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Postville, Iowa was a small mainly Lutheran Midwestern town of 2,300 when Abraham Rubashkin and his son Sholom, members of the fundamentalist orthodox Jewish Lubavitch sect and purveyors of kosher meat through their Brooklyn, New York-based company, Agriprocessors, bought the town’s defunct meatpacking plant in 1987. Soon more than a hundred Lubavitchers moved from [...]

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New York – Investigators have found little direct evidence that Gov. Paterson tampered with a witness in a domestic abuse case against one of his top aides, the Daily News has learned.
While several key people have yet to be interviewed, the woman at the heart of the case, Sherr-una Booker, told probers she didn’t feel [...]

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Cedar Rapids, IA – The former manager of the Agriprocessors meatpacking plant in Postville has been moved to an individual cell [reported earlier by VIN] at the Linn County Jail after getting into a scuffle with another inmate.
Linn County Sheriff Brian Gardner said Rubashkin and a fellow inmate were arguing over the volume level on [...]

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Washington – A half-dozen Orthodox rabbis on Tuesday urged Attorney General Eric Holder to intervene on humanitarian grounds in the case of a Hasidic Jew convicted on dozens of counts of fraud, arguing the man should be free pending sentencing.
Sholom Rubashkin has been an observant Orthodox Jew since birth, and his dietary observances prevent him [...]

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Washington – Rabbis Offer Eight Torah Scrolls to Secure Rubashkin’s Release

[Donate link below.] A group of rabbis gathered for a news conference at the National Press Club in Wasington today to express dismay and concern over the premature imprisonment of Sholom Rubashkin, and to urge the U.S. Department of Justice to closely scrutinize the demands by federal prosecutors in Iowa that Rubashkin be imprisoned before [...]

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R’ Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin filed a second appeal to request bail pending his sentencing today to the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals. A panel of three judges denied R’ Sholom Mordechai’s request earlier this month, so this appeal asks for the rehearing en banc – requesting all judges review the detention order.
The first appeal was filed [...]

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R’ Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin Files Another Appeal For Bail

Once again, last night, hundreds of women’s rallied for Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin, this time on the Campus Chomesh in Crown Heights. The event followed a massive rally last month in Boro Park’s Bethel Shul. These events have created unprecedented support and chizuk for the Rubashkin family.
The MC at last night’s event was Rabbi Lipa Brennan, member [...]

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Postville, IA – Former Postville meat plant executive Sholom Rubashkin should remain in custody prior to his sentencing on 86 financial fraud charges, a federal appeals court ruled today.
The U.S. Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a judge’s decision to hold Rubashkin without bail, before he is sentenced on financial fraud charges.
Rubashkin, 50, was convicted [...]

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[Audio below.] “We are surrounded by a world that, [in] its very nature wants to deny Hashem. Bitachon is our window – not out of reality – but into reality.”
This is the philosophy the helped the Rubashkin family remain strong and sane as their business and life were shattered, said Leah Rubashkin.
The wife of Sholom [...]

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Postville, IA – Former Agriprocessors Manager Sholom Rubashkin is getting a lot of support from the Jewish Community in Postville. A jury convicted Rubashkin last week of 86 federal fraud charges.
Several homes have posters of Rubashkin on an American flag reading “Send Shalom Home” in their front yards. That’s upsetting some veterans who say this [...]

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