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JTA Is Wrong: Elimelech Meisels Was Not Sued for Sex Assault
JTA, which bills itself as “The Global Jewish News Source,” first neglected the Meisels story and then blew it. Their August headline, “Orthodox educator Rabbi Elimelech Meisels sued for sexual...
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Soliciting Questions for a Meisels/Seminaries FAQ
This drama is not likely to end soon. I find myself answering the same questions over and over in response to comments. Oftentimes other commentators and I duplicate each others efforts. So it makes...
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My Rabbis are Bigger than Yours!
I wrote a post challenging the Israeli Beis Din (IBD) as not comprising a beis din because they lacked a plaintiff. I pointed out that Rabbi Aharon Feldman (RAF) never secured the authorization of...
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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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