Update: 7:18pm The case was adjourned to tomorrow morning in a courthouse in Allentown, PA at 9:30. The judge was quoted saying that this was due to the “nature of the late hour.”
PHILADELPHIA, PA [CHI] — Lots of Crown Heights residents made their way to Pennsylvania District Court in order to show support of Reb Moshe and his son Sholom Rubashkin who were indicted on charges of illegal storage of hazardous waste in their Montex Textiles company, formerly located in Allentown, PA, without a permit, and one count of making a materially false statement.
A bus packed with people, in addition to many private cars left Crown Heights as early as 6:30am, and filled the small courtroom well beyond capacity leaving many in the hallways and outside the courtroom just saying Tehillim and curiously awaiting updates.
Update on the Proceedings with the Rubashkin Sentencing
Update: 7:18pm The case was adjourned to tomorrow morning in a courthouse in Allentown, PA at 9:30. The judge was quoted saying that this was due to the “nature of the late hour.”
PHILADELPHIA, PA [CHI] — Lots of Crown Heights residents made their way to Pennsylvania District Court in order to show support of Reb Moshe and his son Sholom Rubashkin who were indicted on charges of illegal storage of hazardous waste in their Montex Textiles company, formerly located in Allentown, PA, without a permit, and one count of making a materially false statement.
A bus packed with people, in addition to many private cars left Crown Heights as early as 6:30am, and filled the small courtroom well beyond capacity leaving many in the hallways and outside the courtroom just saying Tehillim and curiously awaiting updates.
Up until now the prosecutors have been bringing up motions and the defense was objecting, many of which were overruled while some were sustained.
As of now (4:30pm) the judge declared a 15 minute recess following which will be closing statements.
“A prison sentence seems to be a real possibility here” said one of many people that are present at the court, “people need to really daven for Reb Moshe now.”
The case against Reb Sholom Rubashkin has been delayed and postponed to December 15th.
cher
hashem yerachem
MajKind
Please update . . .
Yehudis
It’s hard to believe that the webhost would post this article, and that someone would actually travel to the hearing simply to enable him/herself to spread loshon hara.
Of what benefit is this article to Moshe or Sholom? If you wanted to be of help, a simple post requesting that Tehillim be recited, would suffice.
“Don’t do unto others, what you wouldn’t want done to you!”
redicoulouse
Who got hurt? Let him just pay. What does prision acomplish? Can he get a pardon from Bush? Hashem Yerachaim.
Sara
Yehudis
You live in fantasy land.
Jail is not a possibility but a 100% sure thing.
The only question is, for how long.
nephew
tracht gut vet zein gut
kook
please keep us updated
c h
yuduis get a life
ch
moishe is the best hashem will protect him
c h
yuduis get a life
CH res hoping 4 a ness
Yehudis, we want to know what happened, if the people who spoke up made a diference and what happend at the end, sentancing. We care, all of us I don’t much like Mr. Rubashkin, but I don’t want to see him or his son in jail. And yes, I davened & said Tehillim for them. Don’t be such a dimwit.
Resident
Yehudis,
No disrespect, but I didnt see any loshon hara.
I think the fact the President of the Community Council is going through this is newsworthy.
G-d willing, both Rubashkins will not have to be in jail. What would the benefit to jail be in this case?
giora
Any one putting ? 100 bochrim on in house in tishrey?
Only MOSHE!
We need to daven for him!
p-p-p-pray
attention: all you yentas
I HAVE A SECRET TO TELL YOU
shh
Hashem is running the world NOT the judge
But you and I can help by saying Tehillim
and having MORE and MORE and MORE Ahavas Yisroel
Moshiach NOW!
life
excuse me, to all the people telling yehudis to get a life. before u told her that, did u stop and think what moshe and sholom would like? well as a family relative i agree with yehudis and wish thier were more people in the world like her, and less people like you guys, who only care about gossiping!
actually trying to help
the purpose of the people going to court was not to gossip, it was to show support. and it did show very significant support, making an impression on the people of the court.
Kop Doktar
When one looks at the big picture – what’s happening to the Rubashkin family, in Postville and Crown heights, one cannot conclude but that this is all l’mala miderech hatevah.
To see a family get hit so badly, in so many ways, all at one time, is clearly a gzerah min hashomayim.
No one can guess why this is happening, but it clearly is not normal!
Since chassidim are one mishpocha, it effects all of us.
We all need to do some serious soul searching, but if we can’t find anythin…
Pishpesh v’lo motzah, if after soul searching one cannot find the “cause”, then Chazal tell us it must be due to Bitul Torah, which in our case, the bitul among the soldiers of Torah – the yeshivah bochurim, who are Torasom Umnasam, yet they waste away their “best” years after shlichus and smicha till kollel without any proper program in learning.
I’m not here to preach, but to point out the obvious – we are being told a message. It’s loud and clear. But we don’t understand it.
bch
I think people are really concerned for R’ Moshe and Sholom and are just praying and hoping for good news. No one is interested in gossiping about this! This site did a great service by announcing the hearing and giving people an opportunity to participate (either by traveling and showing support or just by saying Tehillim).
May this entire horrible wave of bad news be finally over for the Rubashkin family immediately! May the Eibershter bless them with niztochon against all their sonim! May He shower them with abundant hatzlocho begu”r! Amen!
C M
Yehudis, it does help that people are there. There was in fact an appeal that people should donate their time and come. When the Rebbe was fighting for the Seforim the Rebbe requested based on advice from the lawyers that the court should be packed with Chassidim every time. There were Gorels to see who would be zoche to go.
out of towner
people did not travel to court simply to spread loshon harah, it seems to be more of a support issue from what i understand. No point in attacking pple who are trying to do something good. tracht gut vet zain gut.
Loshon Hora kills 3
Just FYI, it appears that the prosecution brought stuff that they could have only read on sites like these. So in the future people should refrain from posting things that are at best conjectures and at worst downright false, especially when posting about another ben Avrohom, Yitzchak, v’Yaakov. Remember the pen can be mightier then the sword! May the whole Rubashkin family be saved from this apparent kapaida.
David
It’s sad to see someone going from being a Yoshev Rosh to just being a Yoshev.
someone
all you bored yentes its retarted this place is called yente land all you stop being such yentes snd such nosy people
and g-d willing he will be ok and everything will be fine just think good and will be good moshe is such a good hearted jew always giving a ton of tzdakah and his house all year im sure be aspecialy tishray his house is loaded with guessest and hes to good for g-d to do such a thing to him so lets just all pray
reader
“illegal storage of hazardous waste in their Montex Textiles company, formerly located in Allentown, PA, without a permit”
if they had a permit, would it have been legal?
If you do a search on the internet, other companies charged with illegal storage were fined between 10,000 to 50,000 with no jail time
to you!
On behalf of the Rubashkin family we want to thank everyone for their t’fillos and especially those who traveled to the courthouse. Please continue tommorrow!
May we hear excellent news
‘yeshuas Hashem k’heref ayin’
Moshe Yaakov Menachem Halevi ben Rivka
Shalom Halevi ben Faiga Elka
Jewish Princess
To report on what happened at the courthouse isn’t loshen hara. We all deserve to know what’s going on at the goshmiush-dike level. What matters the most is that the wonderful Rubashkins will be saved from the tremendous merit of their mitzvos.
elliyahu
Yehudis – please think “above nature” and kindly say like all of us, that Moishe Rubashkin will not be sentenced to a jail term of any sort, not even house arrest, and that the Aibishter will make the final decision and grant this family a reprieve immediately.
response
to reader:
u’ve got ur thinking cap on. u’re right on target.
YEHUDIS ENGEL
I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE IT CLEAR THAT THE YEHUDIS FROM ABOVE IS NOT ME, THOUGH I AM ALSO YEHUDIS. I CAN ONLY SPEAK FOR MYSELF, I HAVE NEVER BEEN TURNED AWAY BY MOSHE RUBASHKIN WHEN I WOULD COME WITH REQUESTS FOR DEDICATIONS FOR MY PROJECT OF PUBLISHING MIRACLES. AND HAVE FOUND HIM TO BE OVERLY COMPASSIONATE AND ABUNDANTLY HELPFUL WHEN I LOST MY HUSBAND AND NEEDED ALL THE SUPPORT I COULD GET. I KNOW FOR A FACT I AM NOT ALONE IN THIS CATEGORY AND FOR THIS REASON OUT OF THE NEED TO SHOW “HAKORAS HATOV” WE SHOULD BE THERE FOR HIM. SIMPLY SEEING PEOPLE OF HIS OWN SHOWING SUPPORT MAKES THE WORLD OF A DIFFERENCE. IT’S TRUE, I CAN DISGUISE MY LACK OF CONCERN OR MESIRAS NEFESH OF GOING THERE TO SHOW SUPPORT BY CLOAKING IT IN RIGHTEOUSNESS THAT IT’S ONLY YENTES ETC THAT GO, BUT THE TRUTH IS TAKING THE TIME AND MAKING THE EFFORT SHOWS CARING, CONCERN, IN A WORD SIMPLE AHAVAS YISROEL.
I HAVE A FUNNY QUESTION TO ASK, DID THE RUBASHKINS IN ALL THIS TURMOIL THINK TO CHECK THEIR MEZUZOHS AND TEFILLIN? SOMETIMES THE ENTIRE PROBLEM LIES THERE.
I WILL CERTAINLY SAY TEHILLIM THAT THEY COME OUT OF THIS WITHOUT ANY MORE PAIN OR DAMAGE IN ANY WAY WHAT SO EVER.
YEHUDIS E.
yonason
The enormous financial disaster that the Democrats brought about by forcing banks to give bad sub-prime loans, required by law, is so much worse than this, yet they don’t go to jail for the harm they’ve done. Rubashkins haven’t harmed anyone, yet they face jail time?
As to storage of hazardous chemicals, a lot of companies do that. But it is nothing compared to illegal dumping of such chemicals, which is one reason why many companies do it, because they don’t want to dump illegally and can’t afford the exorbitant fees for legal disposal.
Please G-d this is only a temporary “purification” for them, and they will come out of this without suffering any more than they already have.
“Tracht Gut – Vet Zein Gut”