"The second identity [created by Broyde], claiming to be [Rabbi David
Tzvi Keter] an 80-something Ivy League graduate and Talmud scholar in
2010, alleged he’d had conversations with now long-dead sages in the
late 1940s or early 1950s. The alleged conversations were used to
produce a manufactured history of statements from long-dead scholars
that buttressed an argument that Broyde had made in a highly-touted
article published in a peer-reviewed scholarly journal. Broyde, in a
later publication, subsequently quoted this second identity’s alleged
findings as further proof of his original argument."
Rabbi Michael Broyde
Steven I. Weiss and the Jewish Channel have apparently caught Rabbi Michael Broyde in another academic fraud, this one involving a peer-reviewed publication and another fake Broyde identity:
…The second identity [created by Broyde], claiming to be [Rabbi David Tzvi Keter] an 80-something Ivy League graduate and Talmud scholar in 2010, alleged he’d had conversations with now long-dead sages in the late 1940s or early 1950s. The alleged conversations were used to produce a manufactured history of statements from long-dead scholars that buttressed an argument that Broyde had made in a highly-touted article published in a peer-reviewed scholarly journal. Broyde, in a later publication, subsequently quoted this second identity’s alleged findings as further proof of his original argument.
The consequences for Broyde in creating the Goldwasser character have been greater in his role as rabbi than in his role as a law professor. Broyde has already taken an “indefinite leave of absence” from his position as a judge on the largest rabbinical court in the United States, as well as from his role as a member in the rabbinic professional association with which it is affiliated. The president of that rabbinical group, the Rabbinical Council of America, has called Broyde’s conduct “extremely disturbing.”
But whereas numerous rabbis have explained to The Jewish Channel that the requirements of a rabbinical court judge include having a reputation for unquestioned integrity and honesty, several academic ethics experts have explained that the standards for university professors are different. Broyde’s conduct revealed in The Jewish Channel’s previous reporting thus far is less clear as a violation of academic standards for professors, these experts say.
However, if Broyde created this second identity and alleged historical evidence, that would “clearly be false scholarship” and “clearly require disciplinary review,” according to Professor Celia Fisher of Fordham University, where she is director of the Center for Ethics Education.…This second identity involves a 179-page article by Broyde published as a special supplement of the scholarly journal Tradition in the fall of 2009. A prefatory note to special supplement expresses thanks from the editors of Tradition to two entities, one of which is Broyde’s employer, the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University, where Broyde is a senior fellow. The two entities “funded this special supplement, thereby enabling Tradition to publish a worthy article that we would not otherwise have been able to print because of considerations of space,” the editors write.
Broyde’s article generated significant controversy within the Orthodox rabbinate and in Jewish scholarly circles for its detailed historical argument suggesting that the dominant view of past rabbinic sages was that married women might not need to cover their hair in public in order to conform to Orthodox Jewish law.…
The journal is the Rabbinical Council of America's journal Tradition, which may somewhat weaken the case against Broyde.
But even so, the pattern of Broyde's lies is now well-established.
What is really sad is that Broyde did not need to lie to bolster his argument in this case – there is ample photographic and eyewitness testimony to support it.
Be that as it may, it now seems that Broyde is so damaged by all this that he will never be able to sit as a rabbinic judge on the Beit Din of America again, and he will likely be removed from his post at Emory University.
You can read Weiss' entire exposé here.