Haaretz
It is hard to imagine a more embarrassing situation in which to find an exclusive ultra-Orthodox organization - a group that was a standard-bearer in the fight against "breaches in the wall of conversion" and "the penetration of complete gentiles into the vineyard of Israel."
These breaches pale into insignificance in comparison with the accusations against the man who heads the organization itself: according to the claims, Rabbi Leib Tropper of Rockland County abandoned the apparently stringent Halakhic standards of his Haredi organization and established a conversion process based on his most private impulses. [...]
It is hard to imagine a more embarrassing situation in which to find an exclusive ultra-Orthodox organization - a group that was a standard-bearer in the fight against "breaches in the wall of conversion" and "the penetration of complete gentiles into the vineyard of Israel."
These breaches pale into insignificance in comparison with the accusations against the man who heads the organization itself: according to the claims, Rabbi Leib Tropper of Rockland County abandoned the apparently stringent Halakhic standards of his Haredi organization and established a conversion process based on his most private impulses. [...]
you would guess from reading this article that the affair is old news and had been previously covered in haaretz, as if the author were reporting on an ongoing story well known to haaretz readers. why don't they credit the bloggers by name? why so little background, when so much has already been exposed in the blogs? why, indeed, has the "msm" taken so long to get around to this? are there threats involved, "moral" concerns, what? i'd really like to know.
ReplyDelete> Haaretz:Tropper scandal embarrasses charedi system
ReplyDeleteBut theft, violence and trading in body parts didn't?