CONSUMER ALERT: BEFORE YOU SEND VICKI POLIN MONEY…
Internet rabbi-smut peddler Vicki Polin is nothing if not ambitious. Last Shabbes afternoon she generated this note via her email list:
Dear Friends,
…We can't continue this way
much longer. We need your financial support.
We are a new organization that
is in the process of incorporating and applying for our federal tax exempt
status. Once this process is finished we will start planning our first
International Conference, develop a healing center so that we can offer
educational seminars, retreats and treatment to rabbis, teachers, parents, and
those who have been victimized. We are also look forward to developing a
research team, so that we can better serve Jewish communities around the world.
We are look forward indeed.
It should be quite a jump for Vicki, from running a service which copies and pastes news articles about sex abuse (including ministers, priests, and just your average neighbors in the poorer towns in Israel—presumably so you could protect yourself from them). Most of these are bootleg copies, sent out without permission from the source. While Internet etiquette directs bloggers to mention title and a few lines from copyrighted material, Vicki just appropriates.
Indeed, before you start sending Vicki the checks, perhaps you should check some recent testimony regarding the way the big gal handles other people’s money.
Here’s what Author Naomi Ragen had to say (to Luke Ford) about Vicki Polin’s ways with gelt:
I am doing some research and came across your website. To my shock and surprise, I read the material about Vicki Polin. Considering the serious allegations that she's made, I think it's important for me to add the following information.
I met Vicki Polin on the internet when she and I were both actively fighting CNN's biased reporting. Vicky started CNNwatch. I found her work very useful to my own. When she wrote me that she was planning on making Aliyah, but she had no place to stay until she could rent an apartment, I offered her my home. She stayed with me for several weeks.
I got to talk with Vicki and I was shocked at both her behavior and her appearance. I am very sympathetic to women claiming sexual abuse in the Jewish world, and have met many bonafide victims. Vicki did not seem to me to be mentally stable and I did not believe a word she said. Moreover, after introducing her to many other activists against CNN, she took serious loans from them and never paid them back. She ran up a large phone bill in my home and never paid me. I believe she also took the aliyah package from the Jewish Agency, even though she skipped town soon afterwards. This kind of dishonesty shows character, and I do not think Ms. Polin, for all her intelligence and for [all] the good work that she does do, can be believed and trusted.
Yes, boys and girls, in addition to being an admitted Satanist / blood-libel artist, Vicki Polin is also a thief. So, when she asks you for money think twice, and give to your favorite reliable charity. That’s the one without thieves.
Yori Yanover,
New York
Sunday, June 05, 2005