The Helpful Rabbi
wis...@yahoo.com
wrote:
>Long list of Jewish Child Molestor Rabbis gets no media coverage
>
>http://www.theawarenesscenter.org/clergyabuse.html
>
>
>1. Case of Rabbi Yoram Aberjil (Netivot, Israel)
>
>(Accused of cult like practices and sexual harassment of young women and
>treatening the lives of the survivors and those who support them.)
>
>2. Case of Rabbi Shlomo Aviner (Beit El, Israel)
>
>(Two women accused the rabbi of creating emotionally intimate
>relationships with them. These relationships included his expressions of
>his love for them during regular late-night phone conversations,
>extracting details from them of their sexuality and promoting an
>unhealthy emotional dependence on him).
>
>3. Case of Rabbi Aryeh Blaut (AKA: Louis Blaut, Louis Steven Blaut,
>Louis A. Blaut, Louis S. Blaut) (Seattle, WA)
>
>(Convicted sex offender on federal charges of possession of child
>pornography. According to the United States Department of Probation,
>Louis Blaut is not allowed contact with anyone under the age of eighteen
>on the internet or in person).
>
>4. Case of Rabbi Jerry Brauner (Boro Park, Brooklyn, NY)
>
>(Convicted on the charges of Sexual Abuse-1st Degree and Sexual
>Abuse-3rd: Subject Another Person to Sex Contact Without Consent. He was
>sentenced to 11 years probation, with the condition he must participate
>in a sex offender treatment program. Brauner has been on probation since
>2002 for the sexual abuse of a 15-year-old boy.
>
>On December 27, 2006, Jerry Brauner was arrested on charges of stealing
>a half-million-dollar home from a cancer-stricken woman, using a forged
>power of attorney to sell it and pocket the profits. Brauner is being
>held in lieu of $85,000 bail for lying about prior sex-abuse convictions
>when he applied for his notary's license.)
>
>5. Case of Rabbi Lewis Brenner (AKA: Lippa Brenner) (Brooklyn, NY)
>
>(Convicted of child molestation. The original charges included 14 counts
>of sodomy, sexual abuse and endangering the welfare of a child. He
>agreed to plead guilty to one count of sodomy in the third degree,
>a Class E felony, in exchange for a sentence of five years' probation.)
>
>6. Case of Rabbi Yaakov Yitzhak Brizel (Jerusalem, Israel)
>
>(Accused of child molestation)
>
>7. Case of Rabbi Ephraim Bryks (Winnipeg, Canada, New York, NY)
>
>(There is a Call for Action on this case. Accusations about sexual
>inappropriate behavior with children started surfacing in the 1980's.
>Rabbi Bryks is currently a member of the Vaad Harabonim of Queens. The
>Vaad is a Rabbinical committee that makes important decisions within an
>orthodox community.)
>
>8. Case of Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach
>
>(There is a Call for Action on this case. Accused of several cases of
>child molestation, and sexual assault of young adult women)
>
>9. Case Rabbi Perry Ian Cohen - Montreal and Toronto Canada
>
>(Accused of sexual abuse of a seventeen year old. Fired for sexual
>impropriety with congregants)
>
>10. Case of Rabbi Yitzchak Cohen (Israel)
>
>(Accused of sexually harassing students at Bar-Ilan University)
>
>11. Case of Rabbi Asher Dahan, Be'er Sheva, Israel
>
>(Arrested after being accused of raping and sexually abusing two
>17-year-old girls after he offered "to redeem them of sin and evil
>inclinations.")
>
>12. Case of Rabbi Anthony Dee (Blackpool England; Portsmouth, England)
>
>(Former synagogue minister Reverend Anthony Dee found guilty of sexually
>abusing two boys and a girl in Blackpool and Portsmouth, England. This
>is the first set of convictions, there was a second set of
>convictions in 1997.)
>
>13. Case of Rabbi Moshe Eisemann (AKA: Moshe Eiseman) -
>
>Mashgiach Ruchni Ner Israel Rabbinical College (Baltimore, MD) (There is
>a Call for Action on this case - Accused of child sexual abuse)
>
>14. Case of Rabbi Eliezer Eisgrau - Principal, Torah Institute
>(Baltimore, MD)
>
>(There is a Call for Action on this case. Accused of physically abusing
>and sexually assaulting one of his children. There have also been
>allegations that two families were "run out of Baltimore" because they
>wanted to go to secular legal authorities to deal with the accusations
>of child abuse)
>
>15. Case of Rabbi Arnold Fink - Beth El Hebrew Congregation - Alexandria, VA
>
>(Accused of Professional Rabbinic Sexual Misconduct)
>
>16. Case of Rabbi Benyamin Yaakov Fleischman (AKA Benyamin Fleischman,
>Ben Fleischman)-
>
>Photographer (Baltimore, MD) (Convicted of sexually assaulting a minor.)
>
>17. Case of Rabbi Gershon Freidlin (Colonia, NJ; Pittsburgh, PA;
>Washington, PA)
>
>(Rabbi Gershon Freidlin pleaded guilty to one count of child
>endangerment , saying he had touched the youth's *BadWord* and buttocks
>while applying tanning lotion on the boy on July 10, 1995 Under the
>terms of a plea agreement, the rabbi will not be jailed for the crime,
>but faces up to five years probation.)
>
>18. Case of Yehudah Friedlander - Rabbi 's Assistant (Brooklyn, NY)
>
>(Accused of molesting a 15 year old on a 1995 plane flight from
>Australia to LA. Friedlander was the assistant to the chief rabbi of an
>Hungarian Hasidic congregation in Brooklyn, known as the Pupas)
>
>19. Case of Cantor Stuart Friedman (Halifax,Canada-Philadelphia,
>Detroit, Boston, Los Angeles, Baltimore)
>
>(Convicted and sentanced to 15 months in federal prison on one count of
>distributing child pornography).
>
>20. Case of Cantor Philip Friedman (Albany, NY, Queens, NY, Long Island, NY)
>
>(Temple Israel fired its longtime cantor for "inappropriate behavior"
>toward a member of the congregation, and the Albany County district
>attorney's office confirmed Tuesday that it is investigating the matter.)
>
>21. Case of Rabbi Jacob Frank (AKA: Yaakov Frank)
>
>and the Frankist Movement (Convicted of cultic type practices and sexual
>offenses.)
>
>22. Case of Rabbi Lewis Furman of Ohr Somayach, Johannesburg, South Africa
>
>(Prominent South African rabbi who was allegedly caught having an affair
>with a married woman. He is also accused of being "serial philanderer" �
>was forced to resign his position in South Africa and will not practise
>as a rabbi in this country again.)
>
>23. Rabbi Tobias Gabriel (Toronto, Canada)
>
>(There is a Call for Action on this case. Accused by more then one woman
>of clergy sexual abuse / professional sexual misconduct).
>
>24. Case of Rabbi Mordechai Gafni (aka: Marc Gafni, Mordechai Winiarz,
>Marc Winiarz)
>
>(There is a Call for Action on this case. Accused sexually abusing
>teenage girls, attempted sexual assault of a young adult, and also
>accused of cult like practices).
>
>25. Case of Rabbi Shimon Gerlick (Nahariya, Israel)
>
>(Arrest for allegedly committing indecent sexual acts with a two minors
>and and adult woman)
>
>26. Case of Rabbi Jonathan Ginsburg (St. Paul, MN)
>
>(There is a Call for Action on this case. Resigned as senior rabbi at
>Temple of Aaron, shortly after reaching an out-of-court settlement with
>a former congregation member who accused him of sexual misconduct. A
>criminal investigation into the case also is being closed, with no
>charges forthcoming).
>
>27. Case of Rabbi Ephraim Goldberg (Boca Raton, FL)
>
>(Pled guilty to one misdemeanor count of exposure of sexual organs in a
>washroom at a Palm Beach Mall.)
>
>28. Case of Rabbi/Cantor Sidney Goldenberg (Levittown,NY; Seaford, NY;
>Bayshore, NY; Petaluma, CA; Coney Island, NY)
>
>(Convicted of molesting children. The first complaints came in 1971. He
>was finally convicted in 1997.)
>
>29. Case of Cantor Joel Gordon (Buffalo Grove, IL)
>
>(Convicted of having keeping a house of prostitution and involvement in
>a prostitution ring.)
>
>30. Case of Rabbi Mark A. Golub - Mental Health Counselor (Newport,
>Virginia)
>
>(Had professional counseling license revolked for having sex with a
>female client, according to a state disciplinary order).
>
>31. Case of Rabbi Yisrael Menachem Grunwald (AKA: Israel Grunwald)
>(Borough Park/Brooklyn NY)
>
>(In a plea bargin agreement Rabbi Israel Grunwald agreed to 500 hours of
>community service and counseling after being accused of fondling a
>15-year-old on a 1995 plane flight from Australia. The charges against
>him were then dropped.)
>
>32. Case of Rabbi Solomon Hafner (Borough Park/Brooklyn, NY)
>
>(Accused of sexually abusing a developmentally disabled boy)
>
>33. Case of Cantor Mark Horowitz, Temple Beth Am in Amherst (Getzville, NY)
>
>(Charged with committing lewd acts on an undercover police officer.)
>
>34. Case of Rabbi (Alan J.) Shneur Horowitz (Hagerstown, MD; Israel;
>Schenectady, NY; California; Iowa)
>
>(Convicted and sentenced to 10 - 20 years in prison for sodomizing a
>nine-year-old psychiatric patient. Allegedly, he has assaulted a string
>of children from California to Israel to New York in the past twenty
>years. Alan J. Horowitz is an Orthodox rabbi, magna *BadWord* laude,
>M.D., Ph.D. A graduate of Duke University, and was a writer for NAMBLA
>(North American Man/Boy Love Association).
>
>35. Case of Rabbi Steven J. Kaplan (Saskatoon, Canada)
>
>(Allegations, detailed in court documents, that he lacked proper
>ordination, sexually harassed female congregants and committed adultery
>with one of them).
>
>36. Case of Rabbi David Kaye (Potomac, MD; Rockville, MD; San Antonio, TX)
>
>(There is a Call for Action on this case. Featured on "Dateline NBC" for
>seeking a sexual encounter with an underage boy in a chat room. NBC News
>conducted a sting in August, (2005) working with a group called
>"Perverted Justice." Members of the group, posing as underage boys and
>girls, entered Internet chat rooms and waited for adults to engage them
>in conversations)
>
>37. Case of Rabbi Israel Kestenbaum (New York, NY)
>
>(Convicted of child pornography on the internet)
>
>38. Case of Rabbi Robert Kirschner (San Francisco, CA)
>
>(Confessed to sexually exploited or harassing three congregants and a
>synagogue employee)
>
>39. Case of Rabbi Yisucher Kohn (AKA: Barry Kohn) (New Square, NY)
>
>(Convicted of Sexual Abuse 1st: Sexual Contact With Individual Less Than
>11Years Old.)
>
>40. Case of Rabbi Yehuda Kolko (AKA: Joel Kolko, Yudi Kolko) - Yeshiva
>Torah Temimah (New York, NY)
>
>(Arrested in New York City on December 7, 2006 following a long-term
>police investigation. He was charged with four counts of sexual abuse,
>including two felony counts, and endangering the welfare of a child.
>
>The most recent sexual abuse was allegedly against an 8-year-old boy,
>who says he was abused while he was in the first grade during the
>2002-03 school year.
>
>Rabbi Yudi Kolko and Yeshiva Torah Temimah were hit with a $20 million
>civil lawsuit on May 5, 2006, accusing him of molesting two students
>more than 25 years ago. One of the alleged victims said Rabbi Yehuda
>Kolko, 60, sexually assaulted him when he was a seventh-grade student).
>
>41. Case of Rabbi Ze'ev Kopolevitch (Jerusalem, Israel)
>
>(Convicted of molesting students at Rosh Yeshiva, Netiv Meir yeshiva
>high school)
>
>42. Case of Rabbi Avraham M. Leizerowitz (AKA: Avraham Mordecai
>Lazerewitz) -
>
>Geres Misivta Bais Yisroel School, Borough Park Brooklyn) - (A civil
>suit was filed against Rabbi Avraham Mordecai Leiverowitz of the Gerrer
>Mesivta High School in Borough Park Brooklyn.
>
>The charges include improperly touching a boy during a one-on-one help
>session in the rabbi's office in the Borough Park secondary school.
>Three other older boys have also come forward making similar allegations.)
>
>43. Case of Rabbi Baruch Lanner (New York, NY)
>
>(Convicted - child molestation. Sentancing still pending after 2 years)
>
>44. Case of Cantor Steven Joel Levin (AKA: Steven Levin, Steve Levin,
>Steven J. Levin)
>
>(Allegations were made against Cantor Steven Joel Levin of child
>molestation. There was also a seperate allegation of professional sexual
>misconduct by another party.)
>
>45. Case of Rabbi Jerrold Martin Levy (Boca Raton, FL)
>
>(Convicted of two counts of soliciting sex through the Internet and two
>counts of child pornography. He was sentenced to six years and sex in
>prison. He was caught in the "Candyman" year-long sting operation by the
>US government.)
>
>46. Case of Rabbi Pinchas Lew (Pottville, IA and Chapel Hill, NC)
>
>(Accused of exposing himself and touching his genitals repeatedly in
>front of an unrelated woman in his home)
>
>47. Case of Rabbi David E. Lipman - Kiruv Rabbi (Prescott, AZ; Cranston,
>R.I.)
>
>(Pleaded guilty to one count of sexual exploitation of a minor, a Class
>2 felony, and three counts of attempted sexual exploitation of a minor,
>Class 3 felonies. Lipman pleaded guilty to pertain to the computer
>images of children younger than the age of 15. ).
>
>48. Case of Rabbi/Psychologist Mordecai Magencey (St. Louis, MO)
>
>(Lost his license to practice in the State of Missouri because of his
>sexual misconduct with his patients.)
>
>49. Case of Rabbi Richard Marcovitz (Oklahoma City, OK)
>
>(Convicted of indecent or lewd acts with a child, and sexual battery)
>
>50. Case of Rabbi Michael David Mayersohn (Westminster, CA) (
>
>Accused of "groping" a female congregant who was undergoing pastoral
>counseling with the rabbi, due to marital problems. The rabbi is also
>accused of tring to "convince the congregant to have sex with him" in a
>second meeting. The female congregant refused).
>
>51. Case of Rabbi Samuel Mendelowitz - Licensed Marriage Counselor
>(Teaneck, NJ)
>
>(Accused of gross malpractice with four female patients between 1981 and
>1992. He allegedly pressured women to remove their blouses and touched
>them sexually, engaged in m asturbation and oral sex with one patient,
>and disparaged their husbands and urged them to have extramarital sex
>with what he called "surrogate lovers" male patients in his group sessions.)
>
>52. Case of Rabbi Yaakov Menken (Baltimore, MD)
>
>(There is a Call for Action on this case.)
>
>"Serious allegations have been made against Rabbi Yaakov Menken which
>include sexual harassment, sexual misconduct and sexual assault.
>Menken's alleged modus operandi (M.O.) is of becoming a father figure to
>vulnerable young women and eventually allegedly sexually assaulting them.)
>
>53. Case of Rabbi Yona Metzger (Jerusalem, Israel)
>
>(Accused of sexual misconduct with four men)
>
>54. Case of Rabbi Juda Mintz - AKA: Yehuda Mintz (Montreal, Canada;
>Williamsburg, NY; Atlanta, GA; Mt. Freedom, NJ; Los Angeles, CA; Venice, CA)
>
>(Convicted - internet sting on child pornography)
>
>55. Case of Rabbi Avrohom Mondrowitz, M.Sc., Ph.D., L.N.H.A. (Chicago,
>IL; Brooklyn, NY; Jerusalem, Israel)
>
>(Accused of two counts of sex abuse with boys at a special education
>school in New York. He is currently a college professor in Jerusalem,
>Israel).
>
>56. Case of Rabbi Shalom Nagar - AKA Shlomo Nagar (Ariel, Israel)
>
>(Arrested for allegedly raping a woman who had turned to him for advice.
>Nagar, married with children, has served for many years as the chief
>rabbi of this mainly secular town, the largest Jewish settlement in Samaria)
>
>57. Case of Cantor Howard Nevison (New York, NY)
>
>(Nevison pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges of indecent assault,
>terroristic threats, simple assault, corruption of minors and
>endangering the welfare of children.
>
>Two felony counts of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse will be
>dismissed when Nevison is sentenced. A sentencing hearing has not been
>scheduled.)
>
>58. Case of Rabbi Gabriel Ohayon (Boca Raton, FL)
>
>(Alleged rabbinical sexual misconduct. A former employee sued a Boca
>Raton Judaic studies institute, alleging that Rabbi Gabriel Ohayon
>groped and sexually harassed her).
>
>59. Case of Rabbi Yehuda Aryeh Oratz (AKA: Yehoda A. Oratz) (LAKEWOOD,
>NJ; Marietta, GA; Brooklyn, NY)
>
>(Convicted of stalking children under the age of thirteen, and then
>sexually assaulting them. The Victims did NOT know the offender.
>
>Please note that there is more then one Rabbi Yehuda Oratz. This
>convicted offender was born on April 11, 1967).
>
>60. Case of Rabbi Michael Ozair (Beverly Hills, CA)
>
>(There is a Call for Action on this case. Convicted, pleaded no contest
>to oral copulation with a 14-year-old minor. )
>
>61. Case of Cantor Alain Oziel (New York, NY; Toronto, Canada)
>
>(Convicted on one count of indecent assault, gross indecency and
>attempted buggery during the period January 1, 1981, to December 31,
>1982, of a teenage boy. He was sentenced to five years' in prison.
>Oziel's sentence was reduced due to his deteriorating health).
>
>62. Case of Rabbi Haim Pardes - Former President of the Tel Aviv
>Rabbinical Court (Israel)
>
>(Convicted of sexually blackmailing" and performing "licentious acts"
>with women who sought his counsel in a synagogue. Pardes was sentanced
>to six months in prison and given an 18-month suspended prison sentence
>and fined 25,000 shekels ($12,500).
>
>63. Case of Lou Pearlman - Mentor to the Stars (Queens, NY, Hollywood, CA)
>
>(Alleged child molester)
>
>64. Case of Shimon Rosen (Monsey, NY)
>
>(Convicted sex offender)
>
>65. Case of Cantor Stanley Rosenfeld (Warwick, RI)
>
>(Convicted of molesting a 12-year-old boy he was tutoring.)
>
>66. Case of Rabbi Edward Schlaeger (Shelton, CT; West Haven, CT)
>
>( Arrested on a warrant Saturday and charged with one count of
>third-degree possession of child pornography.)
>
>67. Case of Rabbi Arthur Charles Shalman (AKA Charles Friedman, Charlie
>Frideman, Arthur Friedman, Arthur Shalman) (Buffalo, NY)
>
>(The Rabbinical Assembly concluded that Rabbi Shalman violated several
>principles of rabbinic conduct. Accused of sexual misconduct toward
>female congregational members. )
>
>68. Case of Rabbi Ephraim Shapiro (Baltimore, MD)
>
>(There is a Call for Action on this case. Accused of molesting several
>boys.)
>
>69. Case of Cantor Robert Shapiro (Detroit, MI)
>
>(Pleaded guilty to 14 counts of indecent assault and battery on a
>mentally retarded person. In return, Norfolk County prosecutors dropped
>seven counts of rape.)
>
>70. Case of Yisroel Shapiro (Baltimore, MD)
>
>(Accused of molesting children)
>
>71. Case of Cantor Michael Segelstein (Las Vegas, NV)
>
>(There is a Call for Action on this case. Originally arraigned on one
>count each of attempted sexual assault, battery with intent to commit
>sexual assault and open and gross lewdness.
>
>On December 19, 2002, Michael Segelstein pled guilty to the lessor
>charges of open or gross lewdness, in which he received one year
>suspended sentence with conditions and court ordered into counseling.
>
>According to court documents, Segelstein's probation was successfully
>completed. He has since been discharged. A civil suit is currently pending.)
>
>72. Rabbi Ben Zion Sobel (New York, NY; Jerusalem, Israel) ("Rabbi Ben
>Zion Sobel is one of the most notorious pedophiles known,
>
>leaving hundreds of boys he has victimized. At one point Rabbi Shach
>made a rabbinic decree stating that Rabbi Ben Zion Sobel could NEVER
>teach again."
>
>"Ben Zion has left survivors in both the United States and Israel." "His
>modus operandi was extremely violent and barbaric." )
>
>73. Case of Rabbi David Alan Stein (AKA: David Stein, David A. Stein) -
>Dean of Jewish Life,
>
>American Hebrew Academy's former director of campus (Greensbors, NC)
>charged with eight counts of having sex with a student. The sex acts
>occurred on campus during the 2006-07 school year. The student was a 16
>year old male.
>
>
>74. Case of Robert Sternberg (AKA: Yerachiel Sherberg, Robert Stein)
>(Monsey, NY)
>
>(Convicted sex offender)
>
>75. Case of Rabbi Ze'ev Sultanovitch (Jerusalem, Israel)
>
>Accused of sexually molesting a number of adult yeshiva students at the
>Merkaz Harav Yeshiva.
>
>
>76. Case of Rabbi Melvin Teitelbaum (Los Angeles, CA)
>
>Charges dismissed at the request of the District attorney's Office.
>Teitelbaum then filed a $10 million damage suit in Los Angeles Superior
>Court. In his suit [he claimed] that the Jewish Federation Council of
>Greater Los Angeles, the Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles and the
>family that accused him conspired to have him arrested and charged.
>
>77. Case of Rabbi Aron Boruch Tendler (Los Angeles, CA; North Hollywood, CA)
>
>Accused of sexually molesting teenage girls. Please Note: There is more
>than one Rabbi Aron Tendler. This page is about Rabbi Aron Boruch
>Tendler, who was born on January 15, 1955
>
>
>78. Case of Rabbi Mordecai Tendler (AKA: Mordechai Tendler) (Monsey, NY)
>
>Accused of innapropriate sexual behavior with women he counseled that
>had gone on for years. According to Rabbi Benzion Y. Wosner, head of the
>Shevet Levi Rabbinical count in Monsey, one should never allow their
>wives or daughters to go to Rabbi Mordecai Tendler at all including
>[for] counseling..
>
>
>79. Case of Rabbi Isadore Trachtman (Chicago, IL and Jerusalem, Israel)
>
>Accused of cultic type practices and sexual offenses
>
>
>80. Case of Rabbi Hirsch Travis (Monsey, NY)
>
>Charged with the sexual abuse of an unidentified 27 year old female
>patient. He was also charged with posing as a Brooklyn doctor
>specializing in infertility problems, and illegally operating the
>Fertility Foundation in the Borough Park Section of Brooklyn
>
>81. Case of Rabbi Eliyahu Tzabari - Former chief rabbi of Ganei Tikva,
>Israel
>
>Charged with sexually abusing women with whom he counseled
>
>82. Case of Rabbi Ivan Eachmann - Manchester, England
>
>Accused of sexual misconduct with women from his Manchester synangogue
>
>83. Case of the Rabbi Tzvi Wainhaus (AKA: The Rabbi at Hillel Torah
>(Chicago, IL)
>
>Accused of child molestation at a private day school.
>
>
>84. Case of Rabbi Matis Weinberg (Baltimore, MD, Santa Clara, CA and Har
>Nof, Israel)
>
>There is a Call for Action on this case. Accused of cultic type
>practices and sexual offenses.
>
>85. Case of Rabbi Yakkov Weiner (New York, NY and Israel)
>
>Accused of molesting a boy at Camp Mogen Avraham, New York
>
>86. Case of Rabbi Nachman Weisfeld (Northern, Israel)
>
>(Convicted of physically and sexually abusing children under his care in
>an education institution)
>
>87. Case of Rabbi Don Well - Principal (Brooklyn, NY)
>
>Accused and charged with Rabbi one count of third-degree sexual abuse).
>
>88. Case of Cantor Phillip Wittlin (Harrisburg, PA)
>
>(Convicted of molesting two girls)
Are the self-appointed "chosen" not subject to the same
media exposure as others?
ted