The Truth Shall Set You Free

The Winners, The Losers, and How We Got Here. Op-Ed submitted by A.L. 2/18/2018 It seems that the dust is now settling and people have decided their positions from whatever information they have chosen to believe. The NY Jewish Week shocked the Jewish world with their explosive article. As these things normally play out, people were saddened and embarrassed that there was yet another such tragedy with children in our community. But then in response, new information that The JW seemingly missed was brought to light. There were critical and important facts, and there were also ugly facts that were not really needed for the case. In actuality, the true, legal case was already investigated and closed. This new "case", brought to life by activist Chaim Levin, was the very same case that the authorities dismissed. However this one now had a new audience in the courtroom of the internet and social media. The litigants had no rules or protocols to follow, and the judge and ...

My intent was never to prove Rabbi K innocent. My intent was only to demonstrate that The NY Jewish Week, Hannah Dreyfus, Gary Rosenblatt, and Chaim Levin, who all represent themselves as professional investigators, are not. They are activists. They have an agenda and will stop at nothing to get what they want. In this case, they wanted Rabbi K fired because they mindlessly took the side of the accuser. That was severely disappointing. But something interesting and unexpected happened. In 5 days, including a Shabbos, this blog has had close to 11,000 views from about 8,500 unique URLs.  Among all of the feedback, I  received dozens of emails from current and former Camp Shoresh campers and staff. I answer all emails and tend to have at least a 2 email exchange. If they profess his innocence, my closing question is "I'm sure Rabbi K appreciates your support.  But please reply with the first thing that comes to mind when I ask you the reason he is innocent?" Most had a s...

This author has spent less than 10 days investigating this awful chapter of humanity. Chaim Levin posted on his Facebook page that he spent 13 days "researching ". On January 17, Hannah Dreyfus came storming into town with an explosive article citing particular details of the Krawatsky case that occurred in 2015. There was no event to coincide with the article's release, and there was no new information presented. But she represented that it was "investigated". Interestingly, it was released only a short time before the Shoresh annual fund raiser.  And as a member of the press, we must assume her investigation was thorough. Within 24 hours, Shmuel Krawatsky was fully convicted in the court of public opinion as well as fired from his full-time and part-time jobs. He was ruined.  These investigations must have just been better than anything else before. The case itself was of no particular importance to me (other than being ...