{"id":51309,"date":"2013-12-07T18:16:22","date_gmt":"2013-12-08T02:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=51309"},"modified":"2013-12-07T18:16:22","modified_gmt":"2013-12-08T02:16:22","slug":"rapist-rabbi-held-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=51309","title":{"rendered":"Rapist Rabbi Held In New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.jewishcommunitywatch.org\/rabbi-arrested-in-boro-park-for-allegedly-hiding-monstrous-sex-crime-record\/\">The New York Post reports<\/a>:<br \/>\nAn ultra-Orthodox rabbi from Israel is being held in New York without bail for allegedly hiding his monstrous sex crime record in order to get a US visa and come to New York.<br \/>\nYakov Yitzchak Roth \u2014 a \u201crebbe\u201d in the Hasidic group Shomrei Emunim \u2014 was arrested Tuesday in Borough Park by cops with the NYPD Special Victim\u2019s Squad.<br \/>\nHe had flown here from Tel Aviv in late August after swearing in a visa application that he had never been arrested or convicted, according to the federal complaint against him.<br \/>\nIn reality, just six months earlier he had finished serving a 16-year sentence on his 1997 conviction in the District Court of Tel Aviv for raping, sodomizing and sexually assaulting a child relative, the complaint said.<br \/>\nRoth\u2019s attorney, Shulamis Peltz, declined to comment on the case, except to say, \u201cThe current allegations are just allegations and have not been proven.\u201d<br \/>\nRoth, whose father, Rabbi Avraham Chaim Roth, led a small congregation of 200 followers in Jerusalem before his death in August, 2012, is due back in Brooklyn Federal Court for a bail hearing on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Post reports: An ultra-Orthodox rabbi from Israel is being held in New York without bail for allegedly hiding his monstrous sex crime record in order to get a US visa and come to New York. Yakov Yitzchak &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=51309\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abuse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51310,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51309\/revisions\/51310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}