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Creator of iconic Chabad menorah posthumouslyaccused of sexually abusing girl

Woman claims Hirschel Pekkar, who died in August, violated her as a young girl dozens of times in the 1990s, sues estate to melt down brass Hanukkah emblem as symbolic act

By Asaf Shalev 12 October 2021, 7:08 pm 0

JTA — A new lawsuit claims that the man who craftedwhat might be the most famous menorah in the world sexually abused a young girl dozens of times in the 1990sand that a rabbinical court failed to hold him accountable.

The survivor of this alleged abuse, now a 36-year-old woman living in Israel, is trying to get possession of her abuser’s brass menorah, which is normally displayed during Hanukkah at the headquarters of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement in Brooklyn.

Her lawyer says that if she succeeds, she’d consider melting it down in a symbolic act against taboos that have kept cases like hers from being known.

The craftsman behind the 6-foot-tall menorah was Hirschel Pekkar. After he died in August, an obituary on a Chabad community news site described him as “a renowned Crown Heights silversmith who created the famous Menorah which stands each Chanukah in 770 Eastern Parkway,” referring to the address of the Hasidic movement’s headquarters.

Pekkar was commissioned to forge a special Hanukkah lamp in 1982, after Chabad’s leader, the late Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, said in a speech that the arms of the menorah were originally diagonal rather than curved, citing the medieval Jewish scholar Maimonides.

The lawsuit says that the impact of Pekkar’s menorah — thousands of similar pieces have been fashioned over the decades — makes it “one of the most important pieces of Jewish artwork of the 20th century.”

“We’re pursuing the menorah, because it’s so symbolic and because we want to play an active role in shaping that symbolism,” Susan Crumiller, the attorney who is representing the woman, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. “We hope it’s a transformative moment. We are doing this out of love for the community.”

Crumiller had initially planned to sue Pekkar under New York’s Child Victims Act, which created a two-year window to revive old abuse cases previously barred by the statute of limitations. But, then, on August 5, just days ahead of the deadline, Pekkar died. Crumiller shifted her target and named Pekkar’s estate in a lawsuit filed on October 5. She told JTA that the death extended the legal window to sue, meaning that the August 14 deadline no longer applied.

No formal estate has been established for Pekkar by his heirs, and the responsibility for the estate is being addressed in a separate court case, according to Crumiller.

It’s also unclear who formally owns the menorah, though it has been treated as the communal property of the Chabad movement since it was commissioned. For now, Crumiller has asserted a lien on the menorah on behalf of her client, meaning that she has filed a public notice that her client is claiming it.

Asked about the allegations and about ownership of the menorah, Motti Seligson, a Chabad spokesperson, said that “our hearts go out to this woman,” but that Chabad would not weigh in on the case.

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>the man who craftedwhat might be the most famous menorah in the world sexually abused a young girl dozens of times in the 1990sand that a rabbinical court failed to hold him accountable.

“We are saddened and sickened by the allegations she has made and cannot begin to imagine the trauma she has experienced,” Seligson said in a statement. “However, since these allegations are against a private individual and we are not party to the lawsuit, it’s really not appropriate for us to comment any further.”

The plaintiff claims in her lawsuit that she met Pekkar in 1991, nine years after he built the menorah for Chabad, when he began employing her father as a jewelry maker in his workshop. She was 5 years old at the time and would regularly join her father at the jewelry-making studio, which was next door to Pekkar’s apartment.

According to the lawsuit, the studio had no bathroom and so one day when the plaintiff was visiting, Pekkar volunteered to take her to use the bathroom in his apartment. Just outside the bathroom, Pekkar allegedly reached under her clothes to touch her vagina.

Afterward, the lawsuit claims, Pekkar acted in a friendly manner but told her not to share what had happened with others. This scenario repeated itself at least a dozen times, according to the plaintiff, who is referred to as “Jane Doe” in the lawsuit.

“Through these occasions, Pekkar groomed Jane, and made her believe the abuse was innocent and consensual,” the lawsuit says.

Eventually, the plaintiff’s father and stepmother discovered the alleged abuse and, according to the suit, sought to confront Pekkar. They tried to entrap him by setting up a hidden video but Pekkar spotted it and the plan was foiled, the suit says.

After that failure, the father approached the rabbinical court of Crown Heights, a panel of rabbis charged with adjudicating conflicts within the Orthodox neighborhood, according to the lawsuit. The plaintiff claims that the court heard the allegations and Pekkar’s response and issued a ruling.

The August 27, 1991 ruling, which JTA reviewed, says that Pekkar admitted to one unspecified offense but not another.

“The defendant admitted that he did things that are not to be done,” the ruling says in Hebrew. “On the other hand, he did not admit to all (the heart of it) of the deception that he was accused of.”

The rabbinical court said Pekkar had been ordered to undergo treatment with an “expert counselor,” but had not submitted evidence showing that he had done so.

The plaintiff’s father wasn’t satisfied with the court’s ruling but, feeling helpless, he moved on, the plaintiff claims.

“After the failed rabbinical court proceedings, [the plaintiff’s father] resigned his position with Pekkar and distanced his family from him,” according to the lawsuit. “Feeling they had no recourse, the family did not discuss the abuse, and simply pretended like nothing ever happened.”

A similar allegation would likely be handled differently today. That’s because, in 2011, two members of the Crown Heights rabbinical court ruled that acts of child abuse should be reported to the police and that doing so is permitted despite the traditional prohibition against turning over members of the community to secular authorities.

The plaintiff still identifies with the Chabad movement and remains a follower of Schneerson today, the Daily Beast reported.

“For a whole decade [Schneerson] was lighting [the menorah] and loving it, and he was loving something that wasn’t holy,” she was quoted as saying. “He touched a lie. And if he knew, maybe he wouldn’t touch it.”

https://www.timesofisrael.com/creator-of-iconic-chabad-menorah-posthumously-accused-of-sexually-abusing-girl/

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Rabbis' absolute power: how sex abuse tore apart Australia's Orthodox Jewish community

Yeshivah leaders in Sydney and Melbourne chose to preserve the prestige of their faith over the safety of children. A national inquiry that reverberated around the world painted a devastating picture of how individuals were abandoned and ostracised as they fought to end the code of silence

David Marr

Wed 18 Feb 2015 21.11 EST

Last modified on Mon 15 Jan 2018 20.03 EST

Orthodox Judaism has never been exposed to such scrutiny. From a Melbourne courtroom, the torment of the Chabad rabbis was streamed live to the world as the royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse probed the city’s secretive and powerful Yeshivah community.

Sharp divisions in the Jewish world have been exposed. Two rabbis, including one of the nation’s most prominent, have been forced from their posts. Whistleblowers, humiliated and ostracised for years by Yeshivah, have been dramatically vindicated. More victims have come forward. More criminal charges may follow. Yeshivah schools face a nightmare of civil litigation.

The cast is Jewish, yet the bones of this story are familiar to anyone who has followed the scandal of child abuse in Christian schools and parishes. Rabbis and bishops have shown over the years much the same failings when faced with a choice between guarding the prestige of their faiths and the safety of children. This story is about the dangers in any cult of blind obedience to holy men.

Rabbi Yitzchok Groner died just in time. He was a dominating figure in Melbourne’s Jewish world, a mountain of a man with inexhaustible energy, deep religious learning and a stare that stopped grown men in their tracks.

Rabbi Yitzchok Groner

Rabbi Yitzchok Groner

As the Melbourne emissary of the Chabad-Lubavitch leader Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Groner’s authority was absolute.He spent 50 years building the Yeshivah sect into a wealthy, powerful and very private community of several hundred families living around a busy synagogue and thriving schools at a campus on Hotham Street, East St Kilda.

Yeshivah is ultra Orthodox: fundamentalist, intellectual and charismatic. God created the world in six days. Families are big. Sex is never discussed. Modesty is everything. Men and women mark their days with prayer and ritual. Instead of dying in the face of the modern world, old-fashioned, rule-bound Chabad-Lubavitch Judaism flourished.

Groner died in the winter of 2008, but his power didn’t die with him. To question his authority – indeed his saintliness – after his death, was considered a particularly grave sin among the Chabad. Protecting his memory were the rabbis he had trained and sent out into the wider Jewish world, and the interlocking mesh of Chabad families that seemed to make everyone at Yeshivah the son-in-law, nephew or sister of everyone else.

A couple of months after Groner’s death, news broke that David Kramer had been sentenced to seven years in prison in St Louis, Missouri, for molesting children at a youth camp where he was supposed to be teaching “Hot topics for Jewish teens”. The story died in Australia for the time being, but from this point, a number of Chabad leaders, teachers and parents knew an appalling scandal threatened Yeshivah.

Kramer had taught at the Yeshivah primary school in late 1989. The young American rabbi was immediately popular and immediately began molesting children. The number of his victims is not known, perhaps dozens, including two of the sons of Zephaniah Waks.

Waks was a most unwise man to cross. The Waks name is all through this story. Tenacity runs in the family. Half measures aren’t in their DNA. Their sense of right and wrong is strong and personal. As the father of 17 children, Zephaniah Waks had more than proved his dedication to Chabad. But in the end those children would mean more to him than any obligations to the sect.

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>Rabbis' absolute power: how sex abuse tore apart Australia's Orthodox Jewish community

Waks discovered the abuse in 1992. He says he complained to the principal of the Yeshivah school, Rabbi Abraham Glick. Within hours, Waks learned that Kramer had admitted the abuse. When he wasn’t fired, Waks says, he confronted Glick again, only to be told: “There is a danger of self-harm. So we can’t fire him.”

Another threat was looming at Yeshivah in those weeks. Police had discovered another paedophile active on the campus,a man whose abuse of Chabad children Groner appears to have known about for nearly a decade.

David Cyprys had been to school at St Kilda and never left. He hung around Yeshivah in various guises: as a helper at youth camps, security guard, locksmith and martial arts instructor. He had keys to the ritual bath, the mikveh, where he abused boys. He abused them in one-on-one kung fu lessons. He abused them at youth camps. He raped them at his house.

The earliest known complaint about Cyprys was in 1984. One victim and the father of another complained to the head of Chabad Youth. The father also confronted Groner, who promised to look after the matter and assured him his son was so young he wouldn’t need counselling. Years later the father would give evidence that from that time he didn’t hear another word from Groner.

Complaints about Cyprys kept coming. In 1986 Groner told a 30-year-old mother whose son was being abused: “Oh, no, I thought we cured him [Cyprys].” She trusted the rabbi’s assurances that all would now be well. A long time later she discovered the abuse of her son continued for another two years.

>moar: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/feb/19/rabbis-absolute-power-how-sex-abuse-tore-apart-australias-orthodox-jewish-community

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Sexual abuse victim recalls arduous ordeal 20 years later

Rabbi Menachem ‘Mendy’ Weiss pleaded guilty to aggravated sexual assaulton Monday.

By ILANIT CHERNICK

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019 16:06

Boy wearing a kippa (photo credit: INGIMAGE)

Boy wearing a kippa

(photo credit: INGIMAGE)

“He identified me as his prey.”

These were the words of the sexual assault victim of former New Jersey rabbi Menachem “Mendy” Weiss.

On Monday, Weiss pleaded guilty to aggravated sexual assault, which took place between January and June 1999.

In a statement posted on the Jewish Community Watch website, the anonymous victim recalled his difficult past and the damage he endured following this trauma.

“I never thought this day would come,” the victim said. “Twenty years ago, my parents entrusted me to the home and expertise of the man then known as Rabbi Menachem Mendel Weiss, of Woodcliff Lake, NJ.”

The victim, who today is a married man, said that at the time of the sexual assault he was living in Weiss’s home, “with his family, across the country from my own family. I attended the school, then called Sinai Special Needs in Teaneck, NJ, where he was a special education teacher who was working with high school-aged boys with emotional, developmental, psychological and mental problems.He was a rabbi at a small Chabad synagogue that had services on Sabbaths and holidays at his home in Woodcliff Lake.

“The word ‘rabbi’ means ‘my teacher.’ He was my rabbi, my religious authority, my teacher and my legal guardian,” he said. “He identified me as his prey, and used his positions of guardian, religious authority, and teacher to sexually assault me multiple times while I was in his home under his care, and while his wife and young children were down the hall.”

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The victim explained that over the last 20 years, he has suffered tremendously.

“I have had severe depression,” he said. “I acted out. I felt empty. I felt and continue to feel extreme shame.”

He said that he still struggles with social relationships today.

“I was confused about my sexuality,” he recalled. “I had morbid, suicidal thoughts, a strong feeling of inadequacy and complete lack of confidence.”

THE FEELINGS of emptiness, shame, shyness and introvertedness remained with him for many years following the sexual assault.

He said that he had suffered from sexual dysfunction, saw himself as “damaged goods,” and later turned to drugs to deal with his pain.

“I lost aspirations and dreams of accomplishing anything in life,” he said. “I became closed and withdrawn. I could not make friends, and I still have difficulty making friends. It is extremely difficult for me to place trust in anyone,” he said.

“I expect to be taken advantage of, to be abused, to be cheated, to be violated,” he added, saying that “this secret, this sickness, this vile disease [had been] eating me up inside for so long.”

He stressed that he had also sought help “at great financial and emotional expense” from psychiatrists, psychologists, therapists and counselors.

“Most of all, I have felt guilt,” the man continued. “Guilt that I didn’t speak up at the time so he would stop. Guilt that I didn’t speak up when it happened again. Guilt that I was somehow complicit in his evil.”

The victim said he continues to feel the guilt today, and it has taken “countless psychiatrists, psychologists, therapists, and counselors, thousands of dollars, and almost 20 years until I could come forward so he could be held responsible for his crimes.”

The victim shared that he also felt guilty, “because he was certainly abusing others, and that my silence about MY abuse allowed him to continue.”

He charged that Weiss, “like many other child molesters and child rapists… put himself in a position” where he was able to “access to groom, abuse, assault and rape those in our society who are most vulnerable,” stressing that these were “not just children, but children with disabilities.”

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>He was a rabbi at a small Chabad synagogue

The victim added that he realized it was time to come forward about his ordeal after becoming a husband and a father.

“I came forward to shed light on this man, Mr. Menachem Mendel Weiss, and to prevent him from perpetrating this evil on anyone else,” he said. “I believe making known to the public who and what he really is will help save others from becoming his victims.”

He encouraged other people abused by Weiss or people like him to come forward, because there is still time within statutes of limitations on rape and sexual assault of children in some states.

“I shudder to think how many countless other victims of Mr. Weiss are out there, how many are irreparably damaged, how many do not have the support that I do,” he said.

On Monday, the prosecution recommended a six-year prison sentence for Weiss, and that he register as a sex offender.

Weiss was charged in March 2018 with two counts of aggravated sexual assault in the first degree, after the victim accused the rabbi of sexually assaulting him.

At the time of his arrest, Weiss was living in Los Angeles, listed as married and working as a teacher.

https://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Sexual-abuse-victim-recalls-arduous-ordeal-20-years-later-601473

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United States

Chicago rabbi arrested on sex abuse charges

May 28, 2013 5:09 pm

(JTA) — Chicago Rabbi Larry Dudovitz was arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy in 2006.

Dudovitz, 45, was arrested Saturday, the Chicago Tribune reported, and is being held on $100,000 bail.

Dudovitz, who is also known by his Hebrew nameAryeh, is a follower of the late Chabad leader, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, and was formerly a rabbi at the Chabad House of Northwest Indiana.But a spokesperson for a Chabad rabbinic association in Illinois told JTA that Dudovitz has had no official role in the movement since he arrived in Chicago.

According to authorities, the alleged assault occurred at the victim’s home on Oct. 26, 2006 in the West Rogers Park neighborhood.

https://www.jta.org/2013/05/28/united-states/chicago-rabbi-arrested-on-sex-abuse-charges

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>Chicago rabbi arrested on sex abuse charges

Definitely coming from a certain angle but this site has lots of info regarding theChabad Mafia

Chabad is a Criminal Organization, an Organized Crime Mafia

Some people who have had experiences with the Chabad organization, refer to Chabad as a mafia, a criminal organization, an organized crime mafia, a gang run by gangsters who call themselves Chabad Rabbis.

Chabad runs a large network of schools and synagogues in the USA and other countries. Is this a gang? A mafia? A criminal organization? The schools, synagogues, and other businesses, are the front for their criminal activity. Chabad is involved in white collar crimes such as financial fraud, tax evasion, and money laundering, among other things, in a very organized manner.

Is Chabad a gang? A gang is a group of people who through the organization, formation, and establishment of an assemblage share a common identity. Gang activities are not restricted to typical organized crime groups, but may be associated with a general class of behavior in which collective action and support of communal interests and goals serves to achieve social cohesion or solidarity especially in cults, unions, political parties or movements, and religious sects.

Are Chabad Rabbis gansters? A gangster is a criminal who is a member of a persistent crime organization, such as a gang. Gangsters are typically organized criminals who are actively engaged in crime as a group activity or enterprise for power, pleasure, or profit. The visibility of activities of gangsters can be low-level such as white collar crimes, financial fraud, tax evasion, and money laundering.

Gangsters often run their operations as businesses insofar as they offer a "product" or "service", albeit an illegal one, or, as is sometimes the case, a legitimate business operating as a front for criminal activity. Some gangsters, sometimes called thugs, engage in extortion, intimidation, and bribery. They are also known for attempting to manipulate the decisions of civil institutions, such as court cases and political elections.

Is Chabad a criminal organization that engages in organized crime? Organized crime or criminal organizations are groups or operations run by criminals, most commonly for the purpose of generating a monetary profit. Organized crime is defined as "The unlawful activities of … a highly organized, disciplined association…".

Does Chabad engage in racketeering activity? A racket is an illegal business, usually run as part of organized crime. Engaging in a racket is called racketeering. Racketeering activity means, among other things, any acts of kidnapping, robbery, bribery, extortion, counterfeiting, theft, fraud, obstruction of justice, embezzlement of funds, bankruptcy or securities fraud, money laundering and related offenses, bringing in, aiding or assisting aliens in illegally entering the country (if the action was for financial gain).

!!! Chabad is engaged in ALL of the illegal activities mentioned above !!!

http://www.chabad-mafia.com/mafia

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>Definitely coming from a certain angle but this site has lots of info regarding theChabad Mafia

Chabad-Lubavitch Molestation and Child Abuse

Chabad runs a large network of Chabad schools in the USA and other countries. The objective of these Chabad schools is to make money. These Chabad schools are also a front for the illegal operations of the Chabad organization. The objective of these Chabad schools is NOT to provide a good Jewish education to its students. The people working in these Chabad schools are ususally not qualified as teachers. The objective of these Chabad schools is NOT to provide a safe environment for its students. Child abuse is rampant at these Chabad schools.

Chabad Molestation Scandal (June 07, 2007). I was fifteen. He, the older mashpia-bochur - me, the young naive lesser religious, grossly convincing me as my mashpia not to run after chix and to study with him and become really really close to the rebbe… he did this b'tur mashpia mitam hayeshiva. He was 20. The other rabbi, Rabbi Dovid Wakser of Crown Heights did it first when I was 12 1/2. He is still molesting teenagers. they are still hurting others. I want them exposed.

Source: http://failedmessiah.typepad.com/failed_messiahcom/2007/06/chabad_molestat.html

Another Chabad Molestation Scandal (June 11, 2007). This one involving an 11 year old boy molested at Camp Gan Israel in Montreal 25 years ago. His alleged abuser, a camp waiter (a position given to yeshiva students) went on to anally rape boys at knife point in Long Beach, California. The alleged rapist abuser now lives in Betar, Israel.

Source: http://failedmessiah.typepad.com/failed_messiahcom/2007/06/another_chabad_.html

chabad child abuse

Another New Chabad Sexual Abuse Scandal (June 21, 2007). Recently, within the last week. A Chabad cheder in a haredi town not that far from Jerusalem or Tel Aviv. A 13 year old boy molests more than 10 younger boys, leading them into the bathroom and groping them. The administration of the school is notified. The principal warns the molester - you do this again, you get thrown out of school and we call the police. The school does not tell parents or arrange counseling for the victims - or for the molester. Less than two weeks later the molester is caught abusing in the school again and is expelled or suspended from school. It is unclear if police are called. Parents are not notified. No counselors are brought in. I told a parent of two of these victims, boys under 9 years old, that he needs to get them counseling and that he should be prepared to have them in therapy for a long time, perhaps for years, if necessary. This molester was allowed to remain in school. Parents were not consulted. And, it seems, even now police have not been called. I used to think Chabad was better than most Orthodox groups when it came to handling abuse and molestation. I no longer believe that.

Source: http://failedmessiah.typepad.com/failed_messiahcom/2007/06/the-newest-chab.html

>http://www.chabad-mafia.com/abuse

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>Chabad-Lubavitch Molestation and Child Abuse

Chabad Motto? If At First You Don't Succeed, Sue the Victim (June 21, 2007). A Chabad man serves as the hazzan of a Chabad synagogue. Several years ago, outside another synagogue after a community event, the Chabad hazzan sexually assaults a woman who is a member of the Chabad synagogue. He is eventually arrested and pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of lewd conduct. He is sentenced, serves a very brief time, is given probation and community service. Meanwhile, the victim civilly sues Chabad, in part because she claims Chabad sheltered the hazzan. Now Chabad has sought a judgment against the victim for more than $175,000 in attorneys' fees, and a judge is about to grant that. The Chabad? Las Vegas, Nevada. The Rabbi? She Harlig. The hazzan? Michael Segelstein. As Jewish Survivors notes: Rabbi Harlig is attempting to sue a rape victim for attorney fees. This is a rape victim of a convicted sex offender who is on the national sex offender list. Immediately after the arrest, Rabbi Harlig falsely claimed this victim - who worked in the synagogue's kitchen - was not Jewish. She went to the RCA's beit din. They investigated and found Rabbi Harlig's claim false. The woman is the daughter of a Jewish holocaust survivor from Vienna, Austria. The beit din issued her a document verifying her Jewishness. But, during the time the beit din was investigating Rabbi Harlig's false claims, this woman's teenage son - a very active synagogue goer and participant - was forced to sit in the back of the synagogue. He was banned from receiving aliyot or leading services. And he was shunned by other members, as was his mother, apparently at the direction of Rabbi Harlig. And the man who attempted to rape this woman? He is a proud member of Chabad to this day, leading services and fully participating in synagogue life. A double standard? You bet it is. And that double standard is sanctioned by and orchestrated by Chabad-Lubavitch.

Source: http://failedmessiah.typepad.com/failed_messiahcom/2007/06/chabad-motto-if.html

Rubashkin Son-In-Law Arrested For Child Sexual Molestation - Chabad Rabbi Allegedly Molested Boy At School, JCC (October 1, 2008). Rabbi Yaakov Weiss, 28, is rabbi of Chabad of Colonie near Albany, New York. His wife is Rosa Rubashkin, Sholom M. Rubashkin's daughter. Weiss moved from Postville to the Albany area in 2004: "Weiss, who adheres to a missionary branch of Judaism know as Chabad-Lubavitch, moved to Colonie from Iowa in 2004 with his wife Rosa and an infant daughter. Soon after arriving in the Capital Region, Weiss founded the Chabad of Colonie and the Chabad Hebrew School. He has been outspoken on the issue of public religious expression."

Source: http://failedmessiah.typepad.com/failed_messiahcom/2008/10/rubashkin-son-i.html

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Another child accuses Loudonville rabbi of sexual abuse (October 7, 2008). ALBANY - Another child has accused a local rabbi of sexual abuse, city police said today. Police spokesman Det. James Miller said the 13-year-old boy was identified as another alleged victim of Rabbi Yaakov Weiss, 28, of Loudonville, during the initial investigation of a referral from the New York State Child Protection Agency. Weiss, rabbi at Chabad of Colonie and founder of the Chabad Hebrew School, was charged Sept. 29 with several counts of sexual abuse and endangering the welfare of a child for alleged incidents involving another 13-year-old boy as a result of the initial referral. The latest allegations involve an alleged incident that occurred in June on Whitehall Road, Miller said. Weiss was charged with second-degree sexual abuse and endangering the welfare of a child this afternoon in response to that allegation and was arraigned in City Criminal Court.

Source: http://www.dailygazette.com/news/2008/oct/07/1007_rabbi/

Top Doc Scared Off Panel On Rabbinic Sex Molesters (September 10, 2008).

report chabad child abuse A prominent Orthodox rabbi and psychologist has been intimidated into quitting as head of a just-formed task force dealing with rabbinic sex abuse of minors, organized by Assemblyman Dov Hikind this week. Dr. Benzion Twerski told The Jewish Week Wednesday that he was quitting the task force because "I was prosecuted in the street for daring to join such a venture." "To protect myself, my family, and reputation, I decided to withdraw from this project," he wrote in an e-mail as the paper was going to press with a story announcing Hikind's formation of the task force. "From this point, I am avoiding participation in any forms of public service. Public life is not for me."

Hikind, a Brooklyn Democrat who represents Borough Park and Flatbush, deplored Twerski's abrupt departure from his new panel. "He was basically forced to resign," said Hikind. "He was literally put against the wall, and he felt he had no choice. We'll get somebody else who's very respected. But that's not the point. The point is they got to him, they threatened him." But he added: "Anything that contributes to apprehending the bad guy and helping the victims, we need to do - period, end of the story. That's my position. I have a new perspective because I've taken a close look, because I've spent almost four weeks now listening non-stop to horror stories, and then I'm told by people today who met with me, 'Dov, it's worse than even you think right now.' I said, 'what?'"

Source: http://www.thejewishweek.com/viewArticle/c36_a13404/News/New_York.html

More information about abuse by Chabad Rabbis is exposed everyday!

Jewish Survivors of Sexual Violence Speak Out - Blog for and about Jewish Survivors of childhood sexual abuse, survivors of sexual assault, rabbinical sexual misconduct and those who care about them.

The Awareness Center .org - Alleged and Convicted Sex Offender Registry - Clergy Abuse: Rabbis, Cantors & Other Trusted Officials. "Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people; neither shalt thou stand idly by the blood of thy neighbor" (Leviticus 19:16).

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Chabad-Lubavitch is a criminal organization, an organized crime mafia

The following information is an example of just one organized criminal operation of the Chabad-Lubavitch organization. Agriprocessors Inc., in Postville Iowa, was the largest kosher meatpacking plant in the USA prior to the immigration raid of May 12, 2008, the largest in USA history, where more than 400 workers were arrested.

Agriprocessors is a Chabad-Lubavitch operation that supplied, just before the raid, about 60% of the kosher beef and about 40% of the kosher poultry in the USA.On April 2008, KAJ suspended their kosher certification of the food produced at the plant despite the huge amounts of money that they were offered. The problems with the kashrut at the plant were initially discovered in 2004 by PETA, an organization that is opposed to animal cruelty.

But O-U continued giving their kosher certification, despite the fact that most Orthodox Jews in the USA no longer considered the products as kosher. The question is a question of money. How much money was the O-U offered for giving these criminals a kosher certificate to products that were obviously not kosher? And this of course underlines the main reason Chabad cannot be stopped: MONEY! and corruption. For how many years did the Jews in the USA unknowingly eat non-kosher meat products because of this Chabad operation?

Chabad-Lubavitch involved in the largest immigration raid in history!

700 ARRESTS POSSIBLE AT AGRIPROCESSORS; LARGEST IMMIGRATION RAID IN HISTORY; DRUGS AND WEAPONS VIOLATIONS ALSO ALLEGED (May 12, 2008) - Agriprocessors is owned and operated by members of the Chabad organization.

Source: http://failedmessiah.typepad.com/failed_messiahcom/2008/05/700-arrests-pos.html

Hundreds arrested in Iowa immigration raid (May 12, 2008). Postville, Iowa - A raid by federal immigration officials at the nation's largest kosher meatpacking plant may have resulted in as many as 700 arrests, immigration officials said Monday. Agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement entered the Agriprocessors Inc. complex in northeast Iowa Monday morning to execute a criminal search warrant for evidence relating to aggravated identity theft, fraudulent use of Social Security numbers and other crimes.

About 200 [Chabad] Hasidic Jews arrived in Postville in 1987, when butcher Aaron Rubashkin of Brooklyn's Crown Heights neighborhood reopened a defunct meat-packing plant with his two sons, Sholom and Heshy, just outside the city limits. Business boomed at the plant, reviving the depressed economy while pitting the newcomers against the predominantly Lutheran community.

Source: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-05-12-iowa-immigration_N.htm

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>Chabad-Lubavitch involved in the largest immigration raid in history!

Claims of ID fraud lead to largest raid in state history. Postville, Iowa - The largest workplace raid in Iowa history Monday resulted in the arrest of more than 300 people and reignited the debate over immigration. As two law enforcement helicopters hovered overhead, dozens of federal agents descended onAgriprocessors Inc., the nation's largest kosher slaughterhouse. Monday's raid involved 16 local, state and federal agencies, led by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). They executed search warrants related to criminal activity, as well as a civil search warrant for people believed to be in the United States illegally.

A federal search warrant said immigration officials have filed almost 700 complaints about immigration violations and criminal activity by workers at the Postville plant. The activity spans a two-year period, and some workers face multiple allegations. Federal officials allege that as many as three-fourths of the company's workers at the end of last year were using fraudulent Social Security numbers. Last November, the search warrant said, ICE agents interviewed a former Agriprocessors supervisor who saidsome employees were running a methamphetamine lab in the plant and were bringing weapons to work. Another source alleged worker abuse, officials said in the warrant. In one case, a supervisor covered the eyes of an employee with duct tape and struck him with a meat hook. The worker, who had entered the country illegally from Guatemala, was not seriously injured. He declined to report the incident for fear of losing his job, the warrant said. Another plant worker told federal officials that undocumented workers were paid $5 an hour for their first few months before receiving a pay increase to $6 per hour. The minimum wage in Iowa is $7.25 an hour. The plant, which produces kosher and nonkosher meats, opened in 1987 when butcher Aaron Rubashkin and about 200 [Chabad] Hasidic Jews from New York took over a defunct meatpacking plant. Hasidic Jews follow strict laws. It is a branch of Orthodox Judaism.

Source: DesmoinesRegister.com

Agriprocessors' Child Labor Investigation Reveals "Egregious Violations Of Virtually Every Aspect Of Iowa's Child Labor Laws" - Attorney General Asked To Prosecute To The "Fullest Extent Of The Law".

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - The Iowa Labor Commissioner's Office said Tuesday that it has uncovered dozens of child labor violations at the nation's biggest supplier of kosher meat. Labor officials said their investigation, which spanned several months, uncovered 57 cases of child labor law violations at the Agriprocessors kosher meatpacking plant in Postville, where nearly 400 workers were arrested this spring in the largest immigration enforcement operation in U.S. history.

The types of violations included minors working in prohibited occupations, exceeding allowable hours for youth to work, failure to obtain work permits, exposure to hazardous chemicals and working with prohibited tools. "The investigation brings to light egregious violations of virtually every aspect of Iowa's child labor laws," Dave Neil, Iowa Labor Commissioner, said in a statement. "It is my recommendation that the attorney general's office prosecute these violations to the fullest extent of the law."

Source: http://failedmessiah.typepad.com/failed_messiahcom/2008/08/agriprocessors.html

Evidence Shows Agriprocessors Officials Helped Falsify Workers' DocumentsPostville, Iowa - Federal agents who raided the Agriprocessors meatpacking plant here in May found evidence that the company's human-resources department helped provide false immigration documents to its workers. The agents said they found stacks of fraudulent resident-alien cards in the human-resources department. Most of the cards, also known as green cards, appeared to have been made by the same forger. The plant's owners and top executives have not been charged in the case.

Source: http://failedmessiah.typepad.com/failed_messiahcom/2008/07/evidence-shows.html

Rubashkin Workers Said Forced To Grant Sexual Favors For Promotions, Shift Changes.Chaim Abrahams, an Agriprocessors representative, declined to address the allegation of sexual favors in exchange for job-related requests. "As with any legal matter, Agriprocessors cannot comment about any specific allegation," Abrahams said in a written statement. Slavery, Rubashkin style.

Source: http://failedmessiah.typepad.com/failed_messiahcom/2008/05/rubashkin-wor-1.html

> http://www.chabad-mafia.com/crime

>>20226929

>Chabad-Lubavitch is a criminal organization, an organized crime mafia

>>20226953

Sexual favors allegedly expected from some Postville workers. Reports that there was an expectation of sexual favors at Agriprocessors Inc. are beginning to emerge from workers at the Postville meat processing plant, and advocates for immigrants in Postville today are trying to collect and validate the stories. Sister Mary McCauley said workers have said that "there was sexual abuse, that there's propositioning."

Federal agents raided Agriprocessors Inc., a kosher meat-processing plant, on Monday in the largest single-site immigration bust in U.S. history. Arrest warrants were issued for 697 people who work at the plant. Federal agents detained 389 in Waterloo, charged 306 with various fraud-related charges, and released 62. Twenty-one remain in custody pending immigration hearings. Since the raid, stories of how employees were mistreated has emerged, including verbal abuse by supervisors. Last November, the federal search warrant released after the raid said, Immigrant and Customs Enforcement agents interviewed a former Agriprocessors supervisor who said some employees were running a methamphetamine lab in the plant and were bringing weapons to work. Another source alleged worker abuse, officials said in the warrant. In one case, a supervisor covered the eyes of an employee with duct tape and struck him with a meat hook.

Source: http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080519/NEWS/80519022/-1/ENT05

CBS News On Agriprocessors Abuse Of Workers

More information about the criminal ways of the Chabad movement, and the Agriprocessors story, can be found at FailedMessiah.com - Rubashkin Scandals.

An interesting story about Agriprocessors and Rubashkin was published by a Professor of Jewish Studies. The story concludes:

The revulsion that non-Orthodox Jews in the Upper Midwest have for the [Chabad] Hasidim of Postville is visceral and undeniable. Over and over, while talking to non-Orthodox Jews in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area - arguably the Jewish community outside of Postville that has the most at stake in this story - I have heard one constant refrain. "How could this have happened?" they ask rhetorically. "I'll tell you…," and then their voices drop a register: "These [Chabad] Hasidim do not think their workers are human beings."

What these Jews are saying is probably the deepest and darkest secret of the entire story.

This is a tale of [Chabad] Hasidic Jews who are utterly at odds with what most Americans understand as modernity. They learn from their most sacred text, the Tanya (published in 1797 by the founder of Chabad Hasidism, Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi) that "the souls of the nations of the world, the idol worshippers, derive from unclean husks and have no goodness in them whatsoever."

This xenophobic teaching, an intolerant note hiding within the otherwise fetching melody of Chabad Hasidism, is spun differently for different audiences. But it indicates what can happen when business proprietors armed with a chauvinistic mystical theology that denies the humanity of non-Jews face off against the "laws of the land." Such behavior might pass unnoticed in the cloistered brownstone neighborhoods of Crown Heights, but in the open light of the prairies, there will be an inevitable clash of civilizations.

Source: http://caribou.cc.trincoll.edu/depts_csrpl/RINVol11No2/PostvilleRaid.htm

> http://www.chabad-mafia.com/crime

>>20226479 >Latest Tunnel Digs

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>>20226835 Definitely coming from a certain angle but this site has lots of info regarding theChabad Mafia

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>>20226929, >>20226953, >>20226978 Agriprocessors Inc., in Postville Iowa. Chabad-Lubavitch is a criminal organization, an organized crime mafia

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>>20227008

>Kek

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