tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7309929059139673041.post3129698438093751122..comments2024-03-29T06:06:58.796+03:00Comments on Daas Torah - Issues of Jewish Identity: EJF holds meeting to affirm that gerim must accept mitzvosDaas Torahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252904288544083215noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7309929059139673041.post-37957058650811155632008-06-12T09:38:00.000+03:002008-06-12T09:38:00.000+03:00To anonymous of June 12, 2008 2:16 AM who asks "is...To anonymous of June 12, 2008 2:16 AM who asks "isn't lubicom a marketing firm? what is being marketed here?"<BR/><BR/>Answer: Leib Tropper, since none of the other rabbis ever needs it or works that way.<BR/><BR/>EJF is guided by the business mind of one Dr. Tom Kaplan who believes that (a) potential converts can be fully brought into Yiddishskeit by strong marketing and that (b) other Orthodox rabbis who they don't like can be tarred and feathered by negative marketing.<BR/><BR/>If this sounds confusing, it is because Leib Tropper has been heavily criticised for both (a) trying to convert gentiles married to Jews by wining and dining them at retreats and hotels and (b) attacking and rejecting both converts who have not followed his dictates AND other Orthodox rabbinical bodies as he, and his uncomfortable ally Rabbi Nochum Eisenstein of Israel, demean and degrade the status of Modern Orthodox and Religious Zionist rabbis.<BR/><BR/>Rabbi Tropper should stick to running his little Kol Yaakov ba'al teshuva yeshiva in Monsey, NY and leave the global Halachic problems to the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorahs of both Israel and America and other such august rabbinic bodies, instead of getting in over his head with problems that he can neither solve nor contribute anything to regardless of how much money he gets EJF to pay Lubicom to toot his horn for him.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7309929059139673041.post-44791168763309798232008-06-12T02:16:00.000+03:002008-06-12T02:16:00.000+03:00same comment- isn't lubicom a marketing firm? what...same comment- isn't lubicom a marketing firm? what is being marketed here?<BR/>KT<BR/>Joel RIchAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com