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Lakewood Is Driven By The Fear Of Being Called Sheigetz?

7/9/2013

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Just had a long conversation with some insiders of the Kolko case. The simple question raised was, "What is the way to change Lakewood's approach to dealing with child abuse?" It is obvious that they don't respond to halachic arguments and it is also clear that the rabbis lack the moral backbone to stand up for what they feel is right. They can't even muster the courage and decency to apologize from driving Rabbi "S" out of Lakewood - on a mistaken belief that he was a moser.

Appeals to stop the suffering of children doesn't carry any weight - because their insistence that following the directive of a beis din is paramount even when children are being destroyed by molesters. They claim, mistakenly, that without a psak from a beis din that a person is a moser for going to the police. However the beis din system is incompetent and impotent.

Bizarrely the beis din that Lakewood had to deal with child abuse has been disbanded. Mickey Rottenberg claims that he was told to disband it because it was too sensitive to the claims of the victims. He said in an interview with Jewish Week 12/06/11 that he was told to do this by Rav Malkiel Kotler. However Rav Malkiel Kotler denies the truth of this statement. So who is running Lakewood - Rav Malkiel Kotler or Mickey Rottenberg? Apparently the Lakewood rabbis are too embarrassed or chicken to answer that question.

In sum, Lakewood is a society that while giving lip service to halacha is in fact concerned with one thing - the fear of being called a sheigetz.
13 Comments
we hate NJCA
7/9/2013 03:29:05 pm

mICKEY DOES WHATEVER HE WANTS

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Putz
7/9/2013 09:01:19 pm

Welcome to Fakewood,where molesters are Welcome and praised by our wise leaders. If you're a VICTIM,we'll gladly destroy you,cause we don't have a clue what you're going thru and we don't care,cause we have an Image to Maintain.BIG Yeshiva,,even BIGGER GAIIVAH. To hell with the many Lost Jewish teenagers.(many are Rosh Yeshiva's kids) just keep sweeping them under the Rug and give them Dirty looks(instead of a warm and real Hello)Can't wait,,summer is here and the "SELECTION" process has begun to try and get a Holy Jewish child into the so called elite schools of Fakewood. A . process of PURE HELL for many families.Yes, a Makom Torah with a level of GAIIVAH that keeps growing. Image is everything!

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sushi
7/10/2013 06:03:24 am

this article brings up some points but it is so terribly written that it's almost impossible to read. can someone with a better command of the written word write something better please?

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sushi
7/10/2013 06:05:37 am

if Lakewood's excuse is a fear of being called sheigitz, what is y.u.'s excuse?

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Yerachmiel Lopin link
7/11/2013 04:17:54 am

The excuse is the same as every other institution. We do wonderful things so why hurt the reputation. Then everyone who is party to the cover-up has to join in on the next one and the next one.

There is a difference. People complaining about YU don't have to move out of town and dont get thrown out of town and out of yeshivas.

If you want another way to to look at Lakewood, see my post: "How the Rabbis In Chelm Solved the Problem of the Stolen Money" http://wp.me/pFbfD-1gi IT is really a Kelm story.

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sushi
7/11/2013 11:08:58 am

the difference is that norman lamm himself admits he knew about the molestors and actively covered it up for years while keeping them on the staff of his own institution to molest more of his own students.

What?
7/10/2013 08:19:39 am

Since When is Rav Malkiel of the opinion that there is to much sensitivity towards victims in Lakewood, He had no problem allowing Moshe and Kayla Bursztyn on Park ave To Go To secular Court and Press Charges having their Tennent arrested Becaused They Claimed He "Harrassed Them" By owing them Money and Insulting Them

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chickendoodie
11/30/2016 11:45:32 pm

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Yoeli Satmarar
7/10/2013 08:22:50 am

IN Satmar They Say Sheigetz Arois!!

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putz
7/10/2013 10:56:52 pm

Check out today's Forward and see the results of the FRUM world's (Lakewood,YU,Satmar....)version of THERAPY for Pedophiles. Why just simply send them off to another Yeshiva (out of town) and repress and ignore the Victims! Most Pedophiles are NEVER cured and they'll go on and rape our children. Thank you oh wise leaders for that brilliant therapy technique. They must have received pointers from the Vatican

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uncle yankl
4/29/2014 12:46:19 am

F'shamesech!

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Lakewood
10/20/2017 03:19:10 am

Kayla Bursztyn nee: Friedman recently Received Her Religious Get Divorce From Her Husband Moshe Yehuda Bursztyn after a Prolonged Three Year battle

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Rm
12/12/2021 07:05:54 am

Mickey Rottenberg defends child abusers. He stands up for them and is never on the side of victims. He loves defending molesters and child abusers. No one should ever got to this Rasha for help or advice. And definitely keep your kids away from him!

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