Exclusive: OU Launches Renegade Leiby Kletzky Fund Not Endorsed By Kletzky Family – Or Does It?

Please see the updates to this post below. It now seems that a series of errors both by the legitimate fund and by the OU is behind all this.

The OU's homepage 7-24-11 3:00 am CDT:

 

The OU's Leiby Kletzky Memorial Fund page:

 

Here is another view of the OU's Leiby Kletzky Memorial Fund page that includes the OU header:

 

 

Here is a link to the real Leiby Kletzky Memorial Fund run by the Kletzky family.

Update 3:00 pm CDT – The OU's homepage now links to the fund started by the Kletzky family and the page shown above has disappeared. Apparently the exposure its renegade Kletzky fund got was too negative for the OU to tolerate.

Update 7:00 pm CDT – From the Questions and Answers section of the official, Kletzky family run Leiby Kletzky Memorial Fund website, a warning to beware of other websites and funds appearing to be Kletzky family endorsed.

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Update 11:42 pm CDT – I received the following email from a person claiming to be associated with the Kletzky family's legitimate fund.

Note the the email admits the OU's original site was not sending donors to the legitimate Kletzky fund but was raising the money itself.

While the email can be read to say that the early monies – i.e., before I outed the OU – was going to the real Kletzky fund, it can also be read that the monies were not going there.

Either way, we still have the real Kletzky fund's warning about impostor funds and websites posted above and still on the Kletzky family website now, hours after the email posted below was written.

Also note that the author misspells Kletzky as "Kletzki" at the email's close.

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I think it's clear the Kletzky family are not running this fund and are merely the public faces of it.

And, from the wording of that email, I also think it very likely that the primary – perhaps the only – beneficiaries of this fund will be Orthodox and ultra-Orthodox Jews.