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• Episode 49 - The Trial of Judah Karkowsky: Part 5 28.05.2026 1ч 33мин

  We're finally finishing the epic saga of the trial of Judah Karkowsky! We were going to cover the trial itself in detail after covering all the pretrial wrangling and testimony highlights, but honestly Karkowsky isn't worth it. In this episode we cover the oral arguments of Karkowsky's appeals. Make sure you're sitting for this one, you might just plotz! To learn more about ZA'AKAH or to donate, visit our website at https://zaakah.org To get in touch with questions, comments, or any ot...
• Episode 48 - The Bizarre Story of Why Quinoa May Be Kosher L'pesach 18.02.2026 47мин

  Another episode from Limmud 2025! This episode is a recording of a session presented by Asher Lovy at Limmud this past year. In this episode you'll learn the (possibly) real story of why the OU finally declared quinoa kosher for Pesach. The story starts with angry caterers desperate to provide kosher l'pesach sushi to the masses, lingers for a while on the horrific attempts by the late Torah Vodaas Rosh Yeshiva, Yisroel Belsky, to bully the victim of Yossi Kolko into dropping his case, and en...
• Episode 47 - Live @ Limmud with Shana Aaronson and Yehudis Fletcher 03.02.2026 57мин

  Three victims advocates walk into a conference, stop us if you've heard this one before! In this episode, Asher Lovy is joined by Shana Aaronson, director of Magen, and Yehudis Fletcher, founder and director of Nahamu, to just kibbitz about what life as an advocate is like. We ricochet back and forth from the hilarious to the horrific, and Shana gets serious about what the essence of our work is about. This episode is a little peek behind the curtain into what goes into this kind of work.&nbs...
• Episode 46 - Nechemia Weberman Needs to Stay in Prison 18.12.2025 1ч 44мин

  When we covered the case against Nechemya Weberman before on Outcry we didn't expect to be covering it again so soon, but a recently filed motion in Kings County Supreme Court, supported by District Attorney Eric Gonzalez, seeks to free him from his 50-year sentence. Weberman was convicted at trial for the repeated rape and sexual assault of a 12 year old girl over the course of three years who was sent to him for unlicensed counseling by the Satmar Vaad Hatznius. After she came forward...
• Episode 45 - The Case Against Lonny Benamy 05.11.2025 53мин

  We're taking a break from our coverage of the Judah Karkowsky trial to cover the case against Yeshiva of Flatbush and Lonny Benamy, a longtime teacher. Lonny was accused in a CVA lawsuit of grooming and sexually abusing a student at Yeshiva of Flatbush. The complaint details a system of grooming that Benamy engaged in to create a group of students who received special favor from him and use that to his advantage. To learn more about ZA'AKAH or to donate, visit our website at https://z...
• Episode 44 - The Trial of Judah Karkowsky: Part 4 27.08.2025 44мин

  In our continuing coverage of the Judah Karkowsky trial we wrap up with the various pretrial motions made by the defense before jury selection. In particular in this episode we get into arguments made by Karkowsky's lawyer about the validity of the case itself, and about whether or not Karkowsky's texts with Aryeh Schulman should be excluded from evidence because Karkowsky believed that he enjoyed attorney client privilege with Schulman. If you haven't listened to parts one and two of...
• Episode 43 - The Trial of Judah Karkowsky: Part 3 23.07.2025 1ч 28мин

  In this episode we do a deep dive on one of the dumbest, most mind-bending, time-consuming arguments made by Karkowsky's lawyer during pretrial motions: The question of whether or not to allow Karkowsky to introduce a full copy of his forged transcript as evidence. But it was forged, you may ask? Shouldn't that preclude it from being held forth as an authentic piece of evidence? Nevertheless his lawyer persisted. If you haven't listened to parts one and two of this series, please listen...
• Episode 42 - Chutzpah: A Memoir of Faith, Sexuality and Daring to Stay - With Yehudis Fletcher 02.07.2025 1ч 22мин

  We are joined this episode by Yehudis Fletcher to discuss her new memoir: Chutzpah: A Memoir of Faith, Sexuality and Daring to Stay. Yehudis is the founder of Nahamu, a UK based research organization focused on the issues of forced and arranged marriage, and sexual and domestic violence. Yehudis leads Nahamu’s analysis of the harms arising from extremism in the Jewish community and shapes our advocacy and policy response. Yehudis has a background in project management and development. She is ...
• Episode 41 - The Trial of Judah Karkowsky: Part 2 21.05.2025 1ч 9мин

  In our continuing coverage of the trial of Judah Karkowsky we do a deep dive on how exactly Karkowsky was caught using a forged transcript of the hearing dismissing his sexual abuse charges to try and con his way back into the Young Israel of Woodmere, and defraud the Woodmere Fire District, and County of Nassau. We also get into some of the pretrial motions that eventually became the basis for Karkowsky's appeal of his guilty verdict. To learn more about ZA'AKAH or to donate, visit o...
• Episode 40 - The Trial of Judah Karkowsky: Part 1 16.04.2025 1ч 43мин

  Judah Karkowsky is perhaps the dumbest criminal we've ever covered on this podcast. After getting off on a technicality for the alleged sexual assault of a child while responding to an EMS call at the Young Israel of Woodmere, Judah Karkowsky decided to test his luck even further. Karkowsky used a forged copy of the transcript of the hearing where his charges were dismissed to try and scam his way back into the Young Israel of Woodmere, and also tried using the same transcript to try and scam...
• Episode 39 - Mile High Monster: The Case Against Rabbi Gavriel Bidany 19.03.2025 50мин

  In March of 2011, Rabbi Gavriel Bidany was arrested for groping an IDF soldier on a plane to the United States. While sitting next to her he reached his hand under her blanket to touch her without her consent. In this episode we discuss what he did, the details of his case, his trial and conviction, and the many people who came to his defense and wrote sentencing recommendations on his behalf. Many of those letters mentioned his particular interest in the young girls and women in the au...
• Episode 38 - The Brothers Tendler Part 2: Rabbi Mordechai Tendler 12.02.2025 58мин

  In our last episode we discussed Rabbi Aron Baruch Tendler and his alleged abuse of students at YULA High School. We began discussing his brother Mordechai as well. In this episode we dive into the details of Rabbi Mordechai Tendler's alleged abuses against women and his firing as rabbi of Kehillat New Hempstead. This episode discusses the specific dynamics of when Rabbis abuse their congregants, how it happens, why it's so damaging, and why it's hard to get justice for this kind of abu...
• Episode 37 - The Brothers Tendler Part 1: It Runs in the Family 08.01.2025 56мин

  In this episode we discuss two brothers, Rabbi Aron Baruch Tendler, and Rabbi Mordechai Tendler, both rabbis in an illustrious family who were accused of using their positions to abuse people. In the case of Rabbi Aron Baruch Tendler, he was accused of abusing girls at YULA High School in Los Angeles. Mordechai was accused of coercing women in his congregation into sex under the pretext of rabbinic counseling. This episode covers the story of Aron Baruch and begins the story of Mordechai. I...
• Episode 36 - The One Where Baltimore's Rabbonim Endanger Everyone's Kids - The Case Against Zev Steen Part 2 13.11.2024 2ч 8мин

  In our last episode we discussed Zev Steen's arrest for the possession and distribution of CSAM as well as the rape and recording of a girl from age 2 to 8. We discussed the letter written by Rabbi Shraga Neuberger on behalf of Steen for his appeal to be granted bond after his second arrest, as well as the roles played by Neuberger, unlicensed therapist Yehuda Bergman, and CHANA clinical coordinator, Laura Greer, in covering up for Steen and then allowing him to become a teacher in Bnos Yisro...
• Episode 35 - The One Where Baltimore's Rabbonim Endanger Everyone's Kids - The Case Against Zev Steen Part 1 30.10.2024 1ч 40мин

  Zev Steen was arrested in late 2022 for possession and distribution of Child Sexual Abuse Materials (CSAM). Authorities quickly realized that he had produced some of it during the course of sexually abusing a 2 year old girl for the next 6 years of her life. The charges were upgraded and the case was moved to federal court. That's when the insanity really started. In this episode we discuss how a high-up in Ner Israel, the Baltimore Av Beis Din, rabbonim, teachers, and therapists, both lice...
• Episode 34 - Why Do Rabbis Love Protecting Convicted Predator Akiva Roth? 28.08.2024 2ч 16мин

  Akiva Roth, son of Conservative bigwig Joel Roth, was accused in 1996 of sexually abusing a number of boys at one of their homes during a Bar Mitzvah lesson. He later pleaded to a lesser charge and managed to avoid jail time or sex offender registry. According to a report by the Forward, Rabbi Chaim Rogoff, a friend of Akiva's father and rabbi of the East Brunswick Jewish Center where Roth worked, made sure that the community knew as little as possible about Roth's arrest and conviction. The ...
• Episode 33 - Penner Penned a Letter (For an Alleged Abuser) 24.07.2024 1ч 25мин

  in 2021, Judah Karkowsky was accused of sexually abusing a child at the Young Israel of Woodmere, and despite the case being dismissed for procedural reasons, Karkowsky was nonetheless suspended from the shul. Following the dismissal of that case, Karkowsky, in an effort to regain his position in shul, forged a transcript of the dismissal hearing to make it look like the judge had dismissed the case on merit grounds. He then used that transcript to try and trick the shul into allowing h...
• Episode 32 - Conversion Therapy is Abusive (with Shlomo Rozenek) 26.06.2024 2ч 5мин

  As pride month comes to a close, we tackle the issue of conversion therapy, sometimes referred to as reparative therapy. Conversion therapy is a phony, bigoted process by which a "therapist" (many of whom are not actually licensed mental health professionals) attempts to "convert" their client from some kind of LGBTQ+ identity to cis/straight. There is absolutely no research that shows that such therapy is effective, let alone possible. Aside from just being quackery, conversion therapy is o...
• Episode 31 - The Case Against Avigdor Kupferstein & Belz (With Yehudis Fletcher) Part 2 19.06.2024 1ч 2мин

  In our last episode covering the Gender Motivated Violence Act case against Belz and Avigdor Kupferstein, we left off with the allegations about Victor having sexually abused his and Dr. Henny Kupferstein's children. In this episode we finish discussing the complaint against him, including his call to ACS against Dr. Kupferstein for the "crime" of going to a postpartum convalescent home, Belz's role in forcing her back into her marriage with Avigdor despite knowing that he was allegedly rapin...
• Episode 30 - The Case Against Avigdor Kupferstein & Belz (With Yehudis Fletcher) 15.05.2024 1ч 26мин

  In November of 2023, Dr Henny Kupferstein filed a lawsuit against her ex-husband, Avigdor Kupferstein, and Kehillas Belz in Boro Park, for rape, physical, and sexual assault she allegedly experienced in her marriage at the hands of her husband, condoned and encouraged, she alleges, by Dayan Cheskel Akiva Gross. What's unique about this lawsuit is how it describes, in great detail, not only the abuse allegedly experienced by Dr Kupferstein, but also the particulars of the chassidish shidduch s...