The sleazy, dishonest and non-too-bright publisher of Ami Magazine even claims he never intimidated anyone with regard to child sexual abuse – even though he published an article equating victims advocates and bloggers with Nazis and followed that with an editorial encouraging vigilante violence and attacking bloggers who report haredi crimes.
The smaller the mind, the larger the hat. Rabbi Yitzchok Frankfurter.
The sleazy, dishonest and non-too-bright publisher of Ami Magazine even claims he never intimidated anyone with regard to child sexual abuse – even though he published an article equating victims advocates and bloggers with Nazis and followed that with an editorial encouraging vigilante violence and attacking bloggers who report haredi crimes, like child sexual abuse.
Among other nonsensical claims the ever moronic Frankfurter makes is that the entire Satmar community hasn't been charged with a crime, and therefore should not be blamed – even when their rebbe demonizes the alleged victim of child rape and the community harasses the victim and her family and friends while at the same time raising hundreds of thousands of dollars for her accused rapist.
But normative Jewish law holds that if a group is silent when its leader or a prominent member commits public crimes, the community is held responsible under the halakhic formula of shtika k'hoda'ah, silence equals agreement – a point at least two callers made and Frankfurter inartfully tried to dodge.
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Rabbi Yitzchok Frankfurter Weberman trial 12-8-2012 Zev Brenner