So apparently, XGH has joined the elite little club of bloggers being threatened with legal action. As the story goes, Webads placed an ad on his blog, among others, for a book written by Rabbi Eliyahu Safran on the topic of Tzniut (modesty). XGH, upon perusing the book’s website, noticed that Rabbi Safran mentioned his wife’s profession as a purveyor of fine custom wigs in his bio. XGH, on further investigation, noticed that said wig company sells some wig styles that he apparently feels are not in keeping with the spirit of Tzniut, and expressed as much in a satirical post. Apparently Rabbi Safran did not appreciate the joke, and threatened both Webads and XGH with a lawsuit unless the offending post was removed. XGH refused, at which point he and Webads severed their business relationship. Should be end of the story, except that according to this comment, Rabbi Safran is apparently still threatening both Webads and GH with legal action unless the offending post is removed.
Still Wonderin’ responds to Orthomom:
What kind of idiot writes a book about modesty and then goes on to bring enormous attention to himself by filing spurious and indefensible lawsuits?
Unless …..
this is a cynical ploy to sell more books.
While it isn’t so clear that it is not, in indeed Rabbi S is just pissed, or more likely, his wife is pissed and he has to be the big bad wolf for the sake of her bruised ego, this lawsuit seems like a violation of the most fundamental no-no in PR: if you don’t want attention, don’t bring it upon yourself.
Being that Rabbi S. is in charge of publicity for the OU kashrus division, it seems like something he would know a thing or two about.
