The current conflict between Israel and Hamas shatters myths that have been accepted as gospel by many in the international community and the media.

The current conflict between Israel and Hamas shatters myths

Ready for action: IDF troops just outside the southern Gaza Strip

MYTH 1: The primary cause of the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians is the occupation of the West Bank and Israel’s settlement policy.

Reality: The reality is that Hamas’ rocket attacks against Israeli cities and civilian targets has little to do with Israel’s occupation and settlement policy on the West Bank. Even if Israel were to make peace with the Palestinian Authority, the rocket attacks from Gaza would not stop. These Hamas attacks are incited by the Muslim Brotherhood, Iran, Syria and others opposed to the very concept of the nation state for the Jewish people. The best proof of this reality is that these attacks began as soon as Israel ended its occupation of Gaza and uprooted all the civilian settlements from that area.

Israel left behind agricultural hot houses and other equipment that the residents of Gaza could have used to build a decent society. Moreover, there was no siege of Gaza at that time. Gaza was free to become a Singapore on the Mediterranean. Instead, Hamas engaged in a coup-d’état murdering many members of the Palestinian Authority, seizing control of all of Gaza, and turning it into a militant theocracy. They used the material left behind by the Israelis not to feed their citizens but to build rockets with which to attack Israeli civilians. It was only after these rocket attacks that Israel began a siege of Gaza designed to prevent the importation of rockets and material used to build terrorist kidnap tunnels. There are good reasons why Israel should change its settlement policy on the West Bank and try harder to achieve peace with the Palestinian Authority. But even if that were to be accomplished the rockets from Gaza would continue and Israel would have to take the kind of military steps any democracy would take to prevent its civilians from lethal aggression.

MYTH 2: What is being experienced now is a “cycle of violence”, with equal blame on both sides.

Reality: The reality, of course, is that there is no comparison—legally, morally, diplomatically or by any other criteria—between what Hamas is doing and how Israel is responding. Hamas is willfully and deliberately committing a double war crime by targeting Israeli civilians and using Palestinian civilians as human shields. The deliberate targeting of civilians, as Hamas admits—indeed boasts—it is doing, is a clear war crime. Hamas has specifically aimed its lethal rockets at Beersheba, Tel Aviv, Haifa and Jerusalem. This is a war crime. Moreover, it is firing these rockets from hospitals, schools and houses in densely-populated areas, in order to cause Israel to kill Palestinian civilians. This too is a war crime.

This has been called Hamas’ “dead baby strategy.” It deliberately puts Israel to the tragic choice of attacking the rockets and killing some children who are used as human shields, or refraining from attacking the rockets and thereby placing their own children at risk. Israel has generally chosen the option of refraining from attacking legitimate military targets, but when any human shields are inadvertently killed or injured, Hamas stands ready to cynically parade the dead civilians in front of television cameras, which transmit these gruesome pictures around the world with captions blaming Israel. Hamas has also adamantly refused to build bomb shelters for its civilian population. It has built shelters but has limited access to them to Hamas terrorists.

This is precisely the opposite of what Israel does—building shelters for its civilians and placing its soldiers in harm’s way. Most recently Hamas has forced or encouraged civilians to stand on the rooftops of military targets so as to prevent Israel from attacking these entirely appropriate targets. Indeed a lawsuit is now being brought in Israel, against the Israeli military, urging it to ignore these human shields and to attack the military targets. The argument is that unless the military targets are attacked, Israeli civilians will die, and a democracy has the obligation to prefer the lives of its own civilians over the lives of enemy civilians.

Thus far the Israeli military has refrained from attacking military targets that are protected by human shields. There is absolutely no symmetry between the war crimes committed by Hamas and the entirely appropriate military response by the Israeli Defense Forces.

MYTH 3: Muhammad Abbas is part of the solution, not part of the problem.

Reality: Muhammad Abbas has become part of the problem, especially in recent days. He has supported Hamas in its war crimes against Israeli civilians and has characterized Israel’s self-defense actions as “genocide” against all of the Palestinian people. I have met Abbas and found him to be a decent man who genuinely wants a peaceful solution to the conflict, but he is not a man of courage who is prepared to stand up and tell the Palestinian people the truth about the current conflict. His willingness to join together with Hamas in a governmental partnership demonstrates both his weakness and his willingness to be complicit with evil. He speaks out of two sides of his mouth, one side when he speaks in English to Western media and diplomats, and the other when he speaks in Arabic to the Palestinian street, which he knows contains many supporters of Hamas. His public support for Hamas has made it far more difficult for Israel to arrive at a negotiated solution with the Palestinian Authority. It has also made it more difficult for Hamas to stop the rocket barrage and agree to a cease fire. The entire civilized world should be standing behind Israel as it defends itself against war crimes. That so many continue to support—or remain silent about—those who commit these war crimes tells us something deeply disturbing about their values and prejudices.

by Alan Dershowitz

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-Ed-Contributors/The-current-conflict-between-Israel-and-Hamas-shatters-myths-362327

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Where is the outrage over the bombardment of civilians in Israel?

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Where is the outrage over the bombardment of civilians in Israel?

Hundreds of rockets have been fired and a million citizens are forced to run for cover. Imagine if London suffered this bombardment

A trail of smoke is seen as a rocket is launched from the Palestinian Gaza Strip towards southern Israel  Photo: Jack Guez/AFP

By Arsen Ostrovsky

2:59PM BST 08 Jul 2014

847 Comments

You see, as most people in the UK were waking up this morning, and those in Europe, United States and elsewhere around the world were going about their daily routines, here in Israel over one million people were running for cover from a hail of rockets being rained down by Palestinian Hamas terrorists in Gaza.

In the last 24 hours alone, over 120 rockets have been fired on southern Israel. That’s approximately five rockets per hour. By the time I finish this article, odds are that count will have risen to 125 rockets.

To put things in context: one million Israelis is roughly 13 per cent of the population. Thirteen per cent of the UK population equates to about 8.4 million people, or the entire population of London.

A number of Israelis have already been injured, though thankfully without fatalities. The only reason more have not been hurt is because Israel has invested millions of dollars in bomb shelters and the Iron Dome defence system. Meanwhile, Hamas, whose very raison d'être is the destruction of Israel and which is recognised as a terrorist organisation both by the EU and UK, has invested millions of dollars in foreign aid into more rockets.

So, where is the outrage?

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Since the beginning of this year, Gaza terrorists have fired more than 450 rockets on Israel, with about half of them coming since mid-June, when two Hamas terrorists kidnapped and brutally murdered three Israeli teenagers.

Why is it that a majority of the international community only notices when Israel undertakes its sovereign right, and obligation, to defend its citizens? Can you imagine if even one rocket was fired on London, Washington, Paris or Moscow? This is simply intolerable and no country can, or should, tolerate such attacks on its people.

Where is the outrage from the United Nations, which does not hesitate for a moment to call a "special emergency session" on the "Question of Palestine" or pass the umpteenth resolution blindly condemning Israel? But 24 hours after the rocket attacks on Israel started, I am still waiting for even one syllable of condemnation from the UN Security Council, the UN General Assembly or the Human Rights Council.

Where is the EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, who repeatedly slams Israel over settlement building, but is yet to say a word about the Palestinians firing over 120 rockets on Israeli civilians in one day? Even 10 Downing and the Foreign Office are yet to comment.

Where are all those so-called enlightened liberals, who continue to call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against the Jewish State, but are silent in the face of Palestinian terror against Jews?

Where are all the human rights organisations like Human Rights Watch, Amnesty and Oxfam, who do not waste a single opportunity to condemn Israel for human rights violations against the Palestinians? Are the human rights of Israelis not equally important? Or is Jewish blood really that cheap?

Where is the outrage from the mainstream media? Instead, news organisations like the BBC, lead their stories about the rocket attacks headlines like ‘Israel launches new air strikes on Gaza Strip’ and not ‘Palestinian Terrorists in Gaza Rain Down Over 120 Rockets Against 1 million Israelis in 24 hours.’

Where is the outage that Iran, which the international community is currently negotiating with over their nuclear weapons program, and which has called for Israel to be wiped off the map, is the primary funder and supplier of arms to Hamas?

Where is the outage that civilians across southern Israel are being instructed not to send their kids to school and stay in bomb shelters, or that 24 prematurely born babies and 34 newborns had to be moved last night to a protected area in Soroka Hospital in Be’er Sheva, due to the rocket attacks from Gaza?

What sort of inhumane way is that for children to live?

Where is the outrage that the very same Hamas now responsible for the rocket fire against millions of Israelis, was only a month ago welcomed by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, our so-called ‘partner for peace’ into his unity government, while the international community, including the EU, rushed to embrace it?

As I conclude, another two rockets were just fired from Gaza. So again, I ask: where is the outrage?

Arsen Ostrovsky is an international human rights activist and freelance journalist living in Israel.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/10954124/Where-is-the-outrage-over-the-bombardment-of-civilians-in-Israel.html

Terrorism Deaths in Israel; In Memory of the Victims of Palestinian Terror

Terrorism Against Israel:
Number of Fatalities

(1920 - Present)

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Terror Against Israel: Table of Contents | Rocket Attacks | All Fatal Attacks

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Year	Number of Deaths	Year	Number of Deaths	Year	Number of Deaths
1920	9	1952	40	1984	9
1921	24	1953	46	1985	27
1922	5	1954	41	1986	14
1923	0	1955	30	1987	11
1924	4	1956	53	1988	16
1925	1	1957	19	1989	40
1926	1	1958	15	1990	33
1927	1	1959	10	1991	21
1928	0	1960	11	1992	34
1929	119	1961	8	1993	45
1930	0	1962	10	1994	65
1931	2	1963	7	1995	29
1932	4	1964	9	1996	56
1933	0	1965	10	1997	41
1934	0	1966	10	1998	16
1935	1	1967	16	1999	8
1936	44	1968	55	2000	43
1937	10	1969	33	2001	207
1938	94	1970	74	2002	457
1939	26	1971	18	2003	213
1940	137	1972	46	2004	124
1941	14	1973	27	2005	53
1942	4	1974	67	2006	29
1943	1	1975	39	2007	13
1944	3	1976	14	2008	36
1945	1	1977	9	2009	6
1946	28	1978	57	2010	10
1947	152	1979	10	2011	21
1948	379	1980	16	2012	9
1949	37	1981	14	2013	7
1950	52	1982	6	2014	4
1951	41	1983	21
TOTAL KILLED: 3,728

During the six years of the first uprising (Dec. 9, 1987 to Sep. 9, 1993), 200 people were murdered. More than 1,000 Israelis were killed during the Palestinian War (September 2000-September 2005).

*Note: Figures include Israeli civilians and security personnel, and foreigners killed in Palestinian terrorist attacks in Israel and the territories. They do not include Palestinians killed by other Palestinians on suspicion of cooperating with Israel. This list also includes 18 Israelis killed abroad in terror attacks directed specifically against Israeli targets, and 3 American diplomatic personnel killed in Gaza.

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Sources: Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Terrorism Deaths in Israel; In Memory of the Victims of Palestinian Terror); Jerusalem Post, (January 4, 2009)

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Peace/osloterr.html

A Little History...A Little Perspective...A Little Sechel...

Chasid - ISM Is Not Judaism...Continuation of a Series...

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World Jewry denounces Satmar Rebbe --- Except The Agudath Israel of America

Leader of hassidic sect Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum blames kidnapped teens’ deaths on parents.

Aaron Teitelbaum. Photo: REUTERS

The leader of the Satmar hassidic sect declared on Wednesday that the parents of the three Israeli yeshiva boys whose bodies were discovered outside of Hebron on Monday caused their children’s deaths.

Speaking in Yiddish during an event in the New York hassidic village of Kiryas Joel, Grand Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum, the leader of the larger of two competing Satmar factions, said that the parents of Naftali Fraenkel, Gil-Ad Shaer and Eyal Yifrah, “caused the deaths of their sons and they must repent for their actions.”

“During the funerals, the parents eulogized their sons, but I think it would have been preferable if they had done tshuva [repented], if they had said viduy [confession] with tears, in the nusach [style] that is used on Yom Kippur, to repent for their decision to live and learn Torah in a place of barbaric murderers,” he said, according to a translation of the staunchly anti-Zionist Teitelbaum’s remarks posted on the ultra-orthodox Vos Iz Neias website.

Teitelbaum asked who gave the parents “permission” to send their children to study in the settlements “where they were living among known murderers.” Such a decision, he asserted, stemmed from the “evil inclination and the desire for Jews to inhabit the entire State of Israel.”

While “every heart bleeds for the teens, it is incumbent upon us to say that these parents are guilty,” he continued, adding that Zionists who “place the lives of the Jewish people at risk for the sake of Zionism” are the enemy.

Satmar is known for its anti-Zionist ideology and refusal to recognize the legitimacy of the State of Israel.

According to Samuel Heilman, a professor of sociology at Queens College, there are probably 100,000 followers of the Satmar hassidic tradition today.

Teitelbaum’s remarks sparked much criticism.

The 18 days between the June 12 kidnapping and the discovery of the teens’ bodies on Monday was perceived as a time of increased unity between Jews in Israel, with ultra-Orthodox, secular and national-religious groups getting behind the social media campaign #bringbackourboys.

Eulogizing Eyal Yifrah in his hometown of Elad on Tuesday, Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef said that all of Israel was united in mourning and that in their deaths, the three yeshiva students “command us to continue in the unity and love of Israel that they bequeathed us.”

Jewish groups from across the political and religious spectrum united in condemning Teitelbaum on Thursday, with much of the grief over the death of the teens being transformed into rage directed at the Satmar sect.

“Whatever one’s political views, the Satmar Rebbe’s words blaming the murder of the kidnapped youth on their parents for living where they do is reprehensible,” World Zionist Organization vice chairman Dr. David Breakstone said.

“None of the responsibility for this heinous act of terrorism should be shifted from the shoulders of the its bestial perpetrators.

Would he also blame the death of the dozens who were killed during the intifada in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv on their decision, or that of their parents, to fulfill the Zionist dream?

Or the death of the schoolchildren in Toulouse [murdered by an Islamist in 2012] for not having fulfilled the commandment to dwell in the Land of Israel? This is not the moment to debate the wisdom of Israel’s settlement policy, but rather to denounce in every possible forum the use of violence as a means of resolving conflict,” Breakstone said.

Such statements are “beyond the pale” and indicate that Satmar “has placed itself outside of Klal Yisrael,” said Rabbi Andrew Sacks, the director of the Conservative movement’s Rabbinical Assembly in Israel, using a Hebrew phrase referring to the Jewish collective body. “Our tradition teaches us that why such tragedy befalls one person and not another may only be known to God. How very audacious and smug of Rabbi Teitelbaum to appropriate this power to himself.

This is a time for words of comfort and not words of blame.”

Several prominent European ultra-Orthodox Rabbis also censured Teitelbaum.

“I did not think that my heart could break anymore after the discovery of the bodies of our three boys. But after hearing the words of this great rabbi, my heart is now even more broken,” Polish Chief Rabbi Michael Schudrich said.

“In general, even if you believe that ideologically he’s right, which I definitely do not, it’s tasteless and it’s even worse [to say] that during the shiva [mourning period] when people have an open wound,” Ukrainian Chief Rabbi Yaakov Dov Bleich said.

Would Teitelbaum have blamed the Jews killed during the Holocaust “when the same anti-Zionists said don’t go to Israel, and therefore they stayed in Europe and were killed?” he asked.

The grand rabbi’s “ill-advised” comments “caused additional pain to the mourners of the three young martyrs, who are already suffering so greatly, simply for fulfilling the mitzva of settling the Land of Israel,” said Robert Levi, chairman of the board of the National Council of Young Israel, a modern-Orthodox national synagogue network in the US.

David Ha’ivri, a former spokesman for the settlement movement, said that Teitelbaum “should not be considered a rabbi” and called on his followers to bar him from any leadership positions and prevent him from speaking publicly.

Both Uri Regev, a reform rabbi who heads the Hiddush religious equality NGO in Jerusalem, and Dr. Efraim Zuroff, a Nazi-hunter and director of the Jerusalem office of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, echoed Ha’ivri’s comments.

“If you despise us so much, why don’t you just get out of our lives?” Regev asked, while Zuroff said that if anyone must repent, it is the Satmar movement.

“The ‘rebbe’ should resign and do the entire Jewish world a great kindness,” Zuroff said.

Such words bring disgrace to god, ultra-Orthodox Rabbi and MK Dov Lipman said, adding that Satmar can “choose the path of hatred and bringing disgrace to God while the rest of the Jewish people choose unity, love and bringing sanctity and glory to God’s name.”

“There is nothing new in the position of Satmar that the State of Israel poses a danger to the spiritual well-being and to the security of the Jewish people.

What deserves attention is the fact that the Satmar Rebbe implies that living within the boundaries of the Green Line is safe. This subtle change might signal that one day they will recognize the Jewish state as well, but it might take them another 60 years,” Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, head of the Conference of European Rabbis, quipped.

Rabbi Avi Shafran, spokesman for the ultra-Orthodox Agudath Israel of America, said that his organization has “only one message for the mourners: that they be comforted amid all the other mourners of Zion and Jerusalem.”

The Satmar community is proud of the grand rabbi and his statements, Yosef Leib Yaakov, an Israeli representative of the sect, told The Jerusalem Post.

While critics have condemned the rabbi for the content and timing of his remarks, Yaakov countered that it was important to say such things now, while the issue of the teens’ deaths and security issues related to the territories are in the public consciousness. 

http://www.jpost.com/Jewish-World/Jewish-News/World-Jewry-denounces-Satmar-Rebbe-361505

“An Open Letter to Rabbi Avi Shafran Director of Public Affairs for Agudath Israel of America”

For Rabbi Teitelbaum to publicly hold accountable for the murder of these boys the parents the day after the levaya is (in my humble and feeble mind and to quote your own organization’s words with regard to Rabbi Sacks,) “not only inaccurate but un-Jewish and uncouth”.

READ ENTIRE LETTER:

http://ahavasisrael.org/torah/the_short_vort/4001/

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1 - “They’ve become oblivious"

  2 - “They have no future, they almost have no present”

3 - "They will be relegated to the dustbins of Jewish history" 

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A Time For Music..."Hashem Yivarech Es Amo b'Shalom"

What does a victim of child sexual abuse look like?

...The pastor-turned-inmate goes on to explain that he began an inappropriate relationship with someone whom he later identifies as a female student in the program:

The “friendship” continued to develop. Talking and texting turned flirtatious. Flirting led to a physical relationship. It was all very slow and gradual, but it was constantly escalating. We were both riddled with guilt and tried to end things, but the allure of sin was strong. We had given the devil far more than a foothold and had quenched the Holy Spirit’s prodding so many times, there was little-to-no willpower left. We tried to end our involvement with each other many times, but it never lasted. How many smokers have quit smoking only to cave in at the next opportunity for a cigarette? We quit so many times, but the temptation of “one more time” proved too strong. Like David, my selfishness led to infidelity.

The man never uses the word rape or victim or groom. Instead, he refers to their relationship as an “extra-marital affair” and describes the girl as being just as culpable as he was. In fact, he doesn’t once question his responsibility as an authority figure or the role that power played in the “affair.” Instead, he blames the devil for his actions, as well as his wife and children, as “the realities of parenthood and marriage were sinking in, and I felt unappreciated at home.”

Now that he is behind bars, the man bemoans the fact that his life is ruined. After he was found out, his wife left him and took their two children. He lost his job and had to drop out of seminary, and he will be a registered sex offender “for the rest of my life,” he wails.

None of this is surprising. A hallmark trait of child sexual abusers is to blame others for their actions, most often their victims. They typically fail to take responsibility for committing abuse. On the contrary, they see themselves as victims. What is surprising, however, is that the editors of CT, in publishing the article, seemed clueless in not recognizing these telltale signs. After all, the magazine has had to face the painof discovering sexual predators among its own ranks in the past.

 READ ENTIRE RIVETING ARTICLE BY MY FRIEND: Janet Heimlich

http://religiouschildmaltreatment.com/2014/06/what-does-a-victim-of-child-sexual-abuse-look-like-dont-ask-christianity-today/

Commission report claims one in four abusers were clergy

The commission's high-anticipated interim report revealed more than one in four child abusers have been members of the clergy or other religious organisations.

The report, handed down this week, also revealed there had been allegations of child sexual abuse at more than 1000 institutions across the nation.

READ MORE:

http://www.caboolturenews.com.au/news/Commission-report-claims-one-in-four-abusers-clerg/2305797/

..."And enabling evil is evil."

The Enabling Evil of the Obama Administration - Jewish blood is cheap.

They’re dead.

That’s the breaking news: the corpses of three Jewish boys, one of them an American citizen, have been found. It has been 18 days since they were abducted while hitchhiking in Israel by the terrorist group Hamas. It has been 28 days since Hamas formally joined the Palestinian Authority unity government.

During that same period of time, President Barack Obama has said nothing publicly about the kidnapping. His administration has continued funding the Palestinian government, despite vast bipartisan opposition to such funding. There have been no hashtags from Michelle Obama, no press conferences with the parents of 16-year-old Naftali Frenkel. The Frenkel family had a son, but he did not look sufficiently like Barack Obama's imaginary son for him to care.

And in response to the murders, the Obama administration has called on Israel to exercise restraint.

There are two types of evil people in this world: people who commit evil acts, and people who enable and encourage those people. Hamas falls into the first. The Obama administration falls into the second.

American Jews who voted for Barack Obama should feel especially ashamed today. They were warned, and they did not care; their crocodile tears about these boys mean nothing, given that their leftism trumped their supposed concern for their brothers and sisters.

But all Americans who voted for this criminal administration should feel ashamed. Evil is evil. And enabling evil is evil.

http://www.truthrevolt.org/commentary/shapiro-enabling-evil-obama-administration

When Rabbis Do Nothing!

RABBI EYTAN FEINER - "WHAT? - ME WORRY?"

I NEVER PRINT COMMUNICATIONS THAT I HAVE WITH PEOPLE - NEVER - SINCE I NEVER RECEIVED A RESPONSE FROM FEINER - I FEEL I HAVE A RESPONSIBILTY AND AN OBLIGATION PUBLICIZING MY E-MAILS TO HIM!  MIND YOU - MY FIRST E-MAIL TO RABBI and MRS. FEINER GO BACK TO NOVEMBER 7, 2011! 

FEINER WAS OUTRAGEOUSLY NEGLIGENT IN HIS DUTIES - THE CHILDREN IN HIS SEMINARY WERE AT RISK - AS WELL AS WOMEN IN THE COMMUNITY! ANY PERSON THAT WAS VIOLATED BY DOVID WEINBERGER AFTER THE FEINERS HAD A LEGAL OBLIGATION TO INVESTIGATE HIM (Monday, November 7, 2011 3:24 PM) AND PERHAPS SUSPEND HIM - I URGE YOU TO SEEK THE ADVICE OF AN ATTORNEY WHETHER HE HAS CRIMINAL OR CIVIL LIABILTY!

I AM WILLING TO TESTIFY UNDER OATH IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING THAT I SENT THESE E-MAILS TO THE FEINERS ON THE DATES OUTLINED  BELOW!

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FOR THE RECORD - REFERENCE DOVID WEINBERGER - TEACHER IN YOUR SEMINARY

Dovid Weinberger (7)

Me to - info@mbrseminary.org

On Monday, November 7, 2011 3:24 PM, The Un-Orthodox Jew - UOJ wrote:

 I have received credible allegations regarding Dovid Weinberger's misconduct towards women. I ask that you investigate his conduct towards women that he has counseled in particular. It would behoove the Seminary to employ in any manner a rabbi that may have made inappropriate advances towards women. Teens especially are vulnerable to charismatic rabbis. The Tendler scandals have been ignored, covered-up...and lives have been damaged, some irreparably. There has been a kolo d'lo pasik for years, you owe it to your students and their families to investigate thoroughly, either exonerate him or get rid of him.

Chazak,

UOJ

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Oct 23, 2013

Me to - info@mbrseminary.org - Rebbetzin: I was close friends with your husband's uncle - Michael Zeitlin a"h ---- I told you a few years ago about Dovid Weinberger - and asked you to look into it. For NO OTHER REASON THAN TO KEEP YOUR TALMIDOS SAFE! You chose to keep him - At least remove his name from your website.

Oct 23, 2013

info@mbrseminary.org

Rebbetzin:

I was close friends with your husband's uncle - Michael Zeitlin a"h ---- I told you a few years ago about Dovid Weinberger - and asked you to look into it. For NO OTHER REASON THAN TO KEEP YOUR TALMIDOS SAFE! You chose to keep him - At least remove his name from your website.

Chaval,

Paul (Feivel) Mendlowitz

ON THEIR WEBSITE ON OCTOBER 2013:

 Rabbi Dovid Wienberger:

Halacha will be taught by Rabbi Dovid Weinberger, shelit”a, the Rav of Congregation Shaaray Tefila, Lawrence, N.Y. Rabbi Weinberger studied many years in Yeshiva Chofetz Chaim and received Semicha ‘Yodin Yodin’ from Rav Moshe Feinstein, zt”l. He is the co-author of theSiddur Nechomas Yisroel for the Bais Ovel, published by the OU and Artscroll, as well as the author of numerous other seforim.  He has also edited five volumes of Limudei Nisson, a collection of the Torah writings of his esteemed late father-in-law, Rav Nisson Alpert, zt”l. Most recently, he authored Siddur Ohel Rachel, the women’s siddur for Artscroll.
Rabbi Weinberger lectures on hashkafa topics and concepts in halacha, with particular emphasis on the areas of chinuch, Hilchos Shabbos and Hilchos refuah.  Rabbi Weinberger authored “A Hospital Guide for the Jewish Patient,” which was published by the OU in English and most recently in Hebrew for the Israeli hospitals.  He has produced a Holocaust Calendar commemorating the six million Kedoshim, published by Agudath Israel of America. He is the Halachic advisor of Hatzola in the Five Towns, and lectures often for ‘Shalom Task Force,’ a national organization dealing with domestic abuse in the Jewish Community.