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IBD Discarded in New Bid to Save the Meisels Seminaries
Earlier today the Failed Messiah and Daas Torah blogs posted a declaration by five Yeshiva Heads announcing that the Meisels seminaries are safe places for students. Some people are trumpeting this as...
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Rabbi Avrohom Chaim Levin’s Close Call With Justice
Rabbi Avrohom Chaim Levin (RACL) wears many black hats. He is the head of the Telz-Chicago Yeshiva. He is a member of the Moetzes (Council of Torah Sages of Agudath Israel of America) and of the Vaad...
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Much Ado about Very Little in the Letter by the Five Gedolim
Rabbi Daniel Eidensohn is protective of the seminaries operated by Meisels particularly of their right to refuse parents refunds and of the job security of everyone who worked for Meisels. As...
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She Knew She Was in Trouble When Weberman Closed the Bedroom Door
From my archives of 9/20/12. First posted in the lead-up to Nechemya Weberman’s trial which concluded with a 103-year sentence. She was a bad girl. Was it because she talked to boys, or she was...
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Following the Whizzing Balls in the Beis Din Game
The marines have a saying: “Kill them all and let G-d sort them out.” The heimish equivalent is the Beis Din game. It’s played by refusing to accept one beis din and offering competing complaints and...
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My Empathy Questions for Richard Joel
From the Frum Follies archives 9/3/13. Still pertinent. Richard Joel, imagine the principal of one of your high schools was pressing ham sandwiches against the lips of many students. Would you say the...
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This Is Why the Seminaries Controlled by Meisels Are Not Safe
David Morris cuts to the heart of the issue in his post Seminaries: Blessing-Dispensers & Diplomats. He summarizes the state of affairs and goes on to astutely dissect the latest statement signed...
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My Experiences with Meisels and His Enablers — Guest Post by TruthSeeker
TruthSeeker is the pseudonym of a former student in Elimelech Meisels’ seminaries. She describes her initial enthusiasm, the charismatic, flirtatious nature of Meisels’ leadership, his crossing...
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Thinking About Chanah
From the Frum Follies archives of 9/12/12. The approach of Rosh Hashanah makes me think of Chanah, barren like Sarah. Before she could glory in her triumph she was misjudged as a nobody by Eli, the...
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A Petition Calls for Melbourne’s Senior Yeshivah Leaders to Resign
The Age (Victoria, Australia) reports today (9/22/14) on an a petition drive organized by Jews for Justice for Yeshivah’s Victims calling for the resignation of Rabbi Avrohom Glick and Yeshivah Centre...
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Lebovits Released from Prison After Only Serving 15 Months of a 24 Month...
Baruch Lebovits got out of jail yesterday (9/29/14), just 83 days after he started his most recent stint after sentencing on a plea bargain (7/9/14). He pled guilty to eight E felony counts (PL...
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Brooklyn DA Refuses to Explain Early Release of Lebovits
Yesterday I wrote about the surprising and distressing early release of Baruch Lebovits. This morning I emailed the public information office of the Brooklyn District Attorney. To:...
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Thompson Blames Everyone but Himself for the Lebovits Sentence
Baruch Lebovits waltzed out of jail (on 10/3/14) after serving only three months following sentencing on his plea bargain for eight felony counts of oral sex with a child (PL130.40). A number of us...
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Agudah Is Recycling Old Rhetoric about Combating Fraud
Periodically, Agudath Israel of America (aka Agudah) makes a show of concern about scandals and chilul hashem (desecration of G-d’s name) but then nothing changes. When it comes to financial scandals,...
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Who Needs a Mashgiach? It’s Loshon Horah to Question Him!
No, I am not talking about kashruth. I am talking about not-for-profit best practices for monitoring the finances of Jewish institutions. “Boca Jew,” commented in Frum Follies, Rabbi Eliyahu Rabovsky...
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Chicago Beis Din Lifts Accreditation Block on Meisels Seminaries
The four Jerusalem-based, post-high school girls seminaries (Pninim, Chedvas, Binas, and Keser Chaya) once controlled by disgraced sex abuser Rabbi (sic) Elimelech Meisels are finally having their...
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An Open Letter to Rabbi Kahane, Mrs. Hindy Ullman, and Mrs. Rina Lorch about...
On November 5, 2014, Adina Cohen, a madrichah (dormitory counselor) in your seminaries sent out the following email attacking the victims of Meisels and behaving as if he did nothing wrong. The email...
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ChaptzemNisht Rebbe’s Chanukah Message on Lashon Horah Mehudar (Satire)
This post is from 2009. Enjoy! In English the title of the post would translate loosely as, “The Don’tCatch’Em Rabbi’s Chanukah Message about Very Scrupulously Refraining from Gossip.” Rabossai...
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Alan Dershowitz Announces a Sequel to His Best-Seller, “Chutzpah”...
Back in 2012 I posted a satire about Dershowitz in connection with his defense of Hasidic pervert, Baruch Lebovits. Eventually Lebovits pled guilty to eight felony counts of oral sex with a minor....
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Enlarged Beis Din Met Again About Meisels Seminaries
The enlarged beis din met again on two evenings this week by teleconference to finally resolve the transfer of authority from Meisels who retains a financial interest and is accused of using his...
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Talk About Sheldon Silver Should Be about Hafner
Guest post by Michael Lesher Judgment Day may finally have dawned for Sheldon Silver – but is the punishment he may be facing (if convicted) coming for all of the right reasons? Not if you care about...
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An Open Letter to Batsheva Hersko
Guest post by Michael Lesher an orthodox Jew, a practicing attorney, and the author of numerous articles dealing with child sexual abuse and other topics including Sexual Abuse, Shonda and Concealment...
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Baltimore Jewish Life “Defrocks” Chaim Halpern in Father’s Death Notice
Chaim Halpern is the Hasidic rabbi of a synagogue in London’s Haredi neighborhood, Golders Green. However, most other rabbis in the neighborhood have condemned him for sexual misconduct with women he...
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Lessons Learned at the Australian Royal Commission
by David L. Morris Executive of the Magen Child Protection Agency in Bet Shemesh. First appeared on his personal blog, Tzedek-Tzedek The Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to...
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Dershowitz Sued for Defamation by Sex Abuse Whistleblower Sam Kellner
The Jewish Week reports that “Four years after his life was turned upside down by charges he committed extortion and bribery, chasidic sex abuse whistleblower Sam Kellner is fighting back against those...
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How Abraham Could Have Saved Sodom
For five days I have anguished about a perverse rabbinical court ruling. It twists facts and tangles logic; it betrays honest witnesses and rewards those who lied. It does all this to protect...
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Throwback Thursday — When a Leader Sins
From my 2010 archives When a nasi (cheftain of a tribe of Israel, i.e., a political leader) sins by doing anything unintentionally which according to G-d’s command should not be done, and he realizes...
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Training to Confront Authority
Reflecting on his pilot training, Andrew B. McGee writes in today’s New York Times In the 1960s and ’70s, several crashes were judged primarily a result of pilot error, some stemming from the...
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A Kosher for Passover Pesticide!
It is hard to believe but it is true. A pesticide which is not even supposed to be used indoors was certified kosher for passover. I am not just posting this to mock it. I want to ask how did …...
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What Chicago Can Learn From the Skvere Rebbe- (From the archives)
This post first appeared in January 2014. Since then Frimet Goldberg wrote an excellent description of New Squares shameful handling of sex abuse. Shulem Deen’s brilliant memoir, “All Who Go Do Not...
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Shiduchim and Yichus in the Book of Ruth
From the Frum Follies archives (5/15/10) Part I Once upon a time two young widows were given some good shidduch advice. “Turn back to your mother’s house…[and] find security in the house of a husband.”...
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My Questions About the Mitzvah of Redeeming a Captive (Pidyon Shvuyim)
From my archives, five years ago in May The blogger DovBear asks whether Rubashkin is a meshichist (messianist) and if so, does the mitzvah of pidyon shvuyim (redeeming captives) extend to his case?...
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Shabbos Goy Hynes Calculates His Take from a Hasidic Fundraiser
From the Frum Follies archives two years ago (8/9/13) On July 23rd Brooklyn DA Charles Hynes estimated a take of $7,500 from a fundraiser with Hasidim hosted by Boro Park Hasid, Ben Barber . It was at...
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JTA Is Wrong: Elimelech Meisels Was Not Sued for Sex Assault, But… (from the...
A year ago, today, I posted this story. You may want to go back to that original posting for the comments. JTA, which bills itself as “The Global Jewish News Source,” first neglected the Meisels story...
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Thinking About Chanah Before Rosh Hashana
Let me take this opportunity to ask forgiveness from any reader that I may have harmed through omission or commission. Please be in touch privately if that is the case. See the upper right of this page...
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Whither Goes Rabbi Dovid Weinberger? (From the 2014 Archives of FF)
First posted on 2/27/2014. I was the first and primary source of this story on the Internet and it garnered over 30k views. —– Rabbi Dovid Weinberger was fired by his shul in the Lawrence, NY, Shaaray...
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Rules for Comments on Frum Follies
Readers sometimes ask me about my rules. They are the rules of commonsense for civil discourse and it should not be necessary to state them. But since I have been asked, here they are. Don’t insult...
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From the Archives: Mesirah or Mesorah? It All Depends! — SATIRE
Special to IzDosNishtNeias? by Sylvia Glenn Boro Park was happy to learn that two brothers who were serial molesters of Hasidic children in the neighborhood were arrested by the NYPD. According to Leib...
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60 Days for 4 Youth Victims, 24 Sex Felonies & 52 Misdemeanors
The New York Daily News, reported: “EXCLUSIVE: Brooklyn rabbi charged with teen sex assault gets 60 days in jail; DA ripped for offering light plea deal.” While Rabbi Yoel Malik pled guilty to a single...
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From the Archives: Another Modesty Zealot Bites the Dust (updated 9:45 pm, EST)
A little over five years ago on 2/24/11 I broke this story about Weberman. After a tumultuous trial, covered by all the major national and international media, he was convicted on 59 counts and...
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Lost Messiah Site Hacked but Restored
Update- 5/18/16 2 p.m. (EST): The Lost Messiah site is back up. The original title of the post has been corrected. One of the sites that attempted to fill the gap by the takeover of Failed Messiah was...
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Brooklyn DA, Ken Thompson, Has a Courtroom Political Operative
The New York Daily News (6/15/16) reports, “Ex-staffer accuses Brooklyn District Attorney Kenneth Thompson of promoting unqualified political operative.” According to the article, the DA promoted Wayne...
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A Great Day for Hasidic Perverts- From the Archives
First appeared in 2013 around the Jewish day of tragedy, the 16th of Tammuz. Yesterday was a great day for 21-year-old, Hasidic pervert Menachem Deutsch. Two years ago it looked like he was going to...
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Joe Hynes, Why Are You Honoring Me? — From the Archives of 2013
I first posted this in 2013. It comes to mind in some discussions about being controversial and making enemies. I have tried hard to earn my enemies for the right reasons and I believe I have. —...
View ArticleKrawatsky’s Defamation Lawsuit Will Likely Go Down the Tubes, Just Like Bodkins’
I have reposted “Rabbi Avrohom Chaim Levin’s Close Call With Justice” which I first posted in August, 2014, because of the eerie similarities of the Yisroel Bodkins case in North Miami Beach to the...
View ArticleA Great Day for Hasidic Perverts- From the Archives (2013 just after 17 Tammuz)
Yesterday was a great day for 21-year-old, Hasidic pervert Menachem Deutsch. Two years ago it looked like he was going to spend a lot of time upstate. As reported in the Friday June 24th, 2011 New York...
View ArticleRabbi Yaakov Bleich Denies Moving $100 Million Through Lithuanian Bank
According to the business magazine, Barrons, Yaakov Dov Bleich, a New York rabbi, was surprised to hear recently that for nearly a decade more than $100 million had been debited and credited to an...
View ArticleLeading Rabbis: Don’t Call 911! (SATIRE/PARODY)- from the Archives (2012)
Leading Rabbis: Don’t Call 911! (SATIRE/PARODY) Michoel Macher, Special Corespondent for the Jewish Depress Rabbi Jacob Perlow, Head of the Moetzes of Agudath Israel of America advised his members not...
View ArticleBreaking- Judge Rules Malka Leifer Is Mentally Fit for Extradition Hearing on...
The Times of Israel reports the judicial ruling that Malka Leifer is mentally fit to face an extradition hearing which is scheduled for July 20, 2020. Leifer stands accused in Australia of sexually...
View ArticleIs the Vaad Harabonim of Queens Protecting their Community
I ask this as regards what the Vaad knows and what they are doing about Rabbis (sic) Ephraim Bryks and Michael Danielov when it comes to gittin and geirus, and sex abuse. Hamayvin yavin.
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