העורך Editor

A Foul Language Filter for Television and Movies

Not that Hyehudi endorses watching movies or TV, but if any of our readers, um, know anyone who, well…

Anyway, check out the TVGuardian LT device here…

An excerpt from the sales copy:

The TVGuardian automatically detects and filters profanity and other offensive phrases while you watch movies or television shows. TVGuardian is like a smart remote control for your TV that automatically mutes foul language! You teach your children not to use that language. What message does allowing an unprotected TV in your home send? TVGuardian helps reinforce the values you’re teaching.

The TVGuardian monitors the hidden closed-captioning signal and compares those words to its database of offensive words and phrases. When an offensive word is detected it mutes the sound for the sentence.

I can’t testify as to the product.

Now, if only there were clean versions of certain books…

What Took So Long to Expose Berland?! Rabbi Y. M. Shechter Offers His Defense

We have written already about The TRUE Berland Scandal: Why Did Rabbis In the Know Delay Protesting So Long?!

An excerpt:

Without naming names, read this short work (next reworked into this) to see what I mean. Many, many rabbis and others knew what was happening, but they closed their eyes, allowed themselves to be intimidated into silence (or even being photographed with him!), gave ridiculous excuses (such as: “This is an internal Breslov affair” (?!), p. 15 here), and the like.

They themselves admit to knowing the facts for decades (even less justifiable than all the cases of rabbinic ignorance, such as Elior Chen), see here p. 32. Some excused him by just calling him “crazy”, see the last pages of this. Is every Rasha, then, literally crazy?!

In a class by Rabbi Yom Tov Cheshin (הרב יום טוב חשין שליט”א – סוד הזעקה הגואלת: here, at 3:27) he describes his whistleblowing meeting with Rabbi Shechter about Berland yemach shemo.

He records Rabbi Shechter as saying people feared for their lives, so they stayed silent but knew the truth about Berland 40 years ago.

I don’t know if this can be taken literally. Didn’t Rabbi Shechter actually meet with the Berland abomination in front of cameras? Was that, too, Pikuach Nefesh?! And why couldn’t any of the parties in the know ever start a “whispering campaign”, at least?!

Bottom line:
We have far too many irrelevant, sideline-sitting, comfort-craving, false “peace”-seeking, fight-no-evil, genteel “men of mild seasons”.

 

For an attempted defense, among other things, see here.