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Ask JTF for Sunday, June 27, 2010.

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Kahane-Was-Right BT:
Dear Chaim,

Do you think that the sentencing of Shalom Rubashkin (head of Agriprocessors) to 27 years in jail for charges related to bank fraud is a just verdict, or is it another case of antisemitism playing a role in judges/juries trying to "teach the Jews a lesson" by giving extra strict sentences and making examples out of Jewish criminals?   Or do you think his punishment fits the crime, and people should be ready to accept the consequences when they break the law, and this is simply a severe sentence common for a severe crime (I don't know if what he did was very severe or not, but bank fraud sounds like theft)?  I know that many Jews are upset with the sentence, and they accuse the prosecutors etc of being antisemitic and targeting Rubashkin, however I also know that sometimes when the masses of Jews take up a given cause (and even so-called rabbis directing them), it is sometimes not really a worthy cause and they can be mistaken - for instance when the extreme antizionist sects were rioting over the Barzilai Graves and the UTJ supporting their cause which really had no legs to stand on but they claimed was Torah miSinai - in that scenario many uninformed religious Jews I am friends with adopted the very stupid arguments presented by UTJ in knesset seemingly without even thinking for themselves to evaluate whether or not it made sense or was true).   So since I don't know much about this case, I was wondering what you thought about it.

patches:
Shalom Chaim,

I recently bought a book at a book sale for $1, called "Members of the Tribe: On the Road In Jewish America" by Ze'ev Chafets. It was surprisingly a decent book, and I'm wondering if you've ever read it or heard of its author, Ze'ev Chafets.

Also, what is your opinion of Bernard Malamud? Have you ever read any of his books?

Thanks,
Patches

Chai:
Shalom brother Chaim

In reply to the last ask jtf I have to say you are right.
But I am glad I lived in queens so that I was introuduced to your shows when I was a kid, others weren't so lucky. You relalize you were the only voice of truth in the 90s and 00s that is what my last ask jtf was ment to mean. I may have worded it wrong ..its only because I was introduced to you by another friend And I was trying to do it the same way

By the way you are helping another one of my friends become a bal tesuva when I showed him your site a year ago its a same you don't see all the lives you touched

By the way Did you know NYC is bankrupt?  How will it affect us?
Now please give us a muzzie or aunt jemimima story

Thank you for your time

KalmanBenMenachem:
Reb Chaim,

Last week you mentioned that the Holocaust was a punishment.  If so, why were only the Ashkenazim punished, while the Sephardim and the Ashkenazim in America were spared? 

Thank you as always for answering my questions.
Kalman Ben Menachem

Gimatria:
Shalom Chaim ha'Gaon, Gadol Doreinu,
your thoughts on the forced segregation of the Haredi girls school in Israel? Apparently more than 100,000 Haredim were out to protest the court's decision. Here's what I find bizarre:
1) The school discriminates against sephardic girls by saying they are not permitted to attend school with ashkenazi girls. This is blatant discimination against Mizrachim such as myself.
2) Ovadia Yosef - a Sephardic rabbi - opposes the Supreme court decision forcing the integration of the school.

What do you think of HaRav Ovadia? What about the Ashkenazi Haredim?

Todah raba, Gadol Doreinu. Ezeh ta'anug zeh lishmoah et kol'cha kol shavuah!
Gimatria

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