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Weberman’s Victim is Suing Him and the Satmar School System
The victim who testified against Nechemya Weberman and got him sentenced to 103 years for sexually abusing her over a three-year period is suing him and the Satmar school system, United Talmudic...
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Abraham Rubin Pays with Jail Time for Trying to Bribe Weberman Witnesses
Abraham Rubin offered a cool half a million to the Nechemya Weberman victim and her boyfriend to bollix the trial by going to Israel (and refusing to return for the trial). Her boyfriend recorded the...
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What Chicago Can Learn From the Skvere Rebbe
The Skvere Rebbe, Rabbi David (Dovid) Twersky, will be coming to Chicago on February 20 to spend a week dispensing his pearls of wisdom and graciously accepting donations. The Rebbe needs this money...
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Thompson Continues to Trim the Fat at the Expense of Political Appointees
Under Charles J. Hynes, Lance P. Ogiste, was Counsel to the District Attorney of Brooklyn and the third best paid member of their staff. In 2012 Hynes even got the New York Bar Association to award him...
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Jews Need Justice; Not Someone in the DA’s Office to “Manage Jewish Affairs”
The Jewish news website, Vos Iz Neias (VIN) just posted the headline “DA Thompson Names Sender To Manage Jewish Affairs.” They go on to report: [Wolf Sender will] oversee Jewish affairs in Kings...
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Welcome to New Square But Bring Your Own Toilet
The cult enclave of the Skvere Rebbe (David Twersky), the incorporated New York State Village of New Square, likes to brag about their hospitality and kindness (chesed). This is often invoked to...
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Internet Hypocrisy in Lev Tahor
Lev Tahor claims to be even more religiously rigorous than most other Hasidim with even more stringent modesty codes for their women. They are so extreme that other Hasidim mock them as “Taliban.” Most...
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Predict the Luxury Car the Skvere Rebbe Will Use in Chicago
Back in 2006, Yitzchok Adlerstein gushed, “After more than a week in Los Angeles, the Skvere Rebbe’s entourage left town today, having bested Hollywood on its home turf. In Hollywood, props are...
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The Privilege of Hospitality Doesn’t Come Cheap!
When the Satmar Rebbe of Kiryas Joel (Aaron Teitelbaum) goes to Jerusalem next week, he will spend one night sleeping in the home of one Aher (sic) Lev. According to The Jewish Press (quoting the...
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Why Rachmonis for Baruch Lebovits is a Dangerous Mistake – From the Archives...
When I first posted this article, Lebovits was freshly convicted. Thanks to prosecutorial incompetence or worse, and maneuvering by Lebovits to get Sam Kellner arrested, the conviction was overturned...
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Kenneth Thompson Has to Decide
The New York Jewish Week reports that the Brooklyn DA continues to delay the dismissal of charges against Samuel (Sam) Kellner. This is happening in spite of the DA’s views on the matter bolstered by a...
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Are Rebbes In Control of and Responsible for Controlling Their Followers
Note by Yerachmiel Lopin: Below is a re-post of something I wrote about Rabbi Dovid Weinberger on November 4, 2009. At the time he was defending his synagogue’s decision to host a rebbe whose Hasidim...
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STARTING IN KOSHER CERTIFICATION (SATIRE)
From the Frum Follies Archives. First appeared on 10/25/09. I am re-posting for my readers bcause we are approaching Purim and we are tired of the dreary true life stories of scandal in the world of...
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If Zimri Lived in Lakewood He Would Have Been Treated Like Kolko
Rabbi Mordechai Betzalel Klein of Lakewood issued a pidyon shvuyim appeal on behalf of Yosef Kolko. He doesn’t actually name Kolko who is serving a 15-year sentence for molesting a teen boy, but the...
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Why Rachmonis for Baruch Lebovits is a Dangerous Mistake – From the Archives...
When I first posted this article, Lebovits was freshly convicted. Thanks to prosecutorial incompetence or worse, and maneuvering by Lebovits to get Sam Kellner arrested, the conviction was overturned...
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Driver of Satmar Rebbe Spread Photos of Weberman Victim
During the Weberman trial four men were arrested and three were charged with photographing the victim testifying against him. One of the three under indictment was Lemon Juice, a name he legally...
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Five Towns Angry at Belsky Over His Defense of Disgraced Rabbi Weinberger
As I reported on 2/27/14, rabbis in New York’s Five Towns and Far Rockaway (5T/FR) took the unprecedented step of collectively denouncing a long-time, local colleague, Rabbi Dovid Weinberger, as unfit...
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How To Succeed in Kosher Without Really Trying
I am reposting this year-old item (5/26/13) about the 2013 Doheney Kosher Meats scandal in LA from the Frum Follies archives because because the Passover season’s kosher concerns are upon us and Belsky...
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Jewish Publishers Drop Some of Rabbi Dovid Weinberger Books Because of Scandal
ArtScroll/Mesorah, the most important ultra-orthodox Jewish publisher, has stopped selling a number of titles by Rabbi Dovid Weinberger in the aftermath of a scandal involving alleged misconduct with...
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Belsky Damaged Torah Vodaath by Getting Into Fight with Rabbis Solomon and...
I have updated my previous post, Five Towns Angry at Belsky Over His Defense of Disgraced Rabbi Weinberger with the following: The decision to denounce Weinberger was backed by the mashgiach of Beth...
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