Soccer Dad

Further fallout

I was going to write an angry post at the way a number of blogs have dealt with a recently revealed scandal. Hirhurim has said (h/t I'm Haaretz what I wanted to say (and provided some excellent background that I had no idea about too). In particular his final point bears repeating:

Finally, when a great Torah scholar is quoted on a blog or in a secular magazine as saying something that seems outrageous, assume that he is being misquoted. I believe you are halakhically obligated to do so.

In the comments Lamed Zayin showed how a responsible person should have viewed the quote in question.

And Rabbi Scheinberg (through a Rabbi Ginzberg) has issued an unequivocal rejection of the view attributed to him.

SerAndEz has an important followup to Hirhurim.

Posted by SoccerDad at May 23, 2006 5:13 AM