RABBI SHAFRAN ON AGRIPROCESSORS

Writing in an op-ed piece in the Sunday edition of the Jerusalem Post, Chareidi spokesman Rabbi Avi Shafran had the following to say:

Neither I nor Agudath Israel of America has any connection to Agriprocessors. And for all we know, it may yet be shown that the firm indeed knowingly hired illegal aliens. Or that it mistreated them, or that it was a front for a drug operation, a neo-Nazi group or a baby-cannibalizing cult. All under the eyes of the federal inspectors present at the plant at all times.

But unless and until some wrongdoing is actually proven, not merely suspected or charged, no human being – certainly no Jew, bound as we are by the Torah’s clear admonition in such matters – has any right to assume guilt, much less voice condemnation or seek to levy punishment.
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Hmmm, the dear rabbi must have been asleep for the last few weeks. The company did hire illegal aliens. A huge number of them all had the same social security number. Who is the rabbi kidding with his “unless and until” routine?

Come on Rabbi! You shame yourself with this kind of pablum.