It’s never hard to find some cover-up or another going on in the Ultra-Orthodox Jewish community.
Libel suit against ex-anonymous Rockland blogger raises 1st Amendment concerns
WEST NYACK –
A libel lawsuit against a formerly anonymous Rockland blogger is now raising some First Amendment concerns after the writer’s identity was outed in court and the case kept sealed.
For two years, Rockland corporate fraud attorney Julie Globus has been writing anonymously about alleged crimes and misdeeds in the Rockland Hasidic community under the blog name “Lost Messiah.”
“I have this weird ability to connect dots and find dots,” she says.
Earlier this year, those “dots” led Globus to the state Supreme Court in a libel lawsuit that outed her identity, filed by Brooklyn based real-estate titans Louis and Joel Kestenbaum, for two articles she wrote about them in 2016.
“There were underlying lawsuits cited and an underlying article cited 0 all of which, at the time, I viewed as credible,” said Globus.
Globus’ attorney calls the case a “triple assault” on the First Amendment, with the “unmasking” of her identity, the alleged failure to prove malicious intent and the court’s sealing of the case.
That last part in particular garnered the attention of UCLA law professor and Washington Post columnist Eugene Volokh.
“In American law, litigation is supposed to be out in the open so the public can monitor what’s going on,” says Volokh.
According to statements made by Kestenbaum’s attorney, unsealing the case would “re-victimize” his clients.
Volokh disagrees, saying, “Secrecy is seen as even more dangerous because it increases the risk that the judicial process won’t go the right way.”
A Supreme Court judge is currently reviewing arguments about whether or not to unseal the case.
The attorney for Louis and Joel Kestenbaum declined to comment for News 12’s story
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“It’s never hard to find some cover-up…”: pretty hard not to stumble over, wherever you happen to be!
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True. And when it comes to Chabad, they are experts at it. There’s always some ignorant moron who claims “but they do so much good” because they’ve failed to learn the true nature of the Chabad-Lubavitch cult and are only aware of their marketing image. Due to their ignorance they can never tell you about the Chabad child molestation and cover-ups, the financial crimes, the awaited Second Coming of Menachem Mendel Jesus of Lubavitch, the religious hypocrisy, fraud, alcoholism… and so on. The list is longer than a sefer Torah.
Satmar, same BS, different cult.
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“they’ve failed to learn the true nature of the Chabad-Lubavitch cult and are only aware of their marketing image”. Quite correct. Because the scandals here in Melbourne were known as related to the school & shul “Yeshivah Centre”, many people still don’t connect that with all the other Chabad institutions here in town, even when Chabad is part of the ownership name, & the owners are children or in-laws of the deceased, disgraced head rabbi here, Y.D.Groner…
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“Because the scandals here in Melbourne were known as related to the school & shul “Yeshivah Centre””
That’s a very important point. So many times I’ve read a story about a child molester rabbi in the news with no identification of the rabbi’s associated cult. A simple name search on Google has frequently revealed that it was one of Menachem Mendel Schneerson’s little Chabad criminals. Even Jewish Community Watch frequently fails to identify a criminal as a member of Chabad.
Not that the ignorant “but they do so much good” crowd would know any better. They don’t even know what JCW is.
I certainly didn’t either until I started researching problems in Chabad on the Internet. That was many years after getting hooked into the cult and after getting over the cognitive dissonance enough to be able to admit I was involved with an organization that was essentially a giant fraud.
Discovering Chabad’s true nature was a mind-blower.
Thank God we’re out… but not before every member of our family was hurt by them in some manner or another.
20/20 hindsight.
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These are satmar scum – romanian gypsies who use intimidation and bullying to hide behind. Just like their skunk rebbe joel – and the two turds he shat out.
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Seems pretty foolish of these Kestenbaums to bring attention to themselves with litigation. I didn’t even know the name Kestenbaum until the stories of the lawsuit and cover-up became public in the Jewish blog rounds. Seems that they were better off just having LostMessiah send the post they objected to down the memory hole.
I don’t pay nearly as much attention to the Satmar as I do the Chabad cult. But the more I study them, the more all Hasidic sects seem like cults.
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Of all the cults, Satmar is the worst, Anti-Zionism turns into jew-hatred for these filth. Their great ‘rebbe’ was saved by the zionists, but these ungrateful drek won’t recognize it. Anti-Jews, with their Rebbe-Worship akin to idolatry . Anyone not on their perceived madraigah is fair game as they look down their noses at real jews
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