OU: "The Chassidish and Chareidi World: An Unsustainable Economy And The Onslaught Of Self-Hating Jew-Bloggers

March 22, 2013

OU: "The Chassidish and Chareidi World: An Unsustainable Economy And The Onslaught Of Self-Hating Jew-Bloggers

Steven Savitsky is a former president of the Orthodox Union. Yesterday, he interviewed his close friend, Ami Magazine's editor and publisher Rabbi Yitzchok Frankfurter, who Savitsky says he respects greatly, for his regular OU.org podcast. The title? "The Chassidish and Chareidi World: An Unsustainable Economy and the Onslaught of Self-Hating Jew-Bloggers."

Steven Savitsky is a former president of the Orthodox Union. He interviewed his close friend, Ami Magazine's editor and publisher Rabbi Yitzchok Frankfurter, who Savitsky says he respects greatly, for his regular OU.org podcast. The title? "The Chassidish and Chareidi World: An Unsustainable Economy and the Onslaught of Self-Hating Jew-Bloggers."

Savitsky does not bring up haredi coverups of abuse, the prolonged harassment and intimidation of witnesses, or other related problems. He never mentions any of Frankfurter's many foibles – including his history of calling bloggers Nazis and publishing a cover showing Nazi flags hanging from the White House.

Savitsky also fails to mention the OU's own terrible history of covering up child sexual abuse or the current child sexual abuse coverup scandal at Yeshiva University and YU's high school.

When the OU endorsed the Rabbinical Council of America's praise for the guilty verdict against child rapist Nechemya Weberman, I'm told it was Savitsky who pressured current OU leadership to retract that endorsement and lie about it.

Here are the audio files from yesterday's OU podcast.

The first is Savitsky's introduction of and praise for Frankfurter. It runs 28 seconds:

OU Savitsky and Frankfurter 3-21-2013 intro

The second, which runs 12 minutes 30 seconds, is the entire section about "Self-Hating Jew-Bloggers":

OU Savitsky and Frankfurter 3-21-2013 Self-Hating Jew-Bloggers

Here is the entire podcast. It runs 29 minutes and 26 seconds:

OU -- Savitsky and Frankfuter -- Bloggers and Self-hating Jews -- 3-13-13