A fellow blogger was attacked in Williamsburgh earlier this week. Rabbi Nachum Rosenberg
writes a blog about sex abuse within the Orthodox Jewish community. One day after the Nechemya Weberman was convicted of serial child molestation, Rosenberg had a cup of bleach thrown in his face, burning his face and blinding him in one eye.
Rabbi Nachum Rosenberg told PIX11 he was walking down Roebling Street, when a man with a beard and black coat ran across from a fish store and confronted him.
“He takes a full cup of bleach and he spilled it onto me. Half of my face is burned, and my left eye, I can’t see right out of it. I see everything very faded.”
The attack happened one day after a jury convicted a prominent Satmar Hasidic man, Nechemya Weberman, of repeatedly molesting a student in the community, starting when she was just 12 years old. Weberman, an unlicensed counselor, faces up to 117 years in prison, when he’s sentenced next month. Many Hasidic men in the community raised money for his defense.
Source: Bleach thrown in face of rabbi who writes about sex abuse in Williamsburg’s Orthodox Jewish community
Rabbi Rosenberg is a brave man.
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Sooz · 645 weeks ago
Followed some links on the history of Rabbi Nachum Rosenberg who has for years... received death threats - and was shot at - from the Jewish community for opening a help line for victims of sexual abuse. Rosenberg has been advocating for Jewish survivors of sexual violence in Williamsburg/Borough Park (Brooklyn) New York for over 35 years.
He had his life threatened if he did not close down a hotline in which he would explain to parents and children how to report sex crimes. After a drive-by shooting... he closed down the hot-line. http://theawarenesscenter.blogspot.com/2008/11/ra...
Sooz · 645 weeks ago
Geez, already · 645 weeks ago
His body language towards her rivaled the most obnoxious types who make public displays of sexual interest in a female. The Hasidic man's 'creep factor" was so salacious & obvious that it did become a verbal confrontation via my husband's outrage. The Hasidic man pretended he did not speak English while carrying an English newspaper. It is years later yet the experience is still a topic that comes up often.
As for this trial of Weberman, The Hasidim tried to bribe the "child slave" victim who testified for 14 hours against Weberman. She was offered $500,000 in cash if she would leave the country and not testify against the now convicted pedophile.
In the Hasidim's mindset: the hasidic and haredi communities view women who are raped and abused as enticers. "It is their beauty, their very existence that tempts men to sin."
That’s how 8-year-old Orthodox girls walking to school in Beit Shemesh became “whores,” “curvas” and “shiksas,” and that’s why haredi men in long black coats and flat top black hats rationalized spitting on them, chasing them and even stoning them.
Women are “vessels of filth,” “stinking holes that bleed impurity” and that “entice” otherwise “pure and holy” men to sin.
The same language is used by haredim about boys who have been sexually abused by a rabbi or a prominent haredi community member.
The boys “wanted it,” they’re “gay,” they “seduced” the older rabbi, who just could not resist their charms.
Interestingly, the Hasidic communities' men have an average of 4th grade education and are ignorant of religious and civil law so tend to function at a very low base level that tends to feed their primitive male urges. Even though Jewish law would punish men like Weberman and support the victim, their own sexual urges which dominate their mindset prompts them to ignore Jewish law (and secular law).
@nerdlyrants · 645 weeks ago