What planet are you people on? The song is even older than that clip. Cab Calloway wrote it in the '30s and used to sing it as a duet with his daughter. Anyway, this is not news and your "coverage" is no "expose." When MBD did it in the '80s it was well known in the JM world (of which I was a part) that it was adapted. He certainly never claimed otherwise.
You might argue that there should be some active attribution to the source, but to condemn the actual adaptation is foolish, even malicious. By your moral compass, Lubavitchers shouldn't be singing Napoleon's March or La Marsaeille and Hungarians shouldn't be singing Zhol O Kokosh Mahr and other chassidim shouldn't be singing half their niggunim.
Rabbi Abish Brodt once told an old chavrusah of mine that he's good friends with MBD. He once told him "You think people are gonna sing your songs when Moshiach comes?!" Their obviously a big difference between MBD and the Lubavitcher Rebbe ZT"L
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i heard that mbd is in חרם
What planet are you people on? The song is even older than that clip. Cab Calloway wrote it in the '30s and used to sing it as a duet with his daughter. Anyway, this is not news and your "coverage" is no "expose." When MBD did it in the '80s it was well known in the JM world (of which I was a part) that it was adapted. He certainly never claimed otherwise.
You might argue that there should be some active attribution to the source, but to condemn the actual adaptation is foolish, even malicious. By your moral compass, Lubavitchers shouldn't be singing Napoleon's March or La Marsaeille and Hungarians shouldn't be singing Zhol O Kokosh Mahr and other chassidim shouldn't be singing half their niggunim.
The cherem is for suing someone in secular court as opposed to beis din.
to anon:
The reason that lubavitch sings La Marsaeille is because the rebbe said to sing it, but not every yobo can decide to "elevate" a song.
I completely agree with that
Rabbi Abish Brodt once told an old chavrusah of mine that he's good friends with MBD. He once told him "You think people are gonna sing your songs when Moshiach comes?!" Their obviously a big difference between MBD and the Lubavitcher Rebbe ZT"L
Besides handing out singles on sundays what is the difference between MBD and the Lubabitch rebbe?
There is non!
Anon 1:12am
which planet did you fall from, Venus or mars?
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