ISRAEL: People of the TALMUD...

One of Israel's most influential rabbis arrested for bribing police officer.

 

Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto, said to have ties to businessmen Nochi Dankner, Rami Levi, Ofer Nimrodi, and Ilan Ben Dov, is suspected of paying an officer for information regarding a police investigation.

 

By Yaniv Kubovich | Oct.12, 2012 | 1:31 AM 

The influential rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto and his wife were arrested and investigated on Thursday. They were charged with attempting to bribe a police officer and money laundering. They were released under restrictive conditions once the investigation was completed.

Arrest in the USA 

for money laundering and human organ trade.

The investigation into the conduct of rabbi Pinto and his wife was led a special investigation team headed by Yoav Segalovich, head of the police investigations unit. The police believe the rabbi contacted a high-ranking police officer and offered him a bribe in exchange for information concerning an investigation. The investigation took several weeks during which rabbi Pinto gave the police officer the bribe.

Arrest in the USA 

for money laundering and human organ trade.

Pinto is one of the most famous and well-connected rabbis in Israel. He keeps close contacts, receives contributions, and receives donations from leading business people. Among those said to have ties to the rabbi are Nochi Dankner, Rami Levi, Ofer Nimrodi, and Ilan Ben Dov.

Yaron Lipshos, Pinto's attorney issued a statement: "Rabbi Pinto answered all the police's questions, and divulged all that he knew in order to further the investigation so that it may be concluded as soon as possible and disprove all the baseless allegations raised against him."

Arrest in the USA 

for money laundering and human organ trade.

"Rabbi Pinto is certain that once all the facts come to light the investigation team will come to understand that there was nothing wrong with his conduct," Lipshos added. 

corrupt-rabbis · Corruption is a Global Problem

 

Their nature 

is of their TALMUD

MICHAEL HOFFMAN: Why the Double Standard?

The Hoffman Wire

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Republicans Seek to Ban Sharia Law but give a free pass to Rabbinic Law:

Why the Double Standard?

 By Michael Hoffman | May 30, 2012 

http://revisionistreview.blogspot.com/2012/05/republicans-seek-to-ban-sharia-law-but.html

Observe the statement from the first article, "Beth Din" (see below) that the rabbinic court is ruled by "Jewish law" and "Jewish law" is based on the Shulhan Arukh, in other words, not on the Word of God, but on the word of a long dead man, Rabbi Joseph Karo, compiler of the Shulhan Arukh. The judge of the rabbinic court is a "highly esteemed Talmudic scholar" and "halakhic genius." Note that the credentials of the judge of the rabbinic court are based on his scholarship in the Talmud, not the Word of God. His "genius" is in rabbinic law ("halakha"), not God's law.

Nothing about rabbinic (Talmudic) law bothers the American campaigners against Sharia law, such as Kansas Governor Sam Brownback, even though rabbinic law rules the Brooklyn district attorney's office, to give but one example: school teachers at Talmudic schools in Brooklyn must obtain permission from a rabbi before first reporting the molestation of children to the Brooklyn District Attorney. According to the New York Times, "the Brooklyn district attorney, Mr. (Charles J.) Hynes, has not publicly opposed the position."

According to Sharon Otterman of the New York Times, "...in molestation cases, (rabbinic) religious courts are often convened on an ad hoc basis to adjudicate on a narrow question — like whether someone accused of molesting is fit to continue working at a school, or whether compensation should be made to a person making accusations. The judges tend to take actions like switching an accused person’s job, monitoring him or her, ordering therapy or ordering compensation for a victim. Sometimes religious courts do not fully accept the testimony of children or women, making proving molestation claims very difficult."

Another example: the worst serial rapist of children in the history of Brooklyn New York, surpassing any Catholic priest, is Avrohom Mondrowitz, someone you probably never heard of.

"Avrohom Mondrowitz was indicted...in the 1980s on eight counts of child abuse and five counts of sodomy involving boys ages 9 to 15. He fled to Israel before he could be arrested. Victims’ rights groups say Mr. Mondrowitz has many more victims, perhaps in the hundreds. Michael Lesher, a New Jersey lawyer representing some of the reported victims, uncovered federal documents that Mr. Lesher contended showed that Mr. Hynes’s office approved a decision in 1993 to drop efforts to extradite Mr. Mondrowitz. Mr. Hynes’s office has long denied dropping those efforts, and in 2007 made a new push to bring Mr. Mondrowitz back, but Israel’s Supreme Court ultimately ruled against extradition." (Ibid., New York Times).

Beth Din 

(rabbinic law court)

http://givashamorah.org/Home_Page.html

Beth Din Givas Hamorah is a rabbinic court that adjudicates civil disputes between Jewish litigants who agree to be bound by Orthodox Jewish law as laid down in Shulhan Arukh Hoshen Mishpat and its glossators. Marital transactions such as marriage, divorce, yibbum and halitzah may also be executed in our court.

Our court consists of a panel of three dayyanim (justices) drawn from a pool of over 20 rabbanim who are Talmudic scholars by profession and experts in Jewish law. Our rosh beth din (chief justice) is the renowned Rabbi Yehoshua Gluck, a graduate of Slabodka Yeshiva and a highly esteemed Talmudic scholar and halakhic genius.

In accordance with halakha (Jewish law)  and in order to preserve the integrity of halakhic jurisprudence, our beth din provides all its services absolutely free of charge. Moreover, our beth din will not accept any payment, donation or gift from anyone utilizing our services.

Our beth din was founded in order to address the abuses and inefficiencies of most other major bate dinim, such as the endlessly drawn-out litigation process designed to exploit and maximize a profit from litigants. Furthermore, we are the only beth din who fully comply with the rule that hanotel sekhar ladun dinav betelim: whoever takes recompense to adjudicate, his judgements are null. (End quote)

Here below are additional, multiple examples of rabbinic law leading to grievous harm in the United States (Lakewood, N.J., Monsey, N.Y., and Baltimore, Md.) with no Republican "Christian" conservatives standing up to campaign against rabbinic law, as they do Sharia law.

For Jewish Orthodox Children: No Justice -- No Peace

Huffington Post| May 17, 2012

While Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes boasts that he stemmed the tide of child molestation in Brooklyn's Catholic community by insisting that the Bishops sign a "memo of agreement" to turn over all allegations directly to his office, this is a far cry from his agreement with the Agudah rabbis allowing them to decide which alleged molesters are reported to the police...

Regardless of Mr. Hynes' claims that he "expects" that these allegations will "also be reported to his office," he has never criticized the rabbis for not reporting them despite the fact that there exists not a single documented case in which a leading rabbi in Brooklyn has reported a molester to the police.

An account detailed in "Tempest and the Temple: Jewish Communities and Child Sex Scandals" (Brandeis University Press, 2009), citing research published in 2008 in the Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, documents that in at least one case Mr. Hynes allowed a Beit Din (rabbinical court) lead by Rabbi Dovid Feinstein to decide the outcome of a grand jury investigation.

Following the Beit Din ruling in March of 2000, the D.A. dropped charges against Rabbi Shlomo Hafner of molesting a 10-year-old hearing-impaired boy, with one of the rabbis bragging that "We educated the D.A. on how to properly conduct a sex abuse trial."

Prosecutorial tolerance in Brooklyn and other Orthodox enclaves (such as Lakewood, N.J., Monsey, N.Y., and Baltimore, Md.) for rabbis protecting child molesters is all the more disturbing at a time when the national and global trend is increasingly to crack down on cover ups.

In Missouri, a Catholic Bishop was indicted for failing to report an abusive priest, and four Amish Bishops were convicted of failing in their duty as mandated reporters to inform the authorities of a child molester in their church. Officers of the University of Pennsylvania were arrested for failing to report allegations against football coach Jerry Sandusky, and the Archbishop of Philadelphia is being tried for endangering the welfare of children after allowing accused priests to work with children without alerting police or unsuspecting parents. In Los Angeles, the Archbishop has been investigated by the FBI for fraudulently passing off a pedophile priest as safe to be teaching children...

But in the name of "cultural sensitivity" the State's Attorney's office in New Jersey tolerates a "wall of silence" by rabbis in Lakewood, who proudly announced in the Asbury Park Press in 2009 that all cases of sexual abuse against children are "handled" by a special Beit Din that was set up by the local yeshivah.

...(New Jersey) State's Attorney Marlene Lynch Ford has made no efforts to force the rabbis to turn over cases of child abuse that they have "adjudicated," despite the fact that it is a crime in New Jersey for any adult to fail to report suspicions of abuse to the authorities.

In Baltimore, there has been extensive coverage...documenting the Va'ad Harrabanim (the Council of Rabbis) putting pressure on victims of abuse and their advocates to keep silent, and yet law enforcement agencies refuse to even investigate as long as victims are still too intimidated to come forward.

In many cases of child molestation in the Catholic Church, including in Long Island, N.Y., Boston and Philadelphia, prosecutors have convened grand juries to subpoena all the records of abuse allegations, and in one example in Belgium last year, police raided church offices to investigate hidden records. In cases of rabbinic cover ups, however, prosecutors have not even gone as far as asking nicely and respectfully for the rabbis to give them all of the names of the alleged molesters they know about, and have certainly not put any pressure at all on the rabbis for breaking the law and endangering the welfare of children.

(End quote)

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Fight Child Molestation - Ban Rabbinic Law in the USA

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 But Some Rabbis Do

MICHAEL HOFFMAN: The Hoffman Wire...

"Adjudicated without public scrutiny"

The identity of Talmudic child molesters is protected in New York by the District Attorney

 Another outrageous case of preferential treatment

Americans continue to be oblivious to the growing threat of Talmudic law in America and the Zionist supremacy it generates over the rest of us less-than-human gentiles. Here below is another case of the preferential treatment which prosecutors immersed in a Talmudic mentality and ethos evince within law enforcement: one law for the Master Race of Holy People and another for everyone else. Imagine if the identity of Catholic priest-molesters were concealed in this manner? The media outcry would form a sonic boom that would resound from coast to coast.  

--Michael Hoffman, author of Judaism's Strange Gods and Judaism Discovered

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Orthodox Abuse Suspects Get Exemption

Brooklyn Prosecutors Deny Request for Identity of Sex Suspects

By Paul Berger | berger@forward.com 

Forward newspaper (New York)

Published April 24, 2012, issue of May 4, 2012

Orthodox Jews charged with child sex abuse in Brooklyn (New York) should have their identities protected because of the community’s “tight-knit and insular” nature, prosecutors claim in a remarkable response to demands for information about the cases.

Rejecting a Forward request under the state’s Freedom of Information Law, the Brooklyn district attorney made the startling claim that Orthodox Jews deserve a blanket exemption from the usual public disclosure rules. Prosecutors claimed that Orthodox Jews are “unique” in that releasing the names of suspects would allow others in the community to identify their victims.

“The circumstances here are unique,” Assistant District Attorney Morgan Dennehy wrote in an April 16 letter to the Forward. “Because all of the requested defendant names relate to Hasidic men who are alleged to have committed sex crimes against Hasidic victims within a very tight-knit and insular Brooklyn community, there is a significant danger that the disclosure of the defendants’ names would lead members of that community to discern the identities of the victims.”

Although Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes has long resisted requests to identify Orthodox sex suspects, the letter is believed to represent the first time his office spelled out why it specifically singled them out for preferential treatment.

Dennehy cited the state’s civil rights laws in denying the Forward’s request for the names of 85 Orthodox Jews arrested on sex charges during the past three years. The Forward made its request in December 2011 after prosecutors announced that scores of Orthodox Jews had been charged under a special program designed to encourage the community to come forward with information.

He did not explain whether prosecutors had concluded that there was anything specific about each of the 85 suspects that might make it possible for others to determine the identity of their victim from the identity of the suspect. He also did not explain whether such a blanket exemption might be granted to other similarly “tight-knit” communities in the borough. And there were no details about what criteria prosecutors would use to determine whether a particular group should be granted such preferential status.

Dennehy also claimed that revealing the names of abuse suspects could harm the operation of the DA’s special hotline, Kol Tzedek, or Voice of Justice, which was set up to three years ago to encourage Orthodox abuse victims to come forward. Disclosing suspects’ names could cause victims to lose faith in the hotline, which in turn would “interfere with law enforcement investigations or judicial proceedings,” he claimed.

Marci Hamilton, a law professor at Yeshiva University, said that prosecutors’ refusal to release the suspects’ names or other information about their alleged crimes amounts to “enabling” abusers. “I think they are complicit in what enables these kinds of perpetrators in these kinds of communities if they are going… to refuse to publish names of any child sex predators,” Hamilton said. “When names of perpetrators are made public, their other victims are empowered to come forward and the whole community is given the power to identify and stop them and other predators.”

Hamilton added: “What the DA’s office is doing, unfortunately, is playing right into the hands of the abusers.”

Daniel Mullkoff, a legal fellow with the New York Civil Liberties Union, said there was no good reason to withhold the names of abuse suspects from the public. “In this case, the public has raised concerns about what the district attorney is doing,” he said. “Withholding of this information is without a legal basis and denies access to just the type of information that the public records law seeks to make public.”

In October 2009, Hynes office redacted the names of 26 Orthodox Jews on a list of those charged with sex crimes. A Freedom of Information Law request submitted by the Forward to see those names was refused.

When Hynes last year trumpeted the arrests of 85 Orthodox Jews on sex crimes charges since 2008, he again refused to release the suspects’ names. He cited the need to protect the identity of victims. Yet that same week, Hynes issued a press release publicizing the name of a non-Jewish man convicted of raping his girlfriend’s daughter. Hynes released the man’s name, the neighborhood where he lived and the victim’s age, enough information for any neighbor to identify the girl.

Hynes even refused to name 14 Orthodox people who were convicted of sex crimes, 10 of whom pleaded guilty. They were sentenced to between one month and 20 years in jail. Although some of those cases were covered in the media, several were adjudicated without public scrutiny.

End quote from Forward

The Hoffman Wire

New York Times Says the Shiite Religion is Based on Lying

By Michael Hoffman • www.revisionisthistory.org 

  April 14, 2012 

"Complicating matters further, some analysts say that Ayatollah Khamenei's denial of Iranian nuclear ambitions has to be seen as part of a Shiite historical concept called taqiyya, or religious dissembling. For centuries an oppressed minority within Islam, Shiites learned to conceal their sectarian identity to survive, and so there is a precedent for lying to protect the Shiite community." 

--James Risen, "Seeking Nuclear Insight in Fog of the Ayatollah's Utterances," New York Times, April 14, 2012, p. A4. 

(This was a news report, not an opinion piece or editorial). 

Could anyone say anything similar about the religion of Judaism, even if it was truthful, without being denounced and stigmatized as a "shameful anti-semite"?

This writer has documented in his books Judaism Discovered and Judaism's Strange Gods, Judaism's theology of retailing permissible lies, especially to gentiles. Will we see anytime soon in the Times a statement to the effect that "there is a precedent for lying to protect the rabbinic community,” or about the rabbinic theology of lying to the gentiles, as it applies to Israeli deception? 

 “Rabbis are liable to alter their words, and the accuracy of their statements is not to be relied upon.” 

—The Talmud: The Steinsaltz Edition, Vol. II, pp. 48-49.

"The Talmud at Bezah 20a cites a passage that relates that Hillel (the 'good' Pharisee), lied to prevent a debate within the Temple. This lying by Hillel is presented in a positive light, on behalf of a good cause. The Mishah, in Nedarim 27b, rules that 'one may falsely vow to robbers and publicans.' Lying to robbers might be understandable, but lying to a whole generic category of 'publicans' establishes a benchmark for 'permissible dissimulation'...Permission to lie is granted in BT Yevamot 65b, “in the interests of peace,” a category so broad it is capable of serving as an alibi for countless situations in which scoundrels wish to conjure excuses for their falsehoods... There is also the permission to lie to a gentile (BT Baba Kamma 113a).” 

— Judaism's Strange Gods (2011 edition), pp. 147-148; 151 and 153.

JEWS: Rabbis tell 60,000 in NY: Get rid of the Internet if you know what’s good for you (Rabbis In Stadium Update)

Rabbis tell 60,000 in NY: Get rid of the Internet if you know what’s good for you (Rabbis In Stadium Update)

May 212012 

  5-hour Citi Field event, mostly in Yiddish, warns against ‘a great destruction of the Jewish people’; some participants live feed the gathering.

 

In an extraordinary gathering of nearly 60,000 ultra-Orthodox Jews, leading rabbis of the yeshiva and Hassidic world all but banned the Internet.

A halachic decision rendered by Rabbi Shmuel Halevi Wosner, one of the senior rabbis in the Orthodox world, said the Internet could be used for work purposes in an office — but only if absolutely necessary, and with the use of a filter. There was no justification for Internet use at home under any circumstances.

The ruling came during a five-hour program Sunday at the Citi Field baseball stadium in Queens, NY, in which prominent rabbis from the so-called Lithuanian (non-Hassidic) yeshiva world along with Hassidic rabbinical leaders discussed the dangers of the Internet and how to cope with them. While some speakers seemed to advocate a more moderate approach that might have allowed the compromise of a “religious” or highly filtered Internet, most were dead set against it, stating categorically that all Jews who considered themselves Orthodox were obligated to stay as far away from the Internet as possible.

Much of the program was conducted in Yiddish. Several of the speakers stressed the “historic significance” of the day, with one, Rabbi Efraim Wachsman of Yeshiva Meor Yitzchok in Monsey, NY, telling the assembled that the event was a “historic crossroads. Your strength and resolve today will decide what Judaism will look like in a few years from now.”

Those who wished to ensure their future, and more importantly their children’s futures, as Orthodox Jews, would do well to heed the words of the “gedolim” — the rabbinical leaders addressing the gathering — the audience was warned.

Speakers drew on Biblical, Talmudic, rabbinical, and general philosophical sources to back their positions. The ethos of the Internet, which values ever faster access and ever greater instant gratification was contrasted unfavorably with the traditional Jewish values of patience and perseverance.

“The Internet, is about the moment, the fleeting,” said Wachsman, terming people hooked on Web surfing click vegetables.

“People say the gedolim don’t understand the Internet,” he continued. “That could be true. But they understand the trends, and they understand that the instant gratification is the opposite of the holiness needed to become a Torah scholar. The nation of Torah, the nation that gave the world so much wisdom, is now turning into a people of yentayachne.com,” using the Yiddish term for “nasty gossip.”

At least a third of the Internet — “and that is probably an old report” — was full of content that no Jew should be looking at, he said, although he did not use the term pornography.

Wachsmann singled out for special condemnation the damage caused by social media to the stature of rabbis and Jewish scholars. He was referring to the numerous blog posts in which leaders have been excoriated for their silence and inaction on such issues as child molestation in the Orthodox community.

Several of the speakers called on yeshivas to deny admission to applicants who had Internet at home, and Rabbi Wosner included this principle in his halachic decision. Speaking in Yiddish, Rabbi Don Segal, who has been spiritual adviser in numerous yeshivas, said that even those who thought they needed Internet at work should try to find ways to avoid using it, as it was perhaps the “evil inclination” convincing them that they truly needed it.

In a letter sent to event organizers, Bnei Brak’s Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, perhaps the senior authority in the ultra-Orthodox world today, wrote that the Internet was “a great destruction for the Jewish people, with many reaching the lowest levels. There is no home that has these devices that has not fallen prey to terrible sins…. It is the obligation of everyone to gather together and destroy this evil inclination.”

Anyone who felt he had need for Internet use without a filter was required to obtain permission from a rabbi, he wrote.

Rabbi Mattiyahu Salomon of the Lakewood Yeshiva, who was the driving force behind the event, emphasized in his remarks the importance of protecting Jewish children from the ravages of the Internet, which destroys their intrinsic holiness. He also asked members of the audience to pray for the protection against “the great danger in Israel that a law may be passed to draft yeshiva students into the army. We know the Torah is the protection of the Jewish people,” he said. “[Yeshiva students] are the army, and to take them from their studies” would bring tragedy to the Jewish people.

Some 42,000 men participated in the sold-out event at Citi Field in Queens, New York, along with nearly 20,000 in a nearby stadium, added at the last minute for the overflow demand. Women were able to view the proceedings via closed-circuit TV.

Numerous protests took place outside the stadiums, including one by a group proclaiming that “the Internet is not the problem,” and another protesting rabbinical silence on the child abuse scandals. At least one blogger who had proclaimed somewhat lukewarm support for the event said he felt “fooled” by what had gone on. “Nothing positive about the Internet was discussed,” he wrote. “Websites with Torah and the ability to communicate with friends and family was ignored. In short, this event set the clock back to zero. I was wrong. Things are more bleak than I presumed.”

Officially, there was no Web coverage — for obvious reasons — yet numerous live feeds sprang up online enabling people around the world to see the event. The feeds were furnished by attendees who used smart devices to record and upload the proceedings, and many of these people were sending out tweets on Twitter describing the goings-on, to the extent that the hashtag “asifa” (the term used to describe the gathering) was high on Twitter’s trending topic list while the event was taking place.

As could be expected, many of the tweets were furnished by skeptics, with enough to populate a list of the funniest, like this one: “Were it not for social media I would not be able to keep track of the asifa.”

Source: http://www.timesofisrael.com/rabbis-get-rid-of-the-internet-if-you-know-whats-good-for-you/

 They used it before 

and they are using it now

  

JEWS/RABBIS: Australian sex abuse scandal tars name of venerated Chabad rabbi

 

Amid flurry of sex abuse charges in Brooklyn's 

ultra-Orthodox community, 

Melbourne's Yeshivah College is rocked by claims David Cyprys committed gross indecency, 

including rape, toward minors.

By Dan Goldberg  

May.19, 2012 | 8:53 PM

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - The tightly knit Chabad Lubavitch community in Melbourne has been rocked by claims about the role of the community's rabbi in alleged instances of child abuse at an Orthodox boys school.

At the center of the crisis is David Cyprys, a former security guard contracted by Melbourne's Yeshivah College, which also houses the headquarters of the local Chabad movement.

Cyprys, 44, appeared at Melbourne Magistrates Court last week, contesting 53 charges of gross indecency toward minors, including six counts of rape allegedly committed between 1982 and 1991.

There are at least 12 alleged victims, including two who now live in America.

Court documents state they were assaulted at various locations, including Cyprys' van, Yeshivah College, Gan Yisrael youth camps and ritual baths.

In a dramatic week in court, testimonies were made public about the alleged role of New York-born Rabbi Yitzchok Dovid Groner, the spiritual leader of Melbourne's Yeshivah College and head of the Chabad movement in the city, who died in 2008.

Rumors have long been circulating that Rabbi Groner, who was sent here by the late Lubavitcher rebbe in the 1950s to spearhead Chabad in Melbourne, had failed to report allegations of sexual abuse to authorities. Last year, police accused Yeshivah College leaders of "lying to police" and "trying to cover up sex abuse claims."

The allegations against Groner, one of Australia's best-known rabbis, echo similar charges currently being leveled thousands of miles away against leaders and rabbis of the ultra-Orthodox community in Brooklyn, New York. In both cases ultra-Orthodox rabbis stand accused of covering up cases of sexual abuse and molestation, and of harassing victims who complain to secular courts.

The New York Times this week accused Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes of collaborating with Haredi rabbis in shielding some sex offenders from prosecution and public exposure. At the same time, New York television stations on Tuesday broadcast scenes from a well-attended, ultra-Orthodox fund-raiser for a therapist accused of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl, while the girl's relatives maintained a vigil and protest outside the building where the fund-raiser was being held.

Parents' confrontation

Rabbi Avrohom Glick, Yeshivah College principal between 1986 and 2007, changed his testimony under oath last week to say that Rabbi Groner had told him on two occasions the names of individuals who were allegedly molested.

Rabbi Glick, who still teaches at the college, also said that an alleged victim reported his story to him. Previously, Glick had said he had not heard any claims by alleged victims.

Court documents released last week revealed that parents of alleged victims confronted Rabbi Groner in the 1980s. One mother said in a witness statement that when she called Groner to tell him of her son's alleged abuse, he replied, "'Oh no, I thought we cured him.' By this I was sure that Rabbi Groner meant this sort of thing had happened before with David Cyprys."

Rabbi Groner, whose brother Leib was the Lubavitcher rebbe's personal secretary, was widely credited with "putting Chabad on the map in Australia," according to Yossi Aron, an Orthodox historian who is writing a book on Yeshivah.

While he did not defend Rabbi Groner's alleged actions, Aron told Haaretz: "It's a great shame his legacy is being besmirched in this way. It was a different era back then. In those days he thought that sending him [the alleged pedophile] to a psychologist was the end of the story."

One of the alleged victims, Manny Waks, a former student at Yeshivah College, went public last year claiming he was molested by two separate perpetrators, including one incident inside Yeshivah's synagogue and another in the adjacent mikveh, a ritual purification bath. He said he wanted to help end the "code of silence" that had become customary in the ultra-Orthodox world.

Waks, a former president of the Jewish community in Canberra, told Haaretz that the allegations have enraged many in Melbourne's 50,000-strong Jewish community.

"People are disgusted with the Yeshivah leadership and are very angry about their unconscionable, immoral and irreligious approach in dealing with this crisis," he said.

He also told of his "absolute shock" at the victimization of his family. "My parents are going through hell," he said. His father, Zephaniah Waks, said some Lubavitch members had shunned him. "There have been attempts to make us feel as if we are the criminals," he said.

When the story of Cyprys' alleged actions first broke last year, Yeshivah principal Rabbi Yehoshua Smukler wrote to parents urging them to contact authorities about any suspected molestation cases. College officials say they have implemented protocols to safeguard children.

The Rabbinical Council of Victoria also passed a resolution stating that the law of mesirah, which prohibits turning in a Jew to non-Jewish authorities, does not apply in cases of child abuse.

Chabad is a major force in Melbourne's Jewish community, boasting a girls school, a kollel - a yeshiva for married men, a women's seminary, mikveh baths, a slew of Chabad houses and many Chabad rabbis who hold pulpits in non-Chabad synagogues.

This is not the only scandal to embroil the Chabad community in Melbourne. Last year, Ezriel Kestecher, a 26-year-old former Chabad Youth leader, was charged with four counts of indecent acts on a minor. Allegations also surfaced last year against David Kramer, a former Yeshivah College teacher who was jailed for seven years for molesting a minor at a synagogue in St. Louis, Missouri, in 2007. Moves are afoot to extradite him to Australia to face charges of abuse at Yeshivah. News of these scandals sent shock waves through the Jewish world, especially in Orthodox communities.

Magistrate Luisa Bazzani is expected to decide on Monday whether there is enough evidence to warrant Cyprys going to trial.

Are they 

Rabbis or pimps?!

ISRAEL:Rabbi Ovadia Yosef Opposes 'Torat Hamelech' Book

JEWS: hypocrite they are, liars, cheaters, deceptive and twisters of words. 

Duplicity is their mother and they descend from Satan's clan. 

The word Jews is being used liberally as the bad ones are over tipping the balance 

in such a way that when you look from afar at the Jewish fruit basket, you will see only the overwhelming number of the rotten apples 

while the healthy ones require efforts to dig them out of the nooks and crannies 

of the container. There are good Jews, but one needs to discern them - Blogger.

Rabbi Ovadia Yosef Opposes 'Torat Hamelech' Book

by Elad Benari

Shas’ spiritual leader, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, expressed on Wednesday his opposition to the controversial Torat Hamelech book, Israel’s Channel 2 News reported.

“We should give considerable attention to the nations of the world and not assist in a writing that could be interpreted as racist,” the report quoted Rabbi Ovadia Yosef as saying. “The Torah respects everyone since everyone was created in G-d’s image.”

BLOGGER: Coming from the mouth of a racist, Talmudic Rabbi, Ovadia Yosef words surprised me because what he is saying is hypocrisy incarnate especially this part when he says, “The Torah respects everyone since everyone was created in G-d’s image.”.

To prove what I am saying, please watch this video clip...



Rabbi Ovadia Yosef: Gentiles exist only to serve Jews


 

Rabbi Yosef was also quoted as saying that “the petition against renting apartments to Arabs was also unnecessary.”

BLOGGER: "unnecessary" is the term he is using, not "wrong", "unethical" or "racist". "unnecessary" implies that what is being practiced (not renting apartment to Arabs) is the right thing to do, but not the right time to carry out as under the circumstances the Jews will be criticized for being racists; a matter which will hurt the Jewish image right now. Please watch this Video Clip...

 Israeli Rabbi Calls for Genocide of Palestinians    

...Whey then the change of heart?! It is because when a Jew feels that he is in danger, he resorts to duplicity, hypocrisy...exactly what Rabbi Yosef is doing since his own son Rabbi Yaakov Yosef is also involved. What a joke! They are supposed to be the spritual leaders of Israel.

Torat Hamelech has been at the center of a controversy, due to its discussion of the theoretical attitude of Jewish Law toward killing a non-Jew in wartime.

Rabbi Dov Lior of Kiryat Arba was arrested and questioned earlier this week over the "haskama", rabbinical approbation, he gave to the book. The arrest came after police had issued an arrest warrant for him when he did not report for questioning on the matter.

A "haskama" is found at the beginning of many Judaic works and signifies that the rabbi who read it testifies to the Halakhic coherence and accuracy of the writing. Authors attempt to get "haskamot" from famous rabbis for that reason.

He later explained to his students that he did not cooperate with police since he had not broken any laws nor did he incite to violence or racial hatred. The book is one of theoretical Halakhic deductions, and the real issue is one of free speech for rabbis, equivalent to that for academics.

“I expressed an opinion on a specific issue,” he said. “People on the street told me that I’m suspected of inciting racial hatred and violence. I say that stating something like this about any rabbi in Israel is baseless libel. The rabbis have never incited, not to violence and not to racial hatred.”

Rabbi Ovadia Yosef’s own son, Rabbi Yaakov Yosef, also gave a "haskama" for Torat Hamelech. An arrest warrant was also issued for him, and he has also stated he will not cooperate with the police.

It was reported on Wednesday that police have now set their sights on Rabbi Yaakov Yosef and are likely to arrest him in the next day or two.

Meanwhile, Channel 2 also reported that one of the greatest rabbinic authorities, Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, also objects to Torat Hamelech.

“There are people who do not understand that the Jewish people do not live only in Israel,” Rabbi Elyashiv was quoted as having said. “Such writings can bring danger to the lives of Jews abroad. We are playing with fire here and are endangering other Jews.”

BLOGGER: Exactly! “Such writings can bring danger to the lives of Jews abroad. We are playing with fire here and are endangering other Jews.”. Hence according to the twisted Jewish logic, it is not recommended for the Jews to show their ugly teeth for fear of criticism and endangering other Jews, not because what they are practising is in principle unethical, wrong and racist.