A Jewish teacher and rabbi’s son who molested two teenage girls was “an utter hypocrite” who professed his Orthodox faith while “cynically condemning his victims to suffer”, a judge has said. Todros Grynhaus, 50, was jailed for 13 years and two months on Friday.
DetailsA Jewish teacher turned businessman is facing a ”substantial” jail sentence after being found guilty of seven sex abuse charges on Tuesday.
A rabbi was detained last week following complaints that he had installed a camera in a men’s mikveh (ritual bath) in the ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Sanhedria in northern Jerusalem.
Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Feldman is suing the publisher of the Australian Jewish News for defamation, over three articles printed during a Royal Commission investigation of “Institutional Responses to Child Sex Abuse,” The Sydney Morning Herald reported Friday.
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. – A Miami Beach rabbi accused of sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl earlier this year accepted a plea deal Thursday.
MIAMI BEACH – A Miami Beach rabbi accused of inappropriately touching a child appeared in court Friday.
The chief of Israel’s ultra-Orthodox religious court, Rabbi Moshe Sternbuch, told followers that last week’s earthquake in Nepal, which killed more than 7,000 people, was meant as a lesson to the Jewish people.
After being hospitalized on Saturday for breathing difficulties, Lithuanian-haredi leader Rabbi Aharon Yehuda Leib Shteinman’s condition has deteriorated after improving slightly upon admission to the hospital.
Rabbi Sholom D. Levitansky has agreed to one year of counseling and residential treatment at Beit T’Shuvah, an addiction treatment center near Culver City, after pleading no contest to two counts of sexual penetration by a foreign object of a minor.
Jerusalem’s chief rabbi on Tuesday lashed out at Reform Jews, saying they were worse than Holocaust deniers for defying Orthodox Jewish law on gender separation and insisting on the right to mixed-gender prayer at the Western Wall in the city.
