Monday, November 29, 2021

Understanding the Marc Gafni Story

 https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/understanding-the-marc-gafni-story-part-ii

In 2004, The Jewish Week ran a damning exposé on Gafni, which included Mr. Gafni’s admission of the incidents with the ninth-grader, as well as the news that Shlomo Riskin had rescinded his rabbinic ordination. The article quoted Gafni saying he now took precautions against future missteps: “‘I don’t work with kids,’” Gafni said, “‘I don’t counsel men or women, and I don’t meet alone with women.’”

7 comments:

  1. A) an entire community changes from conservative to being frum, eg observing shabbat, placing a mechutza, Kashrut etc.

    B) rabbi riskin hires a bright, dynamic student.
    C) that Young rabbi turns out to be a menuval.

    The above is very sad - but it does not negate the community who did teshuva,
    And there is no evidence of riskin being the ghislain Maxwell to ganfni-Epstein.

    Sadly, if anyone brings back chilonim, they risk bringing back trouble. Chabad create this problem, as do aish and or someyach.

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  2. where is your evidence he made the community shomer shabat
    he changed the shul's affiliation from conservative to orthodox not the same thing

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  3. Do you know the whole story?
    A large part of the community moved to efrat with him. Now, if you have ever been to efrat, it is a frum community, and the yeshivot are there.

    I don't agree with everything he says. Doesn't mean he is total sinner.

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  4. https://efrat.fandom.com/wiki/History_of_Efrat


    Presumptuous of him establishing yeshivot there, isn't it?

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  5. The difference is, whereas he changed a conservative Shul to modern orthodox, in aryeh Kaplan's case the conservative synagogue changed him to non orthodox.

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  6. In all seriousness, I criticized riskin as well, for his "panentheism"

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