I would like to apologize to you. The article and pictures were emailed to us and I did not realize they were from your site. The article will be taken down immediately, unless you give us permission in which case we will put it back up with an apology and attribution. You can leave your response at editor_en@chabad.info. Again, I apologize for any distress this may have caused you.
Chabad.info editor | Homepage | 07.21.05 - 11:28 pm | #

I don't mind you using the pictures (I want them publicized) with a simple request. Remove you logo from my pictures please. My subtitles were very deliberate and I don't see a need to change them. Please provide an attribution with a link to my blog.
see
http://creativecommons.org/licen...s/by-nc-sa/2.5/

Thanks.
Tzemach Atlas | Homepage | 07.21.05 - 11:33 pm | #

How could you possibly mistake Chabad.info for Chabad.org?! All of us in Lubavitch suffer from .info's desecration of all that is holy and precious. (Let alone that a good part of what they post there is actually stolen.) Please correct your posting -- and please try never to mix the two of them up again. It would cause tremendous pain to anyone working at Chabad.org and to their family and friends.
distressed lubab | 07.21.05 - 11:36 pm | #

Right, sure. Chabad has the ability to stop people acting as shluchim, stop them using the Chabad trademark, etc, but we can't stop the website?
Boruch der ayzel | 07.21.05 - 11:41 pm | #

i did correct the .info part but it seems that all Lubavitchers sites are in the habit of butchering photos with the logos. They all look the same to me.
Tzemach Atlas | Homepage | 07.21.05 - 11:41 pm | #

As per Tzemach's request, I am pasting my reply to him here.

I have taken down the article and unfortunately it will have to stay down.
Regarding your subtitles - the pictures were not sent with any subtitles so
the changes were not deliberate. As you can see on our site there is no
room for lengthy subtitles.

Again, I apologize for any unpleasantness this may have caused you.
Chabad.info editor | Homepage | 07.21.05 - 11:56 pm | #

case closed, thanks!

P.S. my subtitles under the photos were very short and even pro Mashichist of sorts if you read the links.
http://www.mentalblog.com/2005/0...-in- boston.html
Tzemach Atlas | Homepage | 07.21.05 - 11:57 pm | #

tzemach, does this mean you are going to take donw your post, too?
Anonymous | 07.21.05 - 11:59 pm | #

i will post an update and please no anonymous comments.
Tzemach Atlas | Homepage | 07.22.05 - 12:02 am | #

sorry, this is lipovetzer, i'm using a different computer
Anonymous | 07.22.05 - 12:04 am | #

Not to rehash the issue yet again, but Leib was falsely accused here and I want to clear his name. Leib sent us an email with a link to mentalblog, which I did not pay much attention to. Then someone else whose name I dont' recall, could be a lurker, sent an email with the article and pics attached, no attribution to mentalblog. So Leib deserves no blame in this matter.
Chabad.info editor | Homepage | 07.22.05 - 12:59 am | #

Chabad.info, why do you have to butcher photos with the ugly logo as a policy?
Tzemach Atlas | Homepage | 07.22.05 - 7:40 am | #

OK girls...I am taking my ball and going home for good.

Good luck in life.

See y'all on the Har HaBayis.
Leib | 07.22.05 - 9:34 am | #

Tzemach, only proof that you are a dual personality :-).
guravitzer | 07.22.05 - 2:00 pm | #

make it bypolar :-: :+:
Tzemach Atlas | Homepage | 07.22.05 - 3:16 pm | #

your a putz! you attack leib for submiting photo's taken from your site ? yet you stole hundreds of photo's taken from news agencies at kfar meimon!! see normaly it wouldent be a problem besides for the fact that i live here in gush katif and i know EVERY cameraman / journalist / reporter. so you can either apoligize to leib or i will whack you up with some serious copyright lawsuits! oh and on a side note cut down on your chabbad bashing before you piss me off and force me to take a trip to MA because I DO hit jews!!!
elchonon hellinger | 07.23.05 - 2:37 pm | #

hey that elchonon guy is even angrier thatn scotty! Oh my!
shmuel monkes | 07.23.05 - 10:41 pm | #

elchonon, Leib is a former US Marine, he doesn't need your help.
Tzemach Atlas | Homepage | 07.23.05 - 11:34 pm | #

I know that! nice to see you giving credit for the pix. baz ratner, oded bality and ronen zvulun are very good friends of mine.
elchonon hellinger | 07.24.05 - 8:47 am | #

Nir Elias' work is in a league of its own.
Tzemach Atlas | Homepage | 07.24.05 - 8:54 am | #

i'll pass it on... but still waiting for you to publicly apoligize to leib!!
elchonon hellinger | 07.25.05 - 4:27 pm | #