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“Several weeks ago the father responded to the women’s magazine La’isha, saying that he would sue the publishers, which has not yet happened. It is unlikely that it will happen.

“Shaiya Brizel was ready to put off publication of the book, on condition that the family sue him in a rabbinical court, in which the affair would be aired. He has said that no one in the family was prepared to take up the challenge.

“In the conversation with La’isha, the father said that he was indeed a homosexual, ‘But I have had treatment and today I am no longer like that. All this is behind me.’

“In reply to a question as to whether he had sexual relations with minors, he replied: ‘Perhaps I will talk about that some other time.’ He accused his son Shaiya of being ‘the only one who is after me. He has destroyed my life...He wrote this only for the money. He wanted money from me ... Because of him I separated from my wife.’

“Shaiya’s sister, Rivka Hubert, spoke with great anger to the La’isha reporter about the fact that her brother had revealed the names of the persons involved, and declared: ‘We deny everything it says in the book.”

[End quote, buried in Memory Hole.]

Source: Ha’aretz, “Israel’s Leading Daily Newspaper,” Shevat 25, 5760 (Feb. 1, 2000).

The Edah HaChareidis are descendants of ancestors who arrived in Jerusalem and Palestine long before the founding of the State of Israel—and they are ANTI-Zionist as are so many other Orthodox Jewish communities. They view the zionist regime as the Jewish equivalent of the Anti-Christ. They are vociferously anti-sodomite, but like the hypocritical “family value” GOP leadership their upper hierarchy is infested with perverts hiding in the closets.

E.g., child molestor Avraham Katz (Left) of the Edah HaChareidis, was sentenced to 5 years in prison for sodomy and indecent assault against minors. Katz was tried after the Edah's beis din allowed his case to be tried in the secular courts, an uncommon move.

as his daughter looked away, wiped tears and struggled to understand what he was asking.

“Do I have to answer?” the now-27-year-old asked Judge John Gleeson in a trembling voice before gathering the strength to shoot back when asked why she didn’t complain sooner.

“My feeling of your molesting me was at most fear and blackmail and years of torture,” she said, eyes widening as she wiped tears off her cheeks. “Fear because you hurt me because I told my mother. Didn’t I get hit enough?”

The girl, who broke with her father’s ultra-Orthodox community after allegedly being abused by him from ages 9 to 16, explicitly described reprehensible acts in public with words she was once forbidden to say even in private.

Some jurors glared at Weingarten, others wiped their eyes when she told of years of abuse and shame as her father shuffled her between homes in New York, Belgium and Israel.

“You could ask me, I’m not trying to fight you,” Weingarten said once after she failed to understand a question.

An exasperated Gleeson eventually cut him off.

“Mr. Weingarten, if anybody is going to admonish the witness it’s going to be me,” he thundered. “You have created a fairly untenable, horrific situation by deciding to represent yourself.

“Now, I’m not sure where this cross-examination is going, but I know you are not going to lecture this witness.”

Rabbi Israel Weingarten cross examined his own daughter, whom he is accused of molesting, bringing the now 27-year-old to tears.

A rabbi charged with molesting his daughter subjected her to hours of cringe-worthy cross-examination Tuesday in Brooklyn Federal Court.

Israel Weingarten, 59, who chose to represent himself against charges that could send him to prison for 20 years, rambled on all afternoon

(Rabbi Israel Weingarten pitilessly cross-examined his daughter in court Tuesday. Then his wife testified against him.)

The ex-wife of a rabbi accused of molesting his daughter testified Thursday that she found them together in bed, and the teen revealed that she had been sexually abused.

Before she began answering the prosecutor’s questions, Faige Weingarten waived her spousal privilege and told the judge she wanted to testify against her ex-husband, Israel Weingarten, who prosecutors say began abusing the girl in 1990 when she was 9.

The case is being heard in Brooklyn because Weingarten is accused of passing through JFK Airport on the family’s frequent travels to Belgium.

Faige Weingarten recalled a Friday night about nine years ago when they were living in Belgium. She had slept in another room after arguing with her husband. She heard their infant crying and went to the bedroom, where she found Weingarten and their then-16-year-old daughter in bed.

“He said, ‘Look, we are dressed,’ but with the covers half down, I saw the middle of his body was naked,” she said in Brooklyn Federal Court through a Yiddish translator.

A few days later, the daughter confided to her she had been sodomized, according to Faige Weingarten.

“She became disgusted for the rest of her life - he made her life disgusting,” she said.

The rabbi, who is representing himself in the case, complained to Judge John Gleeson that the translator misunderstood Faige’s