Schnitzler’s Famous Fish - (Williamsburg) Brooklyn, NY
Monroe, NY
Meilech Schnitzler allegedly threw bleach into the face of Rabbi Nuchem Rosenberg in an attempt to silence him from advocating for the civil rights of survivors of sex crimes living within the Satmar community in Brooklyn, NY and globally.
Meliech Schnitzler father, Rabbi Shalom Schnitzler, is one of Rabbi Boruch Mordechai Lebovitz's first cousins. Lebovitz is awaiting retrial in February of sexually molesting a teen aged boy.
36-year-old Meilech Schnitzler was charged with felony assault, misdemeanor assault, menacing, criminal mischief and criminal possession of a weapon.
Monroe, NY
Meilech Schnitzler allegedly threw bleach into the face of Rabbi Nuchem Rosenberg in an attempt to silence him from advocating for the civil rights of survivors of sex crimes living within the Satmar community in Brooklyn, NY and globally.
Meliech Schnitzler father, Rabbi Shalom Schnitzler, is one of Rabbi Boruch Mordechai Lebovitz's first cousins. Lebovitz is awaiting retrial in February of sexually molesting a teen aged boy.
36-year-old Meilech Schnitzler was charged with felony assault, misdemeanor assault, menacing, criminal mischief and criminal possession of a weapon.
Mr. Schnitzler, identified in state corporate filings as the chairman of
the company that owns Schnitzler’s Famous Fish.
NOTE: If anyone has a photograph of Meilech Schnitzler please forward it to The Awareness Center.
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Table of Contents
2008
2012
- Message from Vicki Polin
2008
- Rabbi Nuchum Rosenberg claims
that threats against him culminated in his being shot in the forehead
last month by unknown assailants. (11/19/2008)
- Rabbi Nuchem Rosenberg assaulted after Nechemya Weberman’s conviction (12/11/2012)
- Rabbi Nuchem Rosenberg Discharged from Hospital After Attack (12/11/2012)
- Satmar crusader against molestation says bleach was splashed in his face, following
- Nechemya Weberman’s landmark sex abuse conviction (12/11/2012)
- Supporter of Orthodox Jewish sex abuse victim attacked in Brooklyn (12/11/2012)
- Orthodox Rabbi Attacked in Brooklyn (12/11/2012)
- Bleach thrown in face of rabbi who writes about sex abuse in Williamsburg’s Orthodox Jewish community (12/11/2012)
- Chemical Thrown at Rabbi Who Aided Victims of Abuse (12/11/2012)
- (12/11/2012)
- Justice in Williamsburg (12/11/2012)
- Chemical thrown on rabbi who advocated for abuse victims, lawyer says (VIDEO) (12/12/2012)
- New York rabbi who has helped expose child sex abuse in Orthodox community doused with BLEACH after accusing fish store owner of molesting boys (12/12/2012)
- (12/12/2012)
- Abe George's Letter to Charles Hynes Regarding Attack (12/12/2012)
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Advocate for sex abuse victims attacked in Brooklyn (12/12/2012)
- Man Is Charged in Bleach Attack on a Rabbi (12/12/2012)
- Man Is Charged in Bleach Attack (12/12/2012)
- Rabbi Had Accused Alleged Bleach-Thrower's Father of Sexual Abuse (12/12/2012)
- Fishmonger Charged in Bleach Attack on a Rabbi (12/12/2012)
- Rabbi who fought against child sex abuse is attacked with bleach (12/12/2012)
- Arrest made in bleach attack on New York rabbi (12/13/2012)
- Attacker hurls liquid at sex-activist rabbi (12/13/2012)
- Police charge man with throwing chemical at rabbi (12/13/2012)
- Man accused in bleach assault on activist surrenders to police (12/13/2012)
Also see:
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Message from Vicki Polin
The Awareness Center's Daily Newsletter - December 11, 2012
Back In 2008 thugs from the Satmar community attempted to stop Rabbi Nuchem Rosenberg's Godly work of protecting chasidic children. It was a day like any other day that he was walking to shul, when there was an attempt on his life. Rosenberg was shot in the head by a man in a moving car as he walked down a street in Brooklyn. Four years later they it appears that they are still going after him. Don't they realize that the more they attack him the guiltier they look?
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Rabbi Nuchem Rosenberg assaulted after Nechemya Weberman’s conviction
The Awareness Center's Daily Newsletter - December 11, 2012
Those of us connected to The Awareness Center, want to send our thoughts and prayers to our dear friend Rabbi Nuchem Rosenberg.
After being shot, Rabbi Nuchem Rosenberg was named Advocate of the year. Pictured is Vicki Polin, Maryland Senator Jim Brochin and Rabbi Nuchem Rosenberg |
Instead of acting out with violence against those who are trying to protect children, how about coming up with a game plan in how to stop the sexual predators within your community. -- Vicki Polin
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Rabbi Nuchum Rosenberg claims
that threats against him culminated in his being shot in the forehead
last month by unknown assailants.
Jewish Week - November 19, 2008
by Hella Winston And Larry Cohler-Esses
A Williamsburg community activist who has spoken out frequently against child sexual abuse in the Brooklyn Orthodox community claimed Monday that his life had been threatened multiple times as a result.
Rabbi Nuchum Rosenberg claimed that the threats culminated last month when he was “shot” on Berry Street, near the Williamsburg Bridge by unknown assailants.
Speaking at a press conference outside the 90th Precinct Police Headquarters in Williamsburg, Rabbi Rosenberg complained that police were unable to protect him. He pointed to a scarlet wound seared in the middle of his forehead to indicate the spot where he was hit.
But in interviews he gave before and after the press conference, Rabbi Rosenberg said he was actually uncertain just what hit him on the forehead, saying it could have been a pellet gun or even a rock.
“A car flew by as I was walking, and I felt something hit me,” he told The Jewish Week. “I didn’t see what it was.”
Police sources confirmed Rabbi Rosenberg had filed at least three complaints about being harassed or threatened over the last several months. But he acknowledged that he filed a complaint about the attack on him last month several days after it had occurred. Rabbi Rosenberg said the assault took place on Oct. 16, the fourth day of Sukkot, but that he went to the police only after the eight-day Jewish holiday.
Rabbi Rosenberg, 58, said that prior to this incident he was threatened twice at gunpoint by an unknown person speaking Hebrew who warned him to close down a telephone hotline he operated. The Yiddish language hotline featured recorded messages on which Rabbi Rosenberg addressed a host of sensitive community issues, including child sex abuse, and on which he made often incendiary charges.
On one recorded message obtained by The Jewish Week, Rabbi Rosenberg denounced various individuals by name as an “extortionist,” and a “mafia thug.”
The hotline messages also offered educational warnings to children and their families about what to do if confronted by molesting teachers or other adults and advice on how to protect against it.
On both the recorded messages and at his press conference, Rabbi Rosenberg claimed that a group in the Williamsburg community known as the Meshmeris Ha’Tznius, or Guardians of Modesty, protected pedophiles and other sexual offenders in exchange for money.
“It’s a gang,” he said at the press conference. “They’re getting white envelopes with green leaves inside.”
Law enforcement officials and community leaders have long reported that victims of sex crimes in insular, ultra-Orthodox Brooklyn communities frequently will not go to the authorities, severely limiting their ability to investigate and prosecute such crimes. Most attribute this to social strictures and community and rabbinic pressures against turning to outside, secular authorities that would expose the community to external scrutiny on matters considered shameful.
State Assembly Member Dov Hikind says he has compiled dossiers of at least 1,000 cases of child sexual abuse in Brooklyn Orthodox communities, based on first-hand accounts of victims and their families who have come to him. Many involve molestation of children at the hands of yeshiva teachers and rabbis, he says. But “99 percent” will not go to the authorities, he told The New York Times.
Benzion Twerski, an Orthodox psychologist who agreed to serve on a community panel formed by Hikind to address the issue, resigned last September after one week, citing communal pressure on him and his family.
But at his press conference, Rabbi Rosenberg said that in exchange for extortion payoffs by perpetrators, Meshmeris Ha’Tznius in Williamsburg protected sexual predators from exposure and pressured the families of any victims that might think of going to the authorities not to do so.
On his hotline, “I said who they are and what they are,” he said. “I told the stories that they tried to extort $10,000 from this one and $10,000 from that one.
“I even told them stories that when a girl was raped, they went to the rapist and they took out the money from him, and they never gave help to the girl that was raped. They tell the father don’t you dare have anything to do with the people that are trying to investigate. It’s against the Jewish law.”
Rabbi Rosenberg’s claims could not be independently confirmed. But there is no doubt the hotline provoked a fierce firestorm of denunciation against Rabbi Rosenberg.
Last July, 33 rabbis signed a public condemnation of Rabbi Rosenberg published in Der Blatt, a Yiddish language weekly paper based in Williamsburg.
“He speaks all kinds of dirt that the mind can’t tolerate, that come from places that are impure and makes other people impure,” the ad said, warning readers not to call his hotline. “He should stop from his bad ways and shut his dirty mouth.
“This destroyer is like a stone that is thrown at the Jewish people, and his position is like a transgressor who makes the public transgress,” the ad said.
The rabbis stated that Rabbi Rosenberg should not be allowed to pray with any congregation and that no one should hire him as a consultant on the building of ritual baths, which is his profession.
Yitzchak Glick, a member of the Central Rabbinical Congress, a body that represents many of the rabbis who signed onto the ban, declined to comment about the decree or Rosenberg’s allegations.
Another tract, distributed anonymously throughout Williamsburg, depicted a twisting snake with Rabbi Rosenberg’s head superimposed over the serpent’s, his forked tongue sticking out.
“Cursed are you from every wild animal,” the leaflet decried, citing him by name. “The name of this evil person should be obliterated. Get out unholy one. Obliterate the snake (Nuchem Satan) from all corners of the world.”
The ad by the 33 rabbis and others signed by the “Meshmeris Ha’Tznius” denounced Rabbi Rosenberg as a moser, one who endangers a Jewish community by informing on it to secular authorities.
Historically, in the shtetls of Europe, when Jews were persecuted, someone found to be a moser could be put to death. But “there is a general consensus today that this doesn’t apply,” said Rabbi Mark Dratch of JSafe, a group dedicated to preventing child abuse and domestic violence in the Jewish community. “I would [assume] that none of these rabbis were literally calling for his assassination. That said, I am not saying that they did not mean to intimidate him. He was being intimidated.”
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Jewish Week - November 19, 2008
by Hella Winston And Larry Cohler-Esses
A Williamsburg community activist who has spoken out frequently against child sexual abuse in the Brooklyn Orthodox community claimed Monday that his life had been threatened multiple times as a result.
Rabbi Nuchum Rosenberg claimed that the threats culminated last month when he was “shot” on Berry Street, near the Williamsburg Bridge by unknown assailants.
Speaking at a press conference outside the 90th Precinct Police Headquarters in Williamsburg, Rabbi Rosenberg complained that police were unable to protect him. He pointed to a scarlet wound seared in the middle of his forehead to indicate the spot where he was hit.
But in interviews he gave before and after the press conference, Rabbi Rosenberg said he was actually uncertain just what hit him on the forehead, saying it could have been a pellet gun or even a rock.
“A car flew by as I was walking, and I felt something hit me,” he told The Jewish Week. “I didn’t see what it was.”
Police sources confirmed Rabbi Rosenberg had filed at least three complaints about being harassed or threatened over the last several months. But he acknowledged that he filed a complaint about the attack on him last month several days after it had occurred. Rabbi Rosenberg said the assault took place on Oct. 16, the fourth day of Sukkot, but that he went to the police only after the eight-day Jewish holiday.
Rabbi Rosenberg, 58, said that prior to this incident he was threatened twice at gunpoint by an unknown person speaking Hebrew who warned him to close down a telephone hotline he operated. The Yiddish language hotline featured recorded messages on which Rabbi Rosenberg addressed a host of sensitive community issues, including child sex abuse, and on which he made often incendiary charges.
On one recorded message obtained by The Jewish Week, Rabbi Rosenberg denounced various individuals by name as an “extortionist,” and a “mafia thug.”
The hotline messages also offered educational warnings to children and their families about what to do if confronted by molesting teachers or other adults and advice on how to protect against it.
On both the recorded messages and at his press conference, Rabbi Rosenberg claimed that a group in the Williamsburg community known as the Meshmeris Ha’Tznius, or Guardians of Modesty, protected pedophiles and other sexual offenders in exchange for money.
“It’s a gang,” he said at the press conference. “They’re getting white envelopes with green leaves inside.”
Law enforcement officials and community leaders have long reported that victims of sex crimes in insular, ultra-Orthodox Brooklyn communities frequently will not go to the authorities, severely limiting their ability to investigate and prosecute such crimes. Most attribute this to social strictures and community and rabbinic pressures against turning to outside, secular authorities that would expose the community to external scrutiny on matters considered shameful.
State Assembly Member Dov Hikind says he has compiled dossiers of at least 1,000 cases of child sexual abuse in Brooklyn Orthodox communities, based on first-hand accounts of victims and their families who have come to him. Many involve molestation of children at the hands of yeshiva teachers and rabbis, he says. But “99 percent” will not go to the authorities, he told The New York Times.
Benzion Twerski, an Orthodox psychologist who agreed to serve on a community panel formed by Hikind to address the issue, resigned last September after one week, citing communal pressure on him and his family.
But at his press conference, Rabbi Rosenberg said that in exchange for extortion payoffs by perpetrators, Meshmeris Ha’Tznius in Williamsburg protected sexual predators from exposure and pressured the families of any victims that might think of going to the authorities not to do so.
On his hotline, “I said who they are and what they are,” he said. “I told the stories that they tried to extort $10,000 from this one and $10,000 from that one.
“I even told them stories that when a girl was raped, they went to the rapist and they took out the money from him, and they never gave help to the girl that was raped. They tell the father don’t you dare have anything to do with the people that are trying to investigate. It’s against the Jewish law.”
Rabbi Rosenberg’s claims could not be independently confirmed. But there is no doubt the hotline provoked a fierce firestorm of denunciation against Rabbi Rosenberg.
Last July, 33 rabbis signed a public condemnation of Rabbi Rosenberg published in Der Blatt, a Yiddish language weekly paper based in Williamsburg.
“He speaks all kinds of dirt that the mind can’t tolerate, that come from places that are impure and makes other people impure,” the ad said, warning readers not to call his hotline. “He should stop from his bad ways and shut his dirty mouth.
“This destroyer is like a stone that is thrown at the Jewish people, and his position is like a transgressor who makes the public transgress,” the ad said.
The rabbis stated that Rabbi Rosenberg should not be allowed to pray with any congregation and that no one should hire him as a consultant on the building of ritual baths, which is his profession.
Yitzchak Glick, a member of the Central Rabbinical Congress, a body that represents many of the rabbis who signed onto the ban, declined to comment about the decree or Rosenberg’s allegations.
Another tract, distributed anonymously throughout Williamsburg, depicted a twisting snake with Rabbi Rosenberg’s head superimposed over the serpent’s, his forked tongue sticking out.
“Cursed are you from every wild animal,” the leaflet decried, citing him by name. “The name of this evil person should be obliterated. Get out unholy one. Obliterate the snake (Nuchem Satan) from all corners of the world.”
The ad by the 33 rabbis and others signed by the “Meshmeris Ha’Tznius” denounced Rabbi Rosenberg as a moser, one who endangers a Jewish community by informing on it to secular authorities.
Historically, in the shtetls of Europe, when Jews were persecuted, someone found to be a moser could be put to death. But “there is a general consensus today that this doesn’t apply,” said Rabbi Mark Dratch of JSafe, a group dedicated to preventing child abuse and domestic violence in the Jewish community. “I would [assume] that none of these rabbis were literally calling for his assassination. That said, I am not saying that they did not mean to intimidate him. He was being intimidated.”
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By Vicki Polin
Examiner - December 11, 2012
Threats made against Rabbi Rosenberg back in 2008 after being shot. |
According to a reliable source, Rabbi Rosenberg is currently being
treated at a hospital emergency room in Brooklyn, after Lebovits’s
relative allegedly threw bleach in Rosenberg’s face. Several high
ranking chasidic leaders are blaming Rabbi Rosenberg for numerous
arrests and convictions of sexual predators living within the Satmar community, including the conviction of Nechemya Weberman earlier this week. Weberman was an unlicensed counselor who sexually assaulted a teenage girl under his care.
This was not the first time that Rabbi Rosenberg was assaulted. Back
in 2008 he was stopped on the street several times at knife point while
being warned to shut down his hotline in which he provides information
in Yiddish regarding how to protect children from sexual predators. It
was around this same time he was shot in the head after not obeying the
warnings.
Watch Video:
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Satmar crusader against
molestation says bleach was splashed in his face, following Nechemya
Weberman’s landmark sex abuse conviction
Nathan (Nuchem) Rosenberg says he was walking down Williamsburg street when approached by man with cup of bleach
1 comment:
While I can’t speak about this parsha about the causes, or what the issues were because I really dont know the details of this parsha or what exacerbated this story One thing I can say is that there are some in the community who are lunatics and are hellbent on being idiots.It seems sheer lunacy to abuse someone or hurt someone because of their outspoken nature. Nuchem Rosenberg has a right to speak . freedom of expression is the idea that every individual should be able to decide for him or herself which opinions and information are of value and worth sharing with others.a community should not impose on its members a duty to express information or opinions which they do not support or consider false or useless. There are a number of men in the community who can’t conceive other people as having open minds, who think they have the exclusive rights to a culture of thinking and that talking about things considered controversial topics is exclusive of ambition, independence, and intelligence. All this has to change and it will change we live in america not a gulag or under some dictatorship. It seems sheer lunacy to abuse someone because he talks, you dont have to listen to him, dont listen to his hotline or dont read his blogs, but you have no right to abuse him or do violant things to him, this attitudes and behavior has to change and will change god willing
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