Rabbi Rapoport just issued a clarification of his widely misunderstood statement regarding the Levy case
My statement about the ‘arbitrariness’ of the age of consent (News, July 26) has been terribly misrepresented. In no way did I intend to minimise the severity of a sexual relationship with somLeveone underage or to defend the perpetrator. On the contrary, I emphasised that even if sexual contact began when Goldsobel was over the legal age of consent, Levy still transgressed Jewish law, it was an ethical misdemeanour and may well have been exploitative.Confidential propriety and moral integrity prevent me from providing an adequate explanation for my involvement in this case. However, lest my position be misconstrued as acquiescence to the widespread injustice to abuse victims, I state unequivocally: Sexual predators are a threat to society and must be incarcerated. Those with reasonable suspicion of abuse must inform legal authorities. I condemn those who belittle the plight of victims or ostracise them and show support for their abusers. I applaud and actively assist institutions that support victims.
Rabbi Chaim Rapoport
once again we have a retraction of the retraction. Seems not only UOHC have this problem
ReplyDeleteRabbi Rapoport, to all that know him is an upstanding Rav who is held in high regard.
ReplyDeleteThis straight forward rav should not be judged on here.
Victims need support!
The community need to be protected from abusers.
Abusers need to be put in front of a judge.
Rabonim who protect abusers and by default allow abuse to continue are out of order.
Before anyone picks on Rabbi Rapoport there are many so called Rabonim (mainly from Stamford Hill) who are much MUCH worse.
'Ethical misdemeanour' So that is what you call it. Using fancy words instead of plain ones doesnt change the aveiroh. He had sex with a woman/girl not within marriage. Being 'dressed' up as a chabad chasid like yourself (R Rappaport) is not a form of tshuva or in any way a 'heter'. Just because a London Lubavich rabbi of Chigwell East London have done worse things like proper znus with an eishes ish is not a heter for a simple chasid to do lesser ones.
ReplyDeleteAll you are doing is covering up for him.
חיים'קע חזיר האט נאכאמאהל פארהערט די בחורים אין וויזניץ'ע ישיבה קטנה
ReplyDeleteדי טאטעס זענען מורא'דיג ברוגז אויף דעם, זיי ווייסן נישט וואס צוטוהן
ר' חיים משה פעלדמאן איז די איינציגעסטער וואס קען עפיס טוהן דא, מיר די טאטעס בעטהן אייך ר' חיים משה לאזט איהם נישט קומען פארהערן אונזער קונדער און זיי צו פאר'חזר'ען, פרעגט נאר אייער איידעם הרב פרידמאן וואס די שגץ'על האט אפגעטוהן
די טאטעס קענען גיין צוזאמען צום ראש הישיבה און מאנען אז דאס פאסיערט נישט מעהר, און אז דאס פאסיערט נאך איין מאהל, וועלען די בחורים ארויס גענומען ווערען
Deleteר' חיים משה איז נעשט שטארק אינטערעסיערט אין וואס זיין איידעם האט צו זאגען. נישט אלץ רב און נישט אלץ רעבבע
You frumers have got to stop judging people!!! We all sin some worse then others, but its not our business to judge to the bad. Lets all concentrate on our own lives.
ReplyDeleteFRUMERS=BULL SHIT
ReplyDeleteTODAYS SOCIETY IS
1) WHERE DOES YOUR FATHER DAVEN
2) DOES HE WEAR A BLACK HAT
Our father ABRAHAM
NEVER DAVENED WITH A MINYAN
NEVER HAD A WHITE SHIRT OR BLACK HAT,
OR EVEN A YAMAKE, NEVER DIPPED IN THE MIKVAH.
JEWDASIM IS ABOUT UNITY LOVE FOR ONE AND OTHER AND FOR EACH OF US TO FIND A CLOSER CONNECTION WITH GOD.
ALL THE REST IS BULL SHIT
Spot on
Deleteget real
Deleteyou speak the way the chris-ians do. They say exactly that.
L'havdil we Yidden have a Torah and if someone makes light even of a detail of Halacha, such as Yamake, Minyan etc then his though have a Shemetz Psul and he should do Teshuvah.
Spot off,
DeleteWere u brainwashed in school not to write chus vsholom the word Christian???
Get real, you make many, unsubstantiated, claims, on matters about which you have an abundance of ignorance.
DeleteYou emulate the"frummers" you scorn, thereby showing that you are just as shallow as they are.
Our father Abraham, as archaeological evidence, as well as rabbinic sources, shows that he did daven, bench and carried out all matters concerning HaShem, with a minyan. Likewise he almost certainly wore exclusively white shirts and kept his head covered at all times.
I doubt that he had a Hans Grohe power shower in his tent, and would succumb to the odd mikva dipping instead on a regular basis.
BTW BULLSHIT IS ONE WORD, and you are full of it.
Brainwashed
DeleteIt Says in the Torah (Shemos 23,13) V'shem etc. So we may not say it or write it out which would cause the readers to say it. But you probably say it, just out of sheer ignorance.
I just heard the father of the victim in this case just lost his job,
ReplyDeleteand some frumer bastard reported him to the benefits, how's that for mesirah
Shocking video. The similarities are mind boggling. Just change the name and allegation. You couldn't make this up.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.kipa.co.il/now/52879.html
The good rabbi needs to trim his berdel.To long and straggly.
ReplyDeleteRetraction, deretraction, deretraction
i like the "lomdes"
Yankel, boro park
Levy acknowledged a sexual relationship with her. The prosecution claimed she was not consenting and was under 16 - a minor - so consent has no bearing, it is statutory rape. The defence maintain that she was over 16 and a consenting participant, thereby no illegal activity took place.
ReplyDeleteSetting aside the obligation to comply with the secular laws of the land, Rapaport is correct in stating that there is no halachic difference if Miss G was 13 or 23, if it were consensual.
Never the less, Rapaport's evidence was a futile attempt to pull the wool over the judiciary, was rightly ignored, and probably caused much pain to Miss G as well as a large desecration of The sacred Name.
As at the time the relationship commenced Levy was non-observant, whether it was okay or verboten in Jewish law, biblical or rabbinical, was not a consideration he was likely to have had - even if he was aware of it.
Oy, I thought it was only Catholic priests and BBC personalities.
ReplyDeleteOr is it one big Mispocha?