'Rabbi wrongly on pedoschand pole'

'Rabbi wrongly on pedoschand pole'

World May 2, 2018 23:18

nijmegen - The Nijmegen rabbi Mendel Levine was wrongly nailed to the digital pillory by a US organization as a pedophile. This is the conclusion of a Dutch research committee that has investigated what is wrong with charges against him.

Levine has been appearing for a couple of years with name, name and photo between now 138 others on one of the largest online pedophile scandal poles in the world. Meyer Seewald, the founder of that Internet scaffold, says that Levine has assaulted him as a boy during a summer camp. A second camper also told De Telegraaf that Levine, in 2001, as a camp companion, had touched him intimately.

The rabbi did not touch campers with sexual intentions at the time, the committee of inquiry now judges. The orthodox Jewish umbrella organization NIK had ordered the case to the bottom. The Jewish community in the Netherlands has reacted relieved to the news that their rabbi is going free.

Seewald, on the other hand, is 'deeply disappointed' that the committee does not believe his story. He has not removed the portrait of Levine from the 'wall of shame' yet.

One issue remains unresolved. It was Chief Rabbi Jacobs whom Levine appointed from Nijmegen as rabbi in Nijmegen. The committee did not comment on how Jacobs dealt with the matter when it became clear that Levine had been branded a dangerous pedophile in America. Jacobs stated that he thoroughly researched the issue in 2011 when the rumors surfaced. But that research did not represent much and was not dealt with professionally. So he sent his own son to the alleged victim.

Jacobs refused to cooperate with the investigation committee. An internal letter from the NIK showed that he did interfere with the investigation. According to the chairman and the secretary, he approached an external advisor. 'He tried to convince him of excluding research into his previous role in this matter, according to the advisor. ''

Drivers in the NIK suspected that the chief rabbi wished to wipe the case under the carpet. That blame also struck him in another moral issue: the controversial abuse case at the Jewish Cheider school. Jacobs is vice-president at that school and would have advised parents not to file a report. Next week the judge in that case pronounces a verdict.

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