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QOTD about Agudah Misrepresentation of UP MBP Study
“I do not agree with the way they [Agudah] are portraying our report.” Dr. Joel Betesh, senior author of the paper cited by Agudath Israel of America (Agudah) in press release, “Ivy League Study Casts...
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Tropper Is Promoting Himself as an Expert on Character
Believe it or not, here he comes promoting character. Rabbi (if may misuse that term) Leib Tropper is credibly alleged to have misused public funds, engaged in 3-way sex with his wife and another, and...
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QOTD about Additional Unidentified Victims
In all current cases I am aware of in the Jewish community, there have been multiple victims. We are therefore concerned there may be further victims in this case.
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Richard Joel speaking at Lincoln Square Synagogue on Saturday April 27
Yeshiva University President Richard Joel is scheduled to speak at Lincoln Square Synagogue this Shabbat at the end of musaf. We have been told that he will be taking questions. Hopefully, someone...
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The Brooklyn DA Structures His Office to Avoid Accountability
The Office of the District Attorney of Kings County of Charles J Hynes evades accountability by: Not creating a paper trail of decisions between Hynes and his Division and Bureau Chiefs. There also...
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The “White Rule” for Predicting Brooklyn DA Outcomes
I want to propose a “White Rule” for predicting the vigor of Brooklyn DA prosecutions of sex crimes involving Haredim. The sooner and more deeply Mrs. Henna White gets involved in a case, the more...
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Rabbi Yosef Blau on Sexual Abuse of Children
By Rabbi Yosef Blau, Mashgiah Ruchani (Spiritual Adviser) at Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS) of Yeshiva University (reproduced with permission of Rabbi Blau and David Morris from a...
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Breaking- Yosef Kolko Pleads Guilty After More Witnesses Come Forward
According to the Asbury Park Press, Rabbi Yosef Kolko pleaded guilty after learning that two more victims of his came forward to the prosecutor. The winners in this case include the many other children...
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Demonstration to Be Held Over CBS Infomercial for Charles Hynes
Below is a press release for a demonstration to protest what is called an infomercial for Kings County (Brooklyn) District Attorney Charles J Hynes. Joe Hynes is running for reelection. The crucial...
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QOTD The Culpability of Rabbi Yisroel Belsky in Defending Yosef Kolko
QOTD= Quote Of The Day Rabbi Daniel Eidensohn writes on his Daas Torah blog in the aftermath of the yesterday’s guilty plea of Rabbi Yosef Kolko on multiple felony counts of sexually assaulting a boy...
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Belsky Claims Yosef Kolko Is Innocent Even After Guilty Plea at Trial
A colleague tells me that someone he knows informed him that he spoke to Rabbi Yisroel Belsky after the guilty plea, and Rabbi Belsky still stands by the letter. Rabbi Belsky told this person that...
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A Black Hatter Upset about Belsky’s Obstinance
Yesterday I reported that Rabbi Yisroel Belsky, Rosh Yeshiva at Torah Vodaath and Senior Posek at the OU, persists in claiming that Rabbi Yosef Kolko is innocent, in spite of two additional victims...
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Belsky is 0 for 2 on the Kolkos and Yet He’s the OU’s Posek
Rabbi Yisroel Belsky has twice declared Kolkos innocent of sex abuse charges to then be proven wrong when they pled guilty in court. (Joel (Yehuda) Kolko & Yosef Kolko) Anyone can make a mistake....
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Belsky Talked to the Shochet So He Knows It’s Kosher
“Kevin of Chicago” responded to Rabbi Yisroel Belsky’s defense of the Kolkos, “‘I talked to Yudi Kolko and I can tell he is innocent” = “I talked to the shochtim (ritual slaughterers) and I can tell...
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Rabbi Yisroel Belsky Also Covered Up for Molester Lipa Brenner
A comment submitted by jewishwhistleblower (JWB) points to a 2006 UOJ tidbit that Belsky covered up for Lipa Brenner. JWB wrote, UOJ has reported in the past on Rabbi Belsky’s protection of Rabbi...
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What Belsky Is Saying to the Orthodox Union
Sources inside the Orthodox Union (OU) tell me that Rabbi Yisroel Belsky still insists that Yosef Kolko is innocent. He even concedes that the additional victims who came forward to the prosecutor may...
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The Brooklyn DA’s Vindictive Prosecution of a Hasidic Whistle Blower Is...
In March I wrote, “Hynes delivers scalps to Hasidim, just the wrong ones.” I pointed out that he usually goes easy on Hasidic molesters, but viciously, and unjustifiably, went after Samuel Kellner, a...
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We Have Entered a Frightening State in Rabbinic Leadership
Preface- The article below first appeared as my comment on my January 16, 2011 post, “What was Weingarten’s Strategy When He Decided to Be His Own Lawyer in Incest Trial?” I was replying to a reader...
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How To Succeed in Kosher Without Really Trying
Belsky shouldn’t have agreed to be a posek in this case. He had a conflict of interest. He knew, or should have anticipated that his son-in-law might make big bucks from his ruling. Belsky should also...
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The Return of the Prodigal Son- Yagen Reappears
Rabbi Yaakov Yagen went to ground around December of 2012 when Nechemya Weberman testified that he originally sent his girls to Yagen (in Weberman’s appartment). but then the vaad decided to use...
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