Supporters and friends of Jonathan Pollard, the American Jew who served Israel as a spy, are hoping that before he leaves office, President Donald Trump will enable Pollard to emigrate to the Jewish state by commuting his sentence or pardoning him. Pollard pleaded guilty in 1986 to conspiracy to commit espionage in connection with providing…
As President Trump makes his closing arguments for reelection, the staggering events of the last year loom large. The coronavirus pandemic has, to date, taken more than 230,000 American lives, and the country is mired in the most significant economic downturn since the Great Depression. And, though it now feels like ancient history, Trump in…
On May 12, 2008, government agents raided a massive kosher slaughterhouse in Postville, Iowa. Within days, over 300 undocumented workers at the plant had been sentenced to five months in prison, followed by deportation. One of the plant’s managers, Sholom Rubashkin, was eventually sentenced to 27 years in prison for financial fraud. But in December…
Paul Nehlen, a Wisconsin businessman hoping to unseat Rep. Paul Ryan in a primary election, is tapping into hardcore elements of the “alt-right” — appearing on white nationalist podcasts and proudly promoting anti-Semitic books on his Twitter feed. After President Trump shortened the prison sentence of kosher meatpacking magnate Sholom Rubashkin, Nehlen urged the president…
Though the Forward published many articles after the release of Sholom Rubashkin, some opinion writers have taken the position that the celebrations that followed Rubashkin’s release were at best inappropriate and at worst a desecration of God’s name. Most of us have thankfully not been through the criminal justice system. However, until one has been…
The celebrations in Orthodox Jewish communities of President Trump’s commutation of Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin’s prison sentence and the release, after eight years, of the former CEO of the Agriprocessors meatpacking plant in Iowa have subsided. But not before they engendered a rank venting of resentment in other Jewish circles over Mr. Rubashkin’s new freedom. Mr….
Last Wednesday President Trump unexpectedly commuted the sentence of Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin. Rubashkin had been the executive of Agriprocessors, which was, at one point, the largest Kosher meatpacking plant in the United States. At the time of his commuted sentence, Rubashkin was eight years into a 27-year sentence for financial crimes he committed as he…
A contingent of religious Jews lined up on a highway near Donald Trump’s home at his Mar-a-Lago resort in South Florida to thank him for commuting the sentence of Sholom Rubashkin. Trump commuted Rubashkin’s sentence Wednesday night. Rubashkin was serving a 27 year sentence for committing fraud as owner of a major kosher meat processing…
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