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New Orleans, LA – Honoring Volunteers Within Our Own Communities

By admin on August 27, 2010

New Orleans, LA – In an effort to encourage volunteerism within the Jewish community, the Jewish Federations of North America is holding their second annual Jewish Community Heroes Campaign. 570,00 votes were cast in last year’s inaugural campaign which featured over 400 nominees and the JFNA hopes to surpass those numbers this year. [...]

Postville, IA – Prosecutors: Rubashkin Judge Didn’t Know Agriprocessors Was Their Target

By admin on August 25, 2010

Postville, IA – The judge who presided over Sholom Rubashkin’s fraud trial did nothing improper when she met with federal agents prior to the massive 2008 immigration raid at Agriprocessors, Inc., prosecutors argued Tuesday.
U.S. District Judge Linda Reade was only told about a planned raid that would involve hundreds of illegal immigrant arrests, Assistant U.S. [...]

Photos: Singers Join to Record Rubashkin Unity Chorus

By admin on August 23, 2010

[Photos below.] Last night, dozens of Jewish music artists gathered at Bennett Studios in Englewood, NJ, to record the concluding chorus of the special Unity song that has united over 35 Jewish artists from all over the world to raise awareness and bring justice to R’ Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin.
The singers present included Mordechai ben David, [...]

Congressman Anthony Weiner Calls for Investigation into Rubashkin Case

By admin on August 19, 2010

By Debbie Maimon
[Letter below.] In a strongly worded letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, New York Rep. Anthony Weiner called on the nation’s highest law enforcement office to investigate the “credible allegations of improprieties and unfairness” in the Rubashkin case. 
Congressman Weiner’s letter followed the emergency filing of a motion for mistrial by Sholom Mordechai [...]

Congressman Peters Supports Rubashkin, Will Contact Eric Holder

By admin on August 17, 2010

On Friday, August 6, Congressman Gary Peters (D-MI) of Michigan met with Rabbi Elimelech Silberberg of West Bloomfield, MI, at the Bais Chabad Torah Center of West Bloomfield to discuss theterrible injustice of the Rubashkin case.
Rabbi Silberberg called to schedule the meeting at the Congressman’s district office, but the Congressman insisted on coming to meet [...]

Op-Ed: Justice Denied: Rubashkin’s Sentence Is Wholly Inappropriate For The Crimes Of Which He Was Convicted

By admin on August 16, 2010

Sholom Rubashkin was the vice president of America’s largest kosher meat plant, Agriprocessors, ­located in Iowa. Rubashkin provided kosher meat to Jews throughout much of the country seeking to comply with biblical dietary rules. In 2008, after Rubashkin contacted U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and offered to cooperate, several hundred federal agents raided Agriprocessors. [...]

New York – National Law Journal OpEd: Rubashkin’s Sentence Inappropriate For The Crimes Of Which He Was Convicted

By admin on August 16, 2010

New York – Sholom Rubashkin was the vice president of America’s largest kosher meat plant, Agriprocessors, ­located in Iowa. Rubashkin provided kosher meat to Jews throughout much of the country seeking to comply with biblical dietary rules. In 2008, after Rubashkin contacted U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and offered to cooperate, several hundred federal [...]

New York – Jewish Music’s Elite Sing For Rubashkin [photos]

By admin on August 11, 2010

New York – Over twenty of the top names in Jewish music have joined together and are recording a song to be released in a few weeks, in support of Shalom Mordechai Rubashkin. The project, entitled “Unity for Justice”, is the brainchild of Danny Finkelman, leader of the Sparks boys choir in Crown Heights [...]

Cedar Rapids, IA – Rubashkin Sent to Medium Security Prison in Otisville, New York

By admin on August 10, 2010

Cedar Rapids, IA – A former Iowa kosher slaughterhouse executive is serving his 27-year prison sentence on federal financial fraud convictions at a medium security prison in Otisville, New York.
According to an order filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Cedar Rapids, Sholom Rubashkin was transferred to the Federal Correctional Institution on Aug. 2
Rubashkin’s attorney, [...]

New York – Zev Brenner Radio Show: Rubashkin Attorney Talks About The New Documents [audio]

By admin on August 6, 2010

New York – Attorney Nat Lewin appeared on Talkline with Zev Brenner at 9 PM on WSNR 620 AM and discussed the release today of new documents that will have a major impact on the Rubashkin case.
Mr. Lewin talked about the facts that came out from the release of documents under the Freedom [...]

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