By COLlive reporter
Mind your manners…
London’s newspaper Jewish News gave a dreadful greeting to Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin ahead of his planned speaking tour in England’s capital city in 2 weeks.
“Chasidic fraudster who was pardoned by Trump to visit London this month,” the paper’s online edition reported. “Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin, who was jailed for 27 years after being convicted of 86 counts of fraud, will give several speeches in the capital.”
“The 59-year old is the son of Aaron Rubashkin, a wealthy American Orthodox Jew who owned the now-bankrupt Agriprocessors, a slaughterhouse in Iowa that was raided by 900 US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in 2008,” it reported.
The newspaper went on to report that “The Postville Raid – the largest in US history – ended with 398 employees arrested, 283 of whom were from Guatemala or Mexico, with 18 underage. Most were charged with being in the country illegally. Sholom Rubashkin was the firm’s chief executive.”
What it failed to mention to its readers was that neither the owner, Aaron Rubashkin, nor his sons Sholom and Heshy Rubashkin, who were in charge of the management of Agriprocessors, were convicted of immigration or labor law violations.
The paper added that “After a court convicted Sholom Rubashkin of 86 counts of financial fraud including bank fraud, mail and wire fraud, and money-laundering, and sentenced him to 27 years in prison, prosecutors dismissed the 72 immigration charges against him.”
Once again, it failed to mention that the high account of charges were due to the government’s inflation of the company’s value and that he was imprisoned for some little-enforced technicalities, including a 1920s law requiring certain suppliers of cattle to be paid within a day.
Late in 2007, after lobbying from both Democrats and Republicans, including former Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman-Shultz, Rubashkin had his sentence commuted by President Donald Trump, it reported.
“Now he is due to visit London for five days starting on 17 January, and organizers of his trip say he will give several speeches in Stamford Hill and Golders Green,” the paper reported.
Levi Shapiro, director of Stamford Hill’s Jewish Community Council (JCC), responded to the paper that Rubashkin is “coming here to give inspiration to the community. His message is to be law-abiding business people, to learn from your mistakes, to be true contributors to society, and to make the most of second chances. It’s a strong message to deliver.”
Rubashkin has been approached for comment.
The title of the article has since been changed from “Chasidic fraudster” to “Chasidic rabbi.”
to such a living lesson in the SHAAR HABITACHON
The fact (he mentioned) that he will be in the guiness book of records for the most charges brought (over 9000) and acquitted of every single one.
v’l’malshinim al tehi sikvo..
Sholom is a highly intelligent interesting guy and we all look forward to welcoming him here with open arms and can’t wait to hear his speech.
Ronaldo and Messi both have been committed more tax fraud than Rubashkin has been sentence.
The different is Messi and Ronaldo they continue to watch but Rubashkin with a Jewish look and done nothing his is bad!!!
Someone once said that the greatest anti-semites are the British Jews. I don’t know who said this but here is a good example
Do you really think this newspaper and whoever wrote that is an yirat shamain, mentschleich, baal ahavat Israel and shmirat halashon?
#3 you clearly have never been to the UK. This is not true at all
#10
“Typical of the Brits”, so you think every single Brit thinks like these?
#25 you are talking as if the whole of England had made the report!
Sue the newspaper…slander.
Particularly the last line of the report
https://thejewishweekly.com/rubashkin-arrives-in-uk-for-inspirational-talks/
Our greatest revenge against the lefty’s is to re elect Trump.
We care little about what England has to say about any moral or ethical matter. England has a shameful past of bestial murder in the name of anti semitism (learn a little about the history of York- NOT mentioned in their text books), not to mention the well-glossed over forcing of Jews to become money lenders in centuries past by depriving them of the right to engage in commerce or own any property. Does this kind of hypocrisy sound predictably familiar? maybe because a goy is a goy.. This just makes R’ Sholom Mordechai shine brighter.
Just so you all know…the London Jewish News is tabloid press. Sensationalist journalism sells papers. Thats what its about.
From an American who has lived in London for over 20 years and remembers the London Jewish News being established I can assure you that they are the least accredited newspaper ever anywhere and are actually not taken seriously at all by anyone jewish or not jewish. Their continued existence is only due to the fact that the paper is free and always has been since day one and since English people are naturally skinflints the paper has survived all this time. In fact this article on COL is precisely the type of attention they are seeking and by acknowledging… Read more »
He should not be put off. Decent Jewish people in UK do not read it. It advertises TREIF restaurants on its pages directly to its readers!!
People should learn respect if you disapprove you don’t have to give him a disrespectful title. Say what you have to say but respectfully.
Every time I see stuff like this, I feel appreciation for my Frum education.
Sheesh! Even if you don’t like him, he is a human being who went through a lot. To do a one sided smear/character assassination is so insensitive.
It’s so unfortunate that these people act like animals who just trample everything in their way without regaurd for anything.
Sadly, this is what the vast majority of people who leave prison are faced with. Constant reminders every time they apply for a job, etc, and the wicked who continue to believe the charges and slander, or worse. The Rebbe once said that once a person is released from jail then they have atoned for whatever it was that sent them to jail in first place.
Leave the man in peace!!!
This is a free newspaper! Scrunch the sheets and use them to wash your windows for a sparkling shine. There’s nothing Jewish about this paper other than the editors hating frum Yidden.
This does absolutely not represent England! there are numerous Frum Newspaper with full cover ads giving R’ Sholom Modche the proper Kovod, Us Frum Community here in London See this visit as a great Zchus and feel just as you do in the U.S the Modern orthodox communities in England do not represent the rest of Frum, Chareidi and Chassidishe communities over here – there is Immense Varemkeit and Ahavas Yisroel felt within our communities Boruch Hashem
the jewish news is a free newspaper and is decidedly NOT friendly to the orthodox community whatsoever.
Thank you number 1 and 7 for being sensible…number 10 what do u even know??? It has nothing to do with being a Brit….. there’s self hating Jews everywhere in this pretty world!
Number 14 come visit and see….UKs frum kehilla are all very excited to meet him, Lubavitch and non Lubavitch alike, young and old.
Please don’t comment if you don’t know what you are on about
Thank you.
This is *UK’s* foul welcome… UK Yidden – please prove me wrong and protest this outrage committed in your name..
I hope every frum person is planning on canceling their subscription to this paper.
..they are more concerned for a dog suffering or a lion killed for attacking a human. They will condemn Trump even if he solves all there problems. And believe a frum Jew is a disgrace even if he saves thier lives
Th seed of antisemitism burns in them more then in non jews
As the Navi says…”Maharsayich mimech yatzai
Di linke as we just learned in Tanya chapt 13.
The Jewish News will report anything against orthodox Jews and sensationalise it to sell newspapers. They are supporting anti-semitism.
Anyway everyone is looking for click bait these days. It’s not surprising. All news use it. Sometimes it goes too far… That’s why news people have to be very careful to balance being fair and balanced with the truth.
Sounds like Jeremy Corbyn wrote the article.
May the light R Shalom brings to that land illuminate it for good!
The title “UK’s Foul Welcome…” is inaccurate and wrong. The United Kingdom is excited and looking forward to SM’s inspiration. It is one of the newspapers in the UK that wrote in a foul and dreadful manner. This paper does not represent the UK, Anglo Jewry or the orthodox community. There are other (Jewish) newspapers and publications that will undoubtedly be advertising and supporting SM’s talks.
COL reporter, please don’t go in the footsteps of the above paper.
Such a chutzpah,
This ignorance is unbelievable!!!!
and he’s not a fraudster
The world is a better place because of
both of them
Rubashkin are a great Family
Arke Minkowitz says so
This newspaper should remove the word Jewish from its title as it is an insult to Jews, that a paper with such an anti attitude (obviously) towards an observant and chasidic jew is disgraceful.
england is known for being a cold unwelcome place
Leftist Jews are seething with hatred. They would rather see a serial murderer walk free than Rubashkin. They also hate the fact that Trump commuted his sentence, because to them Trump is enemy number 1.
The people who read Jewish news believe that……the people he is going to be speaking to is looking forward to his arrival.