[Alouette]

how about that a large percentage of Chabad, perhaps a majority, now thinks that a dead Brooklyn rabbi is the Messiah? And that a small (but growing) percentage of Chabad now identifies the Rebbe as being divine?

You do not know the majority of Chabad or even a large percentage of Chabad and you are not active in the highest levels of Chabad leadership, as my family is.

The top leadership of Chabad (Rabbi Krinsky) has denounced the Meshichisten and is trying to get them removed from 770.

Stop your disgusting slanders. You are just as bad as the yechi's.

[rmlew]

You are just as bad as the yechi's.

Do you you mean Germans, pretentious Mitnigadim (, or assimilated Reformed Jews?
Sorry, but this Galizianer is a little confused.

Translation for all the gentiles or even Jews with no exposure to Yiddish. "Yekke/Yechi" is the term for a German Jew. "Galizianer/Galitsiener" is the term for someone from Galicia, a region of what is now Poland and Western Ukraine. However, there are also secondary meanings. German Jews thought themselves cosmopolitan and above the country bumpkins from the east.

[ChicagoHebrew]

I know what I see -- from the Yechi dancing at half a dozen Chabad shuls I've been to, to ads in the NY Post proclaiming the Rebbe moshiach, to the hundreds of billboards, signs and mechichesti missionaries I saw last month in Israel. Claiming that the meschichestim are a small minority of Chabad is like claiming that only a small minority of Muslims support terrorism. Stop denying the problem -- it's not a small number, it's a large and growing movement. I've been to Israel several times in the past few years. Everytime the meschichestism is worse. And 770 resembles a Baptist revival tent.