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• Jewish Lobby Wages War against Christmas, What if they Were Muslim?

  
  loonwatch.com — Authority: 500
  Christmas to be boycotted?-Reuteurs A new Jewish lobby is proposing a war against Christmas. Stating amongst other things, Fliers and ads distributed among the public read, “The people of Israel have given their soul over the years in order to maintain the values of the Torah of Israel and the Jewish identity. ...
  5 days ago

• Shanda!

  
  Your Moral Leader — Authority: 445
  Joe emails: A reform jew is walking down the street and he looks in the window of the kosher deli. He does a double take as he is utterly shocked to see his reform synagogue’s pulpit rabbi eating lunch. He cannot believe that the rabbi would eat at such an establishment that kept to the anitquated rules of ...
  1 week ago

• Who Turned Kashrut Supervision Into A Cash Cow?

  
  Your Moral Leader — Authority: 445
  Kof-K led the way in the 1970s with making serious money from kashrut supervision. Then everyone else, including the OU, woke up to the possibilities of making big bucks from overseeing the production of food within the guidelines of Jewish law. The head of Kashrut for the OU now makes more than $500,000 a year. ...
  1 week ago

• Montefiore Hospital (NY) Whistleblower Robert Frank Suspended, He Applies For Food Stamps Monday

  
  Your Moral Leader — Authority: 445
  Robert Frank calls me Thursday afternoon. Here and here and here and here and here my previous posts on him. Robert: “They called me in to a meeting with Human Resources on Monday. The union rep stood by and let them cream me. She didn’t open her mouth in my defense one bit. They started accusing me of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Montefiore Whistleblower Robert Frank Suspended

  
  Your Moral Leader — Authority: 445
  New York mashgiach Robert Frank calls me Sunday afternoon . Robert: “I got suspended on Friday. The head of the department called me. I had to go back in to my religious stuff, my tefillin, and they wouldn’t let me back in. I had to sneak back in. “I’m supposed to meet with the union rep on Monday with the ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Kashrut Whistleblower

  
  Your Moral Leader — Authority: 445
  Lou emails: Hi, Luke. I’m sure Mr. Frank appreciates that you and other Jewish bloggers are helping him blow the whistle on the O.U. But has it occurred to you that the man is at least slightly unhinged? Even a man of your piety would agree that if hundreds of roaches are found in a hospital kitchen, kashrut is ...
  3 weeks ago

• Montefiore Hospital Whistleblower

  
  Your Moral Leader — Authority: 445
  New York mashgiach Robert Frank emails : DEAR MR FORD, ENCLOSED IS A PEST CONTROL REPORT AND A INVOICE SHOWING NON KOSHER CANDY FOR MONTEFIORE HOSPITAL AT 1825 EASTCHESTER RD BRONX, NY. 10461 . THE INFESTATION REPORT SHOWS 100 ROACHES, WHICH OF COURSE ARE NOT KOSHER. I HAVE SEEN ROACHES IN THE SOUP KETTLES AND ALL ...
  3 weeks ago

• Montefiore Hospital Whistleblower Advised To Hire A Bodyguard

  
  Your Moral Leader — Authority: 445
  New York mashgiach Robert Frank calls me Thursday evening. “Some of the workers said I should hire a bodyguard. People here are going to kill you if we get fired and they close the place down. Not direct threats. One worker told me, if we all get fired, we are all going to come get you. “You can see by my ...
  3 weeks ago

• Is The Purpose Of Religion To Aggrandize Yourself Or To Serve God?

  
  Your Moral Leader — Authority: 445
  That’s the question I think about when I look at Jewish Los Angeles. When the Orthodox Union puts its hashgacha (kosher certification) on toilet bowl cleanser and water, is that just for making money or is there a divine reason for it? If there is a divine reason for it, if this is rooted in Torah text, then where ...
  3 weeks ago

• New York Mashgiach Robert Frank Says He’s Received Death Threats

  
  Your Moral Leader — Authority: 445
  Last week, mashgiach Robert Frank told me that the Orthodox Union, in his experience, was indifferent to kashrut supervision. They were just in it for the money . Monday evening, Robert calls. "I think the Orthodox Union is getting pretty nervous," he says. "I saw Rabbi Luban at a bris this morning. He seemed ...
  3 weeks ago

• How Did Kashrut Become So Sexy?

  
  Your Moral Leader — Authority: 445
  Twenty years ago, if you met a mashgiach, you assumed he was not smart enough to be a rabbi. Working in kashrut certification was a low-paying, unprestigious job. Now it is a power center. It is a money-maker. The RCC has used kosher certification as a battering ram to bring the recalcitrant to bay and to shift ...
  3 weeks ago

• If you want to make money, write a book

  
  Wide Awake in Wonderland — Authority: 122
  “If you want to make money, write a book. If you want to make a lot of money, start a religion.” –L. Ron Hubbard Allegedly, in 1948, science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard (author of all kinds of things you’ve probably never heard of, let alone read, such as Buckskin Brigades , Indigestible Triton , and ...
  3 weeks ago

• New York Mashgiach Says Orthodox Union Only Interested In Making Money, Not In Policing Kashrut

  
  Your Moral Leader — Authority: 445
  According to Wikipedia : "In Judaism , a Mashgiach ( Hebrew : משגיח, pl. משגיחים, mashgichim ) is a person who supervises the kashrut status of a kosher establishment." Thursday evening, Robert Frank, a New York mashgiach, emailed me: "Dear Mr. Ford, I would like to help to expose a big consumer ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Debate: Eating Meat (or not) at the Hazon Food Conference

  
  The Jew and the Carrot — Authority: 424
  The Jew and The Carrot, Hazon’s blog about Jews, food and contemporary life.  The blog has a diverse and inclusive community, where we welcome readers and volunteer writers from across the Jewish denominational spectrum, and from all walks of culinary life.  Our aim is to ensure that The Jew and The Carrot ...
  4 weeks ago

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