Case of Rabbi Avraham Rabinowich
Former Director, Bellmore Jewish
Center - Bellmore, NY
Former Vice President, Long Island Board of Rabbis - Bellmore, NY
Former Vice President, Long Island Board of Rabbis - Bellmore, NY
Rabbi Rabinowich was a married conservative rabbi who was hiring women to have sex with him. He was caught on a video over the Jewish sabbath.
A New York judge has dismissed
a lawsuit that was filed by Avraham Rabinowich against the New York Post
over a video purportedly showing him in a hotel-room tryst with
alleged prostitutes. Rabbi Rabinowich claimed he lost his position working at the Bellmore Jewish Center because of the publicity of the film clip.
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Table of Contents:
Table of Contents:
- The 'randy' rabbi(07/11/2011)
- Avraham Rabinowich, Long Island Rabbi, Videotaped With Prostitute on the Sabbath (07/11/2011)
- Rabbi Avraham Rabinowich Busted By Estranged Wife For Hiring Prostitutes On Sabbath (07/11/2011)
- Randy Rabbi 'caught on tape in bed with a prostitute' - after a sting set up by his wife
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- Long Island Rabbi Busted by Ex-Wife for Hiring Prostitutes on the Sabbath (07/11/2011)
- Dreidel-as-Metaphor: Long Island Rabbi Caught in Sex Scandal, NY Post Reports (07/11/2011)
- The New York rabbi and the Shabbat sex scandal (07/12/2011)
- Court Document (09/13/2011)
- 'Randy Rabbi' Raging Mad at NY Post (09/16/2011)
2012
- NY Post wins bid to dismiss suit over 'randy' rabbi story (09/08/2012)
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The 'randy' rabbi
Prostitution sting in angry ex-wife's suit
By Rebecca Rosenberg
New York Post - July 11, 2011
Rabbi Avraham Rabinowich -- who leads the wealthy, Conservative Bellmore Jewish Center and is vice president of the Long Island Board of Rabbis -- allegedly made appointments with prostitutes on the Sabbath shortly after services.
He was then caught on camera in a hotel room enjoying some hard-core, commandment-breaking action, according to blockbuster court papers filed in state Supreme Court in Manhattan.
She managed to have Rabinowich secretly filmed with a call girl and entered the photographic evidence into the record of the bitter custody case.
"Since when are prostitutes kosher?" Amora Rabinowich told The Post. "He was coming to court claiming he was this pious individual, but he was using the phone on the Sabbath to meet prostitutes.
"And what kind of rabbi is he? He didn't even take these prostitutes to the mikvah [Jewish ritual cleansing bath] first.
"What is he doing, praying or laying?"
Rabbi Rabinowich responded to the shocking claims by saying only, "I have no response. Have a nice day."
His lawyer, Jeffrey Lewisohn, called the wife's discovery a "setup" and downplayed the matter, saying, "It doesn't matter, this was five or six years ago."
Malcolm Taub, a former lawyer for the rabbi, blasted Amora, saying, "This is a very sick woman . . . This man has gone through hell with this woman."
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Avraham Rabinowich, Long Island Rabbi, Videotaped With Prostitute on the Sabbath
By Joe Conscarelli
The Village Voice - July 11, 2011
Dr. Amora Rachelle, the ex-wife of Avraham Rabinowich, vice president of
the Long Island Board of Rabbis, is going hard in her custody battle
with a pretty inexcusable, not-so-secret weapon, which she's handed
right over to the New York Post.
With the help of a private investigator, Amora taped her children's
father being serviced by a call girl and her madam, who was actually
Amora's private eye. "Since when are prostitutes kosher?" Amora asked,
with expert media savvy. "And what kind of rabbi is he? He didn't even
take these prostitutes to the mikvah [Jewish ritual cleansing
bath] first. What is he doing, praying or laying?" The rabbi said he had
"no response," though his lawyer piped up to call the sting a "setup"
(well, yes) and insist, "It doesn't matter, this was five or six years
ago." It was six months before the couple's divorce was finalized.
"I am tall and nice-looking, don't worry, I'm OK," the rabbi
reportedly told the madam/P.I. The tape, part of which can be seen below
(with blurs, but still probably NSFW), was taken at a hotel in Queens on March 18, 2006.
The mother is now attempting to move her children to the West Coast
and has made a power play by releasing the dirty parts of her sting.
"If you're not doing something relevant in front of the children, it
doesn't have an impact on the judge's decision," the rabbi's lawyer
claims. Do the newspaper and internet count as "in front of the
children?" Dirty tricks all around.
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Rabbi Avraham Rabinowich Busted By Estranged Wife For Hiring Prostitutes On Sabbath
The Huffington Post - July 11, 2011
The New York Post reports today that Rabbi Avraham Rabinowich, leader of the conservative Bellmore Jewish Center and vice president of the Long Island Board of Rabbis, allegedly made appointments with prostitutes on the Sabbath shortly after services.
Rabinowich's estranged wife, Amora, managed to secretly film one of
Rabinowich's scandalous hotel rendezvous's with a call girl after having
heard of her holy hubby's penchant for prostitutes (he allegedly
arranged the trysts after Sabbath services using his cell phone)-- and
entered the photographic evidence into the record of a bitter custody
trial.
"Since when are prostitutes kosher?" Amora told the Post, adding "And what kind of rabbi is he? He didn't even take these prostitutes to the mikvah [Jewish ritual cleansing bath] first."
The tapes, from a few years ago, weren't allowed in court and the
couple was given joint custody of their three children. It seems Amora,
a respected psychologist, released the tapes to the Post for fun, or
perhaps in anticipation that the footage would further tarnish
Rabinowich's reputation as she plans to make a motion in court to move
the kids out to the West Coast.
The news is the latest in a series of New York area stories of Rabbis
behaving badly. Rabbi Gavriel Bidany was convicted in May of fondling an Israeli Army officer on a JFK-bound plane. Brooklyn Rabbi Saul Kassin was convicted in June of using a charity he controlled to illegally funnel money to Israel. And also in June, David Twersky, a rabbi in Rockland County New York, was accused of ordering followers to burn down the house of a synagogue member who defected to another congregation.
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Randy Rabbi 'caught on tape in bed with a prostitute' - after a sting set up by his wife
Daily Mail - July 11, 2011
A prominent New York Rabbi thought he
was setting up a romp with a sexy call girl -- but instead he ended up
in bed with a private investigator hired by his estranged wife.
Rabbi
Avraham Rabinowich, vice president of the Long Island, NY Board of
Rabbis, allegedly had a habit of cavorting with prostitutes.
Some of this encounters even took place on the Sabbath
after services concluded, according to Manhattan court records.
Rabinowich is seen relaxing on the
hotel bed while two women -- one of whom is the undercover investigator
-- hover over him and attend to his needs.
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enraged Amora blasted her former husband, telling the Post: 'And what
kind of rabbi is he? He didn't even take these prostitutes to the mikvah [Jewish ritual cleansing bath] first. What is he doing, praying or laying?'
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The New York rabbi and the Shabbat sex scandal
By Jennifer Lipman
Jewish Chronicle - July 12, 2011
A rabbi and his wife are engaged in a court battle over his alleged involvement with prostitutes and her role in a sting operation to catch him.
Long Island rabbi Avraham Rabinowich, who is even alleged to have hired prostitutes on Shabbat – after services - was secretly filmed by a private investigator. The investigator had been hired by his wife Dr Amora Rachelle during a custody fight.
The father-of-three is the vice president of the Long Island Board of Rabbis and a highly respected rabbi in New York's Masorti Jewish community.
The case dates back to 2006, when the rabbi was filmed in a hotel room with two women.
Dr Rachelle, who said "since when are prostitutes kosher?", also told the New York Post that she was particularly angered by her supposedly pious husband's failure to take the women to a mikvah (ritual bath).
The case continues at the Manhattan state Supreme Court.
A rabbi and his wife are engaged in a court battle over his alleged involvement with prostitutes and her role in a sting operation to catch him.
Long Island rabbi Avraham Rabinowich, who is even alleged to have hired prostitutes on Shabbat – after services - was secretly filmed by a private investigator. The investigator had been hired by his wife Dr Amora Rachelle during a custody fight.
The father-of-three is the vice president of the Long Island Board of Rabbis and a highly respected rabbi in New York's Masorti Jewish community.
The case dates back to 2006, when the rabbi was filmed in a hotel room with two women.
Dr Rachelle, who said "since when are prostitutes kosher?", also told the New York Post that she was particularly angered by her supposedly pious husband's failure to take the women to a mikvah (ritual bath).
The case continues at the Manhattan state Supreme Court.
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NY Post wins bid to dismiss suit over 'randy' rabbi story
By Jessica Dye
Reuters - September 28, 2012
NEW YORK, Sept 28 (Reuters) - A New York judge has dismissed
a lawsuit a Long Island rabbi brought against the New York Post
over a video purportedly showing him in a hotel-room tryst with
alleged prostitutes.
Avraham Rabinowich claimed he lost his job as the chief
rabbi of a prominent conservative congregation as a result of a
Post story and video published on July 11, 2011, under the
headline "The 'randy' rabbi -- Prostitution sting in angry
ex-wife's suit." Rabinowich claimed he had been lured to the
hotel room by his former wife, Amora Rabinowich, while the two
were locked in a bitter custody dispute. He sued the newspaper
and Amora Rabinowich, who hired the private investigator that
shot a video of him in 2006, according to the ruling.
In granting the Post's motion to dismiss, Manhattan Supreme
Court Justice Anil Singh said that Rabinowich had only
challenged the truth of two points in the story: that he had
knowingly engaged prostitutes and that he broke the Jewish
Sabbath to arrange to meet them.
"Other than those two allegations, based on the amended
complaint and plaintiff's affirmation, the story is
substantially true and is not actionable," Singh wrote in
Thursday's ruling.
The Post story was about how Rainowich was allegedly caught
"with his Dreidel out" in the video obtained by the newspaper.
The video, which has been removed from the Post's website,
depicted Rabinowich reclining while an alleged prostitute
caressed and kissed him, according to the ruling. In the video,
Rabinowich is nude from the waist up, and a dreidel is
superimposed to obscure any nudity below the waist, the ruling
stated. A dubbed version of "The Dreidel Song" played over
voices in the background, the ruling said.
Rabinowich says he lost his post with the Bellmore Jewish
Center in Long Island after the video and accompanying article
ran.
In his 2011 lawsuit, he sued for defamation, invasion of
privacy and interference with a divorce settlement finalized in
2010, which he said forbade the parties from publishing pictures
or video to hurt the other's reputation. The lawsuit sought an
unspecified amount of damages.
Singh said that Rabinowich had failed to state a defamation
claim, which requires a plaintiff to plead falsity under New
York Civil Practice Law and Rules 3016.
Addressing Rabinowich's claim that his right to privacy had
been violated, the judge noted that under Civil Rights Law
Section 51, which bars the use of an individual's name or
likeness without written consent for trade or advertising
purposes, there is an exception for "newsworthy matters."
"Newsworthiness is construed broadly, with the courts
reviewing the exercise of judgment and discretion of journalists
only in cases of clear abuse," Singh wrote.
In addition to dismissing the suit against the Post, the
judge granted the rabbi's cross-motion to file a second amended
complaint against Amora Rabinowich, which said that the Post had
published an additional defamatory story on July 11, 2001,
reporting that she had been charged with practicing psychology
without a license. The judge said the second amended complaint
could not be brought against the Post because it did not cure
the deficiencies of the first amended complaint.
Rabinowich's lawyer, Eric Morrison, said his client was
"disappointed with the court's findings" and was considering an
appeal. A spokeswoman for the Post declined to comment. No
lawyer was listed for Amora Rabinowich, who could not be reached
for comment.
The case is Rabinowich v. NY Post Holdings Inc, New York
State Supreme Court, New York County, No. 110427/2011.
For Rabinowich: Eric Morrison of Morrison & Wagner.
For the New York Post: Katherine Bolger of Levine Sullivan Koch & Schulz.
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