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***CVA Suit Filed Against Camp Gan Israel. Rabbi Shmuel Posner and Motti Sandman Named as Alleged Abuers in Suit.***

 

In 1992 Plaintiff was 9 years old and was attending Gan Izzy sleepaway camp in Parksville, NY. According to the complaint, Shmuel Posner, then 17 and employed by Gan Izzy as a counselor of a neighboring bunk to Plaintiff’s, sensed Plaintiff’s vulnerability and began to groom him for sexual abuse. The complaint alleges that these overtures were masked in the guise of friendship. 

 

According to the complaint Posner began sitting on Plaintiff’s bed at bedtime to keep him company, at first stroking him over the covers but then eventually stroking the plaintiff under the covers. Later Posner escalated to touching plaintiff’s penis under his pajamas, and placing Plaintiff’s hand on his penis and using it to pleasure himself. In the complaint Plaintiff describes dreading nights at the camp, feigning sleep but being awake and panicked. Posner would allegedly wait until the other counselors had left and the lights were out and then make his way to Plaintiff’s bed to abuse him. 

 

According to the complaint there was no actual supervision of Posner even though the camp did employ an overnight director whose job it was to check in periodically on the bunks. Plaintiff alleges that he never saw the overnight director during the whole time he was being abused by Posner. The complaint further alleges that the counselor of his bunk actually did walk in on Posner abusing Plaintiff one night and rather than react he simply turned and ran out of the bunk. It doesn’t seem that this counselor reported what he saw. 

 

After Plaintiff returned home he told his father what had happened to him. According to the complaint, Plaintiff’s father confronted the camp director about the abuse and urged him to implement policies to prevent such abuse from happening in the future. Despite this warning from plaintiff’s father, the director allegedly did nothing to update Gan Izzy’s protection policies, and instead covered up the allegation. The complaint alleges that no parents were notified about the alleged abuse, and counselors were still allowed to have unrestricted access to campers with no supervision. 

 

In the summer of 1994 Plaintiff returned to Gan Izzy. He was now 11 years old. In 1993 his father had died and he was still grieving. That summer his counselor was Motti Sandman. According to the complaint, one night when the campers were sleeping in sleeping bags near a camp bonfire Sandman approached Plaintiff while he was sleeping and started stroking his hand. He then allegedly moved to stroking Plaintiff’s genitals under his pajamas for a brief time. 

 

The complaint alleges that Sandman began escalating the abuse, one night approaching Plaintiff while he was sleeping on a top bunk and putting his finger in Plaintiff’s anus. He then allegedly began climbing the ladder to join Plaintiff in the top bunk, but Plaintiff, terrified, pushed him away. 

 

Excerpts of the complaint as well as pictures of the alleged abusers are included below. 

 

Link to full complaint: 

https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=lUcrhVbdHdDt21slhuzOpA==

 

A third-party complaint has also been filed by Gan Izzy against Posner and Sandman claiming that they are solely responsible for the abuse and that Gan Izzy should not be held responsible. 

 

Link to third-party complaint: 

https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=6QDL3zT1FCOgpx1REl9j1Q==

Chabad's International Leadership Tells Local Chabad Leaders In Melbourne That Democracy And True Power Sharing Are Forbidden

Did you believe Chabad's frequent claims to the press that each official Chabad center is a truly independent franchise? A new letter written to Chabad trustees in Melbourne, Australia by Chabad's organizational head Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky and the 1973 memo from his predecessor included with it should dispel that notion. But perhaps more importantly, the new Krinsky letter refers to the ongoing Chabad child sex abuse scandal in Melbourne this way: "We also acknowledge the severe difficulties you [Chabad trustees] have been going through for over a year and the aggravation and turmoil that have engulfed the entire Chabad community of Melbourne." There is not one word of consolation for the victims of the child sex abuse and not one word or regret for how the original complaints of child sex abuse were handled.

 

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Religion Risks Going Out of Business

I have heard similar sentiments from rabbis across the spectrum, from Haredi to Reform, as well as from many lay leaders. It is as if they are patting themselves on the back for doing the hard work of being involved in the Jewish community and going to synagogue whilst simultaneously judging others as self-centered for not doing likewise. As one lay leader said to me: “It’s meant to be hard to be Jewish, and young people today are lazy.”

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"…Judaism was the first culture to teach that animals, and even plants, should be treated with respect, at a time when humanity had not begun to think in terms of animal rights. Quite conveniently, some prefer to ignore the origin of the values they claim to defend. If opponents of shechita really cared about animals, they would have banned, for example, the cooking of live seafood in pots of boiling water; they would have banned force-feeding of geese and ducks; they would have banned hunting for sport. But they did not. Instead they chose to attack ritual slaughter.…"

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Women Of The Wall's Leader Compares Herself To Rosa Parks

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"I told [Rabbi Joel Roth] that I could corroborate everything I said but he ignored me. When I pointed out that I had read in the New York Times that day that a CEO had lost his job for a similar sexual impropriety, he said, "This won't make the New York Times.”

As Conservative Movement Implodes, Leaders Offer No Concrete Solutions

“Our house is on fire. If you don’t read anything else in the Pew report, we have maybe 10 years left…In the next 10 years I see the rapid collapse of synagogues and the national organization that supports them,” he said. “If we continue what we are doing, our house will burn down.”

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The Best Kept Secret In The Jewish World

The news from Syria reminds Judy Feld Carr of the Jewish family she ransomed out after they were told they “were next” when neighbours in their Jewish ghetto were butchered — the pregnant woman’s fetus cut out and left on the floor beside her’s and her two children’s bodies.

Small Number Of Rabbis – None Haredi – Ask Congress To Strike Syria

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Better Late Than Never, Too?

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Students will be taught by their teachers that “the rabbi has the final word…They will be educated to hate the secular courts, they will listen to Rabbi Ovadia [Yosef] who says [those secular courts and the judges who sit on them, even if personally Orthodox] are wicked.…We have a window of opportunity of five years to pass a constitution before these very same children who learn to prefer the rabbi [over democratic civil society] will decide the character of the State of Israel."

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