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Vecchione to Be Dino Amoroso’s Attorney on DA Corruption Charges
Michael Vecchione, the former Brooklyn DA head of the Rackets Division, in telling people he will represent Dino Amoroso. Amoroso is being investigated by the US DOJ and the NYS Attorney General on...
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Lebovits Should Not End Today!
Baruch (Mordechai) Lebovits is scheduled for sentencing today (7/9/14). He pleaded guilty to sexually abusing a boy and negotiated a two-year sentence. But since he already served a year, he will be in...
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Elimelech Meisels Still Listed as Pninim Staff
According to a letter sent out this week by seminaries owned by the Meisels family (Pninim, Binas Bais Yaakov, Keser Chaya, & Chedvas Bais Yaakov): Our Founder/Dean, Rabbi Elimelech Meisels, has...
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A Great Day for Hasidic Perverts
This was first posted about year ago on the Jewish calendar about a sad 17 Tammuz event in the fight against child molesting. Yerachmiel Lopin Yesterday was a great day for 21-year-old, Hasidic pervert...
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Harvard Doesn’t Blame the Student
Secular society tolerates most forms of consensual sex between competent adults. But it draws the line on sexual interactions between a boss and employee or teacher and student. Yet I have a number of...
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My Jewish Ethos
From my archives. First posted 6/13/14. I love being Jewish. Judaism becomes real when its ideals are lived. I have been privileged to see some real gedolim, living sifrei torah, whose conduct...
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BREAKING- Yankie Yarmush Buys Seminaries From Meisels
Last night, the seminaries owned by Elimelech Meisels emailed announcements that they were sold to Mr. Yankie Yarmush (see text at bottom of post). Yankie’s wife works for Meisels at one of his...
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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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Seminary Staff made it Possible for Meisels to Abuse Students
Until now the Chicago Beis Din (CBD) did not discuss the role of staff in enabling Elimelech Meisels to sexually abuse student in his seminaries (Pninim, Binas Bais Yaakov, Chedvas Bais Yaakov, and...
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A Compendium of WWW Postings on Meisels Scandal
On July 11, 2014 I broke the story about Rabbi Elimelech Meisels sexually exploiting female students. I reported that a rabbinical court in Chicago called him out on his conduct and issuing a ruling...
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Rabbi Feldman’s Far-Fetched Fumfer
Fumfer: A Yiddish word meaning to mumble or be evasive. The Daas Torah blog of Rabbi Daniel Eidensohn just posted: Seminary Scandal: Israeli Beis Din Correspondence – Rav Aharaon Feldman letter of July...
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How Could the Meisels Staff Not Know
See this comment to an earlier post byBeen There (07/30/2014 at 9:39 pm): The principal of the schools just couldn’t risk loosing their jobs and reputations by speaking out. They were wimps next to...
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Israeli Rabbinical Court Has No Authorization
The Israeli Beis Din (IBD of Rabbis Shafran, Malinowitz and Gartner, claims that the Meisels’ seminaries are hunky dory and it is forbidden for any other seminary to poach the incoming 2014-2015-year...
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Malinowitz Responds to Feldman’s Letter
See Tzedek-Tzedek’s translation of the Malinowitz repsonse to Rabbi Feldman regarding the Elimelech Meisels seminaries. David Morris offers an excellent analysis of the letter and offers further...
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My Bucket List
Here are things I would like to see from the defenders of Meisels and the Israeli Beit Din (IBD) of Rabbis Shafran, Malinowitz and Gartner: Written proof that the Chicago Beit Din passed over authority...
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New Revelations about the Israeli Court Dealing with the Meisels Seminaries
The Daas Torah blog has posted another letter by Rabbi Aharon Feldman. He appeared before the Israeli Beis Din (IBD) which is saying the seminaries operated by Elimelech Meisels are now completely safe...
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Five Families Sue Meisels, Yarmish and Rabbi Gartner Demanding Refunds and...
A lawsuit was filed in a US federal court on Monday August 4th by five families who registered their daughters to attend the post-HS, Jerusalem-based, ultra-orthodox but non-Hassidic seminaries...
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Israeli Beis Din Acted with No Representation of Victims, Chicago, or Torah...
According to this morning’s post on Rabbi Daniel Eidensohn’s Daas Torah blog, “Seminary Scandal: Clarifying Rav Aharon Feldman’s role” (8/10/14) Rabbi Aharon Feldman writes: Although I signed on the...
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Joe Hynes, Why Are You Honoring Me?
Today is the 1-year anniversary of one of the greatest honors given to Frum Follies. Joe, you are an important busy man and yet you have taken time out to honor me. Charles Joseph Hynes, you are...
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They Are Just Three Israeli Rabbis, Not a Rabbinical Court
Language matters. For some time now the Meisels controversy has been understood by many as a disagreement between a rabbinical court (Beis Din) in Israel and a court in Chicago. The shorthand is the...
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