Europe they have one representative too it is pedofile addict Ronald Hoffberg
I didn't know Ronald Hoffberg is accused of being a pedophile. He is leading Pesach sedorim for tourists and not everyone realizes he is conservative
CPA, I think Zeldes is being tongue in cheek and wondering if the rent paid was above or below market value
Hoffberg is a halbah tzorah because at least you can find out he is Conservative. There is someone who worked with him who is officially orthodox but is more than meets the eye.
Rabbi Dr. Samuel Mordechaj Abramson used to be one of the heads of the "Maharal" hashgocho in Prague and it seems it was not reliable, at least when he was in charge.
He was also the co-rabbi for a while during the year at Prague's Jubilee Synagogue together with the "Masorti" Conservative rabbi in Ronald Hoffberg. The davening is not orthodox there.
Er ruft zich der Carlsbader Rov and gives or gave hashgocho in that resort town. He was the first rov in Carlsbad since WWII but it's a weird story. The oylam there is Reform and wanted a Reform rabbi but settled on a modern orthodox Rabbi Dr..
He might be living in Israel now completely or maybe still coming to Carlsbad for the summers.
These freya rabbis are a bunch of phonies. I'm surprised that more of their followers don't catch on what two faced idiots they are. Tablet Magazine just profiled Ira Schiffer, the Hillel rabbi at the campus of Middlebury College in Vermont. He started buying treif meat to eat at home with the excuse that Rubashkin turned him off from buying kosher. The real reason is probably because he was tired of shlepping the 100 mile round trip to the city of Burlington which is the closest place to him that kosher meat & chicken is available.
R' Yechiel Michel Feinshtein ztl is medayek from the Haftorah of Vayigash that the Novi Yechezkel when he mentions two nations, he does not mean Yehudah & Shomron. He means ovdei Hashem & ovdei avoda zara. He is mechadesh that since mayseh avos siman lebanim extends to the shvatim until they were kicked out into golus, so we r"l have today porkei ol who are like being mechanef goyim and hate bnei Torah.
Just when you thought kashrus couldn't get anymore modenna.
There is a Rabbi Chaim Szmidt who gives a shiur at the yeshiva in Monsey headed by Yaakov Spivak. Spivak is giving hashgocho to all kinds of places cooking on Shabbos. Spivak's yeshiva tells everyone that Spivak learned in YU and "yeshivos in Eretz Yisroel". I never knew that Bar Ilan University is a "yeshiva".
Szmidt is running a blog called The Kosher Scene.
http://kcheese.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/zabars6.jpg?w=300&h=224
Don't be fooled by his big beard and black hat.
http://www.meetup.com/Israeli-Wine-Lovers/members/11340314/
Click on the left where it says "read more about us" and you will see that Szmidt is hosting non-kosher wine tastings since he "respects everyone".
He is hanging out with Gil Marks from Kosher Gourmet, a YU rabbi who teaches at Drisha, the "orthodox" place that makes women rabbis.
He is also hanging out with a non-Jewish woman from Alabama who is married a Conservative Jew in NJ. She runs some kind of business centering around kosher cheeses. The name of her business is very provocative and so is the way she usually dresses.
http://kcheese.wordpress.com/2011/05/09/pomegranate-kosher-supermarket-january-2011/
Here is Szmidt with that lady and Pomegranate supermarket manager Gabe Boxer.
Am I the only one that seen a huge increase in anti-semitism in the goyishe blogosphere.
I am afraid of what might happen if Ron Paul wins the nomination. It will be a bad choice between Obama and Paul.
I am getting my passports in order.
...the shvatim until they were kicked out...
You GOTTO love that line from Spotlight on the QUEENS VAAD.
Don't be fooled by his big beard and black hat.
In queens if you don't wear that big black hat AND the big big beard (peius helps) you are from the moderneh YU rabbis. Especially on Metropolitan Avenue.
you for legitimizing Magen Zedek by acknowledging their existence.
http://www.yuobserver.com/news/ethical-eating-social-justice-meets-dialogue-on-beren-campus-1.2736873#.Tv-raTWXTw3
Let's hope what they said at YU about Flaum's is nisht emess.
Isn't Gabe Boxer from the 5 Towns Conservative caterer under Chof K (Gissinger-Abecasis)? How can he manage a store in Brooklyn and do the catering when the caterer goes all the way to places in mid-Connecticut?
What's happening at JEP? First the Agudah was scared of the lawsuits & criminal investigations the OU got for the Lanner molesting scandal at NCSY, so they spun off JEP as a separate corporation and then stopped funding them completely. Now at the upcoming dinner for JEP Long Island they are presenting the Rabbinical "Visionary" Award to both Rav Frankel of Agudah 5 Towns & the OU's Rabbi Dr. Robert Block.
Agudah 5 Towns catering is exclusively Rubashkin.
http://roslynsynagogue.blogspot.com/2011/02/conservative-day-school.html
OU's Robert Block sits on panels with Reform & Conservative rabbis.
That's some "vision"!
http://www.london24.com/news/business/pub_goes_kosher_in_bid_to_attract_jewish_community_1_1166211
Dayan Lichtenstein and Dayan Elzas at Kosher Federation are allowing a restaurant to stay open on Shabbos. It will not cook food but is allowed to sell snacks.
The OK just took Nantucket Nectars drinks away from the OU. Does that mean kashrus standards have just come down?
That lady that comes to Pomegranate definitely is a Presbyterian shiksa married to a Yid. Don't be fooled by her that she dresses tznius only when she comes there or with her "kosher" cheese tasting events company. She uses another company name when she does treif cheese tasting events.
What's wrong with Gabe Boxer?
http://www.15minutesmagazine.com/images/boxer_shorts/box_1012-00.jpg
Here is Gabe cozying up to the Polish shiksa actress Leelee Sobieski. According to this Hollywood magazine she came to Pomegranate when she was in Brooklyn anyway to nebich pick up a kesubah because she married the Jewish fashion designer Adam Kimmel. Which adam gadol was it that said that shortcuts in bishul are causing intermarriage?
couldnt stop laughing when i heard this story. there is one rabbi at queens vaad who doesnt eat ou meat. when dr rabbi seth mandel who lives in queens found out he was very upset
C.S. accused Spotlight of saying over a vort because he knows he's always holding by Torah.
http://www.yatedo.com/p/Chaim+Szmidt/normal/e10c29e07c3e8b27a3b8f7b75e1da429
Yaakov Spivak is a musmach of Ner Yisroel Baltimore. It's Chaim Szmidt that went to Bar Ilan.
Does Szmidt know Dr. Seth Mandel? They both have degrees in English literature.
http://roslynsynagogue.blogspot.com/2011/11/agudah.html
If this blog is correct, it would appear odd that the OU's Robert Block J.D. is accepting an award alongside an Agudah rabbi. A member of Block's congregation alleges that Block opined in a Shabbas sermon a month ago that the Torah prohibits any organization with the name Agudah as Robert Block hates any organization to the Right of the OU.
http://www.shemayisrael.com/yomtov/pesach/list.htm
Dried Eggplant: These are imported from Turkey, where they are collected from different villages. The importer informed us that the local women scoop them out, hang them to dry, and then tie them in string. In the event that there is a rush to get them dried out, flour is put inside to draw out the moisture! Understandably, we can not recommend these for Passover.
I've heard that there was a lot of friction at the OU between Robert Block and the more yeshivish elements. JEP is honoring Robert Block because he brings a lot of multi-millionaires with their checkbooks. Why not turn the other way if it's worth it $$ ??
http://kosherscene.wordpress.com/2011/01/05/the-world-of-kosher-cheese/?ref=nf
"Yaakov Spivak is a musmach of Ner Yisroel Baltimore. It's Chaim Szmidt that went to Bar Ilan."
Actually that info is incorrect(not every website is factually correct). Reb Chaim Szmidt did Kiruv at Bar Ilan but learnt in the mir(not every website is factually correct. I also believe that he is currently involved in Kiruv and is a fayne Talmid chocham.
It was R' Shlomo Zalman that warned about the intermarriage.
Guess what? Gabe Boxer's catering company is named for the original extended family of Kotimsky & Tuchman that started catering kosher food over a hundred years ago. Today that family is mostly intermarried. Terrible.
Why did you remove those items & comments re: Rabbiner Chaim Szmidt? If you would be more responsible & do proper research you would see that he's a detriment to kashrus, which is your cup of tea. Will be back with details.
Do some kashrus research Rabbi Chaim Szmidt, he goes by his (CS).
Check out "kosherscene" (CS). His picture would be able to sell any heimish yeshivish fellow that the kashrus standards are impecable. Check it out.
Rabbi (CS): It was publicized by this site that all cholov stam / akum is realy "treif" due to the veternerian procedures.
Many of the cheeses that Rabbi "CS" publicizes are with unreliable hashgochas, cholov treif, etc.
I don't even want to get into the wines.
Rabbi "CS" recipes contain items that should not be used because of infestation, e.g. fresh parsley, basil, rosemary, raspberries, cilantro, etc.
Excuse me this is big michsoilim to kashrus by one posing as the yeshivish rabbi expert in foods.
There is another "C.S." who heads a Vaad Harabbonim's kashrus who also poses looking very yeshivish while duping you with standards not becoming a frumma Yid. But this C.S. won't get his own blog. He is just here ALL THE TIME to attack and impersonate his critics with silly comments.
Chaim Szmidt's-Activities and Interests.
Other Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, The Jewish Museum, Jewish Slow Cooker Recipes, Lambouri Winery, KosherWine, My Brother Bobby's Salsa, Oh Nuts!, Bing, Jim Pfaff Show, FOX News: Support Our Troops, Down the Writer's Path blog, The Declaration of Independence, A Taste of Torah Text Seminars, Borders, Natural and Kosher Cheese, Sabra, Postcards From The Dinner Table (In The Kitchen), Pushkart, Fleischer Wines, Jews, NowSourcing, Consulate General of Israel in New York, Prime KO, Dear Obama, Stop blaming Bush. It's getting old. Sincerely, Everyone., Coffee, City Harvest, New York City, Right Wing Extremist, Positively Republican!, The Weekly Standard, The Israel and Sin of Expulsion Blog, WordPress, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Sociedad Hebraica Argentina, הרב אמנון יצחק Rabbi Amnon Yitzhak, UNIVERSAL INSTITUTE FOR LANGUAGES, Autoconocimiento Integral, WebYeshiva.org, Ruach: the Spirit of Judaism, Congressman Randy Forbes, Michelle Malkin for Senate 2010, John Thune, Mike Cox, Tzipi Livni - ציפי לבני, Sir Winston Churchill, Ronald Wilson Regan, Peter King, Eric Cantor, Michael Moshe Starkman, Manhigut Yehudit & Moshe Feiglin, Margaret H Thatcher, Effi Eitam, Alan Keyes, Aung San Suu Kyi, Jewish Agency for Israel, UN Watch, Impeach Nancy Pelosi, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), ✡ I Support Israel Against Her Enemies! ✡, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Smart Girl Politics, The Heritage Foundation, Avodah Ivrit, American Solutions, NewsBusters.org, Jewish National Fund, Pam's Kosher Collection, CriticalAnalyst, Brigitte Gabriel, John Stossel, Contessa Brewer, Hannah Giles, Alisyn Camerota, MJ Santos, Elie Wiesel, Dry Bones, Phyllis Chesler, Michael Savage, Newt Gingrich, Sean Hannity, Martin Dzuris Live, Magdi Cristiano Allam, Alfonzo Rachel, Mark Steyn, Walid Shoebat, William Kristol, Mark Levin, Victor Borge, R. Steven Reynolds - Ghost Ranger, Oriana Fallaci, Frum Satire, The 2nd Amendment, Rabbi Avraham Sutton, Lazer Brody, Nonie Darwish - Arabs For Israel, Baroness Tapuzina, QualityHealth, ConstitutionWatch.org, www.yideotube.com, The God Blog, 360jobinterview.com, EuroCircle, The Jewish Internet Defense Force, Young Gun Conservative Network, Six Degrees Of Separation - The Experiment, Arutz 7 - Israel National Radio, The Next Right, Jew, Sarah Palin, The Visa Business Network, Owned!, Jerusalem - Pieces of Heaven on Earth
Listen to this, It gets weirder. According to the sefer on Hilchos Chalitzah From Chaim Szmidt it seems he got semicha from Harav Shammai Kehos Gross from Belz.
Is there a belz connection!?!
Its very emesdik of you to delete all posts that speak the truth about R' Szmidt, and leave up all of the negative ones that were fabricated out of unwarranted sinas chinom.
MZ never claimed to be a kosher endorser. All they claim to be is endorsing the treatment of workers.
that can be debated if it worth anything due to the fact that have no clue about halacha, since they make it up as they go along. But why noise about a hechsher, which they never claimed to be????
"R' Yechiel Michel Feinshtein ztl ... is mechadesh that mayseh avos siman lebanim extends to the shvatim until they were kicked out into golus"
Actually, R' Yechiel Michel is mashma like that in one place but that's not what he means. You have to go through all of his kesavim to see that he really holds like the Ramban that maysah Avos stopped by Yocheved bain hachomos.
Block also has a Conservative "rabbi" as one of his prominent members, who lains periodically (is anyone yoitzei?) and to whom Block is mechalek groise koved during his bein gavra l'gavra shabbos droshos.
There is a deli brand called Baldwin Street from Sarasam Food under the Montreal Vaad that someone is trying to bring to NY. Any product with #259 under the MK is Satmar shechita.
http://www.baldwinstreet.com/
In 2008 a huge soda pop company tried to buy Sarasam but backed out of the deal at the last minute.
Baldwin St is already distributed by Olde Spadina Kosher in Buffalo, NY, and in Miami. They operate concessions inside Major League sports stadiums.
Do a Google on "Magen Tzedek black pudding"
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