What are we to make of the fact that Urban Dictionary, a crowd-sourced website set up to define slang words and phrases, has become a hotbed of hate-speech, racism, and sexism? With offensive definitions of Auschwitz and anti-Zionism just two recent examples, Rabbi Dunner dwells on the fact that what is found on the fringes soon winds its way into the mainstream, a point presciently made by Moses in his stark warning regarding false prophets and the dangers of idolatry for those about to embark on the conquest of the Promised Land.
