Category — UOJ

Rumors are abound that Rabbi Leib Tropper, the Threesome Rabbi, has resigned from Kol Yaakov, his yeshiva!

Eternal Jewish Fraud writes that because Tropper fears,
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Failed Messiah picked out the following from a Des Moines Register article,

Lawyers for Rubashkin and Agriprocessors also asked a judge to move the case out of Iowa and divide it into three trials. James Clarity, a lawyer for Agriprocessors, said heavy publicity had created an atmosphere in Iowa similar to Nazi-occupied Poland.

Remember, despite everything, these sleazebags continue to be championed by the general Orthodox communal infrastructure. Demand that the Orthodox community generally and Chabad, Agudath Israel, the Orthodox Union, and the National Council of Young Israel denounce this egregious statements through press releases and official public statements!

I am sending an email to UOJ to plead with him to please spread the word to his large Orthodox readership to demand that Orthodox institutions distance themselves from what is essentially tantamount to Holocaust denial.

What is clearly needed is more Holocaust Museums, one each in Crown Heights, Monsey, Teaneck, Boro Park, Williamsburg, and just for good measure, Riverdale and the Five Towns. Additionally, Orthodox day schools, yeshivas, and seminaries must spend more time on Holocaust education in their curriculum. Orthodox Jewish Holocaust denial must stop! We must stand up to these frum revisionists, who pretend Nazi occupied Poland was like contemporary Iowa!

Oh, this says it all. Remember our man Rabbi Lipa Margulies? The enabler of Kolko, the big Brookyln child molester of both Italian and Chassidic kids? Well, he may not be willing to protect children from lap dances and what we in the secular world would call underage homosexual assault…but darn it, when it comes to a concert deemed demeaning to the Great Ones…he’s there in full throttle to demand a boycott of a concert benefiting orphans.

Failed Messiah has the story. Read it and hurl.

I went to a lecture this evening called, “Jewish Identity Online: Blogging, Ethics, and Community,� at the Jewish Community Project, and quite frankly, it was really boring. Very little of interest was said. Lots of big ideas about community and ethics, and if it’s good for the Jewish community, but precious little specifics. Probably because except perhaps for Izzy, they didn’t seem to know (or admit they care) about any of the specifics.

Rabbi Hammerman, apparently the Federation Godol Hador, praised Jewsweek for creating the Chafetz Chayim admonishment against Loshen Hora, even though it was Dan Sieradski of Jewschool (at the time) who came up with that. Well, at least he tried to name one actual blog besides his own. Most panelists had trouble doing that. Hammerman is so middle brow…a theological Thomas Friedman for the tri-state area, He riffed on Friedman’s flat earth idea, noting that we all have a greater Jewish library at our disposal thanks to the internet than most of the greatest rabbis who ever lived, which doesn’t mean a lot, since most Jews can’t read it.

Anyway.

I asked them to name which blog (besides their own) they liked the most, and which one they liked the least, and why. But apparently, this question raised massive existential issues, and could not be tackled without first solving the mysteries of the universe. At some point, I think Rosner was expatiating on how infinity was not confined to time and space…or something along those lines…frankly, I nearly I passed out from sheer frustration.

So ck of Jewlicious asked them a very simple question – one that surely would get the panelists to name and discuss some real, actual Jewish blogs. “Name some blogs you would recommend people read.� Real simple.

“It seems like you are fishing,� said Izzy.

Yes, Izzy…ck was fishing. Fishing for someone to say something about the subject matter that was advertised for the panel discussion.

But finally, Gary Rosenblatt condescended to name an actual blog. He fingered the Unorthodox Jew (UOJ) as a blog he respected.

This was shocking. UOJ has felled numerous ultra-Orthodox institutions and ultra-Orthodox/haredi rabbis.

Rosenblatt said of UOJ’s accusations,

“Generally, the information has been accurate.�

UOJ got a nod from the head of the Federation mouthpiece…and that’s amazing.

UOJ claims he has evidence of a rabbi allegedly facilitating bigamy.

Very recently I have come to know that a rabbi has performed a Kiddushin or a Jewish wedding ceremony for a couple, while the woman “was still married” to her first husband. The violation is clear. The rabbi sanctioned this marriage “under the laws of Moses and Israel” while the woman was committing bigamy in the eyes of the law of the United States of America.

It would appear from UOJ’s language that the issue is that the woman is divorced according to Jewish law, which is to say, she received a get – but that she is not divorced according to American civil law.

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