A contributor to Matzav.com, Rabbi Gavriel Rivlin, attacked Maryles on the site. Rosenberg named Shimon Weiser, a Satmar Chasid, as the proponent of the ban and also wrote that Matzav and Pinchos Lipshutz may have been a force involved in it. Asher Lipner of the Jewish Board of Advocates claimed that Vos Iz Neias was banned because of their coverage of sexual abuse inside the Charedi community. A post on The Five Towns Jewish Times, attributed to the American Israel Press Service, alleged that the ban was the work of members of the Satmar community associated with Brooklyn politician Vito Lopez and that the signers of the ban didn’t really know what they were signing. Matzav, in response, defended the signers.

“After rumors were spread questioning the veracity of the kol korei, we conducted our own private investigation and found all such claims to be completely false,” said Yossi Schneider, an editor at Matzav.com. “Claims of political agendas and the like being the motivating factor behind the kol korei were found to be totally untrue. The rabbonim, after reviewing various egregious transgressions of the site in question, felt a strong need to take a stand against the site and felt that the way to go about it would be to address the advertisers.”

Matzav also featured a letter from the Executive Director of the Rofea Cholim Cancer Society, Yosef Golding, who pulled his advertisements from Vos Iz Neias.

“After a personal conversation with the RCCS Rabbinical Chairman, the Novominsker Rebbe shlit’a, he unequivocally told me that he signed the aforementioned Kol Koreh,” Golding wrote. “As a result RCCS will no longer patronize the Vos Iz Neias site unless and until permission is granted by those Rabbanim.”

That post was taken down, though Rosenberg reposted it on his site. A spokesperson for Matzav said that the action was taken since the post was made without the authorization of the board of the organization and made by Golding in the “zeal to what he considered an affront to Gedolei Torah.”

The post on the Five Towns Jewish Times site was taken down as well. Larry Gordon, its publisher, did not respond to comments.