Is Rabbi Daniel Feldman ashamed of his employment and connection to Congregation Etz Chaim of Teaneck? When searching for Rabbi Feldman on google, how many occurrences of his name are connected to Yeshiva University or Etz Chaim or both together?
I did three different google searches. When searching on google, quotation marks are used to join the words together to form a phrase. I did not search the word Teaneck to make the searches more specific. I also eliminated all blogs, such as mine, newspaper articles, images, video, news and discussions from my results.
I wanted to make sure the results reflected Rabbi Feldman's personal publicity and not the results of the phenomenon surrounding Etz Chaim and 554 Queen Anne Rd.
The first search was "Rabbi Daniel Feldman" "Etz Chaim".
I looked through all the pages. He was connected to Etz Chaim (of Teaneck) on Godaven.com, frumhomesinnj.com, yu.edu. 3 websites in all.
The second search was "Rabbi Daniel Feldman" "Yeshiva University".
I looked through all the pages. He was connected to Yeshiva University on yu.edu, yasharbooks.com,torahinmotion.org, amazon.com, yutorah.org, rabbis.org, msdcs.org, ramaz.tv, rcarabbis.org, ouradio.org, areyvut.org, www.standforfreedominiran.org, jewishjournal.com, chicagotorah.org, justtzedakah.org, frischdinner.com, jcor.org, ohelfamily.org, www.tzemachdovid.org, pipl.org and many pages within those websites. 20 websites in all.
The third search was "Rabbi Daniel Feldman" "Etz Chaim" "Yeshiva University".
I looked through all the pages. He was connected to Etz Chaim (of Teaneck)AND Yeshiva University on ouradio.org and yu.edu. 2 websites in all.
On Amazon.com, the review of Rabbi Feldman's book which came out in January 2009, doesn't mention Etz Chaim of Teaneck and neither does the book review in The Jewish Press.
On the flip side, with the exception of the 4 different websites mentioned above, every website that mentions Rabbi Feldman and Etz Chaim together is either a blog or a newspaper and there are a lot of them.
One can deduce from this that Rabbi Daniel Z. Feldman is not publicizing his affiliation to Congregation Etz Chaim of Teaneck. Why is he distancing himself from associating with his Shul? Please speculate respectfully in the comments below.
3 comments:
My guess is that he hopes that "What happens in Teaneck stays in Teaneck"?
More likely,
As Etz Chaim is not officially a "house of worship", and was certainly not a house of worship in January 2009, he is not publicizing that connection until it becomes official.
YU has been advertising that Rabbi Feldman is the Rabbi of Etz Chaim of Teaneck for a while now. All the news articles outed him as the Rabbi of Etz Chaim in August of 2008 and the godaven posting has been there since Etz Chaim left Care One
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