Sunday, November 15, 2009

More on the Rubashkin Case

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Dear Zev Brenner, amv"sh

Please forward this both to Shmuly Yanklovitz and to attorney Sam Hirsh and to the Rubashkin family  for a new perspective.   Thanks

Regarding the Rubashkin case, let's try to look at the Bigger Picture!

Shmuly from Uri L'Tzedek:   As one who is in the forefront in the fight for ethics and morality, in your honest opinion, which scenario is more ethical and moral according to a "Higher Authority"?. 

The hard earned  American tax payer money legally lands up in the Palestinian Authority to teach children about 'martyrdom', praise violent resistance and teach that the entire State of Israel does not exist.http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/134354 or alternatively, according to American law lands up illegally in the hands of the Spinka Rebbe who uses this money  to pay salaries for his Rabbeim of his Yeshiva some of whom have large families e.g. 10 kids.  The Spinka Yeshiva, like most good Yeshivas  teaches  the observance of Torah and Mitzvoth the epitome of ethical and moral behavior.  

One has to admit that when we are talking about a higher moral order, the illegal money landing in the Spinka Yeshiva is preferable to legal money ending up in the Palestinian Authority Schools teaching incitement and martyrdom. In fact I would even venture to guess that you yourself would prefer that your tax money would end up in a Yeshiva rather than in a PA school that teaches incitement and martyrdom.

Or does American legality overrule answering to a "Higher Authority?"

Shmuly,

I am all for paying taxes and being ethical and moral.  But do you really believe that the Spinka Rebbe should be on such a defensive for defrauding the American tax payer when the Orthodox Jewish American Tax payer is being defrauded by the American Gov't who uses their hard earned money to give lots of money to the Palestinian Authority.   see link The USAID program has pumped $2.4 billion into the Palestinian Authority since 1994 for what it says are programs that "reduce poverty, improve health and education, create jobs and advance democracy." USAID says it plans to invest another $153 million in 2010 for the development of PA infrastructure in Judea and Samaria.

Shmuly, it is not secret that the Palestinians rejoiced when the Twin Towers fell.

It is nice and fine to be patriotic but how much do your really care about your fellow Jew in Judea and Samaria all 350,000 of them who have built up their lives and community, with an honest and ethical work ethic and in spite of this,  face expulsion and destruction due to pressure coming from the American Government using your hard earned taxes. I'm not sure how much you've earned so far because you are still a student.  This is hypothetical.  And if you think that a Palestinian State will not bring Kassam rockets upon all of Israel within Kassam reach, go live in Sderot and experience first hand the result of Disengagement.    After all, what  happened to the taxpaying, hard working, honest and ethical Jews from Gush Katif whose homes and communities were destroyed because the ethical and moral Jewish communities in America and elsewhere were too self absorbed in whatever they were absorbed in to protest? 

You yourself managed to organize thousands to sign a petiion against Agriprocessor and  company?  Couldn't you have used your energies to fight for Yesha?  Is it no wonder that G-d sends as His Shaliach some judge in Indiana  that comes up with a some unrelated Psak that says that Rubashkin can't have his passport because he might run to Israel the Homeland for the Jewish People. 

Perhaps G-d, who has his messengers is telling us Jews through this judge that Israel is our Homeland and we must not forget it?

Do you really think that the reason Jews are being targeted because we are involved in serious bank fraud and unethical business behavior?  You yourself said that if someone did not meet your ethical standards you would not commit them to jail but would work with them. 

I am not promoting  hiring illegal immigrants but honestly, what is their alternative?  Are these illegal immigrants better off now than they were not working for Rubashkin?   Honestly, are they now grateful to you for your charity when they were laid off.  Are their lives much better now as a result of your pursuit of honesty and legality and ethics?  Who helps support them when your charity ran out? Is their new job conditions much more favorable than their previous job conditions in Postville?  What do they get paid in Guatemala now that they can not work illegally in the US.
Of course as loyal  Americans we are concerned about upholding the law of the Land and are against hiring illegal workers and not paying less than minimum wage of $7.25 an hour. 

Immigration law is not that black and white.  America has always absorbed the best and sometimes, laws that are too harsh to protect illegal immigration works against our better interests.

Is the USA gov't  interested in merely correcting offenses. regarding illegal immigration and other violations.  How come they close Agriprocessor with no regard to the employees and those who suddenly  lost their source of  livelihood, as a result of this closure thereby causing great distress and suffering in the process.  Surely, these violations could have been corrected a more humane manner. .

As a Rabbinic student you must be aware that In Jewish Law when someone commits a sin he is subject to lashes.  Yet if the one that carries out the punishment, exceeds by even one lash he is Chayav.  He is over Baal Tosif.

 Don't you think that  strictly from an American Legal perspective, Rubashkin and the company Agriprocessor  is being punished too harshly?  Why not investigate independently and if you find via investigative research, not based on biased media reports that  Rubashkin was subject to selective prosecution,  you who helped bring him and his employees down with your pursuit of fairness and justice, have the obligation to join with Sam Hirsh and help him fight his case.  Otherwise, you will be held accountable for all the extra lashes he is receiving unjustly. .  If you were so concerned about justice and ethics do not allow a family to be ruined more than they deserve especially when you helped bring them down.  All your compassion for them can not undo the damage that you and your organization perhaps caused them.

Sincerely, Robin Ticker

PS. G-d is the ultimate just and fair Judge,

My message to the Rubashkin family is to learn from the Judge who told Rubashkin that  his homeland is Eretz Yisroel and to do whatever they can to fight for Shleimus Haaretz and against the terrible decree slated for the hundreds of thousands of Jews in Judea and Samaria  Our obligation to state that the entire world belongs to G-d and G-d chooses to whom to give the Land is taught to us when we learn about Shemittah. 

Shemittah has 2 components.

 One component is dependent on the Land of Israel.  Shemittah Karkaot.

 The other component is universal, Shemitas Kesafim.

Rubashkin started his business in 1987, which was a shemittah year.  I believe his whole enterprise fell apart in 2008 which is the year following Shemittah.  Interestingly, the fall of the twin towers was also in Aseres Yemai Teshuva following a Shemittah year and the stock market in 1988 took a plunge following a Shemittah year.  Shemittah is supposed to be metaken the problem of Kochi VeOtzem Yadi which is symbolized by the World Trade Center and the stock market.   In the Shemittah year we are obligated according to the Torah  to loan  to the poor and then forego loans .. I have no doubt that Rubashkin used Pruzbul but the spirit of Shabbat  and Maein Olam Haba is not experienced via legal loopholes even Pruzbul.  Sometimes the letter of the Law is not enough.

Maybe in the Shemittah year, Rubashkin could have instituted a program to feed the poor with chickens.  :"Buy a chicken for a needy family in honor of Shabbos (Shabbat Haaretz).  Especially a needy farmer. "  Maybe a year of extra caring for the fellow Jew to an extraordinary degree  during  the Shemittah year was in order.  Shemittah is meant for Jews.  How many Goyim even have the inclination to keep Shemittas Kesafim.  Of course this should apply  to all Jews not just Rubashkin.  However since Rubashkin is experiencing such difficult times, they may be  the ones to be the pioneers in this uncharted territory of Shemittas Kesafim not totally relying on Pruzbul, a Rabbinic loophole instituted by Hillel,

This is food for thought.   You might want to read a bit more about my own personal experience regarding Shemittah at http://shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com/2005/09/how-it-began-how-i-became-interested.html

Kol Tuv, and Shavua Tov!

Here is a reprint of the report of Uri LeTzedek just to refresh your memory.   


Repairing a sacred relationship
By Ari Hart and Shmuly Yanklowitz

With black helicopters buzzing overhead, scores of U.S. Federal agents on May 12 conducted the largest immigration raid in American history, at a meatpacking plant in the small town of Postville, Iowa. Affidavits and search warrants alleged that the slaughterhouse had hired hundreds of undocumented Guatemalan immigrants, abused and threatened them, and paid them sub-minimum wages. The episode shocked many Americans and revealed major flaws in our immigration system and domestic labor practices. Even worse, from the Jewish point of view, was that this story unfolded at Agriprocessors, the largest supplier of kosher meat in America.

The Jewish community in general and the observant community in particular are obliged by countless directives, rooted in the Torah, to protect and support the workers who produce the goods and services that sustain us. Even if our skin colors and faiths are different and we are hundreds of miles apart, our lives are deeply intertwined by virtue of the sacred social relationships between consumer, worker and employer. The charges raised by the government made it eminently clear that those relationships had been violated: Its affidavit outlined many health and safety violations, including dangerous working conditions, at the Agriprocessors plant. There were also many horrific stories in the media about physical and sexual abuse of workers and severe mistreatment of animals.

Uri L'Tzedek, the first Orthodox social justice organization in the United States, responded. Our initial action was to raise funds to help the families that, as a result of the raid, were left destitute without income. We also petitioned the company's owner, Aaron Rubashkin, protesting the abuse of workers, who included many immigrants, vulnerable populations that the Torah repeatedly demands the Jewish people protect.

Signers of the petition demanded that Agriprocessors agree to pay its workers at least minimum wage, $7.25 in Iowa, and recommit to abiding by all U.S. laws relating to worker safety and rights. Approximately 60 percent of kosher beef and 40 percent of kosher chicken in America and much in Israel come from Agri, but these signers committed to buy from and patronize only those institutions that purchase the alternatives. While the Orthodox Union, the country's largest kashrut certifier, decided not to challenge Agri on these allegations, nearly 2,000 Jewish leaders and kosher consumers, from the U.S. and Israel, did sign on to our demands. Many synagogues, schools and camps have also vowed to cease buying Agri products until the injustices are rectified. We believe this in itself was a victory confirming that the Orthodox and broader kosher communities care about the oppressed, the stranger and the worker.

Members of Uri L'Tzedek also met with members of the Rubashkin family and company management in early June. The atmosphere was tense, but the company did commit to complying with our demands. At the same time, it hired Jim Martin, a reputable former U.S. Attorney, to serve as the company's chief compliance officer, a new position created in response to these major problems. Martin has already instituted a number of reforms, intended to bring Agriprocessors into compliance with U.S. laws governing worker protection. Our negotiations and dialogue with the company and with Mr. Martin have continued, and the boycott was suspended in response to these initial signs of reform.

This was an important victory for the kosher consumers who signed on and for the workers who remain at the plant. The arrested undocumented employees and their families, however, have lost out: Hundreds have been imprisoned and await deportation. And new allegations of withheld pay and exploitation of workers continue to arise.

More generally, a failed immigration system remains in place in America, by which many industries rely on the labor of easily exploited poor undocumented immigrants to provide cheap services. When the government does take action, it is often against the workers, rather than seeing them as the abused party.

The Uri L'Tzedek team intends to visit Postville on August 12 to assist and meet with workers past and present, and their families. A number of leaders of Jewish youth groups also plan to join the delegation: They are the next generation of kosher activists. Addressing these larger issues is integral to Uri L'Tzedek's work as Orthodox Jewish activists. In addition to mobilizing members of the Orthodox and broader Jewish community to raise funds for the families that have been hurt by the raids, we have attempted to raise awareness about workers' rights and immigration through educational campaigns in the Orthodox community, and have lobbied U.S. House and Senate staff to express our concerns about the human suffering that results from these kinds of enforcement tactics.

As Orthodox Jews, we feel that we must go beyond addressing our own parochial needs and wield the unprecedented influence we now have for the values the Torah holds dear: justice, love and compassion. As American Jews, we have been deeply inspired by the path blazed by B'maaglei Tzedek in Israel, placing social justice at the forefront of religious priorities. It does this in part via its tav hevrati (social seal), which certifies restaurants as not only kosher but also as meeting ethical standards. We value the effort to carry out the ethical mitzvot as stringently as we observe the ritual ones.

We believe this campaign signals a new level of communal expectation of all our Jewish businesses to conduct themselves with the highest standards of ethics and justice, as demanded by our holy tradition. We work and we yearn for the time when "justice shall roll down like waters and righteousness like an everflowing stream" - may it come speedily in our days. Amen.

Ari Hart and Shmuly Yanklowitz are Orthodox rabbinical students at Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, and co-directors of Uri L'Tzedek http://uriltzedek.webnode.com

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Protest! MK Michael Ben-Ari (Ichud Leumi - National Union) denied Visa

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Please email: nivtelaviv@state.gov

Demand " Give MK Michael Ben-Ari a Visa Now!!!"

Backround:
MK Michael Ben-Ari (Ichud Leumi-National Union) reported Monday that he had been turned down for a visa to visit the United States. Ben-Ari had been planning a trip in the upcoming days, in order to visit several American Jewish communities.

Sources close to the MK said that the refusal appears to have stemmed from concerns over demonstrations in which Ben-Ari took part prior to the 2005 Disengagement from Gaza. While applying for a visa Ben-Ari was asked if he had a criminal background, and revealed that he had been arrested during an anti-Disengagement protest, they explained.

My comments:


Denied a Visa because he was arrested for an anti disengagement protest?  Let the State Dept investigate. Didn't the protesters against the Disengagement have their  basic rights of Freedom of Speech, Freedom of religion, etc. denied?.  

What about the American Colonists who formed a militia as a result of intolerable acts and  taxation w/o representation by the British which led up to the AMerican Revolution? Let us brush up on our American History and the Founding of the United States of America.

Compare these grievances of the Colonists with getting thrown out of one's home, having your house destroyed as well as your community uprooted.  What about the loss of livelihood, emotional and psychological pain inflicted on the families following the Disengagement?  What about loss of property and the work of a lifetime and sometimes encompassing 2 generations go down the tube for no apparent good reason..  Settlers of Gush Katif communities were after all tax paying citizens of the State of Israel.  Surely what happened to them was far worse  in comparison with the crime of taxation w/o representation.  In hindsight, after all the Kassam rockets falling on southern Israel, and the degradation and failure to compensate the settlers after promises of fair compensation, wasn't Michael ben Ari justified in protesting the Disengagement?  

Surely, our Founding Fathers would not have been issued visas as well for their protest (sometimes even violent) against the British! The Boston Tea Party was clearly illegal.

 I  believe that if the Founding Fathers of America were alive today they would be able to relate to the settlers of Judea and Samaria and their struggle for freedom of religion and the right of self defense.  This is precisely why the Founding Fathers came up with the Bill of Rights. It serves to protect our rights and freedom from a  government that is not interested in protecting the rights and freedoms of its loyal citizens.  Shame Shame Shame on those that will not issue Michael ben Ari a Visa!  They have lost their vision of what America truly stands for. 

Sincerely, Robin Ticker

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Tuesday, November 03, 2009

Letter to Honest Reporting and Camera regarding Smear Press against Right Wing Nationalists

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Dear Honest Reporting and Camera,

Please read the following links. 

http://shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com/2009/11/more-on-smear-campaign-of-media-against.html

http://shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com/2009/11/outnumbered-30-to-7-mishtara-biased.html

It pays to  investigate whether lying under oath (as in giving testimony) in the Arab culture  is considered acceptable or even laudable when it is used as an effective tool to fight the "Israeli occupiers". 

If this is the case, all testimony from Arab sources should be under extra scrutiny unless it is determined that such testimony is indeed accurate and not a result of coercion, bribes or hate.  Their testimony should not be considered accurate by credible News Sources unless it thoroughly investigated.
One  reasonably expects a reliable and fair investigation by the Israel Police before any story is sent to the press!

That raises another question.  Is the Police - Mishtara,  interested in enforcing Israeli Law or are they a political police force intent on enforcing and publicizing the political agenda? 

 It is quite clear that there was defamation of name and character of Orthodox Right Wing Nationalists.


It seems to me that the Mishtara - Police accepted false testimony of the Arabs that were proven lies.  Apparently before the police investigation was complete, the news went out to all the News Sources that told the news based on the lies that made the Right Wing camp look bad. (e.g. the Jews shot at the Arabs, Arabs were injured  etc.)

Even though the right wing security guard in this news item was released from prison after a Shabbat in jail  based on conclusive evidence of his innocence, the bad PR damage had been done!  (note all the links to the false press generated as a result of this police report)


Monday, November 02, 2009

More on Smear Campaign of Media against Settlersk - Beit Zefafah

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Dear Journalists amd fellow activists, amv"sh

I just sent you the authentic version of what happened in Beit Zefafah. See link in orange.  See however, from the attached list below see how this incident was reported in the news based on a police report that was based on proven lies.

http://shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com/2009/11/outnumbered-30-to-7-mishtara-biased.html

Attached list of false media stories

YNET

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3797777,00.html 

NEWSTIN

http://www.newstin.co.uk/rel/uk/en-010-019627294 

JPOST

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1256799049399&pagename=JPArticle/ShowFull

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1256799049230&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull 

JEWISH UPDATES

http://jewishupdates.com/2009/10/30/right-wingers-wound-4-beit-safafa-men/ 
 

ALL VOICES

http://www.allvoices.com/news/4513230-los-angeles/stories

http://www.allvoices.com/s/event-4513230/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5oYWFyZXR6LmNvbS9oYXNlbi9zcGFnZXMvMTEyNDc5MC5odG1s 
 

MISC

http://tweetmeme.com/story/240766679/right-wing-men-wound-4-southeast-jlem-arabs-headlines-news-jerusalem-post

http://www.israel-palestinenews.org/2009/10/armed-settlers-shoot-palestinian-beat.html

http://australiansforpalestine.com/breaking-news-israeli-settlers-shoot-stab-palestinians-in-two-jerusalem-attacks 

http://engforum.pravda.ru/showthread.php?t=266678 

SILO

http://www.silobreaker.com/jerusalem-11_82021

http://www.silobreaker.com/jews-arrested-in-brawl-over-home-ownership-5_2262710484463517710 

JTA

http://jta.org/news/article/2009/11/01/1008854/right-wing-jewish-activists-detained-after-brawl-with-arabs-in-jerusalem#When:11:58:00Z 

INN

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/173552

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/173549

Sunday, November 01, 2009

Outnumbered 30 to 7 - Mishtara biased against Jews. Mishtara fails to protect Jews under attack. Arrests the security guard that shot in air in self defense, still has not returned video that proves Jews innocence, Arabs bring false witnesses to test

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Dear Journalists and Fellow Activists, amv"sh

Please read the full story by Hillel Fendel on Arutz 7.

Arab Squatters were handed eviction notice by the 78 years old owner Yitzchok Herskovits. They responded with stones. Link to Arutz 7 article by Hillel Fendel  at Beit Tzafafah

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/134160

Read about it in Yeshabulletin.com

Outnumbered 30 to 7



I am not an investigative reporter but I received a first hand report from the photographer on the scene of the above mentioned articles. 

The blue clothes police, Mishtara,  took the side of the Arab aggressors.  They arrested Mordechai, a security guard of the group, who acted in self defense, in response to a barrage of large Arab hurled grapefruit sized stones.  The Mishtara also attempted to arrest and fingerprint the photographer  who clearly did nothing but film.  Luckily one of the border police intervened so the photographer was let go.  The Mishtara, the blue clothed police took away the incriminating film of the Arab stone throwers with the agreement that a copy of the video film would be returned to the photographer. As of a few hours ago,  this has still not happened. 

If the Mishtara fails to return the film, they are clearly hiding evidence that will show proof of innocence on the part of the Jews. This video proves that  the Jews were clearly acting in self defense and that the Arabs were the aggressors. 

Jewish citizens in the State of Israel as do citizens in the USA as do citizens all over the world have the right of self defense!

Not only were there 20- 30 rock throwers against these 7 Jews resulting in 2 injuries, thank G-d not life threatening, this Arab family  brought  false evidence to incriminate the Jews who were on the receiving end of their rocks. They  fabricated testimony that a bullet hit a man in the hand and also that the Jews stabbed an Arab women.  Of course as the video shows,  the group of Jews were all running under cover because they were under attack so this would be highly impossible.  With the grace of G-d, Mordechai, the security guard was released because the video was able to prove that Mordechai, the security guard clearly acted in self defense by shooting in the air. He did his job.  The bullet of the alleged Arab victim did not match the bullets in Mordechai's gun and that the wound was incompatible with a wound that would have resulted from Mordechai's gun.  This is clear proof that the Arabs brought false testimony

I don't know if Mordechai got his gun returned to him.  I wonder if any of the  Arab witnesses were arrested for false testimony and if there was an investigation as per who set them up to testify falsely?  For example, were they bribed?

 Why with a history of false allegations by Arabs against settlers do the police believe the Arab Side and not the Jewish side? Isn't there a chazaka,  a status quo,   on the part of the Arabs that they will be hostile to a Jewish presence entering their domain.  Can Jews freely enter Arab villages w/o being afraid for their lives?   Arabs that are not suspected terrorists, are not afraid for their lives in Jewish population centers.  The walk around freely, feeling safe of being attacked. They and Israelis are merely inconvenienced by annoying security checks to weed out potential Arab suicide bombers and terrorists. On the other hand,  a mere Jewish presence in Arab population centers are considered "provocation" and their lives are seriously at risk as was seen by the lynching of 3 Israeli Soldiers, Daniel Pinner and many other examples. .

Unfortunately large news agencies including Jewish ones  trust the police reports  as opposed to the version presented by the "radical settlers".

Mordechai  the security guard was arrested and had to spend Shabbat in jail for firing in the air.  What was he supposed to do.  Allow his group to be sitting ducks?.  What would have happened to Mordechai, the security guard, had the Arab stone throwers not been caught on film and had his bullets been of the more standard variety that matched the type of bullet wound of the false Arab witness? There would be no evidence except the lies of the Arabs.  Would he have been forced to sit in  jail like Jonathan Pollard whose crime was to somehow to the best of his ability attempt to  protect his fellow Jew when the real responsible parties, like the IDF or Mishtara failed to do their job? Would Mordechai have been placed in administrative detention for months, with hefty legal feels, unable to work and bring in a livelihood for his family as is the case with some other unfortunate settlers with nasty police reports against them that rely on Arabs stories rather than the real truth based on an unbiased, non politically motivated investigation? 

 Is it any wonder that the UN Goldstone report succeeded in incriminating Israel in Operation Cast Lead for executing their moral obligation of protecting their citizens, similar to the way the Israeli judicial system currently incriminates settlers  in Judea and Samaria and elsewhere for executing their right in self defense? Middah Kinegged Middah.


Why didn't the Israeli Court send the army to issue the eviction notice?
  Clearly the Arabs have history of hostility against the Jews especially when they are being evicted for squatting.   Why is it the responsibility of a 78 year old landowner to serve the eviction papers in hostile territory? 

Maybe the way things turned out is for the best for Herskovitz.  Apparently one can surmise that the police is biased against the Jews.   If the police would have received orders to serve the eviction notice, who knows if the fact that the eviction papers  reached the Selah family squatters would have been duly documented and recorded as was the case here.. From Hillel Fendel's report they simply threw the eviction papers away. It was recorded on video, however, that it was received.

We must demand from the Mishtara to return at least an untampered copy of the video film back to the photographer as evidence of what really happened.  Surely this evidence is needed to counter the negative publicity generated from biased media reports that base their news on false police reports that  serve once again to to demonize the settlers. 

We can not allow biased media journalists and the Mishtara to get away with spreading false and evil reports based on  police reports based on lies. 

The government of Israel has the obligation to protect its loyal citizens and when they fail to do so should not incriminate those that are forced to defend themselves to the best of their ability.


Let me conclude by adding that we can not allow the action of any individual, even if found guilty, which is clearly not the case here, to  be used to smear the reputation and good name of upright citizens and wholesome communities  that live in Judea and Samaria and elsewhere who believe in the Torah and our entitlement to the entire Israel within the Biblical Borders.