The most viewed video of the Rebbe on the web - and the entire channel of Jewish Educational Media - has been removed by Youtube, as a result of a fraudulent claim made by a Yeshiva student using the title "Moshiach."
By COLlive reporter
Staffers at Jewish Educational Media, the multi-media arm of the Chabad Lubavitch movement, were shocked Wednesday when its popular YouTube channel containing thousands of hours of content and videos of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, was removed in its entirety by Youtube.
Youtube removed the channel, which is under the name JewishMedia, after multiple videos of the Rebbe were falsely reported as stolen copyrighted material.
Jewish Educational Media, led by Rabbi Elkanah Shmotkin and a team of over 40 content and production experts, has spent the past 2 decades, at the cost of millions of dollars, acquiring, restoring, and sharing video and photo content of the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
Their Youtube channel has been active since 2004 and has accumulated millions of views from around the globe. Many of their videos received tens of thousands of views, with the most viewed video of the Rebbe on YouTube on their channel, racking up over 723,000 views.
However this week, that video, which has been seen by – and impacted – hundreds of thousands of people, has been removed, due to a youtube “copyright strike.”
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