Renegade Netzigim Cancel Meeting at Last Minute

As reported on Daas HaKohol, the Rubashkin Renegade Netzigim called a Netzigim meeting for this past Tuesday, May 30.

At the last minute the meeting was canceled with no explanation.

Below is a letter that Daas HaKohol received (which likely playd a role in the sudden cancelation). It was written by a Netzig (who asked that his name not be publicized) to Yankel Wice, who called the meeting.

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Click here, Link # 2 for the background story on this issue

Click here, Link # 3 for additional Background information on this issue

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Yankel Wice, May 25 2006

I am in receipt of a letter you sent me inviting me to a Netzigim meeting to take place on May 30 at the Shalom Center. I wish to notify you that I will not attend such a meeting since it is an illegal meeting for the following reasons. You are NOT the Chairman of the Netzigim and have no right to represent yourself as such and have no authority to call meetings. Therefore, the stationary used for the invitation, constitutes forgery and fraud.

Only the Chairman or secretary may send out notifications of meetings, regardless if meetings may be initiated by other parties as per the bylaws.The legally elected members of the Executive Committee are, Yisroel Best, Yisroel Sandhaus, Yisroel Landa, Mendel Schneerson and Mendel Shechter. Any meeting must be approved by those persons. Changing the stationary to reflect different names is an act of forgery and has legal consequences.

As for your meeting that took place in Rubashkin’s house that supposedly elected a new board, anything that took place there is null and void and has no legal basis to it whatsoever. Even if according to the bylaws the Chairman of the CHJCC has the right to call for a meeting, it does not give him the right to chair a Netzigim meeting . He also does not get to choose the time and venue of such a meeting. Any meeting would have to be arranged by the Executive Committee at the request of the Chairman of the CHJCC.

Even when the meeting has been arranged in the legally prescribed manner I have just described, he then would only be able to use the meeting for purposes that relate to the CHJCC/Vaad Hakohol. He has no right to meddle into internal matters of the Netzigim and definitely has no right to call for an election in an organization that he is not a member of. Elections for Netzigim are purely an internal matter which can not be performed by a member of the CHJCC or Vaad Hakohol ,and there are no bylaws giving him any such rights.

Besides that, according to the bylaws, elections are held once a year and a legal election was held in September of 2005. Also, many of those members in attendance of the illegal meeting are not even representatives of any Shul. They were just appointees of Moshe Rubashkin in his arbitrary manner. …. Therefore, for all of the above, your board is illegal and you have no right to call for any meetings and any actions or declarations you make are totally null and void.


In addition to the above legal reasons, you are also in violation of the Code of Jewish Law. You and your colleagues in this matter have been summoned to a Beis Din to answer charges for falsifying the stationary of the Netzigim and misrepresenting yourselves. The Beis Din has issued a preliminary injunction against you and your colleagues ordering you to refrain from any actions in the name of the Netzigim. It also recognizes the above named current Executive Committee as the only ones authorized to speak in the name of the Netzigim.

You are in contempt of Beis Din for violating the injunction, as well as for refusal to appear before the Beis Din or to appear at a binding arbitration acceptable by all parties known as a Zabla. At a meeting of the Netzigim that took place the past winter, you personally requested that your name be removed from the Complaint in Beis Din, saying that you agree to recognize the above-mentioned board and withdraw any challenge you may have had in the past. The minutes of the meeting will reflect that admission. By attending the meeting in Rubashkins house you have reneged on a commitment that was made in public and on the record, in addition to it being illegal by itself.

I therefore ask you to cease and desist from these illegal activities that are very divisive by nature, and is also a major cause of strife in our Community.

Sincerely,

(Name withheld by request)