22 Comments

• Marbim b-simcha

  This shouldn’t be happening in Adar. We need to increase in simcha.

• moshiach now

  We really moshiach mamosh already now

• nation wide help

  Can we enlist all the shluchim to uae all their connections with public officials such as senators congressmen etc, and make a national shturem about this BLOOD BILBUL. We have so many connections. Are we scared? Of what?

• ????????????

  everything will turn out good!!!!!!!

• what is going on?

  Hashem!!!!

  wat is going on! Ad mosai!! two good people who help the community, Rubashkin and Ezagui!!! we need Moshiach now!
  lets increase in simcha and break the gzairos!

• moshiachnow

  Hashem, please.

• WE NEED MOSHIACH!!

  tracht gut vet zain gut. everything will turn out baruch Hashem fine. Moshiach now!!!

• 0770

  Every one Klal Yisrael!!!
  should try to do a Mitzva for him
  that thies chosid of the Reebbe that he should go out of jail

• It counts

  Just for the record all his time now before his sentencing will count as time served and reduce his actual sentence which could be worth something if the sentencing judge shows some compassion.

• i agree

  with nation wide! why are those with power not acting?????????

• Elki

  Ribbono Shel Olam, This is going from bad to worse, It was a nightmare to begin with. They are treating Sholom Mordechai as if he was a serial killer. Delegations of rabbonim, lawyers, askanim all went to plead his case and …. nothing. We have to daven with all hearts for another Adar miracle. I can’t bear reading the torturous treatment he’s getting. How can his family stand on their feet? The emunah and bitachon displayed by SMR himself and his family boggles the mind. In that zechus alone, his geulah should come instantly.

• AC from Montreal

  Come on people. It is the month of Adar. We have to be b’simcha. Let us daven, and bake challahs and give lots of tzedaka, and be b’simcha, and Hashem will answer our prayers and all will be well for the Rubashkins. Tracht gut veit zayn gut. There is always a bigger plan that we don’t know about. Let us have pure bitachon and you will all see it pay off ten-fold.
  Wishing you all a fabulous month with only good things.

• Mordechai

  Maybe the courts know something the Lubavitchers don’t, nu? This ain’t anti-semitism, something is up we don’t understand or know about.

• Shocked!

  To Mordechai,
  Just curious – are you another anti-semitic Jew? If you have been following this case – like any CARING Jew would, you would see that this entire case is CLEARLY ANTI-SEMITISM FROM THE START!!!

• Something is wrong

  I think that there needs to be a national outcry to this injustice. It has to go beyond the courts. Linda Reade sat on the committee that planned the raid. How in the world can sje also serve as justice in the case?

  There has to be a national outcry!

• Remove this Jew Hating Judge

  The Real Jew Hater is the JUDGE!

  Its very hard to appeal a Judges decision.

• can-t bear anymore

  mashiach now !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! how long must this galous last,,, ad matai !!

• Moishie

  The federal justice system was designed to treat all equally.
  That is why the feds were sent into the south to administer justice in the civil rights cases in the 60’s.

  The federal courts are blind to discrimination. If the Lubavitch community wanted him to be acquitted or to be treated differently he should have committed his illegal acts in CH and tried in a NY State court where the judges and juries ARE more inclined to be partial to the orthodox way of doing business.

• Milhouse

  Your headline is wrong. He didn’t lose his appeal; the court didn’t agree to hear it in the first place. There’s a big difference; they didn’t consider his arguments and reject them; they never heard his arguments at all. Appeals courts have limited time, and there was little chance that it would consider it worth spending some of that time on such an appeal, which only concerns the few weeks or months until sentencing. The Appeals court simply said “you’ve already had one hearing, we assume that court probably got it right, and if they didn’t then it’s not such a big deal anyway”. Maybe if they’d actually heard his arguments they’d have decided to grant bail. For instance, they certainly had no idea of the conditions he’s being held in, or that he’s been sent to solitary confinement for no valid reason.

• Loyal Jew

  Mordechai and Moishie you are both right but don’t think anyone will listen to a word of sanity in this case. And the irrational crys of anti-semitism is backfiring and causing real damage to us, instead of us being the guiding light to the nations WE are sadly causing those that previously were our strong defenders to raise an eyebrow……not good.

• Mendel Engel

  #1 Sholom Rubashkin was a EISH HACHESSED and may Hashem help him with everything including open miracles.

  Although the publicity is needed to raise funds etc. I think it is working against the case because one reason for sentencing is that no one should follow suit in the crime. A judge may not want to give the message that with enough funds and support you can annul any decision by the court.

• sternie

  to moishe and mordechai: you don’t get real information from reading the news. they are usually biased & exaggerated to make it sensational. plus, you always have to hear both sides and not just what the news says. besides, your first reaction should be “dan l’kaf zchus” and not judge and jump down another yid in his tsoros. that is why the beit hamikdash was destroyed and will only be rebuilt if we rectify it through unconditional ahavas yisroel, not through jealousy and hatred.
  this column should only encourage positve comments not those filled with hate, spite and jealousy. we have nothing to gain from negative people and their “better than thou” judgemental comments.
  many tragedies would be averted if all yidden were bachdus.every day i hear of another tzora and illness of another young child. it also seems that yiddin are losing favor in all areas. let us beef up our ahavas yisroel and achdus to every yid regardless of their background and affiliaiton and hopefully be mevatel all the gzeiros r”l that klal yisroel is enduring.