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Unorthodox Lawsuit

Apparently, the Jewish Press was right to warn its readers about a coming reckoning for a yeshiva in Brooklyn engineered by gadfly blogger, The Unorthodox Jew.
The Daily News reports,

A Brooklyn rabbi and his yeshiva were hit with a $20 million civil lawsuit yesterday, accusing him of molesting two students more than 25 years ago […] The plaintiff, identified by his Miami lawyer, Jeffrey Herman, only as John Doe No. 1, was allegedly molested during the early 1970s over a two-year period, Herman said. […] Herman, who claims there are at least 15 victims, charges that school officials waged a campaign of intimidation and concealment against victims and their families to bury the accusations against the rabbi.
School officials could not be reached for comment.

More interesting to me is not the alleged child molester, as there will always be those in every community, but the stonewalling and denial by other administrators of this institution. It’s one thing to be insensitive to students and parents who could be pressured into silence, but it is strategically confusing that the yeshiva did not at least heed the threats from Unorthodox. The guy clearly meant business, and because of his anonymity, was outside of their reach, either politically, communally, or otherwise.
Forget the morality of the issue for a moment.
Where do you think you are? Once there is a lawsuit–and he repeatedly warned that a lawsuit was coming–there is going to be attention from the media. Now there is a lawsuit, and it’s going to be a three ring circus. Did you think the Daily News was going to give a hoot about your ban on the internet? Did you think that they would fear your community’s voting block power? As for any demand for sensitivity, we are dealing with a tabloid, one quite desperate to try to keep up with the NY Post’s superior coverage of Ultra-Orthodox scandal, which helps attract a hefty and desirable Jewish readership. And yes, many of us do read the Post on the sly.
Now you are in big trouble, and your entire community will suffer with you, barely finding the strength to proclaim (in public) that they believe that the victims fabricated their stories, or that the local press is just anti-Orthodox.
You should have cleaned house when you had a chance. You should have cut a deal.
Instead, out of pride and habit, you will be vanquished by a blogger. And you will make blogs more popular among your own as a means to express grievances, and mobilize against you.

9 thoughts on “Unorthodox Lawsuit

  1. David,
    David, You hit the nail right on! The principal Lipa Margulies thought he was untouchable; his standard line was there were “no recent victims.” What a pathetic asshole!.One victim is enough, and there are many more that are now encouraged and will come forward.
    The rabbinical establishment stood by, said and did nothing, except for forbidding Romaine lettuce from being used for the passover seder.
    Similar to the attitude of many Charedim in regard to metziza b’peh…it was “only” a few children that got ill and two died.
    The raging lunatics in leadership roles of the Charedim be put on notice…I’m coming after each and everyone of you that commit crimes…one at a time. Your days of hiding behind the black coats and hats are over.

  2. I’m new to your website, which appears quite interesting. Since you’re apparently into exposing various wrongs in our community, why not tackle the singles crisis? Particularly the fallacy that the singles crisis is caused exclusively by recalcitrant males, since the women are all perfect angels.

  3. MY SON HAD RABBI KOKO 2 YEARS AGO. I REMEMBER ONE DAY WHEN MY SON CAME HOME AND STARTED CRYING.I ASK HIM WHAT WAS WRONG HE NEVER TOLD ME TILL ONE YEAR LATER. IF I WOULD OF KNOW THAT KOKO WAS DOING THIS I WOULD OF BROKEN HIS HANDS FIRST THEN HIS FEET. MARGOLIS I FEEL EITHER WILL GET A HEART ATTACK OR DIE OF CANCER. HE HAD , HAS NO FEELING FOR THE YESHIVA HE ONLY CARES ABOUT THE DOLLAR. RABBI NUTCASE APPLECRAP HE IS A SEPERATE PARSHA. IN SIMPLE ENGLISH YESHIVA TORAH TEMIMAH WILL FALL APART ONE DAY,MARGOLIS ( HITLER) ALWAYS WASHED THINGS AWAY. THE REASON MARGOLIS WASHED THINGS AWAY WAS BECAUSE KOKO WAS A RABBI, ENGLISH PRINCIPAL,TOOK CARE OF CAMP SILVER LAKE. A MAN OF ALL TRADES ( WITH HIS HANDS ) I WILL NEVER LET ANY OF MY 11 GRANDSONS EVER ATTEND THAT YESHIVA. I WOULD RATHER PAY MORE AT ANOTHER YESHIVA.
    DAVID GREENBERG / 59 ST BORO PARK

  4. To: Unorthodox Jew: Congratulations on ypur blog and on your work exposing sexual molestation by a Rebbe at an extraordinarily popular Brooklyn Yehiva elementary school. Your work is both necessary for our public image to tour non-Jewish neighbors and critical to the spiritual health of Am Yisrael. Incidentally, when a great Posek was asked if you should be supported, his reply was to let you and your agents do your work unfettered.

  5. you are all sick twisted peices of shit. none of you know if he for sure mollested anyone. You are all a bunch of bored souls who heed to the words of some drugged pathetic fuck who claims he got mollested in torah temima. you will all rot in hell for this.

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