There’s an Orthodox media mystery developing around the anonymous new owners of the muckraking blog FailedMessiah, and growing signs the site’s harsh criticism of the Orthodox community may be permanently silenced.
On Monday, January 25, Shlomo Yehuda Rechnitz, one of the big philanthropists in the Jewish world, stood before the top rabbis in Lakewood, New Jersey at a fundraising dinner for the largest yeshiva in America, and delivered a speech that shook the ultra-Orthodox community to its core.
In a fiery speech at a recent event in Lakewood, businessman and noted philanthropist Shlomo Yehuda Rechnitz derided a phenomenon which he called “a man-made and self-made problem” regarding education. He called out the schools and asked “do you think these children are stupid?” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2_QuIJVWak&ab_channel=thelakewoodscoop