<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1348362332881174326</id><updated>2011-12-12T09:20:12.674-08:00</updated><category term='site down'/><category term='leib tropper'/><category term='pr'/><category term='rabbi leib tropper'/><category term='shlomo amar'/><category term='end of leib tropper'/><category term='kol yaakov'/><category term='shannon orand'/><category term='kol koreh'/><category term='lies'/><category term='snake'/><category term='con'/><category term='rabbi abba dunner'/><category term='horizons'/><category term='rockland journal'/><category term='resigns'/><category term='lubicom'/><category term='smoke and mirrors'/><category term='ejf site'/><category term='erin gentry'/><category term='tax records'/><category term='monsey'/><category term='sex tape'/><title type='text'>Rabbi Leib Tropper  | Exposed on TROPPERGATE.com , Exposing Fake, Foney, Frauds, one at a time.</title><subtitle type='html'>Welcome to Troppergate. Troppergate is the new buzzword for all that is wrong in Judaism. We are a Jewish group that diligently expose fake foney frauds one at a time. Starting with Rabbi Leib Tropper</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eternaljewishfraud.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1348362332881174326/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eternaljewishfraud.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Eternal Jewish Fraud Stoppers</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00809086995055193950</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>17</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1348362332881174326.post-4900216375242858293</id><published>2010-04-16T14:38:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-04-16T15:10:40.529-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Twist in the Tropper Case.</title><content type='html'>The Tress family, issued an injunction to Kol Yaakov barring them from selling or transfer title of it until the Beis Din makes a ruling. It seems that that Rebetzen Tress, Wife of the Late Rabbi Tress .The actual founder (though Tropper claims to be)  and original Rosh Yeshiva of Kol Yaakov, is sick and tired of the way it is being run and wants to take the reigns.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;See the Hazmonah to Beis Din Here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rGAblFbsSlM/S8jgHqnCJMI/AAAAAAAAACM/pbVVHMk24Ck/s1600/page0001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 308px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rGAblFbsSlM/S8jgHqnCJMI/AAAAAAAAACM/pbVVHMk24Ck/s400/page0001.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460860970488440002" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rGAblFbsSlM/S8jgSZRAk8I/AAAAAAAAACU/npZ7gxcoypw/s1600/page0002.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 308px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rGAblFbsSlM/S8jgSZRAk8I/AAAAAAAAACU/npZ7gxcoypw/s400/page0002.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460861154811220930" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1348362332881174326-4900216375242858293?l=eternaljewishfraud.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eternaljewishfraud.blogspot.com/feeds/4900216375242858293/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://eternaljewishfraud.blogspot.com/2010/04/twist-in-tropper-case.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1348362332881174326/posts/default/4900216375242858293'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1348362332881174326/posts/default/4900216375242858293'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eternaljewishfraud.blogspot.com/2010/04/twist-in-tropper-case.html' title='Twist in the Tropper Case.'/><author><name>Eternal Jewish Fraud Stoppers</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00809086995055193950</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rGAblFbsSlM/S8jgHqnCJMI/AAAAAAAAACM/pbVVHMk24Ck/s72-c/page0001.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1348362332881174326.post-1350917407020748318</id><published>2010-02-16T10:18:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-04-12T19:42:02.179-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='kol koreh'/><title type='text'>Tropper's admission of guilt and resignation - A blow by blow</title><content type='html'>The progression of events have been as follows:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last Tuesday afternoon, leading Rabbinic figures in Monsey met. That meeting was put together by Rabbi Dovid Ribiat and was chaired by one of the most senior Roshei Yeshiva in Monsey, HaGaon HaRav Moshe Green Shlita, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva D’Monsey.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Others present at that Tuesday meeting included Rav Shlomo Breslauer Shlita, Rav of Beis Tefillah; Rav Yisroel Dovid Schlesinger, of K’hal Shaarei Tefillah; Rav Chaim Schabes the Morah D’Asra of Knesses Yisroel in New Hempstead; Rav Shlomo Zalman Kaufman, Dayan of the Beis Horaah Beis Din and Rav Ben Tzion Kokis, Rav of K’hal Zichron Mordechai in South Monsey.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The idea was to have an expanded meeting on Sunday in Yeshiva Beis Mikreh of Monsey. There, the Rabbonim were to sign this Kol Koreh below.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://failedmessiah.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b71f69e20120a8a73e8b970b-800wi"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 329px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5438912876980333442" border="0" alt="" src="http://failedmessiah.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b71f69e20120a8a73e8b970b-800wi" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;&lt;p&gt;Click on the image from FailedMessiah.com to see the full size document &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;The Kol Koreh would proclaim Tropper a menuval and demand of Tropper to resign all his posts and to leave Monsey. A messenger of the Rabbonim, Rabbi Yehuda Weissler, was dispatched to summon Tropper and to have him make himself available at 10:30 PM. Rabbi Weissler got hold of Tropper by phone and informed him of what the Rabbonim wanted.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the mean time, one of the Rabbonim who attended the first meeting, Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Schlesinger, had been having several private meetings with Leib Tropper, and Rabbi Schlesinger began trying to forestall the consequences of severe Rabbinic censure on Tropper and to save Tropper from the embarrassment of having the Kol Koreh publicized.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At this point, rumours were swirling that the &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIdvvFH_shM"&gt;Tropper Sex Video tape&lt;/a&gt; were made public on the internet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rabbi Schlesinger, prevailed upon Tropper to sign two agreements at the eleventh hour one to the Hanholah of Kol Yaakov&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://failedmessiah.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b71f69e2012877aa0383970c-800wi"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 371px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5438913184632830194" border="0" alt="" src="http://failedmessiah.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b71f69e2012877aa0383970c-800wi" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;&lt;p&gt;Click on the image from FailedMessiah.com to see the full size document &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Interestingly Tropper gets to keep all the money that Kol Yaakov has which includes over 10 million given by Tom Kaplan and Guma Aguir.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And another one similar to the one above, in addition to his promising to leave Monsey, &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://failedmessiah.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b71f69e2012877aa04cf970c-800wi"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 371px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5438913057044348178" border="0" alt="" src="http://failedmessiah.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b71f69e2012877aa04cf970c-800wi" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;&lt;p&gt;Click on the image from FailedMessiah.com to see the full size document &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;in which he would both step down and agree to a number of the demands of the Rabbis.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The agreement that Tropper signed began, “In not fulfilling the requirement of Shulchan Aruch that a leader be “Pirko No’eh”, the undersigned is relinquishing his position..” It further stated that he releases all rights and severs any connection he has to his former Yeshiva in Monsey and withdraws forthwith as a trustee of the organization.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tropper also agreed to move out of Monsey within a few months. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And appointed Rav Aharon Schechter the Rosh Yeshiva of Chaim Berlin and Reb Elya Ber Wachtfogel and Rabbi Dovid Wolpin to be in charge of picking a new Rosh Yeshiva.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Looks like at the end of the day Tropper get off with a slap on the wrist and millions of dollars, he is now free to settle in any other Jewish community.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1348362332881174326-1350917407020748318?l=eternaljewishfraud.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eternaljewishfraud.blogspot.com/feeds/1350917407020748318/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://eternaljewishfraud.blogspot.com/2010/02/troppers-resignation-blow-by-blow.html#comment-form' title='18 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1348362332881174326/posts/default/1350917407020748318'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1348362332881174326/posts/default/1350917407020748318'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eternaljewishfraud.blogspot.com/2010/02/troppers-resignation-blow-by-blow.html' title='Tropper&apos;s admission of guilt and resignation - A blow by blow'/><author><name>Eternal Jewish Fraud Stoppers</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00809086995055193950</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>18</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1348362332881174326.post-3584294658147904085</id><published>2010-02-16T07:02:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-16T07:47:34.245-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='monsey'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='snake'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rabbi leib tropper'/><title type='text'>Rabbi Leib Tropper crawls back from under the rock he came from</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rGAblFbsSlM/S3q570uc4LI/AAAAAAAAABU/A2VQNfGAkGY/s1600-h/Brown%2520snake%2520Midland%2520rez.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 400px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 279px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5438863937420189874" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rGAblFbsSlM/S3q570uc4LI/AAAAAAAAABU/A2VQNfGAkGY/s400/Brown%2520snake%2520Midland%2520rez.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rabbi Leib Tropper has finally conceded to Monsey Rabbonim and agreed to have no connection to his Yeshiva. He has also agreed to leave Monsey, NY within 3 months.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Read the full story here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://5tjt.net/index.php?option=com_content&amp;amp;view=article&amp;amp;id=206:leib-tropper-scandal-finally-put-to-rest&amp;amp;catid=2:international&amp;amp;Itemid=9"&gt;Leib Tropper Scandal Finally Put to Rest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We here at Troppergate.com attribute his final demise and downfall to the following top 5 list.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. A few good Rabbi's who despite the odds and his backing of Gedolei Hador, would come out againts him, this includes Rabbi Dunner in London and Rav Moshe Sternbuch in Israel. Kudos also go to the Monsey Rabbonim who finally said enough is enough.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. The audio tapes and finally video tape which was released by Troppergate.com on Sunday, and was announced as "the nail in the coffin" to Tropper by the Monsey Beis Din.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Rabbi Tropper's enemies and those he has wronged in the past, like Guma Agiur and Rabbonim and ex talmiddim who he had wronged. They all worked behind the scenes to make sure Tropper's reign of terror would be halted. This also includes newspapers and blogs who relentlessly worked over the years, around the clock to keep an eye on Tropper and report the news when everyone one else was silent.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;A mini top 5 list for these blogs are&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;5. The Unorthodox Jew&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;4. Tooting our own horn, Troppergate.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;3. Five Towns Jewish Times and Tablet Magazine.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;2. Daattorah.blogspot.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;1. FailedMessiah.com who helped break the story and had exclusive interviews with Orand.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Shannon Orand, who though at first participated in some of Tropper's lurid acts, had the courage to break free from his control and expose him for the monster that he is.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. and the #1 reason for Tropper's demise was Rabbi Leibish Tropper own big ego that had finally caught up with him. He thought he was untouchable because he had all the major Rabbonim backing him up, that he could act like Zimri and claim the reward of Pinchas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lesson of the day Kids:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rGAblFbsSlM/S3q6uwMkkfI/AAAAAAAAABk/IIvKs0McMvU/s1600-h/BioShot_DD_html.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 252px; HEIGHT: 302px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5438864812377674226" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rGAblFbsSlM/S3q6uwMkkfI/AAAAAAAAABk/IIvKs0McMvU/s320/BioShot_DD_html.gif" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rGAblFbsSlM/S3q6eIZXKkI/AAAAAAAAABc/BfwAYHU6Y1I/s1600-h/BioShot_DD_html.gif"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;It is too bad that it took 30 years for him to have his day.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;We mourn all the talmiddim who went off the derech and could have been in a better place if not for Tropper.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1348362332881174326-3584294658147904085?l=eternaljewishfraud.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eternaljewishfraud.blogspot.com/feeds/3584294658147904085/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://eternaljewishfraud.blogspot.com/2010/02/rabbi-leib-tropper-crawls-back-from.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1348362332881174326/posts/default/3584294658147904085'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1348362332881174326/posts/default/3584294658147904085'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eternaljewishfraud.blogspot.com/2010/02/rabbi-leib-tropper-crawls-back-from.html' title='Rabbi Leib Tropper crawls back from under the rock he came from'/><author><name>Eternal Jewish Fraud Stoppers</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00809086995055193950</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rGAblFbsSlM/S3q570uc4LI/AAAAAAAAABU/A2VQNfGAkGY/s72-c/Brown%2520snake%2520Midland%2520rez.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1348362332881174326.post-7808342547171536081</id><published>2010-02-14T15:51:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-04-12T19:48:01.392-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='monsey'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rabbi leib tropper'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sex tape'/><title type='text'>The Rabbi Leib Tropper "Sex" Tape !!!!!!!</title><content type='html'>Hat Tip: Hanavon:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here we have concise visual evidence, not just audio evidence that Tropper is a menuval. Ofcourse Tropper chassidim, the same pea brains who say that the audio tapes were not really Tropper but just fancy editing of Tropper's voice, will say that this is not Tropper and his wife, but actors with make up, made up to look exactly like them and directed by Steven Spielberg. As if someone would care to go to those lengths, or they will say that Tropper was just giving them a medical check up, or that they were all just coming back from the pool. It will not matter if Tropper himself climbs up on the Kol Yaakov yeshiva in Monsey and shouts out that he is guilty, they will just say it is not really Tropper.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; For those of you who are not so naive, and know Tropper you can easily see that this is the  Rabbi Leib Tropper "Sex" Video. Depicting Tropper and his deviant escapades in a hotel with 2 woman. It is not the best quality, but their is no mistaking Tropper and his fat belly, at the video start you see Tropper shirtless putting his underwear back on and then , getting his oversized pants and trademark suspenders back on, Thus video only shows AFTER footage of his wife and another woman finishing up whatever it is they did in bed, Rabbi Tropper is seen getting dressed and kissing this other woman who is not his wife many times at the end he puts his wallet and cell phone back in his pants.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And now without further ado..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/xIdvvFH_shM&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/xIdvvFH_shM&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh and by the way, even Rebbitzen Leba Tropper is caught on this tape below discussing this tape, and the other woman from Texas S.O. admits that this is her in the tape.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At the time S.O. the woman from Texas was playing dumb on the phone conversation, because she was trying to collect evidence againts Tropper, because she was trying to escape his grasp. He wanted her to have sex with several men and she did not want to. She was taping him to show the tapes to Rabbonim who head EJF so that they would believe her over Rabbi Tropper and so that her geirus would not be compromised.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is Leba in a conversation with S.O. discussing this tape, and  worried that people can pick them all out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;‘LEBA TROPPER’: It certainly, people who know you and people who know Leib could pick us out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/9cuuqWeFIq4&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/9cuuqWeFIq4&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;UPDATE: We contacted Rabbi Tropper's camp, and it looks like the official story that Tropper and his wife cooked up to cover up for this is that though it looks like it is them in the video, that this is in fact not them, and it is actors posing as them.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1348362332881174326-7808342547171536081?l=eternaljewishfraud.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eternaljewishfraud.blogspot.com/feeds/7808342547171536081/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://eternaljewishfraud.blogspot.com/2010/02/exclusive-rabbi-leib-tropper-sex-tape.html#comment-form' title='23 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1348362332881174326/posts/default/7808342547171536081'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1348362332881174326/posts/default/7808342547171536081'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eternaljewishfraud.blogspot.com/2010/02/exclusive-rabbi-leib-tropper-sex-tape.html' title='The Rabbi Leib Tropper &quot;Sex&quot; Tape !!!!!!!'/><author><name>Eternal Jewish Fraud Stoppers</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00809086995055193950</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>23</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1348362332881174326.post-6095602750217374942</id><published>2010-02-03T10:24:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-04-12T19:45:00.808-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='resigns'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='leib tropper'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='end of leib tropper'/><title type='text'>Purim comes in early this year !!!Rabbi Leib Tropper the Menuval steps down!</title><content type='html'>Menuval Tropper has finally had some sense knocked into his head and fearing a full scale rebuke by Monsey Rabbi's and a possible jail sentence as well as threats of a new tape being released, he has thrown in the towel,  hung up his black hat and resigned from Horizons and Kol Yaakov.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He told students at Kol Yaakov this today at 9:15 AM.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They are now in the process of looking for a new Rosh Yeshiva, Rabbi Dovid Stefansky will likely be named to take over.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1348362332881174326-6095602750217374942?l=eternaljewishfraud.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eternaljewishfraud.blogspot.com/feeds/6095602750217374942/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://eternaljewishfraud.blogspot.com/2010/02/tropper-menuval-steps-down.html#comment-form' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1348362332881174326/posts/default/6095602750217374942'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1348362332881174326/posts/default/6095602750217374942'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eternaljewishfraud.blogspot.com/2010/02/tropper-menuval-steps-down.html' title='Purim comes in early this year !!!Rabbi Leib Tropper the Menuval steps down!'/><author><name>Eternal Jewish Fraud Stoppers</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00809086995055193950</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1348362332881174326.post-1973806698378721444</id><published>2010-01-17T12:14:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-17T12:20:03.979-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='leib tropper'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='site down'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ejf site'/><title type='text'>EJF Web site Shut Down!</title><content type='html'>EJF's Web site &lt;a href="http://www.eternaljewishfamily.org/"&gt;http://www.eternaljewishfamily.org/&lt;/a&gt; has been shut down.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the site they claim:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(17, 51, 68); font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;h3 style="margin: 20px 0px 20px 35px; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;strong style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Please Note:&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This site is currently undergoing renovations.&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please watch for grand reopening.&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Everybody knows that a site doesn't just shut down for renovations. The old site is kept up until the the new one is put in place.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obviously they have something to hide or certain Rabbi's and Botei din no longer want their names and testimonials on their site.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not to worry readers, we at Troppergate.com have saved an exact copy of the old site, complete with all files and photos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today their site is out of business, tomorrow THEY will be!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1348362332881174326-1973806698378721444?l=eternaljewishfraud.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eternaljewishfraud.blogspot.com/feeds/1973806698378721444/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://eternaljewishfraud.blogspot.com/2010/01/ejf-web-site-shut-down.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1348362332881174326/posts/default/1973806698378721444'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1348362332881174326/posts/default/1973806698378721444'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eternaljewishfraud.blogspot.com/2010/01/ejf-web-site-shut-down.html' title='EJF Web site Shut Down!'/><author><name>Eternal Jewish Fraud Stoppers</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00809086995055193950</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1348362332881174326.post-3292729898137858643</id><published>2010-01-13T10:14:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-13T10:15:31.335-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='monsey'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='leib tropper'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='horizons'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='kol yaakov'/><title type='text'>Leib Tropper's smart career move</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"&gt;&lt;p style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;If Leib Tropper were by some chance  to segue into a career as a Jewish music singer, he’d better take care not to perform material that’s too “creative,” or dangerously approaching a vague similarity to “goyish” music. If he does, hoo-boy, he’ll be in big trouble. In some corners of the frum world, the rabbinical establishment would come down on him like a ton of bricks. Cherems [bans] and kol korays [proclamations] would be flying. They’d have no choice you understand: the Jewish people’s very status as an Am Kadosh V’tahor [a holy and pure nation] would be at stake. Children, even adults, would be in desperate danger of being led astray. Rabbinical leaders, no doubt, would stand up to be counted; weighing in on a life and death issue in which silence simply would not be an option.&lt;br /&gt;Similarly, he’d be smart to not go into the human hair sheitel business, or author honest biographies of great modern sages, or open a Chareidi news website in Israel. A guy could get into a lot of trouble dabbling in such spiritually dangerous lines of work.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;If Tropper decides to leave Monsey and relocate to the Five Towns, he’d better not start a blog. As a former “doer” — someone who made things happen in the Jewish world — the last thing we would want to see is for him to become a lowly blogger — some kind of journalistic bottom feeder with nothing better to do than to point out others’ misdeeds.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span id="more-11791" style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;No. A much smarter play by Tropper would be to keep doing exactly what he’s doing right now. He should be a rosh yeshiva and the head of a Jewish outreach organization. Apparently, no one’s going to say a word about that.&lt;br /&gt;Even after being caught on tape in the worst, most compromising sort of way (see story&lt;a href="http://wp.me/ph7HD-33W" style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); text-decoration: none;"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;), he’s still running his yeshiva in Monsey and heading a non-profit through which flows millions of dollars — millions that were the source of his power in the world of Orthodox conversions and (who knows?) may yet be again.&lt;br /&gt;If you catch some zealot’s ear the wrong way with Jewish music that isn’t quite Jewish enough, you run the real risk of that someone making it his business to shut you down, put you out of business and simply break you — and all by rabbinical fiat; nice and kosher.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;But Tropper is literally getting a free pass.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Are we the only ones taking crazy pills or does anyone else find it strange that virtually not a single prominent rabbinical figure outside the leadership of the Rabbinical Council of America (RCA) — and they are hardly household names — has said a public word about the incredible scandal this man created? After years of instigating holier-than-thou controversies over conversions and other issues, funded by someone else’s millions, Tropper was unmasked as the worst sort of hypocrite — he has denied nothing — and yet, he continues to go to the office each day and call himself a rosh yeshiva.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Really, this one takes the cake.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Jewish Star.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1348362332881174326-3292729898137858643?l=eternaljewishfraud.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eternaljewishfraud.blogspot.com/feeds/3292729898137858643/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://eternaljewishfraud.blogspot.com/2010/01/leib-troppers-smart-career-move.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1348362332881174326/posts/default/3292729898137858643'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1348362332881174326/posts/default/3292729898137858643'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eternaljewishfraud.blogspot.com/2010/01/leib-troppers-smart-career-move.html' title='Leib Tropper&apos;s smart career move'/><author><name>Eternal Jewish Fraud Stoppers</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00809086995055193950</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1348362332881174326.post-45043615453538432</id><published>2010-01-13T06:29:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-13T06:31:31.277-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='leib tropper'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='shannon orand'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='shlomo amar'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='con'/><title type='text'>The Con of Leib Tropper</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px;"&gt;&lt;div class="entry-title" style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px 0px 6px; outline-width: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.225em;"&gt;&lt;h1 style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-style: inherit; font-size: 30px; line-height: 1.225em; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Con Game&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h2 style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-style: inherit; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.225em; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;How a New York rabbi tried to remake the rules on converting to Judaism, until a sex tape—and a family feud between his wealthy backers—brought him down&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p style="border-width: 0px; margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.3em;"&gt;&lt;span class="txt_author" style="border-width: 0px; margin: 4px 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.5em; text-transform: uppercase; color: rgb(166, 166, 166);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a class="a2a_dd addtoany_share_save" href="http://www.addtoany.com/share_save?&amp;amp;linkurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tabletmag.com%2Fnews-and-politics%2F23483%2Fcon-game%2F&amp;amp;linkname=Con%20Game" style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.225em; color: rgb(228, 86, 32); text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="img_main" style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.225em; width: 400px; float: left;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.tabletmag.com/wp-content/plugins/fresh-page/files_flutter/1263338772tropper_010810_380pxG.jpg" class="img_large" alt="Tropper, at left, at a 2006 Eternal Jewish Family conference with Shlomo Amar, the Sephardic chief rabbi of Israel, and Nachum Eisenstein, a leading Jerusalem rabbi, in a photo on the EJF website." style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.225em; width: 380px; height: 254px;" /&gt;&lt;p style="border-width: 0px; margin: 6px 20px 6px 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.3em; color: rgb(166, 166, 166);"&gt;Tropper, at left, at a 2006 Eternal Jewish Family conference with Shlomo Amar, the Sephardic chief rabbi of Israel, and Nachum Eisenstein, a leading Jerusalem rabbi, in a photo on the EJF website.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-width: 0px; margin: 6px 20px 6px 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.3em; color: rgb(166, 166, 166);"&gt;&lt;small style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1.225em;"&gt;CREDIT:&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.eternaljewishfamily.org/site/programs/rabbiconferences/" style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1.225em; color: rgb(228, 86, 32); text-decoration: none;"&gt;EternalJewishFamily.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="border-width: 0px; margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.3em;"&gt;&lt;em style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: italic; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.225em;"&gt;This is the first in a series.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-width: 0px; margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.3em;"&gt;December was a very bad month for Rabbi Leib Tropper, a powerful ultra-Orthodox rabbi who has been seeking to determine the standards for conversion in Israel and throughout the world through his little-known yet influential organization, Eternal Jewish Family. First, black-and-white posters appeared on walls in Jerusalem and other Israeli cities threatening public disgrace if the rabbi refused to “cease his filth.” While the definition of “filth” was left up to readers’ imagination, photos and video were prominently mentioned in the text, which demanded that Tropper suspend his involvement in performing religious conversions.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-width: 0px; margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.3em;"&gt;On December 14, Eternal Jewish Family—which is based in the ultra-Orthodox enclave of Monsey, New York, and backed by the billionaire board president of New York’s 92nd Street Y, and his nephew, who owns one of Israel’s most famous soccer clubs—suddenly announced that its founder was resigning his post to “pursue a variety of other interests,” the details of which were again were left to readers’ imaginations.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-width: 0px; margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.3em;"&gt;Two days later, the filth appeared online: audio tapes, allegedly of the rabbi, trying to coerce a single mother from Houston into having sex with other men for money—and as the price of her conversion to Judaism.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-width: 0px; margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.3em;"&gt;“Would you have a problem with just talking about sex to a guy, or only actually doing it?” the man asks on one of the tapes. In another, he reassures her, “I could roleplay a rape with you, but I couldn’t actually rape you.” A third featured explicit phone sex between the two. Shortly after the tapes surfaced, the hopeful convert, a minister’s daughter named Shannon Orand, told the blogger Shmarya Rosenberg—who has covered the story on his blog,&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://failedmessiah.typepad.com/" style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.225em; color: rgb(228, 86, 32); text-decoration: none;"&gt;Failed Messiah&lt;/a&gt;—that the rabbi had said, “If you fulfill my needs, I’ll fulfill yours—and you need a conversion.” Through an attorney, Tropper released a statement that admitted no wrongdoing but expressed regret for “what has appeared to be conduct not within our significant laws of modesty.” (When Tablet Magazine reached Tropper by phone at his home in Monsey to request comment, he simply said, “No, no,” and hung up.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-width: 0px; margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.3em;"&gt;The sex tapes appeared to support the allegations of misconduct against Tropper, and they briefly elevated what started out as internecine rumor-mongering among ultra-Orthodox factions into legitimate tabloid fodder. (“Tal-Mood for Love,” read the headline above a brief item in the&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;em style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: italic; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.225em;"&gt;New York Post&lt;/em&gt;.) To more sensitive listeners, the tapes exhibited not just the particular sexual perversions of a rabbi from Monsey, but also the moral horror of a religious figure exploiting the trust of a woman who was hoping to join the Jewish religion and who was dependent on his authority. (Orand completed her conversion in Jerusalem last week under the auspices of a different Orthodox rabbi.).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-width: 0px; margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.3em;"&gt;Other than the mention in the&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;em style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: italic; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.225em;"&gt;Post&lt;/em&gt;, mainstream American newspapers ignored what is surely one of the weirdest, most embarrassing, and most consequential scandals in recent Jewish history. Mainstream rabbinical and Jewish communal organizations in the United States also chose to be silent. Yet the rise and fall of Leib Tropper raises fundamental questions about the abuse of a closed process in which a small group of ultra-Orthodox authorities are allowed to set their own binding terms for conversion to Judaism using the authority of the State of Israel and without any meaningful oversight. It is also the story of how an almost unknown rabbi managed to become one of the most powerful authorities on the question of conversion, fueled not by a superior knowledge of the Talmud but by access to something that appears to be even dearer to the hearts of the modern rabbinical establishment: money.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-width: 0px; margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.3em;"&gt;Tropper is a rare figure in the Jewish world: a creature of the insular ultra-Orthodox community whose relationships tie him to Texas oil fields, professional sports teams in Israel, and mainstream secular Jewish organizations—specifically, the 92nd Street Y, one of New York’s best-known Jewish community institutions, and home to one of the city’s most exclusive preschools. After spending more than two decades toiling in relative obscurity in Monsey, Tropper catapulted four years ago into the milieu of Israel’s powerful ultra-Orthodox rabbinate, propelled by the patronage of his two powerful and wealthy patrons: Thomas Kaplan, the billionaire oil and mining wildcatter, and his nephew, Guma Aguiar.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-width: 0px; margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.3em;"&gt;Now 32 years old, Aguiar was born to a Jewish mother but raised as an evangelical Christian. Kaplan, —the younger brother of Aguiar’s mother, Ellen—introduced Aguiar to Tropper in 2003, after Aguiar had already begun exploring Judaism. Under the rabbi’s tutelage, Aguiar adopted a Hebrew name—Yehuda Dovid—and, in 2007, made aliyah to Israel, where he has become a celebrity, thanks to his recent investments in the Beitar Jerusalem soccer team and Hapoel Jerusalem, the city’s basketball franchise. Kaplan and Aguiar cemented a philanthropic relationship with Tropper by directing millions of dollars to his Eternal Jewish Family. That money, in turn, enabled Tropper to influence determinations of which rabbis would have the authority to perform conversions—that is, to determine who is and who is not a Jew.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-width: 0px; margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.3em;"&gt;“On a personal level, he was not particularly well respected,” said Rosenberg, who is a fierce critic of the ultra-Orthodox world on his blog. “But insert EJF and conversions into it, along with Tom Kaplan’s money and Guma’s money, and suddenly Tropper became one of the most powerful rabbis in the world.”&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-width: 0px; margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.3em;"&gt;Tropper’s relationship with Kaplan and Aguiar, once the source of his power, ultimately played a role his undoing. For the past year, the two men have been locked in an Oedipal court battle over the $2.55 billion fortune resulting from the 2007 sale of their natural-gas exploration company, Leor Energy, to the oil giant EnCana. Tropper agreed to appear as a witness for Kaplan, and, in response, Aguiar turned against his former mentor. According to Tropper’s wife, Laurel Blond, Aguiar made a phone call to the rabbi’s house in March in which he claimed he had “thousands of rabbis praying for Tom Kaplan’s death” and encouraged the rabbi to “switch sides.” In early April, Aguiar confronted Tropper in Jerusalem at the David Citadel Hotel and, according to court records, threatened to throw the rabbi off a ninth-floor balcony.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-width: 0px; margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.3em;"&gt;Then, in October, Aguiar sued Tropper in an Israeli court, claiming that the rabbi misappropriated donations. “He had gone to Rabbi Tropper for several years as his rabbi—he had confidential discussions with him, he was his spiritual advisor,” Aguiar’s lawyers told a federal judge in Florida last June. (Kaplan’s attorney, Harley Tropin, said in a statement that Kaplan would not comment on the Tropper scandal in light of ongoing litigation.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-width: 0px; margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.3em;"&gt;When the sex-tape scandal broke last month, Aguiar was among those who forwarded the audio recordings of Tropper’s conversations with Orand to Failed Messiah’s Rosenberg, ensuring that the rabbi would be publicly humiliated. In a phone conversation with Tablet Magazine, Aguiar initially said he forwarded the audio “to some people because I thought they were funny,” but subsequently said he only sent the recordings in response to a request from Rosenberg. “There’s no such thing as revenge,” Aguiar said. “It’s just exposing the truth.”&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-width: 0px; margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.3em;"&gt;Aguiar said Kaplan introduced him to Tropper in 2003, after he had already begun studying Judaism with another Monsey rabbi, Tovia Singer, who specializes in reaching out to evangelical Christians who, like Aguiar, were born Jewish, and getting them to “return” to Judaism. With his uncle, Aguiar was instrumental in prompting Tropper to expand beyond his work with&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;em style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: italic; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.225em;"&gt;baalei teshuva&lt;/em&gt;—returning Jews—into the world of conversions. (Aguiar’s wife, Jamie, whom he met in high school, is a blond former evangelical Christian who converted to Judaism.) By 2004, according to emails filed in one of the federal court cases, Tropper had started writing a manual designed to streamline conversions among the various religious courts in America. That year, Kaplan’s foundation gave Tropper’s organization $154,000; the next year, Kaplan and Aguiar directed more than $700,000 to the rabbi’s group.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-width: 0px; margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.3em;"&gt;In early 2006, Tropper told a reporter that EJF was going to offer “Cadillac conversions” to non-Jews who were concerned about making sure their conversions—and, particularly for those converting to marry, their children’s status as born Jews—would be recognized by religious authorities in Israel, where full citizenship depends on it. Tropper offered a clever soundbite: “Why settle for a broken Chevy, which may go down the highway but nobody wants it in their driveway?”&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-width: 0px; margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.3em;"&gt;The timing for Tropper’s new product line couldn’t have been better. A feud that had been simmering for years between Israel’s insular, powerful rabbinate and American rabbis erupted into full-scale war in April 2006, when Shlomo Amar, Israel’s Sephardic chief rabbi, announced that he would not automatically recognize conversions approved by the Rabbinical Council of America, the main union of Modern Orthodox rabbis. (The Israeli chief rabbinate does not recognize any conversions, marriages, or other rabbinical functions performed by Reform or Conservative rabbis, on the grounds that the Reform and Conservative movements do not recognize halachic authority and hence are no longer branches of Judaism). Amar’s announcement created a groundswell of interest in Tropper’s Cadillacs, and the rabbi spent lavishly to promote his brand of specially certified conversions to the ultra-Orthodox rabbinate. According to financial records, in 2006 Tropper spent $1.6 million—more than double his previous year’s budget—hosting conferences and paying for rabbis to attend his educational programming, including a lavish Jerusalem summit in July 2006 at the five-star David Citadel devoted to “Improving Conversions and Preventing Intermarriage.” Amar turned up, along with Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi Yonah Metzger and Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, a nonagenarian considered to be one of the ultra-Orthodox world’s leading halachic authorities.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-width: 0px; margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.3em;"&gt;Overnight, the rabbi from Monsey had become a major power broker in the ultra-Orthodox world in both America and in Israel. In 2007, the last year for which federal tax records are available, Tropper distributed $2.3 million in scholarships and hundreds of thousands of dollars more in unspecified travel and conference accommodations from his Monsey redoubt.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-width: 0px; margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.3em;"&gt;Tropper has been removed from his post at Eternal Jewish Family—which is still chaired by Kaplan—and, according to the group’s executive director, Rabbi Dovid Jacobs, has also been replaced at Horizons, EJF’s parent organization. It isn’t clear whether he remains in control of his yeshiva, Kol Yaakov; a person who answered the phone there Tuesday refused to comment. But in the weeks since Tropper’s downfall, no one in the ultra-Orthodox world has been willing to officially criticize or reprimand the rabbi for what appear to be his profound and sickening sins. At a December meeting, the Council of Torah Sages, the halachic body of Agudath Israel, an ultra-Orthodox umbrella group, discussed the scandal but decided against issuing a comment. Only the Modern Orthodox Rabbinical Council of America has condemned Tropper’s behavior: “What we have heard, if true, violates the fundamental elements of all that Judaism holds sacred,” the council said in a statement, adding that the rabbis welcomed any of Tropper’s victims for counseling.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-width: 0px; margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.3em;"&gt;“It’s like Nixon,” said Tovia Singer, the rabbi who initially sparked Aguiar’s interest in Judaism. “The damage has obviously been done to the haredi community and the more that they’re in denial the more damage it’ll do.”&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-width: 0px; margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.3em;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-width: 0px; margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.3em;"&gt;From Tablet Magazine&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1348362332881174326-45043615453538432?l=eternaljewishfraud.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eternaljewishfraud.blogspot.com/feeds/45043615453538432/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://eternaljewishfraud.blogspot.com/2010/01/con-of-leib-tropper.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1348362332881174326/posts/default/45043615453538432'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1348362332881174326/posts/default/45043615453538432'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eternaljewishfraud.blogspot.com/2010/01/con-of-leib-tropper.html' title='The Con of Leib Tropper'/><author><name>Eternal Jewish Fraud Stoppers</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00809086995055193950</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1348362332881174326.post-8857034342445996805</id><published>2010-01-12T12:25:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-12T12:29:04.202-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rabbi abba dunner'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='leib tropper'/><title type='text'>Leib Tropper's EJF still tries to defend it's "good name"</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px;"&gt;The Following is a sequence of attack's and counter attacks on Leib Tropper's EJF organization, by world renowned Rabbi Abba Dunner from England.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="/news/read.asp?Id=5581" style="color: rgb(0, 114, 188); text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;span class="title23" style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;Interview with Conference of European Rabbis&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="title234"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Rav Dunner Speaks Out Against EJF&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;color:#999999;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;The Conference of European Rabbis is the primary Orthodox Rabbinic organization in Europe. It was founded in 1956 on the initiative of British Chief Rabbi Sir Israel Brodie, and its current executive director is Rabbi Aba Dunner. All the chief Rabbis across Europe joined the organization, and attended its first conference in Amsterdam.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="/news/read.asp?Id=5581" style="color: rgb(0, 114, 188); text-decoration: none;"&gt;Click here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;to read the full story.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px;"&gt;&lt;a href="/news/read.asp?Id=5588" style="color: rgb(0, 114, 188); text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;span class="title23" style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;Eternal Jewish Family Response&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;color:#999999;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;To the Editor:&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Your interview with Rabbi Aba Dunner, the executive director of the Conference of European Rabbis (January 7, 2010), unfortunately twists the truth about Eternal Jewish Family International (EJF) and is, to say the least, insulting to leading Gedolei Yisroel.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="/news/read.asp?Id=5588" style="color: rgb(0, 114, 188); text-decoration: none;"&gt;Click here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;to read the full story.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px;"&gt;&lt;a href="/news/read.asp?Id=5589" style="color: rgb(0, 114, 188); text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;span class="title23" style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;ANALYZING THE EJF RESPONSE TO RAV DUNNER&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="title234"&gt;&lt;b&gt;By Pinchas Shapiro&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Your interview with Rabbi Aba Dunner, the executive director of the Conference of European Rabbis (January 7, 2010), unfortunately twists the truth about Eternal Jewish Family International&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;RAV DUNNER IS A HIGHLY RESPECTED VENERABLE RAV IN EUROPE.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="/news/read.asp?Id=5589" style="color: rgb(0, 114, 188); text-decoration: none;"&gt;Click here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;to read the full story.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and finally Rabbi Dunner responds with the death blow of truth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px;"&gt;&lt;a href="/news/read.asp?Id=5595" style="color: rgb(0, 114, 188); text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;span class="title23" style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;Rav Dunner Responds to EJF Attack&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="title234"&gt;&lt;b&gt;No Punches Pulled&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="/news/read.asp?Id=5595" style="color: rgb(0, 114, 188); text-decoration: none;"&gt;Click here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;to read the full story.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1348362332881174326-8857034342445996805?l=eternaljewishfraud.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eternaljewishfraud.blogspot.com/feeds/8857034342445996805/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://eternaljewishfraud.blogspot.com/2010/01/leib-tropper.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1348362332881174326/posts/default/8857034342445996805'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1348362332881174326/posts/default/8857034342445996805'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eternaljewishfraud.blogspot.com/2010/01/leib-tropper.html' title='Leib Tropper&apos;s EJF still tries to defend it&apos;s &quot;good name&quot;'/><author><name>Eternal Jewish Fraud Stoppers</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00809086995055193950</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1348362332881174326.post-1055393731243632979</id><published>2010-01-12T12:11:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-12T12:19:45.293-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='leib tropper'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tax records'/><title type='text'>Still sniffing the money trail</title><content type='html'>CLAIM BY EJF:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rabbi Leib Tropper, the organization’s former director, has resigned and no longer has any role in the organization &lt;br /&gt;========================================== &lt;br /&gt;This is not true, Tropper is still the owner of HORIZONS BAIS ACHIEZER INC. EIN (EIN=13-4077539) which is the organization behind EJF and Kol Yaakov &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He still write checks and runs the organization (together with David Jacob). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Check their income tax and see how much money they transferred to other organizations &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://dynamodata.fdncenter.org/990_pdf_archive/134/134077539/134077539_200712_990.pdf"&gt;http://dynamodata.fdncenter.org/990_pdf_archive/134/134077539/134077539_200712_990.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1348362332881174326-1055393731243632979?l=eternaljewishfraud.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eternaljewishfraud.blogspot.com/feeds/1055393731243632979/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://eternaljewishfraud.blogspot.com/2010/01/still-sniffing-money-trail.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1348362332881174326/posts/default/1055393731243632979'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1348362332881174326/posts/default/1055393731243632979'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eternaljewishfraud.blogspot.com/2010/01/still-sniffing-money-trail.html' title='Still sniffing the money trail'/><author><name>Eternal Jewish Fraud Stoppers</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00809086995055193950</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1348362332881174326.post-4020581135117777649</id><published>2009-12-25T13:11:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-25T13:15:10.500-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='leib tropper'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lies'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='smoke and mirrors'/><title type='text'>Smoke and Mirrors That Tropper is Spreading On Other Blogs</title><content type='html'>FACT:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyone who has ever heard Tropper speak, knows without a shadow of a doubt that it is him on those tapes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FACT: He stepped down from EJF days before the tape came out, knowing that he would no longer be able to be head of EJF once the tapes are out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FACT: He has never denied the tapes. And has come out with an apology for his behavior.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Below is smoke and mirrors sent to other blogs including mine, in this case Luke Ford posted it on his blog:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://lukeford.net/blog/?p=15054&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ST emails: Dear Luke, you have given much attention to the Tropper scandal, and rightfully so I think it would be nice to at least show a little of the other side of the story. From the blogs it would seem as is there is no other side, but in fact in the chareidi world, and I’m referring to the Chareidi world that in principle does not have Internet (Yes they do exist in large numbers!) there is a view that by many is assumed as the obvious. That view is not the view being shown on any blog that I have come across. So being that I have always found you to be someone which frequently shows other views even though it may not be yours, I’d like to request that you post this message.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An OPEN LETTER to Rabbi Daniel Eidenson of Har Nof Jerusalem. Rabbi Eidenson has in recent years been in the forefront in trying to bring down Rabbi Tropper. He has been doing this through his blog which for the past few years has primarily been focusing on reporting anything negative on Rabbi Tropper. Rabbi Eidenson through his blog was one of the first to report and spread the word about the current scandal regarding Rabbi Tropper. His negative statement’s regarding Rabbi Tropper have recently been quoted on many other blogs. He is very much ‘on top’ of the current scandal, and is very often the one to come up with new negative information for other blogs to post.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dear Rabbi Eidenson,&lt;br /&gt;A few questions for you:&lt;br /&gt;1. Do you know for a fact that the voice on the audio is Tropper’s voice? If yes, can you tell how you know this.&lt;br /&gt;2. Even if it is his voice, who said these are not cut n paste sentences from months of recorded conversations with various people put together as a frame (listen to the audio W/O the woman’s voice, its not half as bad)?&lt;br /&gt;3. Does you realise that there is no dispute as to who released these tapes. And A) that person has a very strong hate for R’ Tropper. B) He has been accused of threatening to kill him. C) He has been accused of threatening to throw him out of a 9 story bldg. D) He has claimed that he is Mashiach. This has been documented. E) His wife is a non Jew with a very shaky geirus at best. F) Many in his family claim that he is not stable and is on drugs. G) There is a million dollar lawsuit to which Tropper has been called to testify against this person.&lt;br /&gt;4. Do you realize that the above said person by the name of Guma Aguiar is a billionaire who has unlimited amount of funds to bring down Tropper, and could have easily paid good money to someone to talk on the tapes, or paid big money to bug the phones and do a cut n paste job with this women talking as if Tropper was talking to her. Or a combination of both tactics in making these tapes? Lets not forget that Hollywood movies are totally made like that from beginning to end. Cut and paste, impersonations, etc. nothing a BILLIONAIRE couldn’t get done if he hated someone as much as Guma hates Tropper.&lt;br /&gt;5….&lt;br /&gt;6.DO YOU REALISE THAT THIS WOMEN IS AN OLD FRIEND OF GUMAS?&lt;br /&gt;Its not so hard to connect the dots.&lt;br /&gt;Although Rabbi Tropper did release a statement today regarding the scandal, it was a very “pareve” statement, and he did not admit to anything other than violating issues of modesty. Now, of course one can try and derive from the statement that he is in fact admitting guilt by not denying the allegations, and by in fact actually admitting to ‘partial wrong doing’. The fact of the matter is that after the statement was released Rabbi Tropper has openly said the accusations are totally false and were fabricated to smear him. Therefore claiming that he admits that he did wrong to answer the above questions is is a non answer, since as of now he is denying it. In addition to this he has many reputable Rabonim and Roshei Yeshiva standing on his side. I highly doubt they would do that if: A. they thought he was guilty, and B. He was admitting his guilt.&lt;br /&gt;It is known that that there are many believing that the allegations on Tropper (which you in your great Tzidkus had a hand in spreading) are false…even after hearing the tapes. In addition you yourself have raised some points in your post “the case for Rabbi Troppers defense” which leave room for many to believe that he may NOT be guilty of all the Lashon Horah/ Motzi Shem Rah being spread by Balei Lashon Horah.&lt;br /&gt;There are many who have questioned this blog, here and elsewhere, as being full of Lashon Horah.&lt;br /&gt;I see you quote R’ Shternbuch as saying “there is no problem to say that Tropper is a menuval or a sheigitz (Megila 25) and in fact it should be publicized that he is a menuval.” Although I have not heard him say this myself, and frankly I find this hard to believe that he would give you such a heter (I plan on asking him if he really said that as soon as I can), I will assume for the sake of this letter that you are not lying. So if that is case, the question is: how can someone Pasken give a heter to say lashon Horah and/or Motzi Shem Rah, both of which are life and death (clearly that is the case with Tropper- if people will except this gossip, he is finished) based on a Gemara (megila 25, as you said) when the mefarshim (see Chofetz Chaim Klal 7, #4, and Be’er Mayim Chaim #8) there speak at length what the gemarah means. And by no means in anyone’s rational interpretation does this Tropper story come close to the criteria!&lt;br /&gt;I also see that you took the liberty to pasken on your own based on you’re convenient interpretation of other gemarah’s etc., CONTRARY to what is ruled by the Chofetz Chaim in his sefer on Lashon Horah very explicitly.&lt;br /&gt;Now there are 2 possibilities. 1) R’ Shterbuch never said this, and you made this up. And you twisted the Gemara completly avoiding the poskim to fit your needs. Just as the reform and conservative do with the Bible. And just as you have accused others of doing, rendering you a total hypocrite. On top of that, this renders you a fraud in portraying yourself as one who is very zealous for the Torah, and on the other hand you have no regard for the terrible sin of Lashon Horah etc. which is unquestionably far worse then anything you are accusing Tropper of.&lt;br /&gt;2) R’ Shternbuch did say this based on fabricated facts that you fed him out of your obssesive hate for Tropper.&lt;br /&gt;I find it hard to believe that R’ Shternbuch would not know what the mefarshim say on that Gemarah and Pasken against the Chofetz Chaim who is the unquestionable Posik Achron when it comes to laws pertaining to Lashon Horah.&lt;br /&gt;As for you, it might be worthwhile to actually LEARN the Sugyas Hagemarah before you use it for distorted purposes, and showing everyone your lack of ability to learn a Gemarah.&lt;br /&gt;So if the whole story was indeed a set-up, you had a hand in ruining someones life. You had a hand in ruining the life of his wife and children (who I’m sure are suffering very much). And although you might be giddy now at seeing the downfall of someone who you have made your enemy (Your happiness is evident…). Shlomo Hamelech said: Do not be happy when your enemy falls…For G-D will be upset with you and will turn his anger away from him [and put onto you, (mefarshim)]. (Proverbs24 17-18) I believe Shlomo Hamelech. Maybe you will end up being another proof to his wisdom.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1348362332881174326-4020581135117777649?l=eternaljewishfraud.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eternaljewishfraud.blogspot.com/feeds/4020581135117777649/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://eternaljewishfraud.blogspot.com/2009/12/smoke-and-mirrors-that-tropper-is.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1348362332881174326/posts/default/4020581135117777649'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1348362332881174326/posts/default/4020581135117777649'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eternaljewishfraud.blogspot.com/2009/12/smoke-and-mirrors-that-tropper-is.html' title='Smoke and Mirrors That Tropper is Spreading On Other Blogs'/><author><name>Eternal Jewish Fraud Stoppers</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00809086995055193950</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1348362332881174326.post-865498044245601610</id><published>2009-12-25T09:11:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-25T09:13:04.683-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='monsey'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='leib tropper'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rockland journal'/><title type='text'>Leib Tropper makes it into the Rockland Count Goyish Newspapers, now all his goyshe neighbors can see the chillul hashem.</title><content type='html'>http://religion.lohudblogs.com/2009/12/22/influential-ultra-orthodox-rabbi-from-monsey-caught-in-sex-scandal&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Influential ultra-Orthodox rabbi from Monsey caught in sex scandal&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;DECEMBER&lt;br /&gt;22&lt;br /&gt;The ultra-Orthodox Jewish community likes to keep to itself, but you may hear a very loud sigh coming from Monsey and NYC these days.&lt;br /&gt;An ugly scandal is unfolding regarding one Rabbi Leib Tropper, a Monsey-based fellow who has headed a prominent group called the Eternal Jewish Family. The EJF’s mission has been to oversee the conversion of non-Jews married to Jewish spouses—according to the most strict standards for Jewish conversion.&lt;br /&gt;But Tropper has resigned in recent days over a Tigger Woods-ish scandal.&lt;br /&gt;Apparently, he was taped speaking to a woman seeking conversion about highly un-rabbinic things.&lt;br /&gt;The blog FailedMessiah.com, which chronicles the failings of the Orthodox Jewish community, spoke to the woman and reported this:&lt;br /&gt;*****&lt;br /&gt;The woman told FailedMessiah.com Tropper was “holding things over me.” Tropper can be heard on one of the tapes asking the woman to have sex or phone sex with other men. She said Tropper would tell her, “If you fulfill my needs, I’ll fulfill yours – and you need a conversion.”&lt;br /&gt;Tropper can be heard on the tapes saying, “I’m not going to force you to do anything you don’t want to…you own your body, I don’t own your body.”&lt;br /&gt;The woman says Tropper asked her to role play certain sexual scenarios with these men, either capturing the encounter on tape or describing the encounter in detail to him afterward, but she refused. “He likes to see women raped,” the woman said. While sometimes Tropper suggested men for her to have encounters with, he encouraged her to find men on her own and then report back to him. “He wanted someone who would be very rough.”&lt;br /&gt;She says other women were also recruited by Tropper to fulfill these fantasies.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1348362332881174326-865498044245601610?l=eternaljewishfraud.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eternaljewishfraud.blogspot.com/feeds/865498044245601610/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://eternaljewishfraud.blogspot.com/2009/12/leib-tropper-makes-it-into-rockland.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1348362332881174326/posts/default/865498044245601610'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1348362332881174326/posts/default/865498044245601610'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eternaljewishfraud.blogspot.com/2009/12/leib-tropper-makes-it-into-rockland.html' title='Leib Tropper makes it into the Rockland Count Goyish Newspapers, now all his goyshe neighbors can see the chillul hashem.'/><author><name>Eternal Jewish Fraud Stoppers</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00809086995055193950</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1348362332881174326.post-5867698142724995612</id><published>2009-12-24T06:55:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-24T20:36:02.279-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Tropper's excuse for being silent till now, he hasn't lawyered up yet.</title><content type='html'>Why does he need a lawyer?&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Suffern, NY - Rabbi Leib Tropper’s response to recent allegations has been delayed until now in deference to his legal counsel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Events of recent weeks have caused Rabbi Tropper great anguish, in particular given his recognition that the high standard of ethics in the Jewish community is one of its most treasured principles.&lt;br /&gt;He wishes to express his regret for the turmoil caused by his departure from the Eternal Jewish Family organization and for what has appeared to be conduct not within our significant laws of modesty. Rabbi Tropper now looks forward to a return to both his studies and time with his loving family, as well as to personal introspection. He thanks those outside his closest circle of friends for respecting his privacy.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;"Allegations"&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; these are not allegations, these are 100% fact and on tape for doros to come.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;"caused by his departure from the Eternal Jewish Family organization"&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; so it seems he is just sorry that he had to leave, and not for his reprehensible   behaviour.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;"for what has appeared to be conduct not within our significant laws of modesty"&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Hello? who are we kidding here, did he walk around town in a shirt that was too tight, or shorts? That would be him not keeping up with laws of modesty.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Take it a step further, was he caught watching pornography or in a simple affair? No much worse,  he was caught red handed extorting sexual favors for himself and others from potential converts in return for conversions. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Wake up and smell the Coffee Hanhollah of Kol Yaakov, he has stepped down from EJF he should do the same thing for allother positions of power that he has over people interested in Judaism.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1348362332881174326-5867698142724995612?l=eternaljewishfraud.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eternaljewishfraud.blogspot.com/feeds/5867698142724995612/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://eternaljewishfraud.blogspot.com/2009/12/troppers-excuse-for-being-silent-till.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1348362332881174326/posts/default/5867698142724995612'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1348362332881174326/posts/default/5867698142724995612'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eternaljewishfraud.blogspot.com/2009/12/troppers-excuse-for-being-silent-till.html' title='Tropper&apos;s excuse for being silent till now, he hasn&apos;t lawyered up yet.'/><author><name>Eternal Jewish Fraud Stoppers</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00809086995055193950</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1348362332881174326.post-4183044509874202740</id><published>2009-12-24T06:38:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-24T06:40:00.920-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Haaretz Reports...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1137435.html"&gt;http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1137435.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="empty-cells: show; "&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="top" colspan="2" class="t18B" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; "&gt;U.S. rabbi involved in sex scandal led fight against Israel conversions&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="top" colspan="2"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/images/0.gif" width="10" height="3" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="top" colspan="2" class="t11B" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="t13" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; "&gt;It is hard to imagine a more embarrassing situation in which to find an exclusive ultra-Orthodox organization - a group that was a standard-bearer in the fight against "breaches in the wall of conversion" and "the penetration of complete gentiles into the vineyard of Israel."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These breaches pale into insignificance in comparison with the accusations against the man who heads the organization itself: according to the claims, Rabbi Leib Tropper of Rockland County abandoned the apparently stringent Halakhic standards of his Haredi organization and established a conversion process based on his most private impulses.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A report in the New York Post earlier this week revealed a sensational story about "a prominent Orthodox rabbi has been caught on tape discussing his apparent love affair with a &lt;i&gt;shiksa&lt;/i&gt; he was converting to Judaism."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="right" style="empty-cells: show; "&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td rowspan="2"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/images/0.gif" width="3" height="10" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="t9" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 9px; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;&lt;iframe width="300" height="250" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" bordercolor="000000" src="http://dclk.themarker.com/html.ng/site=Haaretz_Eng&amp;amp;adsize=300x250&amp;amp;pg=article"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;span class="t13" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; "&gt;The woman involved is 32-year-old Shannon Orand of Houston, who still seeks to convert from Christianity to Judaism. The bulk of the report deals with embarrassing comments that the rabbi made during a phone call, during which he was recorded demanding the woman perform a number of sexual services for himself and his friends in exchange for granting her a conversion certificate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Only at the very end of the Post report is it mentioned that at the start of the month, Rabbi Tropper resigned from his position as head of the Eternal Jewish Family organization, which dealt with conversions. But the connection to the group is in fact the story's punch line, making the affair another incident in the ongoing crisis in the world of conversion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This connection also explains the extent to which an alleged case of blackmail has rocked the rabbinic world in Israel and the United States, and also has a complex relationship with the business dealings of the chairman of the Beitar Jerusalem soccer club, Brazilian Jewish entrepreneur Guma Aguiar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rabbi Tropper's stated goal in founding the Eternal Jewish Family was to "fortify the walls of conversion," amid an ideological debate between the Haredi and national camps in Israel. While functioning as a well-known rabbi in the New York area and head of the Kol Yaakov yeshiva, Rabbi Tropper enlisted wealthy Jews in the Haredi fight against to non- ultra-Orthodox conversions, especially those carried out by special conversion courts in Israel headed by Rabbi Haim Druckman.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As such, the doors of senior Haredi officals were thrown open to him, including that of Rabbi Shalom Elyashiv, a leader of the Lithuanian Haredi sect, and rabbi Tropper himself had the title of &lt;i&gt;gaon&lt;/i&gt; ("most learned") bestowed upon him by the ultra-Orthodox press - all because of his efforts and comments against conversions by the Conversion Authority, against the "infiltration" of gentiles into the people of Israel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When news of the affair began to emerge two weeks ago, posters denouncing Tropper were plastered across the Haredi city of Bnei Brak, whose title commanded: "Leave impurity." The text's anonymous authors threatened that if he did not quit the organization, "We will publicize our voice aloud, accompanied by pornographic pictures and shocking video clips." The rabbi did indeed announce his resignation, but failed in his efforts to hush up the affair.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was leaked to American Jewish bloggers, the audio tape was posted on YouTube, and the Post published the story (under the headline "Tal-mood for love: Sex-tape rabbi tries to 'share' hottie," referring to one of Tropper's demands in the tape).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The current scandal is not the first in which the Eternal Jewish Family and Tropper have been involved. Tropper recently accused Aguiar of assaulting him in a Jerusalem hotel in April while the rabbi served as a prosecution witness against the businessman in a civil suit in Florida. Aguiar - who recently resigned from the organization - is accused of entering Rabbi Leib Tropper's room at the David Citadel Hotel, assaulting him and threatening to cause him further harm.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At the time of the alleged attack, Tropper was testifying at Aguiar's trial on embezzlement charges brought before a Florida court by the businessman's uncle, Thomas Kaplan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As part of a war of slander between the pair, a notice was published in the Haredi newspaper Hamevaser, according to which rabbis close to Aguiar gave up their stringent halakhic demands with regard to his wife. The notice alleges that the businessman is "married to a woman who underwent a very dubious conversion."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tropper's associates claim that Orand, the tape and the posters are all connected to this legal dispute. One of the associates told Haaretz that, "Guma Aguiar succeeded in throwing Rabbi Tropper to the trash." &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1348362332881174326-4183044509874202740?l=eternaljewishfraud.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eternaljewishfraud.blogspot.com/feeds/4183044509874202740/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://eternaljewishfraud.blogspot.com/2009/12/haaretz-reports.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1348362332881174326/posts/default/4183044509874202740'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1348362332881174326/posts/default/4183044509874202740'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eternaljewishfraud.blogspot.com/2009/12/haaretz-reports.html' title='Haaretz Reports...'/><author><name>Eternal Jewish Fraud Stoppers</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00809086995055193950</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1348362332881174326.post-4689989399976100502</id><published>2009-12-24T06:37:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-24T06:38:30.093-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Jewish Chronicle Reports...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.thejc.com/news/world-news/25321/sex-tapes-rock-orthodox"&gt;http://www.thejc.com/news/world-news/25321/sex-tapes-rock-orthodox&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; "&gt;&lt;div id="content-header"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;h1 class="title" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(7, 47, 143); padding-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 26px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 26px; width: 690px; "&gt;Sex tapes rock the Orthodox&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div id="content-holder" style="margin-top: 15px; "&gt;&lt;div id="main_content"&gt;&lt;div class="story"&gt;&lt;div class="panel-display panel-3col-33-stacked  clear-block" id="storypage" style="display: block; clear: both; "&gt;&lt;div class="center-wrapper" style="clear: both; "&gt;&lt;div class="panel-panel panel-col-first" style="float: left; width: 500px; padding-right: 4px; "&gt;&lt;div class="inside" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;div class="panel-pane"&gt;&lt;div class="content"&gt;&lt;div id="node-25321" class="node clear-block" style="display: block; clear: both; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;div class="content-article" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; padding-bottom: 15px; float: left; width: 490px; "&gt;&lt;div class="autor" style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding-bottom: 15px; "&gt;By Paul Berger, December 23, 2009&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0pt; "&gt;Recordings of sexually explicit conversations, apparently between a strictly Orthodox rabbi and a woman he was helping convert to Judaism, are rocking the entire Orthodox world.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0pt; "&gt;New York Rabbi Leib Tropper resigned earlier this month from the organisation he founded, Eternal Jewish Family (EJF), after posters appeared in Orthodox neighbourhoods of Jerusalem insinuating that he had committed sexual indiscretions.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0pt; "&gt;Within days, recordings of salacious phone conversations between a man and a woman were disseminated on the internet. The man — reported to be Rabbi Tropper, 59 — discusses the woman having sex with him and having sex and phone sex with other men. He also discusses cash payments.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0pt; "&gt;The woman, Shannon Orand, a 32-year-old conversion candidate in Texas, admitted to the New York Post that she recorded the calls but said they were never meant to be made public. Ms Orand did not respond to attempts to contact her via email.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="pullquote" style="padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px; width: 200px; background-image: url(http://www.thejc.com/sites/default/themes/jc/css/images/quotes_up.gif); background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250); border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(156, 156, 156); border-right-color: rgb(156, 156, 156); border-bottom-color: rgb(156, 156, 156); border-left-color: rgb(156, 156, 156); float: right; background-position: 5px 5px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; "&gt;&lt;p class="pullquote_quote" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; padding-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0pt; color: black; "&gt;What we have heard, if true, violates the fundamental elements of all that Judaism holds sacred&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="pullquote_author" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; padding-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0pt; text-align: right; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); "&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0pt; "&gt;Rabbi Dovid Jacobs, executive director of EJF, said he would not comment on the recordings. But he did say that EJF’s affiliated beth dins and its chairmen, including Dayan Chanoch Ehrentreu, the former head of the London Beth Din and head of EJF’s European halachic committee, remain committed to the group.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0pt; "&gt;Calls to Dayan Ehrentreu were not returned.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0pt; "&gt;Two weeks ago, the Conference of European Rabbis (CER) passed a unanimous resolution at a meeting of its Standing Committee, in Moscow, objecting to EJF’s attempts to establish itself in Europe.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0pt; "&gt;It had “strong reservations” about the EJF’s attempts to organise local conferences and activities by a new EJF office in Amsterdam were “not welcome”.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0pt; "&gt;Dayan Ehrentreu, who presides over CER’s beth din, was not present at the Moscow meeting. However, last month he spoke at an EJF conference in New Jersey at which — according to the Etrog news website — he called for EJF to strengthen its activities in Europe.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0pt; "&gt;“Would it only be that Eternal Jewish Family will expand its activities among European Batei Din... This matter would be a great rectification for conversion across Europe,” he was quoted as saying.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0pt; "&gt;EJF, founded by Rabbi Tropper in 2005, aims “to protect the Jewish people and sincerely committed converts from fraudulent or unacceptable conversions”.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0pt; "&gt;It promotes a hardline approach to conversions, in which converts must adhere to “the highest standards of halachah”. It has provoked controversy on a number of issues, including its refusal to recognise many members of the largest Orthodox rabbinical organisation in the world, the Rabbinical Council of America.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0pt; "&gt;In 2006, the Chief Rabbinate of Israel, under pressure from Charedi groups like EJF, stated that it would no longer automatically accept conversions performed by RCA rabbis.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0pt; "&gt;This was the catalyst for the RCA to create a more centralised system of regional conversion courts in America, which limited the number of rabbis able to perform conversions to a short list approved by the Israeli rabbinate.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0pt; "&gt;The RCA this week issued a terse statement saying it was “deeply appalled, saddened and pained” by the reports of Rabbi Tropper’s “inappropriate behaviour” and calling on anyone who had been victimised to “seek appropriate counselling.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0pt; "&gt;“What we have heard, if true, violates the fundamental elements of all that Judaism holds sacred,” the statement said.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0pt; "&gt;Marc Angel, of the International Rabbinic Fellowship and a former president of the RCA, said in light of the scandal the Orthodox rabbinate in the diaspora, as well as in Israel, needs to re-think its conversion policy.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0pt; "&gt;“When power is concentrated in the hands of a few self-righteous rabbis, the result is inevitably corruption, injustice, immorality,” Rabbi Angel said in an email.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0pt; "&gt;He called the scandal “a siren call to all decent Orthodox rabbis to stand up against the existing ‘rabbinic establishment’”, and to insist that conversions be placed back in the hands of local rabbis — not in the hands of “self-righteous rabbis who betray Torah.”&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0pt; "&gt;Calls to Rabbi Tropper, at the Kol Yaakov Yeshivah he founded in Monsey, NY, were not returned.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1348362332881174326-4689989399976100502?l=eternaljewishfraud.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eternaljewishfraud.blogspot.com/feeds/4689989399976100502/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://eternaljewishfraud.blogspot.com/2009/12/jewish-chronicle-reports.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1348362332881174326/posts/default/4689989399976100502'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1348362332881174326/posts/default/4689989399976100502'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eternaljewishfraud.blogspot.com/2009/12/jewish-chronicle-reports.html' title='Jewish Chronicle Reports...'/><author><name>Eternal Jewish Fraud Stoppers</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00809086995055193950</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1348362332881174326.post-7040563736576802436</id><published>2009-12-23T16:31:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-23T16:41:00.820-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Tropper issues a weak apology.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;Tropper obviously does not realize the immense evils of his ways. In a statement issues today by his representative.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;representatives said he “wishes to express his regret for the turmoil caused by his departure… and for what has appeared to be conduct not within our significant laws of modesty.”&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He regrets his departure, not his actions. Now that he is no longer officially the head of EJF he can no longer rear his ugly head and throw his weight around in religious circles as easily as he could in the past.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;He says "and for what appeared to be conduct not within laws of modesty"?!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Holding an umbrella for a woman or shaking a woman's hand falls within that category.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;What he did was pressure those who depended and looked up to him, to rape them, literally and figuratively.  He was for all intense and purposes running a brothel.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Obviously Tropper does not feel he did anything wrong besides for not adhere to the very strict laws of modesty.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Here is the rest of the article.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(25, 25, 25); "&gt;&lt;h2 style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 28px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 7px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; clear: both; line-height: 1em; "&gt;Advocate of Strict Conversions in Sexual Scandal&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;div id="article-tools" style="font-size: 11px; text-align: left; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; color: rgb(190, 190, 190); text-transform: uppercase; margin-top: 20px; "&gt;&lt;ul style="margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 6px; white-space: nowrap; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(246, 246, 246); border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(239, 237, 237); border-right-color: rgb(239, 237, 237); border-bottom-color: rgb(239, 237, 237); border-left-color: rgb(239, 237, 237); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "&gt;&lt;li class="morein" style="display: inline; list-style-type: none; margin-left: 7px; background-image: url(http://www.forward.com/workspace/assets/images/system/more-articles.gif); background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 1px; background-position: 0px 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; "&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; font-size: 13px; "&gt;A key proponent of the successful campaign for stricter conversions in Israel and around the world has resigned from a senior post, and has not denied rumors of a conversion scandal of his own.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; font-size: 13px; "&gt;Rabbi Leib Tropper, a founder of the hard-line conversion group Eternal Jewish Family (EJF), announced that he had stepped down as its leader when allegations surfaced in news outlets that he had engaged in sexual misconduct with a woman while guiding her conversion. Tropper was among those responsible for major policy changes by the Israeli rabbinate that sparked a worldwide tightening of conversion regulations.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; font-size: 13px; "&gt;In a statement issued December 23 to the Forward, Tropper’s representatives said he “wishes to express his regret for the turmoil caused by his departure… and for what has appeared to be conduct not within our significant laws of modesty.”&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; font-size: 13px; "&gt;“He was a big player in trying to make the conversion standards more extreme,” said Mark Angel, the modern Orthodox rabbi who founded the Institute for Jewish Ideas and Ideals, which opposed Tropper’s reforms.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; font-size: 13px; "&gt;Now, in an ironic twist, the rabbi whose organization questioned the legitimacy of conversions performed by others has had his own conversions called into question. On December 21, the Rabbinical Council of America, the mostly Modern Orthodox rabbinic association, issued a statement in response to the scandal. “What we have heard, if true, violates the fundamental elements of all that Judaism holds sacred,” the statement read. EJF has been involved in conversions since its founding, in 2005.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; font-size: 13px; "&gt;The allegations of sexual misconduct against Tropper, reported first on the Web site FailedMessiah.com, cite leaked, unauthenticated audio and video recordings in which Tropper apparently discusses orchestrating sexual encounters between an unidentified woman undergoing a conversion and other men. These allegations were also reported in the New York Post.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; font-size: 13px; "&gt;The revelations may have undermined Tropper’s hard-line stance. “He was the ultimate de-legitimizer,” said Rabbi Seth Farber, who directs ITIM, an information and advocacy center for Jewish life in Israel. “He claimed he had all the solutions, he had all of the ultra-Orthodox leadership, and anything that wasn’t under his rule wasn’t legitimate at all.”&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; font-size: 13px; "&gt;Tropper is known for particularly strict positions on who can perform and receive conversions. According to a blog post by Rabbi Gil Student, a Modern Orthodox rabbi, Tropper told him that he follows the authorities who believe that rabbis who think the world is more than 6000 years old should not be allowed to preside over conversions. And Jewcy.com reported that in 2006, Tropper reversed a conversion he had overseen after learning that the woman wore pants and not dresses, which is considered immodest in ultra-Orthodox circles.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; font-size: 13px; "&gt;Officials from EJF could not be reached for comment.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; font-size: 13px; "&gt;Tropper has worked to extend his rigid outlook on conversions to rabbinical courts around the world. According to sources contacted by the Forward, he is among those responsible for a major shift in conversion policy that occurred in 2007, when moves by the Israeli rabbinate caused the RCA to introduce new, stricter conversion standards.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; font-size: 13px; "&gt;One source who is familiar with the matter and asked not to be identified called Tropper a “power broker.” According to Farber, Tropper’s charisma and funding allowed him to garner support from major figures in the ultra-Orthodox world. Farber said that Tropper and an Israeli ally, Rabbi Nachum Eisenstein, had the ear of Shlomo Amar, Israel’s Sephardic chief rabbi, in 2005 and 2006, years in which Amar effected policy changes that overturned the status quo of Orthodox conversion in the United States.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; font-size: 13px; "&gt;“Amar was very impressed with the rabbis whom [Tropper and Eisenstein] surrounded themselves with,” Farber said. Amar attended conferences in the United States, organized by EJF. “He became very, very suspicious of the Modern Orthodox rabbinate in the United States. And that, from a historical perspective, was a disaster,” Farber said.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; font-size: 13px; "&gt;In 2006, Amar determined that the Chief Rabbinate of Israel would not consider conversions performed by the RCA to be legitimate. The potential implications of the decision were drastic, as the rabbinate in Israel controls such vital areas as marriage, divorce and eligibility for immigration. In response, the RCA restructured the process by which it approved conversions, limiting the ability of individual rabbis to convene religious courts in favor of a more centralized system. Conversions are now performed only by a small number of RCA rabbis.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; font-size: 13px; "&gt;Meanwhile, in the United States, EJF worked to coordinate and centralize the religious courts that adhered to its stricter standards.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; font-size: 13px; "&gt;“Until now, every single &lt;em&gt;beis din&lt;/em&gt; [religious court] was, to a large extent, independent. There was no interfacing, there were no standards, there was no discussion,” said Yehoshua Wender, who sits on the Bais Din of Houston and is the rabbi of Young Israel of Houston. Through EJF, Wender said that his religious court has been brought into contact with other similarly observant religious courts via annual conferences. EJF lists 19 religious courts in the United States and around the world that it says adhere to its “universally accepted standards” of conversion.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; font-size: 13px; "&gt;FailedMessiah.com also reported that Tropper used his control over the unidentified woman’s conversion process as leverage to force her to engage in sexual activities. But Wender, who said that the woman was to have been converted at his &lt;em&gt;beit din&lt;/em&gt;, said that Tropper would have had no say over whether the woman’s conversion would have been accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; font-size: 13px; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1348362332881174326-7040563736576802436?l=eternaljewishfraud.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eternaljewishfraud.blogspot.com/feeds/7040563736576802436/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://eternaljewishfraud.blogspot.com/2009/12/tropper-issues-weak-apology.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1348362332881174326/posts/default/7040563736576802436'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1348362332881174326/posts/default/7040563736576802436'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eternaljewishfraud.blogspot.com/2009/12/tropper-issues-weak-apology.html' title='Tropper issues a weak apology.'/><author><name>Eternal Jewish Fraud Stoppers</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00809086995055193950</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1348362332881174326.post-3986608140188428708</id><published>2009-12-23T13:17:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-23T19:56:30.229-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lubicom'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='leib tropper'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='erin gentry'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pr'/><title type='text'>EJF site gets a makeover and makes like Tropper never existed.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rGAblFbsSlM/SzLkkM8jYkI/AAAAAAAAAAc/-2vAzKzDwXM/s1600-h/04.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 220px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rGAblFbsSlM/SzLkkM8jYkI/AAAAAAAAAAc/-2vAzKzDwXM/s320/04.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5418644612281754178" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The EJF site http://www.eternaljewishfamily.org/  used to be covered inn Leib Tropper's pictures. All of a sudden yesterday they removed every picture that he is in. Which was almost everyone.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why would they do that? After all their position is that he just resigned to be with his family.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Statement by Rabbi Leib Tropper&lt;br /&gt;I have decided to resign my position at the Eternal Jewish Family (EJF) effective December 12, 2009 to pursue a variety of other interests. As a founder of EJF, I am proud of my role of being an architect of a very dynamic and important movement in our community.   I will in the coming months do my utmost to be of service to the Jewish community in any way I can. I am extremely enthusiastic that a distinguished Torah personality of the stature of Rav Ela Ber Wachtfogel has agreed to assume my position of Chairman of the Rabbinic Committee and that Rabbi Chaim Blum has agreed to serve as interim director of EJF. I wish every continued success to EJF, its rabbinic leadership and the extraordinary team of dayanim and dedicated individuals that serve the organization in many parts of the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rGAblFbsSlM/SzLkyq-C0UI/AAAAAAAAAAk/l9R-dxb_7yA/s1600-h/08.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 260px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rGAblFbsSlM/SzLkyq-C0UI/AAAAAAAAAAk/l9R-dxb_7yA/s320/08.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5418644860859240770" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1st lie was that he was not stepping down to spend more time with his family. He was stepping down due to a huge sex scandal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2nd lie, Rav Ela Ber Wachtfogel  did not agree to assume his position, he was merely bamboozed By Tropper. Tropper told him that Rav Elyashiv asked him to take over, which was not true.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The lies with Tropper never end.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I guess the removal of all trace of anything Tropper related on the site, even the above press release, is an admittance in silence that he is tainted.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rGAblFbsSlM/SzLlSRwZGyI/AAAAAAAAAA0/elBD3VXQTbU/s1600-h/IMG_2963.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rGAblFbsSlM/SzLlSRwZGyI/AAAAAAAAAA0/elBD3VXQTbU/s320/IMG_2963.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5418645403846908706" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When will they come out and publicly acknowledge and denounce Tropper's evil doings?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As long as they do not, they are committing mass suicide. All it shows is that Tropper is still the puppet master behind the scenes, and that the following PR people should never be hired, as they know not how to handle a PR nightmare.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Menachem Lubinsky of http://www.lubicom.com/  P. 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