Talk:Milton Balkany

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An entry from Milton Balkany appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on 6 April 2007.
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[edit] Beware libel

The contents of this article may violate WP:LIBEL. IZAK 02:54, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Unbalanced

Reading this article makes me think that he only got involved in controversies. Did he do anything else? --PinchasC | £€åV€ m€ å m€§§åg€ 03:09, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

  • He built and runs a Bais Yaakov in Boro Park known as "Balkany's" (can't think of it's official name) and thousands of good Jewish girls have attended it over the decades, and he has been involved in a lot of community building. He is supporter of Republicans so that is why he gets heat from the liberals and the media who hate Orthodox Jews and Republicans to boot. They would never give a pro-gay (or gay himself), soft-on-intermarriage, liberally outspoken Reform rabbi anywhere near this kind of heat or attention. So it goes. IZAK 07:45, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Use of primary sources in a BLP

I am not sure that the section Misappropriation of charitable funds is properly sourced. Primary sources, such as court records, should not be used in BLPs for controversial material. Please find secondary sources to support the material in that section. ≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 03:11, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

Court decisions are reliable per WP:RS. There may be an issue here about whether it is notable, but that's not really a BLP concern as I understand it. JoshuaZ 03:33, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Specific issues.

Ok, specific problems with this article: 1) The section "deal with proescutors" isn't clear which above issue it is talking about. It should be clarified and moved into that section. 2) Do we have any citation for the last sentence in the Luchin's section? I'm skeptical about it for a variety of reasons, including the issue that rabbinic courts generally won't do anything unless both parties are present, so if Luchin was not attending (as discussed above) it would be halachically problematic for the court to convene (unless I'm missing something here. The hilchot of beit dinim isn't an area I know a lot about). 3) The article in some locations uses "beit din" and others "rabbinic court". I'm not sure if some distinction is meant here, but if so it should be cleared up. If not, we should just use rabbinc court and link to beth din(the main article) and maybe use the term "beit din" once the first time either term appears in the article. JoshuaZ 03:32, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Oh my Lord

This is the blatant AD I have ever seen in wikipedia "and in the end everything was found to la de da!" He is a saint no doubt. This article is a total mess. Lobojo (talk) 00:56, 18 November 2007 (UTC)