"Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented." – Elie Wiesel. ~~~ "The seal of G-d is Truth." – Rabbi Hanina, Babylonian Talmud Sanhedrin 64a. I was drawn to Chabad-Lubavitch, a grouping in ...

There are dozens, perhaps hundreds, of posts on this blog about Chabad, everything from the actual history of the movement (as opposed to the official Chabad spin), to Chabad theology. These posts are ...

Here is a summary of the Brooklyn haredi community's attempts to deal with alleged serial child molester Rabbi Yehuda Kolko. Haredi leaders were unable to deal with Rabbi Kolko and, at the same time, ...

Pictures of documents, including my letters to the Lubavitcher Rebbe about rescuing Ethiopian Jews, are posted below, as is a Hebrew translation of the Rebbe's response to me as published in Kfar ...

In mid-June 2008, Agriprocessors retained 5WPR, a fast-growing New York PR firm that has clients that include Paris Hilton, Pastor john Hagee, softcore porn king Joe Francis, and parts of the Israeli ...

After years of blogging I've come to the realization that it is absolutely necessary to archive some of the news articles referenced or quoted here. Why? Because, when going through older posts, I'll ...

Senior haredi rabbis, gedolim, banned books written by Rabbi Nosson (also known as Natan) Slifkin. Rabbi Slifkin was also labeled a heretic by them. This saga, which began in January 2005 and ...