Reply To: The Jewish Press

To dontchalish: You heard from “a chashuva person in the name of Reb Yaakov.” Interesting that no one ever hears these kinds of remarks from the rabbonim themselves, only from an unnamed “chashuva person.” If you describe the Jewish Press as “a piece of pig wrapped in a mezuzah” (and there’s no indication anywhere that Reb Yaakov said any such thing), you’re including in that description such Jewish Press columnists as Rav Dovid Goldwasser, Rav Moshe Meir Weiss, Rabbi Yitzchok Fingerer, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Rabbi BenZion Schaeffer, Rabbi Rafael Grunfeld, Rav Avigdor Miller (the Jewish Press carries columns based on his writings), Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis and a whole host of other rabbis, Torah scholars and kiruv activists from across the Orthodox spectrum. So be careful with what you say if you believe one is not supposed to cast aspersions on Torah scholars.