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"This guy knows all the gossip, the ins and outs, the lashon hara of the Orthodox world. He’s an [expert] in... all the inner workings of the Orthodox world." (Rabbi Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff) LATEST POSTS:
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Category Archives: FailedMessiah
FailedMessiah.com Sold
David Kelsey writes on FB: My friend Shmarya Rosenberg has sold his website Failed Messiah, and will no longer be blogging. I’ve known this since earlier today when he told me, but waited to post about it because 1) he … Continue reading
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Can a Synagogue Honor a Pimp?
According to Wikipedia: “David Ernest Duke (born July 1, 1950) is an American activist and writer, a former Grand Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan,[4][5] and former Republican Louisiana State Representative. He was a candidate in the … Continue reading
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Failed Messiah
Many of my friends in Orthodox Judaism read Failed Messiah but most of them loathe the author Shmarya Rosenberg. They argue that he’s filled with rage against Orthodox Judaism and that he’s coming from a bad place and therefore he … Continue reading
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Failed Messiah Reverses His Circumsicion
On his Failed Messiah blog, Shmarya comments: I had my circumcision surgically reversed not too long ago, but the jury is still out about whether it makes any real difference sexually for me or for my girlfriends. I’m noticing a … Continue reading
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Historian Marc B. Shapiro: “Luke Ford reports all of the ‘juicy’ quotes, and has been doing it for years.”
History professor Marc B. Shapiro emails FailedMessiah: The conversation in my class was not designed to be broadcast all over the world so people can join in and heap abuse on a great Torah sage (and I have to say … Continue reading
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Tagged elyashiv, haredi world, luke ford, Marc B. Shapiro, torah in motion, torah sages
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Female Kabbalist “Removes” Evil Eye, Fears
Failed Messiah blogs about this Jewish ad: And she does so with the endorsement of Rabbi Chaim Pinchos Scheinberg, the haredi “gadol” who famously told parents of victims of Rabbi Yehuda Kolko that because Kolko did not anally penetrate their … Continue reading
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Failed Messiah Profiled
Samuel G. Freedman writes in the New York Times: Leaders of the Chabad movement declined to speak on the record about Mr. Rosenberg, but in general, they say he has exaggerated the degree of messianism in the movement and that … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, FailedMessiah, Haredi
Tagged american jewry, Brandeis University, failed messiah, Jewish Journalism, orthodox circles, samuel g freedman
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He Needed Rape, She Needed Conversion
Conversions to Judaism do not typically require rape of the would-be convert. I did not have this experience, for instance. Perhaps the holy rabbi was simply being scrupulous that the would-be convert did not wear pants (or panties). When he … Continue reading
Posted in Conversion, FailedMessiah, R. Leib Tropper, Sex, The Jewish Week
Tagged conversion program, fragile bones, jewish week, resemblance, role play, sex with other men, sexual demands, sexual impropriety, sexual relationship, spiritual benefit, tender loving care, torah tidbits
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Failed Messiah’s Interview With Historian Bryan Mark Rigg
Shmarya Rosenberg writes: Chabad wants the head of Nazi Germany’s Military Intelligence to be granted Righteous Gentile status by Yad Vashem. Here is a no holds barred interview conducted this evening with the historian who wrote the groundbreaking book on … Continue reading
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Tagged bryan mark rigg, groundbreaking book, lubavitcher rebbe, nazi germany, yad vashem
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Failed Messiah On A Tear
Failed Messiah reports: I broke this story a month ago and then added to Monday night. The JTA’s report is clearly based on these two posts. The JTA skips all mention of the involvement of Chabad’s national prison outreach organization, … Continue reading
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Tagged aleph institute, automatic citizenship, federal prisons, prison outreach, rubashkin, tax deductible donations
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