Reply To: Publishing names of Chareidi “Spies”

Yankel Berel Re. Apei tlata

The Chofetz Chaim adds a bunch of conditions for ‘apei tlata’ to apply. The two that are relevant here are that there be no intention to spread the news further [definitely not the case here], and that there is at least an implicit expectation that the people hearing/reading the news now would eventually hear it anyway [WRT people in America finding out the NAME of the yungerman, not at all certain. I live here in Israel, yet I read it first (and only) right here on YWN…]