Rabbi Kogan lived throught the Soviet repression unlike Rabbi Lazar, a newcomer post Perestroika, who was advanced by Putin. Chabad/Lubavitch have strong ties to Putin. Is this a good thing?
If you want to tar Rabbi Kogan with hurting Jews, a charge that is unfair, I would have to respond with concern that Chabad's ties to Putin make them far from neutral.
But the truth is this kind of in-fighting is only destructive to the Jewish Community.
Yes and this makes him a hero exactly how? He is a bitter, angry, vindictive little man who was waiting his turn in line to become Chief Rabbi after the KGB apparatchik Shayevich, and Berel Lazar "stole his rabbinate" like the zionist "stole Palestinian land."
Chabad/Lubavitch have strong ties to Putin. Is this a good thing?
Zinovy Kogan has strong ties to Gussinsky. Is this a good thing?