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Peter Schaktman, 66, a rabbi at Temple Emanu-El in Utica, New York, was among eight people arrested during a New York State Police investigation. Schaktman was charged with second-degree attempted rape. According to police and court records reported by mult...

Israeli police arrested Rabbi Yosef Shoveli on May 7, 2026, following a covert investigation into allegations of serious sexual offenses. Authorities stated that the investigation began after multiple complaints were received. Police also appealed for addit...

Rabbi and counselor Shaya Lunger was released on bond on April 21, 2026, following a second arrest connected to separate allegations involving two teenage girls. Authorities stated that the cases are being handled as distinct investigations and remain ongoi...

Eric Gurvis, a former rabbi who previously served at Temple Shalom in Newton, Massachusetts, was arrested in December 2025 in Framingham, Massachusetts, as part of a law enforcement sting operation targeting alleged child sexual exploitation offenses. Autho...

Israeli police arrested Mordechai Yom Tov in Jerusalem on November 20, 2025, after authorities located him more than two decades after he fled the United States while on probation following a criminal conviction involving sexual offenses against minors. Yom...

Miami Beach police arrested Christopher Martinez on October 7, 2025, after authorities said he pointed an object resembling a handgun at a rabbi outside a Jewish synagogue near 12th Street and Alton Road. According to the arrest report, the incident occurre...

Dovid Akiva Shenkman, a former Chicago resident, pleaded guilty to federal charges involving possession and transportation of child pornography and was sentenced in September 2025 to nearly eight years in federal prison. He had been arrested in November 202...

Rabbi Levi Cash was arrested in Delray Beach, Florida, on September 22, 2025, following an undercover law enforcement operation involving allegations of attempted unlawful contact with a minor. According to police statements, the arrest occurred after inves...

Haim Yosef David Abergel is an Israeli rabbi from Netivot, Israel, and the son of Rabbi Yoram Abergel. He is associated with Haredi religious communities and has been involved in educational and political activity, including leadership roles in religious sc...

A rabbi in northeast Miami-Dade County faced a robbery charge following a confrontation with a county water meter reader outside his synagogue, according to the Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office. Deputies said the incident began when a Miami-Dade County water met...

On May 5, 2025, President Daniel Noboa of Ecuador visited the Western Wall in Jerusalem during an official state visit. He prayed at the wall and placed a personal note between the stones in accordance with tradition. The president met with the Rabbi of th...

Senior Lev Tahor Member Arrested in Guatemala Senior Lev Tahor Member Arrested in Guatemala Amid Human Trafficking Probe Guatemala City, Guatemala — On January 29, 2025, Yoel Alter, a 35-year-old Israeli national and senior membe...

On April 26, 2024, Israeli police detained a group of rabbis and peace activists near the Erez Crossing along the Gaza–Israel border. The group was participating in a coordinated protest organized by Rabbi-led peace networks, including participants from Isr...

On April 1, 2024, Yitzhak Meir Sabo, age 43, a rabbi and former Director of Jewish Life at Akiba Yavneh Academy in Dallas, Texas, was arrested and charged with indecency with a child involving sexual contact. According to arrest affidavits and court filings...

Stephen Weiss is an American rabbi who served as senior rabbi at B’nai Jeshurun Congregation in Pepper Pike, Ohio, United States. He had been affiliated with the congregation since 2001 and also served in leadership roles within regional Jewish religious or...

Jewish Perspectives on Abortion and Religious Rights Jewish texts and legal traditions have multiple views on abortion, often rooted in the interpretation of Torah and rabbinic law. The Hebrew Bible does not explicitly prohibit abortion, and rabb...

Leon Mund is a former rabbi and teacher who worked within Montreal’s Orthodox Jewish community in Canada. He is reported to have served in roles involving religious instruction and counselling during the period several decades prior to the legal proceedings...

Eliezer Berland is an Israeli ultra-Orthodox rabbi and leader of the Shuvu Bonim sect. He was previously convicted in Israel of sexual offenses in a separate case and served a prison sentence prior to the events described in this report. On February 9, 2020...

In January 2020, a man described by Israeli authorities as a rabbi in his 60s was arrested in Jerusalem on suspicion of running a closed religious community in which dozens of women and children were allegedly held in conditions described by police as slave...

In May 2019, Rabbi David Mivasair, a Canadian citizen from Hamilton, Ontario, was detained by Israeli military forces in the South Hebron Hills region of the West Bank while participating in a road maintenance activity organized by the Centre for Jewish Non...

In the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, multiple Orthodox Jewish rabbis were prosecuted in connection with a federal case involving efforts to obtain religious divorces known as a “get.” The investigation included an FBI undercov...

Washington, D.C., United StatesRabbi Bernard “Barry” Freundel was arrested in Washington, D.C., on October 14, 2014, after police began investigating allegations that he had secretly recorded women in a changing and showering area at the National Capital Mi...

Samuel Waldman is an individual who served as a rabbi and teacher at a girls’ seminary in Brooklyn, New York, United States. He was associated with religious educational roles within a community setting prior to his arrest. On November 2013, Waldman was arr...

Mendel Tevel is a rabbi who worked at a Jewish youth community center in Beverly Hills, California, United States. He previously worked as a youth worker in Brooklyn, New York, United States, during the 1990s and early 2000s. On October 30, 2013, Tevel was ...

Mordechai Elon was a prominent Religious Zionist rabbi in Israel, known for his leadership roles in yeshivot, public lectures, and media appearances. He was considered an influential religious figure prior to the allegations against him. In July 2013, th...

All Dogs Are Bad And Their Owners Accursed, Israeli City’s Rabbis Rule More than a dozen rabbis in the city of Elad, located near Tel Aviv, issued a religious edict declaring that all dogs are inherently harmful and that residents who keep them would be co...

Chaim Halpern is an Orthodox rabbi based in Golders Green, London, England, United Kingdom. He has led a synagogue and has been described in reporting as a prominent figure within segments of the Orthodox Jewish community in north London. In March 2013, Hal...

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie visited Israel’s Western Wall in February 2011 during his first official overseas trip as governor. He was given a personal tour of the site by the rabbi of the Western Wall, who noted that politicians who visit the locati...

In October 2011, Earl Seth David, a Toronto-based individual who had also used the name Avraham David and presented himself as a rabbi, was arrested in Toronto in connection with a large-scale immigration fraud investigation led by United States authorities...

Rabbi Saul Kassin, a senior religious leader associated with the Syrian Jewish community in Brooklyn, New York, was sentenced in June 2011 to two years of unsupervised probation in connection with a federal corruption and money laundering case in New Jersey...

2010 sermon statements attributed to Rabbi Ovadia Yosef 2010 sermon statements attributed to Rabbi Ovadia Yosef on gentiles In 2010, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, a prominent Israeli religious authority and spiritual leader of th...

They hate white people “The goal of abolishing the White race is, on its face, so desirable that some may find it hard to believe that it could incur any opposition other than from committed White supre...

On July 24, 2009, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced a large-scale public corruption and money laundering investigation involving arrests of political figures and religious leaders in New Jersey and New York, United States. The operation wa...

In July 2009, federal authorities in New Jersey arrested 44 individuals, including five rabbis, in a large-scale corruption and money laundering investigation conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Internal Revenue Service. The operation i...

Michael Jackson, the “King of Pop,” died on June 25, 2009, at the age of 50 in Los Angeles, California, from acute propofol and benzodiazepine intoxication administered by his personal physician, Dr. Conrad Murray. His death was ruled a homicide, and Murray...

Joel Engelman files civil suit alleging historical abuse in Brooklyn On August 27, 2008, Joel Engelman, then 23 years old and residing in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, filed a civil lawsuit in Kings County, New York, against United Talmudical Academy (UT...

Alan Horowitz, an Orthodox rabbi and convicted sex offender from the United States, was arrested in May 2007 in Mahabalipuram, India, after being located by international law enforcement authorities. The arrest was carried out with coordination between Indi...

Meir David Kahane (August 4, 1932 – November 5, 1990) was an American-born Orthodox rabbi and political activist. He founded the Jewish Defense League (JDL) in 1968 to advocate for Jewish security and self-defense. Kahane later emigrated to Israel, foundin...

Abraham Isaac Kook (December 9, 1865 – September 1, 1935) was a Jewish religious thinker, rabbi, and the first Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of British Mandate Palestine. He is known for his writings on Jewish law, mysticism, and the spiritual significance of Jewis...

The Dönmeh were a religious community that emerged in the late 17th century within the Ottoman Empire, originating from followers of Sabbatai Zevi, a Jewish rabbi who declared himself the Messiah in 1666. After Sabbatai Zevi converted to Islam under Ottoman...

The compilation of the Babylonian Talmud marked a significant advancement in Jewish legal and theological scholarship. Completed around the 5th century CE, this work synthesized the discussions and interpretations of Jewish law from various academies.Center...

Rabbinic literature from the Mishnaic and Talmudic periods (approximately 1st–6th centuries CE) includes legal discussions that describe several categories relating to sex and physical development beyond a strict male-female binary. These categories are use...