Rabbi Eliyahu Haimof, Accused of Sexually and Physically Abusing Child takes the one publicizing it to Court!

 

*Rabbi Eliyahu Haimof, Accused in Lawsuit of Sexually and Physically Abusing Child, Threatens ZA'AKAH with Lawsuit, Then with Din Torah***

In January ZA'AKAH posted about a lawsuit against Beis Yaakov of 18th Avenue for failure to report abuse allegedly committed by Rabbi Eliyahu Haimof, rabbi of Kahal Lema'an Achai in Boro Park. The complaint alleged that Haimof (named in the suit as Aleksi Khaimov) fondled Plaintiff's genitalia, digitally penetrating her at least twice. The complaint further alleged that Haimof repeatedly beat and threw objects at the alleged victim. Plaintiff alleged in the lawsuit that she appeared in school with visible bruises and twice disclosed to two principals that Haimof had beaten her, but neither of them ever reported it.

In response to ZA'AKAH's posting the allegations against Haimof, he found a lawyer who specializes in debt collection to send ZA'AKAH not only a cease and desist, but a threat that if the post wasn't taken down by the next day ZA'AKAH would be hit with a lawsuit. In its response to this threat, ZA'AKAH reminded this lawyer that not only was the coverage of the case covered by the Fair Reporting Privilege, but that New York has very strong Anti-SLAPP protections, and that the frivolous filing of such a lawsuit would result in steep monetary penalties against his client. No lawsuit was filed.

Instead, ZA'AKAH received a summons to Badatz Mishpitei Yisroel on behalf of the plaintiffs, Rabbi Eliyahu Haimof, and his shul, Khal Lemaan Achai, for defamation, lashon hara, and rechilus. The beis din that issued the summons proudly boasts that it was established by Yisroel Belsky. The same Yisroel Belsky who publicly advocated for Yiddy Kolko despite his notorious abuse of dozens if not hundreds of boys in Camp Agudah and Yeshiva Torah Temima. The same Yisroel Belsky who very publicly destroyed the lives of Yosef Kolko's victim and his family.

This same beis din also summoned the victim of Nechemya Weberman and her husband to a din torah in 2022 so Nechemya Weberman could sue them for compensation and damages. Notably, not too long after that, UTA paid a very large amount of money to the victim to settle the civil lawsuit against itself, Bais Rochel, and Weberman.

In the beis din's latest summons they issue an ikul against ZA'AKAH not to continue being motzie shem ra on Eliyahu Haimof. This is a fundamentally incompatible order with allegations of Lashon Hara which is a statement that is true but nonetheless considered harmful to its subject. If ZA'AKAH doesn't remove its posts about Haimof, the beis din threatens to issue an ex parte Heter Arkaos to Haimof and Lemaan Achai allowing them to pursue action in civil court. Haimof must not have informed them about his initial threats of civil litigation against ZA'AKAH before seeking such a Heter Arkaos.

Finally the beis din summons ends with a threat of seruv against ZA'AKAH. The text reads: If you continue ignoring the beis din, left with no choice it will issue a seruv against you to inform the public of your brazenness toward the beis din.

The chutzpah is all theirs.

The work continues.

What really Happened at the Weberman Hearing !

 DIN: Tznees alert!

The hearing began with the judge stating that he would be granting the motion to vacate Weberman’s original sentence. Weberman had originally been sentenced to 103 years, but that sentence had been reduced by law to 50 years because of caps on incarceration. Weberman was then given an opportunity to address the court and his victim, who was present in court with her husband, her lawyer, friends, and advocates.  

Weberman read from a prepared statement saying that he was not there to revisit the past. He said that he stood ready to take full, unconditional responsibility for the harm he caused. He said that he had misused the position of authority that was given to him and had desecrated God’s name. Turning to his victim he told her that she deserved a protector, and instead he had violated her. He told her that she had done nothing to deserved what had happened to her, that she had been an innocent child.

He then said that his time served – 13 years – had paid his debt to her, and that he stood before the court as a changed man. He pleaded to his victim, saying that he wasa truly, and deeply sorry.

The ADA, Joe Alexis, then asked Weberman to be more specific about what he was apologizing for. He asked Weberman if he accepts that his victim was 12 years old, and Weberman said he didn’t remember exactly, but that she was a child. The ADA then asked Weberman what specifically he had done to his victim. Weberman said it was sexual abuse. When asked to be more specific, Weberman bristled, saying he didn’t want to get graphic. His family was sitting in the courtroom, including two of his children.

He said that he’d been in jail for 13 years and couldn’t remember the specifics well enough to graphically say what it was, but it was sexual abuse, and that he didn’t want to think about it.  The ADA asked him if he didn’t remember anything about it, and he said that he remembered what he’d said – that it was sexual abuse, but that he wouldn’t be using graphic language and it wouldn’t be true if he said it was this or that. The ADA asked him what he did remember. Weberman said “let’s call it sexual abuse.” The ADA pushed him, saying that Weberman kept saying that, but what did it specifically mean.

Weberman nearly walked free — till he ‘forget’ details of his crimes at hearing, infuriating DA

 

רשעים אפילו על פתחו של גיהנם אינם חוזרין בתשובה

This arrogant pedophile with his sick perverted smile, was going to walk free that morning, but because of his smugness and "gaaveh" he will sit at least another 3 years! 

A notorious Brooklyn Chasidic pedophile nearly walked free during a resentencing Tuesday — till he pretended to forget details of his crimes, and the furious prosecutor reversed course and pushed for more time.

Nechemya Weberman ended up with a sentence slashed down from 103 years to 18 years, although with time served, that amounts to just five years left on the clock for the pedo — and with good behavior, he could be out by 2028.

“Mr. Weberman’s outrageous behavior in court today personified why he remains a danger to society,” said Sarena Townsend, the lawyer for the sicko’s then-12-year-old female victim.

“His repeated denials and refusal to face his actions proved that his assurances of rehabilitation and remorse were lies.”

Weberman, a former counselor at a Williamsburg yeshiva now in his 60s, appeared vivacious, smiling and jovial on video feed from the maximum-security Shawangunk Prison in upstate New York — despite his supporters painting an image of a feeble man at death’s door.

He had been convicted on 59 counts and originally sentenced to 103 years in prison 13 years ago for repeatedly sexually abusing victim Rivky Deutsch for three years. 

The Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office — under pressure from some members of the convict’s religious community for years — was prepared to effectively push to free the convicted sicko, having sought the resentencing on the grounds his 103-year stint was excessive and that he had already served enough time.

But Brooklyn Assistant District Attorney Joseph Alexis changed course mid-hearing when Weberman claimed to forget the gory details of his misdeeds.  

The pedophile attested to his remorse and apologized, reading from a statement, claiming he had spent years “in denial’’ and was “a changed man.’’

But Alexis demanded he go further and specifically attest to his criminal acts. 

Weberman repeatedly responded “I don’t remember” when asked graphic questions about his crimes, including if he recalled forcing his pre-teen victim to perform oral sex.

“What’s troubling to me is that Mr. Weberman can’t remember,” Alexis said “The victim can never forget.”

“Quite frankly, if the defendant was forthcoming, I was authorized to offer 15 years,” Alexis said, a move that would have potentially seen Weberman walk free.

“But I am going to pivot away from that,” the ADA said.  

A quiet and reserved Deutsch read her own statement to the judge, recalling, “His smug smile hurt the most.

“It would be tragic if in five years from now, someone else is standing here describing his own story similar to mine, your Honor. You have the ability to prevent that.”

Judge Matthew D’Emic’s new sentence gives Weberman five more years to recall his misdeeds, but with good behavior, he could be out in half the time. 

“A modified sentence of 18 years with 10 years supervision remains a meaningful penalty,” the judge said.
Weberman, who has fought his conviction and sentence for years, could still further appeal the new ruling.

Sexual abuse advocates said the new sentence sends a “dangerous” message to survivors in the Hasidic community.

“[The DA] walked in ready to let [Weberman] walk out,” said Asher Lovy, director of the Orthodox Jewish victims group Za’akah. 

“And the only reason he didn’t is because that dumb f–k was too stupid to just answer the questions and show a little bit of remorse himself.”

No Early Release for Child Sex Abuser Nechemya Weberman

by Asher Levy

 An excellent op-ed in today's New York Daily News by Guila Benchimol and Alissa Ackerman of Ampersands Restorative Justice about the upcoming Weberman hearing.

Tomorrow, Jan. 27, Nechemya Weberman, a prominent figure in the ultra-Orthodox Satmar community in Williamsburg, will have a resentencing hearing that could lead to his early release. Weberman was originally sentenced to 103 years in prison, which was later reduced to 50 years, for repeatedly sexually abusing a young girl beginning when she was just 12 when he worked as an unlicensed school counselor in the community.

Weberman is asking that the Brooklyn judge vacate his sentence entirely and resentence him to time served, arguing that his age, health conditions, and, most notably, that he no longer poses a threat to his community, are some grounds for his early release.

As survivor advocates and practitioners of restorative justice for survivors of sexual violence in faith communities and organizations, one of whom is a survivor of abuse within the Orthodox community herself, we support efforts to repair harm by helping harm doers take accountability outside of the criminal legal system.

We support reducing disproportionate sentences and compassionate release as policies. But Weberman should not be granted early release just 13 years into his 50-year sentence. Doing so, as Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez has been consistently showing support for, would not only pose an imminent risk to the many girls he would have access to upon release, but also further erode trust in a legal system that has too often served as the last backstop for justice when insular religious communities fail to protect their own.

Satmar Mobilizes other Chassidic Rabbanim to release the Monster Sexual Preditor Weberman!

UPDATE: Rav Schechter withdrew his signature and support to have Weberman released!

I reported on this trial way back in 2012, and when I say "reported" I mean I attended this trial everyday! I went with an open mind to give Weberman the benefit of the doubt! 

But about three days into the trial as I was sitting out in the lobby because the Judge called for a recess, a married Chassidishe lady with a hat on top of her wig went over to Mrs Weberman lifted her sweater and showed all those in the lobby that were supporting this monster, cigarette burn scars all over her stomach, she screamed at his wife in Yiddish and said that there are at least another 20 victims like her, and she will come every day to see justice being served! 

It must have taken her such courage to abandon tznees to prove that this was a monster that needs to be locked up! I need to add that Weberman could have walked with no jail time, all the victims wanted was an apology but they wanted a detailed apology that would prove that these girls, now married women were telling the truth! But because he was the arrogant monster that he is he couldn't bring himself to humiliate himself! 

רשעים אפילו על פתחו של גיהנם אינם חוזרין בתשובה

Satmar ASS"kanim  in New York appealed to the governor for the release of a Hasidic community counselor imprisoned for sexual abuse, arguing that his sentence was disproportionate, according to court documents that surfaced this month.

Nechemya Weberman, 67, an unlicensed religious "counselor" in the Satmar Hasidic movement, was sentenced to 103 years in prison in 2013, in a major case for the New York Jewish community.

He was convicted of 59 counts, including sustained sexual abuse of a child, endangering the welfare of a child and sexual abuse.

NEW YORK — Jewish leaders in New York appealed to the governor for the release of a Hasidic community counselor imprisoned for sexual abuse, arguing that his sentence was disproportionate, according to court documents that surfaced this month.

Nechemya Weberman, 67, an unlicensed religious counselor in the Satmar Hasidic movement, was sentenced to 103 years in prison in 2013, in a major case for the New York Jewish community.

He was convicted of 59 counts, including sustained sexual abuse of a child, endangering the welfare of a child and sexual abuse.

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Weberman’s sentence was reduced to 50 years later in 2013. He is incarcerated in the Shawangunk Correctional Facility in upstate New York.

The case resurfaced this month when Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez backed a move to issue a new sentence for Weberman. Weberman is scheduled to appear in court next month.

As the case reemerged, court filings obtained by The Times of Israel showed that last December, an array of Jewish leaders signed a letter to New York Governor Kathy Hochul seeking a commutation for Weberman’s immediate release. The previously unreported letter was submitted to the court as a reference for resentencing in June, along with other letters of support from Weberman’s family and supporters.

The letter called Weberman’s sentence “absorbently excessive,” saying he had not incurred any infractions during his 12 years in prison and that his sentence was “much greater by comparison to others held guilty of a similar crime.”

“While we strongly condemn the nature of this crime, we do believe Mr. Weberman’s excessive sentence was placed upon him to set an example to the Orthodox Jewish community,” the letter said. “Using him because he is an Orthodox Jew as a scapegoat is unjust.”

The letter was signed by 13 prominent rabbis representing an array of Hasidic groups in New York City and a representative of Yeshiva University. The university did not reply to a request for comment.

The letter said that, due to Weberman’s health problems, his imprisonment amounts to a life sentence. A doctor also submitted a letter attesting to Weberman’s “deteriorating health.”

The New York State constitution grants the governor the ability to commute prison sentences.

Gonzalez also asked then-governor Andrew Cuomo to consider a commutation of Weberman’s sentence in 2021, saying Weberman had been “singled out for an unusually harsh punishment,” according to court filings.

Cuomo and Hochul did not publicly respond to the requests.

The Brooklyn district attorney’s office said on Tuesday, “This was a horrific case, but fairness compels us to look critically at sentences like this one that fall wildly outside the range for other defendants convicted of the same crimes.”

“Our office stands by this conviction and strongly believes that a long prison term was appropriate, but this sentence — four times longer than anyone convicted of the same crime — intended to make an example of the defendant in a politically charged moment,” a spokesperson said, confirming that the office had consented to the resentencing proceeding.

Weberman was imprisoned for repeatedly abusing an adolescent girl who was sent to him for counseling for several years.

The victim’s husband told The City this week that he and the victim had been blindsided by Gonzalez’s support for the resentencing, opposed the move, and planned to speak to the judge because they believe Weberman is still dangerous.

Mordechai Weberman Who Became a Christian Illegally Selling The Anglican Church Jerusalem Properties

  Two historic properties in the heart of Jerusalem, valued at tens of millions of shekels, are at the center of what Anglican associations operating in Israel are calling a serious and sophisticated fraud scheme. A key figure in the story  converted to Christianity. According to the associations, this man allegedly planned a years-long scheme to seize control of the properties.

To thwart the alleged takeover, the associations petitioned the Jerusalem District Court for temporary injunctions in a one-sided proceeding, and their request was granted, according to a Yisrael Hayom report.

According to the associations, the affair began in 2020, when Mordechai  Weberman began an unexpected rapprochement with the Anglican Church and was officially baptized as a Christian. During these years, Weberman found work with CMJ (Church’s Ministry among Jewish People), a British organization founded in 1809 that has operated in Jerusalem for nearly 200 years. CMJ is the parent organization of the Vincent Society and the Israeli Trust of the Anglican Church, which run the church’s school and own the historical properties.

Satmar Rebbe Zalman Leib Ignores the pain of Sexual Victims and Visits Nechemya Weberman their Convicted Rapist in Prison

 

We reported this nauseating story back in 2012 when the Sex fiend was first tried in court

https://dusiznies.blogspot.com/search?q=Weberman

The Satmar “Grand Rebbe” Zalman Teitelbaum paid a visit to convicted sexual abuser Nechemya Weberman in prison last month, according to a Yiddish-language newspaper serving the Satmar Hasidic community that has published a series of favorable articles about the former fake therapist accused of sexually abusing an adolescent girl starting from when the victim was 12 years old.

The visit, and the weekly series of articles in Kiryas Joel Vochenshrift, have riled advocates for sexual abuse victims in the Hasidic community. They say the community’s leadership has a pattern of downplaying abuse charges and in this case convictions, further traumatizing the victims. 

A sexual abuse survivor who lives in Kiryas Joel, the Orange County, New York seat of Zalman Teitelbaum’s Satmar faction, told the New York Jewish Week that abuse victims like her feel they are “being stabbed” when they see support for accused abusers in the Hasidic media and among their leaders. 

“It’s retraumatizing victims,” said the survivor, who asked not to be named for reasons of privacy and safety. “It’s being stabbed every week, again and again, and knowing that if you’re ever going to open your mouth you’re going to be kicked out.” 

The woman said that other survivors within the community told her “that they are not going to come forward so quick again because they see this every week.”

“It’s the most horrific thing,” the source said. “I am reliving all the hell that I’ve gone through. They are taking a molester, who did the worst thing, and they are promoting him, and calling him holy.”    

Rabbi Pichas Weberman of Miami Passes at 93

 

I’m saddened to share the news of the passing of Rabbi Pinchas Webberman. For decades, he served as Police Chaplain @MiamiBeachPD and many others in the area. His wisdom, guidance and friendship will be missed. His mission on earth is accomplished. May he R.I.P in God’s Glory. pic.twitter.com/9WhJPbfJqJ

— David DeLaEspriella (@DDelaespriella) July 27, 2022

  One of Miami’s most famous, and well-respected Rabbi has passed away.

Rabbi Pinchas Weberman, died Wednesday at the age of 93.

A pioneer for the Miami Jewish community, and his vast knowledge of Torah, Weberman founded in 1960 the Ohev Shalom congregation of Miami Beach, and was the synagogue’s head rabbi for over 54 years. In addition he also taught at the Yeshiva Gedola of Miami, Toras Chaim of Miami, and the Bais Yaakov of Miami,

In 2015 his Shul made national headlines, after a Muslim convert was arrested after walking into his Synagogue and threatened the congregants.

Weberman established in Florida Mikvas, and was a fixture in the Jewish community as a spiritual advisor for many.

Weberman was well respected by many Government officials and received dozens of awards over the years.

The Rabbi was a chaplain for Miami Beach Police for decades and was also the founder and visionary of the Miami Beach Eruv Council.

Rabbi Weberman is the author of “The Rabbi’s Message,” containing over 200 original sermons, lessons and homilies themed to the Jewish calendar as well as lessons for daily life.

Weberman’s wife Glady’s Lea (Green) died last year, he leaves behind more then 15 children.

Weberman’s body was escorted this morning, by Police to the Airport for funeral in NY, and burial in Israel.