qwerty613:
I found the “Crusade”, as you ineptly put it, against television by the Rabbis “decades ago”. Except that it wasn’t by “a certain Rabbi”, but rather by over 40 of the most eminent Rabbis of the generation. Here’s partial list:
Rabbi Avrohom Pam
[Yeshivas Torah Vodaath]
Rabbi Avrohom Chaim Levin
[Yeshivas Telz, Chicago]
Rabbi Aaron Schechter
[Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin]
Rabbi Binyomin Paler
[Yeshiva Mkor Chaim]
Rabbi Binyomin Zeilberger
[Yeshiva Bais HaTalmud]
Rabbi Chaim Baruch Wolpin
[Yeshivas Telz, Chicago]
Rabbi Chaim Epstein
[Yesshiva Zichron Melech]
Rabbi Chaim Stein
[Yeshivas Telz, Cleveland]
Rabbi Elya Fischer
[Kollel Gur]
Rabbi Elya Svei
[Yeshiva Gedola of Philadelphia]
Rabbi Gavriel Giinzburg
[Yeshiva Ner Yisroel, Toronto]
Rabbi Henach Leibowitz
[Yeshiva Rabbi Yisroel Meir]
Rabbi Israel Meir Kagan
[Yeshiva Toras Chaim, Denver]
Rabbi Joseph Rosenblum
[Yeshiva Shaarei Yosher]
Rabbi Leib Bakst
[Yeshiva Bais Yehuda, Detroit]
Rabbi Levi Krupenia
[Yeshiva Kamenitz, Toras Emes]
Rabbi Lipa Margolis
[Yeshiva Torah Temima]
Rabbi Malkiel Kotler
[Beis Medrash Govoha, Lakewood]
Rabbi Meir Stern
[Yeshiva Gedola of Passaic]
Rabbi Mordechai Gifter
[Yeshiva Telz, Cleveland]
Rabbi Shmuel Berenbaum
[Yeshivas Mir]
Rabbi Shmuel Kaminetzky
[Yeshiva Gedola of Philadelphia]
Rabbi Shimon Shwab
[Rav, Khal Adas Yeshurun]
Rabbi Shmuel Faivelson
[Bais Medrash LaTorah, Monsey]
Rabbi Shrage Moshe Kalmanowitz
[Yishivas Mir]
Rabbi Simcha Bunim Ehrenfeld
[Mattersdorfer Ruv, Yeshiva Ch’san Sofer]
Rabbi Simch Schustal
[Yeshiva Bais Binyomin, Stanford]
Rabbi Tuvia Golstein
[Yeshiva Emek Halocho]
Rabbi Yaakov Perlow
[Novominsker Rebbe, Yeshiva Novominsk]
Rabbi Yaakov Schnaidman
[Yeshiva Bais Moshe, Scranton]
Rabbi Yaakov Weinberg
[Yeshiva Ner Yisroel, Baltimore]
Rabbi Yechiel Perr
[Yeshiva Derech Ayson]
Rabbi Yekusiel Bittersfeld
[Yeshiva Zichron Shneur]
Rabbi Yisroel Perkowsky
[Yeshiva Bais HaTalmud]
Rabbi Yitchok Feigelstock
[Yeshiva of Long Beach]
Rabbi Yosef Harari Raful
[Yeshiva Ateret Torah]
Rabbi Zecharya Gelly
[Rav K’hal Adas Yeshurun, Yeshiva Rabbi S.R. Hirsch]
Rabbi Zelig Epstein
[Yeshiva Shaar HaTorah]
But, thankfully, we here have the anonymous “Posek HaCR” qwerty613 who is far smarter, far more qualified, and far wiser than not only any one of the above Rabbis, but of all of them combined.
Unless coffee addict was correct in 2023 when you showed up at YWN.
In case anyone cares to read the text of the “Crusade” qwerty613 referred to, here it is:
Television: A Cry of Anguish and Appeal to Our Jewish Brethren ?