What better time than during the Aseres yemei Teshuva the "Einei haeidah" the frum news websites and blogs who unilaterally declare themselves the watchdogs of klal yisrael, publish a heter from Rabbi Yair Hoffman justifying all the shmutz, lashon hora, rechilos machlokes and sinas chinom found in their respected sites. According to the 'heter' it is important to publicize all the ills of our community which is letoels. Failed messiah website should be just as justified in its non stop bashing and disparaging of the frum community he can rely on this heter as well.
It was only six months ago on Chol Hamoed Pesach that the Yeshiva world news website published an op ed besmirching klal yisrael and frum yidden for the behavior that was not appropriately according to the authors liking. The cowardly anonymous author who many claim is a respected rabbi that posts frequent articles in the aforementioned websites, was man enough to publicly be choshed beksheirim and shame frum jews to the masses, but he was not man enough to put his name on it. Perhaps the author relied on this psak as it is a toeles.
Israel is being buried-alive under an
ReplyDeleteavalanche of media bias and false accusations.
These web sites can help refute those
biases and false accusations:
HELP DEFEND ISRAEL FROM UNFAIR MEDIA:
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FREE PRO-ISRAEL NEWS SOURCES:
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www.algemeiner.com
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These news websites are not to be taken seriously the only ones who think anything of them are their owners and editors.
ReplyDeleteAm I to assume that you are using the Heter of Toeles to besmirch YWN and a respected Rabbi .
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DeleteCurious: Wasa she'eila asked about your publishing this piece on a public website? Lashon Hara about Lashon Hara... seems a little confusing. Isn't there a saying about the pot calling the kettle black or something like that? Let's face it- Daas Torah says no to any websites like yours, theirs, etc., and no internet other than for business. Clearly you're not following that (and yes- just as clearly, neither am I). But let's lose the self-righteous act implying that you're somehow above the fray.
ReplyDeleteResorting to the no internet argument is pointless and weak. Stick to the facts who gave a heter to go ahead and publicly defame frum jews based on no evidence or verification. What a chilul hashem that article was. shame on the author shame on ywn for publicizing such a hatefull peice of lies and distortions about hashems children.
DeleteI don't get your objections to that sort of Op-Ed. How is it different than any public mussar? This is extremely common and I've never heard any sort of objection to it - to the contrary, it's considered a laudable habit.
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