Dear COLlive,
I sent this letter to the editor of Hamodia. So far they have refused to print this, and I am therefore sending you a copy. Perhaps by COLlive publishing this, it will pressure Hamodia to print my letter.
Thank you!
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Dear editor of Hamodia,
I have been reading the Hamodia newspaper on a regular basis. I have had the feeling that your newspaper is not pro Chabad, or perhaps even anti Chabad, never giving it credit when credit is due.
Last week, on Wednesday, the 14th of Shvat, January 19th,your newspaper hit a new low. In an interview by Devorah Klein about the Jewish community in Las Vegas, you interviewed Rabbi Katz who moved to Las Vegas just a few years ago. He not only misstated the facts, but he completely ignored that the true pioneers of Torah Judaism in Las Vegas is Chabad.
As a businessman who travels often to conventions in Las Vegas, I have seen the tremendous accomplishments and growth of Chabad in Southern Nevada, since they were established twenty years ago.
The chutzpah of Rabbi Katz said, just to quote two of his statements, “(1) Despite a few Shuls and Kosher restaurants, there was very little in the way of a Torah infrastructure in place. (Before he came…) (2) Henderson is in an area that is full of Jews, but there is absolutely nothing in the way of Yiddishkeit.”
Well, before Rabbi Katz came to town, Chabad already had established 5 Shuls (in addition to the three other non Chabad orthodox shuls that existed in town) with 9 Shluchim, including one shul established in Henderson in 1999. The Shuls had daily minyanim, nightly adult education classes, two Mikvahs, numerous lunch and learn programs, and countless one on one chavrusa studying sessions.
In addition, Rabbi Katz was fortunate that by the time he came to Las Vegas, he was able to purchase all his kosher food, because over the years, Chabad has made arrangements with three supermarkets to carry a large selection of Kosher products including fresh kosher meat under Chabad supervision, as well as Cholov Yisroel items. They also supervise seven kosher restaurants. This is all aside for the Shabbos hospitality, minyanim, and kosher food provisions, offered to conventioneers like myself.
Additionally, Chabad had already been running three Talmud Torahs, summer camp, holiday programs, hospital and prison visitations, and women and teen programs.
But the biggest Chutzpah is when he speaks about Jewish schooling in Las Vegas, he talks about the Yeshiva Day School with (barely) forty students (that rents a few classrooms in a reform temple.) He neglected to mention, that Chabad has an accredited school, Desert Torah Academy, for twelve years with enrollment of nearly 200 students, and this past August, they inaugurated a brand new 10-million, 65,000 square foot school campus.
Even if Rabbi Katz, for whatever reason, perhaps out of jealousy, refused to mention Chabad or to give it any of its proper credit, the editors of the Hamodia have the responsibility to its readers, to give a true and complete picture of Torah life in Las Vegas. I hope you correct this.
With much disappointment and disgust,
Avi Rosenberg
VIDEO: Chabad in Las Vegas
it rocks!!!!!!!! stupid kollel!!!! u r liarzzzzzzz!!!!
I can’t belive it that the Hamodia did that on perpose.
I read the Hamodia since its here in the USA in English and now i relize that you never see Chabad.
I will be on the lookout and voice my protest if i relize it.
Chabad people love every jew no matter how they are.
You tell em. But what can you expect from those litvish people.
Everybody must recognize the Rebbe, the nosi hador and all the nesi’im.
Would there be any Yiddishkeit anywhere without Lubavitch? All credit to the Rebbe!
Right on Hamodia!!!!
Kol Hakavod to Avi Rosenberg. Rabbi Katz, I do think you need to give apppropriate credit where due. In my personal life, I am not Chabad, but I can NOT take away all the good that Chabad has done in Las Vegas. Not only does Chabad oversee the hashgacha of our kosher restaurants, have various minyanim everyday, give numerous shiurim, assistance, guidance, they also privately help people in need and give wonderful moral support. Rabbi Mendy has been in Henderson, NV for many many years and has a nice following at his congregation. The Kollel is a good thing, but… Read more »
check out this morning hamodia with all the letters to the editor (we already have a subscription so boycoting isnt an option)
As a shliach for over 40 years I can honestly say there is nothing new about how the rest of the Torah-oriented world (I don’t want to say “frum” because of the well known roshei teivos – “fil rishus, veinig mitzvos”) looks at us. But just a few observations if I may: 1. There is a printed sicha from the Frierdike Rebbe in 1940 regarding how all the other “gedolim” attacked Chabad for sending shluchim to far-out communities. The Rebbe said in that sicha, “there will come a time when not only will they follow suit, they will take the… Read more »
i have live in las vegas all my life and i must say that the work chabad has done over the years is incredible they are a non stop organization and they never close their doors!! go on their website chabadlv.org and you will see for yourself what goes on all the time in such a city!!!
and they forgot chabad in calgary and in queensland and the list goes on and on
I would also like to forgive and forget but every other week they do it again….
but as you said kosher it is . About Lubavitch I can tell my kids at least the learn about other Jews too and have a better understanding of what chabad chassidim of the past experienced in the face of oppostition and we did and shall prevail.
this is ridiculous! get a life hamodia!
You’re obfuscating or completely missing the point. There are rules by which we Jews live. Midvar Sheker Tirchok is part of those rules. There is no issue about working together. The issue is that lying and rechilus and motzei shem ra aren’t conducive to people working together. When a talmid of Chofetz Chaim is quoted as “no yiddishkeit in Henderson’, that’s a blatant lie. When the wife of a kollel yungerman, also a talmid of Chofetz Chaim tells a Chabad Mekureves that “the Chabad Mikva is not Kosher’, that’s Motzei Shem Ra. Now, you want everyone to work together? How… Read more »
I disagree. Our goal is to teach yidden about Torah and Mitzvos. They have similar goals. Let’s work together. Just imagine if for just one event in a year the two organizations worked together on one event. Your comment is very much an “us versus them” argument. I see the picture differently. The “them” is really part of “us.” We’re all yidden with one Torah. We have different minhagim and some of our hashkafas are different. Fine. In fact it’s wonderful. How boring would it be if all yidden were Lubavitch or if all yidden were Yeshivishe etc etc? Chassidus… Read more »
“Nobody knows what these two Rabbis’ motivations were. They could have the best motives.”
What planet are you on??? What motive could there be for them to completely misrepresent what’s going on in Las Vegas???
Your dream that the kiruv organizations should work together is unrealistic, as chassidim our goal is to mekarev the people to yiddishkeit through chassidus “Yafutzui Maayonoisecha chutzah” and they have a completely different agenda………
It boils down to the nature of those who oppose Chabad and try to step in after chabad has spent 1 or 2 decades building up Yiddiskiet.
That is the nature of the Pparasite.
Let me see them go somewhere where there is no Yiddishkiet and work with Mesiras nefesh to build. Doesn’t exist.
Again this is the parisitic nature
there is something seriously wrong if you are calling fellow jews parasites
to 104, it has nothing to do with “seeing our name in print”. It has everything to do with telling the truth……
best comment yet! i have been very dissapointed with all the comments here. and finally someone puts it all together in a clear, mature organized way
Do not compare our chabad periodicals which of course will not write about others as it is about chabad specifically but hamodia is a Jewish newspaper are we not considered Jewish enough for them?? Well here is an email I wrote and I think many others should email them [email protected] [email protected] https://collive.com/show_news.rtx?id=12724&alias=did-hamodia-forget-chabad#comments As per link I used to buy hamodia but will not anymore as the truth is being skewed I would rather buy a German newspaper that at least is truthful without an agenda and is most probably less anti semitic towards chabad. Regardless thanks to many yiddishe news… Read more »
NOW THAT’S AN EXAMPLE OF A PAPER PROMOTING “ACHDUS”!
I’m thinking they’ll make a negative impression given all the loshen hara and extreme generalizations. Instead, do what I did. Go to their website and they have a web-form where you can write a letter to the Reader’s forum. I first started noting positive things about the paper. Then I noted that their articles about different communities almost never mention Chabad and particularly the one about Las Vegas presented a distorted picture and as they are “the newspaper of Torah Jewry” wouldn’t it be in their best interests to present a community the way it really is. Btw, they don’t… Read more »
Thanks Vegas Jew!. That website looks very useful I’ll check out the info.
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It’s not that we want them to report about Chabad….They have no obligation to report Chabad….
What they do have is an obligation to not propagate falsehood!!! and saying that “there was nothing there before this new Rabbi” is at best negligent ignorance and at worst blatant lies.
Is there any way for you to send all of the comments on this thread to Hamodia? Maybe they should know (even though they may not care) how we feel.
Also: Hamodia – You have a website? Aren’t you against Internet? Who exactly are you trying to reach with your website? This is “Torah True” Judaism? Phonies.
anyone>???
You agree that it’s ok to write articles that lie? The point isn’t whether anybody writes about anybody else. It’s about lies. Do you read English? Did you read the original article? Have you ever been in Vegas. Do you know anything?
Do you remember the Rosh Yeshiva that came to The Rebbe and told him that he heard “Geferleche Zachen” about Chabad Chassidim. Do you remember what and how The Rebbe answered? Look up the video. What won’t work? Maybe we should go to these parasites be nice to them? If it’s your mekurav being lied to and being told rechilus and worse, what would you do?
is the way to react with hate and venom? isnt it about kiruv and bringing othes close to hashem? so why the fight? they do kiruv and so do we. have a little ahavas yisroel!
think of how the rebbe would respond to this, and then continue from there. dont go in chaus and anger it wil never work!!
6,000 Jewish Kids in Vegas? Where did you pull that number out of? There are 80,000 Jews in Vegas. The teineh is not that there is competition. Yagdil Torah Veyaadir. The teineh is that the others can’t find their own mekurovim. The leech off Chabad because they have nothing better to sell AND they start telling CHABAD mekurovim that “Chabad Mikvos are not kosher”, etc. Why is there a need to tell lies and KNOCK Chabad? You answer it.
Well I have lived in Las Vegas all my life and I grew up with a full fledged chabad school kosher stores and resturants plus my mother delivers kosher meals for shabbos at the hotels under the supervision of rabbi Harlig chabad is also involved in making sure there is food at the conventions all the jews to enjoy and chabad of las Vegas just celebrated there 20th. anneversairy this past December of spreading yiddishkiet and havas yiroel throught las Vegas all I can say is I am proud to be living Buthelezi chabad in las Vegas
how often is there articles posted about klausenberger chassidim? rarely! chabad although impor to us is not the center o f everyones live!
GUT GEZAGT!
Whether Chabad mentions them is besides the point. Chabad doesn’t propagate outright lies. To say “There is no Yiddishkeit in Henderson, Nevada” is a lie. Did you even read the article? Did you write it?
I am not certain if Hamodia is to blame or plain stupid for not checking facts. The “interview” looks like it was written by the one being interviewed. And this is where the problem is. This scenario has been replayed in many many cities. Chabad Shluchim, baalei mesirus nefesh as they are, spend years of intellectual, emotional and physical toil to develop a place where yiddishkeit start to bloom. NOBODY ELSE DOES THAT!!! Now, when there’s a presence of Yiddishkeit, here come people (befeirush as an “answer” (not sure what the question is) to Chabad Chassidus) to be near Chabad.… Read more »
No Chabad publication, and that includes magazines, newsletters, books, websites etc. EVER mentions anybody else except for Lubavitch and the Lubavitcher Rebbe, This includes not only Beis Moshiach type of stuff but also publications intended for the general Jewish public . If you only read what chabad-affiliated people publish, you would never know that Ger Belz etc even exist these days, that there are torah giants other than the Head of our generation and that anyone else except for chabad does any worthwhile outreach work anywhere. This is especially true in the russian language stuff (Torah books magazine etc)which I… Read more »
with this article you made us lubavitchers appreciate and be aware how much is going on in chabad of las vegas-hatzlacha rabba
I don’t get what the big deal is. This guy Katz said that there was very little by way of Torah infrastructure… and there still is. Chabad has 200 kids and he has 40 kids, but there are 6,000 Jewish kids in Vegas. He didn’t say anything disparaging about us, and he probably wasn’t asked about Chabad. He probably should have mentioned his gratitude to what we do everywhere, but I’m not sure he’s to blame.
We just have to keep doing good and the Eiybishtar will take care of the rest!
the yeted is not chabad
There is nothing unique about charedi publications omitting Chabad when reporting on fledgling Jewish communities. this has been going on for years now. While the truth is that they for some reason fear the successes of chabad, to misrepresent reality on a regular basis is nothing less than shameful and they do this at their own peril.
What is refreshing however, is that someone not affiliated with chabad calls them out on it.
Perhaps the lettershould be forwarded to vosizneias. Then Hamodia will take heart.
when someone once noticed i buy the Yated he said do you know that yated newspaper fights the rebbe, & began to give me a whole lecture,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, & that if i want a general frum paper i should get hamodia. i replied to him that he has no idea of what he is saying & that i did my research a while-back , & this is what i discoverd: yated being an official lakewood newpaper had to follow a certain path nevertheless very little but does mention chabad once a while in the corner of the page, also i heard… Read more »
what is with everyone ? why is everyone getting so hyper about a newspaper that didnt print about chabad? is it the end of the world? does everyone want to see there name in print?
there is a way to say everything. the above letter is clearly not the way
there is always articles about chabad in the hamodia!
I once had some business with Hamodia and found everyone to be very friendly and pleasant.
Truth told, if this is true it’s very sad and, of course, wrong.
How many ‘Mitzvos’ in the Torah does one transgress when one doesn’t publicize the truth of something, particularly others good deeds?
‘Pirke Avos’ teaches us about the pitfalls of jealousy.
Truth told this puts those who perpetrate this farther away from ‘Their Father in Heaven.’
Will this help to bring ‘Moshiach?’
This should be EVERYONE’S pursuit.
Nebuch.
Evev if you pay for an advertisment they refuse to put in a picture of the REBBE.
If the Lubavitcher media would give a fraction of exposure to the non Lubavitch world that Hamodia gives exposure to Lubavitch then I could understand the tyna. Hamodia does in fact include Lubavitch activities as much as they do to satmar or bobov. The only tyna to the paper is regarding the author of this particular article’s omission of Lubavitch in Las Vegas. Maybe we should practice a little more of what we preach to others and recognize that there are other good positive things going on in the Yiddisher Velt besides ourselves! Let’s support Hamodia as a kosher frumer… Read more »
yes they deserve credit
and maybe theyll print it!
For the past 30 to 40 years I have an eye on this newspaper, and others. What your saying is nothing new. They are literally as they say in simple yiddish “ANTI SEMITTEN” to rephrase: self hating jews. they are the biggest politicians and will only mention Chabad Lubavitch when it suites them for personal gain as in votes in the knesset for their party, kovod for their Rebbe, and as I know from close up they can’t cope (like most others) with the vast Hatzlacha of Lubavitch And can’t swallow the Massivity of greatness of the Rebbe Z”YA! The… Read more »
Kfar Chabad & Beis Moshiach are called Lubavitch publications for Lubavitchers
Hamodia & Yated are called frum jewish communitys publications
so please stop trying to make your self feel better that there is no agenda here
to #47 call Chabad for hospitality. Or see our website, http://www.chabadlv.org and click the link for visitor guide.
Excuse me, but I think maybe too many here are getting carried away and blowing this out of proportion. There are constantly articles about Lyubavitcher things in HaModia. There are two staff columnists who are Lyubavitchers. With high-blood-pressure, extreme sensitivity, and a healthy dose of inferiority complex you are embarrassing yourselves. Stop the strong-arming and anger! Now for some education: HaModia does these articles on different communities, which are essentially promos. Someone contacts Hamodia – sometimes a Lyubav, sometimes not – and offers to give them an interview and piece on their work in a particular community. This is sometimes… Read more »
I don’t think that a call to boycott is the right way to go. Obviously, there are many that do not feel comfortable purchasing this paper anymore and that’s understandable. But to get our voices heard we must write intelligent letters to Hamodia. Either mail it in or email on their website. This will help them see our concerns as opposed to just seeing a few pennies in the bucket missing.
If we don’t speak up we cannot expect them to respond. If we only boycott than we are basically asking them to “read our minds.”
I went to Chabad for shul in LV for Pesach (three or four Pesach’s ago) and also to Purim in LV three Purims ago. Nice folks. Very welcoming. Much Hatzlacha to all the LV Shluchim and Shluchos and also the many of same who have made me welcome in my travels over the years… Tacoma WA, Sacramento CA, Fresno, Stockton, Bakersfield, Los Angeles, Northridge, Mesa AZ, El Paso, TX, Austin, Houston (2), Delray Beach, FL, Boca Raton and my long-term home Chabad, a special shout out, to Rabbi Aharon Cunin at Chabad of S. Jose, California.
Whenever they can omit Chabad from an article they do, recently I read an article about how different communities in Europe cope with very early Shabbos and very late Havdala. And yes they mention the chabad rabbi’s names, just not that they are Shluchim or Lubavtich as if that will detract from the article?! Similarly there was an article about the growth of Judism in Toronto, no mention of chabads presence (yes they weren’t the first) but to ignore an integral part of its growth? Basic facts omitted, Shluchim have been there for over 35 years!! (And there are so… Read more »
Hamodia and much of the rest of the frum press (including Kfar Chabad at one time) charges for articles and lets whoever buys the article write whatever he wants. None of these papers is worth the paper it is printed on.
she write a book called: witness to history, a well documented, full of pictures etc book on the holocaust
but not ONE mention of lubavitch
when rebbes escaped poland, she forgot about the friediker rebbe
when the nazis ym”s entered russia/ukraine she forgot the lubavitchers that lived there
when the yeshivos escaped via shanghai, she forgot that tomchei temimim was one of them or that the rov of teh city was a chossid
and the list goes on, it just makes me sick
The letter should have been writen with less negativity
what happened to humility? chabad isn’t doing their work for publicity or to be honored…
Thanks for mentioning Beis Moshiach Magazine – hadn’t heard of that valuable (and abundant – 40 pages!) resource before.
i though i see chabad mentioned there every day!
1) One of their key people (editor?) attended the Kinus several years ago and distributed free copies encouraging shluchim to subscribe. There was something of a heated discussion – (and why there granted space in the first instance I do not know) but the point was acknowledged and they have since profiled one or two Shluchim (they had a while piece once on Vogel (Delaware) and I am sure several others. 2) I am not sure this is always deliberate as much as it is some amature journalist who takes the interviewee’s word for it and quotes him without pushing… Read more »
How much coverage do we give non Lubavitchers in Kfar CVhabad mag or Bais Moshiach?
Very little
You have to give to get.
Hamodia is not anti Chabad, it’s just not a Chabad publication and some of our “farbrenteh” don’t get that.
Hirshel,RB,
I think someone well informed should take this issue on the air at the Zev Brenner Show. He’ll do justice….
Read the Jewish Press. See Lubavitch articles each week.
I’m a subscriber to the hamodia newspaper for a few years now and i NEVER EVER seen one word about the lubvitcher rebbe or his chassidus (which BTW is the biggest chassidus in the WORLD), and in other papers like the Jewish Press (which knows the truth) publish the truth. they are NOT one sided. and let me NOT forget the YATED NE’EMAN which is the largest ‘Litvish’ paper in the world and they too publish chabad. SHAME ON YOU [Hamodia]!!! I and the rest of Chabad (I’m sure) don’t care and don’t need publicity in your paper, this guy… Read more »
i read it too and was very upset! and this was not the first time.
Thank you Avi Rosenberg for standing up!!
this year R’ pinny lipshitz from Yated participated in the KINUS HASHLUCHIM! yes you heard right! do you understand what that means? a talmid of RAV SHACH a nephew of RAV ELI’ SHVEI attended the kinus hashluchim can you imagine? MOSHIACH NOW! but the HAMODIA (ruth lichtenstien) DID NOT REPORT THE RUBASHKIN NEWS WITH SYMPATY INSTEAD THEY WERE UPSET WHY EVERYONE IS DOING SO MUCH FOR RUBASHKIN AND NOT FOR POLLARD
when u buy kfar chabad or beis moshiach- u know ur gonna read about lubavitch news!! the hamodia is a JEWISH newspaper, not just litvish! meaning its for litvish, chassidish, and lubavitch too.
This is happening time and time again that they are ignoring chabad. Maybe if some ppl out there started reading about the TRUTH of chabad, they wouldnt hate us so much!
i am from las vegas, i think it is sad… the magazine, might have its own intentions of deleting chabad, but look at chabad’s perspective.. how is that fare to ignore 20 years of hard toiling!!! Rabbi Harlig came to vegas when it wasnt cool to be jewish, and through his hard work ,everyone now is on the ban wagon!!
hey, give credit where credit is due? ok, then why doesn’t RABBI LIPSHITZ EDITOR OF YATED get any credit? why does chabad ignore the fact that he (with help of others obviously) raised tens of thousands of dollars for Rubashkin? He isn’t “just sympathetic” about it… why hasn’t chabad shown some chizuk to this man and his newspaper? has he sold recently more newspapers in Crown Hights? now for those of us who are still upset at him for what he did years ago to chabad, we must realize there’s a time to do t’shuva no? although i am not… Read more »
I just read the article and this blatant lie just popped out at me.
I quote: “Henderson is an area that is full of Jews, but there is absolutely nothing in the way of Yiddishkeit”
I was never in Henderson but I did a quick google search for “chabad Henderson NV” and this popped up…for Rabbi Harligs Chabad House.
10870 South Eastern Avenue Suite 104
Henderson, NV 89052
Is that what you call “ABSOLUTELY NOTHING in terms of yiddishkeit???
So they don’t really need to pander to anyone. So it makes you wonder why they do it. Hamodia is a Ger publication funded by the Gerer so Yidn don’t need to look into other papers or ways how to get their news from. It seems that they are not doing a good job at best, they have a weird agenda or plainly childish. I think the last one is the real one. The Alter Rebbe says in Tania Kadisha that Rachmones is the opposite of ahava as much as hatred is. I think that rachmones is the right feeling… Read more »
I just reread the article and it does not have a disclaimer anywhere! (That there are many other organizations and they are only interviewing one..)
perhaps the only website that proud to be lubavitch and say it like it is
Years ago I wrote & edited for a Jewish children’s magazine, where we weren’t allowed to mention Chabad or Yeshiva University. Needless to say, the quality content was so severe, and sterile that people stopped reading it, & I eventually went to work somewhere else. Now I do my writing & editing on the side — for Chabad, period. I also write book reviews — but not for non-Chabad publications. When people ask me why I don’t try to find work editing or writing for the other Orthodox places or publishing houses, I tell them I just can’t stomach it.… Read more »
I used to get all heated till i realized one thing,
if all these magazines/ newspapers would always mention Chabad it would get boring! everything is Chabad!
so they just ignore it so they have something to write about!
There is a disclaimer at the end of the article stating that there are many other organizations in the city and they are only interviewing one of them
Unfortunately this is not an unusual thing for Hamodia newspaper. I am aswell an avid reader, unfortunately I find that Hamodia constantly barely mentions Chabad. If they do it is to the minimum! Finally someone spoke up!
If any of the Jewsih publications would give Chabad functions and activities equal coverage as compared to the activities of other groups they would have to double the size of thier publications. Chabad functions and events could easily fill any of these publications on a weekly basis. Hamodia is just one of the publications ( and they give more coverage on Chabad than any of the others ) that seem oblivious to Chabad. The Jewish Press, Jewsih Week (they give us great coverage if they find something negative to write about ) Yated , all Aguda and OU publications ,… Read more »
They are chronic and habitual “Chabad Deniers” – about a year and a half ago, they had a feature article about Melbourne Australia and despite the factual and well documented impact chabad has had on the community since before the Second World War, they barely mentioned anything about the flourishing community.
“Im Eskochech Yerushalayim Tiskach Yemini” !
well if anyone who works for haModia goes there, I hope they are decent enough not to cash in on Chabad for their free and loving services. at least. but my guess is……
The charedi media is waking up to Chabad, but Hamodia is in the dust, Yated isnt pro-Chabad, but they do so much for Rubashkin that they are friends.
Mishpacha was the only one that covered the kinus hashluchim, though, and that reaches out to Chabad whenever they can.
I also read the article and thought the same exact thing. It’s nice to see that yidden who enjoy the services Lubavitch has to offer to them when they are traveling on business and they recognize and appreciate Lubavitch. And even speak up on our behalf. Las Vegas hosts many conventions all year long and all frum attendees benefit from all Lubavitch has to offer.
any place with one is a true accomplishment
Totally makes no mention of Chabad there!
It would be more appropiate to change the name from “Hamodia” which means to inform To “Hamatznia” which means to” Hide”
why do we need endorsement from a newspaper who only sell 2000 a week?>>
Let’s not forget. This is (hamodia). What the misnagdishe community. Did for sholom mordechai. No other community did
So this is. Hamodia. Wich also have full pages for sholom mordicha but forgets to wright any story to give credit to lubavitch
It is true that this type of thing keeps on happening with them. Nearly every time there is a writeup about Torah life in some city or state, it is simply about the guys who arrived yesterday and often completely ignore, or gloss over, the tremendous work done by Chabad. Sometimes we can be melamed zechus that they are probably being fed false/biased information. That being said, I don’t think we need to get all worked up over it. We should point it out, let them know, set the record straight, but then move on. No need for a boycott,… Read more »
Honestly, how often would the Kfar Chabad or Beis Moshiach magazine mention the litvishe community in the city they are covering? We as readers dont have an interest in reading it, and the litvishe dont care to read about Chabad.
It may not be correct, but get over it
just recently all the Jewish media from all walks of life commended RARA and Rabbi Jaffe from Brisbane for their sterling efforts during the floods.Hamodia ran a double page spread about the floods and forgot to mention Chabad
I have been going to las vagas for 10 years now as well as hong kong. And other far places and chabad rabbi harlig has always had there doors open. Give credit were credit is do
Never heard of it
i remember when Rabbi Lipshitz from the YATED was slamming chabad and other chasidim. today the world is upside down. Not only did Rabbi Pinny Lipshitz totaly stop criticizing chabad he is actually one of the main fundraisers for Sholom Rubashkin. while Yated is exposing the ‘blood libel’ of the disgraced prosecuters in Iowa HAMODIA had a editorial (Ruth Lichtenstien – Boss/chief editor) headlined: “WHAT ABOUT JONATAN POLLARD” what a chilul hashem hamodia is causing…
I buy hamodia every week and maybe twice a year will they mention. Chabad. When rabbi groner in australia died.they had a story on him. I will no longer buy the hamodia magazine. And I think in a time like the when there is so much hate towards the jewish nation. We should unite and not act like the hamodia magazine
Its a bit hypocritical to be lecturing that they don’t have ahavas yisroel while spewing hate about them. EVEN THOUGH I AGREE, it isn’t fair that chabad wasn’t mentioned.
But that doesn’t mean we go and do the same thing back.
The rebbe taught us that especially in cases like this we have to respond with ahavas yisroel
So…while on the topic, are there any Shuls, or Kosher food places near the Rio Grand or near the strip?
Its about time we open a independent chasidishe newspaper which will cover all the different chassidos & not like hamodia which covers 1 chassidishe faction & all the litvaks. Enough is enough.
this is not the way chabad acts. we need to be examples
#36,
Dont get your blood pressure up.
I have nothing but the highest respect for Rav Marlow.. and was here since the NMB chabad community started.
While chabad is the “largest” the others wee here much longer.. the young israel was here since the 60’s.
And you eat KM hashgacha…
So please dont drag nmb in…. besides LEC just moved here… toras emes, beis yakov, toras chaim were in nmb for many many years
Dear Hamodia, I look forward to reading the Hamodia Weekend edition every Shabbos. I feel incomplete if I don’t flip thru it cover to cover. Granted I don’t have time or interest to read every single article but I most definitely enjoy skimming thru and reading what appeals to me. This past week I was appalled to read the article about Las Vegas. You portrayed Las Vegas as a city bereft of Torah and Judaic studies and education. The article totally ignored the Chabad Shluchim that have been there for nearly 20 years (if not more). It completely left out… Read more »
#39, i think that is a little extreme. I don’t think people are ” smiling gleefully” when we ar ommited. i think that there is not a big chabad percentage in the hamodia and mayb they didn’t interview the right people to get the WHOLE picture.
last week they interviewed the shliach to Croatia, without mentioning chabad once!
that means they came to us for a full 2 page article, and dont have to decency to give us credit!
not one mention of chabad in a chabad article!!!
i agree with you. this has bothered me for a while. I wish everyone would get along. but I feel that it is a problem that goes back generations…… each person has to be a little more accepting and less judmental. its up to the machanchim to instill that in children. instead of making it worse by promoting sinas chinum!
i dont like this lashon hara that is going on. what good will it do to boycott hamodia? and artscroll? that will only hurt yourself
This is a tremendous Chatzpah from Hamdaia, and it is an out right insult to their readers.
I hope they get the message quick.
If not, we will call them out publicly on this and expose their false reporting so everyone knows their agenda!
By omitting any mention of Chabad, Hamodia is pandering to a certain element of religious Jews who smile gleefuly in their heart of hearts whenever Chabad is ‘erased.” What the Hamodia staff doesn’t get is that they come across as total idiots to those who don’t strongly identify with the abovementioned element but neverthelss read Hamodia. (And that’s a lot of people.)
I think this is an issue, that they should not act the way that they are, but boycotting or saying hateful things would not be the right solution, we are the chassidim of the Rebbe and we have to act the right way in order to fix this problem.
I know they have (had) a Lubavitcher writer. RD.
On july 28th 2010 issue of Homodia there is a long article on the growth of North Miami Beach, Florida. They write in detail about every shul misnaged kollel and yeshiva. They mention in a word “and Bais Menachem, a Chabad shul run by Rabbi Marlow” and in a second place “and Landow Yeshiva (associated with chabad)” They forget to mention that Lubavitch is the largest group of people in the community and that all the shuls are a few thousand sq ft. if that and Bais Menachem is almost finish building right in the center of town a 3… Read more »
I was disgusted with that article as well. I also wrote them a letter and I hope they print it. Enough is enough of their propaganda! If anyone wants me to post it here let me know.
hmmmmmm
What else is new? These people have hated us for generations/ Why weould you expect anything else? Why do you spend your money on this worthless rag? There is just enough Torah words written there so that you can’t even use it for asher yotzar paper. But an even bigger chutzpa is ArtScroll who as a matter of policy make believe we and our seven generations of rebbeim do not exist. Yet the shluchim and their Chabad Houses are among the biggest customers. A suggestion for achdus: let all shluchim get together and boycott ArtScroll. When it hits their pocket,… Read more »
We’re done buying Hamodia newspapers. Shocking how they ignore Chabad!
you are just promoting sinas chinum! ok, hamodia made a mistake. but do you need recognition about how much chabad does?!?!?! whats the point of starting all the fuss over one article. This is the problem, bec people make this whole big deal, that is what causes the seperation between litvish and chabad. I hate it! we are all jews, why must we all constantly make yourself different????does anyone agree with me???????????? think outside the box a little…..
We have the Harligs (Rabbi Shea & Rabbi Mendy), Schanowitzs’ (Rabbi Yisroel), Attal’s (Rabbi Shmuel), Bronchtains (Rabbi Tzvi), Metals, (Rabbi Chaim Ozer) Segalls,(Rabbi Yehoshua) Lazarus’, (Rabbi Shlomo) Rodmans’ (Rabbi Moishe Boruch)….
we totally rock with the new Desert Torah Academy campus….
Let Katz think he is important…..
we totally know the truth. Just wish everyone else did….including Hamodia.
Very funny how davka frum people that are meant to keep the mitzvos more then others lack in the basic mitzva of ahavas yisroel
Why don’t you all read Beis Moshiach? That’s Chabad’s weekly magazine!
Yafeh!!
The Sinas Chinom is shocking. Why would a newspaper like Hamodia be a part of this Sinas Chinom. Let this Katz guy fight his own fight…
the same thing happened with portland or
https://collive.com/show_news.rtx?id=10612&hl=las+vegas
i may stop buying their paper
Most people in CH don’t read Hamodia! Mishpacha rarely has an issue which doesn’t include chabad – that’s what we should buy! (They did teshuvah for the Belsky / anti-mishichist artcle of a few years ago).
Thank you for writing this letter and speaking out on behalf of chabad.
kol hakavod!
they qouted collive’s article about moshe yess a”h and did mention his chabad background
Yshar koach
Hopefully with ur publishing, Hamodia will start to (quote fox news) “be fair n balanced “.
Do you need the recognition of this tiny newdpaper? With there ruach in the wind ( I think they mean lakewood) and the bituach in baltimore get losy
The same with the article on Portland Oregon about three weeks ago.They also wrote that there was no shul etc. before the kollel arrived.It was very disturbing.
this is nothing new, mishpacha magazine does the same thing all the time.
What chutzpah? Give credit where credit is due! The Homodia owes Chabad worldwide a big apology! Think twice before you subscribe to Hamodia!
Its annoying and its not fair, yet its also expected
They have more clientele and competition with the litvishe crowd then lubavitchers that read the web – at the office and home – and don’t need the morning paper to find out what happened 24 hours ago
Finaly someone speaks out! Did it have to be someone in Boro Park? Wake up Crown Heights!
thanks for bringing this issue to the spotlight
old news just look at kashrus magazeines travel guide and you will see
sinas chinam
how can me encourage HaModia to rectify this “oversight”
Go Avi!
Although you’re making very valid and important points, it’s not written in a mentshliche way that Hamodia can re-print. If you can re-write it with a neutral, non-angry tone, including the relevant facts, I think it might be printed.
totally true and I buy the Hamodia every week and very seldom do they mention Chabad
Thank you!