If anyone out there is throwing out his Halacha Series, please pass them my way. I'm wondering, how is it they couldn't get together even 5 rabbanim against Walder? Do you have to be a molester to get off scot free?
Read one of the ridiculous reasons that these "rabbis' give why they they signed the letter against Harav Melamed:
it is stated that the Peninei Halacha on family purity “publishes things which ought to remain covert and should not be disseminated to the wider public.”
Will they now throw out Mesachtas Nidda? How about Shaalas Utshvois of the Noda Be'Yehudah? The Noda Be' Yudah discusses a case in detail about a guy who lived with his mother-in-law and had a child, should we burn his books?
Another reason they give is because he would allow the "Reform Jews to daven by the Kotel." What's wrong with that? Everyone and even goyim daven at the Kotel. They are against him talking with them. Now I don't agree with Rav Melamad on this point, but he has as a respected Poisek an opinion.
I remember when I was growing up, the Chassidishe Oilim and even the Litvisher Oilim would never pasken like Rav Moshe Feinstein z"l. People don't pasken like the Chazon Ish or the Brisker Rav either.
These are just a bunch of jealous frustrated Rabbis who got together not to condemn a molester or a thief, chas ve'sholom" but a Gadol Be'Yisrael!
Shame on them!