Zaka leader Yehuda Meshi-Zahav, a former operations officer of the Eida Chareidis called the Eida newspaper to a din torah, alleging the paper is guilty of loshon hora, libel, for reporting Zaka members are mechalel Shabbos by speaking with the media on Shabbos.
The newspaper made reference to the Zaka volunteers who traveled to Mumbai, reporting “instead of just dealing with the Kedoshim,” they engaged in “divrei hevel” (frivolity), stating specifically eyewitnesses confirm some busied themselves with speaking to the press, which was exacerbated by an interview granted on Shabbos.
The beis din was expected to hear the case on Tuesday but Rav Brandsdorfer Shlita was unable to attend so it was pushed off for two weeks.
(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)
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It is a tremendous KIDDUSH HASHEM to see such disputes considered by a frum, non-government Beis Din, regardless of the merits (can a halachic opinion about whether or not something is allowed on Shabbos be “Loshen hora”?).
I may be missing something, but is thee not a negius issue here. The Eida’s paper in the Eida’s beis din?
That’s interesting… I wonder what the “eyewitness” was doing there while Zaka was doing their work? What was the function of the “eyewitness” to be present?
He certainly had time to watch what everyone was doing and instead of approaching a fellow Jew civilly he took it to a Newspaper.
And he’s worried about “divrei hevel”… what a laugh.
Oy – please correct the lashon of the article – slander is hotza’as shem ra, true matters are lashon hora – the newspaper would be guilty of either one or the other if this is true, but not both.
It is a tremendous KIDDUSH HASHEM to see such disputes considered by a frum, (biased) non-government Beis Din, regardless of the merits
Would be a tremendous KIDDUSH HASHEM to see such disputes considered by a frum, government Beis Din, regardless of the merits ALSO!!!