Rich Buhler & Staff

Rich Buhler is the founder of TruthorFiction and was a broadcaster, speaker, author, broadcast journalist, and producer who researched and wrote about rumors and urban legends for more than 30 years. Because of both his knowledge about what he terms “eRumors” and his broadcast background, Rich was a popular guest on radio and television and has appeared on national and international outlets including on CNN, MSNBC, NBC, Fox News, BBC, CBC, as well as local television and radio stations from Maryland to California. He has also either written, or been featured in, numerous newspaper and magazine articles. Rich operated TruthOrFiction.com until his death from pancreatic cancer in May of 2012, his family wrote and operated truthorfiction.com on his behalf until late 2018 and are still owners of the site.

The Story of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and the Rabbi-Truth! & Fiction!

This is a forwarded story about Rabbi Yisrael Mir Lau and Lakers basketball player Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. It says that Jabbar is flying to Israel, on the dying wish of his father, to meet with Rabbi Lau and that Jabbar’s father, Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor, Sr., served in the U.S. Army’s 761st Tank Battalion in World War II that rescued Lau from Nazi concentration camp when Rabbi Lau was a child.