Reply To: What Happened To the Forum I Loved so Well?

OK, apparently this site has lost itself so much that I’m going to have to spoon feed the explanation of my name:

Chaim Berlin is a major American yeshiva formerly headed by Rabbi Yitzchok Hunter. When you squish the words together and read them phonetically “chaimberlin” sounds like “Chamberlain,” as in the famous British Prime Minister who tried to appease Hitler, Neville Chamberlain. My username used to have no space, which maybe worked better. I had to make a slight change when making this new account.

AAQ: I don’t agree about throwing quality out the window when it comes to BT’s. Letting foreign ideologies into Torah communities can be extremely destructive and risks a lot more than the opportunity costs of losing out on quantity. Nobody is “literally disappearing.” Choosing a non-frum life is sad, but it’s not “literally disappearing.”

As for my criticizing CS, yeah I don’t even know. I quite like Chabad in real life. I guess it was just muscle memory when I can’t back to these forums. The traditional purpose of internet forums is for everyone to be a jerk under anonymity afterall. But yeah, Chabad’s issues are for them to sort out internally. They took a calculated risk with their style of kiruv, and maybe I should be leave it at that.

Actually, let’s definitely leave it at that so that we can move on to discussing the evils of Zionism.