Sunday, January 14, 2007


Published originally August 18, 2006 B.C. (Before Convention)
Customer Service Number:1-800-TOLD-YOU.

You buy a house in a good neighborhood and your toilet keeps backing up. Not every day, but just enough for you to realize that your sewer system is a problem. But you're busy, raising a family, making a parnassah, and all the other activities that occupy your time 110%.

So your sewer problem is there, any fool would realize that if your toilet keeps dumping zevel in your living room every few months, you have a sewer problem. In order for you to deal with the problem you must take a real hard look at the root cause of the damaged system. Then you come to realize that the whole neighborhood has shit backing up into their bedrooms, dining rooms and living rooms as well.

You call a meeting with your neighbors and decide to buy thicker carpets and have the zevel piped in under the carpet so you don't have to have the crap hit you in the face. You make many melave malkes, conventions and dinners and take the stench with you...because ultimately the stench is you! But now you're in a room where every one smells like shit and you think it's perfume or so they tell you. You now go out and buy knee boots...hoping the charra will not dirty your suit or legs. At the dais of these dinners, you begin to believe that they caused the stench by stuffing your sewers with their bull"shit", so if you called a plumber, they will profit from your sewer problem, because they own the plumbing company.

They continue to stuff up your sewer system with newsletters and proclamations, and their propaganda slowly convinces you that really you don't have a sewer problem at all. It's imagined.....and let's blame the sewer company for selling you inferior pipes."

It's the Goyim stupid"......or people that act like Goyim. And you know what? The plumbers that brought you the news that you have a problem at all, are shgatzim. They use nivel peh, are m'challel Shabbos, they fix sewers on Shabbos...what qualifies them to tell you that your sewer is broken? Never listen to a plumber who uses nivel peh; call your posek, he'll tell you what looks like shit, smells like shit, and has destroyed your lives with these toxic fumes that have penetrated your being, is really nothing more than a tradition that all of us inherited from our ancestors.( What looks like sex abuse, feels like sex abuse,and IS sex abuse, is really, really, NOT sex abuse, it's the psak from a godol that really counts, NOT the law of our Country, or the law of civilized man!)

What to do? All your life you are living in this community, but now this big bad plumber has uncovered for all the world to see, that there really is a huge sewer problem.


The Roto Rooter guy insists that the sewer is irreparable; only a total removal of the sewer "system" will remove the problem that has destroyed your home. It must be replaced with brand new pipes and must be installed by reputable plumbers. He apologizes for his frustration and his use of "over the top" language, but has learned from experience that good people don't pay much attention to soft spoken plumbers." Imagine" he says, " If I came to your home in a suit and tie, and spoke the King's English, would you really believe that I'm a plumber?" "Would you really believe that me and me alone can tear out your broken sewer and replace it with a brand new working system that is able to flush out the drek before it becomes a problem? I will install a warning system..we'll call it a black hat alert, the shit detector will sound a siren way in advance, way before your sewer begins to crumble."

"And you know what? It's FREE! I'll do it at no charge. You see I love the people that live in this neighborhood, I JUST HATE THE SMELL! This used to be a beautiful neighborhood, until the drek peddlers moved in.

Your choice my friends, go Roto Rooter, or suffer with the farshtoonkena drek that represents the toxic smell that is destroying your neighborhood.

Go Roto Rooter at no charge, or choose the likes of the mushchasim that are called Fraud Yisroel Belsky, Lipa Margulies, Pinchos Scheinberg, Simcha Kaufman and last but certainly not least, Yudi Kolko.


Anonymous said...


This past Shabbos R' Dovid Cohen of Khal Gvul Yaavetz publicly stated that he was the author of the "Open letter to Rav Matisyahu Salomon" regarding the blogs. Rav Cohen stated that he has all his information from his position as the clergyman for Ohel Children's Home.

Is this true?

Sholom said...

Well, I do trust you to remove the old system; but how do we prevent shit from accumulating in the first place?
And doesn't the plumber shit too?

BTW, did anyone ever find out if Belsky actually posted that piece, and if he's aware of my scurrilous reply?

Paul Mendlowitz said...

I don't believe Dovid Cohen said that; IF he did, he's lying through his false teeth!

Anonymous said...

Is there any kind of amicus / friend of the court brief that private citizens not directly involved can file against Margo for either the abuse at Torah Temimah or the thievery from Torah Vodaas?

Anonymous said...

I was in Gvul Yabetz this past Shabbos. R' Cohen said nothing of the sort.

Anonymous said...


Rabbi Shafran also denied the charge that in cases of sexual abuse Batei Din will try to convince litigants to not pursue their complaints. “In cases where there is some degree of doubt, the beit din has a responsibility to counsel against going to authorities until there is proven criminal activity.”

How do we attain that proof without the help of the authorities? Does Agudah have the investigative resources to get proof? If they are unable to ascertain the validity of the charges, what would they do? Ignore the accusations? Allow the accused perpetrator to continue as before? I think this policy is a mistake and is responsible for the perpetuation of a situation that has claimed a great many victims, and destroyed the reputation of Yeshivas Torah Temimah. If there are credible accusations, the authorities ought to be immediately informed. Let them investigate.

I wonder, too, if Rabbi Shafran’s stated reason for not going to the authorities is the only one. I suspect there is also another, less noble one: To protect the reputation of the Torah community by avoiding the attendant negative publicity of a scandal.

Should the Beis Din be the first line of defense in such cases? Normally I would think it should be. But Rabbi Mark Dratch, founder and director of JSafe, an organization addressing abuse in the Jewish community makes the following observation: “(I)f the beit din is used to make the community safer, that´s appropriate. If that relationship is used to bypass the justice system, I think that´s wrong”. He feels, and correctly so in my view that the Batei Din don’t “always work appropriately”. He has in fact "pleaded with members of Agudah to expose the dangers of clerical and familial abuse. (He) said if you don´t expose, victims have no place to turn."

Rabbi Shafran conceded, that there are not now in place any official guidelines in Agudah and expressed the belief that there would be such guidelines in the future.

As the self proclaimed and widely acknowledged repository of Daas Torah in America, I have to wonder why there are no guidelines by Agudah in place yet. What are they waiting for?

Anonymous said...

Your analogy about the sewer was very apt, but, although I am not in awe of most of today's poskim, I don't think we are going to resove this very soon, because the RAHbonnim are just going to keeping covering up all the dirt and whitewashing it. People in high political positions (rabbonus for instance) always win (at least it looks that way). The only thing we can rely on, is that Olom Hofuch hu and that the truth will come out in the next world. Whoever looks like he's on top in this world will be on the bottom in the next worls and vice versa.

Anonymous said...

Monsey Psychologist Accused of Molestion





Melvin Sinowitz, Hartsdale, NY
Profession: Psychologist;
Lic. No. 004534;
Cal. No. 17982
Regents Action Date: September 17, 1999



Sinowitz, Melvin PhD.

111 N Central Ave

Hartsdale, NY 10530-1903




Sinowitz, Melvin, CP (Certified Professional)
10 Sophia St
Monsey, NY 10952-2012

Anonymous said...

It's good to see Harry Maryles saying something constructive instead of bellyaching as usual over a friend of his in chinuch who he claims was unjustly accused of abuse. I heard that UOJ offered to get involved and help clear his name if he was in fact falsely blamed but that Harry refuses to cooperate.

Plop plop fizz fizz, oh what a relief it is.

Anonymous said...

go for it roto rooter!!
if anybody needs insurance for their house for sewer damage,call GEICO they have the best prices in town, they even came out with an unconfirmed report of leizerowitz getting a wedgy.
to hella winston, once again great peice, thanks.


Anonymous said...

There are perverts out there everywhere, not just in doctor's offices and schools. Before I was married, I was in the country in a bungalow colony. I was staying by my friend who had an apt. in the casino bldg. She wasn't home one day and I was there alone watching her children. A Chasidish man from the bungalow colony had to pick something up from my friend, so he came to my friend's apt. He kept getting close to me and bumping into me and I kept on trying to move away from him. He didn't do anything more than that, but, later I realized that he was doing it intentionally and it was wrong. I never told anyone, I don't even know who he was. I am sure there are others like him out there.

Anonymous said...

What blog did the Sinowitz post come from? Care to share a link?

Anonymous said...

I do not daven in Rabbi schiffenbauer's shul but I do ask him my shailos and I did once ask him his opinion on the Kolko situation. He told me that he preferred not to talk about it. I then asked him if he thought Kolko was innocent or not and he answered me "I dont know." My children don't go to TT so I don't know much about the inner working there but I do know one thing. Rabbi Schiffenbauer himself told me in his own words that he does not know if Kolko is innocent or guilty. Anybody saying that he holds otherwise is simply lying!!

Anonymous said...

I believe you. But why does Rabbi Schiffenbauer chair the Vaad hehorim? It's nothing but a device that aids Margo in his criminal fraud. Anyone with self-respect should step down and let Margo find another puppet to be used. Ask Eli Greenwald. Whenever someone wants to bring an issue to the Vaad's attention, it gets scuttled by Margo or Applegrad and the Vaad never even meets. Rabbi Schiffenbauer should know better.

Anonymous said...

Maybe you should start asking your shayles to Maran Gil Student. He seems to be the big expert on things in Flatbush. He's got it all figured out you see. And even when a shayle is a little too big for him he doesn't need to go to gedolei Eretz Yisroel. He's found some local luminaries to consult with. There is Neuhoff, a bochur called Hirsch and a YU rabbi who gives sermons about his favorite movies.

Anonymous said...


Maybe if he wasn't Kolko's next door neighbor for years he would be more inclined to say guilty and he wouldn't yell at his shul for reading the blog?

Anonymous said...


Tell us about the back door dealings regarding your attempt to speak at the Agudah Convention. Were you surprised that they dedicated the plenary session exclusively to you?

Anonymous said...

"a YU rabbi who gives sermons about his favorite movies."

His favorite movie is "A few good men" with Jack Nicholson. He once gave a drasha about it. It wasn't that he tied in the movie. It was that the entire drasha revolved around it. It was probably the first rabbinical sermon in history that got "two thumbs up" from Ebert & Roper.

For parshas Beshalach, Gil Student has put in a request that the rabbi skip yetzias Mitzraim, and speak about this movie instead:


Anonymous said...


and he told other people that he is innocent. maybe he changed his mind.

Anonymous said...

Who started that rumor about the Novominsker vacationing in Israel? He's down here under the carpet along with the rest of us. That would be me, the rest of the Moe'tzes, the vantzen, and the abuse victims. The carpet does provide a little shelter from all the UOJ inspired shifts in climate. It got a little crowded this week with Avi Shafran moving his office down here.

Anonymous said...

Hey daas tayre. Hirsch is married and has a kid.

Anonymous said...

In Sefer Peninim on the parsha this past Shabbos, Shtayt in Shmos 2:6: "vehinay naar boycheh". Zogt the Baal haturim, this was Aharon. He was moved to tears because his brother Moishe was crying. The limud iz doch that a Yid should feel another's tzaar and to feel the emotion along with them. Children have an ehrenstkeit that allows them to do that. Regrettably, we lose this ability when we grow up. Aharon Hacohen never did which is why he was zoche to wear the choshen oyf zein hartz. The choshen is domeh to the beating heart of a collective Klal Yisroel. What more fitting place to put it ?

R' Yosef Beyda ztl was the founder of the Syrian Bikur Cholim in Flatbush. He once visited a young woman dying of cancer. Her husband nebich left her and the two children. She held an autistic baby in her arms while she explained her nightmare. While this unfolded, the healthy three year old daughter starting crying from the realization that her mother has her hands full and cannot help her. R' Yosef comforted the girl, telling her everything will be all right.

R' Yosef couldn't sleep that night. He saw the pain of the mother and the girl crying, so he cried all night thinking about it.

Also in Flatbush, Kolko & Margulies started destroying the lives of one child after another. Shea Fishman, Avi Shafran and many others were like the father who walked out and threw them to the dogs. A big baal rachmonus, only known as UOJ, heard the cries of the children and stood up where virtually no else had before him. Unlike previous askanim, UOJ was even demonized by the deadbeat "fathers". We should all have kinas sofrim for UOJ's chelek in hatzolas nefoshos.

We know that Shafran, Wachsmann and others read every entry of this blog. Do something meaningful to stop molesters in yeshivos or forever be remembered as disgraces who covered up crimes by attacking the messenger.

Anonymous said...

Haven't seen 'A few good men' yet. I do have it, so now that it has been mentioned in this light, Ill watch it tommorow night. Ill give shiur on it in the Main Bais on Wednesday if anyone is interested.

Anonymous said...


I am trying to reach the prosecutor in Margo's case. I have some tips to give him on how to get under Margo's skin, and get Margo to angrily admit that he ordered the "Code Red" to cover up for Kolko.

Anonymous said...

The midas harachmanus is from an earlier dor so don't listen to it unless the hayntigga Agudah says it's ok.

Anonymous said...

L'achar meah v'esrim shana, make way for UOJ, Elliot Pasik, Eli Greenwald, v'siyatam, whose place is alongside the others fun alleh doros, who heard the cries of Yiddishe kinder and were moved to act.

Anonymous said...

Hey UOJ, isn't it time to pay some attention to those sadistic abusers masquerading as Jews which inhabit so many of our mosdos as well as the perverts.

Everyone knows that the problem of child abuse - I mean physical "punishment" rather than sexual misdeeds - is endemic in our system. I don't think enough is being done to change the situation.

Here in the Uk in particular every kid in every Charedi mosod is subject to being hit without recourse or respite. The days of the bullies must be ended. Let's start a mesira campaign to cure the disease!!!

Anonymous said...

Jack Nicholson does a great job acting the part of an arrogant prick. When they make Margo the movie, he's the leading candidate for the role, although granted he will have to put on a few pounds first and sharpen up on a Hungarian accent.

Maybe Gil Student's rabbi friend wasn't being silly after all. He probably darshaned about A Few Good Men as a moshol for YTT corruption.

Get ready for the finale. Nicholson admits to the prosecution that he ran the cover up from beginning to end. He gets up like nothing happened and starts waltzing away. The judge tells him he's not going anywhere and orders the MPs in the courtroom to arrest him.

Anonymous said...

Rav Salomon has a shlock shamass who helped set up the supervised internet cafe. Every day he prints out from the web, anything that mentions the mashgiach. Rav Salomon usually reads the printouts. One printout that he absolutely refused to read was the open letter.

Anonymous said...

To Gil Student of the world and all his liberal apologists: YOU WANT THE TRUTH? YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!

Anonymous said...

Then Nicholson claims hes insane and goes to the psych ward where he recieves an unnecessary frontal lobodomy! I think ive seen this one....awesome!!! Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy!

Anonymous said...

Hehe....One Flew Over the Kolko' Nest!

Anonymous said...

Scandals and disputes plague ultra-Orthodox circles in the U.S.

By Shlomo Shamir
Haaretz - January 16, 2006


























Anonymous said...

"Scandals and disputes plague ultra-Orthodox circles in the U.S."

And not a word about clergy sexual abuse?? The paper should be called Ha Am Haaretz!!

Paul Mendlowitz said...


One day I will tell you exactly the reason the Agudah chose me as a target at their convention of fools.

Suffice to say, they fell into a well-planned trap!

Anonymous said...

uoj! keep it up your doing great, wait and see by the time this is over all these so called rabbonim will come tumbling down from whichever world they think they are from.
look at leizerowitz he lived like a king over here inthe usa and he fled with disgrace, kolko is the talk of town that peice of s**t, and plenty of others, just keep the heat on them and they will melt away.
P.S. once again thanks for your sacrifice and all you have done, by the way i think its time to turn the heat up a bit.


Anonymous said...

Oh come on UOJ, we can't take the suspense. Be a sport & tell us how you got the Agudah clowns, hook, line & sinker.

We saw the email that Shafran sent you (posted on Jewish Survivors blog). "Dear Mr. Jew, ...". OMG, was that ever hilarious.

You should just know that many yeshivishe rabbonim / roshei yeshiva think that the "brains" in charge turning the convention into an anti-UOJ orgy is the stupidest thing the Agudah could've done. They also think that Wachsmann's speech was the event's crown jewel of shtussim. "You can't listen to gedolim from a previous dor."

Many of the guests actually didn't know what was going on. They are generally uninformed, but their minds started working after hearing all the obsessive paranoia. Some of them started looking for you on the internet or asking others who follow your site. For those who came informed, they were on the lookout to see if the two leading suspects of UOJ's alter ego was there too. One fellow from Flatbush & one from the West Coast. What a carnival! You can't get better entertainment than this if fly to Vegas for a week.

Anonymous said...

"Because material goods play a significantly smaller role in their lives, the religious are more willing to share with others rather than hoard their money to purchase more material goodies for themselves.

And why does chatter about "social justice" frequently not translate into private deeds? In part because liberal politics often serve as little more than a cheap and effortless way to feel good about oneself. Those who prattle on about the downtrodden Palestinians, for instance, know that they will never be called upon to do anything on their behalf, or bear the cost of the policies they advocate. That will be left to far- away dead Jews.

As George Will points out, anyone can profess all the fine-sounding values he wants. By contrast, virtues - generosity, restraint, discipline, kindness - must be attained, usually with great effort.

When it comes to judging character, it's actions, not words, that count."

Paul Mendlowitz said...

Shafran's dirty Borsalino should be confiscated and replaced with a black DUNCE-CAP!

Anonymous said...


A couple of guys purporting to be supporters of Gil Student (it might be Gil himself) keep arguing on the comments section of this blog entry that Gil is being unfairly attacked. Speaking of entertainment, it's a pretty funny read when you the silly posts and see them / him get all worked up.

Anonymous said...

Is Shafran just a stooge taking his orders from Bloom / Zweibel? Who is really calling the shots. Shafran deserves petch anyway for participating in the fraud.

Anonymous said...

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Anonymous said...

Leizerowitz victim,

What do you mean "turn up the heat". We've got enough problems with the climate already. UOJ has pulled off atmospheric adjustments that are only theorized about if the Earth were to fall out of it's orbit! You know I hate extreme weather events.

Paul Mendlowitz said...

Gil is a well-meaning individual but is out of the loop on this issue in particular, and the Haredi world in general.

He means well, but as of yet not been able to demonstrate that he has the capacity to understand the depth of the depravity of mindset that the Haredi Establishment is guilty of.

Molestation coverup is only one of many crimes against humanity, albeit the greatest, that these ignorant and evil rabbis are guilty of.

What greater symbol of evil than PERMITTING our kids' lives to be destroyed under the guise of halacha.


Anonymous said...

I saw someone who looks like Shafran go in to Bencraft Hats and try to shnorr a free hat steaming. There was all kinds of commotion, as if two cats were clawing each other. Shafran, or his look-alike, went running for his life. He was already outside and barreling down the street when Stan Goldstein hurled one of those antique wooden hat brushes that weigh a ton, just narrowly missing him.

Anonymous said...

Appelgrad probably got his brother in-law, Finkel, the contract to supply YTT with his treife chicken, paid for of course, by government funds.

Anonymous said...

Applegrad is Finkel's mechutan, not his shvogger.

One of the rebbeyim wanted to be gozer a yom tzom like in Monsey but Margo wouldn't hear anything of it because it might make the yeshiva look bad. It's not like our Hungarian clientele knows the difference anyway. Treif, shmeif. Some of the parents who send their kids here will drink hot coffee in porcelain mugs at any treif place. Either they are moyradick am haaratzim or they just don't give a damn.

Anonymous said...

UOJ did not mean that evil rabbis "PERMIT" sex abuse. While that is the only extent of it in some cases, he meant that they ENCOURAGE sex abuse, especially in the case of YTT.

UOJ regrets any inconvenience to readers.

Anonymous said...


They must be drinking something a lot stronger than coffee if they keep sending their kids there.

Anonymous said...

Some YTT Hungarian mothers are also mechalel Shabbos around the kitchen. It's really more of a sick and extreme sense of mora heter than it is ignorance.

The fakers also tell everyone they keep Cholov Yisroel, but they have premium Cholov Akum ice cream stashed at the back of the freezer.

No wonder R' Yankev zl said Torah won't have a kiyum in that detestable place.

Anonymous said...

Those J-blog rating events are a fraud. How could they miss UOJ when he has the most informative (& entertaining!) blog around?

Anonymous said...

A rov who is big kanoi and not afraid to lash out at the establishment (that's why he's ignored), tells me there were at least 2 other molesters in YTT over the years besides Kolko.

Can anyone shed some light on this?

Anonymous said...

there was atleast one who taught kids just a very young grade - rumor has it has he was paid to leave the state about 10 years ago.

Anonymous said...

Yeh, I'll shed light on it. Margo and YTT housed Kolko for a long time. They provided a warm and hospitable atmosphere for molesters. After a molester was found, they just let him stay and pushed it back under the carpet. Its no surprise that other molesters would also find this environment comfortable.

On the other side of the spectrum we have a school like Kushner. While I don't approve of the hashkafot of Kushner, they had a molestation case and dealt with it immediately. I highly doubt that there will be another molester in Kushner in the near future because they proved to be such an unhospitable atmosphere.

There is no reason that a frummer yeshiva should be more hospitable than any other school in the country. YTT failed as a school, and that rav lashed out because of it. Props and congrats to taht rav.

Anonymous said...

YTT is Hell on Earth said...


Can anyone shed some light on this?

I heard in passing something to this effect. I was told there were other rebbeim in TT that had a silmilar reputation with the students. I don't recall names though.

Anonymous said...

That's right folks. There is no molestation allowed at the modern ortho school named for my family, but procuring prostitutes and other crimes are just fine & dandy.

Anonymous said...

Hey, Moish Finkel! Old buddy, old pal! I've been looking for you! I'm looking to start another food venture where I can pass off bassar becholov as kosher, like I did in the 1970s. I could use an experienced shutaf.

Cheers from one chotay umachtee ess harabim to another!

Anonymous said...

Who paid off the molester to leave the state? Is he still in chinuch and where is he? I know my boy Tuvya will be upset if another Margo employee-molester gets named, but I'm just curious who he is. By the way, please stop calling Tuvya, "bungalow putz" and scrutinizing his real estate. He's very sensitive & feels he's the real victim at YTT.

Anonymous said...

Does someone have a problem with Hungarians? Hee hee, just wait until UOJ finds out who Belsky's financial backers are.

Anonymous said...


Don't bother me about Mondrowitz. As you can see, I've got my own problems lately.

Anonymous said...

The problem with Gil, in all seriousness, is that he's a BT with a conservative/MO background. So when he looked at the charedi world, all he saw was the good, because the grass is always greener on the other side. Someone who's grown up in the system is less idealistic and more realistic.

As usual, UOJ hit the nail right on the head.

Anonymous said...

Rabbi Dratch's father in law, Norman Lamm was in Torah Vodaas at the same time as Margulies. To the best of my knowledge, Rabbi Dratch has so far refused to acknowledge not only the names involved at Torah Temimah, but whenever he writes anything, he just cryptically and vaguely mentions a New York yeshiva.


Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Should Mark Dratch's Organization Be Called J-UNSAFE?

It has recently been brought to my attention that Rabbi Mark Dratch who is the founder and executive director of the organization called JSAFE is also the committee head of the Rabbinical Council of America's Task Force on Rabbinic Improprieties. For some reason I see this fact as a conflict of interest. How can Rabbi Dratch really advocate for survivors of sex crimes when he also doing his best to protect the assets of the RCA? Remember that Rabbi Mark Dratch is the son-in-law of Rabbi Norman Lamm.

I've heard too many stories of survivors going to him for help and just feeling like they got the run-around. If you are a survivor and went to JSAFE for help, can you let us all know how helpful or unhelpful you found the organization?

I'm scared that JSAFE is really just another arm of the RCA. Please prove to me I'm wrong!

Anonymous said...


Don't blame me for my family's problems. As the owner of the NY Observer, I'm one of the good guys. My newspaper broke the story about an askan with the Iggud Haganovim, Boro Park's Ben Barber, who is raising money for DA Charles Hynes. Hynes is of course bought off and will not bring violators of children to justice.


Brooklyn District Attorney Charlie Hynes is girding for a nasty reelection fight after going after machine powerbroker Clarence Norman. Last night, he spoke at the Borough park residence of Ben Barber, and told an audience of roughly 125 people that he felt he needed to raise $1 million by June.

"He tells people that he is running again, he tells people about his programs and that crime has come down an that he hoped to raise one million or more, which he has done in the past," said Mortimer Matz, a spokesman for Hynes' 2009 reelection campaign, who couldn't confirm last night's meeting but called it possible. "He has brought many cases that involve corruption in Kings County and obviously one is the chairman. Obviously when you do that there is a political structure that isn't going to do to well for you."

Those hard feelings, Matz said, are the reason Hynes is out there so early.


On Tuesday evening, October 24, Ben Barber, of Elegant Linens, hosted a reception in support of Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes. Chassidishe neighborhood activists, organizational leaders, as well as representatives of all of the greater Boro Park community, gathered to show their unreserved support of the district attorney, as he prepares early for the 2009 elections.

Mr. Hynes addressed the assembly, describing the substantial reduction of crime during the 16 years of his tenure, stressing the sensitivity his office places on all cases, especially those dealing in family matters.

Mr. Hynes described his approach to drug cases as follows: narcotics users are directed towards rehabilitation programs, but drug dealers are prosecuted with the full force of the law. This emphasis on crime prevention, Mr. Hynes shared, is the core secret of the great reduction in crime. Where 16 years ago citizens of Brooklyn feared going out at night, today Brooklyn is part of the safest large city in America. Mr. Hynes promised that these guidelines will be carried forward in his work in the years to come.

(The guy who wrote the Jewish Press column is an ex-con and friend of Belsky who serves as Director of the Iggud Haganovim)

Anonymous said...

UOJ's comments on Shafran's Borsalino.

R' Yaakov Kaminetzky zl said it's a chilul Hashem for a ben Torah to wear a dirty or dusty hat. He said if you're too lazy to brush / steam it, you are mechuyev to wear a gray hat because the dust is less noticeable.

Who's the Agudah Comptroller? Maybe they can set aside a few bucks for spokesman Avi to look like a mentch.

Anonymous said...





The price for a groom















Pressure on the guys







How can the young couple afford it?


Anonymous said...

There is no "problem" with Gil or any decent human being who wants to prevent child sex abuse. There is a problem with those anonymous critics who, because of their hypercritical attitudes, are discouraging people from getting involved.

Anonymous said...

Do you think Yaakov Applesauce will arrange for Kolko to go to Regency Estates this summer?

Anonymous said...


Anonymous said...


Now that Margo is moving his assets around, maybe that's where he's keeping the proceeds. Although all that money from real estate is not exactly chump change so I hope he has a really big freezer.

Anonymous said...

There is a problem with Gil if he's "educating" the public with false info. UOJ is 100% right that Gil is coming from sincere intentions, but that doesn't negate that Gil has been putting in a favorable light, the very enabler-monsters that must be stopped. (Gil also gets disingenious when you corner him on what he said).

I bet that Gil has never been involved in a molestation case or heard first hand from any victim in our kehillos. If he has no qualifications, he shouldn't be running around the speaker circuit.

Gil also displayed very poor judgement in dealing with a drug addict breaking & entering all over Brooklyn.

Anonymous said...

What's the difference if I sow my seeds of evil for Kolko in Woodridge? As Hella Winston reported, Kolko is going about business as usual to take kiddies to a water park again next summer.

If you really want to stop Kolko, you would probably have to send his picture being led away in handcuffs to every Six Flags and other park with a certain radius.

Anonymous said...

Knock it off,

Elliot Pasik made a very favorable comment about Gil on his Hirhurim blog. Among other things, Gil quoted a Gemara which says - If there is something wrong with the generation, look at the judges.

As far as I know, this was the first occasion Gil publicly spoke about sex abuse - a far cry from your "running around the speaker circuit". And if he does?, so what. He is a clearinghouse of information, a college graduate and musmach, a publisher and author, an activist with a track record (Slifkin), and an overall bright guy.

I'm not getting the Gil critics.

Paul Mendlowitz said...

Gil is definitely one of the very good guys! He is an accomplised individual and a yodea sefer. He deserves praise for going forward with R' Slifkin's works.

One must have vast experience working within the Haredi community to understand how farkrumt it became. Gil is an adam chashuv, but only relatively recently joined the Flatbush community and has no knowledge at all that I can glean from his statements, that he comprehends the fall from authentic Judaism, the Haredi Establishment is guilty of.

A true chacham or wise person knows what he does "not" know, ask Elliot Pasik Esq.

Anonymous said...

Israel Schnorrer;

Reminds me of the of the old Crazy Eddie TV commercial:

"It's INSANE!!!!!!"

Now with the new Gedolim ban on Chareidi women getting their 4-year Teacher Licenses, chareidi family economic hardships will increase.

Any wonder the Chilonim hate the Chareidim? No work, no service in Tzahal, gornisht. Kvetch de bank with the attitude of "Es Kumt Mir"

I don't think this was the original Yessocher-Zevulun recipe.

Who will stop the madness?

Anonymous said...

Elliot Pasik followed up with another post over there that politely disagreed with Gil's position on enablers and the establishment. Elliot asked very good questions regarding the chronic silence from the complicit parties.

You list Gil's accomplishments, but as UOJ points out, it does not make him a mumche in this area.

Gil also came under fire for the Brooklyn story he was involved in, or according to those in the know, that he badly bungled. Gil comments on his blog about it. He complains that he "doesn't know" how the story got out.

It seems that another thing that Gil underestimates is that UOJ has the ability to get to the bottom of anything that happened out there. Seemingly, any post that's allowed to remain on the blog, no matter how controversial, is true. You call Gil a "clearinghouse of information", but it's in fact UOJ that's light years ahead of him.

One more observation. Gil also touted another recent speaking event. He himself didn't speak there, but someone else who is an unbelievable am haaretz did. If someone went there at Gil's urging, I hope they didn't get misled by that know-nothing.

Anonymous said...


I wonder if UOJ had anything to do with Crazy Eddy Antar being apprehended & locked up!

By the way, there are gedolim like Rav Shteinman who understand that no work equals no money and have been fighting for change. They also don't like that useless batlonim who don't learn anyway park themselves in yeshivos. They think they should go to the frum brigade in Tzahal.

Anonymous said...

Gil deserves a big shkoyech. I think he was the first one that brought to light that that criminal Pinter shmuck instigated the whole Slifkin affair and ran around to get the signatures and make himself relevant. The second I heard he was involved, anything that happened was suspicious. There are many rosh yeshivos who didn't sign because they don't agree with the ban. It seems to me they are hinting that Pinter might've engineered a fraud when they make comments like they don't know if some of the signatures are real and they don't know if some of their rosh yeshiva peers were fed correct information.

To UOJ & the readers. DovBear claims to know that Pinter's buddy Leib Tropper was in on it too. Can anyone corroborate that?

Anonymous said...

Anon 3:22 PM

Was not aware of Rav Shteinman's position on this.

The only Israeli Chareidi leaders that I'm aware of who are pro-work for their Hassidim are the Belzer and Toldos Ahron.

Anonymous said...



reply http://www.zootorah.com/controversy/letter.html

Dear Rabbi Slifkin,
I must conclude that I was very surprised when I read your letter. I have not left religion at all, let alone due to influence from your writing. On the contrary, your books have helped me tremendously!

Anonymous said...

I think Slifkin got some of details a little mixed up. Leib Tropper is not exactly the same age or cup of tea as the Kalmanowitzes. He is most likely friends with Pinter from yeshiva days, so DovBear probably gets it right.

R' Osher is not nearly as extreme as Yankel. If Osher was involved it's because he was manipulated by Leib Pinter who is a liar and criminal snake.

Many in the Mir couldn't understand why a lowlife like Pinter was allowed to march around like he owned the place. He all of a sudden started hanging out one day and raising money because he wanted his son to be a rebbe there. The putz is responsible for tremendous chilul Hashem. After UOJ made a huge shtink about him, the yeshiva was getting criticized enough to finally sideline him.

Pinter's on trial again for big genayvos and could be sent to jail for the rest of his life. He's also not well lately. Something happened that slurs his speech. Hopefully, no one will ever hear from him again.