Friday, 19 February 2016

An update

This week many sighed in relief.

Finally all the images on the It's Kosher Facebook page were frozen!

Among some of the more dishonest messages were:
  • A large series of logos some belonging to the American Conservative Movement, some just a Kosher symbol belonging to nobody in particular and even a logo from Masterchef had written on it, "these are all Jewish, these are all Kosher."
  • Another image had marketing for Limors Restaurant on Kooyong road with a large photo of the establishment and even a menu. The sad story regarding Limors is this totally non Kosher restaurant belonging to an Israeli by the name of Yaron that was serving pork 7 days a week was advertising at one stage (approximately 2 years ago) that 6 days a week their breakfast was Kosher under the supervision of Meir Gershon Rabi. Rabbi Rabi even had the audacity to host a sheva brochos for his own daughter catered by Limors. We are aware of numerous people who were confused and ate in this restaurant meals that were cooked with 100% non Kosher meat believing that this restaurant was fully under Rabbi Rabi. As the public would not accept Rabis standards and eat a milchig "kosher" breakfast in a fully non Kosher restaurant serving 7 days a week, the arrangement between Rabi and Yarom from Limors was suspended and according to Limor there was no Kosher food at all available for well over 12 months. But to the disgrace of it's Kosher the marketing on its Facebook page was still there for Limors till 5 days ago. This is even though it was bought to their attention.
  • After this it is really insignificant but other images were of Rabbi Rabi's selfies of himself with staff of the establishments he went to visit, be them male or female young or old, appropriately dressed or not.
  • On the webpage of Kosher Veyosher/Its Kosher  there is a number of pages of self glorification and self promotion of Rabbi Rabi blowing his own trumpet. This has now been passworded and is no longer accessible to the public.
The reason that Rabbi Rabi's promotions suddenly have been passworded as well as all the images on his Facebook page frozen was due to a legal letter received by Rabbi Rabi from one of the congregations in Melbourne warning him to immediately remove all pictures, comments, logos and names of their organisation and Rabbi as it is falsely being used by Rabi to promote himself. Unfortunately Dayan Abraham from the London Beth Din and many others have also the same dilemma.

68 comments:

  1. WOW!
    This fellow is totally crazy.

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  2. I am reading that even after Limir's stopped making 'kosher' breakfast, Rabi's Facebook page still kept promoting Limors?

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  3. any normal place would put him in cherem

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  4. this guy has lost it

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  5. This fellow seems to have some sick kind of obsession of damaging standards of Kashrut in Melbourne.

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  6. The rumour is that the letter threatening Rabi came from the Adass.
    Seems Rabi takes Adass more seriously than he takes Rabbi Abrahams in London.

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  7. Rabi apparently gave Adass a commitment that he will remove photos of Rabbi Beck, the Adass logo and other references to Adass, but instead of keeping his promise, he did not remove referenced to Adass but put passwords onto those pages.
    Meir was shifty once again.

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  9. I believe this blog is not necessary as nobody who believes in kosher would ever trust such a dishonest person like Meir Rabi.

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  10. I wish!
    But the Soton doesn't give up.

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  11. Nobody should build up their hopes that Rabi will stop his evil practices.
    As long as he is making money he doesn't give one iota when Torah says or what the community says.
    All that can be done is to highlight to all who the real Rabbi Rabi is and expose all his shifty ways.
    Shavua Tov!

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  12. The COSV (council of orthodox synagogues Victoria) need to show some leadership and highlight to all Orthodox Jews what Rabi is doing against Kashrut in Australia.

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  13. The only Tzaddik who is not scared of Rabi is Dr Isaac Balbin.
    Read Pitputim. Many can learn from Dr Balbin and stand up for Emes.

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  14. Sorry but I do not get Balbin critisizing the Jewish News re going soft on Rabi.
    At least the Jewish News reported that 11 rabbonim signed against Tsbi- Well Hamodia couldn't even do that much.
    Shameful!

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  15. On It's Kosher web page they state that Kosher Australia's hechsher is NOT acceptable.
    On their Facebook page that had (till a week ago) an image of many symbols with the words THESE ARE ALL JEWISH, THESE ARE ALL KOSHER!
    The Kosher Australia logo was also included.

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  16. MAYBE
    those who are frum and keep away from Facebook cannot use Kosher Australia
    BUT
    those are are not so frum and have Facebook, only need to have 'Kosher Style' and they can use Kosher Australia!!!!!!!

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  17. That is funny! :-)

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  18. How can Rabi have Facebook when Hareidi Rabbis have banned it?

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  19. Hareidi Rabbis also banned Rabbi Meir Rabi.

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  20. I promise you will have a big mitzvah if you can eat up Meir Rabi.
    A little pain for a lot of gain.

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  21. Could we please keep these sad issues serious and to the point.
    Thank You

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  22. This whole blog is sad and nothing in it is serious or to the point.
    Seems too many people are bored.

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  23. Unless people are willing to stand up and challenge Rabi and all his dishonest claims the standards of Kashrus in our city will be zilch.
    It is well documented that Meir Rabi has an agenda to destroy yiddishkeit.

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  24. Let's not dramatise!
    Rabi cares about making money, and maybe to try to put other Rabbonim down, but to say all he wants is to destroy yiddishkeit is doubtful!

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  25. But all his actions re Kashrus and conversion does in fact destroy Yiddishkeit.

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  26. Could Australia do a deal with Israel.
    Send us Leifer, but instead ship Meir Rabi to Israel.

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  27. AND LEIFER SHOULD RUN IT'S KOSHER AND BEN PEKUAH!!!

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  28. Leifer and Gradman?

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  29. According to Meir Rabi he is the Poisek Hador.
    Nobody knows Halacha besides him.
    Rabi knows better than Rav Kaminetzky what Rav Chaim Kaminetzky holds.
    Rabi is the only Rabbi in Australasia who can convert does that Beis Din determine can't be converted.
    Yechi Rav Meir Gershon Leolam Voad.

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  30. Heard that at a party for a Yavneh student some food was given that was under the supervision of Kosher Veyosher. Some parents complained to the school, so new policy for parents is that at parties everything must have kosher supervision- but kosher Veyosher/it's kosher is not acceptable

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  31. Why has the Hamodia not written that Rabi is going against 11 leading Rabbonim?

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  32. To write all the sins of Rabi would fill a lot more than a newspaper!

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  33. So sad that for so many years Rabi has been able to do as he wishes and nobody challenged him.
    Be it stealing from kollel menachem, giving hashgacha to HIMSELF for his chametz matza business, operating under numerous false names, dishonestly claiming Israeli great Rabbis support his business etc. etc.
    Melbourne has a large well established religious Jewish community so how can one shyster call himself Rabbi and get away with using our religion falsely simply to make money?
    Is Melbourne's Jewry without leaders?

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  34. Maybe Bill Shorten can become the leader of our community to fight Rabi. He has plenty of experience with thugs!
    Or Mum can get Rabbi Genande involved.

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  35. Ari, I think you meant the Lakewood Kollel.

    I am sure that the relevant Kashrut agencies are collating all the factual information about Rabi and will use it when they need to. At the moment only a tiny percent of those that eat kosher will rely on Rabi's hashgacha and I believe that it is not worth it for the agencies/rabbanim to fight him. If the day ever comes (G-d forbid) that more people are eating food from his hashgacha I think that will be the time that the authorities will react.

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  36. But aren't our Rabbis concerned that due to all the irresponsible publicity re Ben PEKUAH being more concerned re animal welfare, Rabi could in fact cause problems for Shechita in Australia.

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  37. Some fear that Rabi might even cause problems by contacting authorities campaigning against Shechita.

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  38. If Rabi would just dare to try that I fear .....................

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  39. If he would be caught trying to destroy current Shechita he would be properly dealt with.

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  40. Chaim from Lakewood24 February 2016 at 02:22

    Reading some of the It's kosher site, I note that this crazy fellow is trying to use the unfortunate meat scandal tragedy in Monsey to put current Hashgochas down.
    This is very very unfair as lessons have been learnt and b"h thousands of tons of meat is sold yearly that all is 100% glatt Kosher with foolproof procedures. Putting down current Hashgochas from the most reliable sources to promote his own Kashrus business is not acceptable.

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  41. This fellow is a brilliant manipulator!

    He should be working for one of the presidential candidates.

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  42. Chazal say- sof Ganev letlia
    The end of a crook is the gallows.

    After hearing comments from many I am sure that Rabi's Kashrut business cannot last.
    Some who just decided to stop eating products supervised by Rabi asked Rabbi Wetzberger of the kollel if she should Kasher her dishes.
    The Rabbi answered BETTER IF YOU DO!

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  43. I read that the Rabbanut in Israel accept 153 seperate Hashgochas from around the world that Israeli manufacturers can use their products as ingredients, but do not accept 14 Hashgachos. 1 of these 14 is our own Kosher VeYosher- it's Kosher!

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  44. Can you blame them?

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  45. Meir might now remove the Israeli coat of arms from his kosher certificates.

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  46. As Meir writes on his cover page in his internet site THAT THE FORMER PRESIDENT OF ISRAEL ATE FROM IT'S KOSHER.
    Yes Moishe Katzav ate in Australia food supervised by Meir Rabi. You don't need better credentials for Kashrut than the former president. I wonder now that Katzav is in an Israeli jail for rape if he is also Malouf to eat from IT''S KOSHER.
    I think I would rather trust Rabbi Shlomo Rudzki than Rabi's idol,Moishe Katzav.

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  47. But who can be trusted more?
    Moshe Katzav. or Meir Rabi

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  48. Although Rabi is dishonest and a crook who has no yirat shomayim as he tries so hard to break the acceptable standards of Kashrus plus his total disrespect for a considerable time to all Rabbonim world wide whose positions don't suit his business but he is still better than his hero Katzav the former president of Israel who is in jail for rape.
    Cannot understand how stupid Rabi must be to try to promote his business using Katzav.

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  49. Rabi is laughing at everyone all the way to the bank.

    He is sooo happy as his meat is tastier than ours as he can eat from the tastier cuts that we don't use.
    He is a very lucky man indeed.

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  50. I think pork is even tastier. So why doesn't Rabi eat pork?

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  51. How do u know he doesnt????

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  52. Bernie might be right!
    If he can make fake converts
    Chametz soft Matzos on Passover
    Fight Gedolei Yisrael re Ben Pekuah
    Steal money from Kollel
    WHY NOT EAT PORK

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  53. Much better for Rabi to eat Pork for himself than cause others to eat treif, as he and Gradman are currently trying to do.

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  54. You fellows are MESHUGA!

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  55. Rabi wrote he is the only Rabbi is Australia who you can rely on is him in regards to Kashrus
    He is pretty humble!

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  56. Very humble!

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  57. Even without a word from all the Rabbonim, people who take kosher seriously would never rely on Rabbi Rabi. Reading his webpage and face book turns me off. It demonstrates that this individual has an obsession that he knows better than everyone what is important in kashrus and what is not. Unfortunately his rulings always go to what suits his business. And surprisingly he can never be wrong. Never!

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  58. When there is no Yirat Shamayim and zero humbleness this is what you get.

    Kosher Style!

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  59. Light kosher and kosher style is nonsense. Either it is kosher or not kosher.
    Rabi is not the Torah. His innovation is just another word for being shifty and trying to fool the community that he is an authority to determine what is acceptable.

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  60. Rabi is now overseas searching for some Rabbi to agree with his twisted logic re Ben Pekuah. Has apparently offered one American Rabbi US$10,000 for a letter agreeing with Rabi. But so far has not yet been able to find a crooked Rabbi who would permit producing Ben Pekuah commercially.

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  61. This is his forth trip to find a supporter!

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  62. I am happy to give Meir a letter for $5,000!

    A real metziyah!

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  63. Katanga member2 March 2016 at 16:53

    Did the OU state that RABI's Ben Pekuah meat is forbidden to use?

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  64. Not sure if they said this, but Rav Hershel Shechter from the OU was very critical of Ben Pekuah and no establishment with the OU can use Ben Pekuah meat.

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