This shall serve as a response to your letter addressed to Dr. Lang but distributed to my clients and the community at large. Your letter is patently false and a blatant attempt to intimidate my clients and sow confusion in the community with respect to the upcoming elections.
As you well know, I appeared in the Appellate Division pro se, as well as on behalf of all of the other Respondents—except for Zaki Tamir and those represented by Mr. Rudofsky. This is reflected in the RADI form and was clearly stated during our conference with the court attorney.
Poltorak Threatens Berger with Sanctions for Disseminating Misinformation
Dear Mr. Berger,
This shall serve as a response to your letter addressed to Dr. Lang but distributed to my clients and the community at large. Your letter is patently false and a blatant attempt to intimidate my clients and sow confusion in the community with respect to the upcoming elections.
As you well know, I appeared in the Appellate Division pro se, as well as on behalf of all of the other Respondents—except for Zaki Tamir and those represented by Mr. Rudofsky. This is reflected in the RADI form and was clearly stated during our conference with the court attorney.
Moreover, your argument that the stay of the TRO would not apply to non-appealing parties is bogus. Unlike an appeal from a judgment, a stay (as opposed to modification) of a TRO applies to all parties against whom the TRO was issued. Moreover, even if you were correct, here the Respondents’ have “a united and inseverable interest in the judgment’s subject matter, which itself permits no inconsistent application among the parties.” Hecht v. City of New York, 60 N.Y.2d 57, at 62 (1983).
Finally, although you are of course free to bring an action contesting an election, the Appellate Division chose to vacate the TRO in its entirety—rather than merely modifying it to allow for elections to proceed but not take effect until after the June 3rd hearing. As a result, the winners of tomorrow’s election are free to take office immediately. Should your clients attempt to interfere with the elections or with the winners’ taking office, we will pursue all legal remedies against them. Please advise them to conduct themselves accordingly.
As a fellow member of the bar, your attempt to deliberately mislead my clients and the public is appalling. I demand that you furnish a written retraction immediately. If you do not comply, I will have no choice but to seek sanctions against you.
Best,
Elie C. Poltorak
chaver
Go get em eli show them your strength!
Chaim H.
You tell as it is! We’re all behind strong leadrship as you blatantly exemplify. I was n’t sure whom I would vote for topday, but now Eli you made my mind that you are certainly one of my candidates I’m voting for today. Thank youch.info for posting this important response from Mr. Poltorak.
Today we must all vote! It’;s time to make a difference.
Mendy
Go Eli!!!
You’re the best!!!
Hope you win!!!
Something very Fishy with Mendy Hendel
The Meshichist web site run by Mendy Hendel has something very fishy going on.
They posted all video’s and campaign posters of supposedly all candidates, but they conveniently “forgot” to post any video or campaign poster of Fishel Bronstein.
On the other hand, Mendy Hendel who is behind the entire elections, has a close friend and associate called Zev Kadaner, (they run a school, Ohr Menachem together) and Kadaner’s video was of course listed, FIRST and Kadaner’s campaign posters are listed by Mendy Hendel’s web site very prominently, in a HUGE SIZE and Fishel Bronstein, whom everyone knows is an independent thinker, (not sold out to Mendy Hendel), his video interview, never posted to date and all of Fishel Bronstein’s HUGE campaign posters all over Kingston Ave, are not shown, at all, anywhere on Mendy Hendel’s Web Site.
It all goes to show you who Mendy Hendel is and who his close associate Zev Kadaner is.
Mendy Hendel is supposed to be neutral in running this election but in fact he is pushing only his own personal close associate from his own Ohr Menachem school.
resident
I’m glad to finally see someone really standing up for the community.
Observer
Elie, you are the man!
track record
resident wrote:
“I’m glad to finally see someone really standing up for the community.”
In what way?
How does he help us?
How will he help us?
Has he done anything to benefit the community until today?
What is his track record?
What will he do with all the Mesira thats going on?
Saying somebody’s is a good guy, does not make him one.
Action is the main thing.
Fighting this Machlokes which us normal working, family people don’t give a hut about, is not considered “doing” or “standing up for community”,right now HE is running and HE is doing what is good for HIM.
Renegade
@something fishy:
1. There is no video of Fishel Brownstein because he was out of town when that meeting (or whatever it’s called) happened. (nonetheless I think everybody should vote for him, he’ll be great for the shchuna)
2. I believe Cadaner should not be allowed to run, as you said he has his own moisdos and there is a conflict of interest here.
Oy now we are in for fine print
Oy now we are going to have to sift thought legaleze and fine print for the next 3 years????
To Something very Fishy
your facts are all wrong!!!
They actually only posted about 5 videos. And even those went up very slowly(over a period of three days). Besides the point that Kadaner’s was not posted first!
way to go!!
Go on Eli!!
Good Luck in all your endeavors as the new Head of Meseira in Crown Heights!
Keep up the good work as shown by all your predecessors…Show us the true Mosser you really are!!
hah hah hah
Dress less like a clown at the circus & more like a Chassid & we may (I say MAY) take you more seriously.
stay far away
something tells me to stay far away from this guy. you might be the next one he threatens if you don’t follow his agenda. his impressive law lingo does is no reflection of his respect or honesty.
it-s so fishy afterall...
happens to be that Fishel Bronstein asked mendy hendel not to post anything of his own as not to connect him to either side… why don’t you just go and ask him yourself????
Observer
You talk about “threats.” But he negotiated between the Rabonim, while someone else (he’s in jail now) just attacked anyone who disagreed with him.
Poltorak is the only one really putting himself out there. He has a legal license at stake. He has a professional reputation. When he filed his affidavits about the Rabbonim elections, it was a challenge for anyone to come forward and contest him. Same here. In either case, his legal license was on the line. He is all business.
Vote for Elie!
Innocent voter
Something’s fishy in Crown Heights. I guess all the creeps and sneaks who tried to disrupt the elections by using false names and multiples names must be in the employ of Rav Osdoba. One and one makes two.
Noson A. Kopel
To “way to go!!”:
Mr. Poltorak was here a defendant, taken to court by parties which, in my opinion, were not acting in a manner consistent with Torah. If the moniker “Moser” belongs to anyone in this affair, it is the plaintiffs and those behind them.
You owe Mr. Poltorak and this entire community an apology for your mindless diatribe.
The above is not intended as a comment for or against the candidacy of Mr. Poltorak or anyone else for any community office. Anyone wishing my personal opinion on that subject may ask me in private.
Noson A. Kopel, Esq.
Rosh HaShana
Has everyone forgotten Rosh hashana in 770 two years ago? Poltorak was the perpetrator. How could anyone trust this smooth talking thug?
Modern Orthodox Lubavitcher Mr. Poltrak
This man Poltrak scares me with his vild behaviour.
way to go!!
Tell me, Mr. Kopel…taking out “sanctions” against a fellow professional in order to destroy him is OK by you? Glad you are not MY lawyer! I only employ ethical, moral, & respectable professionals. You & Eli Poltorak deserve each other.
Noson A. Kopel
Dear Mr. “way to go!!”
It is unethical for an attorney to lie (REALLY!). Mr. Berger wrote that several of the defendants did not appeal and were still bound by the lower court’s injunction. Mr. Poltorak claims the papers filed in the Appellate division clearly show otherwise. I myself have not seen the Appellate filings. If however they are as Mr. Poltorak states, and Mr. Berger KNOWINGLY stated otherwise (which I doubt), Berger could be sanctioned. More likely this was a rushed oversight on the part of Mr. Berger.
As to your claim that I am not your lawyer, I cannot comment, as you fail to identify yourself. I have served as counsel (ethically, morally and respectively I might add) to many anash, to their satisfaction.