Rabbi Gets 60 Days In Prison For Jetliner Grope

An Orthodox rabbi was sentenced to prison today for fondling a woman during a trans-Atlantic flight aboard a commercial jetliner bound for New York. Assistant US Attorney David Sarratt told the court that Bidany's conduct was particularly troubling, given that "he selected a victim who is 23-years-old, but who appears much younger than that."

 

Rabbi gets 60 days in prison for trans-Atlantic jetliner grope
By MITCHEL MADDUX • New York Post

An Orthodox rabbi was sentenced to prison today for fondling a woman during a trans-Atlantic flight aboard a commercial jetliner bound for New York.

Gavriel Bidany, 48, a married father of 11 children, was sentenced to serve 60 days in a federal prison for groping a female Israel Defense Forces officer on a Delta flight to JFK Airport.

"Rabbi Bidany committed a serious crime...and such conduct cannot be tolerated," said Magistrate Judge Ramon Reyes, Jr. in Brooklyn federal court.

"It took a lot of courage and personal sacrifice for [the victim] to come forward and testify," he said.

Assistant US Attorney David Sarratt told the court that Bidany's conduct was particularly troubling, given that "he selected a victim who is 23-years-old, but who appears much younger than that."

The diminutive woman who took the stand last week and recounted the incident during Bidany's bench trial was not present for today's sentencing, but the prosecutor read aloud a letter she had filed with the court.

"I lost, in a most human way, my most precious thing - my innocence," the woman wrote about the in-flight assault. "I won't be trapped again. I also won't trust again."

The woman also wrote that she was even more troubled, considering that Bidany is a a rabbi who wears clerical dress.

"From him, I expected more," the woman said of Bidany, emphasizing she hoped he would "admit his mistake" and demonstrate unflinchingly "the behavior of spiritual leaders who believe what they preach."

In pronouncing sentence, the judge also noted that he was troubled by the fact that rabbi's account of what happened aboard the aircraft was at odds with all other testimony in the case.

"Rabbi Bidany testified falsely," the judge said.

Bidany, his wife, and children, all live in Israel in a close-knit neighborhood near the Tel Aviv airport.

Friends who attended last week's trial said Bidany was a respected fixture in the local Orthodox community, where interactions between unmarried men and women are restricted.

Bidany was trained as a rabbi, but does not serve as one, and instead studies at a yeshiva and runs a soup kitchen, said his attorney, Saul Bienenfeld.

He was convicted of groping the female Israel Defense Forces officer as she slept in her seat. The two were seated next to each other on a Delta flight from Tel Aviv earlier this year when the young woman fell asleep.

She testified at the trial that she had awaken to find Bidany's hand massaging her crotch and then her breasts.

After she accused him of molesting her, the rabbi pretended to be dozing and feigned innocence, the woman testified.

The woman, a 23-year-old career military officer, who holds the rank of lieutenant, said she then stood up and reported the assault to a flight attendant.

Bidany apparently fled to the back of the plane, and the attendants found him there.

Bidany, an Israeli national, was immediately remanded to federal custody by US Marshals after the judge announced the sentence.

Before today's hearing, several of his children wrote the judge to urge leniency in the case.

One of Bidany's daughters, Eden, wrote to Judge Reyes explaining the personal dilemma she faces.

"I am begging you your honor, I have reached an age (22) where I need to find a groom and start a family," Eden Bidany wrote. "And without my father it is very difficult."

"This could harm my matchmaking process - starting a home. My whole future depends on it," she wrote.

Her brother, Ariel, made a similar plea.

"Have pity on me. I have reached the age of 21, and need to find a bride, get married and have a family," Ariel Bidany wrote.

"When my father is not with me, it is going to be very hard and would hurt my matchmaking," he wrote. "I would like to get married properly with my father at my side please."

At the conclusion of Bidany's bench trial last week, Judge Reyes said that he had found the female Israeli Defense Force officer's testimony to be "compelling and wholly believable."

Comments

[R. Wisler]

Boooreeech Hashem, the pervert'll be out in time for the ya'amim na'aray'im. Maybe on his way back to Israel, he can grope some other chick. Love the cigarette BTW.

[jancsipista]

this depraved animal who is the the father of 11 children is very very lucky i would put him away for a much much lomger time with hard work.

[Barry]

He has grounds to appeal his conviction

see

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4aEJ_6TNZQ

[Loshon Hora]

this depraved animal who is the the father of 11 children is very very lucky i would put him away for a much much lomger time with hard work.

Posted by: jancsipista | May 12, 2011 at 01:54 PM

Demayuk got only 5 years for more than 28000 murders this guy got 60 days for touching. This guy's so called short sentance bothers you. Demanyuk's 5 years doesn't bother you. It was also news today.

[camerafreak]

What a ass go to a peep show or get a hooker not smart at all

[jancsipista]

loshon hara- di fariker, learn how to spell ,and also learn not to mix things up this topic is only about the rabbi who groped di shoite you fool of the first order .

[Loshon Hora]

loshon hara- di fariker, learn how to spell ,and also learn not to mix things up this topic is only about the rabbi who groped di shoite you fool of the first order .

Posted by: jancsipista | May 12, 2011 at 02:36 PM
This is as Loshon Hora Moitzi shem ra blog, I don't check my spelling here nor do I care about it. I am not posting for the inteligent, just for the Ungarisher Naar like you.
The self hating Jew, like you, who want the world Chareidi-rein.
This Teimoni seems to be a Lubi BT living in Lod er is nischt fin unserer anyway, but youwant him jailed for life, because he is a chareidi wannabee. If he would be a Kenyan Obama flying from Niger to the US the fly wouldn't make it passed your windshield. So you are a racsist against Chareidim, like Hitler was against Jews.
You get it, di Ungarisher Naar.

[jancsipista]

loshan hara- first you demean me as an ungarisher nar,then you try to appease me by saying he is not one of us he the molester is a taimani, youre some piece of work,who in the world said that he should be jailed for life how big of a shoite can you bee is there no limit to youre idiocy, and you compare another yid to mah shemoi di behaime youre lower then a worm go get help before its too late di farrikter behaime.

[Zoobiemanyak]

Loshon Hora - You Sir, are an idiot!

[WoolSilkCotton]

Loshon Hora, you really are a mentally disturbed POS.

I hope this holy rabbi sits next to your daughter on his eventual return flight to Israel.

[David]

Which minyan will he be joining?

[seymour]

loshan hara- first you demean me as an ungarisher nar,then you try to appease me by saying he is not one of us he the molester is a taimani, youre some piece of work,who in the world said that he should be jailed for life how big of a shoite can you bee is there no limit to youre idiocy, and you compare another yid to mah shemoi di behaime youre lower then a worm go get help before its too late di farrikter behaime.

Posted by: jancsipista | May 12, 2011 at 03:00 PM

you do not get it do to some like Loshon Hora there could be no reason why a frum person should be judged by goyim. No matter what they should no be punished and take any responsibility for their crimes

[BaltimoreYid]

I would have ripped his eyeball out with a teaspoon if he touched my daughter.

[WoolSilkCotton]

Shmarya, please review Loshon Hora's comment of 2:52.

There are sufficient grounds to consider banning him.

[jay]

LH, you Haredi types love to use the Hitler or Nazi libel against Jews who criticizes any egregious behavior in your communities. All you end up doing is validating all the negative perceptions of Haredim. And deservedly so.

[David]

I still don't understand why his kids think this will affect their prospects for a shidduch.

a) What there father did is fairly normal behaviour among the Charedim.

b) It was obviously someone else's fault anyway. In this case, the woman's.

[BeenThereDoneThat]

He will now be known as the Groper Rebbe.

But I for one will not be his chassid.

I am a chossid of the Breastlover Rebbe.

Grover is a chossid of Reb Rubbishcan.

Ok, better take my pills now...

[Yochanan Lavie]

Apologies to Steve Miller:

Leavin' home, like a slimy toad
I've been down before
Molesting girls in this big ol' jet plane
My hands are starting to roam
But my love life seems so far away
And I feel like it's okay I'm frum
The judge is tryin' to make me stay
You know I want to be movin' on

Chorus:
Oy vey, big ol' jet airliner
Can't carry me too far away
Oy vey, big ol' jet airliner
'Cause it's here that I've got to stay

Goodbye to all my chevra at home
Goodbye to people I've trusted
I've got to go out and make an appeal
I might be someone's bitch now that I'm busted
But my hands keep pinching her backside
As I get on the 707
Ridin' high I got hands on her thigh
You know you got to go through Eden
Before you get to Gehenna

chorus

Touchin' down in Eretz Israel
Feel the heat comin' down
I've got to keep on, kipa on
You know the big lies keep on spinnin' around
And I'm goin' with some hesitation
You know that I can only stammer
'Cause I don't want to get caught up in any of that
Homo schtick goin' down in the slammer

chorus 2x

Yeah, yeah yeah, yeah

chorus

Oy vey big ol' jet airliner
Carry me from my home
Oh, Oh big ol' jet airliner
Cause it's there that I can't go

[Loshon Hora]

My point is you want to get rid of all Chareidim, so you look at them as bad & anyone who even he isn't a Chareidi, but has something to do with them you want punished & banished.
It is one thing showing the news about Chareidim who fell, which Shmaryahoo does, sometimes adds a little.
It is another thing lookinbg for bad & hoping to punish anyone who is Chareidi & looking at all and anyone to do with Hareidism as a perp, & hoping they get imprisoned without a trial as long as possible.
The later is racsism, & you people want a Hareidi rein world.
That is no different to Hitler's Ideaology of Juden-rein.
WSC you know that you want chareim-rein world.
Off Der Ganev brent der hittel, so you want my free speach banned, so that you could go on with your cahreidim-rein agenda.
I know Shmaryahoo has an agenda, but I don't think he really wants Chareidim-rein.He merely wants to keep them in check, and unfortunatly they may need that, but those like you show a hate agenda, and I have a right to attack it.

[jay]

You really are paranoid and foolish, aren't you. Get it through your head: Most of us couldn't care less one way or the other how you live your lives-- if only there weren't ongoing attempts , particularly in Israel, to impose that life on others.

[seymour]

Loshon Hora

please I come from a frummie community what is said here is mild what the herdiem say about the secular.

[David]

Its strange that the the Groper Rebbe's girl thinks this will affect her prospects of a shidduch but if the victim and her community went by R. Groper's standards, she, as a victim of a sex crime would find it impossible to find a shidduch (as it is always the victim's fault according to them).

I wonder if the girl would be complaining if her father's victim was frumma?

[seymour]

Loshon Hora

and the herdieam are an embarrassment to all Jews.

Not because there some bad guys not because of your religion but because of the behavior of the community when one of the frummies are caught and there is no shame, no regret, for the bad mbehaviour behavior,.

And almost openly state that goyim have no right to judge you guys.

when is the last time a heridie rebbie condemned a herdies actions or said to the community do not do this anymore. Never, all they can do is blame the mosser, the victim, antisemitism and make all type of excuses.

a person could be convicted more than once for fraud like pinter and you guys still call him rov.

maybe now you get it

[seymour]

I wonder if the girl would be complaining if her father's victim was frumma?

Posted by: David | May 12, 2011 at 04:53 PM

of course they would they would blame the mosser for everything

[seymour]

it is sad that the children really do not know how the world works.

There letters just made it worse. They are saying we do not give a shit what our father did we need to get married.

No remorse no statement adamant that their father is innocent, just we are special let him go

[effie]

Yep. If the guy had immediately gone into therapy, admitted he had a problem, and pled guilty he might be doing less time or have a lesser offense. If the kids said my dad needs therapy instead of whining about how they can't wipe their butts unless dad is there to help them, that would also have helped.

[effie]

Demanyuk's 5 years doesn't bother you.

Give me a pillow and put me in a room alone with him, and I'll show you how much it bothers me.

[A. Nuran]

Once again, LH comes through. "Someone else did worse crimes. Putting this tzaddik in jail at all is a chillul hashem. You're all self-hating Jews. And Nazis. Just like the Nazis!!!!!"

Get a grip, dude. A Jew did crime and got what was coming to him. His defense was lame. His kids' pleas for mercy were coached and creepy. In the real world he'd do his time and, we hope be careful not to molest young women in the future.

But in Charediworld he's the victim. The slut who accused him is a Nazi. The judge is a Nazi. The Marshals and flight attendants are Nazis. The rest of us won shake our heads and say "Oy. This is embarrassing" are Nazis.

I don't see anyone here saying he, let alone all Jews, should be rounded up and killed. Nobody's proposing Nuremberg Laws. The most extreme thing is a desire to see justice done regardless of who did the crime.

But I suppose for your sort of Charedim taking responsibility and obeying the law are the same as genocide.

[jancsipista]

loshon hara- talking about hate just look into the mirrer you will find the biggest hater you, you keep repeating the same thing over and over and over again about chareidi -rein world you must be tottaly out of youre mind this is youre invention and keep repating it,in my oppinion you are insane, as i wrote before get help before its too late di farrikter behaieme.

[A. Nuran]

Yochanan, good song as always, but I have to say I'm deeply offended at the first line. Your rabid bufonophobia is an affront to all proud Amphibian-Americans.

[Shlomo]

WSC Generally I agree with what you say but re your comment at 3:04 What did his daughter do to deserve being molested.
Lashon Hora's comments are both despicable and he is trolling here

[WoolSilkCotton]

Loshon Hora, I don't want the world charedi rein, but I do want the charedim to be rein in their actions and what they say.

And showering more often to be physically rein would be helpful, too, so they don't stink up the city.

[Yochanan Lavie]

AN: Sorry for the offense. Some of my best friends are amphibians ;)

[Loshon Hora]

loshon hara- talking about hate just look into the mirrer you will find the biggest hater you, you keep repeating the same thing over and over and over again about chareidi -rein world you must be tottaly out of youre mind this is youre invention and keep repating it,in my oppinion you are insane, as i wrote before get help before its too late di farrikter behaieme.

Posted by: jancsipista | May 12, 2011 at 05:13 PM

I did that specialy for you guys to come at me for my post sounds racisct when you are racsists.
Thank G_d you got the point.
Again not all Chareidim are guilty of this man's deeds.He is not more guilty than the judge made him, because he is a chareidi wannabee.Period

[jancsipista]

loshon hara- as i wrote before you better get help you dont make any sense, youre writing is mindless doesnt have any meaning youve gone insane hurry get help, zay nisht kain nar hob nisht kain tszar.

[Isa]

I would seriously suspect that this guy 'diddles' his kids [or someone else's]

[WoolSilkCotton]

++ Shlomo | May 12, 2011 at 05:57 PM++

Shlomo, you are right. I should not have brought his daughter into the discussion.

I detract the second sentence of 3:04.

[Robert Wisler]

Poor Steve Miller to be associated with this low-life pervert. You definitely owe Mr. Miller Yochanan!!! I hope that the army woman also brings many civil suits for damages against this guy. Then perhaps his children will have to get married on their own merits and faults instead of on daddy's money.

[David]

I detract the second sentence of 3:04.

Note to all frumma: See how easy it is to correct one's errors?

[Loshon Hora]

Wow I got some attentionn here. I pulled some raw nerves. I guess the truth hurts.
For the record: How old was Bill Clinton & how old was monica & what did he do, & how and when was he punished? Is that justice?
What about Natanyahoo & his earlier 2 wives & adultery?
I guess they didn't become BTs one fday & grow a beard, so they go without punishment, without discrace, in fact I guess you people worship them, & hold highly of them.
You will say after all they did a lot of good, blah blah blah.
This man none of us ever heard of him before, neither do we know him, yet he is all bad his group of chareidim are all bad & all chareidim are bad. etc.

I don't see why that isn't rascism, & worse all Chareidim are guilty by any connection. All nonchareidim presidents & prime minister are innocent even if they committed worse crimes.
BTW there are so many different types of Chareidim. Mizrachim [AKA Sfardim], every N. African origin is another sect & community every Middle-Eastern, origin is also another community, & the Dutch & British Spanish & Portugese origin are yet another kind.
Then you have Geogians who are not Ashkenazim nor Sfardim somewhere in between. Then the Ashkenazim the Germans Oberlanders Unterlander, Russian Polish Litvish, Yeshivish, Misnagdish, Cahasidish, Each Chasuidus has slintered take Satmar you got Aaronim Zalonim Bnei Yoels & many more.
You guy take a beard clad guy convicted of Gropping & call all of us bad.
Take it a step further the Goyim will call all Jews bad & you are included in that like it or not.
The reason you domn't get my point, & I have to use quasi racist terms to get through to you & look yourselves in the mirror is becausre you don't want to.
If the Nazis showed you some bad Jews [there were some], & told you all Jews are bad because we have showbn you a few bad ones, no matter how much you would drive home how untrue it is to paint all with one brush it wouldn't work, because they nmade up their minds that Jews were sub-humans.
That is what you are doing all Chareidim, the more you protest my comments the more I know how true they are.

[Ergo Proxy]

I bet you if his name was Lindsey Lohan he would have gotten house arrest. Probation, a heavy fine in addition to the civil suit and make him pay damages for the battery on the girl, I don't know if IIED would fit though.

[Ergo Proxy]

P.D.

This blog has one of the most disturbing self-hatred between Jews that I personally have ever seen in my 48 years of life.

[Loshon Hora]

Sorry for not checking spelling etc of the the last post & Thanks Ergo Proxy.
BTW may I add: As long as the Jews remained Jews in Germany, dressed like Jews, and behaved like Jews the Goyim never liked them,but they basicaly tolerated them.
As soon as they decided to assimilate & become goyim, the goyim said Oh No we don't want you Jews becomming part of us, & that brought Hitler.
The communists Marxists & crooked bankers caused it to snap.
A lesson to all you guys trying to knock the Chareidim won't get you credit, by the gntiles it will work against you, like you look at all types of Chareidim as one they look at all Jews as one.
Scream as loud as you want it won't help your own hate will be used against you.
Remember how you blogged when G-d forbid the bad times come.
I call my name Loshon Hora so that you & I know what this is all about.

[seymour]

Loshon Hora

who suffered the most during the holocaust the cherideim so being frum did not protect them.

they prayed and cried to god help us we are pure we are you children.

what happened Loshon Hora why did your life style not protect you and percentage wise suffered more

let see they were assimilated in Germany for years way before Hitler came into power. so you analogy is nonsense

they where assimilated in Denmark but the Danes protected them. They where assimilated in Italy and Mussolini did not give up the Jews.

You analogy is very simplistic and does not look into cause in effect.

some was walking down the street wearring a blue shirt and got hit by a car.

see if you wear a blue shirt you get hit by a car.

that is the nonsense your are saying.

learn history

[ah-pee-chorus]

For the record: How old was Bill Clinton & how old was monica & what did he do, & how and when was he punished? Is that justice?
What about Natanyahoo & his earlier 2 wives & adultery?
I guess they didn't become BTs one fday & grow a beard, so they go without punishment, without discrace, in fact I guess you people worship them, & hold highly of them.
Posted by: Loshon Hora

you have ZERO ability to reason and are completely morally bankrupt. apparently that is what is taught in yeshiva.
get this through your head- clinton and lewinsky were both consenting adults. there was no crime there in the acts themselves, unless adultery is still on the books there. adults are free to make decisions as long as they dont conflict with anothers rights. the same goes for netanyahu.
in this case, the perverted animal who happened to be haredi groped and molested a young woman AGAINST HER WILL!!!!!!!
furthermore, even if clinton and netanyahu had done the same thing and gone unpunished, would that mean that this lowlife shouldnt be punished? there have been many people in history that got away with murder. by your confused logic nobody should ever be punished for murder, and we should all abstain from condemning the murderers actions since other murderers werent brought to justice.
and to add to all that, i'm quite sure youre such a hypocrite that if a secular soldier groped a haredi girl you would be outraged and calling for a far harsher sentence.

[Adam Neira]

It's a very low act. Violation of another's sovereign realm whilst sleeping is despicable behaviour.

[Loshon Hora]

Apee,
First of all you are not even sure if adultery is forbidden.
Second of all, she never consented she was scared to death not to. BTW you forget he was impeached.
Natanyahoo, cheated on his wife & the way the Torah also is law for Jews he broke those laws & according to the Torah that carries a death sentance, besides believe me with his sex history he just never got caught or snitched on every time.It definatly isn't moral either.
You prove my point by covering up their sins & honoring those sinners, yet this guy's sin you multiply, and because he is some kind of a BT you make all Chareidim guilty. You have proven yourself to be a biggot racist Anti-Chareidi & Anti -G-d.
When the Goy judges you he won't diffrentiate between Hareidim & you, he will read your hate on this blog, & hate you as a Jew. Your own hate will be used against you.

[maven]

Loshon Hora, you are the worst anti semite and racist, because immediately you assume this individual must be a baal teshuva. So all charedi-born individuals are tzadikim, only the charedi world is contaminated by other Jews who apparently bring Hitler, etc. The rest of your "historical" rant is of course, offensive nonsense.

[Loshon Hora]

Loshon Hora, you are the worst anti semite and racist, because immediately you assume this individual must be a baal teshuva. So all charedi-born individuals are tzadikim, only the charedi world is contaminated by other Jews who apparently bring Hitler, etc. The rest of your "historical" rant is of course, offensive nonsense.

Posted by: maven | May 12, 2011 at 10:43 PM
Wrong my point is anyone who has anything to do with Hareidi be it BT or OTD or what ever is classed over here as Chareidi & therefore bad.
My point is there are many types of Chareidim & many in each group each is an individual & because one has fallen not all have.Painting Chareidm & all those wannabees all as the same, & all responsible for one individual's sin, is the same the gentiles do to us.
As for him being a BT, which is obvious if you see where he lives & his children's names, my point is he possibly hasn't finished doing tshuva yet, & still needs to get to Even Hoezer in Shulchan Aruch, see my earlier posts.
Don't blame the Chareidim he started off secular & isn't quite all the way there yet.
I am not covering up somebody's short commings, but to exzadurate them, like the comments above. They would give hard labor & much harsher sentances, & all frumme do this & cover it up, & all Chareidim blah blah blah.
You guys honor Clinton & Natanyahoo, who were never punished, but this bearded Jew deserves worse than he got & all Chareidim together.
You only get offended from racsism if it is against your ideal, but against Hareidim it is free.
BTW I am shocked at the amount of attention I got, I almost want to say who I am. I am thinking of starting the Failed Shamyahoo blog soon.

[maven]

You are getting all this attention because of the ridiculous things you are saying.

[Abracadabra]

Hey folks - why are you feeding this troll aka Loshon Hora???

The guy is a moron. Ignore the moron.

Don't feed the troll. Ever. On any post.

Just ignore the troll.

The troll's moronic words speak for themselves.

You will never change his mind and he is a moron so he is incapable of learning.

He doesn't deserve your attention or time. He is just manipulating you and trying to get your goat and you're falling for it.

DON'T FEED THE TROLL.

[Loshon Hora]

Hey folks - why are you feeding this troll aka Loshon Hora???

The guy is a moron. Ignore the moron.

Don't feed the troll. Ever. On any post.

Just ignore the troll.

The troll's moronic words speak for themselves.

You will never change his mind and he is a moron so he is incapable of learning.

He doesn't deserve your attention or time. He is just manipulating you and trying to get your goat and you're falling for it.

DON'T FEED THE TROLL.

Posted by: Abracadabra | May 13, 2011 at 02:14 AM
Thanks for the attention, you in your own words also fell for it.

[tooclose2detroit]

BTW I am shocked at the amount of attention I got, I almost want to say who I am. I am thinking of starting the Failed Shamyahoo blog soon.

Posted by: Loshon Hora | May 12, 2011 at 10:59 PM

Heyy-thats pretty funny.