Cases of Clergy Abuse and Other Trusted Officials

  1. Case of Shlomo Aviner (Beit El, Israel)  (Two women accused the rabbi of creating emotionally intimate relationships with them. These relationships included his expressions of his love for them during regular late-night phone conversations, extracting details from them of their sexuality and promoting an unhealthy emotional dependence on him).
  2. Case of Rabbi Lewis Brenner (Brooklyn, NY) (Convicted of child molestation.  The original charges included 14 counts of sodomy, sexual abuse and endangering the welfare of a child.  He agreed to plead guilty to one count of sodomy in the third degree, a Class E felony, in exchange for a sentence of five years' probation.)
  3. Case of Rabbi Yaakov Yitzhak Brizel (Jerusalem, Israel) (Accused of child molestation)
  4. Case of Rabbi Ephraim Bryks (Winnipeg, Canada, New York, NY)  (Accusations about sexual inappropriate behavior with children started surfacing in the 1980's. Rabbi Bryks is currently a member of the Vaad Harabonim of Queens. The Vaad is a Rabbinical committee that makes important decisions within an orthodox community.)
  5. Case of Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach (Accused of several cases of child molestation, and sexual assault of young adult women)
  6. Case Rabbi Perry Ian Cohen - Montreal and Toronto Canada  (Accused of sexual abuse of a seventeen year old. Fired for sexual impropriety with congregants)
  7. Case of Rabbi Yitzchak Cohen (Israel)  (Accused of sexually harassing students at Bar-Ilan University)
  8. Case of Rabbi Eliezer Eisgrau, principal of the Torah Institute (Baltimore, MD) (Accused of child sexual assault, and physical abuse)
  9. Case of Rabbi Benyamin Fleischman - Photographer (Baltimore, MD)  (Convicted of sexually assaulting a minor.)
  10. Case of Yehudah Friedlander - Rabbi 's Assistant (Brooklyn, NY)   (Accused of molesting a 15 year old on a 1995 plane flight from Australia to LA. Friedlander was the assistant to the chief rabbi of an Hungarian Hasidic congregation in Brooklyn, known as the Pupas)
  11. Case of Rabbi Gershon Freidlin (Woodbridge, NJ)  (Charged with sexual assault and child endangerment in fondling a 10-year-old boy on three occasions)
  12. Case of Rabbi Mordechai Gafni (aka: Marc Gafni, Mordechai Winiarz, Marc Winiarz)  (Accused sexually abusing teenage girls, attempted sexual assault of a young adult, and also accused of cult like practices).
  13. Case of Rabbi Jonathan Ginsburg (St. Paul, MN) (Accused by a sexually exploiting a female congregant while counseling her for more than two years).
  14. Case of Rabbi Ephraim Goldberg (Boca Raton, FL)  (Pled guilty to one misdemeanor count of exposure of sexual organs in a washroom at a Palm Beach Mall.)
  15. Case of Rabbi/Cantor Sidney Goldenberg (Levittown, Seaford and Bayshore, CA) (Convicted of molesting children. The first complaints came in 1971.  He was finally convicted in 1997.)
  16. Case of Cantor Joel Gordon (Buffalo Grove, IL)  (Convicted of having keeping a house of prostitution and involvement in a prostitution ring.)
  17. Case of Rabbi Mark A. Golub - Mental Health Counselor (Newport, Virginia)  (Had professional counseling license revolked for having sex with a female client, according to a state disciplinary order).
  18. Case of Rabbi Israel Grunwald (Borough Park/Brooklyn NY) (Accused of molesting a 15 year old on a 1995 plane flight from Australia to LA. The charge against him were dropped after agreeing to perform 500 hours of community service and to seek counseling. Grunwald was the chief rabbi of an Hungarian Hasidic congregation in Brooklyn, known as the Pupas).
  19. Case of Rabbi Solomon Hafner (Borough Park/Brooklyn, NY) (Accused of sexually abusing a developmentally disabled boy)
  20. Case of the Rabbi at Hillel Torah (Chicago, IL)  (A teacher at the Chicago school was accused of child molestation.  His name was not released. The school did everything correctly in attempting to keep the children safe once accusations were made.)
  21. Case of Rabbi (Alan J.) Shneur Horowitz (Hagerstown, MD; Israel; Schenectady, NY; California; Iowa) (Convicted and sentenced to 10 - 20 years in prison for sodomizing a nine-year-old psychiatric patient. Allegedly, he has assaulted a string of children from California to Israel to New York in the past twenty years. Alan J. Horowitz is an Orthodox rabbi, magna cum laude, M.D., Ph.D. A graduate of Duke University, and was a writer for NAMBLA (North American Man/Boy Love Association).
  22. Case of Jacob Frank and the Frankist Movement  (Accused of cultic type practices and sexual offenses)
  23. Case of Cantor Stuart Friedman (Halifax,Canada-Philadelphia, Detroit, Boston, Los Angeles, Baltimore) (Convicted and sentanced to 15 months in federal prison on one count of distributing child pornography).  
  24. Case of Rabbi Steven J. Kaplan (Saskatoon, Canada) (Allegations, detailed in court documents, that he lacked proper ordination, sexually harassed female congregants and committed adultery with one of them).
  25. Case of Rabbi Israel Kestenbaum (New York, NY)  (Convicted of child pornography on the internet)
  26. Case of Rabbi Robert Kirschner (San Francisco, CA) (Accused of sexually exploited or harassing three congregants and a synagogue employee)
  27. Case of Rabbi Ze'ev Kopolevitch (Jerusalem, Israel)  (Convicted of molesting students at Rosh Yeshiva, Netiv Meir yeshiva high school)
  28. Case of Rabbi Baruch Lanner (New York, NY)  (Convicted - child molestation.  Sentancing still pending after 2 years)
  29. Case of Rabbi Jerrold Martin Levy (Boca Raton, FL)  (Convicted of two counts of soliciting sex through the Internet and two counts of child pornography.  He was sentenced to six years and sex in prison.  He was caught in the "Candyman" year-long sting operation by the US government.)
  30. Case of Rabbi Pinchas Lew (Pottville, IA and Chapel Hill, NC)  (Accused of exposed himself to a woman.)
  31. Case of Rabbi/Psychologist Mordecai Magencey (St. Louis, MO)  (Lost his license to practice in the State of Missouri because of his sexual misconduct with his patients.)
  32. Case of Rabbi Richard Marcovitz (Oklahoma City, OK) (Convicted of indecent or lewd acts with a child, and sexual battery)
  33. Case of Rabbi Michael David Mayersohn (Westminster, CA)  (Accused of "groping" a female congregant who was undergoing pastoral counseling with the rabbi, due to marital problems. The rabbi is also accused of tring to "convince the congregant to have sex with him" in a second meeting. The female congregant refused).
  34. Rabbi Samuel Mendelowitz - Licensed Marriage Counselor (Teaneck, NJ)   (surrendered his marriage counseling license following charges of sexual misconduct with clients).  
  35. Rabbi Yona Metzger (Jerusalem, Israel) (Accused of sexually misconduct with four men)
  36. Case of Rabbi Juda Mintz (Mt. Freedom, NJ) (Convicted - internet sting on child pornography)
  37. Case of Rabbi Avrohom Mondrowitz, M.Sc., Ph.D., L.N.H.A. (Chicago, IL; Brooklyn, NY; Jerusalem, Israel) (Accused of two counts of sex abuse with boys at a special education school in New York. He is currently a college professor in Jerusalem, Israel).
  38. Case of Rabbi Shalom Nagar - AKA Shlomo Nagar (Ariel, Israel) (Arrested for allegedly raping a woman who had turned to him for advice.  Nagar, married with children, has served for many years as the chief rabbi of this mainly secular town, the largest Jewish settlement in Samaria)
  39. Case of Cantor Howard Nevison (New York, NY)  (Accused of molesting his nephew)
  40. Case of Rabbi Michael Ozair (Beverly Hills, CA)  (Convicted, pleaded no contest to oral copulation with a 14-year-old minor. )
  41. Case of Cantor Stanley Rosenfeld (Warwick, RI) (Convicted of molesting a 12-year-old boy he was tutoring.)
  42. Case of Rabbi Charles Shalman (Buffalo, NY)  (Accused of sexual misconduct toward female congregational members)
  43. Case of Cantor Robert Shapiro (Detroit, MI)  (Accused of three counts of rape and four counts of indecent assault and battery to a mentally retarded woman)
  44. Case of Cantor Michael Segelstein (Las Vegas, NV)  (Accused of attempted rape; Chabad)
  45. Case of Rabbi Ze'ev Sultanovitch (Jerusalem, Israel) (Accused of sexually molesting a number of adult yeshiva students at the Merkaz Harav Yeshiva)
  46. Case of Rabbi Melvin Teitelbaum (Los Angeles, CA)  (Charges dismissed at the request of the District Attorney's Office, which conceded it had insufficient evidence to prosecute.Teitelbaum then a filed a $10-million damage suit in Los Angeles Superior Court. In his suit that the Jewish Federation Council of Greater Los Angeles, the Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles and the family that accused him conspired to have him arrested and charged.Later, confronted with evidence that placed Teitelbaum elsewhere at the time of the alleged incident, the siblings changed their story, a move the prosecutor said was "devastating" to their credibility.)
  47. Case of Rabbi Mordecai Tendler (AKA: Mordechai Tendler) (Monsey, NY) (Accused of innappropriate sexual behavior with women in he counseled that had gone on for years).
  48. Case of Rabbi Isadore Trachtman (Chicago, IL and Jerusalem, Israel) (Accused of cultic type practices and sexual offenses)
  49. Case of Rabbi Hirsch Travis (Monsey, NY)  (Rabbi in Monsey, accused of posing as a Brooklyn doctor specializing in infertility problems, and allegedly sexually abusing and assaulting a patient.)
  50. Case of Rabbi Eliyahu Tzabari - Former chief rabbi of Ganei Tikva, Israel  (Charged with sexually abusing a women with whom he counseled).
  51. Case of Rabbi Ivan Wachmann - Manchester, England  (Accused of sexual misconduct with women from his Manchester synagogue)
  52. Case of Rabbi Matis Weinberg (Baltimore, MD, Santa Clara, CA and Har Nof, Israel)  (Accused of cultic type practices and sexual offenses)
  53. Case of Rabbi Yaakov Weiner (New York, NY and Israel) (Accused of molesting boy at Camp Mogen Avraham, New York)
  54. Case of Rabbi Nachman Weisfeld (Northern, Israel)  (Convicted of physically and sexually abusing children under his care in an education institution)
  55. Case of Rabbi Don Well - Principal (Brooklyn, NY)  (Accused and charged with Rabbi one count of third-degree sexual abuse).
  56. Case of Cantor Phillip Wittlin (Harrisburg, PA) (Convicted of molesting two girls)
  57. Case of Rabbi Mordechai Yomtov (Los Angeles, CA)  (Convicted of sexual abuse and committing lewd acts against three boys)
  58. Case of Rabbi Sheldon Zimmerman (New York, NY) (Violated guidelines concerning "sexual ethics and sexual boundaries," )
  59. Case of the Rabbi Max Zucker (Dallas, TX)  (Accused by three women of improperly touching)
  60. Case of the Unnamed NY Rabbi Who Has An Unhealthy Interest In Teenage Boys
  61. Case of the Unnamed Rabbi - Principal Who Inpregnated A Girl With Learning Disabilities
  62. Case of Unnamed Rabbi in West Rogers Park (Chicago, IL)  (The alleged offender originally meets his victims on line, and then after time connects with them in person. The allegations that have been made include the rabbi using a form of hypnosis and then sexually assaulting his alleged victims).

And Other Trusted Officals (Parents, Teachers, Camp Counselors, etc.)

  1. Case of Faiz Suleiman Abukarinat - The Negev Pedophile (Israel)  (Convicted of kidnapping and raping three girls from Beersheba and Ashdod)
  2. Case of Arie Adler and Marisa Rimland (New York, NY) (Arie Adler was accused of molesting his daughter. Marisa Rimland murdered her daughter, and then committed suicide).
  3. Case of Simcha Adler - Ohel Counselor (Borough Park/Brooklyn, NY  (Plea-bargained charges of sodomy, sexual abuse and two counts of endangering the welfare of a child down to attempted sodomy.)
  4. Case of Tal Alaluf  (Arrested and confessed to raping a 13-year-old boy he "groomed" via an Internet chat room, according to police detectives).
  5. Case of Hen Alkobi (Haifa, Israel)  (Accused of raping and sexually abusing teenage girls in the Haifa area, ended in a plea bargain arrangement.)
  6. Case of Ben Amotz (Tel Aviv and Jaffa, Israel)  (Allegedly lured 12 to 13-year-old girls to his apartment using drugs)
  7. Case of Igor Antapika, Haifa, Israel/Soviet Union (AKA: Street Stair Rapist)  (Arrested and accused of raping several women)
  8. Case of Eugene Loub Aronin - School Counselor (Joppa, TX and Buffalo Grove, IL  (Convicted in 1984 of sexually assaulting a 10-year-old boy)
  9. Case of David Carl Arndt, M.D. (Boston, MA)  (Charged with four counts of statutory child rape and one count each of indecent assault and battery, drugging a person for sexual intercourse, contributing to the delinquency of a child, and possession of the drugs ketamine hydrochloride ("Special K") and methamphetamine).
  10. Case of  Samuel S. Aster - Music Teacher/College Professor (Teaneck, NJ)   (Gave prosecutors a sworn statement detailing the crimes and his videotaping of them.)
  11. Case of Yehezkel Atar (Tel Aviv, Israel)  (Convicted of raping a nine-year-old girl).
  12. Case of Boris Bardichevsky (Petah Tikva, Israel) (Arrested this week by the Israel Police's Etgar unit on suspicion of trading in women).
  13. Case of Leeore Batshaw - Psychology Student at The University of Winnipeg (Israel) (Convicted - internet sting on child pornography)
  14. Case of Ralph Harrison Benning (Fulton County, GA) (pleaded guilty to molesting and murdering Peter Downing Howell Jr., 8. Benning told police he killed Howell on the site where he was molested as a child).
  15. Case of David Steven Berman (Ruislip, England) (Convicted and sentenced to prison.  Berman admitted to 13 charges of making indecent images of children. Judge Jeremy Connor stated: "The images showed children as young as six, some with elements of sadism.")
  16. Case of Harvey N. Berish - School Teacher (Bronx, NY) (Drama teacher in an intermediate school in the Bronx was arrested on charges that he had sexually abused four boy pupils).
  17. Case of Yoav Biran (Jerusalem, Israel)  (Accused of distributing child pornography over the Internet, also of preforming indecent acts on children.  Also see: Case of Rafael Kaplanovsky and Case of Itai Snapier).
  18. Case of Moni Biton (Tel Aviv, Israel) (Convicted and sentence to sentenced to 22 years for purchased a stun gun, tear gas, knives and scissors, and decided in advance which brothels him and his friends would attack).
  19. Case of Yaron Blanc (Ariel, Israel)  (Accused of using the internet to lure minors for sexual activity)
  20. Case of Baron Bloom (London, England) (Convicted of indecently assaulting a 15-year-old girl. The judge ordered Bloom's name to be placed on the sex offenders register for 10 years and sentenced him to one year's imprisonment).
  21. Case of Harold Bloom - Humanities and English Professor at Yale (New Haven, CT)  (Accused of sexually harassing students).
  22. Case of Michael Broman (Givatayim, Israel)  (Arrested this week by the Israel Police's Etgar unit on suspicion of trading in women).
  23. Case of Rami Buchnik - Physical Education Teacher (Tiberias, Israel) (Arrested after complaints that he had been molesting youths at several kibbutzim in the region. He was also charged with possession of an unlicensed firearm).
  24. Case of Lieutenant Colonel Eli Buhbut - Israel Defense Forces (Accused of sexually assaulting another officer)
  25. Case of Franklin "Jack" Burr - Piano Teacher (Edison, NJ)  (On trial charged with sexual assault and endangering the welfare of a child. He is facing up to 20 years in prison).
  26. Case of Ralph Capone - School Custodian, Patachogue: Medford School District (Long Island, NY)  (Accused of asking two male students in their 20s, working on the High School equivalency diploma, claimed Capone asked them for oral sex).
  27. Case of Chaim Ciment (Williamsburg/Brooklyn, NY)  (Accused and charged with first-degree sexual abuse, after allegations were made that he fondled a 17 year old girl in an elevator).
  28. Case of James A. Cohen - Jewish Youth Group Leader (Davi, FL) (Convicted child molester, sentenced to 9 years for assaulting 4 boys)
  29. Case of Larry Cohen - Soccer Coach (Lake Oswego, OR) (Accused of molesting two individuals.)
  30. Case of Lawrence Cohen - School Teacher (Manalapan, NJ)  (Convicted and sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for transmitting child pornography through his home computer).
  31. Case of Phillip "Eli" Cohen (London, England)  (Accused of 13 charges of indecently assaulting a boy and four offences of indecently assaulting a girl)
  32. Case of Victor Wayne Cooper (CA)  (Convicted of four counts of lewd and lascivious acts upon a child. He is serving four consecutive terms of fifteen years to life due to two prior rape convictions).
  33. Case of Stuart Cooperman, MD - Pediatrican (Merrick, New York) (Accused of molesting six female patience).
  34. Case of Corrido (Tel Aviv, Israel) (Suspected of sexually abusing several minors claims to have witnessed the murder of 10-year-old Alexandra Brandt in 1994)
  35. Case of Gil Dahan (Convicted of a gang rape and sodomy of a 20-year-old mentally disabled woman, and of confining her).
  36. Case of Oren Danan (Tel Aviv, Israel) (Confessed to child abduction, sexual assault, and attempted murder of a neighborhood girl)
  37. Case of Sliman Dawiri (Tel Aviv, Israel)  (Convicted and sentence to 28 years for robbery, rape and false imprisonment, terrorized the women working at the brothels, raped them and stole money and possessions from them).
  38. Case of Eric Dorfner, BBYO Group Leader (Evesham/Cherry Hill, NJ) (Charged with sexually assaulting two teenage boys, after sending child pornography over the Internet)
  39. Case of Mordechai (Morton) Ehrman - Simcha's Play Group (Brooklyn, NY) (Accused of molesting dozens of students).
  40. Case of Shmuel Faber - KACH Rescue Squad Volunteer, Israel (Accused of sexually pressuring two women into sexual acts, so that they could obtain better treatment).
  41. Case of Irina Fishman (Tel Aviv, Israel) (Convicted of delivering women to work as prostitutes)
  42. Case of Zora Flagashvili (Convicted of a gang rape and sodomy of a 20-year-old mentally disabled woman, and of confining her).
  43. Case of Hbrandon Lee Flagner (Akron, OH)  (Convicted of the kidnapping and aggravated murder of Tiffany Jennifer Papesh a 8-year-old girl. Flagner also claimed to have molested hundreds of girls during his life. While in prison, Flagner convert to Judaism by an Chasidic rabbi.)
  44. Case of Arnold and Jesse Friedman "Capturing the Friedmans" (Great Neck, NY) (Convicted sex offenders).  Also see:  Case of Ross Goldstein
  45. Case of Ramon Gantz - Gym Boss (Tel Aviv, Israel) (Convicted and sentanced after slipped two tablets of the dance drug into the victim's orange juice after she rebuffed his romantic advances on a Monarch flight from Tel Aviv to Gatwick).
  46. Case of Richard "Steve" Goldberg (Long Beach, CA)  (Allegedly engaging in sex acts with several girls under 10 in California.  He is on the FBI's ten most wanted fugitives list)
  47. Case of Avraham Ger (Tel Aviv, Israel) (Accused of sexually assaulting several girls and boys)
  48. Case of Ovadia Gershon - Director of Group home for Mentally Challenged minors (Tel Aviv, Israel) (Convicted raping a mentally challenged resident in a group home in Tel Aviv, Israel)
  49. Case of Aron Goldberger (Baltimore, MD, Israel) (self-described religious scholar convicted of molesting his children)
  50. Case of Arieh (Arik) Goldman (Ramle, Israel)  (Arrested after being accused of molesting 43 children)
  51. Case of Neil Goldschmidt (Former Governor of Oregon / Former Cabinet Member to President Jimmy Carter) (Confessed to having a sexual relationship with a teenager girl while he was mayor of Portland).
  52. Case of Ross Goldstein (Great Neck, NY)  (Convicting of sodomy in the first degree (three counts) and use of a child in a sexual performance.  He was Sentenced to four concurrent indeterminated terms of 2 to 6 years imprisonment. Also see: Case of Arnold and Jesse Friedman)
  53. Case of David Graetz (Kiryat Ata, Israel) (Accused of attempted sexual assault of a neighbor.  The alleged victim stated that she beat her alleged assailent to death in self-defense).
  54. Case of Moshe Grots  (Convicted of assisting in the rape and the confinement of a 20 year-old mentally disabled woman).
  55. Case of Ilan Hacham - Maternity Ward Nurse (Tel Aviv, Israel)  (Arrested and charged with allegedly molesting two women in maternity ward of Assaf Harofeh Hospital).
  56. Case of Ya'akov Ha'elyon - Tel Aviv Arts School (Tel Aviv, Israel)  (Highly regarded educator at an "enlightened" secular liberal arts school accused of abusing children).
  57. Case of Uzi Hakhmon - Coach of a Boys' Soccer Team (Tiberias, Israel)  (Arrested on suspicion of raping and sexually assaulting several members of the team - all of them minors).
  58. Case of Judge Robert I. H. Hammerman (Baltimore, MD)  (Accused of having sexually inappropriate converstations with a 16 year-old boy).
  59. Case of Micha Hanan, Principal Beit Rotenberg (Haifa, Israel)  (Accused of sodomizing several youths between the ages of 14 and 18. Allegations date back to 1994).
  60. Case of David B. Harrington - School Principal / Big Brother (Rockville, MD) (Convicted sex offender.  Cases from the 1960's - 1980's.)
  61. Case of Eric Hindin - Jewish Big Brother Volunteer (Newton, MA)  (Convicted of 35 counts of child rape. He was sentenced to 20-22 years in prison).
  62. Case of Yoni Hovra - High School Teacher (Petah Tikva, Israel)  (Arrested and charged with raping and sexually abusing 14 of his pupils. According to the charge sheet, Hovra slipped prescription sleeping tablets into the drinks of some male students who visited him at home, so that they would not be aware of the assault).
  63. Case of Ronny Hubara - School Teacher (Petach Tikva, Israel)  (After being accused of molesting children, police confiscate child pornographyfrom the home of the school teacher).
  64. Case of Martin Frankel - Former Financier (Confessed to having desires to having sex with children)
  65. Case of Lord Greville Janner - Former British Labour MP (London, England)  (Accused of molesting a boyt in a group home for over two years).
  66. Case of Albert Junatanov (Los Angeles, CA)  (Accused of physically abuse and sexually assaulting his children).
  67. Case of Rafael Kaplanovsky (Jerusalem, Israel) (Accused of distributing child pornography over the Internet.  Also see Case of Yoav Biran and Case of Itai Snapier).
  68. Case of Judge Ronald Kline (Turtle Rock, CA) (Accused of possessing child pornography and for allegedly molesting a neighborhood boy 25 years ago).
  69. Case of Sofia Kochik (Tel Aviv, Israel)  (Convicted and sentenced to four years in jail for trafficking in women, running a brothel, false imprisonment and solicitation).
  70. Case of John Joseph Kosky (aka Jonathan Kaye) , School Teacher (Melbourne/Perth, Australia) (Convicted of Organising Child Sex Tour in Thailand: Sentenced in 2003 to 6years jail/ 3years non parole).
  71. Case of Stanislav Kuperman (Arrested as part of an operation launched by Tel Aviv detectives, in which an officer was sent undercover to purchase women over the telephone)
  72. Case of Sergei Kuperman - Dentist (Rishon Letzion, Israel) (Suspected of sexually assaulting a woman and aslo trafficking in women).
  73. Case of Moti Lahav (Migdal Ha'emek, Israel)  (Confessed to sodomizing and sexually abusing two male youths and one female youth he met via the Internet).
  74. Case of Itai Leibovich - Kindergarten Security Guard at a Kindergarten - (Tel Aviv, Israel)  (Convicted on two counts of rape and other counts of sodomy, attempted rape and indecent assault of four girls aged six to eleven).
  75. Case of Leo Lewie (Beverly Hills, CA)  (Convicted of murdering his wifeand his stepdaughter. Prior to the murders, there were allegations of two counts of child molestation and two counts of statutory rape).
  76. Case of Marc Lewis - Tennis Coach (AKA Mark Lewish) (Edgware, England)  (Convicted of sexual assault of a fifteen-year-old girl with two of his friends.  Lewis is an award-winning Wimbledon tennis coach. Police were unable to charge the other men because they only discovered their identities 12 months after the alleged offences. In England, unlawful sexual intercourse cases the suspect has to be charged within a year of the offence. Lewis refused to name either man during police interview).
  77. Case of Howard Lichtenstein, Dentist (Skokie, Illinois)  (Charged with indecent solicitation of a child.) 
  78. Case of Simon Livshitz (Haifa, Israel) (Suspected in the trafficking of women. Charged with money laundering leading to property and funds confiscate by police).
  79. Case of Michael Lytton (Ilford, England)  (Convicted of sexually assaulting a woman after posing as a clinical psychologist).
  80. Case of Sergei Mayatski (Eilat, Israel)  (Charged with of sexually abusing 13 year old teenager from Minsk, Belarus over the past three years. Mayatski admitted that he had sex with the teen, but said it was consensual and that it was partly done for educational purposes).
  81. Case of Avi Mizrahi  (Convicted of a gang rape and sodomy of a 20-year-old mentally disabled woman, and of confining her).
  82. Case of David Mizrahi (Convicted of a gang rape and sodomy of a 20-year-old mentally disabled woman, and of confining her).
  83. Case of Mordechai Mizrahi (Convicted of a gang rape and sodomy of a 20-year-old mentally disabled woman, and of confining her).
  84. Case of Yitzhak Mordechai - Israeli Public Official (Jerusalem, Israel) (Convicted of sexual assault)
  85. Case of Laizer Nabochov (Tel Aviv, Israel) (Arrested this week by the Israel Police's Etgar unit on suspicion of trading in women).
  86. Case of Lawrence Nevison (New York, NY) (Convicted of molesting his nephew.  He is the brother of Cantor Howard Nevison)
  87. Case of Stuart Nevison (New York, NY)  (Convicted of molesting his cousin.  He is the brother of Cantor Howard Nevison)
  88. The Case of the Students of Ner Israel Yeshiva in the 1950's (Baltimore, MD) (Students accused of sexually molesting a younger student)
  89. Case of the New York Society for the Deaf's Home (New York, NY)  (Accused of treating disabled patients ``like animals,'' beaten, drugged and robbed of their government checks).
  90. Case of Arkadi Nissanov (Jerusalem, Israel) (Arrested this week by the Israel Police's Etgar unit on suspicion of trading in women).
  91. Case of Steven Howard Oken (Baltimore, MD) (Convicted of a series of sexual assaults and murders.  Received the death penalty)
  92. Case of Ozzie Orbach, M.D. (New York, NY) (Accused of molesting his daughter)
  93. Case of Raymond M. Pietrowski (Chciago, IL and Jerusalem, Israel)  (Convicted in the attempted rape of an 11-year-old boy will serve no prison time but instead will spend 10 years on probation in Israel)
  94. Case of Mark Pikovsky  (Convicted and sentanced to five years for trafficking women for prostitution).
  95. Case of the Rogers Park JCC, (Chicago, Illinois)  (This was the first case of alleged mass molestation recorded in Illinois to involve accusations of sexual abuse by a group of adults, consists of 246 allegations that staff members abused children enrolled at the center, according to the Illinois Department of children and Family Services).
  96. Case of Harold S. (Ontario, Canada)  (Confessed to having sexual relations with a boy)
  97. Case of Gadi Saban, Israeli soap opera star  (Arrested and charged with the rape, attempted rape and indecent assault on a woman in the bathroom of a Tel Aviv night club).
  98. Case of Avi Rodef Shalom (Tel Aviv, Israel)  (Convicted and sentenced to 4 1/2 years in prision for sexually assaulting a six-and-a-half year old girl)
  99. Case of Darryl Rosen, Police Officer (Sacramento, CA)
  100. Case of Sam Rosenbloom - Operates an On-Line Succah business at http://www.succah.com  (Accused of Domestic Violence and refusing to give his wife a Get <Jewish divorce>).
  101. Case of Jonathan Rosenthal - Community Police Liason (London, England)  (Acquitted of sexually assaulting a few children, after a jury used ancient common law right, deciding evidence wasn't strong enough.)
  102. Case of Marni Nasia-Rubin (Toledo, OH)  (Convicted, pleaded no contest to one count of unlawful sexual conduct with a minor).
  103. Case of Adam Theodore Rubin - Teacher, Coach and Girl Scout Coordinator (Arnold, MD)  (Accused of using a computer to solicit sex with a minor, possession of a controlled dangerous substance and possession of drug paraphernalia).
  104. Case of Tuvya Sa'ar - Director-General of the Israel Journalists' Union (Tel Aviv)  (Arrested on suspicion of having intercourse with a minor and coercing her for sexual favors.)
  105. Case of Safad Rapist (Safad, Israel)  (Allegations were made that a man wearing hassidic garb sexually assaulted a 12-year-old girl).
  106. Case of Aryeh Scher - Israeli vice-consul (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)  (Accused of possession of child pornography.  Charges dropped when Scher fled the country).
  107. Case of Georges Schteinberg - Teacher (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)  (Accused of possession of child pornography.  Charges dropped when Schteinberg fled the country).
  108. Case of Yaakov Shneiderman (Be'er Sheva, Israel) (Arrested this week by the Israel Police's Etgar unit on suspicion of trading in women).
  109. Case of Adrian Schwartz (Rishon Lezion)  (Convicted, sentenced to 25 years in prison for raping a 10 year-old-girl and a 23-year-old woman).  
  110. Case of David Schwartz - Camp Counselor (Culver City, CA)  (Convicted and sentenced to one year in residential treatment and five years' probation for molesting a 4-year-old boy in his care at summer camp. A six-year prison sentence was suspended).
  111. Case of Jerrold Schwartz - Scoutmaster (New York, NY)  (Convicted and sentanced to 8 years in prison for multiple counts of sodomizing his former scout ).
  112. Case of Benny Sela (Tel Aviv, Israel) (Convicted serial rapist)
  113. Case of Gal Shamir (Holon, Israel)  (Convicted to 17 years imprisonment for sexually assaulting six children.
  114. Case of Yitzhak Sha'ari and the House hostel - International Youth Hostel (Jerusalem, Israel) (The local building and planning committee cited allegations of sexual harassment against Sha'ari published in the popular U.S. student travel guide Let's Go.)
  115. Case of Boris Shimshishvilli (Arrested as part of an operation launched by Tel Aviv detectives, in which an officer was sent undercover to purchase women over the telephone).
  116. Case of Jackie Shoshan (Be'er Sheva, Israel)  (Convicted of 14 indecent acts against a 13 year old boy)
  117. Case of Irwin Silverman - Chief Counsel to U.S. secretary of interior 1933-53  (Accused of molesting his daughter Sue William Silverman).
  118. Case of Paul Slifer - Teacher (Livingston, NJ)  (Accused of sexually assaulting a several students, and impersonating a doctor).
  119. Case of Itai Snapier (Jerusalem, Israel)  (Accused of distributing child pornography over the Internet.  Also see: Case of Yoav Biran and Case of Rafael Kaplanovsky )
  120. Case of Ari Sorkin - Synagogue Youth Worker (Elkins Park, PA)  (Accused of molesting a 16 yr. old girl)
  121. Case of Uri Suissa, Senior Justice Ministry official, Israel  (Accused of sexually harassed a female worker and that pressure was put on her to deny the charge).
  122. Case of Robert Taylor - Former Board Member Temple Beth Emet (Los Angeles, CA) (Convicted of molesting a boy, served a sex month jail sentance).
  123. Case of Tel Aviv Arts School (Tel Aviv, Israel)
  124. Case of Dr. Saul and Judith Wasserman - (Palo Alto, California) (Accused of molesting their daughter)
  125. Case of David Douglas Webber - Mashgiach "Kashrut Supervisor" - (Calgory, Canada)  (Convicted and sentenced to six years for possessing child pornography and molesting seven boys over the past eight years).
  126. Case of David Weinberg - former Bar-Ilan University spokesperson (Israel) - (Convicted of sexual harassment and indecent assault).
  127. Case of Yeedle Werdyger - Chassidic Singer (Jerusalem, Israel)  (Arrested for drugging teenage girls some of whom were below the age of 16, video tayping and then having sexual relations with them.  Charges were dropped due to lack of evidence after Werdyger tried to swallow the memory disc of his computer, breaking the chip as he chewed it.).
  128. Case of Adam Wexler - Musician (Bat Ayin, Israel) (Arrested for rape and "maasim megunim " (tranlation: bad things)of a girl when she was seven (she is now 16 or 17)  He is a resident of Bat Ayin)
  129. Case of Peter Yarrow - Singer  (Pleaded guilty to taking "immoral and improper liberties" with a 14-year-old girl back in 1970, was pardoned by Carter in 1981).
  130. Case of Jacki Yazdi (Jerusalem, Israel)  (Charged with raping two of his employees at Tropicana, a brothel that flourished in Jerusalem, prior to being shut down by authorities in 2003).
  131. Case of Michael Yeikovsky (Tel Aviv, Israel) (Convicted of delivering women to work as prostitutes)
  132. Case of Moshe Meshi Zahav (Jerusalem, Israel)  (Accused of molesting adolescent girls who were runaways or in boarding schools. Allegedely the Zahav gave his alleged victims thousands of Shekels and expensive gifts, and then pressured them to have sexual intercourse with him).
  133. Case of Arnold Zar-Kessler - Headmaster, Solomon Schechter Day School of Greater Boston (The Commonwealth of Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination reached a decision June 28, 2004 to dismiss the complaint of sexual harassment against the Solomon Schechter Day School of Greater Boston and its headmaster, finding that there was a lack of probable cause).
  134. Case of Yitzhak Zarif, 26 (Ra'anana, Israel)  (Accused of sexually assaulting a six-year-old girl. He was found not-fit to stand trail andwas committed to a mental hospital by the Tel Aviv District Court).
  135. Case of Avi Zohar - Or Yehuda Toy Store Employee (Tel Aviv, Israel)  (Arrested on suspicion of trying to induce boys aged 12 to 14 to perform sexual acts).
     
     
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  136. Case of Several Unnamed Child Sex Offenders in Har Nof (Jerusalem, Israel)  (Outlines several cases of alleged child sex offenders in the charedi town of Har Nof)
  137. Case of Two Unnamed Adolescent Males in Rehovot (Jerusalem, Israel)  (Two adolescent males were arrested after accusations were made that they beat and sexually assaulted a seventeen year old female for over a sex month period).
  138. Case of Three Unnamed Babysitting Youths (Tel Aviv, Israel)  (Convicted and sentenced to two years' probation and public service)
  139. Case of the Unnamed Babysitting Sex Offender (Kibbutz Misgav Am, Israel)  (Convicted and sentanced to 28 months after sexually assauling a five-year-old.  The criminal was a relative of the girl for whom he was a babysitter).
  140. Case of the Unnamed Be'er Sheva Sex Offender (Be'er Sheva, Israel)  (Convicted of sexually molesting a four-year-old girl and of raping a middle-aged woman).
  141. Case of the Unnamed B'Nai Torah Congegation - Hillel Community Day School janitor (Boca Raton, FL  (Accused of child molestation).
  142. Case of the Unnamed Haredi Friend of an Orthodox Singer (Jerusalem, Israel)  (Two haredi men, YeedleWerdyger and an unnamed friend, were arrested for enticing girls, some of whom were below the age of 16, to take dangerous drugs and then to have sexual relations with them).
  143. Case of the Unnamed Cop (Tel Aviv Israel) (Convicted of sexually assaulting his younger brother)
  144. Case of the Unnamed "D" - The South Tel Aviv Pedophile  (Charged with committing sodomy and indecent acts on at least four children. The real number is probably higher)
  145. Case of the Unnamed Elementary School Principal (Haifa, Israel)  (Convicted of sexually abusing students, aged eight to eleven).
  146. Case of the Unnamed Father committing Incest (Eilat, Israel)  (Convicted of sexually assaulting his eleven children.  Serving a 10-year term).
  147. Case of Unnamed Father committing Incest in Karmiel, Israel  (Allegations that a father had raped his daughter for the last eight years).
  148. Case of Unnamed Father committing Incest at Kibbutz Evron - Nahariya, Israel  (Allegations that a father had sexual relations with his 12-year-old daughter).
  149. Case of the Unnamed Kemp Hills Juvenile Sex Offenders (Silver Springs, MD)  (Allegations have been made that children from the same family have been molesting other children in the neighborhood.  It has been suggested that the chldren who are offending are"sexually reactive".  Allegations have also been a made against the parents of the alleged juvenile offenders).
  150. Case of the Unnamed Father committing Incest at Kibbutz Evron - Nahariya, Israel  (Allegations that a father had sexual relations with his 12-year-old daughter).
  151. Case of Unnamed Father committing incest on his two daughters (Zevulun, Israel)  (Arrested on suspicion of having sexual relations with his four-and five-year-old daughters).
  152. Case of the Unnamed Father committing Incest from Delaware (New Castle, DE)  (Father accused of alleged child molestation)
  153. Case of the Unnamed Father committing Incest in a Mazda 323 (Be'er Sheva and Negev, Israel)  (Accused of being a serial child rapist)
  154. Case of the Unnamed Father committing Incest who is Fiftyone-years-old (Central Israel)  (Charged a 51-year-old man from Central Israel, with raping and sodomizing his nine-year-old daughter. The man had been pardoned five years previously after being convicted of sodomizing and abusing another man).
  155. Case of the Unnamed Soviet Father committing Incest (Rishon Letzion, Israel)  (Accused of sexually and physically assaulting his 17 year old daughter).
  156. Case of the Unnamed Father who Sold his Mentally-Handicapped Daughter (Central Israel)  (Convicted & sentenced to 14 years' for selling his 11- year-old mentally-handicapped daughter to a friend to rape in exchange for NIS 50 ($12.00).
  157. Case of Unnamed Father/Grandfather Vs. State of Israel Vs.(Jerusalem, Israel)  (Convicted - 68 year old Israeli religious man pled guilty to repeated molestation of his granddaughter, was sentenced to 19 years in jail.
  158. Case of the Unnamed Father/Grandfather (Ashkelon, Israel) (Accused of molesting his daughter and granddaughter)
  159. Case of the Unnamed Grandfather (Tel Aviv)  (Charged with raping and sodomizing two of his grandchildren).
  160. Case of the Unnamed Female (Three) Teenagers who Beat and Sexually Assault Younger Girl (Rishon Letzion, Israel) (Accused of molesting at least 2 younger girls in the neighborhood).
  161. Case of the Unnamed Fiftyeight-year-old man from Petah Tikva, Israel  (Charged in Tel Aviv District Court with repeatedly raping the 10- year-old daughter of his girlfriend over a three-year period).
  162. Case of the Unnamed Fiftyfive-year-old Man (Tel Aviv)  (Charged with molesting a nine-year-old girl several times). .
  163. Case of Unnamed Florida pedophile who works with Jewish youth (FL) (Accused of molesting children in his care)
  164. Case of the Unnamed Forth Individual (Jerusalem, Israel)  (Accused of distributing child pornography over the Internet, a gag order has been placed on the name).
  165. Case of the Unnamed Fortysix-year-old Man (Herzliya, Israel)  (Charged with molested a 10-year-old neighborhood girl several times from 1989 through 1991 in his car. Also allegedly took the girl to a public park, waiting until other children left to abuse her).
  166. Case of the Unnamed Four Suspected Web Pedophiles (Jerusalem, Israel)  (Arrested in connection with an international child pornography ring.  Also see:Case of Yoav Biran and Case of Rafael Kaplanovsky)
  167. Case of the Unnamed Fourteen-year-old boy (Haifa, Israel) (Accused of the rape of a five-year-old girl and a six-year-old girl).
  168. Case of the Unnamed Fourteen-year-old Rapist  (Convicted and sentenced a 14-year-old boy to 15 years in prison and three years of probation for the rape and murder of a five-year-old girl).
  169. Case of Two Unnamed 14-year-old Sex Offenders (Jerusalem, Israel) (Convicted of indecent acts against a five- year-old girl).
  170. Case of the Unnamed Gang Rapes (Rishon Letzion and Ashdod, Israel) (gang rapes in two different towns)
  171. Case of the Unnamed Hadera Train Station Sex Offender (Haifa, Israel)  (Accused of raping a pregnant woman)
  172. Case of an Unnamed Israeli Public Figure  (Accused of committing indecent acts, including sodomy, on his stepson).
  173. Case of the Unnamed Jaffa Teenage Serial Sex Offender  (Arrested and confessed to molesting 20 children aged eight to 12 over the past half year).
  174. Case of the Unnamed Jewish Youth Group Leader/Rabbinical Student (Queens, NY) (Accused of molesting an 11 year old boy in the basement of a synagogue).
  175. Case of Unnamed Jewish Quarter child molester (Jerusalem, Israel)  (suspicions in the quarter that the 16-year-old arrested by the police in 1988 had "taken the rap" for his older brothers, who are still on the loose. The youth was eventually institutionalized. This case involves a 5 year old male victim).
  176. Case of the Unnamed Kosher Butcher (Chicago, IL) (Accused of molesting children for over 30 years)
  177. Case of the Unnamed Maintenance Worker at Congregation Netzah Yisrael (Ashkelon, Israel)  (Arrested and accused of sexually abusing a four-year-old girl at a city pre-school complex. The suspect has also been accused in another case - he was also questioned following similar allegations in Eilat. No indictment has emerged from the Eilat case).
  178. Case of the Unnamed Man who Paid to have sex with a Mentally-Handicaped Girl (Central Israel) (Convicted of sexual assault, and was sentenced to 16 years in jail after paying the girls father to have sex with her).
  179. Case of the Unnamed Man who Molested his Wifes Younger Siblings (Netanya, Israel) (Arrested after being accused of molesting wife's four siblings, three girls aged 5, 8 and 12 and a 3-year-old boy).
  180. Case of the Unnamed Man from Ramle, Israel (A man was arrested after stabbing a 13 year old girl, over an argument over payment for her services).
  181. Case of the Unnamed Repeat Sex Offender (Tel Aviv, Israel)  (Convicted unnamed Sex offender sexually assaulted a nine-year-old girl. After choking her until she lost consciousness, the assailant rolled her up in a carpet and left her for dead outside).
  182. Case of the Unnamed Rishon Letzion Rapist (A 13-year-old girl filed a complaint at a Rishon Letzion police station stating she had been sexually assaulted by two men).
  183. Case of Unnamed Principal in a Brooklyn yeshiva (Brooklyn, NY) (Accused of molesting students)
  184. Case of the Unnamed Safad Rapist (Safad, Israel) (Allegations were made that a man wearing hassidic garb sexually assaulted a 12-year-old girl).
  185. Case of the Unnamed Serial Pedophile (Tel Aviv, Israel)  (Man arrested this weekend on suspicion of sexually assaulting a 9-year-old girl who was found rolled up in a carpet.)
  186. Case of the Unnamed 17-year old Rapist (Central Israel) (Accused of sexually assaulting a girl from his school for over two years).
  187. Case of the Unnamed Seventyeight-year old man from Jaffa, Israel (Charged with raping his friend's five- year-old daughter.)
  188. Case of the Unnamed Two Sharon Region Absorption Center Rapist (Two Alleged rapists (aged 17 and 18) were arrested).
  189. Case of the Unnamed Sibiling Incest (Zevulun, Israel)  (Arrested after allegedly forcing his seven-year-old sister to have sexual relations with him several times).
  190. Case of the Unnamed Six Male Teenagers (Kibbutz Shomrat, Israel) (Accused and Convicted of repeatedly sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl, over a period of several days on the kibbutz)
  191. Case of the Unnamed Sixteen-year-old repeat sex offender (Tel Aviv, Israel) (Convicted of sexually assaulting a seven-year-old boy and confessed to sexually assaulting another child, who was his 10 year-old neighbor).
  192. Case of Unnamed Sixty-year-old Man (Herzliya, Israel) (Charged with sexually abusing a neighborhood boy, 11, after inviting him to try his exercise bicycle in the basement).
  193. Case of the Unnamed Sixtyfour-year-old Neighbor (Tel Aviv, Israel)  (Charged in Tel Aviv District Court with systematically raping and sexually assaulting a 20-year-old man over an 11-year-period).
  194. Case of the Unnamed Synagogue Rapist (Jerusalem Israel) (Accused and arrested.  20 year old Jerusalem man was under arrest for sexually assaulting at least ten children in a city synagogue).
  195. Case of the Three Unnamed Students from Bat Yam Yeshiva  (Three students aged 13-14 were arrested and confessed to the allegations of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old schoolmate)
  196. Case of Three Unnamed Female Teenagers who Beat and Sexually Assault Younger Girl (Rishon Letzion, Israel) (Accused of molesting at least 2 younger girls in the neighborhood).
  197. Case of the Unnamed Two Sharon Region Absorption Center Rapist (Two Alleged rapists (aged 17 and 18) were arrested).
  198. Case of Two Unnamed men from the West Bank village of Yata  (Two men from the West Bank village of Yata have been arrested on suspicion of sexually abusing a teenage girl and enticing her to use drugs).
  199. Case of Two Unnamed Students who attempted to Film Female Classmates (Holon, Israel)  (Arrested after allegations were made that two high school students, both aged 16, attempted to film female classmates in the school's bathrooms).
  200. Case of Unnamed Thirtyfive-year-old man from Bnei Brak, Israel  (Arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting his neighbor and performing indecent acts on him).
  201. Case of the Unnamed Thirtythree-year-old Man (Petah Tikva)  (Accused of raping a colleague).
  202. Case of the Unnamed Twentyone-year-old Man (Beersheba, Israel) (Charged with raping a five-year-old girl whose mother had asked him to bring her home to a Beersheba absorption center from kindergarten).
  203. Case of the Unnamed Yachting Instructor (Herzliya, Israel)  (Arrested on suspicion of abusing four 11-year-olds)
  204. Case of the Unnamed Youth Basketball Coach (Jerusalem, Israel)  (Arrested after six youths complained to police).

Related Cases

  1. Case of Rabbi Bernard Freilich (Borough Park/Brooklyn, NY)  (Acquitted of death threats to an alleged victim)
  2. Case of The Dentist Couple (Kfar Sava, Israel) (Charged with Severely Abusing Daughters)
  3. Case of Jewish School in Manchester, England  (School was under investigation by social services over allegations that pupils have been mentally abused).