'Jewish Telegraph Agency' starts anti-Chabad hate campaign

[Daniel]

They've just published a list of articles about the growth of Chabad in Europe. The Jewish Telegraph Agency (JTA) is an informal part of the Reform movement.

Since reading the articles online requires you to register, I'll copy them here in this thread.

By the way, every page on their site says:
"© JTA. Reproduction of material without written permission is strictly prohibited."
No, I didn't get any permission and I won't. They are spreading anti-Chabad hatred and lies and I see no reason to ask them for any kind of permission. I hope others agree with me on this.

More than 10 years after the death of the Lubavitcher rebbe, Chabad's presence in Europe has increased dramatically. For some, Chabad's outreach represents new life for Europe's stagnant Jewish communities; for others, it spells competition and chaos, with potentially dire political consequences. But all agree, the phenomenon could change the face of European Jewry in the 21st century.

[Daniel]

I took away the whole articles.
Those interested in the full articles can find them on:

http://www.jta.org/page_chabad.asp

You have to register, but it's free and you won't get spam mail (at least, I didn't get anything from them since registering months ago).

[Daniel]

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[Torah613]

Since reading the articles online requires you to register, I'll copy them here in this thread.

By the way, every page on their site says:
"© JTA. Reproduction of material without written permission is strictly prohibited."
No, I didn't get any permission and I won't. They are spreading anti-Chabad hatred and lies and I see no reason to ask them for any kind of permission. I hope others agree with me on this.

[/b]Is this a Halachik ruling? :confused:

[Rabbi_D]

Please do not cut and paste lengthy articles--especially of this nature--when links will do.

Thank you, and chag kasher ve'sameach!

[Maskil]

You know, I'm missing the hatred. Maybe the length of the articles has me skipping the hateful paragraphs. Perhaps you could cut-and-paste what you call hateful.

[Daniel]

Please do not cut and paste lengthy articles--especially of this nature--when links will do.

Thank you, and chag kasher ve'sameach!

You have to register first before you can read the articles, that's why I copied them.

[Daniel]

You know, I'm missing the hatred. Maybe the length of the articles has me skipping the hateful paragraphs. Perhaps you could cut-and-paste what you call hateful.

I'll try to do so before shabbat...

[nun_beis]

Is this a Halachik ruling? :confused:

hahah right...The JTA says clearly, don't take our stuff without permission. And because of this guys hergish he goes ahead and copies it anyway. What a great way to show them how respectful a lubavitcher can be when it comes to following another Jews request. And even more how this individual follows halacha -- even if they are supposedly spreading "hatred".

[Daniel]

You know, I'm missing the hatred. Maybe the length of the articles has me skipping the hateful paragraphs. Perhaps you could cut-and-paste what you call hateful.

The way they wrote about Chabad in Prague and some other things I read make their affiliation quite obvious.

Also, I find the general tone of the articles to be one that will make people see Chabad as a foreign group seeking to overtake European Jewry. It portrays Chabad as an aggressive movement which seeks to undermine local communities consisting of elderly helpless people, so that they (Chabad) can recruit the young people of the communities into their circles.

[bochur770]

daniel,

it is true that the JTA does not like chabad, and when they started writign these articles tehy wanted it to look bad for chabad, but what can i tell you? The articles show how strong lubavitch is in europe and how they are the true organization that helps teh yidden in europe. when someone is going to read the article he will not remember the negative, he will remember lubavitche's work in europe.

in one of teh articles it says that in sweden teh community is fighting the school chabad set up. it is a lie, teh president of teh community there sent an email that denies this, and wrote that they have a good relationship with chabad.

[Bittul]

I am sure that they have an inherent bias against anything frum (inherent in the sense that they themselves probably don't realize it), but they have published both articles very favorable for Chabad and very critical. So no, I don't think they have a specific bias against Chabad.

[CyberLub]

You have to register, but it's free and you won't get spam mail (at least, I didn't get anything from them since registering months ago).

No need to register... there are two buttons.

[Daniel]

No need to register... there are two buttons.

I suppose I'm allowed to feel like a real idiot now?
Honestly, I swear, I never ever saw that button... :D

Which, by the way, makes me wonder why one should register at all... Though I think the option of searching the archives is only available to those who are registered.

[Daniel]

I am sure that they have an inherent bias against anything frum (inherent in the sense that they themselves probably don't realize it), but they have published both articles very favorable for Chabad and very critical. So no, I don't think they have a specific bias against Chabad.

Correct, and since JTA supplies the news for a lot of so-called Jewish weekly papers in many major American areas, this is a very dangerous thing. It is basically an organization that is funded by the American Reform movement and make sure all non-Orthodox Jews in the US (a group making up the majority of these magazines' readers) read how Chabad is trying to undermine sovereign Jewish communities in Europa and turn them into 'ultra-Orthodox' centers of, well, Orthodoxy (a word that in those circles doesn't have any positive connotations).
Such articles influence people in a negative way. I'd rather see that all of those (non-Orthodox) Jews would read Yated ne'Eman (a paper often accused of having an anti-Lubavitch bias).