Criticism By Geoffrey Alderman
On 11/03/2010 Geoffrey Alderman wrote an article in the Jewish Chronicle, accusing Haredi Jews of working solely for their own interest instead of for Anglo Jewry as a whole, having mentioned a campaign by Rabbi Pinter opposing the erection of homes on a former school site in Stamford hill. Rabbi Pinter responded with a letter in the JC defending his stance.
Since that initial back and forth between the two, Professor Alderman has become increasingly critical of Rabbi Pinter and has criticised him repeatedly both in the JC and through a Hackney blog called Blood and Property.
On 29/12/2010, the Jewish Chronicle published an article by Professor Alderman entitled "Pinteresque drama at school". In it Alderman claims that although Pinter is hero-worshipped in some haredi circles, he is reviled in others, and that he had interviewed a number of people in Stamford Hill who express such revulsion. He claims that some are fed up with what he calls the "Pinter way of doing things" and have reported their misgivings to government bodies.
He accuses Pinter of a lack of transparency in his management of the Yesodey Hatorah School, and of deliberate vagueness in the admissions policies of the school, so that Pinter can whimsically exclude any pupil.
He says that people who do complain to government bodies in relation to Pinter's schools "run the risk of brutal social and religious ostracism, and worse".
In his column in the Jewish Chronicle on 01/03/2012 Alderman again criticised Pinter for inviting former mayor and mayoral candidate Ken Livingstone to Side-By-Side, a special needs school Rabbi Pinter is a trustee for. According to Alderman, whilst both Mr Livingstone and Pinter are smart political operators, "Ken is only ever on his own side".
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