Was there a time when some of Agudah's leaders were actually honest?
Rabbi Eliezer Silver's grandson talks about his own sexual abuse and what his grandfather did about it.
Note that no senior level Agudah rabbis has done the same today, and that many children have suffered as a result.
This runs about one minute:
Rabbi Eliezer Silver actually was something, unlike the Novominsker and many of Agudah's current rabbinic hacks and its apparatchiks like Dovid Zwiebel, whose combined rabbinic skills barely fill a tea bag, if that.
This doesn't make Rabbi Silver perfect – it just shows again how totally imperfect and corrupt today's Agudah leaders are.
get this kind of stuff to newspapers
Posted by: yudel | June 22, 2009 at 04:26 PM
Always wondered how Shafran (a spokesman) and Zweibel (a lawyer) suddenly became "rabbis."
I know a number of people with semikha- who, I daresay, know a lot more than these two- who refuse to be called "rabbi" because they don't act as one. Honesty would demand that these two would do the same, semikha (instant, it seems) or not.
Posted by: Nachum | June 22, 2009 at 05:26 PM
Pedophile Yona Weinberg may take the stand today.
(Excerpt)
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2009/06/23/2009-06-23_teen_accuses_tutor_of_abuse.html
Brooklyn teen accuses bar mitzvah tutor, former social worker, of abuse
By Scott Shifrel
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Tuesday, June 23rd 2009
A frightened Brooklyn teenager shakily took the stand Monday to accuse a bar mitzvah tutor of repeatedly molesting him.
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Posted by: jewishwhistleblower | June 23, 2009 at 05:03 AM
I like how my friend "Shimshonit" (an MO olah from America, living in Efrat) put it:
"Israeli news headlines"
http://shimshonit.wordpress.com/2009/07/20/israeli-news-headlines/
"Despite all but one of these headlines being a real downer (Go Natan!), I’m still optimistic. ... And I believe that one day, the scales will fall from the eyes of the medieval, chauvinistic elements of the Jewish world, and they will pull their heads out of their nether regions and realize that it is injustices like child and spousal abuse, protecting husbands who refuse to give their wives divorces, and persecution of converts that keeps the Messiah from coming, not the length of a woman’s sleeve or how much of her hair is hidden."
Posted by: Michael Makovi | July 21, 2009 at 06:36 AM
Teshuva, Tefilla, U'tzedaka Ma'avirin es roah hagezeira.
Posted by: das torah | August 01, 2009 at 09:47 AM