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October 20, 2020

Understanding Judaism’s Most Dangerous Accusation

Democracy and the moser.

As passions rose in Brooklyn’s ḥasidic communities over coronavirus lockdowns, a mob attacked the ḥasidic journalist Jacob Kornbluh with shouts of moser, which loosely translates as “informant.” Henry Abramson explains the history of this highly charged epithet:

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