Judges and Judiciary
Oct. 2, 2007
Years After Rabbi Is Compared to Hitler, Court Gets Suit
A San Francisco rabbi is determined to restore his reputation after a Jewish community leader likened him to "the Fuhrer." The question for the California Supreme Court is whether the rabbi gets a special exception from a one-year deadline for defamation claims because he didn't know about the offensive remark until many years after it was uttered.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - Rabbi Pinchas Lipner was shocked when he discovered that the leader of a prominent local Jewish group had likened him - the founder of the Hebrew Academy of San Francisco - to Adolf Hitler.
Six years later, Lipner is still trying to clear his name.
"I'm holding in six years of talking,"...
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