WHISTLEBLOWER’S WEB OF BOLD LIES BLOWN BIGTIME

This one takes the cake. In an attempt, apparently, to get back at yours truly, our boychik of Jewish Smutville is offering the following really really big lie:

Rabbi J. Hershy Worch banned by local Turkish religious authorities from taking any pulpit

Which he follows with this thing: “JWB has learned exclusively that Rabbi J. Hershy Worch has been banned by local Turkish religious authorities from taking any pulpit.” And he continues: “The reasons for the ban? Read his profile.” And he provides a link to Luke Ford’s profile of Hershy’s, which was compiled with phone evidence from a jilted ex-girlfriend and some major copy & pastes from the web, attributed to Hershy. So it’s a case of the frying pan painting the kettle black…

Before we get to the big lie, let’s just say that this truly shows Blow Boy’s mad as hell, because, after searching the web for many many days for dirt on me, the worst he has managed to emerge with so far is the fact that I have a close and much beloved friend named Hershy Worch. So, every time I twist JWB’s reproductives in the vice of facts, he screams: Hershy…

A key problem with JWB’s story about Hershy is that it is a pure lie. In this case there isn’t even a jilted girlfriend. There’s only the fact that Hershy is in Turkey, for very very personal reasons. He is not seeking employment, there is no congregation out there which he has applied to or that requested his services, it’s just a case of go prove you don’t have a sister (Man in a bar yells out that your sister is a whore – and you happen to be an only child).

Speaking of whores and sisters – There was one good outcome to JWB’s decision to include only his close allies (I don’t imagine he actually has friends) in his website: Vicki Polin of Awareness Center notoriety is now forced to sign her own name B’shem Umalchus to her previously anonymous notes. Good job!

5/8/2005 1:15AM

Israeli reader Gadi Pickholz writes Luke Ford (the third component in the unholy trinity of "victim movement" lies and smut, alongside Vicki Polin and JWB):

I think it important for people to know that Jewish Whistleblower has changed its rules of posting, and now only accepts postings from "THE TEAM", assuring one sided discussion on blogs that begin with sensationalist accusations and then provide no means of retort...that certainly alters the site's credibility. Here is what I had attempted to post, as a simple observation of someone who regularly commutes from Tel Aviv to Istanbul. I know nothing about the Rabbi in question, or the case, but I know nonsense when I read it. I could not get it published on JWB in any manner. Very serious.

NOW WAIT A MINUTE! I know the Turkish kehilla very well, and visit it regularly. While we all pray for the remnants of the diaspora, there is simply nothing left there that could even be mistakenly confused for a Turkish Religious Authority. This is a bunch of New Yorkers living in a city of a million jews projecting their lives elsewhere. There is not a regular minyan anymore outside of Istanbul anymore, and only two in Istanbul every shabbat. Neither gets more than 10 men, tourists and Israelis included. There is no Chief Rabbinate left, nor any formal organization of any kind for the community left.

I have no idea who this Rabbi Worch is, nor the background of this case, but I know a false story when I read it. This story's basic representation is utter nonsense, and the fantasy of someone in Monsey or Brooklyn who has no concept of Jewish life in places like Turkey. I was not permitted to post this on the JWB site relating to Rabbi Worch and Turkey, and therefore posted it here. I ask, in all decency, that it be properly posted to correct the clear falsehood of the story that JWB is clearly censoring to insure it continues despite all proof of fabrication. Can I assume the other stories here are equally lacking in basic fact checking and accuracy?