Further heart-rending, stomach-churning sexual harassment allegations emerged last week about Chaim Halpern, a Charedi rabbi from Golders Green. On Israeli television, a young woman courageously came forward with an alleged recording of Halpern’s advances and efforts at intimidation. Halpern maintains his innocence and says that the recording is someone impersonating him. It has been nearly…
DetailsA Jewish teacher accused of molesting two teenage girls described one alleged victim’s tearful courtroom description of an attack in a Jacuzzi as “pure fiction”.
Police Commissioner Roni Alsheich has told his anticorruption chief he can keep his job because no basis was found to further investigate claims of sexual harassment against him.
Maj. Gen. Roni Ritman, the head of the Israel Police’s Lahav 433 anti-fraud unit, was identified Sunday as the senior police officer suspected of sexual misconduct.
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem is dealing with two complaints by female students of sexual harassment by a senior member of the faculty, according to a report on Channel 10 news on Monday.
Additional charges were filed against Rabbi Menachem Chinn on May 2 in Mercer County after the second accuser, now an adult, told authorities that Chinn had inappropriate sexual contact with him between July 2010 and May 2011, the New Jersey Jewish News reported.
An adult bar mitzvah guest pleaded not guilty in Arizona to charges on actions including exposing her breasts to underage boys.
Police said Sunday that Yaakov Tanami, a gym teacher from the West Bank settlement of Karnei Shomron, was suspected of sexually assaulting some of his students, children no older than 14. So far police have received five complaints about Tanami. At a remand hearing, the Petah Tikva Magistrate’s Court permitted the publication of Tanami’s name…
DetailsA Brooklyn rabbi accused of sexually assaulting several teenage boys was sentenced on Tuesday to 60 days in jail and six years on probation.
Santa Monica Police Detectives are seeking information or additional victims in connection with the arrest of Rabbi Sholom Doyber Levitansky.
