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AZ tries to hide behind a cloak on anonymity, you may have noticed that on the NASI website or any of the ads they take out there is no mention of name of any human (aside from the 70 R”Y who signed the letter he doesn’t stop talking about). You’ll see an address where he wants people to send $50 but there is no name associated with the address in the ad.
When I first heard of NASI and tried to take the organization seriously, my first goal was to identify the person behind the curtain. I used 4 different methods, came up with the same name each time and am confident that I know the name of AZ (I don’t know him in real life, just his name and where he lives.)
There were some inconsistencies along the way though. Before he published the names of the 70 R”Y I had just assumed that my R”Y was one of them. He wasn’t there when I went to speak with him so I asked a close talmud if anyone from NASI spoke to the R”Y about signing the letter. The name he gave me was the name I associated with AZ. AZ denies being the one to go around to the R”Y.
For the record my R”Y did not sign the letter and is not one of the two R”Y that AZ knows of that did not sign.