Ari Mandel (AKA: Rachmuna Litzlon)
Attempts at Cyberbullying
For years various individuals have set their minds on cyberbullying, harassing and cyberstalking Vicki Polin, who is the founder and director of The Awareness Center. The attacks began back in 2004, when The Awareness Center was assisting survivors of a few alleged, confessed and convicted sexual predators. The attacks against Ms. Polin was created as an attempt to discredit her and to create a distraction from the real issues, which involved a long history within various Jewish communities of covering-up sex crimes, obstruction of justice and witness tampering. It's obvious that Ari Mandel amongst others, are unaware of the history of the attacks, yet choose to continue with the discreditation of one of the pioneers in the Jewish anti-rape movement.
Ari Mandel is an untrained, yet self-proclaimed expert in the Jewish anti-rape movement. Through experience if someone cyberbullies one person, the odds are they have cyberbullied others.
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Table of Contents
2013
- Oy, if he were a rich man, but not by selling heaven on eBay (05/29/2013)
- Ari Mandel tries to sell his spot in heaven on eBay (05/31/2013)
- Man jokingly puts his place in heaven up for sale on eBay and bids reach $100,000… before it gets taken down (05/31/2013)
- eBay Pulls Auction For Spot IN Heaven After Bids Reach Nearly $100,000... (05/31/2013)
Cyberbullying Attempts
- Facebook (09/07/2013)
- Facebook (09/08/2013)
- How To Beat Cyberbullies
Oy, if he were a rich man, but not by selling heaven on eBay
By Suzanne Choey
NBC News - May 29, 2013
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By Suzanne Choey
NBC News - May 29, 2013
There are some things that are never for sale, not even on eBay. A place in heaven is among them. A New Jersey man posted such a listing as a joke, he says, but was inundated with bids that reached $100,000 before the listing was pulled by the online auction giant.
"I didn't think anyone would take it seriously," Ari Mandel, who put up the listing, told NBC News.
"It's gotten way more attention than I expected. I really didn't expect it to blow up and go crazy the way it did."
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| Ari Mandel served in the U.S. Army from 2007 to 2011. |
Mandel, an Army veteran and student at New York University, said with school now done for the semester, he decided to post the "low-burning idea" he'd been kicking around on eBay Tuesday.
But the listing was removed the same day it went up. An eBay spokesman told NBC News the offer of heaven was in violation of the auction site's "No Item" policy. That policy, spelled out here, says: "We don't allow listings that aren't offering anything for sale or those that have intangible items (generally things don't physically exist)."Little did he realize that 181 people would not only bid on it, but he would get hundreds of emails, phone calls and Facebook messages. Many were from people asking him what the heck he was doing, but he also got equal numbers of responses from those who thought the listing was funny.
Under "listings with no items," eBay goes on to say that intangible items are "things that people won't be able to use or be able to confirm whether they've received the items."
Other intangibles including the selling of one's soul: "Listings that offer someone's 'soul' or a container that claim to have someone's 'soul' are not allowed." And, forget about trying to sell magic potions, spells and curses: those intangibles are cursed as sale items.
Mandel posted "My Portion in Olam Habaah (Heaven)" with bids starting at 99 cents. Among the bidders' comments, he said, were these:
Need to know more b4 I can bid on it. What's the approximate square footage, with that amenities does it come with, and what's the location? Is it in the prime are or more in the back?
Can you tell me where in heaven this portion is? For the price you are asking, I want to make sure I am in prime real estate somewhere over a rainbow, right between the lord and a few angels.
"I really didn't expect it to blow up and go crazy the way it did," said Mandel, 30, who said he has received calls from around world, including from a reporter in Israel. "It was a goofy little joke."
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Man jokingly puts his place in heaven up for sale on eBay and bids reach $100,000… before it gets taken down
Daily Mail - May 30, 2013
- Ari Mandel posted the prank auction item as a joke but quickly received more than 180 bids
- As a former Hasidic Jew, he was happy to give up his 'Portion in olam habaah [heaven]' and promised to live a life free of sin
- But eBay removed the item because it was 'intangible'
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Former Hasidic Jew Ari Mandel, 31,
claims he posted his 'Portion in olam habaah [heaven]'
on eBayas a joke
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A New Jersey man who offered $100,000 for his spot in heaven by an eBay bidder before the auction site took down his proposal.
Ari Mandel, 31, who identifies himself as atheist lived in an Orthodox Jewish community until he was 23. He posted his 'Portion in olam habaah [heaven]' on eBay on Tuesday.
Since Mandel no longer considers himself a member of the Hasidic community, he was happy to give up his spot.
He promised the winning bidder a signed contract guaranteeing his spot in Habaah, plus another contract guaranteeing that he would live free of sin in order for that spot to be secured. He also promised never to return to religious life and steal the spot back for himself.
‘I didn't think anyone would take it seriously,’ Mandel told NBC News.
‘It's gotten way more attention than I expected. I really didn't expect it to blow up and go crazy the way it did.’
Mandel posted his prank auction on Tuesday and the price quickly grew from 99 cents to $100,000, with more than 180 people bidding.
He also received emails and phone calls, some asking what he was doing, other telling him they thought it was a fun thing to do.
Ari Mandel tries to sell his spot in heaven on eBay
ABC News-15 - May 31, 2013
NEW JERSEY - Turns out not everything is for sale, not even on eBay.
According to the New York Daily News , the site has pulled a man's auction for his "portion in olam habbah (heaven).
Ari Mandel, a Jewish man from Teaneck, N.J, posted the prime spot on the auction's website Tuesday morning.
The winner would have won two signed contracts, one guaranteeing Mandel's "timeshare" in the skies and the other promising Mandel would keep the spot open by abstaining from sin.
Bidding started at 99 cents and skyrocketed within hours to nearly $100,000.
Once eBay got word, they shut down the auction after receiving numerous complaints from people who thought Mandel's post was offensive.
An eBay representative called Mandel and reminded him that users aren’t allowed to sell intangible items.
Mandel said the auction was a "harmless prank."
He told the Daily News: “To those of you who took this seriously, chill out. It was just a joke,” he said. “Whether or not you’re a believer in this sort of thing, chill out.”
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eBay Pulls Auction For Spot In Heaven After Bids Reach Nearly $100,000
Huffington Post - May 31, 2013
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Facebook - Elyahu Fink
September 8, 2013
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How To Beat Cyberbullies
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