The only way this Purim situation can be resolved is for the late Rabbi's followers to vote with their feet, and gather around a respectable person and leave this disgraced son to become a private individual.

Do such people contribute to the country??? How nice for him being son of a rebbe, isn't it?

What's there to decide?? Person served jail time for sex offence and they must decide whether he will have followers are not? How stupid and idiot people can be? The whole issue disgusts me.

hereditary positions are a BAD IDEA, and have been seen to be a bad idea for a very long time. (moshe rabbeinu's sons did not inherit his job.) whether hassidic dynasties or individual "yichus", heredity is no indicator of character or ability, and results in incompetence and abuses.

Sometimes I read this crap and wonder if I'm really in 21 century ,...

Bet he also joins Shas.

If they accept him as a rebbe, they deserve him.

This man has claimed all along that he was innocent. He could have admitted guilt and gotten a reduced sentence. Who knows what really happened??

Regardless, yuck. Doesn't say much about organized religion, does it? Or perhaps it does.

In the USA, rapists don't even go to jail, they keep right on playing in the NBA. Or they are famous movie directors in France. No jail. Or if they are a religious leader their crimes are covered up until the transfer to a new Parish. At least in Israel, even a person with connections, goes to jail. What they do after is their business. So enough of your smug antisemitism. BTW, what do you think would happen if you did not write TATA at the end of an email. They have drugs to control that kind of compulsion now.

....if he didn't become a rebbe.

No doubt he will take his place in the " i am hollier than thou" crowd, preaching morality to others , such a shame he didnt put his own house in order, still now that he has a criminal record he can join Shas.

how many priests that are pedophiles currently hold bishop positions and teach in christian school. thousands! not that i agree with this new "rabbi".

this happened here with a pedophile last month. the other bastards are walking around free.there is no punishment for pedophiles in israel and rapists hardly go to jail. even murderers and terrorists hardly go to jail . there are no drugs to stop this. only death.they are monsters.

Only in a secular, godless society would this ever happen!!!

If you believe he was not guilty to start with or "cured", on your heads if he does it again.

A Cohane is born a Cohane, but a Rabbi has to be accepted. In the early 20th Century Rav Dr Shlomo Zalman Breuer asked Kahal Adass Jeshurun to elect his son as their next rabbi. After a lot of acrimony, the Kehilloh elected a Rav Horovits instead. The Noam Elimelech, one of the founders of Hasidism, did not believe in hereditary Rebbes, although many Hasidic courts did prefer Rebbes from the same family, e.g. the 7th Lubavitcher Rebbe was a son-in-law of the 6th Rebbe and the grandson of an earlier Rebbe..

You're only a rebbe if you have Hasidim or followers. If no one accepts you as their mentor you're not a rebbe.

If they think a rapist can be a "Rebbe," then the Somrei Emunim are as evil as he is. They should be banned.

I know a Rebbe , lives in an important state in USA , and acts as its chief rabbi who is also an international lawyer having attended an ivy league law school yet he is a thief We now are regaled by the sick story of the rapisr Rebbe The 7th Lubavitch Rebbe went mad and claimed he was the mashiah Never had Rebbes in Mizrach; Chasidim were under a herem, and still should be. They don a uniform they are not jewish

he was Jewish ... TATA

The man rejected a plea bargain, dooming himself to 16 years in prison. That is not something a slime-ball rapist would do. I have no idea if he is guilty or innocent, but this biased trashy article leaves no room for discussion.

Are we to be kept ignorant while tihis case and what it means is hidden?..Are we only to know what you 'think' we should know so nothing ever changes? I bet you didn't think the Catholic Church's pedophiles were innocent, I bet you were just thrilled they were outted! For a Jake of the USA you should be ashamed of yourself for trying to hide how the Rabbinical system works..I never knew it was a monarchy..now I know!... But you're so willing to let the slim-ball off the hook is amusing..You even have him almost innocent! TATA

The congregation will put him in his place and he will not be a rabbi, but something useful should be found for him to do for the society.

Just wondering what his victim thinks about him leading a congregation now? Might as well be a religious leader, he can join all of the other sexual deviants abusing their positions as "spiritual leaders."