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Ex-yeshiva teacher faces sex assault charges
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Published: 10.05.13, 07:28
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1. There is NO justice in rabbinical courts!
Sage of the Age ,   World   (05.10.13)
Justice must be IMPOSED on rabbinical courts from outside!
2. What is Hebrew for "Good ole boys"?
Back to Mt. Sinai ,   Israel   (05.10.13)
That all today's rabbinical courts are. Other than cosmetic, nothing Torah about them.
3. rabbis, rabbinical courts and molestation
Larry ,   Los Angeles   (05.10.13)
The rabbis who know, know that the place for molesters is in the civil courts. The rabbis have no power to do anything; those who know defer to the civil authorities. Only the civil authorities can try and convict and then sentence a molester. Rabbis can not put any one away.
4. it just shows that in order to get actual justice the only..
jack bauer   (05.10.13)
way to go it to personally castrate the offender. After that let the ignorant fools try all they want to ostracize you. Dont bother with the rabbis or the secular courts. There is only one appropriate way to handle it.
5. Today Kolko, tomorrow Gordon and Finklestein
Essie HaKohane ,   Fl. USA   (05.10.13)
When is Yeshiva University going to openly and honestly address allegations of decades of sexual abuse?
6. Keep The Language in Mind
Jake ,   Haifa   (05.11.13)
You see how the Haredi talk: a man turning in a molester makes a mockery of the Torah and commits a terrible deed - for turning in a child molester. Keep that in mind next time on some issue regarding the draft, or women on busses or women at the wall, whatever, the Haredi complain it is a terrible deed and a mockery of the Torah. You have to learn to ignore Stalinist type - that is totalitarian attack language
7. Haradism is a cancer..it has nothing to do
Al   (05.11.13)
with yiddishkeit or frumkeit. Judaism is all about being a mench to god and to people. The Haradi are mindless, godless freaks. The quicker those who adhere to this nonsense and revert back to simple Judaism the quicker we Jews will finally see the light of true independence and redemption. We Jews don't need intermediaries. We don't need the Rebbes, etc etc. For us calling up to God is a local call.
8. What a surprise
Haim ,   TA   (05.12.13)
And these so called rabbis are the ones standing on their sosp boxes preaching " i am hollier than thou" well apparently not.
9. Sub judice
Sherlock Holmes ,   London England   (05.12.13)
As the case is sub judice there are limits on what one can say, but major Orthodox rabbinical bodies recognise the need to involve the civil authorities. It is therefore wrong to ostracise people who do what the civil law requires, and what the recognised rabbinate endorses.
10. Number 7. Haredim
Danny ,   London England   (05.12.13)
You may have read the article in Mishpacha a few months back in which a senior psychologist in Israel said the rate of child abuse among Israeli Jews is about the same in all sections of the community. The US Dept of Education recently reported that one in ten school pupils from Kindergarten to 12th Grade have been victims of sexual abuse. In the US military about 26,000 women a year complain of sexual assault. The Jewish response of not wanting to involve the civil authorities goes back a long way and was once universal, not limited to Haredim. There was a genuine fear that Jews like Pollard and Rabushkin would be treated differently from Gentiles who committed the same crime.
11. Number 1, scope of rabbinical courts outside Israel
Joseph ,   London UK   (05.12.13)
In places like the UK and USA the Beth Din acts under the law of arbitration and never deals with criminal law. A Beth Din may deal with Kashrus, conversion, marriage and divorce and whether a Rabbi is suitable to be recognised by the Rabbinate. Criminal law is outside the Beth Din's remit.
12. #11 In places like the UK and USA the Beth Din
Sage of the Age ,   World   (05.12.13)
refuses to cooperate with civil law enforcement, conceals evidence, refuses to come forward as witnesses, obstructs justice and is part of the problem. Sneak a peek outside of your ghetto and try to see what the world sees.
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