The YWN blog posted a "editorial" on Chol Hamoed Pesach that has over 150 comments and counting, many dripping with hate, sinas chinom, lashon hora, motzie shem ra and rechilus on segments of klal yisrael. Reading the article would make you think you landed on the front page of an anti frum anti charedi blog or website.
First off, this hate filled Lashon Hora post has no signature attached to it nor is there a name of a Rav who approved of its content and posting. Had any other non Jewish website or blog posted it you would have been met with screaming condemnations and calls of anti semitisim but so far, silence!
Secondly, is publicizing these few episodes to the masses really going to fix the problems the writer seemed soo concerned about?. Had it really bothered someone, the right approach should have been to speak to Rabbonim Admorim and Roshei yeshivos a few months before Pesach, address these concerns with them and if they felt in necessary they would reach out to their followers with guidance concerning these major chilul hashem issues described by the editor. To instead defame klal yisrael and let the hate filled comments go on like that during yom tov and yemei hasefira is shameful and a massive Chilul Hashem.
Ed Day mentioned in the Yeshiva world article deleted a Facebook posting full with anti Semitic comments, YWN should have that post removed as well.
Thank you for saying it like it is. The bloggers think they are feering klal yisroel what a shame.
ReplyDeletekuddos. with a title "yeshiva world" they shoudl be ashamed
ReplyDeleteI think it was not actually written by the YWN editor. IMHO it was written by Rabbi Y. Hoffman.
ReplyDelete> the right approach should have been to speak to Rabbonim Admorim and Roshei yeshivos
ReplyDeleteIt is well known that the Chareidi masses only follow their Gedolim when those Gedolim tell them what they want to hear. If a prominent Gadol had announced that it is assur to litter or throw trash in a river or disrespect public memorials the response would have been "Oh, he didn't really mean that" or "You didn't understand him".