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Condolences and Request for Content Removal

 Dear Rabbi Eidensohn,

Please accept my heartfelt condolences on the passing of your dear brother, David, זצ"ל. It was truly an honor to have known him. I had the privilege of referring several couples to him over the years, and I witnessed firsthand his remarkable ability to restore שלום בית in the most extraordinary way. His memory is a blessing.

Upon learning of your loss and reflecting on your brother's legacy, I felt compelled to reach out to you regarding a matter that has weighed on my mind.

Years ago, in connection with your coverage of the Yoel Weiss case, content was published on your platform that included defamatory statements about me that are demonstrably false. This included references to arrests that were subsequently dismissed shortly thereafter, as well as allegations that originated from Moshe Rosenfeld, who has since been convicted in federal court on serious charges and has served his sentence.

In the spirit of justice and truth, and as a זכות for your brother's נשמה, I respectfully request that you remove any defamatory content, including my name and photograph, from your website related to these matters.

I hope you will consider this request favorably as an עילוי נשמה for David זצ"ל.

With sincere condolences and respect,

Rabbi Israel Meir Farkash

Witches consult for sick

Teshuvos Maharshal (#3) Question Is it permitted for a sick person to consult with witches through non Jews? Answer This has already been answered by the Terumas HaDeshen who wrote that asking witches and diviners is not explicitly prohibited. The Torah only prohibited Ov or Yedoni since that is very severe but it doesn’t apply to other type of witches or diviners even as a chumra as can be seen from the gemorah in Yevamos concerning the death penalty for a witch and it doesn’t learn the halacha from Ov and Yedoni. It would seem that the prohibition is solely because of Tamim Teheyu as the Rambam writes. He claims that it appears from his words that there is no actual prohibition. With all due respects I think he misread the Rambam who says elsewhere that it is prohibited to ask a diviner and he receives makos mardus  while the diviner who did an act of divination receives regular makkos. Obviously he holds that both violated a prohibited act. The asker since he didn’t do an act receives Makkos mardus. We learn this from Shaul’s asking the diviner and the gemora says it was a violation of Tamim teheyu. But that is only to believe completely in them and they are called fools. Even so the Ranbam states that only if they follow the advice of the diviner do they receive makkos. I have found that the Ramban claims that only Ov and Yedoni are prohibited to be asked by the Torah and not other types of diviners.  He says asking other types of diviners is prohibited by Tamim teheyu as was the case of Shaul. It would seem that any sick person is not prohibited to consult a diviner according to the Rambam.. The verse of Tamim teheyu is to simply have faith in G-d and have trust in Him engraved in the heart, therefore a sick person need not be strict in the prohibition. However since the basic prohibition is because divination of all types is nonsense and stupidity and lacks a real basis, it should not be permitted at all to consult a diviner because of Tamim teheyu. So if the sick person is in danger it should be permitted even according to the Rambam since the diviner sometimes says things that are true. We say even a doubtful lifesaving permits transgressing Shabbos which would result in capital punishment so surely our case is permitted. However if he is not in danger it is not permitted even if he might lose a limb. Nevertheless there are times to permit it even when there is no danger to life but only to a limb. This is in cases where it is known that the sickness was caused by witchcraft or evil spirit it would be permitted to consult a diviner according to the Rambam. In these matters, most witches or diviners are knowledgeable and can provide genuine help possibly even according to the Rambam. And it is possible to say that the Torah did not prohibit diviners in that case where their only purpose is to drive away the evil spirit. The Torah seems to have only prohibited asking them or to pursue them and to believe in them but the gemora permits nullifying witchcraft with witchcraft and surely through a goy. But all this does not apply to a normal sick person who is not in danger. In fact there is no leniency for him at all.

Perfection and Reality

 Fifty years ago, I as a recently married young man arrived with my beautiful bride in Jerusalem during the week of Sheva Berachos.  We got deluxe accommodations at the home of a relative Dr. Wanderman who also was making Sheva Berchos. Rabbi Bulman who was then Mashgiach at Ohr Someach had consented to come. I had gotten to know Rabbi Bulman when he was the Rav of the Young Israel in Far Rockaway. As an interesting coincidence we had rented our apartment there from the new owner of his former house in Far Rockaway. Everything was perfect. 

Rav Bulman got up to give a drasha. It was the week of Parshas Ki Savo. I still remember to this day the excitement from the guests at seeing the beloved Rav Bulman as many knew him from New York. .  He started out by noting the apparent strangeness of the Parsha discussing the announcement by a Jew that he had perfectly done all the mitzvos and commandments and yet this is described by Chazal as a Confession. He asked why should announcing you did everything correctly be called a confession. The term is usually used only for admission of errors and sins? 

He said this is to teach us an important message. We need to know even when things seem perfect the reality is – even for marriage - is rarely achieved and yet we need to know what the ideal is even if we don’t actually accomplish it but we need to strive for it. 

I found a similar idea in the letters of the Chazon Ish. True moderation is only for those who have strived for and yet have failed to accomplish perfection. Not those who strive directly for moderation

Devarim(26:13-14) You shall declare before your God “I have cleared out the consecrated portion from the house; and I have given it to the family of the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, just as You commanded me; I have neither transgressed nor neglected any of Your commandments: I have not eaten of it while in mourning, I have not cleared out any of it while I was impure, and I have not deposited any of it with the dead. I have obeyed my God have done just as You commanded me.

Shabbos (25a) It is written in the confession of the Maaser: “I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I destroyed from it while impure”

Chazon Ish (Letters 3:61): Just as the unvarnished facts and truth are synonymous so are uncompromising perfectionism and greatness. Perfectionism means to develop something to the ultimate degree. One who advocates moderation and despises perfectionism, his lot is with the frauds or with those lacking understanding. Without perfectionism, there can be no completion and if there is no perfection, there is no beginning. The beginning is with constant questions and replies. The perfecter is the brilliant respondent who orders everything in its rightful place. We regularly hear announcements from well known groups that they have nothing to do with uncompromising perfectionists. They nevertheless describe themselves as being the true Jews with appropriate faith to Torah. We simply note, however, that just as there is no such thing amongst lovers of wisdom as love for minimum knowledge and hate for the very wise there is similarly no such thing as loving Torah and mitzvos moderately and hating the uncompromising perfectionists. All the foundations of emuna, the 13 principles and their derivatives, are inherently incompatible with the lightweight wisdom and superficial life that exists in this world. In contrast clear recognition, energetic involvement; high precision in emuna is the hallmark of the perfectionist. Those who proudly testify on themselves that they have not tasted the sweetness of uncompromising perfection are simultaneously testifying that they are missing emuna in the foundation of religion both intellectually and emotionally. Their attachment is only lukewarm. The perfectionists, who despite their genuine wish to have pity on these doctrinaire moderates, do not honor and respect their opponents. The yawning abyss that separates them is naturally only widened as the result of the disputes that occur when they interact with each other. The only true moderation that can exist is that which results naturally to those who love the perfection and strive towards it and educate their children to strive for the peak. In contrast how unfortunate are those “moderates” who cast aspersions on the perfectionists. The obligation of our education is to perfection. The only genuine protection of the educational system is to be contemptuous and to ridicule those who denigrate perfection. However given the burning spirit of youth it is not appropriate to strongly condemn specific individuals amongst the unfortunates. Instead, the youth should be developed to have true love of Torah that requires personal effort and heavenly pleasantness and they should not have obstacles placed on this road. Those schools that are labeled as moderate schools, they are not successful because of the fraud that is inherent in moderation…

Hegseth rerouting Pentagon funds to refurbish Qatari jet into Air Force One

 https://thehill.com/opinion/lindseys-lens/5423497-hegseth-rerouting-pentagon-funds-to-refurbish-qatari-jet-into-air-force-one

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth just found nearly a billion dollars — $934 million to be exact — hidden deep in the Pentagon couch cushions. That money was supposed to fund Sentinel, a $77.7 billion modernization project for America’s aging nuclear missile system. Instead, it’s being rerouted to a classified project.

But here’s what we know about that classified project, thanks to reporting from The New York Times: part of it is funding a personal, Qatar-backed Air Force One project for President Trump. 

Dedication to my brother Reb Dovid

The story begins in Russia where both sets of grandparents lived before coming to America.  I think a lot of my brother’s personality came from my mothers’s mother Freida Drazen. She was a person of strong beliefs, very confident a natural leader and totally dedicated to what she viewed as Truth. She was also a strong Zionist and was president of her Pioneer Women organization. She lived not far from Yeshiva Ner Yisroel and my bother often visited her with his friends and would spend much time in friendly though heated debates. She was the anchor of yiddishkeit for the family. She had received a set of Mishnayos in Russian for an engagement present. This was eventually given to me. She would often tell my brother “I have forgotten more Torah than you have learned.” He was also strongly influence by our father who was trained as a physicist but worked for the Navy Department as an expert in batteries – in particular submarine batteries. He received many patents and was given the highest honor the navy had for civilians for improving submarine range and underwater operation – this was before atomic submarines. He was also obsessed with not only doing the right thing but also everything had to be understood and not be done for social pressure. While he was disappointed that my brother didn’t go to YU on a full scholarship he fully supported his desire to go to Lakewood instead. When my brother decided to go every Shabbos to the Malin brother’s yeshiva in Washington he supported him. My mother was also very supportive. Even after my father was niftar and Rav Aharon told him to go home and help support the family, she told him to stay at Lakewood and continue learning. After Rav Aharon’s passing she supported his going to Morocco where he learned in a small yeshiva in the Atlas mountains. He left it when the Rosh yeshiva decided he would be a good husband for his daughter

My brother was born in Washington D.C. As the first born he naturally got a lot of attention, He grew up as a talented and very intelligent American. He was handsome, athletic, academically successful as well as a talented piano player. He was also a natural leader and got along with everyone. He had many friends.  However he was willing to sacrifice his obvious bright future to leave the American idea of Judaism for what he saw was the more authentic European form as represented by the Malin Brothers. 

He ended up going to Chofetz Chaim yeshiva in Baltimore where he was a stand out student, and personality as well as head of student government. He was also a basketball star. Dr Kranzler who was the English principal in those days told me that everyone was greatly impressed by my brother and viewed him as a future godol. After Chofetz Chaim he was in Ner Yisroel for two years before he went to Lakewood

Lakewood was a different world. He was no longer the only smart student. In addition Rav Aharon was a European and didn’t coddle his students. My brother often said he spent a lot of time talking to Rav Aharon because he didn’t realize like the other students to be afraid and avoid Rav Aharon. When he had a chiddush he would simply go over and say it. He once went over after a shiur and told Rav Aharon that he didn’t understand it. Rav Aharon reviewed it with him but he still said he didn’t understand it. Reb Aharon tried again but he still didn’t understand it. Rav Aharon simply slapped him. My sister remembers that when he came home for visits from Lakewood she was about 6 andhe would review Rav Aharon's shiur with her

At some point my brother decided his purpose should be to influence others to be frum and he started writing anf publishing pamphlets – such as Dear Robert which he also paid for publication. He told me many times that the reason he could focus on doing what was true was because he was not dependent on others that might get offended. He was not a rosh yeshiva who needed the support of the parents or rich donors. He was basically supported by the efforts of his wife who ran a clothing store in the house. 

It is important to note that he didn’t claim the authority to disagree with contemporary poskim and rabbis. However he had no problem saying they were mistaken because he had had a close relation with gedolim of the previous generation such as Rav Aharon, Rav Moshe and Rav Yakov and Rav Eliyashiv and had heard directly from them their views. In addition he was a real talmid chachom. In fact he had gotten strong approbations to his halacha seforim from Rav Yakov and Rav Moshe. In fact he had clear sources for everything he said and did. He was constantly by Rav Moshe and Rav Yaakov. I heard from Rav Wozner of Monsey that there was not a day that his father was not consulted by my brother. He became a major voice for many topics such as not taking money from government programs- especially not by fraud, Not to seek support of politicians who support immorality. He spent much time opposing drafting women into the army. However his major effort involved Gitten and Aguna. I once went with him to see a major posek in Israel. After relating the major halachic concerns about gitten in America. He was told that while the problems obviously existed it was simply an American problem  and he would not get involved.  When he was writing about gezel Akum (stealing from goyim). He consulted many gedolim. In Israel he went to see a major posek. While waiting, the Gadol’s son asked him why he was wasting his father’s time when he could tell him his father’s views. So he told him the question. The son replied that he had talked to his father many times and his father clearly held that it was permitted. My brother said he would still wait to hear it directly from the father.  When he finally got to see the gadol he replied, "I hold it is prohibited but don’t tell anyone this in my name." 

It was not simply that my brother collected information from Gedolim but he also had a close relationship with them. I remember when my daughter was born and my wife wanted a beracha from Rav Yakov there was a major problem. Rav Yakov was recuperating from a major stroke and could not even speak. .Nonetheless my brother got me to Rav Yakov. I still remember sitting holding Rav Yakov’s hand while his wife told me to ask for whatever I wanted and she conveyed it to her husband. In addition there were times that these gedolim asked him to serve as an intermediary. 

Aside from his community concerns he was a father to a large family of talented and successful community assets as well as being a good husband and son. This was reciprocated. For the last almost 4 years he was hospitalized with a life threatening condition. He was intubated and thus couldn’t speak and had lost the ability to recognize even family. The doctors of course wanted him dead. For the entire period his devoted wife stayed by him day and night and ensured he got the care he needed. He was visited regularly by family.

He often consulted others. For example he had a Rebbe for Kabbala – Rav Shmuel Toledano. Once the famous Maggid of Jerusalem Rav Schwadron visited Monsey. At that time someone had started a business of renting movies. He asked him what should be done since it was obvious that Monsey was not the place for movies. Rav Schwadron replied he didn’t understand the problem. My brother replied that there was a Hashchasa(destructive factor) being introduced into the community. Rav Schwadron than understood the question. ”You mean there is a problem of Hashchasha?” The real issue of hashchasa is yeshivos

My first exposure to the problem of abuse was when he took me to a well known yeshiva for the summer, There was a wild guy there who was constantly beating up the other students. The Rosh yeshiva simply kicked him out of the yeshiva. My brother contacted the boy’s father who said his son was crazy and once even hit his mother in the head with a hammer. My brother went back to the rosh yeshiva and told him it was not a good idea and irresponsible to simply kick the kid out because he was dangerous and that he should take him back on the condition of therapy or he would call the police. 

A statement I heard from Rav Diskind, the son in law of Rav Yakov, summarizes my brother very well. He said: ”Our Sages have said that Yiftach in his generation is as Shmuel was in his generation. But woe is it to the person who knew Shmuel.” He obviously wasn’t saying that Yiftach in his time as the head of the Sanhedrin was not to be disrespected since he clearly was not as great as Shmuel. Nor was he saying Yiftach was not as authoritative as Shmuel because he was not as great a Talmid chachom as we see that he sacrificed his daughter. He was saying a more personal point. While we need to respect the contemporary leaders there is no mitzva to be stupid and ignore their short comings. Rav Moshe writes in the Igros Moshe that there are no gedolim today, including himself,  that you can’t disagree with what they say.  My brother Dovid had the opportunity to get to know the views of the previous generation personally and therefore could not accept blindly the deviations of their successors and in fact protested against the deviations. The family found a large collection of letters he received from Rav Moshe Feinstein written in response to his many questions. My brother knew what the previous gedolim thought and why on a wide range of topics. The haskomas he received clear attest that he understood the views of the gedolim of previous generations.  He had heard their responses directly orally or in correspondence. My brother was thus clearly someone who had known Shmuel.

Reb Aharon Kotler - Do We Still Follow His Ways?

Loss of an Advocate for the Sanctity of Jewish Marriage: R. David Eidensohn zatza"l

 R. David Eidensohn has ascended to the Heavenly Academy. He was the brother of (yibadel le-chaim) R. Daniel Eidensohn, editor of Daas Torah blog, where I serve as an associate writer. See https://daattorah.blogspot.com/

It was R. David Eidensohn who originally sounded the alarm against the blood libel that was inflicted by R. Hershel Schachter (acting on behalf of Ms. Tamar Epstein) against Reb Aharon Friedman [falsely claiming that Reb Aharon is obligated to write her a get, a terrible violation of Exodus 20:14 by Rabbi Schachter]. And then, when thanks to the good advice of R. David Eidensohn, Reb Aharon refused to write any get, it was R. David Eidensohn who subsequently sounded the alarm against the fraudulent Kamenetzky-Greenblatt heter [directing Ms. Epstein to "remarry" with no get whatsoever], inspiring numerous batei din worldwide to declare that Ms. Epstein is still the wife of Reb Aharon, and further prompting the Beit Din Tzedek of the Edah ha-Charedit in Jerusalem to instruct all rabbis throughout the globe to protest the fraudulent Kamenetzky-Greenblatt heter. I have published several articles on this matter, including most recently at https://daattorah.blogspot.com/2025/03/shabbat-zakhor-and-agunah-problem-by.html [-and also regarding the tangential topic of blood libels at https://daattorah.blogspot.com/2025/04/a-passover-message-to-president-putin.html ].

I would like to follow up on the letter I sent the Rabbanan earlier this week (Tuesday, Sept. 9), inspired by the ascent to the Heavenly Academy of R. David Eidensohn, a scholar who defended the sanctity of Jewish marriage from the disciples of Saul Lieberman who sought to mislead every Jewess to receive a get upon demand and say shalom yihiyeh li ki bi-shrirut libi elekh (Deut. 29:18). [I personally consulted by long-distance telephone with R. David Eidensohn when I formulated my prenup at https://www.scribd.com/document/176990434/Prenuptial-Agreements, and he is acknowledged in the credits.]

R. David Eidensohn identified three pitfalls that occur with corrupt mesadrei kiddushin today, including (a) those mesadrei kiddushin that will arrange a chuppah for the ex-wife of an innocent husband who was coerced by the 1992 New York Get Law [-forbidden by Maran Rav Bleich, and as mentioned this past Tuesday, Maran Rav Bleich also forbids the analogous situation where the 1990 Canada Get Law was used against an innocent husband. Not only that, but even in a case of seemingly remote doubt, where no secular court was involved and the couple divorced in Beth Din amicably, in an actual shiddukh with a divorcee that was proposed to me, Maran Rav Bleich denied me the right to pop the question to the lady, and this despite R. Ariel Wasserlauf's independent investigation (at my request), the results of which he generously shared with me, that the ex-husband was delighted to jettison the ex-wife in order to marry a second wife, to whom he is now happily married with five children. Furthermore, this father of five (from the second wife to whom he is happily married) currently serves as the ba'al korei of one of the Dayanim of the Jewish Community Council of Montreal R. David Rephael Banon, and in fact Rabbi Banon supervised the actual get in question, such that li-kh'orah "all systems go" and this was a glatt kosher divorce. No, Maran Rav Bleich holds I still have to be choshesh that the innocent ex-husband (who is not in the category of kofin le-garesh) was afraid of the 1990 Canada Get Law, and so better I should be stuck as a bachelor rather than risk even the possibility of adultery. See with your own eyes how serious this problem of the 1990 Canada Get Law has become.]; (b) those mesadrei kiddushin that will arrange a chuppah for the ex-wife of an innocent husband who was coerced by the 1993 Beth Din of America prenup [-an illegitimate and heretical prenup like that of Saul Lieberman, unlike mine which is recognized as valid by the universal consensus of poskim]; and (c) R. Nota Zvi Greenblatt who fraudulently arranged a pseudo-chuppah for Ms. Tamar Epstein who had no get altogether. Taking my cue from R. David Eidensohn [and after shimush with Maran Rav Bleich], I published a series of refutations to all of these corrupt mesadrei kiddushin, and as a result of this, I was able to ensure that a double get zikkuy was arranged for the agunah whose case I brought to the Supreme Court of Canada. Yodu la-Ha-Shem chasdo, ve-nifle'otav li-vnei adam (Psalm 107). 

R. David Eidensohn also tackled a fourth pitfall which I have never addressed in published form: The humiliation tactics of ORA as representing a form of illicit coercion on gittin [in the case of innocent husbands]. He discusses this here: https://torahhalacha.blogspot.com/2014/11/ora-mamzer-producing-organization.html#comment-form , and even mentions the case of Yisrael Meir Kin that I referenced in my letter earlier this week. In a very recent development, Maran Rav Bleich has also addressed the humiliation tactics of ORA in his latest two-part article in Tradition. I have not yet read the article as the journal has not yet arrived in any Montreal library, but I know from the summary published on the Tradition website that Maran Rav Bleich refutes ORA. Maran Rav Bleich also briefly references this two-part article in his recent recorded audio lecture (just two weeks ago) at https://www.yutorah.org/lectures/1145961/Ervas-Davar-(Even-HaEzer-119)

I also draw your attention to a video that the late R. David Eidensohn published during his lifetime entitled "Reb Aharon Kotler - Do We Still Follow His Ways," warning the public about Ms. Tamar Epstein's false antics in claiming that she can remarry without a get [-this video was released in 2014 even before she actually went ahead a year later in 2015 and was makhshelet R. Nota Zvi Greenblatt in a berakhah le-vatalah at an adulterous pseudo-chuppah]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=83zRqBsWuU0 In the final segment of the video, Rabbi Eidensohn movingly says as follows (31:55 into the recording): 

"And those of us who remember Reb Aharon[*], who remember that there's such a thing as a Shulchan Arukh and that being a rosh yeshivah doesn't make you a gadol that you're bigger than the Shulchan Arukh. So, those of us - we're outnumbered badly, but there's plenty of us, and we have to unite and be strong and keep up the derekh ha-yashar in Torah."

[* = The reference is to R. Aharon Kotler.]

So this is why I am writing the present e-mail. R. David Eidensohn has left this world, but if we coordinate ourselves as he advocated, we can continue his legacy and rescue Klal Yisrael from a mamzer epidemic. "A conference of the righteous is beneficial to them and beneficial to the world" (Sanhedrin 71b). 

This week, when we will read "a lady shall be betrothed, and another gentleman shall cohabit with her" (Deut. 28:30), I pray that tikhleh ha-shanah ve-kileloteha (Megillah 31b). 

Thank you,

Shalom C. Spira

BDE: Petirah of R’ Dovid Eidensohn Z”L, Mechaber of Hilchos Bayis Ne’eman

 https://monseyscoop.com/bde-petirah-of-r-dovid-eidensohn-zl-mechaber-of-hilchos-bayis-neeman

The Levaya will take place this evening (Monday) at 7:30PM at his home, 2 Phyllis Terrace, Monsey. The Aron will then leave for JFK at 8:15 PM, with Kevura to be held in Eretz Yisroel, in the Lakewood Chelka in Beit Shemesh.7:30 from ארץ החיים בית שמש.

Shiva will be observed in Eretz Yisroel until after Shabbos, and will continue in Monsey beginning Sunday.

Harvard secures win in fight with Trump over federal research funding

 https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/03/harvard-victory-battle-trump-federal-funding-00542654

A federal judge ruled Wednesday the Trump administration’s attempt to freeze more than $2 billion in federal research grants from Harvard University was illegal.

U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs, a Barack Obama appointee, in an 84-page opinion, acknowledged the university “could (and should) have done a better job of dealing with” antisemitism on campus. But Burroughs said research grant terminations and antisemitism are not particularly connected.

“A review of the administrative record makes it difficult to conclude anything other than that Defendants used antisemitism as a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country’s premier universities,” Burroughs wrote.

. “The idea that fighting antisemitism is Defendants’ true aim is belied by the fact that the majority of the demands they are making of Harvard to restore its research funding are directed, on their face, at Harvard’s governance, staffing and hiring practices, and admissions policies—all of which have little to do with antisemitism and everything to do with Defendants’ power and political views,” the judge wrote.

Garber, in a statement late Wednesday, acknowledged the university isn’t fully in the clear yet.

“Even as we acknowledge the important principles affirmed in today’s ruling, we will continue to assess the implications of the opinion, monitor further legal developments, and be mindful of the changing landscape in which we seek to fulfill our mission,” he said in a letter to the campus community.

Terrorists in Jerusalem attack killed by two ultra-Orthodox men, one serves in Haredi IDF unit

 https://www.ynetnews.com/article/b1jjv7ncll#autoplay

“He was on his way to yeshiva. He emptied the magazine on the terrorists.”

The second responder was an IDF Haredi soldier, a platoon commander in the Hasmonean Brigade, who also fired at the attackers and helped neutralize them.

Police arrest revered Haredi rabbi suspected of preying on underage girls

 https://www.timesofisrael.com/police-arrest-revered-haredi-rabbi-suspected-of-preying-on-underage-girls/?dicbo=v2-ENWaKEG

Police on Sunday arrested a prominent Haredi rabbi suspected of committing sexual offenses against several young women, some of whom were underage girls at the time of the alleged incidents.

Rabbi Haim Yosef Abergel — a revered rabbi from Netivot known for his unwavering support for IDF conscription and secular studies — is suspected of exploiting his power to pressure girls as young as 12 into divulging sexually explicit information about themselves, according to Hebrew reports.

His victims had approached him seeking halachic advice regarding their personal relationships and family issues. Instead, he was said to have questioned the girls over phone calls about their sexual desires and “immodest thoughts,” Ynet reported.

Terror in Jerusalem: Six dead in shooting attack at Ramot Junction

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/414564

Two terrorists open fire at passersby at Ramot Junction in Jerusalem, murdering six people; reports say terrorists boarded bus, shot at passengers' heads from close range using automatic weapons.