We want to thank everyone that came and participated in this very important case of Pidyon Shevuim to help the Rubashkin family. The sentencing phase of this trial was supposed to last for two hours, and it lasted for almost eight hours, the judge postponed the final few minutes of the proceedings to tomorrow morning at 9:30am.
We feel that overwhelming support from the community will have a positive impact on the outcome. We are begging everybody and anybody to please come tomorrow. Plus, if you can, please join Moishe Rubashkin tonight by the Ohel at: 11:00pm.
Again unlike today, we believe that tomorrow's proceeding will be very short, because all relevant testimony was heard today.
Come Show Your Support Once Again!
Dear Anash:
We want to thank everyone that came and participated in this very important case of Pidyon Shevuim to help the Rubashkin family. The sentencing phase of this trial was supposed to last for two hours, and it lasted for almost eight hours, the judge postponed the final few minutes of the proceedings to tomorrow morning at 9:30am.
We feel that overwhelming support from the community will have a positive impact on the outcome. We are begging everybody and anybody to please come tomorrow. Plus, if you can, please join Moishe Rubashkin tonight by the Ohel at: 11:00pm.
Again unlike today, we believe that tomorrow’s proceeding will be very short, because all relevant testimony was heard today.
A bus from Crown Heights will leave Crown and Kingston at 6:30am and return after the sentencing. For additional information or ride options, please call Mendy Simon at: 917-445-8877.
Information to keep in mind:
Location:
Edward N. Cahn Federal Courthouse
504 Hamilton Street
Allentown, PA 18101-1514
Time: 9:30am
Case ID: 07498-1
Please give yourself enough time to pass security and be seated. Remember to bring picture ID for security clearance.
Due to the actions of those looking to hurt the Rubashkins, this case is no longer about the court’s charges, but about our community’s moral commitment to stand up for its own. The turnout at tomorrow’s sentencing will tell the world whether we will support a family that supports us or whether we have hung a fellow Jew out to dry.
just a thought
there have been plenty of ppl. in c.h. that have gotten in to some trouble in the past and didnt have a big last name NO one came to show support to them! just a thought
Chani
Just a thought, you make me nauseous. Is it because of people like yourself that we are still in Golus? The Rubashkin family may have had their “big” last name because they started off as Lubavitchers in the days of old. But who are they today as a family? Does your family host 40-50 ppl every shabbos, without notice? Does your family have a kosher soup kitchen for every meshugeneh around? Does your family give of themselves tirelessly and sit in jail because they refuse to be a moiser? Really now. May Hashem give the Rubashkins koach to prevail. Maybe they have a “big” name as you called it, because ppl like YOU should learn from them, how to be true Oihavei Yisroel.
May Hashem send us Moshiach NOW!
for your kindness you get repaid kindnes
To Just A Thought: Did the earn themselves a big name in the neighborhood. The reason why people are going all out for the Rubashkins is because the Rubashkins would go all out for anyone at any given time.
ANASH
What type of additute is that?
So if there is a fire burning you would say “well there where other fires and no one came to help”
Get real.
elliyahu
To “JUST A THOUGHT”… you’re right…– Moishe Rubashkin is in a big tzura, a very heavy matzev that no family would like to be in… we’re talking of either a long prison term or being let off the hook with a huge monetary penalty…. we’re talking about a thriving business that has been devastated and might be lost forever to Moishe, only to have wicked vultures and misnagdim swoop in for the kill……I’m sure that the other Cr Hts cases you’re referring to deserve recognition also, and for sure it’s up to those who can talk to the media like this case — bring it up to the foreground as well… Can you tell me of any current cases that need to be helped in our chabad community also???
sara
enough with your nasty thoughts!
mendel
This is meshugah, the judge reads this as do the prosecutors. stop already.
MD
BS”D
It is not the big last name we are supporting. It is the tremendous amount of Chesed that this family has done helping a multitude of people over many decades.
Avi
This whole case is about $4/hour?
If thats the case, I dont understand, why couldn’t they just pay legals instead of $5/hour pay them $9/hour the kosher meat business is profitable enough.
I would pay an extra .50/steak
It seems like greed to me
Meir Y. Koppel
only to have wicked vultures and misnagdim swoop in for the kill….. To Eliyahu @ 9:20
Sorry but it’s not the Misnagdim, it’s your Anash brothers, Have U checked Daas Hakohel recently.
Avraham
All Chassidim need to come out to the court room to support Moshe Rubashkin,m regadless of what the charges against him are.
We need to teach the Judge a lesson that he is not going to Punish Jews just because they are Jews.
Read and contemplate
Bs“d
Did you ever hear the saying ”Actions speak louder than words.“
Read this story:
A friend of mine called me a few days before Yom Tov this Tishrei sounding desperate. She is a single mother, with no child support from her ex. Every year, before every major Yom Tov, Moshe Rubashkin would send her a very large amount of money to help her and her children celebrate Yom Tov in dignity and happiness like every Yid should be able to do.
I have heard that there are sadly many single moms and widows who would receive similar aid from Moshe before each major Yom Tov-all without a big hoo-ha and without anyone knowing.
I know this info because my friend told me, and she said that she has friends that were helped too. They never even asked for the help, it was Moshe Rubashkin that would seek them out, and help them in a most dignified way.
Who will help out these people and all those that we don’t even know about, if Moshe Rubashkin is not financially able to do it. They get from Simchas Shabbos, but their funds are limited and the need is great so they must divide their funds.
I remember once going to a L’Chaim in the Rubashkin home (not of their own child). I couldn’t believe my eyes. Not only did they host a L’chaim for these people, but in the basement, was taking place ”Nightlife” which they hosted on a regular basis. The basement was open to the rest of teh house and the sounds of teh girls enjoying themselves could be heard slightly upstairs.
I don’t know too many people taht open up their hearts and homes on such a regular basis as I have merited to see the Rubashkins do. I don’t even know them personally, so I am sure that their deeds are much greater than what I have seen from a few incidents.
I have heard from my brothers that during Tishrei Moshe Rubashkin hosts many, many bochurim who sleep in his basement, and use his electricity, and his water and, and, and….
One may say that if I had lots of money I would also do that.
But the fact is, whatever your financial status, there are few people who would be willing to give up their privacy to such a degree, to open their home to so many and in such ways, to go around seeking out those who need help… You don’t need to have tons of money to help someone else. But the fact is, I don’t think that most of us, including myself can honestly say that we do the utmost we can to help others using the means Hashem has given us.
Helping a Rubashkin has nothing to do with their last name or their finances-it has to do with what they do to help others. There are many who would not survive properly without them. Their homes are like Avraham Avinu’s tent.
Where is this hatred from?
How did we go so wrong? Lubavitch is the city of love. We’re supposed to be about unconditional love for our fellow Jews. What’s with all the hatred??? People telling other people that THEY are the cause of the golus?? Isn’t that sort of the opposite of what is supposed to bring moshiach? Calling other Jews “vultures” because they have a different way of serving the Aibishter?? Is that what our Rebbe taught us?
ch-er
i am reading these comments and it looks like the first comment set the stage for the others,
eliyahu you are right
the only reason why so many came out to show support is for two reasons
1) and the primary is because M.R. has status and the ability to repay each and every one that came out to support him, it is if i may say (not to knock a man when he is down) a political venture,
i would rather not want to continue at this point with my thoughts being that there are many things in the community that follow the same idea……
2)there are those that went being that there was a bus that went and an oppertunity to spend a day out of C.H.
may hashem be the final judge and repay all those for what they deserve and reward for what they achieved.
Moshe our thoughts and prayers are with you without knowing who i am, just because you are a jew, a frum yid, a chosid, and a baal chesed besurois tovos
boruch matir asurim bekorov
ch’er
To Meir 12:11
You are mistaken, the word you are looking for is not Anash brothers, we are talking about truly disturbed and immature people that happen to live in CH.
MP
I am very close to the Rubashkin family and they do nothing but good in our community. Those who criticize are just blindsighted or just like negative action.
a friend
i know most people dont really know the rabashkin family first hand but unlike you i do i went to camp with one of there doughters and i can tell you first hand that tzedaka has a diffrent meaning to them its not just that we have to give it cuz it says it in the torah its that they WANT TO give it becuse they love to! hashem should grant them with an easy way out of this mess and the family should know that we are all davining here for them!!!
Meir Y. Koppel
To 13:30
call them what U want but they are not Misnagdim
Miriam
May H”S bless the Rubashkin family back with all the good they do to others and may He give them strength and peace of mind through this hard times. Our prayers go to them.
Someone that cares