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Tuesday, July 30, 2024

The Sick Joke That Is The Mother In-Law!

 

Alleged sex-abuse Touro Univ. professor kept teaching in department chaired by mother-in-law


Touro University is accused of ignoring sex-related allegations against a professor whose mother-in-law chairs the department where he works, The Post has learned.

An adjunct professor in mental health counseling, Menachem Kiwak was allowed to remain in the classroom even after students complained in March 2023 that he quizzed them about sex, used profanity and slang to discuss sex, and argued that people who don’t like sex are sick, sources said.

Kiwak, 38, remained on staff even after an advocate for Jewish sexual-abuse victims, Asher Lovy, wrote to Kiwak’s mother-in-law, Faye Walkenfeld, and other Touro officials in March, alerting them to an allegation that Kiwak had sexually abused one of his patients.

Lovy questioned Kiwak’s fitness to teach aspiring counselors.

Faye Walkenfeld, PhD.
Kiwak remained on staff even after an advocate for Jewish sexual abuse victims wrote to his mother-in-law, Faye Walkenfeld — who chairs the department that the alleged perv worked in. Touro University School of Health Sciences
 

Kiwak was arrested for the alleged abuse in May — but Touro apparently let him finish the school year, sources said.

The university’s handling of the scandal has raised alarm among victim advocates, who question whether college officials protected Kiwak because of his mother-in-law’s position.

The private Jewish university, with campuses in Times Square, Brooklyn and Long Island, touts itself as “a leader in health-care education.”

Walkenfeld, chair of Touro’s behavioral science department, is a well known mental-health expert for the orthodox Jewish community, which Kiwak and his alleged victim are part of.

It’s unknown what actions, if any, Walkenfield took in response.

She declined to comment.

It was only after Kiwak was arrested and the Post inquired about his status that Touro revealed they had removed him from teaching.

“Mr. Kiwak is currently on administrative leave and Touro is reviewing this matter internally,” Matthew Lieberman, a lawyer for the university, said Friday.

Lovy, who heads the anti-abuse organization Za’akah, accompanied the alleged victim to the NYPD’s Special Victims Unit, he told Walkenfeld in a March 5 email.

The patient described to police “in excruciating detail” Kiwak’s “using the authority of his position to coerce her to have sex with him against her will and without her consent,” the letter said.

Lovy also cited the March 2023 complaints by Touro students to his program director “about the inappropriate nature of Kiwak’s [classroom] discussions about sex, porn, sexuality, and sexual assault.”

Kiwak shocked the students by arguing that there is no such thing as marital rape. Days after they lodged their complaints, Kiwak “clarified” in an email to his class that “intimate partner violence, including marital rape, is illegal in the United States.”

Kiwak was arrested for the alleged abuse in May -- but Touro apparently let him finish the school year, sources said.
Kiwak was arrested for the alleged abuse in May, but Touro apparently let him finish the school year, sources said.
 

“It’s impossible to overstate what a thorough failure Touro’s handling of Mr. Kiwak’s alleged predation has been,” Shulim Leifer, a victim advocate in the orthodox community, told The Post

“The fact that Mr. Kiwak’s own mother in law chairs his department raises serious questions about what role nepotism played in Touro’s essentially sweeping it under the rug when students complained or when they were made aware of criminal accusations by a patient, and whether Ms. Walkenfeld and her family of therapists should be trusted to work in this space going forward.”

Kiwak referred questions to his lawyer, Michael Farkas, who said, “Mr. Kiwak will handle this matter and any inquiries about it in court, not in the press.”

The criminal charges against Kiwak — forcible touching, sex abuse and harassment — are misdemeanors.

 

https://nypost.com/2024/07/27/us-news/menachem-kiwak-kept-touro-university-job-despite-sex-abuse-claims/

10 comments:

Touro Vodaas said...

He seems to have moved from Boro Park to Jackson & gives money to the new Viener kehilla in Jackson

Vhats an Errera? said...

https://dusiznies.blogspot.com/2024/07/new-details-on-assassination-of-ismail.html

Any truth to the rumor that NK started a go fund me page for funeral costs and transportation for paying Shiva calls?

Not all Neturei Kartaniks & supporters are as altruistic as they would have you believe. When the Sfardi wannabe in Monsey (the baal ponzi scam of 90s Lakewood) is Schnorring for a supposed cause, the gelt goes to his own pockets more often than you might realize - as in all the time!

From among his many victims of more obvious frauds, specifically among mochrei seforim, the word has been getting out that while the Sfardi imposter Satmar wannabe has been pleading "aniyus", he actually owns perhaps the busiest seforim gesheft in EY which is right by Mir Yerusholoyim and generating for him another large stream of fixed income in addition to all his Schnorring under false pretenses (both in person & online hiding behind ziyufim of what rabbonim wrote for other people who actually are nitzrochim-aniyim)

恋童癖拉比 said...

OUJ, what's your take on rabbi Osher Eisemann's recent verdict?

Paul Mendlowitz said...

Simple - The prosecution failed miserably to make a coherent case against him!

Paul Mendlowitz said...

This quote is attributed to my friend Alan Dershowitz from Yeshiva Toras Emes:

"It is Better that Ten Guilty Persons Go Free Than that One Innocent Person be Convicted."

Paul Mendlowitz said...

https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/it-better-ten-guilty-persons-go-free-one-innocent-person-be

Professor Ryesky said...

Touro has other problems in addition:

https://www.israelhayom.com/2020/08/25/anti-semitic-doctor-who-threatened-to-give-jews-wrong-meds-loses-license/

Jersey Boy said...

I was initially suspicious of Eisemann especially due to his last name but after really studying the case it is clear that some corrupt prosecutors framed him. One of them has a history of victimizing others and was removed from the case after an outpouring of rage for what he did to a different non-Jewish victim

Overlawyered said...

Al Dershowitz the Harvard lawyer or his cousin Al Dershowitz the Lakewood lawyer?

Paul Mendlowitz said...

Al Dershowitz the Harvard lawyer and the YU Brooklyn graduate