tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1843426103950643279.post2590356055724502116..comments2023-07-12T12:34:46.767+10:00Comments on AJN Watch: Guest Post: The thoughts of a long-time AJN readerAJN WATCHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02706063020449126800noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1843426103950643279.post-16911713387511453972009-07-07T22:48:42.742+10:002009-07-07T22:48:42.742+10:00To anonymous.
why is blogging or reading blogs any...To anonymous.<br />why is blogging or reading blogs any greater bitul torah than reading a newspaper - even a frum one?<br /><br />I really don't understand how adass and kiruv come into the picture. and if the blogger is from adass - so what? pls explain.<br /><br />Writing letters to the AJN, even critical ones, achieves their aim in creating more controversy which they love. they are always looking for sensations if they involve frum jews.<br /><br />I'll bet that 90% of our community doesn't know that Bialik imported as their principal a gay south african TOGETHER WITH HIS PARTNER! did you read about that in the Jewish news? Now imagine yeshiva or adass doing this. It would be front page headlines for weeks. I doubt that the new man is a risk to the kids, though I wouldn't want my kids in such a school.but isn't this newsworthy enough to be mentioned in the local newspaper?anonymous 2noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1843426103950643279.post-66848119482234263432009-07-06T17:52:04.674+10:002009-07-06T17:52:04.674+10:00Thanks for your response re my post on bitul Torah...Thanks for your response re my post on bitul Torah. I only visit sites such as this when I am at work and need to take a breather... so I am not really in a position to be learning Torah at such moments.<br /><br />My comment about Adass not doing enough re kiruv is occasioned by the fact that I assumed that site seems to be run by Adassniks. However, perhaps I was wrong in this assumption, and I apologise for making a disparaging remark about that kehilla.<br /><br />As for Rabbi Engel, I couldn't agree with you more, but will this site really get the AJN to keep shtum on the subject? Surely this site only preaches to the converted. Perhaps a better approach is writing letters to the AJN or convincing frum readers to withdraw their advertising/subscriptions?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1843426103950643279.post-32778760660820117662009-07-03T14:19:52.067+10:002009-07-03T14:19:52.067+10:00To man in the street...
No one has to do anything...To man in the street...<br /><br />No one has to do anything. <br />It may come as a surprise to you but some people actually enjoy seeing their writing being published.AJN WATCHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02706063020449126800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1843426103950643279.post-72789185474389153402009-07-03T14:09:02.095+10:002009-07-03T14:09:02.095+10:00Thanks for your commendation. I suppose the bitul ...Thanks for your commendation. I suppose the bitul Torah aspect can always be questioned, whenever anyone takes time off learning Torah – for any purpose - even for the sake of kiruv, chesed, and not only to defend Torah and Mitzvos and Jews who observe it. Oh, and if we may ask, what exactly are you doing here reading blogs, when you could be studying Torah yourself?<br /><br />Do we need a blog to defend our values against the onslaught on the AJN? Only if it bothers or hurts you that they attack frum Jews and rabbonim on a regular basis. <br /><br />If you don’t feel the pain of Rabbi Yossi Engel and his family and the method that he is being crucified, then maybe you should be spending your Torah study time with mussar and chasidus seforim that specialize in Ahavas Yisroel.<br />As to your ‘surprise’ at what Adass does or doesn’t do, maybe you could bring up this matter with their Rav and explain to him where he and they have got it all wrong.<br /> (You may y have noticed, BTW, that the aim of this blog has not been to explain the hashkafos of Adass or any other kehilla.)AJN WATCHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02706063020449126800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1843426103950643279.post-8577665920343064922009-07-03T13:25:11.899+10:002009-07-03T13:25:11.899+10:00I commend you for your efforts in criticising some...I commend you for your efforts in criticising some of the positions of the AJN from a frum perspective. However, I am surprised at the sheer bitul torah that has taken place in the preparation and upkeep of this site. Does Australia's Torah-true community really need a blog dedicated to slamming a secular Jewish newspaper? Surely more constructive efforts could be undertaken towards kiruv rechokim and to promote limmud Torah? Chabad does a wonderful job at this, as do Kollel Beis HaTalmud. I am surprised that Adass in Melbourne does not engage with their fellow yiddenin this regard.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1843426103950643279.post-87872955139578564952009-07-03T12:40:11.714+10:002009-07-03T12:40:11.714+10:00In other words you want us to do your work for you...In other words you want us to do your work for you.Man in the streetnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1843426103950643279.post-56841686156479296252009-07-02T23:33:03.469+10:002009-07-02T23:33:03.469+10:00RS, go ahead and forward the corrections. If appro...RS, go ahead and forward the corrections. If appropriate we may include it as a guest post.AJN WATCHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02706063020449126800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1843426103950643279.post-21610453316058689182009-07-02T19:01:40.040+10:002009-07-02T19:01:40.040+10:00This may be different to the usual comment here, b...This may be different to the usual comment here, but Yossi Aron's piece about Chasidus in Adass - while interesting - does have a few inaccuracies which should be corrected.Ripponlea Stationmasternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1843426103950643279.post-71777004957933552022009-07-02T18:58:15.510+10:002009-07-02T18:58:15.510+10:00Dear Anonymous
1) Did you think that maybe we too ...Dear Anonymous<br />1) Did you think that maybe we too have to spend time making a living?<br /><br />2) Have you seen anything particularly objectionable in this week's issue that you can bring to our attention? After all, despite what we have written here on this blog, not EVERY word of the AJN requires a response.<br /><br />As we have mentioned previously we ask all to be the eyes and ears of this blog.AJN WATCHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02706063020449126800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1843426103950643279.post-67669732216909067392009-07-02T14:13:03.820+10:002009-07-02T14:13:03.820+10:00Hey wake up you fellows. Its thursday afternoon an...Hey wake up you fellows. Its thursday afternoon and nothing about this weeks ajn! or have they already taken notice of this blog and mended their ways? sure and pigs will flyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1843426103950643279.post-1141755458929668792009-07-01T21:11:42.022+10:002009-07-01T21:11:42.022+10:00Correct. I heard that story from him as well.
He d...Correct. I heard that story from him as well.<br />He did say that he wasn't prepared to do the actual killing.<br /><br />In the 60s I worked for YR who was editor of the Yiddish edition of the AJN. (He wasn't the founder of the AJN. His father Chaim Rubinstein took over the paper and it was later run by Yitzchok's brother Tony.<br /><br />For more about that and other Jewish paper's history - see http://www.ajn.com.au/news/news.asp?pgID=82SBAnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1843426103950643279.post-65270997819032885592009-07-01T02:07:11.670+10:002009-07-01T02:07:11.670+10:00One more tidbit: Yitzchok Rubinstein, the founder ...One more tidbit: Yitzchok Rubinstein, the founder of the AJN, once admitted (actually bragged) to someone I know that he had been the lookout for the Haganah hit squad that murdered Yaacov de Haan HYD.Milhousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14350874508580081286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1843426103950643279.post-33533540287832234632009-07-01T01:01:08.213+10:002009-07-01T01:01:08.213+10:00Great idea. I think Media Watch would LOVE to do a...Great idea. I think Media Watch would LOVE to do a story on this.watchernoreply@blogger.com