West Palm Beach FL – Pre-Shabbos Rubashkin Thank You Rally Greets Trump Motorcade In West Palm

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    Jewish Supporters rally as Trump's motorcade passsby in West Palm Beach on Friday, Dec. 22, 2017. (Michele Sandberg/VINnews.com)West Palm Beach, FL – There was joyous singing and dancing along the perimeter of Dreher Park in West Palm Beach on Friday afternoon, as approximately 100 Jewish Floridians lined the shoulder of Southern Boulevard to express their gratitude to President Donald Trump for commuting the sentence of Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin who had already served more than eight years in a federal penitentiary.

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    The last minute rally was organized by the Aleph Institute which provides assistance to those in crisis including inmates in federal prisons throughout the country and their family.

    Organizers had hoped to have members of many shuls and schools throughout South Florida greeting the presidential motorcade as it drove from Palm Beach International Airport to his nearby Mar-a-Lago home, but delays in Trump’s arrival had the rally pushed back from 11 AM to 2 PM, forcing many who had planned to attend to back out because of the extremely close pre-Shabbos timing.

    Supporters held pro-Trump signs bearing slogans including “Thank you Mr. President for the Rubashkin Chanukah miracle!” and “Courage to secure justice!! President Trump.” As they waited for the motorcade to approach, Chabad shluchim took advantage of the opportunity to put tefillin on their less-observant brethren who also gathered along the busy roadway.

    Mrs. Rishe Deitsh was one of those who was on Southern Boulevard as the presidential motorcade passed by, slowing down for Trump to acknowledge his supporters.

    “He was waving, blowing kisses and mouthing the words ‘thank you,’” Mrs. Dietsh told VIN News. “Everyone felt like he was thanking us for thanking him for what he did. What he did was hard and he earned the gratitude of Americans.”

    Mrs. Deitsh said that numerous cars slowed down to speak to the group as they waited for the president to pass by.

    “So many people, Jews and non-Jews, agreed that this was right thing,” said Mrs. Dietsh. “This was for the United States of America and brings back the belief that we really are ‘one nation, under G-d, with liberty and justice for all’ like we say in the Pledge of Allegiance. The Rubashkin sentence had taken that away from us, but President Trump gave it back.”

    Mrs. Deitsh said she never considered not going out to Southern Boulevard to thank the president, even though he passed by the group just two hours before the start of Shabbos.

    “I would have done anything to thank the president,” said Mrs. Dietsh.

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    6 years ago

    It is too bad that there weren’t more people there; however, Palm Beach County is not Borough Park, Crown Heights, or Monsey.

    Buchwalter
    Buchwalter
    6 years ago

    The judge[female] at that trial gave a harsh sentence. However if the heilige sheluchim and other marginal lubavitcher would have avoided the trial maybe the sentence would have not been so severe. Lubavitch has mentality of his own akin to the mormon

    6 years ago

    Huge kiddish hashem and thank you president Trump for your great work. Keep it up.

    6 years ago

    Most Jews are happy that Rubashkin has been released. Many, though not all, don’t understand why his original sentence was so severe. The original investigation in Agriprocessors was due to immigration and labor law violations. When the plant shut down due to the inability of people to report for work, the financial fraud issue came to the surface because there was no ongoing cash flow to meet the debt service requirements on the inflated numbers provided for the asset-based lending facility with the bank. As there were insufficient grounds to personally prosecute Rubashkin on the immigration/labor law issues, the government and judge “threw the book at him” on the bank fraud charges. He is a convicted felon whose nefarious acts caused a tremendous chilul ha-Shem and a loss of millions of dollars to a bank, and whose charitable contributions, when made with monies not his to give, constituted a mitzvah ha’boh b’aveiroh. While it is wonderful that he is re-united with his family, let’s not forget the shame and embarrassment he caused us all – most of all to himself!

    triumphinwhitehouse
    triumphinwhitehouse
    6 years ago

    Trump is the biggest Jew lover in the white house what a relief after 8 years of a Kenyan muslim.

    mewhoze
    mewhoze
    6 years ago

    awesome!!

    stamm
    stamm
    6 years ago

    dont forget it ended up being so close to shabbos.

    Butterfly
    Butterfly
    6 years ago

    Shouldn’t they be preparing for shabbos? Shabbos is early!!

    hashomer
    hashomer
    6 years ago

    Hypocrite Trumpf rails against illegal aliens but commutes the sentence of a guy who employed 500 of them. Fraud, money laundering, etc. Trumpf or Rubashkin or both?

    6 years ago

    Next time he comes to NY askanim should orgnize a huge thank you March he enjoys these events and he might take this in consideration when he has to give his next signature

    qazxc
    qazxc
    6 years ago

    Comments #20 and #21 do not address the comments at which they are aimed.

    Insults do not change reality. He committed bank fraud. Because the integrity of the banking system is vital to the economic stability of the country, bank fraud, has historically been vigorously prosecuted and has been punishable by severe measures, as have been currency counterfeiting and stock market manipulation.

    Anyone with even the most basic understanding of asset based lending appreciates that obtaining and keeping active an asset based commercial line of credit understands that it requires an ongoing commitment to file fraudulent documents on an ongoing basis, essentially inventing, and cerifying under penalty of purjury, sales and accounts receivable records out of thin air on a monthly basis.

    Equating his offenses with speeding five over the legal limit is on par with equating the bubonic plague with hay fever.

    Wake up, frum velt. While we are all glad he didn’t end up serving his sentencing guidelines directed 27 year sentence, he is not an innocent yid caught up in a czarist antisemitic plot or sixteenth century blood libel.

    If he was a victim of anything, he was a victim of bad advice, self delusion and Conservative sponsored and private prison industry lobbied draconian federal sentencing guidelines.

    6 years ago

    To #21 - I agree with you 100% that # 10 (Hashomer) is an IDIOT! He brought up the employing of illegal aliens at Agriprocessors. However, he conveniently didn’t mention that Rubashkin was not sent to jail for employing illegals, and was never convicted of that offense. Also, he conveniently didn’t mention that Tyson chicken, and other trefe meat packing plants employ (even to this date), far more illegal aliens that Rubashkin ever employed. There are former employees of his plant, who came from Mexico and Guatemala, who still live in Postville, Iowa, who to this day, nearly 10 years, after the largest ICE raid on the Agriprocessors plant, are resentful of the heavy handed tactics of ICE in closing that plant, and causing the loss of their jobs. They stated that Rubashkin gave them jobs, health insurance, etc., and that they were (prior to the raid) able to send money home to their relatives. The PETA crowd and their supporters were the ones who instigated the raid by the feds, against Rubashkin. Then, the government decided to make an example out of Rubashkin, and hence, threw the book at him. Obama and Eric Holder were also complicit, along with Judge Reade, and the prosecutors.

    qazxc
    qazxc
    6 years ago

    Fraud in asset based lending is taken very seriously. It is comparable to obtaining a mortgage on a building you don’t own, or if it were possible to bribe enough people involved on a building that did not exist.

    I’ve been responsible for the accuracy of monthly accounts receivable records and inventory tallies used to secure asset based funding and before the company controller signed off and submitted the records to the bank every month he made me sign off and did a complete review of my work.

    The integrity of the assets used to secure asset based line of credit is considered important enough that many banks will freeze your line of credit if your monthly signed reports are late.

    puppydogs
    puppydogs
    6 years ago

    WOW wish I was there what a Kiddush Hashem.

    What a week the president had.

    – Tax Cut Bill Passed
    – Freed Rubashkin
    – Vetoes the UN Resolution Condemning the Move to Jerusalem and Stood up to the Anti Semitic UN vote.

    We need to thank the President as we finally have a friend in the White House. Not some pretender that talks out of both sides of his mouth

    6 years ago

    To #42 - Mark my words, Buchwalter, that President Donald Trump will eventually grant Reb Mordechai S. Rubashkin, a complete pardon; hence, his felony record will be expunged completely in its entirety. The commutation was merely the first step.

    6 years ago

    Helig means we are holy. It means that we are more superior in some spiritual manner than others. (Just like meat from korbonos in the beis hamikdosh while physically the same meat as the meat we eat, are in a hollier status on a spritual level.)
    Us Jews are on a higher spritual plan vs non jews. And even more so for torah jews.

    Understood?