Jun 30, 2010

The Iranian Threat, by Noam Chomsky

A very coherent warning and a lucid explanation of the US plans about Iran by Noam Chomsky

The Iranian Threat

Monday, June 28, 2010

The dire threat of Iran is widely recognized to be the most serious foreign policy crisis facing the Obama administration. Congress has just strengthened the sanctions against Iran, with even more severe penalties against foreign companies. The Obama administration has been rapidly expanding its offensive capacity in the African island of Diego Garcia, claimed by Britain, which had expelled the population so that the US could build the massive base it uses for attacking the Middle East and Central Asia. The Navy reports sending a submarine tender to the island to service nuclear-powered guided-missile submarines with Tomahawk missiles, which can carry nuclear warheads. Each submarine is reported to have the striking power of a typical carrier battle group. According to a US Navy cargo manifest obtained by the Sunday Herald (Glasgow), the substantial military equipment Obama has dispatched includes 387 "bunker busters" used for blasting hardened underground structures. Planning for these "massive ordnance penetrators," the most powerful bombs in the arsenal short of nuclear weapons, was initiated in the Bush administration, but languished. On taking office, Obama immediately accelerated the plans, and they are to be deployed several years ahead of schedule, aiming specifically at Iran.

"They are gearing up totally for the destruction of Iran," according to Dan Plesch, director of the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy at the University of London. "US bombers and long range missiles are ready today to destroy 10,000 targets in Iran in a few hours," he said. "The firepower of US forces has quadrupled since 2003," accelerating under Obama.

The Arab press reports that an American fleet (with an Israeli vessel) passed through the Suez Canal on the way to the Persian Gulf, where its task is "to implement the sanctions against Iran and supervise the ships going to and from Iran." British and Israeli media report that Saudi Arabia is providing a corridor for Israeli bombing of Iran (denied by Saudi Arabia). On his return from Afghanistan to reassure NATO allies that the US will stay the course after the replacement of General McChrystal by his superior, General Petraeus, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Michael Mullen visited Israel to meet Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi and senior Israeli military staff along with intelligence and planning units, continuing the annual strategic dialogue between Israel and the U.S. in Tel Aviv. The meeting focused "on the preparation by both Israel and the U.S. for the possibility of a nuclear capable Iran," according to Haaretz, which reports further that Mullen emphasized that "I always try to see challenges from Israeli perspective." Mullen and Ashkenazi are in regular contact on a secure line.

The increasing threats of military action against Iran are of course in violation of the UN Charter, and in specific violation of Security Council resolution 1887 of September 2009 which reaffirmed the call to all states to resolve disputes related to nuclear issues peacefully, in accordance with the Charter, which bans the use or threat of force.

Some respected analysts describe the Iranian threat in apocalyptic terms. Amitai Etzioni warns that "The U.S. will have to confront Iran or give up the Middle East," no less. If Iran's nuclear program proceeds, he asserts, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and other states will "move toward" the new Iranian "superpower"; in less fevered rhetoric, a regional alliance might take shape independent of the US. In the US army journal Military Review, Etzioni urges a US attack that targets not only Iran's nuclear facilities but also its non-nuclear military assets, including infrastructure – meaning, the civilian society. "This kind of military action is akin to sanctions - causing 'pain' in order to change behaviour, albeit by much more powerful means."

Such harrowing pronouncements aside, what exactly is the Iranian threat? An authoritative answer is provided in the April 2010 study of the International Institute of Strategic Studies, Military Balance 2010. The brutal clerical regime is doubtless a threat to its own people, though it does not rank particularly high in that respect in comparison to US allies in the region. But that is not what concerns the Institute. Rather, it is concerned with the threat Iran poses to the region and the world.

The study makes it clear that the Iranian threat is not military. Iran's military spending is "relatively low compared to the rest of the region," and less than 2% that of the US. Iranian military doctrine is strictly "defensive,… designed to slow an invasion and force a diplomatic solution to hostilities." Iran has only "a limited capability to project force beyond its borders." With regard to the nuclear option, "Iran's nuclear program and its willingness to keep open the possibility of developing nuclear weapons is a central part of its deterrent strategy."

Though the Iranian threat is not military, that does not mean that it might be tolerable to Washington. Iranian deterrent capacity is an illegitimate exercise of sovereignty that interferes with US global designs. Specifically, it threatens US control of Middle East energy resources, a high priority of planners since World War II, which yields "substantial control of the world," one influential figure advised (A. A. Berle).

But Iran's threat goes beyond deterrence. It is also seeking to expand its influence. As the Institute study formulates the threat, Iran is "destabilizing" the region. US invasion and military occupation of Iran's neighbors is "stabilization." Iran's efforts to extend its influence in neighboring countries is "destabilization," hence plainly illegitimate. It should be noted that such revealing usage is routine. Thus the prominent foreign policy analyst James Chace, former editor the main establishment journal Foreign Affairs, was properly using the term "stability" in its technical sense when he explained that in order to achieve "stability" in Chile it was necessary to "destabilize" the country (by overthrowing the elected Allende government and installing the Pinochet dictatorship).

Beyond these crimes, Iran is also supporting terrorism, the study continues: by backing Hezbollah and Hamas, the major political forces in Lebanon and in Palestine – if elections matter. The Hezbollah-based coalition handily won the popular vote in Lebanon's latest (2009) election. Hamas won the 2006 Palestinian election, compelling the US and Israel to institute the harsh and brutal siege of Gaza to punish the miscreants for voting the wrong way in a free election. These have been the only relatively free elections in the Arab world. It is normal for elite opinion to fear the threat of democracy and to act to deter it, but this is a rather striking case, particularly alongside of strong US support for the regional dictatorships, particularly striking with Obama's strong praise for the brutal Egyptian dictator Mubarak on the way to his famous address to the Muslim world in Cairo.

The terrorist acts attributed to Hamas and Hezbollah pale in comparison to US-Israeli terrorism in the same region, but they are worth a look nevertheless.

On May 25 Lebanon celebrated its national holiday, Liberation Day, commemorating Israel's withdrawal from southern Lebanon after 22 years, as a result of Hezbollah resistance – described by Israeli authorities as "Iranian aggression" against Israel in Israeli-occupied Lebanon (Ephraim Sneh). That too is normal imperial usage. Thus President John F. Kennedy condemned the "the assault from the inside, and which is manipulated from the North." The assault by the South Vietnamese resistance against Kennedy's bombers, chemical warfare, driving peasants to virtual concentration camps, and other such benign measures was denounced as "internal aggression" by Kennedy's UN Ambassador, liberal hero Adlai Stevenson. North Vietnamese support for their countrymen in the US-occupied South is aggression, intolerable interference with Washington's righteous mission. Kennedy advisors Arthur Schlesinger and Theodore Sorenson, considered doves, also praised Washington's intervention to reverse "aggression" in South Vietnam – by the indigenous resistance, as they knew, at least if they read US intelligence reports. In 1955 the US Joint Chiefs of Staff defined several types of "aggression," including "Aggression other than armed, i.e., political warfare, or subversion." For example, an internal uprising against a US-imposed police state, or elections that come out the wrong way. The usage is also common in scholarship and political commentary, and makes sense on the prevailing assumption that We Own the World.

Hamas resists Israel's military occupation and its illegal and violent actions in the occupied territories. It is accused of refusing to recognize Israel (political parties do not recognize states). In contrast, the US and Israel not only do not recognize Palestine, but have been acting for decades to ensure that it can never come into existence in any meaningful form; the governing party in Israel, in its 1999 campaign platform, bars the existence of any Palestinian state.

Hamas is charged with rocketing Israeli settlements on the border, criminal acts no doubt, though a fraction of Israel's violence in Gaza, let alone elsewhere. It is important to bear in mind, in this connection, that the US and Israel know exactly how to terminate the terror that they deplore with such passion. Israel officially concedes that there were no Hamas rockets as long as Israel partially observed a truce with Hamas in 2008. Israel rejected Hamas's offer to renew the truce, preferring to launch the murderous and destructive Operation Cast Lead against Gaza in December 2008, with full US backing, an exploit of murderous aggression without the slightest credible pretext on either legal or moral grounds.

The model for democracy in the Muslim world, despite serious flaws, is Turkey, which has relatively free elections, and has also been subject to harsh criticism in the US. The most extreme case was when the government followed the position of 95% of the population and refused to join in the invasion of Iraq, eliciting harsh condemnation from Washington for its failure to comprehend how a democratic government should behave: under our concept of democracy, the voice of the Master determines policy, not the near-unanimous voice of the population.

The Obama administration was once again incensed when Turkey joined with Brazil in arranging a deal with Iran to restrict its enrichment of uranium. Obama had praised the initiative in a letter to Brazil's president Lula da Silva, apparently on the assumption that it would fail and provide a propaganda weapon against Iran. When it succeeded, the US was furious, and quickly undermined it by ramming through a Security Council resolution with new sanctions against Iran that were so meaningless that China cheerfully joined at once – recognizing that at most the sanctions would impede Western interests in competing with China for Iran's resources. Once again, Washington acted forthrightly to ensure that others would not interfere with US control of the region.

Not surprisingly, Turkey (along with Brazil) voted against the US sanctions motion in the Security Council. The other regional member, Lebanon, abstained. These actions aroused further consternation in Washington. Philip Gordon, the Obama administration's top diplomat on European affairs, warned Turkey that its actions are not understood in the US and that it must "demonstrate its commitment to partnership with the West," AP reported, "a rare admonishment of a crucial NATO ally."

The political class understands as well. Steven A. Cook, a scholar with the Council on Foreign Relations, observed that the critical question now is "How do we keep the Turks in their lane?" – following orders like good democrats. A New York Times headline captured the general mood: "Iran Deal Seen as Spot on Brazilian Leader's Legacy." In brief, do what we say, or else.

There is no indication that other countries in the region favor US sanctions any more than Turkey does. On Iran's opposite border, for example, Pakistan and Iran, meeting in Turkey, recently signed an agreement for a new pipeline. Even more worrisome for the US is that the pipeline might extend to India. The 2008 US treaty with India supporting its nuclear programs – and indirectly its nuclear weapons programs -- was intended to stop India from joining the pipeline, according to Moeed Yusuf, a South Asia adviser to the United States Institute of Peace, expressing a common interpretation. India and Pakistan are two of the three nuclear powers that have refused to sign the Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT), the third being Israel. All have developed nuclear weapons with US support, and still do.

No sane person wants Iran to develop nuclear weapons; or anyone. One obvious way to mitigate or eliminate this threat is to establish a NFWZ in the Middle East. The issue arose (again) at the NPT conference at United Nations headquarters in early May 2010. Egypt, as chair of the 118 nations of the Non-Aligned Movement, proposed that the conference back a plan calling for the start of negotiations in 2011 on a Middle East NWFZ, as had been agreed by the West, including the US, at the 1995 review conference on the NPT.

Washington still formally agrees, but insists that Israel be exempted – and has given no hint of allowing such provisions to apply to itself. The time is not yet ripe for creating the zone, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stated at the NPT conference, while Washington insisted that no proposal can be accepted that calls for Israel's nuclear program to be placed under the auspices of the IAEA or that calls on signers of the NPT, specifically Washington, to release information about "Israeli nuclear facilities and activities, including information pertaining to previous nuclear transfers to Israel." Obama's technique of evasion is to adopt Israel's position that any such proposal must be conditional on a comprehensive peace settlement, which the US can delay indefinitely, as it has been doing for 35 years, with rare and temporary exceptions.

At the same time, Yukiya Amano, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, asked foreign ministers of its 151 member states to share views on how to implement a resolution demanding that Israel "accede to" the NPT and throw its nuclear facilities open to IAEA oversight, AP reported.

It is rarely noted that the US and UK have a special responsibility to work to establish a Middle East NWFZ. In attempting to provide a thin legal cover for their invasion of the Iraq in 2003, they appealed to Security Council Resolution 687 (1991), which called on Iraq to terminate its development of weapons of mass destruction. The US and UK claimed that they had not done so. We need not tarry on the excuse, but that Resolution commits its signers to move to establish a NWFZ in the Middle East.

Parenthetically, we may add that US insistence on maintaining nuclear facilities in Diego Garcia undermines the nuclear-free weapons zone (NFWZ) established by the African Union, just as Washington continues to block a Pacific NFWZ by excluding its Pacific dependencies.

Obama's rhetorical commitment to non-proliferation has received much praise, even a Nobel peace prize. One practical step in this direction is establishment of NFWZs. Another is withdrawing support for the nuclear programs of the three non-signers of the NPT. As often, rhetoric and actions are hardly aligned, in fact are in direct contradiction in this case, facts that pass with little attention.

Instead of taking practical steps towards reducing the truly dire threat of nuclear weapons proliferation, the US must take major steps towards reinforcing US control of the vital Middle East oil-producing regions, by violence if other means do not succeed. That is understandable and even reasonable, under prevailing imperial doctrine.

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Dalton's Holocaust Radio Debate on April 24, 2010:

http://www.americanfreedomradio.com/Barrett_10.html

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Jun 29, 2010

Book about killing gentile children becomes bestseller in Israel

» Book about killing gentile children becomes bestseller in Israel

Book about killing gentile children becomes bestseller in Israel

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM – A Jewish rabbi has issued a book giving Jews permission to murder non-Jews, including babies and children, who may pose an actual or potential threat to Jews or Israel. "It is permissible to kill the Righteous among non-Jews even if they are not responsible for the threatening situation," Rabbi Yitzhak Shapiro, who heads the Od Yosef Chai Yeshiva in the Yitzhar settlement in the occupied West Bank, wrote in his book "The King's Torah."
He argues that goyem (a derogatory epithet for non-Jews) may be killed if they threaten Israel.
"If we kill a Gentile who has sinned or has violated one of the seven commandments – because we care about the commandments – there is nothing wrong with the murder."

Rabbi Yitzhak Shapiro – co-author of the book

Shapiro, who heads a small Talmudic school at the settlement of Yitzhar near Nablus, claims his edict "is fully justified by the Torah and the Talmud."
The anti-goyem edict seems to come in response to the arrest by Israeli police of a Jewish terrorist who has confessed to having murdered two Palestinian shepherds in the West Bank.
The terrorist, an American-born immigrant named Yaakov Teitel, also confessed to have tried to assassinate leftist Jewish figures.
Police considered the arrest an important achievement in combating Jewish terrorism, which experts contend thrives on religious edicts issued by rabbis affiliated with the religious-Zionist camp.
Nearly 16 years ago, a Jewish terrorist named Yigal Amir assassinated then Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin.
Moreover, numerous innocent Palestinians have also been murdered in cold blood by Jewish terrorists.
In 1994, Baruch Goldstein, a notorious Jewish terrorist, murdered 29 Muslim worshipers inside Al-Ibrahimi Mosque in the West Bank town of al-Khalil.
Non-Humans
The controversial edict is backed by numerous rabbis affiliated with the so-called national-religious camp as well as the Talmudic seminary in West Jerusalem, known as Merkaz Ha'rav.
Among the rabbis who have publicly supported the edict are Yitzhak Ginsburg and Ya'akov Yosef.
Ginsburg had written a leaflet glorifying murderer Goldstein and called him a "saintly figure."
Shapiro's views on how Palestinians and non-Jews in general ought to be treated according to Jewish religious law (halacha) are widely looked at as representing the mainstream not the exception in Israel.
During the Israeli onslaught against Gaza earlier this year, Mordecahi Elyahu, one of the leading rabbinic figures in Israel, urged the army not to refrain from killing enemy children in order to save the lives of Israeli soldiers.
He had even petitioned the Israeli government to carry out a series of carpet bombing of Palestinian population centers in Gaza.
"If they don't stop after we kill 100, then we must kill a thousand. And if they do not stop after we kill a thousand, then we must kill 10,000. If they still don't stop, we must kill 100,000, even a million. Whatever it takes to stop them."
According to Israel Shahak, author of "Jewish History, Jewish Religion: the Weight of Three Thousand years," the term "human beings" in Jewish law refers solely to Jews.
Many Jewish orthodox rabbis, especially within the national-religious sector, view international conventions incriminating the deliberate killing of civilians and destruction of civilian homes and property as representing "Christian morals" not binding on Jews.
In 2006, the Rabbinic Council of Jewish Settlements in the West Bank urged the army "to ignore Christian morals and exterminate the enemy in the north (Lebanon) and the south (Gaza Strip).
Such manifestly racist and hateful edicts don't raise many eyebrows in Israel, neither among the intelligentsia nor in the society at large.

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CIA wanted to make a fake Saddam gay pedophile tape

In the annals of CIA subterfuge, this is a weird one: A special ops unit pitched the idea of trying to discredit Saddam Hussein as a gay pedophile before the 2003 invasion, reports the Washington Post. The idea was to create a phony home video purporting to show Saddam having sex with a teenage boy. Superiors eventually shot it down,...

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BBC E-mail: US funds 'reach Afghan warlords'

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Tikun Olam : Border Policeman Admits Shooting Jilani at Point Blank Range, U.S. Consulate Offers Widow Little Help

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June 28, 2010 11:08 PM

Border Policeman Admits Shooting Jilani at Point Blank Range, U.S. Consulate Offers Widow Little Help

Ziad Jilani after shooting by Israel Border Police (Maan Images)

NOTE: I apologize to readers for posting such a graphic image here. I do not normally do so. But under the circumstances I do not want to cover this story without people seeing what really happened to Ziad Jilani.

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Cases of Clergy Abuse (that are not famous)...

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There is a constant stream of new cases @

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Cases of Clergy Abuse

Shatnez Checker and child molester (Rabbi) Yehuda Nussbaum, still has access to boys in Yeshiva Of Brooklyn

Case of Rabbi Elior Chen

Rabbi Elior Chen and his followers are suspected of severely abusing two children, aged 3 and 4, who were savagely and systematically beaten with hammers, knives and other instruments for months until the younger child lost consciousness last month.

Rabbi Jerry Brauner (AKA: Yechiel Brauner)

Convicted on the charges of Sexual Abuse - 1st Degree, and Sexual Abuse - 3rd: Subject Another Person to Sex Contact Without Consent. He was sentenced to 11 years probation, with the condition he must participate in a sex offender treatment program. Brauner has been on probation since 2002 for the sexual abuse of a 15-year-old boy.

Case of Rabbi Ephraim F. Shapiro

Accused of molesting several boys for over a fifty year period.

Case of Shlomo Aviner

Rosh Yeshiva, Ateret Cohanim Yeshiva,
Rabbi of Beit El, Israel Link

Case of Rabbi Lewis Brenner

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.

Case of Rabbi Ephraim Bryks

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.

Case of Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach

Accused of several cases of child molestation, and sexual assault of young women

Case of Rabbi/Cantor Sidney Goldenberg

Accused of abusing a 12-year-old girl. He later pleaded no contest to one count. Convicted of molesting children. The first complaints came in 1971. He was finally convicted in 1997.

Case of Rabbi Bernard Freilich

Acquitted of death threats to an alleged victim

Case of Rabbi Tzvi Flaum

Case of Cantor Joel Gordon

Convicted of having keeping a house of prostitution and involvement in a prostitution ring.

Case of Rabbi Israel Grunwald

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.

Case of The State of Israel Vs. Sex Offender

Convicted of repeated rape and forced molestation of his graddaughter.

Case of Yehudah Friedlander - Rabbi 's Assistant

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

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.

Case of Rabbi Solomon Hafner

Accused of sexually abusing a developmentally disabled boy

Case of Rabbi Alan J. Shneur Horowitz

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.

Case of Rabbi Steven Jacobs

Case of Jacob Frank and the Frankist Movement

Accused of cultic type practices and sexual offenses

Case of Rabbi Israel Kestenbaum

Accused of child pornography on the internet

Case of Rabbi Steven Kaplan

Had an affair with a married woman, who was murdered

Rabbi Yehuda Kolko

...continues chaperoning kids.

Case of Rabbi Robert Kirschner

Accused of sexually exploited or harassing three congregants and a synagogue employee

Case of Rabbi Ze'ev Kopolevitch

Convicted of molesting students at Rosh Yeshiva, Netiv Meir yeshiva high school

Case of Rabbi Baruch Lanner

Convicted - child molestation.

Case of Rabbi Jerrold Martin Levy

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.

Case of Rabbi Pinchas Lew

Accused of exposed himself to a woman.

Case of Rabbi Richard Marcovitz

Convicted of indecent or lewd acts with a child, and sexual battery

Case of Rabbi Juda Mintz

Convicted - internet sting on child pornography

Case of Rabbi/Psychologist - Avrohom Mondrowitz

Accused of two counts of sex abuse with boys at a special education school in New York

Case of Cantor Howard Nevison

Accused of molesting his nephew.

Case of Rabbi Michael Ozair

Accused of sexual molestation of a then-14-year-old girl

Case of Rabbi Charles Shalman

Accused of sexual misconduct toward female congregational members

Case of Cantor Robert Shapiro

Accused of three counts of rape and four counts of indecent assault and battery to a mentally retarded woman

Case of Rabbi/Yeshiva Teacher Ze'ev Sultanovitch

Accused of sexually molesting a number of adult yeshiva students at the Merkaz Harav Yeshiva

Case of Rabbi Matis Weinberg

Accused of cultic type practices and sexual offenses

Case of Rabbi Yaakov Weiner

Accused of molesting boy at Camp Mogen Avraham, New York

Case of Cantor Phillip Wittlin

Convicted of molesting two girls

Case of Rabbi Mordechai Yomtov

Convicted of sexual abuse and committing lewd acts against three boys

Case of Rabbi Sheldon Zimmerman

Violated guidelines concerning "sexual ethics and sexual boundaries"

Case of Rabbi Max Zucker

Accused by three women of improperly touching

Case of Rabbi David Weinberger

Case of Rabbi Fred Neulander

Convicted of Murdering his wife

Case of Rabbi Mordechai Gafni

WARNING: Marc Gafni Should Be Scene As A Danger to Women and Children. He is currently residing in Salt Lake City, UT

Case Rabbi Perry Ian Cohen

Montreal and Toronto Canada Accused of sexual abuse of a seventeen year old. Fired for sexual impropriety with congregants

Case of Rabbi Yitzchak Cohen

Accused of sexually harassing students at Bar-Ilan University

Case of Rabbi/Psychologist Mordecai Magencey

Lost his license to practice in the State of Missouri because of his sexual misconduct with his patients.

Rabbi Yona Metzger

Chief Rabbi Ashkenazi in Israel. Accused of sexually misconduct with four men.

Case of Cantor Stanley Rosenfeld

Convicted of molesting a 12-year-old boy he was tutoring.

Case of Rabbi Isadore Trachtman

Accused of cultic type practices and sexual offenses

Case of Rabbi Don Well

Note: The following cases are missing the links to their sources. If you can provide such links, please send them to webmaster@iamthewitness.com.

Case of Rabbi Hirsch Travis

Rabbi in Monsey, accused of posing as a Brooklyn doctor specializing in infertility problems, and allegedly sexually abusing and assaulting a patient. Charged with the sexual abuse of an unidentified 27-year-old female patient. He was also charged with posing as a Brooklyn doctor specializing in infertility problems, and illegally operating the Fertility Foundation in the Borough Park section of Brooklyn.

Case of Rabbi Ephraim Goldberg - Boca Raton, Flordia

Pled guilty to one misdemeanor count of exposure of sexual organs in a washroom at a Palm Beach Mall.

Case of Rabbi Melvin Teitelbaum

This case has been buried deep; it is virtually impossible to find any information on Teitelbaum on the Internet. All we have is this: Accused of three counts of sex crimes against two boys under the age of 14, and one count of assault with intent to commit rape against one boy's mother. The charges were dropped for lack of evidence. 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.

Cases of Other Trusted Officals Parents, Teachers, Camp Counselors, etc.

Case of Lewis K. Cohen

Convicted after being charged with using a computer to facilitate a child sex crime and child enticement-exposing sex organs. Cohen used his work and home computers to engage in sexually explicit conversations with a 14-year-old boy in Internet chat rooms. The complaint also charges that Cohen sent nude photographs of himself and other males to the boy via e-mail.

Case of Cantor Michael Segelstein

Accused of attempted rape; Chabad - Las Vegas, Nevada.

Case of Ohel Counselor - Simcha Adler, NY

Plea-bargained charges of sodomy, sexual abuse and two counts of endangering the welfare of a child down to attempted sodomy.

Case of Arie Adler and Marisa Rimland, NY

Arie Adler was accused of molesting his daughter. Marisa Rimland murdered her daughter, and then committed suicide.

Case of School Counselor - Eugene Loub Aronin, TX

Convicted in 1984 of sexually assaulting a 10-year-old boy

Case of School Teacher - Lawrence Cohen, NJ

Convicted and sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for transmitting child pornography through his home computer.

Case of School Principal/Big Brother- David B. Harrington, Rockville, MD

Convicted sex offender. Cases from the 1960's - 1980's.

Case of State of Israel Vs. a Sex Offender

Convicted - 68 year old Israeli religious man pled guilty to repeated molestation of his granddaughter, was sentenced to 19 years in jail.

Case of Jewish Big Brother Volunteer - Eric Hindin, Newton, MA

Convicted of 35 counts of child rape. He was sentenced to 20-22 years in prison.

Case of Judge Ronald Kline, CA

Accused of possessing child pornography and for allegedly molesting a neighborhood boy 25 years ago.

Case of the Kosher Butcher in Chicago

Accused of molesting children for over 30 years

Case of the New York Society for the Deaf's Home

Accused of treating disabled patients "like animals,'' beaten, drugged and robbed of their government checks.

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.

Case of Teacher/Track Coach/Girl Scout Coordinator - Adam Theodore Rubin, MD

Accused of using a computer to solicit sex with a minor, possession of a controlled dangerous substance and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Case of Teacher - Georges Schteinberg, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Accused of possession of child pornography. Charges dropped when Schteinberg fled the country.

Israeli vice-consul Aryeh Scher - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Accused of possession of child pornography. Charges dropped when Scher fled the country.

Case of Camp Counselor - David Schwartz, 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.

Case of Scoutmaster - Jerrold Schwartz, NY

Convicted and sentanced to 8 years in prison for multiple counts of sodomizing his former scout .

Case of Tel Aviv Arts School, Tel Aviv, Israel

Case of Mashgiach Kashrut Supervisor David Douglas Webber, Canada

Convicted and sentenced to six years for possessing child pornography and molesting seven boys over the past eight years.

Case of B'Nai Torah Congregation - Hillel Community Day School janitor, Boca Raton, FL

Accused of child molestation

Case of Chaim Ciment

Accused and charged with first-degree sexual abuse, after allegations were made that he fondled a 17 year old girl in an elevator. Link

Case of James A. Cohen - Jewish Youth Group Leader

Convicted child molester, sentenced to 9 years for assaulting 4 boys

Case of Stuart Cooperman, MD - Pediatrican, Merrick, New York

Accused of molesting six female patience.

Case of Delaware Family

Father accused of alleged child molestation

Case of Mordechai Morton Ehrman - Simcha's Play Group, Brooklyn, NY

Accused of molesting dozens of students. Link

Case of Hbrandon Lee Flagner

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.

Case of Ari Sorkin - Synagogue Youth Worker, Elkins Park, PA

Accused of molesting a 16 yr. old girl.

Case of Paul Slifer - Teacher

Arrigned on six counts of aggravated sexual assault, four counts of aggravated sexual contact, and two counts of endangering the welfare of a minor.

Case of Ozzie Orbach, M.D.

Accused of molesting his daughter.

Case of Arnold and Jesse Friedman

Capturing the Friedmans Convicted sex offender.

Case of Richard "Steven" Goldberg

Allegedly engaging in sex acts with several girls under 10 in California. He is on the FBI's ten most wanted fugitives list.

Case of Ross Goldstein

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.