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Haredi Rabbi Wanted To Have Sex With Second Boy, Court Hears

A former student of 29-year-old Rabbi Haim Boukris testified at Bourkis’ Sullivan County, New York child sex abuse trial that Bourkis said he wanted to have sex with a different boy besides his 11-year-old alleged victim.

Senior Chabad Rabbi Asks Community To Stop Harassing Man And His Family

“…Rabbi Glick publicly, absolutely and definitively clears Menachem or his family of any wrong doing. Rabbi Glick calls on any and all parties connected with this situation, and the community generally, to immediately and for all time restore the good name of Menachem and the Vorchheimer family and to stop completely any and all negativity towards them.…”

Bail-Jumping Runaway Breslov Rabbi Wants Money For School For His Followers’ Children

Breslov Shuvu Banim hasidic sect leader Rabbi Eliezer Berland, who is wanted by police in Israel for a string of alleged sex assaults against female followers (at least one of whom was a minor at the time she was allegedly assaulted) is raising money for a new Talmud Torah school for the children of followers who have fled Israel with him.

New Sex Allegations Surface Against Prominent Zionist Orthodox Rabbi Mordechai “Moti” Elon After Top ZO Rabbi Praises The Convicted Sex Offender

Israel Police are investigating new sexual harassment allegations against prominent Zionist Orthodox Rabbi Mordechai "Moti" Elon, who is already a convicted sex offender.

Chabad Announces "Redress Scheme" For Child Sex Abuse

Chabad's Yeshivah Center in Melbourne, Australia is offering a "scheme [which] will offer redress in the form of a direct personal response to the victims of abuse from Yeshivah, access to counselling and psychological care, and a monetary payment to recognise that sexual abuse should not have occurred. Receiving support under the scheme will not prejudice the individual’s rights to pursue any further legal action.…"

British Rabbis Hold Child Sex Abuse Training

Chief Rabbi of the UK Ephraim Mirvis led a training seminar on child sex abuse attended by more than 120 rabbis and other Jewish religious leaders.

Kabbalh Centre, Former Top Rabbi, Ordered To Pay Woman $177,500 Over Sex Abuse Claim

“Ms. Scaccetti is very happy that the jury found in her favor and awarded her damages – and is especially happy that by bringing this lawsuit she may have saved others from being victimized by Yehuda Berg."

Bnei Brak Man Indicted On Child Sodomy Charge

Menachem Yehoshua Ehrlich, has been indicted for allegedly repeatedly sodomizing an 11-1/2-year-old boy on at least three different occasions.

Openness And Transparency? Not At Chabad In Melbourne

Parents and Friends of [Chabad's] Yeshivah in Melbourne (PFYM),the group that helped force Chabad's top Melbourne lay leaders to resign over Chabad's massive child sex abuse scandal, was promised full cooperation and transparency by the interim lay leaders appointed to manage Chabad. But instead of cooperation and transparency, Chabad's Interim Committee of Management (likely acting in concert with the supposedly ousted former CoM members and the rabbis who led Chabad's decades-long coverup of child sex abuse at its Melbourne Yeshiavah Centre) have completely stonewalled parents and activists even as Chabad was publicly claiming to be reaching out to its community members and working toward healing. But that reaching out, that claimed openness, seems to be just another in a very long line of Chabad PR stunts.

Israel Mishandles Sex Crimes Against Children, Does Little To Stop Child Prostitution, Few Perpetrators Ever Punished, UN Report, Knesset’s Own Research, Show

A recent report issued by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child sharply criticized Israel for mishandling sex crimes against children, human trafficking of minors, and children exploited for prostitution – the Knesset's own research arm's findings support the UN's claims.

Chabad's Yeshiva Centre To Hold Reconciliation Evening With Abuse Victims

Chabad's Yeshivah Centre in Melbourne, Australia – the locus of at least a dozen (and likely two to three times that) cases of child sex abuse covered up by Chabad – is holding an evening of reflection, understanding, healing and regret with a panel that include at least one of those victims, Manny Waks. The problem, it would seem, is that Chabad's harassment of victims is ongoing, and it's kind of hard to reflect, understand and heal while that is ongoing. The evening is important to Chabad, though, because just weeks afterward, the Royal Commission investigating the abuse and coverups at Chabad will release its report and recommendations, and the more repentant Chabad can seem, the less chance there is that those recommendations will include criminal charges against its rabbis.

Kabbalah Centre Sued Over Alleged Attempted Rape By Its Leader

The now-former co-director of the Kabbalah Centre International gave a student Vicodin and alcohol, then touched her inappropriately and tried to have sex with her, an attorney told a Los Angeles Superior Court jury today.

Audio Of Phone Call Between Alleged Victim's Mother And Accused Rabbi

The audio recording made under police supervision between a Rabbi Steve Karro, who is accused of molesting an 11-year-old girl, and the girl’s mother.

Chabad Rabbi Convicted Of Aggravated Criminal Sex Assault Against 15-Year-Old-Boy

Forty-eight-year-old Chabad Rabbi Aryeh "Larry" Dudovitz was convicted today on child sex abuse charges in a bench trial. Although many Orthodox and Chabad rabbis in Chicago knew Dudovitz had confessed to the crime to the CRC's beit din, not one of the rabbis reported Dudovitz to police and Chabad allegedly stymied the original police investigation.

Israeli Orthodox Rabbis Hold Conference On Rabbinic Sex Abuse

In the wake of a series of recent cases of rabbinic sex abuse, most prominently the case of leading Zionist Orthodox Rabbi Ezra Sheinberg, who headed a yeshiva and several other institutions in Sefat, Zionist Orthodox rabbis are holding a one-day conference today in Jerusalem on rabbinic sex abuse, how to recognize it, and how to combat it.

Chabad's Interim Committee Of Management Stonewalls Parents Over Child Sex Abuse Reforms

Parents and Friends of [Chabad] Yeshiva Melbourne, the group that helped force Chabad's top Melbourne lay leaders to resign over Chabad's massive child sex abuse scandal, was promised full cooperation and transparency by the interim lay leaders appointed to manage Chabad. But instead of cooperation and transparency, Chabad's Interim Committee of Management (likely acting in concert with the supposedly ousted former CoM members and the rabbis who led Chabad's decades-long coverup of child sex abuse at its Melbourne Yeshiavah Centre) have completely stonewalled parents and activists, as these newly released details appear to show.

Jewish Family And Children's Center Executive Arrested By Feds For Alleged Child Sex Abuse

“Elliot Halberstam is charged with violating the trust of his former patient, a 16-year old boy, in the worst way imaginable - he allegedly coerced and tricked the victim into engaging in sexually explicit conduct, and captured it on video and in photographs.  Together with our partners at the FBI, we are dedicated to ensuring that those who sexually exploit children are held to account.” According to CBS, Halberstam is listed as an assistant director with Jewish Family Service & Children's Center of Clifton-Passaic.

Mikvah Voyeur Rabbi's Former Synagogue Loses Bid To Appeal In What Attorneys Say Is A "Big Victory" For Rabbi's Victims

The DC Circuit Court denied a request to appeal filed by mikvah-peeping Rabbi Barry Freundel's former synagogue, Kesher Israel in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, DC. The synagogue, which is being sued by Freundel's victims, wanted to move the suit to federal court. The victims opposed the move and the District Court’s new ruling supports them. The case has been remanded back DC Superior Court, something the victims' attorneys call a  "big victory" for the victims. 

Video: Chabad Hasid Caught On Video Sexually Assaulting Young Woman In Bnei Brak

The apparent assault took place on Shabbat in the Israeli haredi city of Bnei Brak.

You're Being Rightly Shunned And Ostracized Because You Sinned By Telling The Goyyim The Truth About Our Child Sex Abuse, Chabad Rabbi Allegedly Tells Victim

A current member of the executive of the Rabbinical Council of Victoria (RCV) reportedly told a victim of child sexual abuse at Chabad's Yeshivah Centre in Melbourne, Australia that when the victim testified at the Royal Commission investigating child sex abuse at Chabad institutions the victim caused a chillul Hashem (desecration of God’s name). The victim needs to accept that for that reason alone Chabad people want to have nothing to do with him, the good rabbi allegedly said.

Rabbi Gavriel Bodenheimer Gets 3 Years Of Sex Offender Probation

Bodenheimer was originally charged with three felony counts of a first-degree criminal sexual act and one count of first-degree sex abuse for alleged oral and anal sex with a 5-year-old child and could have served 25 years in prison.

2 Haredi Boys Arrested For String Of Child Sex Assaults, Rapes

Two boys aged 14- and 15-years-old from a central Israel haredi city were arrested on suspicion of a string of sexual assaults committed against other children, some younger than 10.

Haredi Yeshiva Student Accused Of Child Sex Abuse Doesn’t Show Signs Of Sexual Fantasies About Young Boys, Defense Psychiatrist Testifies

A 29-year-old haredi rabbinical student in Sullivan County, New York who allegedly sexually assaulted an 11-year-old boy in 2011 shows no signs of sexual interest in children, Dr. Richard Krueger, a defense psychiatrist, testified Friday.

Idaho Trucker Kicked Out Of Seminary For Self-Circumcision

Kevin G. Sloniker is in a whole lot of trouble, and his try at self-circumcision is only a tiny part of it (pun likely intended).

Accused Pedophile Malka Leifer Carefully Chose And Groomed Her Many Victims, And Now Faces 74 Criminal Charges In Australia – If She Is Ever Extradited From Israel

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the religious outlook of Sarah, a pseudonym for one of Leifer's alleged victims, has changed drastically since the abuse began. “Honestly, I don’t know if I believe in God now, because after everything that has happened to me, I don’t know that there can be a God.”

Watch Documentary On Chabad Child Sex Abuse Scandal

Follow Manny Waks as he witnesses the dramatic hearings of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sex Abuse and then travels to the US to confront one of the two men he claims abused him. (The other man, David Cyprys, was convicted and is in prison in Australia.) Originally broadcast in Australia on Tuesday October 27, 2015. It will be online until 10:30pm Australia time November 10. 

Haredi Rabbi Arrested For Prolonged Course Of Rape And Sex Assault Against Minor

During police interrogation, the rabbi, who was arrested Sunday, reportedly admitted to having sex with the girl but insisted what he had done was not wrong (likely because the Torah considers a 12-year-old girl to be an adult).

Chabad Rabbi Who Enabled Pedophiles In Trouble With The Law

Thousands of false statutory declarations have been uncovered by investigators who have identified a multi-million-dollar fraud of the New South Wales traffic penalty system, and some of them were allegedly filed by Chabad's very own Rabbi Yosef "Yossi" Feldman. Feldman previously infamously claimed that reporting Jewish pedophiles to police was "mesira" (informing; a serious violation of Jewish law). His testimony before Australia's Royal Commission investigating child sex abuse in Chabad institutions was so bad, he was widely and openly attacked in the wider Jewish community and outside it.

New Film On Chabad Child Sex Abuse Scandal To Air On ABC Tuesday

Code of Silence won awards when it was first released two years ago. Now a sequel that includes footage from the Royal Commission investigating child sex abuse at Chabad institutions in Australia and much more new material has been completed. It will air Tuesday on ABC.

Level 2 Haredi Sex Offender Lives Less Than 500 Feet From Mesivta Chofetz Chaim

Hilllel Selznick is a Level 2 sex offender. He lives just steps from Mesivta Chofetz Chaim in Flushing, Queens, New York even though New York State law prohibits Level 2 and Level 3 sex offenders from living within 1,000 feet of a school.

Haredi Rabbi Charged With Molesting And Sodomizing Girls Who Came To Him For Advice

Yet another Orthodox rabbi has been arrested and charged with allegedly using his rabbinical position to sexually assault females who came to him for advice.

As The Intimidation And Harassment Of Chabad Child Sex Abuse Victims Continues, A Survivor Asks Why

As the abuse of child sex abuse victims at Chabad in Melbourne, Australia continues, a victim asks an important question: What good are Melbourne Chabad's policies against harassing child sex abuse victims and their supporters when members who violate those policies are never punished for doing so and are still allowed to have unrestricted contact with the victims they harassed?

Andrew Goodman Gets 10 Years On Federal Child Rape Related Charge

Convicted child rapist's NY State sentence was so disproportionately light, the feds stepped in and charged Goodman with transporting a minor across state lines for the purpose of having sex. And now Goodman will spend 10 years in federal prison.

Rabbi Ephraim Karp Sentenced To Serve 22 Years In Prison

He’s going to prison for a very, very long time. Rabbi Frederick “Ephraim “ Karp was sentenced to 35 years in prison (with 13 of those years suspended, leaving a total of 22 years to be served) to be followed by five years of supervised probation for sexually abusing two children and one teenage adult over the course of several years.

A Tale Of 2 Shuls And One Alleged Pedophile

Two Modern Orthodox synagogues are told by an alleged victim of child sex abuse that one of their members, the alleged victim's father, is child sex abuser. How do they react?

Do Chabad's Actions On Child Sex Abuse Speak Louder – And Truer – Than Its Words?

In a new letter today, the Committee of Management of Chabad's flagship Yeshivah Centre in Melbourne, Australia says it will not tolerate harassment of victims of child sex abuse. But yesterday Chabad's flagship Yeshiva Centre honored a man who has repeatedly harassed child sex abuse victims and their families.

Did Chabad's Top Melbourne Rabbi Really Resign? Or Was His Resignation Merely A Ruse Meant To Fool The Government And Police?

Rabbi Zvi Hirsh Telsner supposedly resigned September 1 after again verbally abusing a victim of child sex abuse. Telsner previously embarrassed himself and Chabad when testifying at the Royal Commission inquiry into child sex abuse in Chabad institutions and has a track record of insensitivity to child sex abuse survivors and of bullying them. So why is he teaching an honored class at Chabad's flagship Yeshivah Centre this Shabbat – a class widely promoted by Chabad?

Haredi Rabbi Busted On Clergy Sex Abuse Charges

The rabbi, who is from the town of Ofakim, has not yet been named. He is suspected of sexually assaulting two women who came to him for counseling and advice.

Video: Evidence Against Accused Child Molester Rabbi Steve Karro Released

Rabbi Steve Karro alleged sexulally molested an 11-year-old girl in his Miami area art gallery in April. Now some of the evidence against Karro has been released. Karro denies any wrongdoing and has said his physical contact with the girl– hugs, kisses and groping – was meant to heal her with love.

Chabad's Head Rabbi In All But Name Only

Rabbi Zvi Hirsh Telsner resigned as the top rabbi at Chabad's Melbourne Yeshivah Centre over one month ago after again being caught harassing and verbally attacking a victim of child sex abuse But over the holidays that just concluded, Telsner reportedly acted as the Chabad flagship's top rabbi in every way – just as if his resignation had never happened, just as if it might have been faked by Chabad to lessen the legal pressure against it caused by decades of covering up child sex abuse and persecuting child sex abuse victims.

Chabad Rabbi Sholom Doyber Levitansky Arrested On Child Sex Abuse Charges

Santa Monica, California police detectives are seeking information or additional victims in connection with the arrest of Rabbi Sholom Doyber (i.e., DovBer) Levitansky, who was booked into the Santa Monica jail Wednesday on a felony warrant for sexual abuse of a child. Levitansky allegedly met his victims while working at Chabad’s Living Torah Center in Santa Monica.

UPDATED AND CORRECTED: Where In The World Is Accused Serial Child Rapist Malka Leifer?

Accused serial pedophile Malka Leifer is supposed to be on house arrest in the haredi West Bank settlement of Immanuel while she fights extradition to Australia for a string of alleged rapes and sex assaults against young teen girls. But she appears not be there. Where in the world is Malka Leifer?

In Child Sex Abuse Blowback, Australia May Force Rabbis And Other Clergy To Be Licensed, Those Who Don't Comply Would Lose Tax Exempt Status

Rabbis and other clergy would be forced to undergo government-specified training in Australian law, child sexual abuse, family violence, women’s rights, and children’s rights. They would also be forced to annually renew a “license” to practice which would require meeting ongoing educational training requirements. A complaint process would also be set up for complaints – including complaints of child sex abuse – to be filed against clergy.

Cops Do About Face, Now Say They Might Criminally Investigate Haredi School's Board

Members of the board of the Adass Israel haredi girls school in Melbourne helped Malka Leifer, the school's then-principal, flee to Israel after child sex abuse allegations against her were made. Leifer allegedly sexually abused and raped a at least eight young teenage girls from the school before she fled to Israel.

Jerusalem Rabbi Busted For Alleged Child Rape And Abuse

Rabbi Moshe Avraham Steinharter was arrested by Modiin Police after a 19-year-old former student filed a criminal complaint alleging Steinharter sexually assaulted and sodomized him over a period of years beginning when the young man was 14. The complaint also alleges Steinharter sexually abused other students, as well.

Wanted “Sex Fiend” Breslov Hasidic Leader Allegedly Resurfaces – In South Africa

Rabbi Eliezer Berland, the 77-year-old head of the Breslov hasidic Shuvu Banim sect who fled Israel more than two years ago after female followers – including one minor – claimed Berland sexually abused them, has allegedly resurfaced. But will he ever be sent back to Israel to face justice?

Haredim Who Helped Accused Serial Pedophile Flee Justice Will Not Be Criminally Investigated, Cops Say

Australian Police will not investigate members of the Adass Israel girls school's board over their roles in helping accused serial child sex abuser Malka Leifer flee to Israel to avoid ­police investigators, despite the fact that their actions were likely criminal in intent.

2 Israeli Rabbis Arrested For Alleged Child Sex Abuse

Two Israeli rabbis have been arrested for separate cases of alleged child molestation involving multiple victims at different religious institutions.

US Soldiers Ordered To Ignore Child Rapes Committed By Afghan Allies

US soldiers were ordered to ignore rampant child rape committed by Afghan police and military commanders working with US forces. In some cases, US soldiers who intervened to protect the children (almost always boys) were reprimanded or forced out of the military, while local Afghans, upset at the rapes of their children, often turned against the US and the murder of a group of US soldiers on one US base by an Afghan teen boy may have been payback for the soldiers allowing the rapes to continue. This shameful behavior began during the Bush Administration and  continued (and perhaps even increased somewhat) under President Obama.

National Council For The Child Asks Government To Bar Dangerous Child Molestors From Immigrating To Israel

Israel’s National Council for the Child asked Interior Minister Silvan Shalom to act to prevent dangerous convicted sex offenders from immigrating to Israel,  something the government was supposed be doing anyway but frequently wasn't – especially when the molesters in question are haredim.