Republished from the New York Daily News, report by Reuven Blau   A convicted sex offender stood to be arrested after he allegedly assaulted an 11-year-old boy in a Brooklyn synagogue last summer. But when police went to Yona Weinberg’s Flatbush home, they found he had fled to Israel. Now, child advocates in the Jewish […]

This statement is published further to several Facebook and email postings from members of the public regarding the matter of Yona (aka Jason) Weinberg. Yona (Jason) Weinberg was convicted in June 2009 of 8 counts of sex crimes against two 13 year old boys and was sentenced and served up to 13 months in local […]

(This article first appeared in Hebrew on the Kikar Shabbat news site.) Nazareth District Court convicted R. Yaakov Deutsch of performing criminal acts on four young boys and girls. The court rejected the arguments of the Rabbi who claimed that this was a conspiracy. Four years after the publication of the incident that caused much […]

Martin Vegh, who was arrested and sentenced to 7 years in prison for sexually abusing a seven year-old girl and an eight year-old girl, has been released and is currently living in Queens, NY. His current address is: 92-36 Merrick Blvd. Jamaica, New York 11433 Please take all necessary precautions. View Martin Vegh’s profile and […]

The Forward Reports: NEW SQUARE, NEW YORK — To his hasidim, Rabbi David Twersky is nearly akin to God. But that does not mean he exempts himself from the obligations God imposes on all Jews, at least as traditionalists understand them. Like his followers, Twersky prays to God three times a day. But unlike other Hasidic […]

The JewishWeek Reports: This summer Rabbi Elimelech Meisels, 45, a former Chicagoan who has owned and has taught at four Bais Yaakov seminaries for American girls studying in Israel, was found guilty of sexual misconduct by the only American beit din (religious court) specifically dealing with charges of sexual abuse. In an unusually strong statement dated […]

SYDNEY, Australia — An Orthodox Jewish teacher was deported to the United States after serving a jail sentence for sexually abusing four boys at a Jewish school in Melbourne more than two decades ago. David Kramer, 54, was sentenced last year to a non-parole period of 18 months after pleading guilty to abusing the four […]

Walla Reports: On Wednesday, Jerusalem’s District Attorney filed charges in the district court against Aaron Sholomo (Solomon) job Leeson, a teacher at the Talmud Torah in Beitar Illit. He is charged for committing indecent acts against  three minors. The indictment against Leeson, 32, describes in detail the acts committed against the children from the years 2009-2014. […]

TottenhamJournal Reports: Efraim Cray, 32, of Wellington Drive, South Tottenham, this morning faced trial at Snaresbrook Crown Court on three charges of sexual assault. But this afternoon he was found not guilty of one of those charges on the direction of judge Louise Kamill. Cray had allegedly targeted the girl for months before she contacted […]

HeraldSun Reports: David Kramer, 54, abused four boys while teaching at Yeshiva College in the early 1990s. He was the first member of a Jewish institution in Australia to have admitted and been jailed for child sex crimes. In July last year he was sentenced to three years and four months imprisonment for what a judge […]