{"id":1512,"date":"2007-11-15T01:41:14","date_gmt":"2007-11-15T08:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1512"},"modified":"2007-12-05T17:25:38","modified_gmt":"2007-12-06T00:13:38","slug":"orthodox-union-rabbi-destroys-sole-source-of-income-for-critical-blog-threatens-to-sue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1512","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Union Rabbi Destroys Sole Source Of Income For Critical Blog, Threatens To Sue"},"content":{"rendered":"

The story begins here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Orthomom blogs<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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<\/a>. 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<\/a>. Apparently Rabbi Safran did not appreciate the joke, and threatened<\/a> 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<\/a> comment, Rabbi Safran is apparently still threatening both Webads and GH with legal action unless the offending post is removed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Still Wonderin’ responds to Orthomom:<\/p>\n

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?<\/p>\n

Unless …..<\/p>\n

this is a cynical ploy to sell more books.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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