The Brooklyn DA’s Vindictive Prosecution of a Hasidic Whistle Blower Is Falling Apart

In March I wrote, “Hynes delivers scalps to Hasidim, just the wrong ones.” I pointed out that he usually goes easy on Hasidic molesters, but viciously, and unjustifiably, went after Samuel Kellner, a Hasid who helped bring forward witnesses against molesters. Kellner was accused of attempting to extort Baruch (Mordechai) Lebovits’s son Meyer to pay him or otherwise his father would be falsely accused of molesting two boys. The weaknesses in the District Attorney’s case were exposed by the Jewish Week’s Hella Winston in January.

Hella Winston dropped another bombshell today. Some time back an individual approached the Office of the DA with evidence that would exonerate Kellner. The Rackets Bureau refused to hear the story. However this person was in contact the DA’s main witness against Kellner and tape recorded their interactions. From the tapes and other evidence it is clear that this young man who gave grand jury testimony against Lebovits was indeed a victim of Lebovits, he shared his story with a number of witnesses years before he pressed charges. Then he  was  intimidated and bribed by agents of Baruch Lebovits to retract his story and instead lie and testify to a grand jury that Kellner got him to fabricate charges against Lebovits.

In effect, there is a compelling case for arresting

What Belsky Is Saying to the Orthodox Union

Sources inside the Orthodox Union (OU) tell me that Rabbi Yisroel Belsky still insists that Yosef Kolko is innocent. He even concedes that the additional victims who came forward to the prosecutor may have been telling the truth. However, he claims that Yosef Kolko was below the age of bar mitzvah when he groomed and sexually assaulted the other two victims. Hence, Rabbi Belsky insists, their stories are irrelevant to whether he is guilty of molesting children as an adult. Naturally, the seer, Rabbi Belsky, knows that Yosef Kolko should be believed when he privately denies molesting the Lakewood boy even though he pled guilty to all seven charges in open court.

For argument’s sake, I am going to concede Belsky’s factual claims about the other two victims so I can focus on his clumsy reasoning.

The alleged pattern suggests that Yosef Kolko was himself molested when he was a boy. Kids below puberty almost never act out sexually unless someone models this behavior for them, usually by molesting them. The most likely candidate is his Uncle Yehuda (Joel) Kolko. Yosef Kolko grew up just blocks away from his uncle.

Measles Outbreak in Boro Park and Williamsburg Among the Unvaccinated

The New York City Department of Health issued a Health Alert (#12 5/21/13) which is reproduced on Failed Messiah which includes the following:

34 cases of measles have occurred in Borough Park and Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Additional cases will likely occur, because a large number of children and adults have been exposed to infectious cases……

The measles outbreak in Brooklyn is continuing to grow. Additional suspected cases are being investigated.

All cases are part of the Orthodox Jewish community and were unvaccinated at the time of exposure, including 5 cases too young to have been vaccinated, 23 cases who refused vaccine, and 6 cases whose vaccines were delayed. Cases range in age from 0 to 32 years (median 7 years), including 5 infants, 21 children, and 8 adults.

Complications have included pneumonia, a miscarriage, and two hospitalizations.

Helen Keller on Nazi Book Burnings

Slate Magazine’s Rebecca Onion reports on Helen Keller’s letter to German students after learning of their plans to burn books including her own, How I Became a Socialist. Highlights of the letter include,

History has taught you nothing if you think you can kill ideas. Tyrants have tried to do that often before, and the ideas have risen up in their might and destroyed them.You can burn my books and the books of the best minds in Europe, but the ideas in them have seeped through a million channels and will continue to quicken other minds……

Do not imagine that your barbarities to the Jews are unknown here.

What Happens When You Put Weberman and Yegutkin in One Cell?

Convicted ultra orthodox child molesters Nechemya Weberman and Emanuel Yegutkin are both in the NYS Shawangunk Correctional Facility, one of the few in the system with a sex offender program. It is conceivable that they share a cell.

This got me thinking about the possibilities for a playwright or script writer or even a novelist.  Picture them sharing a cell.

Rabbi Yisroel Belsky Also Covered Up for Molester Lipa Brenner

A comment submitted by jewishwhistleblower (JWB) points to a 2006 UOJ tidbit that Belsky covered up for Lipa Brenner. JWB wrote,

UOJ has reported in the past on Rabbi Belsky’s protection of Rabbi Lippa/Lipa/Lewis Brenner a now convicted and confessed pedophile:

Rav Yisroel Belsky Psak on the Kolko Puffs Cereal Factory (SATIRE)

I can assure you that the Kolko Puffs factory is 100% kosher. I talked to the owner and I can tell that the owner, a Torah Vodaas musmach (ordained rabbi), is trustworthy. This is not a question of negius (conflict of interest). The fact that the owner, Mr Rechtig, is my son-in-law and a big baal tzedakah who donates to my yeshiva did not and would not affect my judgement. I say this with same certainty that there were no negius when I kashered the Dohanyi Butcher scandal in California. It was completely unrelated to the fact that Mr. Rechtig bought the disgraced business at a bargain basement price and resold it weeks later. It was done by him lisheim shomayim (for the sake of heaven). I can assure you I have no idea of the exact price at which he resold the business which now had a good hashgachah (kosher certification).

Yudel NishtSheyn claims that someone saw a trailer of unapproved ingredients delivered to the factory. What chutzpah! The OU refers to me as rav hagaon (The sage rabbi), something they don’t even say about Rabbi Hershel Schachter