Accused Sex Pervert Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro Writes Book Against Israel Called "The Empty Chair"

This dirty rat that calls itself "Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro" is an accused sexual predator, who has a history of molesting frum  teenage girls way back when he was a teacher in a Yeshiva High School for Girls. His answer is always that these stories have been fabricated because of his anti-Israel ideology. But no one ever made those accusations against  the Satmar Rebbe or for that matter  Reb Amrom Blau founder of the Neturei Karta ..

He now authored a Nazi-like propaganda book called "The Empty Chair." You can find this book in practically all bookstores and I found that the Zundel Berman and Judaica Plus book stores in Cedarhurst sell this filthy thrash!

If you thought that radical religious anti-Zionism is solely the purview of a few crazed chassidim in Neturei Karta, you are tragically mistaken.

A glossy new book has recently been published:
 "The Empty Wagon: Zionism's Journey from Identity Crisis to Identity Theft." 

It seeks to persuade religious Jews - especially charedim - into an extreme anti-Zionist approach. 

The author is Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro, who is not to be confused with the Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro who authored the fabulous book Halachic Positions. This Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro, breaking the popular image of Israel-haters, is highly intelligent and well-read, the rabbi of a shul in Bayswater, Long Island, and a Litvak, though he is also a grand-nephew of the Satmar Rebbe. He used to anonymously operate the creepy website FrumTeens, in which he infamously quoted (or probably misquoted) the Chafetz Chaim as saying about Rav Kook, "Kook, Shmook."

Chassidim Recruit Yaakov Shapiro an Israel Hating Liar as Their Spokesman in Albany Because he is the only one who can speak English

 

So much to say about this. The orange caps and jumpsuits 🤬 The clearly not Hasidic rabbi speaking on behalf of Hasidim to put forth a more articulate English and deliberately confuse the public 🙄

And @ShulimLeifer speaking with poise and conviction 😍 https://t.co/AQ0Lf7uBSk

— Dr. Dainy Bernstein (@DainyBernstein) September 13, 2022

 Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro has an Israel-Hating website called "Torah True Jews" which is neither "torah" nor "true"! It is dripping with such hate against Gedoilei Hador who don't or didn't agree with his anti-Zionist stance, that he must have taken it out of Der Shturmer. 

He wrote a book "The Empty Wagon" which has haskamos from rabbanim that couldn't even read English and is filled with half-truths and whole lies. 

This is the guy that they appointed as the "spokesman" for the Chassidim in Albany fighting the new curriculum imposed on yeshivois! They appointed him because apparently, he is the only guy who can speak the language.

Below are excerpts from an article written in 2018 by Rabbi Yair Hoffman reviewing his disgusting book.

Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro Rabbi of Beis Medrash of Bayswater, Spokesman for Neturei Karta Savages Blasts Pro-Israel Jews

This arrogant lunatic with the 6 inch brim and fancy glasses is the rabbi of the Beis Medrash of Bayswater

1403 Bay 28 Street, Far Rockaway, NY 11691 

Rabbishapiro@baismedrash.com

He happens to be the great-grand nephew Of R' Yoel Teitelbaum the Anti-Israel Satmar Rebbe. The Satmar Rebbe was saved by a Zionist in WW2 and Rabbi teitelbaum never had the decency to thank him!

Shapiro is the spokesperson of Netruni which is Neturei Karta...

This Shapiro, grandchild of Ameiliek, is teaching teenagers and adults to hate the land that Hashem gifted us..

In the videos below he re-writes history to make the leaders of Israel 'rashaim' and makes Neturei Karta the 'tzaddikim'

There isn't a hell hot enough for this miserable bastard and hater of the Jewish people.

Instead of using the opportunity to live in Israel, he chooses to publicly slander millions of Jews and their elected government. This is one of the worst things a Jew can do even if he disagrees with their decision.

Where are his congregants? Why are they silent? Why don;t they kick this vermin to the curb, and throw him out?
Why is this maniacal Arab loving piece of garbage still in a position to damage and speak Loshon Harah on other Gedoilie Hador who dont hold like his position?

Watching the video of  Yaakov Shapiro of "torah-true jews" and frumteens.com leading an anti-zionist rally in DC I got nauseated.

By inciting goyim against israel, they are killing Jews.As someone who is goreim danger for Jews in Israel by strengthening the hands of the enemies, Yaakov Shapiro is now passul, along with his frumteens essays.

Neturei karta hugs rotzchim who want to kill Jews.
They point out that Rav Shteinman shlita and Rav Eliashiv shlita are Zionists, and that those who threaten to kill Jews are our friends. 

I guess it's ok to be a Zionist, if this is what Anti-Zionism is. 

Rabbi Shapiro at Neturei Karta Protest

Congress raves over Israeli prime minister! But Anti- Israel Orthodox Rabbis & the Arab World Condemn him

The United States Congress gave the Prime Minister a standing ovation and loved every single word he said, but our own Jews will make a sick and ridcules statement at a time when the Jewish people need all the praise they can get.. instead of keeping their mouths shut, they continue to shame all of us with their stupid remarks.
Here first read from the Washington Times:
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu received a rapturous reception worthy of a rock star from lawmakers on both sides of the political aisle on Capitol Hill on Tuesday - a stark contrast to last week’s tense White House visit.

His speech to a joint session of Congress was repeatedly punctuated by sustained applause, laughter and more than two dozen standing ovations. It also received some high praise from bipartisan admirers.

“For someone who has listened to a lot of speeches I have to say you’ve made the all-star team,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, told Mr. Netanyahu at a press conference afterward.

• Now read this crazy report from Torah True Jews a web site dedicated against other Jews and Zionism and endorsed by the  folllowing Rabbis :
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• Rabbi Meyer Weberman, rabbi of Cong. Nesevos Olum
• Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro, rabbi of Bayswater
• Rabbi Ezra Douek, rabbi of Od Yossef Hai, Los Angeles
• Rabbi Ozer Yonah Kushner, magid shiur in Lakewood
• Rabbi Dovid Soloveitchik, rosh yeshiva of Brisk
• Rabbi Meir Soloveitchik, rosh yeshiva of Brisk
• Rabbi Menashe Friedman, dayan of Cong. Yetev Lev
• Rabbi Avraham Leitner, rabbi of Montevideo Congregation
• Rabbi Yechezkel Roth, rabbi of Karlsburg
• Rabbi Avraham Yitzchok Ullman, dayan of Edah Charedis
• Rabbi Getzel Berkowitz, dayan of Kiryas Yoel
• Rabbi Moshe Menachem Tyrnauer, dayan of Montreal
• Rabbi Shmuel Moshe Kremer of Breslov, Jerusalem
• Rabbi Yitzchok Lebovitch, Khal Yereim Woodridge

Once again, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has angered American Orthodox Jews by drawing on Biblical themes to support his Zionist ideology, and by blurring the boundaries between the Jewish people and the Zionist state.

In front of the oval office on Friday, he said to President Obama, “It’s the ancient nation of Israel. And, you know, we've been around for almost 4,000 years. We've experienced struggle and suffering like no other people. We've gone through expulsions and pogroms and massacres and the murder of millions. But I can say that even at the nadir of the valley of death, we never lost hope and we never lost our dream of reestablishing a sovereign state in our ancient homeland, the land of Israel.”

We, as Torah Jews, object strongly to Netanyahu’s identification of his modern Zionist nation with the Jewish people. The true Jewish people has been around for almost 4,000 years and has never lost hope – but that hope was never the hope of reestablishing a sovereign state on our own as the Zionist movement has done. Indeed, religious Jews throughout the ages never even considered such an option, since it is forbidden by the Torah. Our hope was and is only for G-d’s final redemption with the coming of the messiah.

Netanyahu further stated, “A peace based on illusions will crash eventually on the rocks of Middle Eastern reality…the only peace that will endure is one that is based on reality, on unshakeable facts.” Actually, the entire Zionist project is based on illusions and was doomed to failure from day one. Over a hundred years ago, when Herzl convened the first Zionist congress, the greatest rabbis warned that his plans would only bring danger and destruction for the Jewish people.

Netanyahu went so far as to openly deny the Jewish people’s age-old hope when he said regarding the peace process, “We don't have a lot of margin for error…Mr. President, history will not give the Jewish people another chance.” To his heretical mind, the false Zionist redemption is the only redemption the Jewish people will ever have.

In a speech to Congress on Tuesday, he said, “I recognize that in a genuine peace, we will be required to give up parts of the Jewish homeland. In Judea and Samaria, the Jewish people are not foreign occupiers…This is the land of our forefathers, the Land of Israel, to which Abraham brought the idea of one God, where David set out to confront Goliath, and where Isaiah saw a vision of eternal peace. No distortion of history can deny the four thousand year old bond between the Jewish people and the Jewish land.” 
ronically, this statement itself is the real distortion of history. Netanyahu has conveniently skipped the millennia of exile that separate Abraham, David and Isaiah from the present day. He denies the fundamental Jewish belief that our exile was a Heavenly decree, which will end with the final redemption of the world, when there will be peace among all of humanity. During exile, Jews may live all over the world, including the Holy Land, but only without Jewish sovereignty.

“Netanyahu does not trust in G-d; he uses G-d for his agenda,” said Rabbi Leopold Klein, a spokesman for True Torah Jews. “He doesn’t believe in the Torah or the Prophets either. He takes all that is holy to us and uses it whenever it’s convenient for him.

“As American Jews, we declare that the State of Israel cannot – and should not – claim to represent worldwide Jewry, nor should it be identified as a Jewish State, because confusion between Judaism and Zionism jeopardizes the safety of Jews living all over the world,” Rabbi Klein concluded.

Rabbanim Who Are Banning Rav Melamed's Halacha Sefarim Are Still Allowing Monster Walder Books

 

Many readers have emailed me wanting to know my take on this.

Lakewood's Anti-Israel Event Hired a Speaker Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro an Accused Sexual Pervert

 

Schapiro

ובני קורח לא מתו

Last Thursday night, Lakewood Askanim decided to make another asifa to degrade, ridicule, and mock the State that now houses the majority of the Jewish people! This is while Jewish Children, some of whom are husbands, are still in Gaza fighting for our lives! This is while millions of Jews living in Israel ran to shelters in the midst of the night!

The poster itself had photos of Herzl, Ben-Gurion and Jabotinsky on the right, and Rav Kotler, Chazon Ish, Brisker Rav and the Chofetz Chayim on the left! 

The poster's Headline  "Let's Stop the Confusion!"

The "hate" event took place a week before Pesach at 8:00pm a time when husbands are needed at home to help with the children and a time when most frum Jews are busy cleaning and shopping for Pesach! 

But the asknaim  felt that it was more important to gather the naive dumb Lakewood sheep to listen to one of the meraglim of our generation!  

This took place in the week of  Parshas Va'Yikrah where the Vayikra Rabba (א' ט"ו) states on the very first pasuk:  ויקרא אל משה

"מכאן אמרו, כל תלמיד חכם שאין בו דעת נבלה טובה הימנו" "from this pasuk we learn that a Talmid Chacham who has no daas, a dead carcass is better than him" 

Rabbi Dovid Pavarski from Ponivitz  explains in his sefer ישמרו דעת, that "Just like the stench of a dead carcass is so strong that one cannot bear anywhere near it, so too a Talmid Chacham who has no daas one cannot be anywhere near him"

Yet this did not stop the organizers of this "meraglim" event from having Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro from addressing these morons! 

Rabbi Shapiro has been accused many times of sexual perversions against both married and single frum Jewish girls! 

He is the author of a book called "The Empty Wagon" a Nazi-like propaganda book that drips with the vilest, disgusting hate against Jews living in Israel! 

Well, he doesn't say outright "Jews living in Israel" but rather "Zionists living in Israel" 

So let me quote from the grandfather of the Chida, R' Avraham Azulai, in his sefer Chesed LeAvraham (Ma'ayan 3, Nahar 12)

"Anyone who lives in Eretz Yisrael is considered a tzaddik even though he is presumed to be wicked"

The sefer Nachala LeYisrael written by a great talmud chacham, a dayan in Ohel Hungary for more than 40 years, and who later moved to Tverya cites the Chesed LeAvrahanm I just quoted, but adds the following:

"Thus it is clear that we don't properly understand the true nature of the inhabitants of Eretz Yisrael with our physical eyesight. For man sees what his eyes behold, while Hashem sees into the heart. Therefore, we cannot judge or degrade specific individuals and certainly not the entire community, even those who do not favor in our eyes or do not act in a manner befitting our nation."

What is indeed fascinating is that in this weeks parsha, the parsha of the asifa, the Torah discusses people that do an Aveirah "beshogeg" inadvertently!

The Torah writes

אם הכהן המשיח יחטא

"If the anointed Kohen will sin"

ואם כל-עדת ישראל ישגו

"If the entire assembly of Israel will err"

The Torah discusses scenarios of people, even the anointed Kohen, that might do an aveirah! We are not sure they will sin, but just in case they do, then they have to bring sacrifices to atone for that sin.

However, when it comes to a נשיא a leader, an asken or the rabbi, the Torah states:

אשר נשיא יחטא

"When a ruler sins" 

In other words, the Torah is 100% sure that he will definitely sin! There isn't any doubt that he will succumb and do the Aveirah! 

Commentaries explain, that "askanim," leaders, and even rabbanim become arrogant once they come into a position of power. Rashi explains this anomaly in a more positive light, that "great are the Jewish people that have leaders that repent and admit when they sin!

This menuval that calls himself "Shapiro," will never repent and this is who the Torah is talking about! 

The poster itself is in fact true! The heading is false! 

There is in fact, zero confusion!

All the characters on the posters, Herzl, Ben-Gurion,Jabotinsky,Rav Kotler, Chazon Ish, Brisker Rav and the Chofetz Chayim have many things in common; all were innovators in their own way, and I'm glad that someone put them all together finally. 

I suspect that the one who designed the poster is a secret Zionist who is laughing his or her heart out! 

Mordy Mehlman Publisher of FJJ Gives A Forum to the Accused Sex Pervert and Jew Hater ..Yaakov Shapiro UPDATED!!

Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro, the self hating Jew, mouthpiece of the Israel bashing Neturei Karta, who is constantly on Utube bashing the State of Israel, and who has been accused countless times of being a sexual pervert, recently wrote a book The Empty Chair , a book that could have easily been  written by Adolf Eichmann YM"S. 

In fact there wasn't any Jewish publisher who would publish this book of hate and fury written against other Jews!!

The book deliberately in a deceitful way omits the fact that hundreds of Gedoilei Yisroel actively supported the State pre-war2 and post WW2. The book doesn't address the fact that many Gedoilei Yisroel that opposed a State, supported the State once it was established in 1948. The book doesn't address the fact that the Zionist State continues to support Moisdei Ha'Torah and did so since its inception. Last year alone the Zionists granted over 250 million US Dollars to Moisdei Ha'Torah! When I write "Moisdei Ha'Torah I include Satmar Moisdois .... yes ... I repeat Satmar Moisdois, even though they deny it... they take and have always taken money from the Zionist Entity ... see my post of Ocober 16.

The book ignores the fact that most Gedoilei Yisroel moved and established their Chassidishe Courts and Yeshivois to the Zionist State. It deliberately omits the fact that the Chafetz Chayim had made concrete plans to move to Petach Tikvah and that a letter recently auctioned off mentioned in detail the CC's ideas on how he wanted his apartment laid out.

The filthy book doesn't mention the fact that the Chofetz Chayim's very own son R' Aryeh Leib (who went by the name Pupkah and sometimes Epstein) was a fervent Zionist and one of the founders of the "Chovevei Zion" movement. Chovevei Tzion held that "Mitzvas Yishuv Eretz Yisroel is a mitzvah of here and now and advocated the settlement of Eretz Yisroel regardless of who was running the government. R' Aryeh Leib was very close to his father and was the editor of the Mishna Berurah. Some write that R' Aryeh Leib was actually the author of complete chapters of the Mishna Berurah!

Rabbi Shapiro, the "empty brain"  is actively involved with the anti-Israel website modestly called True Torah Jews, which advocates for the State of Israel to be dissolved, Chas Ve'Shalom!

Please note that the leftists in Israel, constantly quote from this capo, and he is their hero....

If you read Haaretz and other leftist newspapers you will notice that there isn't any daylight between them and the "frum" anti-Zionists' view..... 

Hashem Yishmor!

In the Oct 11, 2018 edition of Mordy Mehlman's Newspaper FJJ, a "letter to the editor" took Shapiro to task pointing out that Shapiro's work was a work of distorted trash and fiction. 

In this week's edition, Meek Mordy, like the coward that he is, folded like a cheap cardboard box and apologized for printing the brave, sane and rational letter of one of his readers ....

Then to add to the huge Chillul Hashem, Mordy Mehlman, that must have had too many Chulapchis this past Yom Tov had this JEW-NAZI respond to the letter, who, K'darko Be'Koidesh  responded with half truths and whole lies!

Mordy Mehlman, the "Spineless Tuchis Lekker,"  has been caught in the web of Israel bashing Jew Haters .... 

 Jews in Brooklyn who want to read Loshon Hara about Israel have Der Yid, Der Blatt, Dee Tzeitung, Der Sturmer, CNN, Reuters, The New York Times .. and now the FJJ!

I will not post Shapiro's disgusting response that reeks of hate and filth against his brothers and sisters residing in Israel, but will post Mordy's embarrassing apology! 

Notice that Mehlman, the naive fool, calls this self-hating Jew, "a Rov and Scholar."

The Meraglim were also "Rabbanim and Scholars!" In fact if you read all the commentaries on Parshas Shlach, the parsha of the meraglim, all state that the meraglim were "Rabbis and Scholars."

"Rabbis and Scholars" and the Sanhedrin were also followers of Korach!

Mordy.... the State of Israel is a fact ,,, a miracle .... a country with the largest Jewish population; a country that has the most Torah learning .... 

and is surrounded by wolves that are ready to pounce and destroy her .... 

yet, here you are a Jew a self righteous Yeshivash publisher of a popular newspaper publishing an "apology" because someone stood up to this lying rat Shapiro!!

Mordy, afraid of a wall of backlash against his sick "apology" adds that he "will not print any of the numerous response letters received" because of "L'maan hasholom"😃

First he takes a "crap" on his loyal readers, and then runs like a coward because he cannot stand his own stench!

Excuse me but I gota go throw up!!

"Hungarian Jews Don't Learn Daf Yoimi Because the Aguda Instituted it!" Der Blatt

Last week I had the unfortunate opportunity to read Der Blatt the Satmar Yiddish Newstrash associated with the Aroni faction.

I must be a glutton for punishment because I keep reading the hate printed by the Satmar vermin who keep hurling and spewing Loshon Hara on their fellow brothers and sisters!

But a letter to the editor caught my attention, because this letter was not written by the editors of this Nazi newstrash, ..... but by a reader.

I am posting this letter because the opinion of the writer is a reflection of how this fanatical barbaric sect thinks of other Holy Jews!

As a preface to my loose translation of the letter, I have to give you an historical overview of the genesis of the Daf Yoimi, so that you get a flavor of the sick mentality of these uncivilized barbarians!

The idea that  Jews throughout the world would finish Shas together  by  learning the Daf Yomi, a process that would have a seven year cycle, was first introduced at the First World Congress of the World Agudath Israel in Vienna  August 15 1923.

The Daf Yomi  proposal was made by Rabbi Meir Shapiro.  and it  required  that  Jews learn the same Daf (page) of Gemarrah no matter where in the world the Jew resided.

Rabbi Shapiro in a speech to the delegates said:

"What a great thing! A Jew travels by boat and takes gemara Berachot under his arm. He travels for 15 days from Eretz Yisrael to America, and each day he learns the daf. When he arrives in America, he enters a beis medrash in New York and finds Jews learning the very same daf that he studied on that day, and he gladly joins them. Another Jew leaves the States and travels to Brazil or Japan, and he first goes to the beis medrash, where he finds everyone learning the same daf that he himself learned that day. Could there be greater unity of hearts than this?^["

Rabbi Shapiro's idea was enthusiastically accepted by the 600 delegates, including Gedoilie Yisroel from Europe and America...

In fact the Gerrer Rebbe, the Imrei Emes,  started learning the first daf publicly on the first day of Rosh Hashana September 11, 1923

So you ask, which frum Jew would not accept such a great idea...?

Which Jew would be against a proposal that would unify the entire frum community?

The Maskilim?

Guess again!

 Oh ..... yes yes yes ..... The Reform ....?

 Nope! Guess again!

The Zionists? 

Nope ... guess again! 

What ?????

Who would be against Jews learning Torah together? 

Who?

 Who?  

Who?

 Hey ... stop sounding like an owl!

 .... Give up?

The answer is .... that the one and only frum leader that was

against this idea was the Satmar Rebbe, R' Yoel Teitelbaum  and some other little Hungarian Rebbelich influenced by R'  Yoel!

There I said it!

Why was he against such a great innovative idea?

Because he didn't come up with the idea! That's why!

He would rather that the entire frum Jewish community be  fragmented then unified, even if the unification is thru Torah because it wasn't his idea!

His cockamamie answer was that the World Agudath Israel was a Zionist Organization ... but that wasn't even true then and is a bald faced lie!

Because at that time, in 1923, there wasn't even any mention

of a sovereign state in the minutes of the entire Congress!

And even  if you would say that the Aguda was sympathetic to the Zionists, so should we trash an idea that would have Jews learn and finish shas together?

And who would be learning the Daf????? HMMM?

Frum Jews .... no? 

The Satmar Rebbe said on numerous occasions and writes in his book "al ha'gilah" that the Zionists were the cause of the destruction of the 6 million Jews!

Well, I am coming up now with a novel approach....I say that Satmar is the cause of the murder and annihilation of 6 million Jews, because there was an opportunity in 1923 to have all frum Jews unified thru Torah and Reb Yoilish nixed it!

Here now is the letter to the editor:

 Loose translation

 Heading: Hungaian Jews and the Daf HaYoimi

In honor of "Der Blatt"

In light of the fact that certain honored congregations in [Chassidic and Oberlander]  courts like Belz, Visnitz, Square, Pupa and Veen, whose followers are by in large from Hungarian backgrounds..have instituted lately, their own Torah learning groups where they learn, review and are tested, it is worthy to mention again the special attribute of these groups that are following the customs of their Hungarian ancestors,  and also some whose ancestors were from Galicia and Russia, that totally ignored the Daf HaYoimi program instituted by the Agudas Yisroel!

B"H that we returned the crown to the old ways ... and we are sitting and learning in the ways of our ancestors and rabbis.

Guys you read that....?

Hey writer.... your ancestors were a bunch of amai ratzim.... you want to go to the ways of "your ancestors?" 

Ami Magazine Features Letter From Rachmistrivka Rebber Praising Maimonides Hospital! Yet the Facts are very different

 

So what is the truth? Which is it? And if the Hospital is so bad why is Ami featuring a letter that is so far fetched that it boggles the mind?  It could be that the Maimonides Staff was extra careful with the Rebbe Shlitah, but the facts are (read article below) that there are horror stories on a daily basis. 

Rachmistrivka Letter 

To Maimonides Medical Center

This letter is long overdue. There are really no words that can adequately express our feelings to your

wonderful facility. We are attempting to communicate our feelings of gratitude and appreciation that

we have in our hearts and minds on behalf of the entire Jewish Community, on behalf of Grand Rabbi

Twersky's Family, on behalf of the Rachmistrivke Kehila, on behalf of the Jewish nation worldwide we

would like to take this opportunity to express thanks and gratitude for the good care and special attention

that was granted to our Dear Grand Rabbi, Rabbi Chal Y. Twersky Shelita.

At this point we want acknowledge Maimonides Medical Center Doctors, Specialists, Nurses and all

practitioners that cared for our beloved Rabbi with kindheartedness and special attention.

Specific recognition is given to Dr. Vitzhok Kupfer, Director, Medical Intensive Care Unit & the MICU

Staff. We are fortunate in having Dr. Kupfer as the Rabbi's physician and is granting Rabbi Twersky the

best care humanly possible. We would also like to acknowledge Ms. Mintz Interim Chief Nursing Officer

for her kindness and compassion, and of course expertise in dealing with the Rabbi and his family. A

shoutout is due to all of the Nursing Staff. Last but not least, kudos to our wonderful Executive Vice

President of Maimonides, Douglas Jablon whose name is synonymous with Maimonides Medical Center.

His is a labor of love. He's always there to lend a helping hand and listening ear. May he continue to be

there for our community for many happy healthy years.

After on our team. We thank Keven Cottingham Asst Vice President of Operations for always

facilitating and helping make our stay at the hospital easier and more pleasant.

An honorable mention is due to the following individuals who are always ready and eager to help:

Mr. Chasky Rosenberg, Mr. David Shapiro, Mr. Chalm Fleischer, Mr. Yidel Feig, Rabbi Benzion Leser and

Rabbi Sholom Peach Greenberg. Their support and assistance is available 24/7. We are grateful to have

them on our team.

It is not every day that a hospital has the chance to care for a distinguished and exceptional individual

like our Rabbi. The fact that your institution appreciated their good fortune and extended the Rabbi the

exclusive care and compassion that he received, speaks miles for Maimonides as a great hospital, and for

the staff as gentle and caring individuals. We are proud to have this hospital in our neighborhood.

May G-d continue to guide you and help you heal patients and their families like you have helped us.

With much gratitude and admiration,

Rabli Moshe Kramer

On one side are allegations of mismanagement, self-enrichment and poor performance putting Brooklyn residents in danger.

On the other is a dismissal of these complaints as a disinformation campaign — spread by mailers, leaflets and on social media — meant to disparage the quality of care.

In politics, this would be business as usual.

But this fight is happening over Maimonides Medical Center — Brooklyn’s largest safety-net hospital, in Borough Park.