Rabbi Acquitted On Mikva Assault Charge

This Month In Jewish History: A dispute over mikva ownership leads to an assault charge against a town's rabbi.

From the Grand Forks [North Dakota] Daily Herald, January 25, 1893:

Comments

[Yochanan Lavie]

He can't be a rabbi because he has a stove pipe hat, and not a fedora or streimel

[seymour]

Yochanan Lavie

forget that he is setting next to a woman

[seymour]

and he was acquitted must not be Jewish at all.

since frum people never get a fair trial

[Garnel Ironheart]

Shame on you, Shmarya! You have a woman in that picture and she's not in a burka. I'm gonna tell the Beitar Illit beis din on you!

[Mendy C.]

You can say what you want, gentlemen, but very feeble attempts at humor!!

[seymour]

You can say what you want, gentlemen, but very feeble attempts at humor!!

Posted by: Mendy C. | January 16, 2013 at 08:58 AM

so don't laugh but post a picture like this on vin or yeshiva world and say rabbi and see what happens

[boy]

You mean they covered up molesting in those days too?
So its tradition.

[Mike]

From the Grand Forks [North Dakota] Daily Herald, January 25, 1893:

Slow news day, eh?

[Yochanan Lavie]

Another "feeble attempt at humor:" (Surfer Girl ------Beach Boys):

Little nidah, Yiddishe one
You will have to dunk your buns

Refrain:
Do you love me, do you, mikvah girl
Mikvah girl, my little mikvah girl

I have watched you in the shul
Standing by the mechitza tall

Refrain

Bridge:
We could learn torah together
It's apikorsis, though
With my woody I would take you
Till you start to groan

So I say from me to you
You'll make me a kosher Jew

Refrain 4x

(Thanks, Mendy, for letting me say what I want).

[chaim babad]

why don't you google this sage,there is a beautiful history of orthodox judaism in america.not evreything is a joke!

[chaim]

no chabad house in this area>?? north dakota...at least they have a mikva....

[dd]

if molestation in a mikvah dated back to the 1800 [ just imagine how many thousands of cases were not reported..... ], they should have abolished the mikvah from the 1800 and solve all problems .
by not doing so, two centuries of child molestations kept occurring throughout 200 years .

it is time to abolish the mikvah , now!
and have ppl bath on their own private bathtub to avoid temptation , bc now ppl have their own bathroom .

[NeverFrum]

Shame on you, Shmarya! You have a woman in that picture and she's not in a burka. I'm gonna tell the Beitar Illit beis din on you!

Posted by: Garnel Ironheart | January 16, 2013 at 08:52 AM

That's a woman??

[spacedout BT]

What happened to the kehilla and their descendants?