The trial of Malka Leifer, a former Haredi girls’ school principal accused of sexually abusing her students in Melbourne, commenced on Tuesday. Several preliminary hearings had earlier been held, and a Melbourne court deemed Leifer fit to stand trial. But it took until last September to set the Tuesday opening hearing session, which focused on…
A sexual assault victim claims that Orthodox rabbis offered her cash on behalf of her abuser after she turned to them for help. The young woman, who says she was assaulted from the age of 13, told the JC that she viewed the offer as “hush money”. She claims that one of the rabbis who…
The Metropolitan Police has confirmed to Jewish News that an investigation, opened in December into allegations of sexual abuse by Golders Green rabbi Chaim Halpern against a young London woman, has now been closed. The 21-year-old woman took part in a Channel 12 Israeli TV programme in mid-November 2022. She told the TV journalists that Rabbi Chaim Halpern had…
Where is my baby?Where is your baby?Where is my friends’ baby? Are you related or familiar with that question? Where you told story’s that never you happened? Have thy given you hope that never came true? Have thy made you say things, what you would never say? Made promises? Made you sighing papers what you…
The Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday released to house arrest a modeling agent who is charged with the sexual assault of two women, and is facing accusations of similar offenses from dozens of others. However, prosecutors asked that Shai Avital’s release be delayed while they file an appeal against the decision. If eventually released…
Nimrod Shalom, the owner of a start-up company, and a 41-year-old new immigrant from the United States who lived in Ramat Gan, was sentenced last week in the US to seven years in prison, following a pedophilia charge from 2016. He was arrested in Israel for the same incident – and was released. But, in…
Nimrod Shalom, 41, a dual citizen of Israel and the United States, was sentenced, on January 13, 2023, to seven years in prison for transmission of a sexual performance by a minor. He was sentenced today by the Honorable Beryl A. Howell, who also ordered 10 years of supervised release. Shalom was arrested on July…
A leading Jewish businessman listed as running Pardes House and Beis Yaacov Primary Schools Foundation alongside a rabbi who is at the centre of a sexual-assault investigation claims that the accused man is no longer involved with the organisation. Billionaire investor Benzion Freshwater attempted to distance the group from Rabbi Chaim Halpern, who is under…
Three senior judges from the High Rabbinical Court, Rabbi Eliezer Igra, Rabbi Shlomo Shapira and Rabbi Zion Luz, published a Torah opinion following the release from prison of head of the Orot Ari religious community in Tzfat (Safed), Ezra Sheinberg, and detailed what he must do to be accepted into the Katzrin community where he…
NEW YORK — A co-conspirator in a sprawling kidnapping case against the Jewish Lev Tahor cult was sentenced to home imprisonment in a US federal court on Friday. The case has led to the group’s unraveling, seen most its leadership hauled away to prison and scattered its members across several countries. Aron Rosner was sentenced…