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Published on: Yesterday at 02:34 PM News Source: VIN News Ezra Reichman Maariv

Rabbi Yitzchak Goldknopf

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Israel - Maariv published an exposeof Rabbi Yitzchak Goldknopf, apivotal Gerrer askan who stands at thehead of the Igud HaTatim, the BaisYaakov Kindergarten network, and theCommittee to Observe Shabbos.

Not only does Goldknopf, 60 and thefather of 10, concentrate immensepolitical power in his hand, but hedoes so in an aggressive manner thatintimidates potential opponents andrivals from chassidic rebbes tobusinessman. As if that wasn'tenough, he also has key control ofthe chassidic Hamodia daily, the maininformation channel for a large part

of the chareidi community.

Goldknopf almost singlehandedly crushed the Shefa Shuk mehadrin supermarket chain belonging to the secularRibua Kachol conglomerate owned by David Weissman. The financial sanctions he implemented speedilybrought El Al to agree not to travel on Shabbos.

As the economic power of the chareidi community has grown,the more power has accrued to the head of the Committee forShabbos.

"The chareidi public has gray areas which are run by variouspower bases. Whoever dares to harm them is endangering hisstatus and in certain cases, even his life. Goldknopf and thegroup that surrounds him are one such power base," explainsa person who has followed Goldknopf's waxing power inrecent years.

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recent years.

Another person who is acquainted with Goldknopf describeshim this way: "He a strong man, intelligent, completelydiscreet, and runs his affairs zealously. He knows the intimateworkings of all the different chareidi publics and sits on critical intersections which connect contributions torabbinical courts."

Goldknopf sits in his office on Belilius street until the late evening, running his numerous affairs which includereal estate and phone companies. His greatest power lays, however, in the public organizations he runs. He isthe general director of Petachya, a special education organization; a general director of Igud Hatatim; and acommittee member of the Hisachdus Hatatim. These organizations get numerous funds from the government,and Goldknopf is the one who decides how to divvy them.

Slicing the Earnings of Impoverished Kindergarten Teachers

The organization which gives him the greatest power base is the Bais Yaakov kindergarten network whichthousands of chareidi children attend. A State Comptroller study carried out in 2008 on the kindergarten networkreported that 20% of the kindergarten teachers received only 82-85% of their proper salary, while 38% receivedonly 86-90% of their required salary. Some kindergarten teachers only earned 75% of their legal wages.

How did he pull this off? In the summer months, the network didn't pay some of the kindergarten teachers andaides in July and none of them received wages in August. Numerous teachers were sent to requestunemployment from the government. "The state paid the network twice," the report says.

"These are women who are working to provide for 7-8 children," says a furious relative of a kindergartenteacher employed in Goldknopf's network. "While municipal kindergarten teachers made 4,500 NIS a month,Goldknopf's made 3,200. He divides the money according to his personal interests - some employees get more,some get less. His attitude is, "I'll do what's best for me and to hell with everyone else."

A Gerrer chosid confirmed, "He employs women who are close to leading members of our community, anddoesn't slice off their wages as he does for others."

At least 13 members of Goldknopf's own family have found his organizations an unfailing source of jobs. His85-year old mother is employed in the Bais Yaakov network in an administrative position, his wife is employedin Petachya, his 4 daughters serve as kindergarten teachers and administrators, his two sisters are also workingin Bais Yaakov, as is his daughter-in-law, sister-in-law and nephew's wife. Another daughter-in-law works inPetachya. "Thirteen family members working in an organization is not proper administration," the StateComptroller's Report notes wryly.

Since becoming the head of these organizations in the 1980's, Goldknopf has attained a pyramid of poweramong Gerrer chassidim. A close friend says, "He travels abroad a lot, disappears from the office for severaldays and always travels in first class."

His Selective Battles Against Shabbos Desecration

The battle of the chareidim against chillul Shabbos took a new turn 4 years ago, when various rabbonim decidedthat a committee had to be set up to coordinate between the public's leading rabbonim. The various streams senttheir representatives, but from the beginning, the organization was usurped by Goldknopf who turned it intoanother power base.

"We discovered very quickly that they had taken over the committee and used it as a 'kardum lachfor boh'," saysa former member of the committee. "They inserted all kinds of people with personal interests and took it tocompletely different directions, with Goldknopf pulling the strings. This position gives power and money to one










completely different directions, with Goldknopf pulling the strings. This position gives power and money to onewho knows how to manipulate. The ways it's run today, it destroys businesses and doesn't even promoteShabbos observance."

A person who worked with him in the past, avers, "Everything is kosher in his eyes and whatever he asks ofyou, better be done. He doesn't threaten with words, but he has his people and it's enough he looks at you.. He'sdangerous. I know a person who couldn't step foot in his own shul because of him."

Goldknopf's first publicized boycott took place in December 2006, and within a month both sides reached acompromise which was hidden from the public. "The fight over El Al flights on Shabbos stunk. Not only didn'the reveal the compromise he reached with them, but the fact is that the company continues to fly on Shabbos,"says someone close to the committee. Chillul Shabbos continues to be massively carried out by El Al'ssubsidiary Sun-dor. Recently, El Al required its workers to carry phony Sun-dor employment papers when theytravel on Shabbos, in addition to their regular El Al employment documents which they carry during the week.

"The Committee for Shabbos controls today the two largest media in the chareidi public -- Hamodia and YatedNeeman. Whatever they don't write, the chareidi public doesn't know. They're a real mafia," says the abovesource.

Despite Goldknopf's immense power, voices have been raised in the past year against the selective way hechooses who to boycott for chillul Shabbos. Rabbonim have privately expressed their disagreement to hisbombastic campaigns that feature prolific street posters, raucous articles in the newspapers and swift consumerboycotts against certain targets, but fear to openly oppose him.

Goldknopf ran an uncompromising struggle against the Shefa Shuk mehadrin supermarkets owned by DudiWeissman, whose Tel Aviv AM:PM network are open on Shabbos. The success of the struggle can be seen bythe fact that half of its 47 flourishing supermarkets were forced to close down.

For inexplicable reasons, however, many other businessmen are not in Goldknopf's sights. One obvious sampleis Nochi Dankner and his chareidi businessman partner Shulam Fischer, who own a supermarket mehadrinnetwork under the Supersol Group, many of whose businesses are mechalel Shabbos. Neither of them have yetfelt Goldknopf's imperious assault. Among the Shabbos desecrating companies run by these two are the Cellcomcellphone company, Natur transportation company, Golf and Kav, Chadera paper and Chugla-Kimberlydisposable diapers.

Fischer is a partner of Matthew Bronfman from the Iris Hagilboa Group, who owns Israel IKEA. The Grouppurchased last December 9.5% of the shares of British Israel, owned by the British religious billionaire LouisNoe, who owns 18% of all the shopping malls around the country. Some are open on Shabbos, such as Chonim-Konim in Rishon Letzion, Dodge shopping mall in Upper Natzeret, Queen of Sheba shopping mall in Eilat, andBilu Center at the BILU intersection.

Goldknopf's Targets Respond to the Hypocrisy

Could the reason be because Fischer and Dankner are close to the chareidi public? Dankner is a close donor toRabbi Yaakov Yisroel Iferghan (the "Xray") of Netivot, and he also "adopted" Hatzolah Israel to which hecontributes millions of shekels.

"Fischer donates lavishly to Gerrer and Belz chassidic organizations, and this is just a fraction of what hegives," says a man close to Fischer's charity enterprises. "He gives hundreds of thousands of shekels everymonth by bank order. Whenever they need a building, mikvah or shul, they go to him. Every holiday, he givescoupons worth 1.5-2 million shekels out to friends and family. He's very connected to the Gerrer chassidim."

The fact that Goldknopf is blind to Dankner and Fischer's Shabbos desecrating businesses rankled on their rivalsin the chareidi sector, and a month ago, the streets filled with posters featuring Fischer and Dankner's pictures



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in the chareidi sector, and a month ago, the streets filled with posters featuring Fischer and Dankner's picturesand warning the public, "Look who is responsible for the greatest chillul Shabbos in the Holy Land." Under theirpictures was a list of their holdings in companies that desecrate Shabbos. The poster was signed "NationalCommittee to Uphold Shabbos."

"Some people are fed up with the hypocrisy. The story with Shefa Shuk was sordid. Why did they go againstShefa Shuk but not the others? This was a far-reaching phenomenon but they chose to boycott only one andturned a blind eye to the other," said one man formerly involved in the struggle to observe Shabbos.

Goldknopf's Response

Goldknopf refused to address any of the claims made against him and instead issued this response, "I see noreason to respond to things unrelated to me. I don't know where you extracted all this from. The RabbinicalCommittee for Shabbos has done and will continue to do its work faithfully, and there is no need to attributeanything improper to it."

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Anonymous Says:Actually the kindergarden issue is one major souce of tension between degel hatorah and ger .

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yosse nathan Says:that is what this is , one big jewish mafia and that is why all the frum people can't worktogether in israel.its all about the money.

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Anonymous Says:He sounds like a mobster in a beard who fights to control the money of the underground worldor else he will lose it all.

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Anonymous Says:ger takes care of their own, good for them.

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Anonymous Says:Threatened with their life??? puleez

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Anonymous Says:Thank you VIN for highlighting this problem. The more I hear the less I give to tzedakas inIsrael, of course my paltry few thousand a year is nothing to them but I would imagine thatthere are many others who feel the same way I do, the smell of corruption stinks across theoceans to these shores. 'Leaders' such as this Goldknopf line their pockets with donations andsteal from the people they are supposed to be helping. They've already stolen an educationfrom the masses as well as the ability to create any sort of financial independence, eventuallythe chareidim in Israel will be worse than the most ignorant savages in third-world countries.All because of the lust for power and greed by their leaders. I spit on Goldknopf and his ilk.


Anonymous Says:""Why he doesn't go after Fischer who desecrates Shabbos?"" Stupid question. The answer isthat Fisher is a brilliant business man who has figured out how the orthodox world operates.You feed their leadership with enough bribes aka chesed money/tzidoka and they will leaveyou alone. As soon as Fischer won't be able to feed the non working Charedi communities withpet project donations, this "Rabbi" Goldknopf will organize a riot and boycott of Fisher business







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pet project donations, this "Rabbi" Goldknopf will organize a riot and boycott of Fisher businessas well.

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Anonymous Says:Power is the money, money is the power, minute after minute hour after hour........

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Anonymous Says:Reply to #1 Show Quote

Degel just control recently of the ganim system,putting r' yitzchak rice the former mayor ofrechasim in charge.

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Anonymous Says:The raid was that the gurys shorted elal before they attackes them then longed the stockbefore they came out with an agreementAnd dudi wisman is an aleksander chusid

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lost generation Says:Forget the money-An entire generation lost an education that would make them financialyviable young men/woman because of leaders that chose to NOT teach us a trade.

I resent you and your "poverty pimp" friends.


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Stealing from Bais Yaakov teachers has got to be a new all-time low. The additional benefit ofthis article is in graphically demonstrating how Socialism destroys a society piece by piece,because one monolithic, monopolistic, all-powerful source controlling the disbursement of everypenny effectively kills quality, perseverence, innovation, achievement and self-actualization.Why bother? Life becomes demoralizing and excelling at anything is an exercise in futility. Thenew form of Socialism is stealing from the Middle Class and giving to the Rich and EzraReichman demonstrates this in chilling detail. This would be a great opportunity for those B.Y.teachers to pool their resources and open their own school that competes with theestablishment. Nothing like a good competition to break the power of monopolies.

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Charlie Hall Says:It is a chiyuv of the Torah to pay workers their wages on time! How can someone responsiblefor stiffing employees be considered Orthodox?

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Because, according to one source, "Everything is kosher in his eyes....", He decides what iskosher and he decides how much to pay and how much to pocket, it's all kosher because itemanated from him. Who is Charlie Hall to question his authority? Get the picture?

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BL21 Says:For those who believe that this article is an unbiased investigative piece, you need a realitycheck. These people and groups, on both sides, are entrenched in a deep BUSINESS battlewith many millions on the line.

To me what is so telling is the absolute lack of an validation to claims, or names of people whostand behind any accusations. These people may depend on aggressive business tactic thatmay border on illegal, however the articles clear intent is to demonize Goldknopf. WHY NOTINCLUDE THE FACTS, OR PERHAPS THEY DONT WANT TO?







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sruli Says:ger is trying to rule judisim, its a wake up call, get them out before they will control every partof our life!

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Dave Says:My sandek (godfather)

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Your hatred of Frum Jews is almost as great as that of the Germans.

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Charlie Hall Says:Reply to #12 Show Quote

B.Y. teachers could pool their resources to start their own school, but they'd have to chargereal tuition rather than the nominal fees that most parents pay in Israel for Jewish educationthanks to....Socialism! I presume you'd like to eliminate government support for Jewish schoolsthere?

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Charaidi Says:A frumeh madoff, what's new? noch a ganev.


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Why don't you direct your wrath at the source of the problem rather than the symptoms of theproblem? This gentleman is venting his frustration, he is not stealing from anybody or short-changing salaries or putting people out of business!

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As a Conservative, I am for smaller govt.; I am for cutting taxes; I am for more freedom andless government intervention and I am for the total elimination of government subsidies. Idespise Socialism in whatever form it takes.

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Simcha Says:This man is a goon. Why are you highlighting his sick antics that only encourage machlokesand blackmail. People like this need to be ignored and margionalized.

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What you are saying is nonsense and stupidity. Journalists are allowed to keep their sourcessecret. Have you never heard of "Deepthroat"? He was the famous secret informant whoprovided info to the Washington Post that brought down the Nixon Administration.There are several reasons to protect confidential sources:a) In some cases serious harm might befall the source if their identity is uncovered. b) The willingness of other potential sources to share information with reporters may be erodedif confidential sources are identified. c) The public perception of journalistic integrity is damaged when assurances aboutconfidentiality are breached. d) The so-called "chilling effect," which serves to dissuade sources in the future from steppingforward with unknown information for fear of reprimand or retaliation.








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Maariv's editors would not have gone to press without absolutely verifying the credibility of thesources and the information. Maariv is a leading tabloid in Israel and has a reputation toprotect for not publishing outright lies. According to the CIA, Maariv has been reflecting thenational consensus and providing Israelis with the latest news and opinions from thisperspective for over fifty years. Sunday through Friday, the paper carries full coverage ofpolitics in Israel. Exactly what facts are you lacking? The names of his sources so you canattack them? Goldknopt was given the chance to negate the accusations; he didn't careenough to utter a single comment.

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Anonymous Says:All I can say after reading this above article, that if all these allegations are true, this is a chilulHaShem of gigantic proportions. This man behaves like a mafia godfather. Cannot understandwhy he is not investigated by the authorities and also why rabbanim are so afraid of him. Doeshe engage in violence? This is an oxymoron for someone espousing the holiness of Shabbatand acting in this fashion. Don't know if this is true, but woe unto us as religious Jews thatthere is such behavior amongst us. Now this makes it easy to understand what it means whenit says that 'erev rav' will have infiltrated within the rabbinic world also - wherever there ispower, they will fill those power bases, in the time before redemption. Hopefully, the above isunfounded, but from what we read here, doesn't look good. The world has reverted to chaos.

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Anonymous Says:Such "yidden"are a disgrace to klal yisrael these woman are not making ends meat cause thisbearded animal has plans for they're money. If he's worried about burning in hell for shefa shukbeing open on shabbos he roasting in hell for starving yidishe kids.

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You can't ignore the guy that holds the purse strings.







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Anonymous Says:Wow, it seems the biggest burglary here is the stealing the wages of the teachers,unbelievable.

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Green Tea Says:Jewish Charlie Rangel.

Think about it....he delivers votes in a block in exchange for the power to dole out govt funds. Classic poverty pimp.

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Tzavua Says:Unfortunately his so called boycott of El Al for wanting to fly on Shabbos was quite hypocritical.The alternative at the time was Israir who was flying and still flies every Shabbos from Tel Avivto Eilat and back. nobody ever boycotted them or demonstrated against them.

Arkia flies every Shabbos. Why no boycott/demonstration?

Also at the same time Egged was and is being mechallel Shabbos eevery Shabbos andnobody boycotts them. Maybe no one would be able to come to certain tishes and grandioseweddings without them.

Why are we so selective with our Shabbos boycotts and demostrations? If chillul Shaboos iswrong and warrants a boycott or demonstration then all chillul Shabbos should beboycotted/demonstrated against.

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I can read from ur lines: that u only give tzedakah 2 the yankee stadium,So who really cares about ur opinion of chasidim?







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This is EXACTLY what I was thinking. Why is it OK for him to be oiver on one mitzvahmid'oraisah and not OK for others to be oiver on another mitzvah mid'oraisah? Stealing fromwomen teachers makes him a gonif!!!

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SD Says:Reply to #27 Show Quote

. . . and when it comes to himself, he always travels first-class.

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Stamford Hilly Billy Says:Everyone reading this needs to take it into perspective and realise this is only one side of thestory.

That being said Goldknopf was given a chance to give his take on the allegations and didn`texactly give a wholesome answer. Generally I believe that there is no smoke without fire and atleast some of these allegations must be true at some level for Mariv to have published thisarticle, I like to give the benefit of the doubt and say they wouldn`t have printed something thatis totally fictious, although there may be some exggeration to fulfil an agenda, only hashemknows the whole truth.

I must also say that has a ba`al tashuva one reason that I do call myself and identify myselfwith charedim is because it seems that there is far too much of this sort of thing going on in thecharedi world, and if this is authentic torah judaism(whatever that is) then no thank you. Itseems to be the culpruits are people like this guy who are just below the rabbonim in thepower hireachy and like to influence the rabbonim in ways that will provide and protectthemselves with money and power. These people are disgusting mafia type figures who willget their din in shamiyim








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What does it say about the Ger leadership that they seem to be OK with a person like thishaving so much power and using it in such a cruel, devious, non-Torahdik fashion?

Why aren't they as disgusted as the decent readers of VIN?

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MY hatred of frum jews? That's laughable. It's not me who oppresses these poor yidden, notme who makes sure they'll never have a chance to better themselves. You, anonymous #18must be one of these machers that pocket tzedaka money and then convince yourself you'renot doing anything wrong. You're like the kapos in the camps that beat other yidden so theycould have a little bit more bread than anyone else.

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Anonymous Says:As someone that lives in Israel for 3 years 1) this is what the entire ger chasidus is build upon control controlfrom the rebbe down to the bochurem who went out against porush by the votes last year 2) about shabbos it's pure buissnes to him look at egged, ger gets the service and they don'tcare if anyone else does

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This is what happens if you WORK!All those commentators sitting on your swivel chair and reading VIN enjoy when u read ahateful piece like this. But keep in mind that this article wouldn't make sense on yourself forone reason... Because you're not busy to help. This is the price that a ASKEN pays for hiswork to the public


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He's a big boy he can't fit into a coach seat.

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We need LESS ASKENS and MORE BOCHURS WHO WORK!

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bunch of gullible losers Says:You people. besides for being Mekabel this Trash to be true- you are a bunch of gullible loserswho would buy the brooklyn Bridge plus the Triboro if given a 2 for one deal.Immature gullible grownups. You people are scary. OOOOOOOO- They wrote it so for sure it'strue-oooooooooooo-they have No agenda what so ever -oooooo- He didn't choose to deny theallegations so it must be true--ooooooo!!!!!CHILDREN!

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And who cares about your opinion of other posters? Keep your nastiness to yourself, youobviously don't have something nice to say about someone so keep quiet.

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I hit the nail right on its head, not only do you hate frum yidden like the Germans did but theway you reply tells me that you are a bitter and lonely person who was abandoned by his wifeand children.








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Moshe Says:I worked for Yizchok many years. He is a nice honest man and treats his employees with theutmost respect. He is extremely intelligent and successful and that is why so many peopleenvy him. He is and has been fully devoted to the Chareidi public for over three decades andhas never taken nor received gratuities in return for his many services. No wonder the secularpeople and media hate him. They have nobody of his caliber and quality in their midst.

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Anonymous Says:After this article & comments watch this Golbknopf put a boycott on VIN just like he did toChadrei Chareidim whenever he doesn't like something he uses his bully acts to deal with it

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To Moshe #47:So, you're saying that the statistics about cheating kindergarten teachers out of their wages areuntrue?

Or, are you saying that they might be true, but it's no stirah to his being (in your eyes) a "nice,honest man"?

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Finally someone knows him on a first name basis! Wow, how manu of his employees were notgerers, why are we attacking goldknopf, he is just a shliach of his rebbe (maybe that's what thearticle was meant to be but the mariv was afraid they can be dangerous) and since they arethe largest chasidus this is the way its gonna be, and very possible we in israel should thankhashem that its them and not some other group, for it would be a lot worse, wow he goes firstclass what a dumb line anybody who flies a couple of times a year with ELAL knows they got agreat matmid program, and who else should he give the jobs to if not to his 85 yearold mamashkibud aimOy we are living in hard economic times and it brings out the best of people and I'm wonderingabout the people who were.the sources for this article what do they do for klal yisrarl in anehrliche fashion and also all "askanim" or at least the good ones menachim purish munyashapiro shlomo lawrence and the belzer askanim and the zanzer one and the viznitz oneect....... All are and have made good money somehow just maybe the gerer goons do it betterand a more grober in your face we don't give a dam type of way.

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