The Caricature, the Misconception, and the Challenge
A Closer Look at Speaking about Others

Heard at the Lashon Hara Conference
in Jerusalem: Thursday Night, 29 Nisan, 5760 (May 4, 2000)

In the News
"Shocked and Apalled," a letter to the editor of the Jerusalem Post in response to, "A good word for gossip"

Lashon Hara In the Workplace
Co-Worker evaluations, letting off steam & the laws of lashon hara

Permissible Lashon Hara
Correspondence with reader RG about the Biblical and Talmudic sources about speaking lashon hara to prevent a loss.

Basic Sources
Giving the benefit of the doubt -- a source guide

Links
Shmirat halashon: an online class led by Ellen Solomon covering the laws of forbidden speech
The Chofetz Chaim Heritage Foundation: contact information
Guard Your Tongue, a club at Columbia University