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| Rabbi Josef Pardes, Vienna's Misrachi Rabbi |
Rabbi Josef Pardes has appeared on this blog previously.
http://helpbeth.blogspot.co.il/2015/08/where-is-response-from-austria.html
Rabbi Josef Pardes is the Rabbi of the Misrachi Synagogue on Rabensteig
in Vienna and is the son of the disgraced late Dayan Chaim Pardes,
former President of the Tel Aviv Rabbinical Court (Israel).
Many people in Vienna view him as a close mentor of Mr Schlesinger. Rabbi Pardes has to date
ignored many invitations to comment on the subject.
Here are some press releases about Dayan Chaim Pardes, father to Vienna's Rabbi Josef Pardes, pictured above, as published on the awareness center website
http://theawarenesscenter.blogspot.co.uk/1989/12/case-of-rabbi-haim-pardes.html
More online resources
http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/jpost/doc/321019557.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Jan+1%2C+1991&author=MICHAEL+ROTEM%2C+Jerusalem+Post+Reporter&pub=Jerusalem+Post&edition=&startpage=&desc=RABBI+STARTS+6+MONTHS+IN+JAIL+FOR+SEX+ABUSE
http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/jpost/doc/320970733.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Jan+22%2C+1990&author=Jerusalem+Post+Reporter&pub=Jerusalem+Post&edition=&startpage=&desc=D.A.+GETS+SEX-CASE+FILE+AGAINST+TA+RABBI
http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/jpost/doc/321025918.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=May+23%2C+1991&author=&pub=Jerusalem+Post&edition=&startpage=&desc=PROSECUTOR+JOINS+MK%27S+PLEA+TO+DISCIPLINE+JUDGE
Case of Rabbi Haim Pardes
Case of Rabbi Haim Pardes
(AKA: Chaim Pardes)
Rehov Frishman synagogue
Former President of the Tel Aviv Rabbinical Court - Tel Aviv Israel
Convicted
of sexually blackmailing" and performing "licentious acts" with women
who sought his counsel in a synagogue. Pardes was sentenced to six
months in prison and given an 18-month suspended prison sentence and
fined 25,000 shekels ($12,500).
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Table of Contents:
1989
- Rabbi Named in Sex-For-Divorce Scandal (12/04/1989)
- Police Interrogate Rabbinical Court Judges About Sex-Bribe Allegations (12/05/1989)
- Police and Thieves (12/15/1989)
1990
- D.A. Gets Sex-Case File Against TA Rabbi (01/11/1990)
- Top Of The News - World (12/07/1990)
1992
- Rabbi Starts 6 Months in Jail for Sex Abuse (01/01/1992)
- Prosecutors Joins MK's Plea to Discipline Judge (05/23/1992)
2004
- Chief Rabbi of Ariel accused of rape (08/31/2004)
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Rabbi Named In Sex-For-Divorce Scandal
by Andy Goldberg and Haim Shapiro
The Jerusalem Post - December 4, 1989
TEL
AVIV - Rabbi Haim Pardes, head of the local rabbinical court, is facing
a police investigation into suspicions that he asked a woman for sexual
favour in order to speed up her divorce proceedings.
Police are
still waiting for permission from Attorney-General Yosef Harish to
interrogate Pardes, as Pardes has the legal standing of a district court
judge. The initial finding of the police investigation were transferred
to Harish's office late last week.
The national fraud squad has
already interrogated people connected with the allegations against
Pardes, including two senior clerks of the court and the woman he
allegedly approached.
Police believe that Pardes had been dealing
with the woman's divorce case for some seven years when he suggested to
her that they meet alone in a room at a North Tel Aviv synagogue. In
return he promised to speed up the courts' treatment of her divorce
proceedings.
The woman apparently recorded her conversations with
Pardes and afterwards used the tape to force him to accelerate
treatment of her case and to blackmail him.
Rabbinical circles expressed shock over the allegations.
Rabbi
Eli Ben-Dahan, director of the rabbinical courts, told The Jerusalem
Post yesterday that no action would be taken against Pardes at this
stage. It was not necessary to suspend a rabbinical court judge unless
he had actually been charged with a crime, Ben-Dahan said.
According
to the daily Yediot Ahronot, which first broke the story, Rabbi David
Einhorn, assistant director of the Tel Aviv Rabbinical Court, was also
suspected of accepting bribes.
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Police Interrogate Rabbinical Court Judges About Sex-Bribe Allegations
By Andy Goldberg
The Jerusalem Post - December 5, 1989
The
rabbinical court judge at the centre of a sex-for-divorce scandal was
interrogated for seven hours yesterday by officers of the Jaffa-based
National Fraud Division.
Rabbi Haim Pardess, 54, was released on
his own recognizance after the interrogation and praised his
investigators for "their fair and correct treatment."
The police
are investigating allegations that Pardess solicited sexual favours from
women in return for speeding up treatment of their divorce proceedings.
One woman told officers last month that Pardess had been dealing with
her divorce case for about seven years when he suggested that they meet
alone in a room he had at his disposal at a local synagogue. In return
for such a meeting, he promised to expedite the court's handling of her
divorce. The woman apparently recorded her conversations with Pardess
and afterwards used the tape to force him to expedite her case and to
blackmail him for NIS 20,000.
Officers have already questioned several persons connected with the allegations against Pardess.
Pardess's
attorney, Dr. Ya'acov Weinroth, told The Jerusalem Post that his client
had cooperated fully with the police. He did not know whether Pardess
would be summoned for further questioning. He said that the police did
not have in their possession any tape recording that incriminated
Pardess.
Rabbinical court judges have the legal standing of
district court judges, whose interrogation is permitted only with the
approval of the attorney-general. Yosef Harish granted this approval in
Pardess's case on Sunday.
"I am very happy that I have had the
opportunity to give my version of events and explode the baseless
allegations against me," Pardess told Kol Yisrael radio after his
interrogation.
He was highly critical of the press for publishing
the story and his identity before he had been charged. He told
reporters that he planned to continue working as usual despite the
allegations and said he hoped that "with God's help the truth will out."
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Police and Thieves
Jerusalem Post - December 15, 1989
The
police probe into suspected corruption at the Tel Aviv rabbinical court
has not stopped at the sexual favours allegedly demanded by the court's
chief, Rabbi Haim Pardes, in return for the speedy handling of divorce
cases. In addition, the Jaffa-based Fraud Division is checking out
suspicions that court clerks also accepted bribes related to cases.
To
date, three women have lodged complaints against Pardes, two of them
claiming that he sexually assaulted them after luring them into a room
in a Rehov Frishman synagogue saying that he would expedite their
divorce requests.
Police sources say the investigation has
yielded indications of corruption on a far wider scale than initially
believed, and that numerous court workers would be interrogated.
Details
of a daring operation deep in Lebanon by officers of the elite Tel Aviv
Central Unit were disclosed this week in a star-studded Mann Auditorium
variety show celebrating the unit's 30th anniversary.
In late
1987, Eli Arazi, a top underworld figure, reported to police that he had
been hired to transfer some two tons of hashish and heroin from Lebanon
to Israel. Despite suspecting a hostage-taking trap by terrorists,
detectives of the central unit and the anti-terror group manned the
drug-running ship. The drugs were transferred to the ship near Jounieh
and brought to Israel where they were transferred to four men who were
meant to deliver them to the buyers. On the way from the port, however,
the vehicle broke down. Police arrested the couriers but never caught up
with the drug's buyers.
A drug-dealer was sentenced to seven
years in jail by the Tel Aviv district court after one of his clients
turned state's witness and tape-recorded two drug transactions. Every
week, for some nine months, the dealer, Yoav Lavi, 29, of Bat Yam,
supplied 30-50 grams of cocaine and heroin to a man named Shlomo. The
cocaine cost $70 per gram and the heroin $250. When Shlomo was caught by
police in possession of 30 grams of the drugs, he agreed to collect
evidence in return for having the charges against him dropped.
Police
outfitted him with a hidden microphone, and he recorded his next two
meetings with Lavi. These recordings later formed the main part of the
prosecution's case.
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D.A. Gets Sex-Case File Against TA Rabbi
The Jerusalem Post - January 22, 1990
TEL
AVIV - Police have transferred to the District Attorney's Office
details of their investigation into complaints of sexual assault against
Haim Pardes, the head rabbi of the Tel Aviv Rabbinical Court. The
Jaffa-based National Fraud Division began investigating Pardes late last
year after two women complained that he had promised to speed up
treatment of their divorce cases in return for sexual favours.
In
separate and unrelated complaints, the women charged that Pardes had
invited them into a room in the Tel Aviv synagogue where he officiates
and then indecently assaulted them. One woman claimed that Pardes had
offered her NIS 20,000, if she did not report him to the police. Police
investigators said that such an amount had been withdrawn from the
rabbi's bank account.
Pardes continues to work as usual after
having told police investigators in November that he had not committed
the offences attributed to him. Pardes's status in the rabbinical court
is equivalent to that of a district court judge and a decision to
prosecute him can only be taken by order of the attorney general.
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Top Of The News - World
From Wire Dispatches and Staff Reports
The Washington Times - December 7, 1990
TEL
AVIV, Israel - A court jailed a senior rabbi for six months yesterday
after finding him guilty of "sexually blackmailing" women who sought his
counsel and of having sexual relations in a synagogue, court sources
said.
Rabbi Haim Pardes, chief of Tel Aviv's rabbinical tribunal,
committed "licentious acts" with women who appeared before him and he
confessed to having sexual relations in a synagogue, according to the
sources.
He was also given an 18-month suspended prison sentence
and fined 25,000 shekels ($12,500) for "shamefully taking advantage of
his judicial status and of the distress of the women who appeared before
him." Rabbinical tribunals in Israel are charged with marital affairs
and conversions to Judaism.
Shulat Aloni, a lawmaker for the
Civil Rights Party, argued that the sentence against Rabbi Pardes was
too lenient. Mrs. Aloni called for a review by the high court.
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Rabbi Starts 6 Months in Jail for Sex Abuse
By Michael Rotem
The Jerusalem Post - January 1, 1991
TEL
AVIV - The former chairman of the local rabbinical court convicted of
sexually abusing women is to start his prison term today.
A court
here rejected Rabbi Haim Pardes's offer to do community service work,
instead of going to prison, as a part of a plea bargain.
Pardes
was sentenced on December 6 by a district court here to imprisonment and
fined after being convicted of committing obscene sexual acts, fraud
and breach of trust.
The sentence was handed down after a plea
bargain was accepted. In return for his confessing to having committed
the obscene sexual acts, Pardes was sentenced to six months'
imprisonment, an 18-month suspended sentence and a fine of NIS 25,000.
In its original verdict, the court decided that the rabbi would do community service.
The
offer made by the special comissioner of community service to the court
was that Pardes would work arranging and translating holy texts in a
library for the blind. The judges, however, objected, saying that this
work "was suitable for a high school student on vacation."
In one
of the cases on which Pardes was convicted, he met with a mother of two
daughters in his chamber to discuss her alimony claim. During one of
their meetings, he sexually molested her.
A source in the Prison's Authority said yesterday there was no decision on where the rabbi would serve his term.
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Prosecutors Joins MK's Plea to Discipline Judge
PROSECUTOR JOINS MK'S PLEA TO DISCIPLINE JUDGE
The Jerusalem Post - May 23, 1991
In
an unusual move, the State Prosecutor's Office yesterday supported MK
Yair Tsaban's petition asking the High Court of Justice to order that
the pension of Rabbi Haim Pardes, president of the Tel Aviv Rabbinical
Court sentenced to six months in prison for indecent acts, bribery and
violating a trust, be stopped and that he be brought before a
disciplinary hearing.
After the State Prosecution's move, the
High Court issued an order nisi instructing Pardes to show within 30
days why the decision of the judicial appointments committee which
awarded him a pension should not be overturned and why the president of
the Supreme Rabbinical Court has not fulfilled his responsibility to
bring him before a disciplinary hearing.
In his petition, Tsaban
said that it was obvious that a judge convicted of such serious offenses
should face a disciplinary hearing. Pardes, he noted, managed to avoid
this by resigning his position when the charges were brought against
him. He also maintained that he should not have been granted any
pension, let alone the same one as judges who honorably retired from the
bench.
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Chief Rabbi of Ariel accused of rape
Maariv - Hebrew edition
August 31, 2004
http://www.nrg.co.il/online/1/ART/776/524.html
הרב נעצר בחשד שאנס אישה שהגיעה להתייעץ עמו, ואף הטריד אותה בשיחות טלפון
טל ימין-וולבוביץ'
31/8/2004 10:54
הרב הראשי של אריאל נעצר הבוקר בחשד למעשה אונס באישה שהגיעה לבקש את עזרתו.
האישה,
שנזקקה לעזרת הרב, הגיעה בתקופה האחרונה אל משרדו כדי להתייעץ איתו בנושא
אישי. על-פי החשד, הרב ניצל את קרבתו לאישה ולאחר הייעוץ, אנס אותה בכוח.
הוא לא הסתפק בכך, ואף הטריד אותה בטלפון לאחר המקרה. האישה, שלא יכלה
לעמוד בהטרדות, נשברה והתלוננה במשטרה.
למרות התלונה, משטרת יהודה
ושומרון לא יכלה לעצור בתחילה את הרב, מאחר שמדובר באישיות ציבורית. רק
בהמשך, לאחר שהוצאו אישורים מיוחדים, פתחה המשטרה בחקירה סמויה שבסופה נעצר
הרב בסמוך לביתו.
בשעות הצהריים יובא הרב להארכת מעצרו בבית משפט
השלום בכפר-סבא. על כל פרטי החקירה הוטל צו איסור פרסום, ו-NRG מעריב הגיש
בקשה לבית המשפט להסיר את הצו.
הרב שלמה עמאר, הרב הראשי הספרדי לישראל אמר: "כל זמן שאין שום הוכחה מוצקה, אנחנו בוחרים שלא להגיב".
לא
מדובר במקרה ראשון של מעשה מגונה שמיוחס לרב. הרב זאב קופולוביץ, לשעבר
ראש ישיבת "נתיב מאיר", הורשע על- פי הודאתו בהטרדות מיניות שביצע
בתלמידיו. ונשלח בעיסקת טיעון לשלוש וחצי שנות מאסר.
בשנת 1999 נידון הרב חיים פרדס לשישה חודשי מאסר בפועל לאחר שהורשע בביצוע מעשים מגונים בנשים, מירמה והפרת אמונים.
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Translated to English using Google Translate
Great city of Ariel suspected of rape
Rabbi arrested for allegedly raping a woman who came to consult him , and harassed her with phone calls
Phone right - and Mabovich
31/08/2004 10:54
Chief Rabbi Ariel was arrested this morning on suspicion of raping a woman actually came to ask for his help.
The
woman , who needed the aid of the rabbi, recently came to his office to
consult him on the subject personally. The - allegedly used the
proximity to great woman and consultation , raped her by force. Is not
satisfied , and harassed her on the phone after the incident . The woman
, who could not stand the harassment , broke down and complained to the
police.
Despite the complaint, Judea and Samaria police could
not stop the rabbi first , since it is a public personality . Only later
, after the special permits issued , the police arrested an undercover
investigation after which Rabbi near his home.
Afternoon will be
great to extend his detention in the village magistrate - Grandpa. The
details of the investigations imposed the gag order , and NRG Ma'ariv
applied to the court to remove the order.
Rabbi Shlomo Amar , the Sephardic chief rabbi of Israel said : "As long as there is no solid proof , we choose not to respond."
This
is not the first case of indecent acts attributed to Rabbi . Rabbi Zev
Kopolovitz, former head of Yeshivat "Path Meir " , was convicted -
though he admits sexual harassment committed by his students . And sent a
plea bargain to three and a half years in prison.
In 1999,
Rabbi Haim Pardes was sentenced to six months in prison after being
convicted of molesting women , fraud and breach of trust.
