How is National Council using your dues?

--- On Wed, 5/26/10, lashontov@aol.com wrote:

From the Jewish Week, September 10, 2008: (http://www.thejewishweek.com/features/lifetime_contract_means_lifetime)

Now 78, Rabbi Charlop, who hasn’t been paid by the shul in years, opens the morning doors hoping for a minyan, makes sermons on Shabbat for a crowd of 12 and is in his fifth year of negotiating with the insurance company over $575,000 in claimed damages from a frozen pipe that burst on a winter’s dawn in the women’s balcony. The water trickled down the steps of the women’s section, lifting up the carpeting; trickled down the walls to the men’s section, curling up the wallpaper; trickled down the stairs to the ballroom, bubbling up pieces of the wooden floor. Everywhere there are piles and rubble. ... A once terrific shul now resembles nothing so much as the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans.

Mishpacha Magazine had a similar article in their March 2 issue of this year describing the same damage.
Why can't or won't National Council loan the money to fix this "once terrific shul"?
Aren't they ashamed that a Young Israel is left in such a deplorable state for 7 years?

Has National Council presented a financial statement in recent years to the branches and lay members?

How much and where is the money they have on account?

How much do they take in from dues from your shul? What do you receive in return? Why don't they lend the Young Israel of Mosholu Parkway the money needed to repair the water damage?

Since the Comptroller [of National Council] notarized a forged/altered document can she be considered reliable regarding financial matters?


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From: Rabbi of a branch outside NY

National Council of Young Israel never helps their dying branches - they wait for them to die so they can seize the assets - they are basically a mafia

--- On Thu, 5/27/10, lashontov@aol.com wrote:

Since you feel that way you may find this excerpt interesting: (http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/18632/)

According to Young Israel's by-laws, if a congregation can no longer support a daily minyan -- something Oxford Circle hasn't been able to do for some time now -- the synagogue property is supposed to revert to the national organization.
"It's unfortunate," said Rabbi Pesach Lerner, executive vice president of the National Council of Young Israel.
Lerner said it's rare that the national council has actually had to take such a step. He added that the fate of the building has not yet been decided, but acknowledged that selling it is indeed a possibility.
"Whatever proceeds there are will go to continue [our] mission," said Lerner.
Not Happy With the Outcome
Grosswald doesn't dispute that control of the building rests with the office in New York; he's just not happy about it.
"I have the terrible task of closing the synagogue and saying 'New York, take it away and make your money,' " he said.

So what is the mission of Young Israel? To have their rabbis broadcast on the radio to knock up women and to call the rabbis of the Gemara "shmucks" ?
In Rabbi Sturm's time NCYI accomplished much that the present administration has thrown away. What has happened to the Young Israel Kosher Dining Clubs on college campuses? There is as much a need (or more) for them today as there was 50 years ago. Hear what Rabbi Sturm had to say about them, http://www.chabad.org/therebbe/article_cdo/aid/929635/jewish/Consistency.htm

What ever happened to the Young Israel Collegiates and Young Adults or Young Israel Youth (see http://books.google.com/books?id=daFeyrLbqy0C&lpg=PA497&ots=pL_7Zlq0A9&dq=%22young%20israel%22%20college%20campus%20kosher%20%22dining%20clubs%22&pg=PA497#v=onepage&q&f=false) since Lerner took over? There doesn't seem to an entry for them or much else for youth on NCYI's website.

Why call it Young Israel if the young are not part of it?

-----Original Message-----
From: Rabbi
To: lashontov
Sent: Fri, May 28, 2010 10:47 am
Subject: Re: How is National Council using your dues?

the current bylaws only mention Shabbos and Yom Tov services (doesn't specify minyanim - i.e. could be interpreted as just having the doors open and at least one person present, as I often had as rabbi). But this is one of the big issues here in (you know which city). Many had tried to merge the practically defunct Young Israel with the Yeshivah to keep the money here locally, but the handful of people who wanted to keep the shul open didn't want to do that. However, they always complained about how NCYI was a "mafia" and said how both NCYI and ... were "vultures" waiting for the shul to die so they could seize the assets.

----------------From: lashontov@aol.com -------------------

Parashat Toledot- The Sin of Denial by Rabbi Eli Mansour

[Below is the final paragraph, the whole article is at http://dailyhalacha.com/WeeklyParasha.asp?ParashaClipID=173]

Many centuries later, before the destruction of the First Temple, God warns Bene Yisrael through the prophet Yirmiyahu (2:35), "Behold, I shall bring you to judgment for your having said, 'I did not sin'!" God does not threaten to punish the people for sinning; everybody sins at some point, and the process of Teshuva is designed to help us recover from our mistakes and thereby escape punishment. But the people in Yirmiyahu's time were guilt of not only sin, but also of denying their having sinned. Rather than confess and repent, they added insult to injury by avowing, "I did not sin!" The sin of denial is deemed more grievous than the sin itself. Sins can be forgiven, but provided that a person is willing to lower his head and admit his wrongdoing. Rationalizing and justifying wrongdoing precludes any possibility of Teshuva and self-improvement, and it is therefore considered the most severe sin of all.

Not only does National Council of YI not admit and correct their mistakes, they obstinately cling to them and compound their disgrace by lying and feigning indignation. They claim to have a "mission". They claimed that as well when they drove the Young Israel of 5th Ave out of the organization and extorted the cost of the building from them without a care for the Young Jewish NYU students and others in the area just as don't care about the exploitation of the Young people in Las Vegas who are learning from Young Israel Aish to "knock her up" and Rabbi Tarfon in the Gemara was a "shmuck".

It made me sick to type that last line. Doesn't it bother you these things are said on the radio in the name of Young Israel?

Here are the lies and forgeries fabricated by Young Israel

Yeshayahu 10:1. Woe to those who engrave engravings of injustice and missives of perverseness they write.		יְשַׁעְיָהוּ י:א. הוֹי הַחֹקְקִים חִקְקֵי אָוֶן וּמְכַתְּבִים עָמָל כִּתֵּבוּ
Rashi: engravings of injustice: Notes of injustice, forged notes.
letters: Heb. מְכַתְּבִים. This is Arabic, like מִכְתָּבִים in Hebrew.
2. To pervert the judgment of the impoverished and to rob the judgment of the poor of My people, so that the widows are their plunder, and they pillage the orphans.		ב. לְהַטּוֹת מִדִּין דַּלִּים וְלִגְזֹל מִשְׁפַּט עֲנִיֵּי עַמִּי לִהְיוֹת אַלְמָנוֹת שְׁלָלָם וְאֶת יְתוֹמִים יָבֹזּוּ
Rashi: To pervert: through the false notes, the poor from the legal rights due them.

When the seruv on Yitzchak sWyne resurfaced in 2007, National Council of YOUNG ISRAEL created a false document from one the Bais Din had invalidated. As can be plainly seen, the lifting took place in Kislev 5765 and was the document referred to as a "mistake" in the Tevet 5765 reissuance of the seruv. The Hebrew document was fraudulently altered (note the Hebrew date on next to last signature, Lamed-Gimel Elul??) in 2007 and a translation (with an incorrect translation of Lamed-Gimel) notarized to falsely give the impression the excommunication was lifted.
[click on image to enlarge annotated documents]

[click here to view the siruv which is still in effect]

These forgeries (Hebrew and English) were used to file a lawsuit in SECULAR court for the purpose of trying to intimidate those who were publishing the siruv. Annotations to the forgery are in colored text.

National Council first issued a letter in Janurary 2005 telling people to ignore the seruv.

Download the letter to enlarge it. The annotations in red explain why this letter is fraudulent.

As can be seen here, Mrs. Shalov HAD submitted to the binding arbitration of the Beth Din of the Rabbinical Council of California over a month before Mr. Pesach Lerner wrote the letter published by National Council of Young Israel placed in public view at the Young Israel Aish of Las Vegas.  Mr. Lerner's "encouragement" to Mrs. Shalov was deliberate deception to falsely malign the widow..

National Council of Young Israel submitted false statements to the Las Vegas Municipal Court in Case C594776A charging the widow Susan Shalov with Trespassing further adding to her torment.

Since the Young Israel Constitution states in Section 4.7:

a.  President - He shall be in charge of and responsible for all the activities of the organization;

the President of Young Israel in 2005 and 2007 is responsible for FRAUD and FORGERY.

More information including a timeline of the excommunication can be read in this Google doc (click to view).

In perek 7 of sefer Yehoshua we read how "like 36 men" were killed at the city of Ai. Some say it was only Yair ben Menashe who was killed, for he was equal to 36 men. But the aveiroh was not his, it was that of another, Achan ben Carmi. Perhaps Hashem is repeating the story of Yehoshua perek 7?

 

Is Reb Sholom Rubashkin like Yair ben Menashe in that he is paying the price for an injustice in a different city? Much of Reb Sholom Rubashkin's travails began in autumn of 2007, the same time as this forgery was committed by National Council of Young Israel in order to sue Jews in SECULAR court to be silent about the seruv. Reb Sholom's situation worsened in 2008 after he unwittingly was allied by the forger.

National Council of Young Israel died in 1992

On page 258 of the Artscroll biography of Reb Elchonon Wasserman, zt"l, it quotes a halachic ruling he made:

"An organization of G-d fearing individuals must be free of the desire to affix the the organizational stamp on each of its activities. The good works must be regarded as necessary, and the stamp will not help (and might even harm) them."

The "good works" of the truly G-d fearing Young Israel has become secondary to National Council. The Young Israel stamp or label has become more important than the Torah goals written of in the Young Israel charter. The stamp has become devoid of the meaning imparted to it between 1912 and 1992. The Young Israel stamp is now on synagogues with officers and rabbis who violate Shabbos openly, who advocate on the radio knocking up women, who laugh on the radio at the respect Rabbi Tarfon showed his mother so she would not violate Shabbos by fixing her shoe, who tells children to "make more noise" to disturb his gentile neighbor right after telling the neighbor he would ask them to be quieter, who chase old men and widows out of shul, etc..

The Young Israel stamp is now upon a synagogue where the so-called rabbi was quoted in Las Vegas Magazine that he took the name because "it is the McDonalds of Orthodox Judaism". This is what people now see and hear of Young Israel when they see past the label and realize that the kosher label has been pasted on a can of pork. The label and the blessings of the Chairman of the YI Council of Rabbis and National Council cannot make the swine kosher. All it does is belittle the meaning of the stamp.

Emes, truth, is the best weapon to remove the Sheker v'Chazav (falsehood and deceit) that has infected the Young Israel core organization. I urge each of you and your shul memberships to tell National Council that you proudly bear the name and will continue to use the name despite its attachment by National Council to desecrators of Torah like the menuval in Las Vegas but they do not represent your Young Israel shul any longer and that you will not support National Council with dues until they return to Torah-True adherence to the Constitution and rules of the Young Israel movement.