I'm not saying
all rabbis are evil, deceitful, kiddie diddling sexual deviants and psychopaths... but....
Surprisingly, you'll see more articles about renegade rabbis and other such Jews at
Israeli news services like Haaretz, The Times of Israel, The Jerusalem Post, Ynet, etc, than you will in any of the Jew owned American media outlets. I could exhaust myself repeating the myriad of stories about rabid rabbis, but life is short and I don't get a shekel for any of this.
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A Dallas, TX rabbi who spread "Hamas rape" claims was himself arrested and charged with felony child sexual abuse. Rabbi Yizhak Meir Sabo it is claimed had inappropriately touched the underage victim (a boy) over multiple years. Sabo also served as the Director of Jewish Life at Akiba Yavneh Academy.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-born-rabbi-at-dallas-jewish-school-arrested-for-molesting-a-student/
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Rabbi Moshe Yazdi, 59 was indicted in Jerusalem for rape, rape through fraud, sodomy through fraud, indecent acts through fraud, causing rape and indecent acts through fraud, fraudulently receiving items, and money laundering. Seven women came forward claiming Yazdi assured them he was cleansing them of past sins. He was also accused of defrauding the victims of hundreds of thousands of shekels. He reportedly claimed he was one of "36 righteous people whose merits ensure the continued existence of the world", and stressed to his followers the need for their absolute obedience to his orders. He also claimed to consult with the Divine Presence, deceased rabbis and others when giving personal advice to his followers.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/rabbi-charged-with-raping-followers-claiming-it-would-cleanse-their-sins/
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Rabbi Aharon Goldberg and Shimen Liebowitz were arrested and charged in a US Federal court for conspiring to kidnap and murder an unnamed man in order to obtain a religious divorce (referred to in Jewish circles as “gets”) so that the intended victim's wife could divorce him according to halachic law. Goldberg and Liebowitz were arrested at a meeting where they were planning the kidnapping and murder.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/manhattan-us-attorney-announces-arrest-rabbi-and-member-satmar-community-conspiring
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Rabbi Igal Haimoff and Mark Weissman were arrested and charged in federal court for a scheme to extort $7 million from a man in exchange for not providing incriminating information to law enforcement authorities. Haimoff and Weismann were arrested and charged with extortion. In a novel angle, Haimoff and Weissman attempted to characterize the millions of dollars they expected to receive from their extortion attempt as a "charitable donation”: "Thank you very much … that you doing with our yeshiva because of your good heart open hart (sic) for mitzvahs we will be able to expand our bldg to the maximum capacity now we don't have any more space for new kid’s (sic) to come after the construction will be done we will be able to double the amount of children!!...thank you so much. Rabbi haimoff."
https://patch.com/new-york/fivetowns/nassau-rabbi-helped-blackmail-man-7-million-prosecutors
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Rabbi Stephen Weiss of Pepper Pike, Ohio was arrested and indicted for engaging in explicit online conversations and attempting to meet with someone he thought was a 15-year-old boy. The 60-year-old had traveled to a pre-arranged location to meet and engage in sexual activity with the supposed child after communicating on a social networking app. The vehicle Weiss was driving was searched and officers found a box of condoms and two bottles of lubricant. Weiss was also charged with possessing criminal tools.
https://jewishchronicle.timesofisrael.com/cleveland-rabbi-arrested-for-soliciting-investigator-posing-online-as-underage-boy/
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Rabbi Zalmen Sorotzkin and upwards of twenty-six members of an ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Lakewood, NJ were arrested for benefits fraud - collecting a total of $2.4 million in public assistance by under-reporting their incomes. The social services programs involved included Medicaid, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, previously known as food stamps), Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP), Hurricane Sandy relief, Section 8 housing, Social Security and the Catastrophic Illness in Children Relief Fund. Most of the charges were filed in state court, though some federal charges were as well.
https://www.nj.com/ocean/2017/07/meet_the_26_charged_in_lakewood_fraud_probe_who_th.html
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Peter Mehler, retired rabbi and his son Zecheraiah brought an ax, a sledgehammer and a pry bar and went to work demolishing an anti-Israel mural, a large rectangle on the side of a Milwaukee building — featuring mass graves, weeping mothers, drones and other scenes of carnage in Gaza. The two attacked the mural in full view of security cameras. Zechariah then turned to one and flipped it off. In a familiar ploy, obvious to everyone except the most brainwashed, Jews soon began turning up at the site to play the victim.
https://www.jta.org/2025/01/10/united-states/a-rabbi-and-his-son-were-arrested-for-vandalizing-a-swastika-mural-are-they-heroes-or-hooligans
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Rabbi Gershon Kranczer, principal of a Brooklyn yeshiva before fleeing to Israel in 2010, was actually arrested by Israel and extradited back to the US; where he was charged with the sexual abuse of female relatives who were minors. As the American net was closing in on him, Kranczer, in a familiar sleight, disappeared to Israel - a fair haven for many Jewish sexual abusers, who are aided by Israeli friends and/or relatives.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-extradites-brooklyn-rabbi-accused-of-molesting-children/
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Rabbi Alexander Popivke, an Orthodox rabbi in the Cleveland area was sentenced to 10 days in jail and 18 months of probation for stealing a pro-Palestinian banner from a student group at a local university. The sentence capped a saga in which Cleveland area university students claimed that the rabbi and pro-Israel activists harassed them - even writing "Nazis and Palestinians are the same" on one woman's headscarf. Here again we see the ancient Jewish tactic of traveling well out of their way to stir up trouble; then screaming "anti-Semitism!" when the trouble they started comes home to roost.
https://www.jta.org/2023/07/20/united-states/cleveland-rabbi-sentenced-to-10-days-in-jail-for-stealing-university-groups-palestinian-banner
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A group of twelve Hasidic Jewish students were arrested after breaking into the Chabad-Lubavitch world headquarters in Crown Heights, New York, and damaging the synagogue beneath it. It never became clear why the men were trying break into the synagogue in the first place, but there had been an ongoing dispute over a tunnel secretly dug into the side of the building and which had damaged it's foundation. When the Lubavitchers contracted with a cement company to repair the damage, the students showed up and attempted to prevent the work. Of the 12 arrested, four were charged with criminal mischief and reckless endangerment, two were charged with an attempted hate crime and criminal mischief, three were charged with attempted criminal mischief and three were taken into custody for disorderly conduct, according to the New York Police Department. And with just a touch of irony, the spokesman for the Lubavitchers bewailed the "extremism" of the students.
https://www.nbcnews.news/us-news/twelve-arrested-new-york-synagogue-break-secret-tunnel-dispute-rcna133135
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A New York rabbi known for his ultra-Orthodox stance on circumcision was arrested based on a number of complaints received by the New York Police Department. Rabbi Aaron Zayin was arrested after exchanging messages with a federal agent posing as a Craigslist user interested in purchasing “fresh baby foreskins,” according to the criminal complaint.
https://www.newsbreak.com/nickel-savers-512719/2180185556700-new-york-rabbi-arrested-for-selling-thousands-of-foreskins-on-craigslist
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Israeli Rabbi Yosef Mordechai Pariser was arrested and accused of creating a fake online persona to present himself to women as a secular, single man; all the while being married and with two children. Pariser was accused of multiple sexual offenses: rape, and sexual assault by fraud. Pariser used the dating app Tinder to meet up with the women. Furthermore, he is also suspected of fraudulently obtaining benefits and obstructing justice.
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/s1fpdnet2
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Rabbi Yehuda Weinberg, a well known author and senior figure in the Aish HaTorah organization was arrested for sexually assaulting a female relative. According to police, the assaults went on from the time the girl was about 10 years old until she reached the age of 15.
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-02-21/ty-article/.premium/well-known-aish-hatorah-rabbi-arrested-on-suspicion-of-sexually-assaulting-minor-for-years/0000018d-cd00-d606-a79d-dddf11020000
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Well known Haredi author and educator Chaim Walder killed himself in a cemetery after a Haaretz article exposed him as a child sexual predator. Walder was facing multiple allegations of rape and sexual assault of girls, all of whom he met in his line of work as a therapist and children’s author (with at least one who was only nine) over a period of twenty five years.
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-689858
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Shortly after Walder's suicide, a young woman who said she too was a victim of sexual abuse by Walder was found dead in Jerusalem, apparently taking her own life.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/alleged-walder-victim-dies-in-apparent-suicide-days-after-author-took-own-life/
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Several rabbis, and numerous New Jersey and New York politicians, were arrested as part of an investigation into what the U.S. Attorney’s office in Newark, N.J., characterized as a “high-volume, international money-laundering conspiracy". What started as an investigation into the sale of black-market kidneys and fake Gucci handbags evolved into a sweeping probe of political corruption in New Jersey, ensnaring more than 40 people, including three mayors, two state lawmakers and several rabbis:
Eliahu Ben Haim, a rabbi at a synagogue in Deal, N.J., charged with money laundering.
Saul Kassin, the chief rabbi of a synagogue in Brooklyn, NY was charged with money laundering.
Rabbi Edmund Nahum, the principal rabbi of a synagogue in Deal, was charged with money laundering.
Rabbi Mordchai Fish, a rabbi at a synagogue in Brooklyn, was charged with money laundering proceeds derived from criminal activity.
Fish's brother, Albert Schwartz, also a rabbi, was charged as well.
Rabbi Levy Izhak Rosenbaum of Brooklyn was charged with conspiring to arrange the sale of an Israeli citizen's kidney for $160,000 for a transplant for an informant's fictitious uncle. Rosenbaum was quoted as saying he had been arranging the sale of kidneys for 10 years.
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/breaking-rabbis-arrested-in-nj-ny-corruption-probe
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Two Orthodox Rabbis were convicted for conspiring to kidnap Jewish men in an effort to force them to give their wives gets:
Rabbis Mendel Epstein, 70, of Lakewood, New Jersey, and Binyamin Stimler, 40, of Brooklyn, New York, were arrested for kidnapping and assaulting Jewish men who'd refused to give their wives gets.
An Orthodox Jewish man, Israel Markowitz, was abducted and assaulted by the two, placed in a van, tied up, beaten and shocked with a stun-gun until he agreed to give his wife a get. Another Orthodox Jewish man, Ysrael Bryskman, was assaulted, tied up and beaten until he agreed to give his wife a get. And in Brooklyn, another Orthodox Jewish man, Usher Chaimowitz, and his roommate, Menachem Teitlebaum, were assaulted, tied up and beaten until Chaimowitz agreed to give his wife a get. Both rabbis were sentenced to 120 and 39 months in prison, respectively.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-nj/pr/two-orthodox-jewish-rabbis-sentenced-prison-conspiring-kidnap-jewish-husbands-force-them
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A "fake rabbi", Hayim Nissim Cohen, took in nine adoptive sons and documented their Jewish lives. But then one of the children spoke out about the sexual abuse that was happening off-camera. Cohen, 40, was found guilty in a Houston state court of four counts of sexual assault of a child and one count of indecency with a child. He was sentenced to four 40-year sentences with no parole for the sexual assault charges and an additional 15 years for the indecency charge to be served concurrently. “You realize you are never going to get out of prison, you’re going to die in prison” the judge told Cohen in court.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/fake-hasidic-tiktok-rabbi-sentenced-to-135-years-for-sexually-abusing-adoptive-sons/
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Rabbi Haim Yosef Abergel — a revered rabbi from Netivot, Israel known for his unwavering support for IDF conscription and secular studies was arrested for exploiting his power to pressure girls as young as 12 into divulging sexually explicit information about themselves. In an unusual twist, Rabbi Abergel wasn't charged with molesting any of the girls - just asking them inappropriate, sexually charged questions under the guise of "counseling" them.
His accusers had approached him seeking halachic advice regarding their personal relationships and family issues. Instead, he was said to have grilled the girls over phone calls about their sexual desires and “immodest thoughts.” Asking one 12 year old girl, “Do you touch yourself... does it feel good?”
In another case, a woman in her early 20's seeking marriage advice said the rabbi pulled up her shirt and groped her chest, while promising that his actions would help her overcome her fear of getting married.
Police accused the rabbi of other indecent acts using force or threats, obstruction of the investigation, blackmail and sexual harassment.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/police-arrest-revered-haredi-rabbi-suspected-of-preying-on-underage-girls/>
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Rabbi Yitzchok Kaplan, 44, was arrested after a dispute with a water meter reader. According to the arrest report, the meter reader arrived in her marked county truck and went up to his meter. Kaplan approached her and began screaming, "No, no, no, you’re not doing this today!”, then asked what she was doing on the property. When the meter reader told him she was just reading the meter, Kaplan resumed yelling at her, then "snatched" the meter reading rod from her hands.
He was arrested on a charge of robbery by sudden snatching, a third-degree felony.
https://www.local10.com/news/local/2025/01/10/miami-dade-rabbi-arrested-on-robbery-charge/