The man said he tried to call Brander “four or five times,” but Brander
did not respond. So the man said he “had to leave a very uncomfortable
message” with someone in the Boca Raton Synagogue office. Later, a
“third party” from the synagogue contacted the man to say that the
allegations against Andron were “rumors” and that “in any case, it’s
behind him,” the man said.
The Forward reports:
…But two men have told the Forward that they tried to warn Goldberg’s predecessor [as rabbi of the Boca Raton Synagogue], Kenneth Brander, about Andron. Brander led the Boca Raton congregation from 1991 until 2005, when he took a post as dean of Yeshiva University’s Center for the Jewish Future.
One man who said that he was molested by Andron for three years told the Forward that he called Brander during the early 1990s.
“I told [Brander], he’s definitely a pedophile,” the man said, referring to Andron. “[Brander said] he would look into it, and he never called me back.”
Another man said he tried to warn Brander about Andron a little more than a decade ago.
The man said he tried to call Brander “four or five times,” but Brander did not respond. So the man said he “had to leave a very uncomfortable message” with someone in the Boca Raton Synagogue office. Later, a “third party” from the synagogue contacted the man to say that the allegations against Andron were “rumors” and that “in any case, it’s behind him,” the man said.…
Brander was the head rabbi of the the Boca Raton Synagogue from 1991 until 2005, when he left to become the dean of Yeshiva University’s Center for the Jewish Future. He was promoted to vice president for university and community life at the end of June.
He reportedly did not respond to the Forward's questions.