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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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Please note : The Awareness Center looks at Clergy Abuse and Mass Molestation Cases as a Jewish Issue, not a denominational issue. We need to tackle these issues together as a people.

Opening up darkened spaces is a scary, saddening task, but it is a sacred one as well. For as we have been taught by our learned rabbis of the Sanhedrin, "anyone who saves one soul of Israel, it is said about him that he/she has saved a whole world" (Sanhedrin 37/a).  Let us be "or La-Goyim", a light to show the way for other nations, by mending our communities without fear or shame.

In order to escape accountability for his/her crimes, the perpetrator does everything in hispower to promote forgetting.  Secrecy and silence are the perpetrator's first line of defense.  If secrecy fails, the perpetrator attacks the credibility of his victim.  If he cannot silence him absolutely, he tries to make sure no one listens.

-- Judith Lewis Herman

Disclaimer: Inclusion in this website does not constitute a recommendation or endorsement. Individuals must decide for themselves if the resources meet their own personal needs.

Table of Contents:

1. Jewish Resources

   • Policies Addressing Victimization and Offenders
   • Articles
     • Cost of Abuse
     • Honoring Parents Who Are Abusive?
   • Lashon Hara ('derogatory speech, that is true')
   • Anti-Semitism, Sexual Abuse, and The Jewish Community
     • Resources for our Non-Jewish Friends
   • Laws
   • Sex Addictions
   • When A Family Member Molests: Reality, Conflict, and The Need For S... by Vicki Polin, Michael Salamon and Na'ama Yehuda
   • When Melodies, Torah Scholars, and Abuse Collide
   • Cases of Clergy Abuse
     1. Case of Shlomo Aviner  (Rosh Yeshiva, Ateret Cohanim Yeshiva, Rabbi of Beit El, Israel)
     2. Case of Rabbi Lewis Brenner (Convicted of child molestation.  The original charges included 14 counts of sodomy, sexual abuse and endangering the welfare of a child.  He agreed to plead guilty to one count of sodomy in the third degree, a Class E felony, in exchange for a sentence of five years' probation.)
     3. Case of Rabbi Yaakov Yitzhak Brizel  (Accused of child molestation)
     4. Case of Rabbi Ephraim Bryks (Accusations about sexual inappropriate behavior with children started surfacing in the 1980's. Rabbi Bryks is currently a member of the Vaad Harabonim of Queens. The Vaad is a Rabbinical committee that makes important decisions within an orthodox community.)
     5. Case of Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach (Accused of several cases of child molestation, and sexual assault of young women)
     6. Case Rabbi Perry Ian Cohen - Montreal and Toronto Canada  (Accused of sexual abuse of a seventeen year old. Fired for sexual impropriety with congregants)
     7. Case of Rabbi Yitzchak Cohen (Accused of sexually harassing students at Bar-Ilan University)
     8. Case of Rabbi Ephraim Goldberg - Boca Raton, Flordia  (Pled guilty to one misdemeanor count of exposure of sexual organs in a washroom at a Palm Beach Mall.)
     9. Case of Rabbi/Cantor Sidney Goldenberg (Convicted of molesting children. The first complaints came in 1971.  He was finally convicted in 1997.)
     10. Case of Cantor Joel Gordon  (Convicted of having keeping a house of prostitution and involvement in a prostitution ring.)
     11. Case of Rabbi Israel Grunwald (Accused of molesting a 15 year old on a 1995 plane flight from Australia to LA. The charge against him were dropped after agreeing to perform 500 hours of community service and to seek counseling. Grunwald was the chief rabbi of an Hungarian Hasidic congregation in Brooklyn, known as the Pupas).
     12. Case of Yehudah Friedlander - Rabbi 's Assistant   (Accused of molesting a 15 year old on a 1995 plane flight from Australia to LA. Friedlander was the assistant to the chief rabbi of an Hungarian Hasidic congregation in Brooklyn, known as the Pupas)
     13. Case of the Rabbi at Hillel Torah, Chicago, IL  (A teacher at the Chicago school was accused of child molestation.  His name was not released. The school did everything correctly in attempting to keep the children safe once accusations were made.)
     14. Case of Rabbi Solomon Hafner  (Accused of sexually abusing a developmentally disabled boy)
     15. Case of Rabbi (Alan J.) Shneur Horowitz  (Convicted and sentenced to 10 - 20 years in prison for sodomizing a nine-year-old psychiatric patient. Allegedly, he has assaulted a string of children from California to Israel to New York in the past twenty years. Alan J. Horowitz is an Orthodox rabbi, magna cum laude, M.D., Ph.D. A graduate of Duke University, and was a writer for NAMBLA (North American Man/Boy Love Association).
     16. Case of Jacob Frank and the Frankist Movement (Accused of cultic type practices and sexual offenses)
     17. Case of Cantor Stuart Michael Friedman (Convicted and sentanced to 15 months in federal prison on one count of distributing child pornography).  
     18. Case of Rabbi Israel Kestenbaum (Accused of child pornography on the internet)
     19. Case of Rabbi Robert Kirschner (Accused of sexually exploited or harassing three congregants and a synagogue employee)
     20. Case of Rabbi Ze'ev Kopolevitch (Convicted of molesting students at Rosh Yeshiva, Netiv Meir yeshiva high school)
     21. Case of Rabbi Baruch Lanner (Convicted - child molestation.)
     22. Case of Rabbi Jerrold Martin Levy  (Convicted of two counts of soliciting sex through the Internet and two counts of child pornography.  He was sentenced to six years and sex in prison.  He was caught in the "Candyman" year-long sting operation by the US government.)
     23. Case of Rabbi Pinchas Lew  (Accused of exposed himself to a woman.)
     24. Case of Rabbi/Psychologist Mordecai Magencey  (lost his license to practice in the State of Missouri because of his sexual misconduct with his patients.)
     25. Case of Rabbi Richard Marcovitz (Convicted of indecent or lewd acts with a child, and sexual battery)
     26. Case of Rabbi Juda Mintz  (Convicted - internet sting on child pornography)
     27. Rabbi Yona Metzger (Accused of sexually misconduct with four men)
     28. Case of Rabbi Avrohom Mondrowitz (Accused of two counts of sex abuse with boys at a special education school in New York)
     29. Case of Cantor Howard Nevison (Accused of molesting his nephew)
     30. Case of Rabbi Michael Ozair  (Accused of sexual molestation of a then-14-year-old girl)
     31. Case of Cantor Stanley Rosenfeld (Convicted of molesting a 12-year-old boy he was tutoring.)
     32. Case of Rabbi Charles Shalman (Accused of sexual misconduct toward female congregational members)
     33. Case of Cantor Robert Shapiro (Accused of three counts of rape and four counts of indecent assault and battery to a mentally retarded woman)
     34. Case of Cantor Michael Segelstein  (Accused of attempted rape; Chabad - Las Vegas, Nevada)
     35. Case of Rabbi Ze'ev Sultanovitch (Accused of sexually molesting a number of adult yeshiva students at the Merkaz Harav Yeshiva)
     36. Case of Rabbi Melvin Teitelbaum (Accused of three counts of sex crimes against two boys under the age of 14, and one count of assault with intent to commit rape against one boy's mother.  The charges were dropped for lack of evidenced)
     37. Case of Rabbi Isadore Trachtman (Accused of cultic type practices and sexual offenses)
     38. Case of Rabbi Hirsch Travis (Rabbi in Monsey, accused of posing as a Brooklyn doctor specializing in infertility problems, and allegedly sexually abusing and assaulting a patient.)
     39. Case of Rabbi Matis Weinberg (Accused of cultic type practices and sexual offenses)
     40. Case of Rabbi Yaakov Weiner (Accused of molesting boy at Camp Mogen Avraham, New York)
     41. Case of Rabbi Don Well
     42. Case of Cantor Phillip Wittlin (Convicted of molesting two girls)
     43. Case of Rabbi Mordechai Yomtov (Convicted of sexual abuse and committing lewd acts against three boys)
     44. Case of Rabbi Sheldon Zimmerman (Violated guidelines concerning "sexual ethics and sexual boundaries," )
     45. Case of Rabbi Max Zucker (Accused by three women of improperly touching)
     46. Case of unamed womanizing rabbi who changed his name and moved to I...
     47. Case of unamed NY rabbi who has an unhealthy interest in teenage boys
   • And Other Trusted Officals (Parents, Teachers, Camp Counselors, etc.)
     1. Case of Faiz Suleiman Abukarinat - The Negev Pedophile (Convicted of kidnapping and raping three girls from Beersheba and Ashdod)
     2. Case of Hen Alkobi - Haifa, Israel - (Accused of raping and sexually abusing teenage girls in the Haifa area, ended in a plea bargain arrangement.)
     3. Case of Ben Amotz - Tel Aviv and Jaffa, Israel (Allegedly lured 12 to 13-year-old girls to his apartment using drugs)
     4. Case of Arie Adler and Marisa Rimland, NY (Arie Adler was accused of molesting his daughter. Marisa Rimland murdered her daughter, and then committed suicide).
     5. Case of Simcha Adler - Ohel Counselor, NY (Plea-bargained charges of sodomy, sexual abuse and two counts of endangering the welfare of a child down to attempted sodomy.)
     6. Case of Father/Grandfather from Ashkelon, Israel  (Accused of molesting his daughter and granddaughter)
     7. Case of Eugene Loub Aronin - School Counselor, TX  (Convicted in 1984 of sexually assaulting a 10-year-old boy)
     8. Case of Leeore Batshaw - Psychology Student at The University of Winnipeg (Convicted - internet sting on child pornography)
     9. Case of Be'er Sheva Sex Offender (Be'er Sheva, Israel)  (Convicted of sexually molesting a four-year-old girl and of raping a middle-aged woman).
     10. Case of Yoav Biran Accused of distributing child pornography over the Internet, also of performing indecent acts on children
     11. Case of Yaron Blanc - Ariel, Israel (Accused of using the internet to lure minors for sexual activity)
     12. Case of B'Nai Torah Congegation - Hillel Community Day School janit...  (Accused of child molestation)
     13. Case of Chaim Ciment  (Accused and charged with first-degree sexual abuse, after allegations were made that he fondled a 17 year old girl in an elevator).
     14. Case of James A. Cohen - Jewish Youth Group Leader (Convicted child molester, sentenced to 9 years for assaulting 4 boys)
     15. Case of Larry Cohen - Soccer Coach (Lake Oswego, OR) (Accused of molesting two individuals.)
     16. Case of Lawrence Cohen - School Teacher, NJ (Convicted and sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for transmitting child pornography through his home computer).
     17. Case of Phillip "Eli" Cohen (London, England)  (Accused of 13 charges of indecently assaulting a boy and four offences of indecently assaulting a girl)
     18. Case of Stuart Cooperman, MD - Pediatrican (Merrick, New York) (Accused of molesting six female patience).
     19. Case of Corrido - Murder of Alexandra Brandt
     20. Case of "D" - The South Tel Aviv Pedophile (charged with committing sodomy and indecent acts on at least four children. The real number is probably higher)
     21. Case of Oren Danan (Tel Aviv, Israel) (Confessed to child abduction, sexual assault, and attempted murder of a neighborhood girl)
     22. Case of Delaware Family  (Father accused of alleged child molestation)
     23. Case of Eric Dorfner, Counselor
     24. Case of Mordechai (Morton) Ehrman - Simcha's Play Group (Brooklyn, NY) (Accused of molesting dozens of students).
     25. Case of the Father in a Mazda 323 - Suspected of rapes inNahal Ashan, Be'er Sheva and Negev, Israel
     26. Case of Hbrandon Lee Flagner  (Convicted of the kidnapping and aggravated murder of Tiffany Jennifer Papesh a 8-year-old girl. Flagner also claimed to have molested hundreds of girls during his life. While in prison, Flagner convert to Judaism by an Chasidic rabbi.)
     27. Four Suspected Web Pedophiles - Israel
     28. Case of Arnold and Jesse Friedman (Capturing the Friedmans) (Convicted sex offenders)
     29. Case of Richard "Steve" Goldberg  (Allegedly engaging in sex acts with several girls under 10 in California.  He is on the FBI's ten most wanted fugitives list)
     30. Case of Avraham Ger (Tel Aviv, Israel)  (Accused of sexually assaulting several girls and boys)
     31. Case of Ovadia Gershon - Director of Group home for Mentally Challe... (Convicted raping a mentally challenged resident in a group home in Tel Aviv, Israel)
     32. Case of Ross Goldstein  (Convicting of sodomy in the first degree (three counts) and use of a child in a sexual performance.  He was Sentenced to four concurrent indeterminated terms of 2 to 6 years imprisonment. Also see: Case of Arnold and Jesse Friedman)
     33. Case of Teen Girls who Beat Younger Girl - Rishon Letzion, Israel
     34. Case of Several Child Sex Offenders in Har Nof (Jerusalem, Israel)  (Outlines several cases of alleged child sex offenders in the charedi town of Har Nof)
     35. Case of David B. Harrington - School Principal / Big Brother (Rockv... (Convicted sex offender.  Cases from the 1960's - 1980's.)
     36. Case of Eric Hindin - Jewish Big Brother Volunteer (Newton, MA)  (Convicted of 35 counts of child rape. He was sentenced to 20-22 years in prison).
     37. Case of State of Israel Vs. a Sex Offender  (Convicted - 68 year old Israeli religious man pled guilty to repeated molestation of his granddaughter, was sentenced to 19 years in jail.
     38. Case of Lord Greville Janner - Former British Labour MP
     39. Case of Jewish Youth Group Leader/Rabbinical Student (Accused of molesting an 11 year old boy in the basement of a synagogue).
     40. Case of Jewish Quarter child molester (Jerusalem, Israel)  (suspicions in the quarter that the 16-year-old arrested by the police in 1988 had "taken the rap" for his older brothers, who are still on the loose. The youth was eventually institutionalized. This case involves a 5 year old male victim).
     41. Case of Rafael Kaplanovsky - (Accused of distributing child pornography over the Internet)
     42. Case of Judge Ronald Kline, CA  (Accused of possessing child pornography and for allegedly molesting a neighborhood boy 25 years ago).
     43. Case of Six Male Teenagers at Kibbutz Shomrat  (Accused and Convicted of repeatedly sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl, over a period of several days on the kibbutz)
     44. Case of the Kosher Butcher in Chicago  (Accused of molesting children for over 30 years)
     45. Case of Gang Rapes in Rishon Letzion and Ashdod, Israel  (gang rapes in two different towns)
     46. Case of Howard Lichtenstein, D.D.S. (Skokie, Illinois)  (charged with indecent solicitation of a child.) 
     47. Man from Ramle, Israel - (Accused of stabbing a prostitute over money)
     48. Case of Yitzhak Mordechai - Israeli Public Official  (Convicted of sexual assault)
     49. Case of Lawrence Nevison - (Convicted of molesting his nephew.  He is the brother of Cantor Howard Nevison)
     50. Case of Stuart Nevison - (Convicted of molesting his cousin.  He is the brother of Cantor Howard Nevison)
     51. The Case of the Students of Ner Israel Yeshiva in the 1950's (Baltimore, MD) (Students accused of sexually molesting a younger student)
     52. Case of the New York Society for the Deaf's Home  (Accused of treating disabled patients ``like animals,'' beaten, drugged and robbed of their government checks).
     53. Case of the Orthodox Singer and a Haredi Friend (Two haredi men, one the singer son of a prominent American haredi performer, were in for enticing girls, some of whom were below the age of 16, to take dangerous drugs and then to have sexual relations with them.)
     54. Case of Ozzie Orbach, M.D. (Accused of molesting his daughter)
     55. Case of Raymond M. Pietrowski  (Convicted in the attempted rape of an 11-year-old boy will serve no prison time but instead will spend 10 years on probation in Israel)
     56. Case of the Man from Ramle, Israel  (A man was arrested after stabbing a minor (13 year old girl, over an argument over payment for her services.  The girl was taken to Ichilov Hospital with light injuries)
     57. Case of the Rogers Park JCC, (Chicago, Illinois) (This was the first case of alleged mass molestation recorded in Illinois to involve accusations of sexual abuse by a group of adults, consists of 246 allegations that staff members abused children enrolled at the center, according to the Illinois Department of children and Family Services).
     58. Case of Jonathan Rosenthal - Community Police Liason (London, England) (Acquitted of sexually assaulting a few children, after a jury used ancient common law right, deciding evidence wasn't strong enough.)
     59. Case of Marni Nasia-Rubin (Toledo, OH)  (Convicted, pleaded no contest to one count of unlawful sexual conduct with a minor).
     60. Case of Adam Theodore Rubin - Teacher, Coach and Girl Scout Coordin...  (Accused of using a computer to solicit sex with a minor, possession of a controlled dangerous substance and possession of drug paraphernalia).
     61. Case of Tuvya Sa'ar - Director-General of the Israel Journalists' Union  (Arrested on suspicion of having intercourse with a minor and coercing her for sexual favors.)
     62. Case of Georges Schteinberg - Teacher (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)  (Accused of possession of child pornography.  Charges dropped when Schteinberg fled the country).
     63. Case of Aryeh Scher - Israeli vice-consul (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)  (Accused of possession of child pornography.  Charges dropped when Scher fled the country).
     64. Case of David Schwartz - Camp Counselor (Culver City, CA)  (Convicted and sentenced to one year in residential treatment and five years' probation for molesting a 4-year-old boy in his care at summer camp. A six-year prison sentence was suspended).
     65. Case of Jerrold Schwartz - Scoutmaster, NY  (Convicted and sentanced to 8 years in prison for multiple counts of sodomizing his former scout ).
     66. Case of Benny Sela (Tel Aviv, Israel)  (Convicted serial rapist)
     67. Case of the Serial Pedophile in Tel Aviv
     68. Case of Gal Shamir - Holon, Israel  (Convicted to 17 years imprisonment for sexually assaulting six children.
     69. Case of Yitzhak Sha'ari and the House hostel - International Youth Hostel (Jerusalem, Israel) (The local building and planning committee cited allegations of sexual harassment against Sha'ari published in the popular U.S. student travel guide Let's Go.)
     70. Case of Jackie Shoshan - Be'er Sheva, Israel - (Convicted of 14 indecent acts against a 13 year old boy)
     71. Case of Irwin Silverman - Chief Counsel to U.S. secretary of interior 1933-53  (Accused of molesting his daughter Sue William Silverman. )
     72. Case of Paul Slifer - Teacher  (Accused of sexually assaulting a several students, and impersonating a doctor. )
     73. Case of Itai Snapir - (Accused of distributing child pornography over the Internet)
     74. Case of Ari Sorkin - Synagogue Youth Worker (Elkins Park, PA) (Accused of molesting a 16 yr. old girl)
     75. Case of the Soviet Father - (Accused of physically and sexually assaulting his 17 year old daughter)
     76. Case of Robert Taylor - Former Board Member Temple Beth Emet (Los A... (Convicted of molesting a boy, served a sex month jail sentance).
     77. Case of Tel Aviv Arts School (Tel Aviv, Israel)
     78. Case of the Unnamed Fourth Individual (Jerusalem, Israel) - (Accused of distributing child pornography over the Internet, a gag order has been placed on the name)
     79. Case of unamed Florida pedophile who works with Jewish youth (Accused of molesting children in his care)
     80. Case of unamed Principal in a Brooklyn yeshiva (Brooklyn, NY) (Accused of molesting students)
     81. Unnamed Cop in Tel Aviv - Convicted of raping his younger brother
     82. Case of Dr. Saul and Judith Wasserman  (Accused of molesting their daughter)
     83. Case of David Douglas Webber - Mashgiach (Kashrut Supervisor), Canada  (Convicted and sentenced to six years for possessing child pornography and molesting seven boys over the past eight years).
   • Related Cases
     1. Case of Rabbi Bernard Freilich  (Acquitted of death threats to an alleged victim)
   • Case of Domestic Violence in Jewish Communities

2. Secular Resource

   • List of Clergy Reporting States
   • Secular Organizations Dealing with Clergy Abuse
   • Sex Offender Registry (Various States and Countries)

3. Sex Offenders: Problems Our Parents Wouldn't Speak - Jewish Offende...

   • Articles About Sex Offenders and Pedophilia

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