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'''Shmarya Rosenberg''' (born '''Scott David Rosenberg''')<ref name="Protocols">{{cite web|url=http://protocols.blogspot.com/2004_05_09_protocols_archive.html|title=Shmarya Rosenberg|date=2008-08-02|work=LukeFord|publisher=Blogspot.com}}</ref> is a former [[Chabad| |
'''Shmarya Rosenberg''' (born '''Scott David Rosenberg''')<ref name="Protocols">{{cite web|url=http://protocols.blogspot.com/2004_05_09_protocols_archive.html|title=Shmarya Rosenberg|date=2008-08-02|work=LukeFord|publisher=Blogspot.com}}</ref> is a former [[Chabad|Chabad-Lubavitch]] [[Hasidic Judaism|Hasidic Jew]] who became a critic of [[Jewish Orthodox]]y. Originally not an observant Jew, he joined the Chabad-Lubavitch movement in his youth and left it after twenty years, opposing Chabad-Lubavitch's stance regarding the [[Who is a Jew?|Jewishness]] of [[Beta Israel|Ethiopian Jews]], and went on to operate a full time blog called ''Failed Messiah''.<ref name="Failed Messiah">{{cite web|url=http://failedmessiah.typepad.com/about.html|title=Shmarya Rosenberg|date=2008-08-02|work=FailedMessiah|publisher=Shmarya Rosenberg}}</ref> |
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==Biography== |
==Biography== |
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Rosenberg grew up in [[Saint Paul, Minnesota]] in a non observant Jewish family. His grandfather's grandfather was the chief aide to the third Lubavicher rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneersohn. He had to flee the rebbe's Hasidic court and the town of [[Lyubavichi, Rudnyansky District, Smolensk Oblast|Lyubavichi]], after he corrected a citation error in one of Schneersohn's responsa.<ref name="Haaretz1.239689"> {{cite web| author=Saul Sadka| url=http://www.haaretz.com/news/jewish-world-weekly-blogger-profile-1.239689 | title=Jewish World weekly blogger profile: Shmarya Rosenberg, FailedMessiah| work=[[Haaretz]]''| date=February 20, 2008 |accessdate=July 20, 2012}}</ref> Rosenberg's mother, Helen Mae Rosenberg née Gleckman,<ref name="Obituary">{{cite web| url= http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/twincities/obituary.aspx?n=helen-mae-rosenberg&pid=147724807&fhid=4556|title=Helen Mae Rosenberg Obituary|publisher=Legacy.com |date=January 9, 2011 |accessdate=July 20, 2012}}</ref> was the daughter of Leon Gleckman, a [[bootlegger]] known as the "Al Capone of St. Paul".<ref name="PMaccabee">{{cite book|url= http://books.google.ch/books?id=2dJoEr_lAS0C&hl=de&pg=PA42#v=onepage&q&f=false|title=John Dillinger Slept Here: A Crooks' Tour of Crime and Corruption in St Paul|author=Paul Maccabee| publisher= Minnesota Historical Society| year=1995 |page=42| isbn= 0873513169 }}</ref> Rosenberg was active in Jewish student politics at the [[University of Minnesota]], and first met a Chabad-Lubavich emissary in the summer of 1983, when he was making the rounds of local rabbis with a letter on the plight of Ethiopian Jewry. He became an ultra-Orthodox Hassidic Jew of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement and threw himself into study and rigorous observance, abandoning his ambitions of becoming a songwriter.<ref name="Forward13848"> {{cite web| url= http://www.forward.com/articles/13848/|title=Blogger Focuses on Orthodox Foibles|date=July 24, 2008|author= Anthony Weiss| work=Jewish Daily Forward| accessdate=July 20, 2012}}</ref> |
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Rosenberg was born in [[Saint Paul, Minnesota]].<ref name="Jewish Daily Forward">{{cite web|url=http://www.forward.com/articles/13848/|title=Blogger Focuses on Orthodox Foibles|date=2008-08-02|work=By Anthony Weiss|work=Jewish Daily Forward, July 24, 2008}}</ref> Originally a [[Secular Jewish culture|secular Jew]], Rosenberg joined Chabad and became a baal teshuvah. After joining the movement, he asked Rabbi [[Menachem Mendel Schneerson]], the Lubavitcher Rebbe, to move the Chabad movement to aid in the effort to rescue the [[Beta Israel]] of Ethiopia. When he found out that the Rebbe ultimately rejected his suggestion, he became disenchanted with Chabad and its Rebbe.<ref name="Failed Messiah"/> Following his reported experience of corruption at the highest level of the branch of Orthodox Judaism that is Chabad (the Lubavitcher Rebbe),<ref name="Failed Messiah - Biography">[http://failedmessiah.typepad.com/failed_messiahcom/about-me.html]</ref> he created a blog <ref>[http://www.FailedMessiah.com FailedMessiah.com]</ref> with the purpose of reporting on issues in Orthodox Jewry in general that are rarely reported by Orthodox Jewish news sources. His press releases are frequently cited and relied upon in the mainstream and non-Orthodox Jewish press.<ref name="Failed Messiah - Sidebar - FailedMessiah.com in the Media">{{cite web}url=http://failedmessiah.typepad.com/}}</ref> |
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After joining the movement, he sent a letter to [[Menachem Mendel Schneerson]], then the Lubavitcher rebbe, asking the Chabad movement to aid in the effort to rescue the [[Beta Israel]] of Ethiopia. He never received an answer from Schneerson, but in 2004, he came across an unsigned draft of a letter written by Schneerson, published in K’far Chabad magazine, which had originally been addressed to him, but was never sent. Schneerson, in his response, suggested that Rosenberg focus his efforts on helping Jews in his own community. Rosenberg was outraged and posted his own letter and Schneerson’s respons and other supporting documents on a blog he called ''Failed Messiah'', mocking the belief among some Lubavitcher Hassidim that Schneerson is the [[messiah]].<ref name="Forward13848"/> |
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Considered by some{{Who|date=December 2009}} as "a Baal Loshen Hora," i.e., gossipmonger,<ref name="Haaretz">{{cite web|url=http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1006280.html|title=Jewish blogger is the watchdog of the Orthodox world|date=2004-08-04|work=haaretz|work=Haaretz, July 31, 2008}}</ref> the Failed Messiah [[blog]], which states it has been hacked into,<ref name="Failed Messiah">{{cite web|url=http://failedmessiah.typepad.com/failed_messiahcom/2004/08/just_a_note.html|title=Just a note|date=2004-08-04|work=Shmarya Rosenburg|publisher=failedmessiah.com}}</ref> serves as a news outlet with the motto ''Covering Orthodox Judaism since 2004''. |
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The ''Failed Messiah'' [[blog]] serves as a news outlet with the motto ''Covering Orthodox Judaism since 2004''. |
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| ⚫ | Using the blog as a means of reaching a wide audience and covering the largely under-reported [[Haredi Judaism|Haredi]]/[[Hasidic Judaism|Hasidic]] sector, Rosenberg reports as a watchdog, muckraker and whistle blower, uncovering and publicizing scandals including but not limited to abuse, violence, [[Child sexual abuse|sex abuse]],<ref name="Sex scandal within the Haredi cummunity">{{cite web|url=http://failedmessiah.typepad.com/failed_messiahcom/2008/04/haredi-child-se.html|title=Haredi Child Sex abuse described from the inside|date=April 7, 2008| work=FailedMessiah|accessdate=July 20, 2012}}</ref> and corruption within the [[Orthodox Judaism|Orthodox Jewish]] community, particularly within its leadership. |
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==Ancestry== |
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Rosenberg's maternal grandfather was Leon Gleckman.<ref name="Newspaper Obituary">{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/twincities/obituary.aspx?n=helen-mae-rosenberg&pid=147724807&fhid=4556|title=Newspaper Obituary}}</ref><ref name="Leon Gleckman with Helen Mae">{{cite book|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=2dJoEr_lAS0C&pg=PA42&dq=helen+mae+gleckman&hl=en&ei=Keg4TdPhG4X6lwfgwoBh&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=helen%20mae%20gleckman&f=false|title=Leon Gleckman with Helen Mae}}</ref> Known as the "Al Capone of St. Paul", he was a bootlegger who at one point was considered the unofficial "czar" of St. Paul.<ref name="John Dillinger slept here: a crooks' tour of crime and corruption in St Paul">{{cite book|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=2dJoEr_lAS0C&pg=PA42&dq=helen+mae+gleckman&hl=en&ei=Keg4TdPhG4X6lwfgwoBh&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=helen%20mae%20gleckman&f=false|title=John Dillinger slept here: a crooks' tour of crime and corruption in St Paul}}</ref> Mr. Gleckman's maternal grandfather, in turn, was Rabbi Chaim Yehuda Litvin, a rabbinc prodigy who although himself having been a follower of Chabad had at an early age departed from the movement (due to inability to get along with fellow Chabad members). Litvin went on to become the leading [[Misnagdim|non-Hasidic]] rabbinic [[Posek|decisor]] in the town of [[Smarhoń|Smorgon]] and as early as the year 1900 expressed his unabiding support for for the nascent [[Zionism|Zionist movement]].<ref name="Hamelitz, March 27 (April 9), 1900, p. 2">{{cite web|url=http://www.jnul.huji.ac.il/dl/newspapers/hameliz/html/hameliz-19000409.htm|title=Hamelitz, March 27 (April 9), 1900, p. 2}}</ref> |
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Revision as of 16:11, 20 July 2012
Shmarya Rosenberg (born Scott David Rosenberg)[1] is a former Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic Jew who became a critic of Jewish Orthodoxy. Originally not an observant Jew, he joined the Chabad-Lubavitch movement in his youth and left it after twenty years, opposing Chabad-Lubavitch's stance regarding the Jewishness of Ethiopian Jews, and went on to operate a full time blog called Failed Messiah.[2]
Biography
Rosenberg grew up in Saint Paul, Minnesota in a non observant Jewish family. His grandfather's grandfather was the chief aide to the third Lubavicher rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneersohn. He had to flee the rebbe's Hasidic court and the town of Lyubavichi, after he corrected a citation error in one of Schneersohn's responsa.[3] Rosenberg's mother, Helen Mae Rosenberg née Gleckman,[4] was the daughter of Leon Gleckman, a bootlegger known as the "Al Capone of St. Paul".[5] Rosenberg was active in Jewish student politics at the University of Minnesota, and first met a Chabad-Lubavich emissary in the summer of 1983, when he was making the rounds of local rabbis with a letter on the plight of Ethiopian Jewry. He became an ultra-Orthodox Hassidic Jew of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement and threw himself into study and rigorous observance, abandoning his ambitions of becoming a songwriter.[6]
After joining the movement, he sent a letter to Menachem Mendel Schneerson, then the Lubavitcher rebbe, asking the Chabad movement to aid in the effort to rescue the Beta Israel of Ethiopia. He never received an answer from Schneerson, but in 2004, he came across an unsigned draft of a letter written by Schneerson, published in K’far Chabad magazine, which had originally been addressed to him, but was never sent. Schneerson, in his response, suggested that Rosenberg focus his efforts on helping Jews in his own community. Rosenberg was outraged and posted his own letter and Schneerson’s respons and other supporting documents on a blog he called Failed Messiah, mocking the belief among some Lubavitcher Hassidim that Schneerson is the messiah.[6]
Rosenberg also writes a weekly column for Heeb Magazine called "Crimes and Misdemeanors."
Failed Messiah
The Failed Messiah blog serves as a news outlet with the motto Covering Orthodox Judaism since 2004. Using the blog as a means of reaching a wide audience and covering the largely under-reported Haredi/Hasidic sector, Rosenberg reports as a watchdog, muckraker and whistle blower, uncovering and publicizing scandals including but not limited to abuse, violence, sex abuse,[7] and corruption within the Orthodox Jewish community, particularly within its leadership.
References
- ^ "Shmarya Rosenberg". LukeFord. Blogspot.com. 2008-08-02.
- ^ "Shmarya Rosenberg". FailedMessiah. Shmarya Rosenberg. 2008-08-02.
- ^ Saul Sadka (February 20, 2008). "Jewish World weekly blogger profile: Shmarya Rosenberg, FailedMessiah". Haaretz. Retrieved July 20, 2012.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|work=(help) - ^ "Helen Mae Rosenberg Obituary". Legacy.com. January 9, 2011. Retrieved July 20, 2012.
- ^ Paul Maccabee (1995). John Dillinger Slept Here: A Crooks' Tour of Crime and Corruption in St Paul. Minnesota Historical Society. p. 42. ISBN 0873513169.
- ^ a b Anthony Weiss (July 24, 2008). "Blogger Focuses on Orthodox Foibles". Jewish Daily Forward. Retrieved July 20, 2012.
- ^ "Haredi Child Sex abuse described from the inside". FailedMessiah. April 7, 2008. Retrieved July 20, 2012.
External links
- Failed Messiah
- Samuel G. Freedman: Muckraking Blogger Focuses on Jews. The New York Times, January 8, 2010
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