Yakov Yitzchak Roth — a “rebbe” in the Hasidic group Shomrei Emunim —
was arrested Tuesday in Borough Park by cops with the NYPD Special
Victim’s Squad.
He had flown here from Tel Aviv in late August after swearing in a
visa application that he had never been arrested or convicted, according
to the federal complaint against him.
In reality, just six months earlier he had finished serving a 16-year
sentence on his 1997 conviction in the District Court of Tel Aviv for
raping, sodomizing and sexually assaulting a child relative, the
complaint said. [...]
We are normally told to keep quiet about this kind of shmutz because this can harm the reputation of all of us.
ReplyDeleteHowever at this point that not everyone seem to be buying the above argument, isn't time to focus on the quality of out leaders for the same reason?
If he is a Rebbe then his followers are unbelievably brain washed and the whole group should be called a cult.
ReplyDeleteApparently this is just one of the sons of the old rebbe who had 4 sons. As far as I know I does not have any/many followers
ReplyDeletehe is not a Rebbe, just the son of the last Rebbe. His brother took overr their father's bais medrash (which was relatively small to begin with,.much smaller than his two cousins toldos ay and toldos aharon)
ReplyDeleteseems like they have gone to place more suited to their ideology - Iran!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.jpost.com/International/Ultra-Orthodox-anti-Zionist-community-flees-Quebec-for-Iran-332677
whoops, that is a different group, also involved in child abuse!
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