This seems useful after yesterday
noice
>these are both Yoel Roth
>what do you think a conversation of these guys would be like? strange
I have a guess.
Must be the name.
A rabbi is under investigation for arranging child marriages. But one of his teen couples just got married.
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A screenshot from a religious lecture by Rabbi Yoel Roth, who Hasidic New Yorkers accuse of arranging religious marriages between children as young as 15. Image by Molly Boigon
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By Louis Keene October 13, 2021
https://forward.com/news/476631/rabbi-yoel-roth-hasidic-child-marriage-heichel-hakodesh-breslov/
>old news, check the date baker
Old News?
For people looking into someone namedYoel Roth, which is recent news, this might be New News.
>old news, check the date baker
I was really just shitposting. Your post might inspire me to investigate further.
>A rabbi is under investigation for arranging child marriages.
>A rabbi is under investigation for arranging child marriages.
Videos and text messages viewed by the Forward show that the yeshiva run by Rabbi Yoel Roth, Heichel Hakodesh Breslev, hosted the wedding festivities of an underage boy and girl, believed to be, respectively, 15 and 17 at the time of their March engagement.
That was also when the Forward reported that both Roth and the yeshiva, which is also known as Yeshiva Tiferes HaTorah, were being investigated by the New York Police Department and the Administration for Children’s Services for performing child marriages.
Oren Yaniv, communications director for the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office, said investigations into the marriages were ongoing but that the department had not received any evidence that enabled it to pursue a criminal case.
Under New York State law, people must be 18 to legally marry. But performing a religious wedding ceremony for an underage couple — even with a ketubah — would not by itself constitute a crime under the law, which was signed this July by former Governor Andrew Cuomo.
Roth, who is not visible in the video clip of Monday’s celebration, did not respond to messages left at the school this week.
Not long before the Forward reported that Roth was under investigation, a photo of a boy and girl at their engagement celebration was circulated on social media by Frimet Goldberger, a writer familiar with the community.
“A 15-year-old Hasidic boy, a cherub holding his father’s hand, got engaged to a 17-year-old girl,” Goldberger wrote in March. The photo also included their surnames: Schnitzler and Zelkowitz. The Forward was not able to confirm the bride’s surname.
Frimet Goldberger
@FrimetG
These marriages are illegal in NYS, but children will be married off anyway because the state turns a blind eye to crimes in this community.
Fundamentalism is the real plague here.
This new trend was started by a man called Yoily Roth who crowned himself a rabbi,
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Frimet Goldberger
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attracting a sizeable following. He perceived a discontent in many young families—a disillusionment with the status quo and stringencies, particularly related to sex segregation and sexual purity.
>Why am I not surprised at all that the FBI, DOJ and DHS were working directly on behalf of the pedophiles at the Lincoln Project with Twitter?
Lincoln Project co-founder John Weaver accused of sending provocative messages to young men
by Dominick Mastrangelo - 01/31/21 1:28 PM ET
so much salt
>https://archive.vn/SCpkV
Hasidic Brooklyn’s child matchmaker is under investigation
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A screenshot from a religious lecture by Rabbi Yoel Roth, who Hasidic New Yorkers accuse of arranging religious marriages between children as young as 15. Image by Molly Boigon
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By Molly Boigon March 25, 2021
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During a Hasidic teenager’s first day at a new Brooklyn yeshiva last year, the head of the school approached him to talk about arranging his marriage.
“He told me, ‘Wow, you’re so cute. You’re going to find a girl fast,’” said the former student, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. “I was 16.”
He added: “If I would have stayed, it would have happened.”
That head of school, Rabbi Yoel Roth, and the school he runs, Yeshiva Tiferes Hatorah in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, are now the subject of investigations by the New York Police Department and the Administration for Children’s Services, the Forward has learned, after stories ofRoth marrying off people as young as 15 erupted on social media in the last month. New York State requires people to be 18 to legally marry, or 17 with the consent of the Supreme Court or family court.
In interviews this week, siblings and witnesses of the rabbi’s acolytes and others familiar with his operations described Roth as the Pied Piper of Hasidic Brooklyn who is brainwashing children who look like they have not yet gone through puberty into religious engagement and wedding ceremonies.
“This is a real cult,” said one Hasidic woman in Brooklyn who said she has multiple siblings who joined Roth’s community, describing some as still “full-fledged” adherents. She spoke on the condition of anonymity to protect her siblings. “It was only once they got really hurt and they left, that those cult-like characteristics really — you could see it.”
In addition to the Williamsburg yeshiva, which is also known by the name Heichel Hakodesh Breslev, Roth runs Camp Breslev in Brooklyn and another nonprofit called Ach Tov V Chesed, according to tax filings. The organizations have a religious exemption from public disclosure of details like revenues and expenses.
Roth has also started a community of about 60 families in the Sullivan County, New York, town of Liberty, whose members are Roth’s most committed followers, including some of the young couples he matched and married.
Roth declined to be interviewed for this article through his secretary, Shaul Indig. Indig denied the charges in a phone call this week. He said the claims were “lies” from “people who hate” Roth, and that the rabbi organizes engagements among young people but does not marry them until they’re of legal age.
“They are going to be engaged for three years,” Indig said of a 15-year-old who was engaged to a 17-year-old last week. “If they were secular, they would just be friends for three years.”
But in videos posted to his website and on his social media channels,Roth says that listening to the state’s marriage laws is akin to listening to the Gentiles,and seems to advocate for marriage following only a few years after bar mitzvah.
“If you want to make a child happy, you have to marry him or her off,” Roth said in one video. Apparently invoking Rabbi Eliezer Shlomo Schick, who was arrested in 2011 in Israel for arranging child marriages, Roth said: “The yeshiva head spoke of pain, he spoke of 50 years that teenage boys write him letters, open themselves up to him. ‘There’s no other advice to be given except to marry off children young.’”