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Help Beth Supportershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12509065298654201853noreply@blogger.comBlogger227125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629447024939731204.post-50711285201319297992023-07-07T05:28:00.000-07:002023-07-07T05:28:35.581-07:00Chabad Rabbi Jacob Biderman alleged to have been an active participant to defraud banks, the Mitchells and Rabon & Rabon, Inc.<p> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiLQKIghUq0SK4NfntC2blmxRgZ564eaR_r8AYvABHgOTrZ7dW66pBWIYDqnhWHQ8iIron4-QRlV4PsHVLj2qRXvhbzpx0G2hf4DIneCCbNs1ZJWMmI5yHdfJ83q_QwOhWpp2jTJLnMlUqSwwBOYAPNyzcj6Bpw0LJXDtSFsNRN4pjMivUYIRNNUW1GScc" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="853" data-original-width="1280" height="307" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiLQKIghUq0SK4NfntC2blmxRgZ564eaR_r8AYvABHgOTrZ7dW66pBWIYDqnhWHQ8iIron4-QRlV4PsHVLj2qRXvhbzpx0G2hf4DIneCCbNs1ZJWMmI5yHdfJ83q_QwOhWpp2jTJLnMlUqSwwBOYAPNyzcj6Bpw0LJXDtSFsNRN4pjMivUYIRNNUW1GScc=w462-h307" width="462" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chabad Rabbi Jacob Biderman (Vienna)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p>The below news links from 2018/2019 describe an alleged fraud scheme that was initiated in January 2015 regarding a Real Estate portfolio in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, USA. Part of the fraud allegedly involved Chabad Rabbi Jacob Biderman making 3 wire transfers, one of which to a bank account in Chile. Jacob Biderman was operating (at least initially) through his company "Friends of LBS [Lauder Business school]". According to the articles, the scheme was orchestrated by Sarah Ginsburg who is Rabbi Biderman's sister and who has a Chabad House in Mrytle Beach.</p><p><br /></p><h2 style="text-align: left;">Introduction and Background</h2><p>Here are the details of Rabbi Jacob Biderman's Chabad House <a href="https://www.lubavitch.com/centers/117785">https://www.lubavitch.com/centers/117785</a></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjK5MtqTFbSBjG7YQ-jyMYtd4E3CgLko5iKqBeRYzRTEdiEclpir-Dwqf4WGWF5lhHHBWuZUuG4XhCUrN7uys6o8ogwYwcyeg3qQIOkYG191l5cDpw0sUsmS3t9oF5c9yTEKYKxxp5xktj-ibhW7rI7EmPiJ-7l1Ki8TYLxPTZhwmI-H1848sShmi8EPP0" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="584" data-original-width="923" height="307" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjK5MtqTFbSBjG7YQ-jyMYtd4E3CgLko5iKqBeRYzRTEdiEclpir-Dwqf4WGWF5lhHHBWuZUuG4XhCUrN7uys6o8ogwYwcyeg3qQIOkYG191l5cDpw0sUsmS3t9oF5c9yTEKYKxxp5xktj-ibhW7rI7EmPiJ-7l1Ki8TYLxPTZhwmI-H1848sShmi8EPP0=w487-h307" width="487" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>Also listed on Chabad dot org: <a href="https://www.chabad.org/jewish-centers/117785/Vienna/Synagogue/Agudas-Chasidei-Chabad-Austria-Headquarters">https://www.chabad.org/jewish-centers/117785/Vienna/Synagogue/Agudas-Chasidei-Chabad-Austria-Headquarters</a></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhpzZcspgXSejZIjVSYdVRtFVLI9b6oyJA9s_u_mrr_XtiYwnqtJ0Wpe6xLbLPL2BPrZoUgWt90CiU7M2YE1lzrfS5M70RQOcotXPB2cQwCsv-PCW-uHJu20NfvD23hg6yGV1GVYCFM4H_r_oRsE281Vzi7M6fIslqdBfnDipT5fy3TJOGo-Pau8zILL2w" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="638" data-original-width="459" height="525" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhpzZcspgXSejZIjVSYdVRtFVLI9b6oyJA9s_u_mrr_XtiYwnqtJ0Wpe6xLbLPL2BPrZoUgWt90CiU7M2YE1lzrfS5M70RQOcotXPB2cQwCsv-PCW-uHJu20NfvD23hg6yGV1GVYCFM4H_r_oRsE281Vzi7M6fIslqdBfnDipT5fy3TJOGo-Pau8zILL2w=w378-h525" width="378" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><div><br /></div>As is common practice in Chabad, regions are normally allocated to families. Here is another Chabad House in close proximity. <br /><a href="https://www.lubavitch.com/centers/1968276">https://www.lubavitch.com/centers/1968276</a><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhC6aaL0IwIrPCfhm0zPBCnZOlnXQJM0vXSiUxjpyXSLk2ccT7K0sGcO-9Gdv4VdzHxISGf5qCasdQrKdN2xhh9N8cZ50fj3WnT7x_6h2FJyx-etXdXOR071xqD34qFf_ZdFfYbbmVjCD6MB0-4spvTOX1F2cEGfUTpCmZffQKce0Ujg4BsJWe9yLo_Ec0" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="566" data-original-width="1065" height="259" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhC6aaL0IwIrPCfhm0zPBCnZOlnXQJM0vXSiUxjpyXSLk2ccT7K0sGcO-9Gdv4VdzHxISGf5qCasdQrKdN2xhh9N8cZ50fj3WnT7x_6h2FJyx-etXdXOR071xqD34qFf_ZdFfYbbmVjCD6MB0-4spvTOX1F2cEGfUTpCmZffQKce0Ujg4BsJWe9yLo_Ec0=w489-h259" width="489" /></a></div>Rabbi Avraham Biderman is Jacob Biderman's son and both Rabbi Mordechay Segal and Rabbi Yechiel Michel Butman are married to Rabbi Jacob Biderman's daughters and are registered as Chabad Shluchim in Vienna. This is all clearly described <a href="http://wikibin.org/articles/jacob-biderman.html" target="_blank">here</a>.<div><br /></div><div><b style="background-color: white; color: #363636; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 0.95em; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"></b><blockquote><span style="font-family: courier;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #363636; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 0.95em; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">Family</b><br style="background-color: white; color: #363636; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #363636; font-size: 14px;">Sons: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #363636; font-size: 14px;">Rabbi Avraham Biderman, Rabbi of Chabad synagogue in the 2nd district of Vienna, married to Debora née Deutsch.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #363636; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #363636; font-size: 14px;">Moshe Mordechai Biderman, activist at Chabad House Vienna.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #363636; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #363636; font-size: 14px;">daughters:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #363636; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #363636; font-size: 14px;">Mussia married to Rabbi Mordechay Segal, heading the Central Chabad House in Vienna</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #363636; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #363636; font-size: 14px;">Mina married to Rabbi Yechiel Mechel Butman, Chabad activities coordinator in Vienna</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #363636; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #363636; font-size: 14px;">Nechama married to Rabbi Israel Arie Leib Wolosov, Yeshivat Torath Emet, Jerusalem</span></span></blockquote><span style="background-color: white; color: #363636; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 14px;"></span><br /><div><p></p><p>Rabbi Jacob Biderman's sister, Sara Ginsburg, runs a Chabad House in Myrtle Beach, USA: <a href="https://www.lubavitch.com/centers/117725">https://www.lubavitch.com/centers/117725</a></p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi8R0loPL1zCxngLj6X7TkHuPuCfE_J5Y77T_e7-ZruJcagqZZuTa7kpcbuSsxj8_RncyqjfEPViDb4oRXMTOQARBP_BNUvi7ljf4v4z1HRlF2PGtjrbb7TnTYHL_8JZHFSCK5vzNSqMoIgnSMHcs4iz0ZJJzFI_6jKGCdQ9zdil8yrPBv87-llOgKv1x0" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="705" data-original-width="931" height="382" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi8R0loPL1zCxngLj6X7TkHuPuCfE_J5Y77T_e7-ZruJcagqZZuTa7kpcbuSsxj8_RncyqjfEPViDb4oRXMTOQARBP_BNUvi7ljf4v4z1HRlF2PGtjrbb7TnTYHL_8JZHFSCK5vzNSqMoIgnSMHcs4iz0ZJJzFI_6jKGCdQ9zdil8yrPBv87-llOgKv1x0=w504-h382" width="504" /></a></div><br />Another organisation called "Friends of LBS" has been set up in Myrtle Beach with the following personnel: <a href="https://www.causeiq.com/organizations/friends-of-lbs,264100821/">https://www.causeiq.com/organizations/friends-of-lbs,264100821/</a><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhdJv9w6Onsk2900SH8fPU__sVIvLOnKSRyvAhQ2jHsUHyAONnnqrhlhTsEJy5c1anDYSw18ckPuCqBWAhTf6UDhKIpIL3HHmH9P7bo-R_7z60_xjPU2LKD7aocnGMl8LSQbmdoeGMiQlTECPeACFFfvyfNb-UodF7YyiTGDDiTHBXH5cMtcx4x6vOGq-Y" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="332" data-original-width="604" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhdJv9w6Onsk2900SH8fPU__sVIvLOnKSRyvAhQ2jHsUHyAONnnqrhlhTsEJy5c1anDYSw18ckPuCqBWAhTf6UDhKIpIL3HHmH9P7bo-R_7z60_xjPU2LKD7aocnGMl8LSQbmdoeGMiQlTECPeACFFfvyfNb-UodF7YyiTGDDiTHBXH5cMtcx4x6vOGq-Y=w526-h290" width="526" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p>This clearly shows that this is a family run organisation consisting of Sara Ginsburg (Rabbi Biderman's sister) and Rabbi Biderman's son-in-law Yechiel Butman.</p><p>Furthermore, in <a href="https://www.lubavitch.com/vienna-springs-into-action-to-take-in-ukrainian-students/" target="_blank">this article</a> requesting donations for Jacob Biderman's Lauder Chabad Business School in Vienna (LBS), he clearly asks for money to be deposited in the "Friends of LBS" bank account in Myrtle Beach.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgKoh8Kl_O8GfKLl4iH65xO_h7Kbx1Prsot2KXX3u-5v1hIcTmSVBUrG-nAUu0WbD6k4AZVpfjprosPf-NwChy6tSmQTnQxcCbmlnKXWMKRvucPfixcODoYFuzYI6kQl8Bz7jwMgshV-WRToevoCD3D1yodeTVhdrmzAji3CLBFnmZEb_aH1waO6YbciVY" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="429" data-original-width="714" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgKoh8Kl_O8GfKLl4iH65xO_h7Kbx1Prsot2KXX3u-5v1hIcTmSVBUrG-nAUu0WbD6k4AZVpfjprosPf-NwChy6tSmQTnQxcCbmlnKXWMKRvucPfixcODoYFuzYI6kQl8Bz7jwMgshV-WRToevoCD3D1yodeTVhdrmzAji3CLBFnmZEb_aH1waO6YbciVY=w494-h296" width="494" /></a></div>The relationship between Rabbi Jacob Biderman and Sara Ginsburg is mentioned in this quote <a href="https://collive.com/mrs-michal-blesofsky-56-obm/" target="_blank">from an article</a> on the Chabad colive news site...<br /><br /><p></p><p></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: courier;">She is also survived by her siblings <b>Mrs. Sara Ginsburg of Myrtle Beach, SC</b>; <b>Rabbi Yaakov [Jacob] Biderman of Vienna, Austria</b>, and Mrs. Leah Aizenman of Myrtle Beach, SC, and her mother, Mrs. Esther Parshan of Queens, NY.</span></blockquote><p></p><p>Rabbi Jacob Biderman is regarded as a professor according to <a href="http://wikibin.org/articles/jacob-biderman.html" target="_blank">this</a> web page </p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #363636; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 14px;"></span></p><blockquote>In 2001, founded the "Jewish Teachers Seminary" in Vienna in cooperation with the Austrian and the Israeli ministries of education. the opening ceremony of this institution was attended by more than one hundred Rabbis from all over Europe, Austrian and Israeli government officials, as well as Mr. Romano Prodi, then the President of the European Commission. <b>Thereafter Biderman received the title of Professor</b> and was appointed as Dean of the institution.</blockquote><p></p><p>This is a title which he enjoys<a href="https://lbs.ac.at/president/" target="_blank"> on his school's web site</a></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgpQSkmX41tuMuxmUCgxIijoVCH44q8tBHqsOUOf6I25si0dG39UhV9_ju7b9ErhOm3P371NgjzmrjAkL1IeawgBpHLqQ71mVqUtPQFd82MQ5ouzJ82IFQtVWKpyRuQ-0Wx3K8SA6vBsO_imFxJkjglq0TNyE6EG0b1Hgb6NchjuttldbTh4zILJ1vu6_s" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="615" data-original-width="976" height="330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgpQSkmX41tuMuxmUCgxIijoVCH44q8tBHqsOUOf6I25si0dG39UhV9_ju7b9ErhOm3P371NgjzmrjAkL1IeawgBpHLqQ71mVqUtPQFd82MQ5ouzJ82IFQtVWKpyRuQ-0Wx3K8SA6vBsO_imFxJkjglq0TNyE6EG0b1Hgb6NchjuttldbTh4zILJ1vu6_s=w522-h330" width="522" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><h2 style="text-align: left;">Summary of the alleged fraud and its implications</h2><p></p><p>The below news links from 2018/2019 describe an alleged fraud scheme that was initiated in January 2015 regarding a Real Estate portfolio in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, USA. Part of the fraud allegedly involved Chabad Rabbi Jacob Biderman making 3 wire transfers, one of which to a bank account in Chile. Jacob Biderman was operating (at least initially) through his company "Friends of LBS". According to the articles, the scheme was orchestrated by Sarah Ginsburg, Rabbi Biderman's sister.<br /><br /></p><p>If it is true that Jacob Biderman knowingly participated in the fraud described in these news articles, then the following questions must be asked:</p><p>1) <b>How can an active participant of fraud be registered as a Chabad Shliach</b>?</p><p>2) <b>How can the Chairman of the Lauder Business School in Vienna, a school set up to teach Torah ethics in business, be someone who has conducted his business in an allegedly fraudulent manner</b>?</p><p>3) <b>Will he still be <a href="https://rce.eu.com/en/about-us-en/" target="_blank">advertised as one of the founder members</a> of the RCE (Rabbinical Council of European Rabbis)? </b></p><p>3) <b>How can this person still refer to himself as a Rabbi and why aren't other Rabbis demanding he give up this title?</b></p><p><br /></p><p>In 2015, two of the parties mentioned in this alleged fraud entered into a fight where one of them was shot, but the attempted murder charges were later dropped. How do other Chabad Rabbis feel about one of their colleagues being mixed up with such violent activities when they are trying to promote Judaism? Is any Chabad Rabbi prepared to speak out?</p><div><br /></div><h2 style="text-align: left;">Articles and Links detailing the alleged Fraud</h2><div>March 2018: <a href="https://myrtlebeachsc.com/mitchells-win-mitchells-win/">https://myrtlebeachsc.com/mitchells-win-mitchells-win/</a></div><div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Judge Benjamin H Culbertson ruled yesterday that Jack Isaiah Rabon’s mediation settlement with Kyle and Karon Mitchell be immediately thrown out on grounds that Rabon worked with a local lawyer to defraud the Mitchells.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">The Sun News reported last Fall 2017: Court documents filed in early September allege that Jack Isaiah Rabon, Jr., along with his wife, Nicole Rabon, conspired with their attorney and with the buyers of the land to conceal hundreds of thousands of dollars in the transaction from Karon Mitchell, Jack Rabon’s sister, and Kyle Mitchell, her husband. The suit claims that at least some of that money was funnelled through a foreign bank account and then given in cash to the Rabons and their attorney, Lane Jeffries, who worked for the McNair Law Firm at that time.</p></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgp4xMtUKB6g4i9Z52lod3RAPV37J59W67_c8TpFB-AWXLjSR9lA2BHxQJDUmHKTIgxF3iUtdaUUz98HnjBY-0HkEAyqkfMQksdtLLxubYkRHxnnB-ekRDLN4iyJjQZvvkzmlJSYFfFhEM-ioh-NcqU8MRx-TeYpqpdNIof4MCEOFgPXqTO-ImmDRSuM4E" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="207" data-original-width="203" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgp4xMtUKB6g4i9Z52lod3RAPV37J59W67_c8TpFB-AWXLjSR9lA2BHxQJDUmHKTIgxF3iUtdaUUz98HnjBY-0HkEAyqkfMQksdtLLxubYkRHxnnB-ekRDLN4iyJjQZvvkzmlJSYFfFhEM-ioh-NcqU8MRx-TeYpqpdNIof4MCEOFgPXqTO-ImmDRSuM4E" width="235" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, "segoe ui", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "open sans", "helvetica neue", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; text-align: left;">Myrtle Beach Area Attorney Lane Jefferies</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 16px;">The dismissal of the mediation agreement opens up opportunities for the Mitchells to sue Rabon, his attorney Lane Jeffries, the buyer of the Mitchell’s property <b>Sarah Ginsburg and Jacob Biderman</b>, and potentially even the city of Myrtle Beach.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></div><div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">As the <a href="http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/news/local/article177488491.html" rel="noopener" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4c4084; pointer-events: auto; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Myrtle Beach Sun News reported last October 6th</a>:</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">According to court filings, Jeffries, Jack and Nicole Rabon, <b>Ginsburg and Biderman</b> all told the plaintiffs that the purchase price for the combined parcels was $542,000. That’s the total amount that was listed on closing documents and the total that is available in Horry County land records.</p></div><div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">However, the suit claims that the buyers really paid $777,000, and that the Rabons and Jeffries kept the additional $235,000 out of official records in an attempt to conceal it from Kyle and Karon Mitchell.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">As a part of that arrangement, <b>the suit says Biderman transferred $100,000 to a bank account in Chile under the name of Gabriel Yosef</b>. That money was allegedly given to Jack and Nicole Rabon and Jeffries by Yosef after the transfer.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">This article was published in March 2019 <a href="https://myrtlebeachsc.com/voided-myrtle-beach-sale-includes-fraud-and-mcnair-law-firm/" style="background-color: transparent;">https://myrtlebeachsc.com/voided-myrtle-beach-sale-includes-fraud-and-mcnair-law-firm/</a></p></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">Myrtle Beach Lawyer Firm Named in Fraudulent Sale</h3><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiT_tkoQE3V6ooXgB5kPFYeQ2VK7hypl6-boM8PGhfEdt_qIodSqTl0horXrI6yW4AmVYziZe_zyC8j11jPORyCS0DsWb1uCdgtAonvPAal0DA4h4j1Cz_drEQ4ZZDnXkNWcES3NtutaooK07H6edEueBXJHBulP-VEXYZujm2PoRuKuC4Tvqi5bprg6fQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="588" data-original-width="916" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiT_tkoQE3V6ooXgB5kPFYeQ2VK7hypl6-boM8PGhfEdt_qIodSqTl0horXrI6yW4AmVYziZe_zyC8j11jPORyCS0DsWb1uCdgtAonvPAal0DA4h4j1Cz_drEQ4ZZDnXkNWcES3NtutaooK07H6edEueBXJHBulP-VEXYZujm2PoRuKuC4Tvqi5bprg6fQ=w484-h310" width="484" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><h4 class="wp-block-heading" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 19px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 29px; margin: 24px auto 14px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“McNair Law Firm intentionally withheld material information about the September [2015] Sales from the two mortgage holders to conceal numerous assets in violation of federal and state law”</em></span><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"></em></h4><h4 class="wp-block-heading" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 19px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 29px; margin: 24px auto 14px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Lane Jefferies [McNair’s Lawyer] knew about and, more importantly, was concerned about Gabby’s wire. This proves he knew about the illicit funds and was an active participant in the conspiracy to defraud the banks, the Mitchells and Rabon & Rabon, Inc .</em></h4><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Myrtle Beach residents Karon and Kyle Mitchell filed a motion this past week in the Fifteenth Judicial Court to void the fraudulent sale of $777,000 worth of downtown Myrtle Beach real estate they previously owned.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">The lawsuit claiming fraud reads: There is no issue of material fact in dispute as to whether the sale of September 3, 2015 was procured by fraud by all of the parties involved and is void and/or voidable under South Carolina law.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Sarah Ginsburg orchestrated a scheme in which $777,000.00 was paid for the two properties owned by Rabon & Rabon, Inc., with $235,000.00 of that money being paid “under the table” to Jack Rabon and others. There are actually two instances of fraud in the transaction.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">The most obvious fraud lies in the specific representations of Mr. Jeffries [Lane Jeffries – McNair Law Firm Lawyer at that time] and Mr. Rabon to Plaintiffs and numerous courts that only $542,000.00 was being paid for the two properties. These allegations pertinent to the fraud directly against Plaintiffs [hereinafter the “Direct Fraud”] are verified by Michelle Cohen, (the real estate agent involved in the sale) Jack Rabon (the President and Vice President of the Corporation and primary benefactor of the illicit funds), and the Biderman Defendants (<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">the purchasers of the properties</span>).<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">The second instance of fraud was only recently uncovered in discovery and deals with fraud perpetrated by the lawyers, at the direction of the client, against the creditors of the Corporation. <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">McNair Law Firm intentionally withheld material information about the September Sales from the two mortgage holders to conceal numerous assets in violation of federal and state law [hereinafter the “Asset Concealment Fraud”]</span>.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #fcff01;">Jacob Biderman is a citizen of Austria who operates a Jewish educational institution in Myrtle Beach through Friends of LBS, LLC</span><span style="background-color: white;">. The original written contract with Friends of LBS, LLC was for the sale of Sea Palms #3 and the Brick House for the total price of $542,000.00.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><b>However, the actual deal was for Biderman to pay $777,000.00 for both properties</b>, with the additional $235,000.00 to be paid to Jack Rabon and others (exclusively) via a wire transfer and cash. This payment arrangement cut owners Kyle and Karon Mitchell out of their portion of $235,000 of the proceeds of the entire sale. <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The lawsuit claims that not only was McNair Law firm aware of the fraud, but a lawyer and perhaps lawyers of the firm actually participated in that fraud.</span></p><h4 class="wp-block-heading" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 19px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 29px; margin: 24px auto 14px;">The downtown Myrtle Beach properties named in the fraudulent schemes include:</h4><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">All that certain piece, parcel or lot of land situate, lying and being in the City of Myrtle Beach, Dogwood Neck Township, Horry County, South Carolina, shown and designated as Lot Three (3) of Block Nineteen (19) according to a map or plat of Hotel Section of Myrtle Beach, as made in June and July if 1926, under the supervision of Stanley H. Wright, Engineer, which map or plat is recorded in the Clerk of Court’s Office for Horry County in Plat Book 1 at page 84, reference to which is hereby made as a part and parcel of this description. TMS # 181-11-03-005/ PIN # 444-01-04-0044 [<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">hereinafter the “Brick House</span>”]</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">All those certain pieces, parcels or lots of land, with improvements thereon, situate, lying and being in the City of Myrtle Beach, Dogwood Neck Township, Horry County, South Carolina, shown and designated as Lot Numbers Seventeen (17) and Eighteen (18) of Block Nineteen (19), as shown on a map of the Hotel Section of Myrtle Beach made in June and July 1926, under the supervision of Stanley H. Wright, Engineer, and recorded in the office of the RMC for Horry County, South Carolina, in Plat Book 1 at page 84, reference to which is craved as forming a part of these presents.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />TMS # 181-11-03-002 / PIN # 444-01-04-0051</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">All that certain piece, parcel or lot of land, with improvements thereon, situate, lying and being in the City of Myrtle Beach, Dogwood Neck Township, Horry County, South Carolina, shown and designated as Lot Number Two (2) of Block Nineteen (19), as shown on a map of the Hotel Section of Myrtle Beach made in June and July 1926, under the supervision of Stanley H. Wright, Engineer, and recorded in the office of the RMC for Horry County, South Carolina, in Plat Book 1 at page 84, reference to which is craved as forming a part of these presents.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />TMS # 181-11-03-004 / PIN # 444-01-04-0043[collectively hereinafter “Sea Palms #3”]</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">In January 2015, Jack Rabon executed a contract with Shai David for the sale of several Rabon & Rabon, Inc. properties for $1 million. Rabon and David had a separate, unwritten agreement that David would pay Rabon an additional $735,000.00 “off the record” for the properties. Lane Jefferies [McNair Law Firm Lawyer] was present at most of the meetings while these negotiations took place and actually discussed the illicit payments in a text message exchange with Rabon on January 10, 2015.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Officially, Sea Palms #1 was sold to David for $242,000.00 in February 2015 and Sea Palms #2 was sold for $175,000.00 in March 2015. These sales took place without approval from the Probate Court or notice to the minority shareholders. The Sea Palms #2 sale resulted in cash of $128,289.57 belonging to the Corporation that was deposited directly into the McNair Law Firm Trust account. Once Plaintiffs discovered the sales, they filed suit against Rabon.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">In their Answer, the McNair Firm misrepresented to the court and creditors that the money obtained from the sale of Sea Palms #2 was used “to preserve assets of the Corporation.” In fact, McNair actually held more than $120,000.00 in Rabon & Rabon, Inc. funds in its trust account at the time it made this representation. Ultimately, only $48,460.30 the $128,289.57 was spent towards expenses for the Corporation.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Michelle Cohen was the realtor involved in the deal and the primary representative of the Biderman Defendants. Ms. Cohen confirmed the conspiracy to pay the additional illicit funds via affidavit.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #fcff01;"><span style="color: red;">Jacob Biderman, Atid Properties, LLC, Friends of LBS, LLC and Sarah Ginsberg admitted in their joint answer that the additional $235,000.00 was paid for the two properties outside of the closing.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Therefore, the payment of the illicit and undisclosed $235,000.00 in funds is admitted by all of the parties directly involved. There is a dispute as to who received $50,000.00 of the illicit funds, but all parties agree that $185,000.00 went to Jack Rabon through Daisy Ridge, LLC and cash.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">On August 20, 2015, Lane Jefferies made a motion in the Horry County Probate Court to sell two properties owned by Rabon & Rabon, Inc. In the motion and in direct representations to Plaintiffs, Lane Jefferies represented that Friends of LBS, LLC agreed to pay $145,000.00 to Rabon & Rabon, Inc. for the Brick House and $397,000.00 for Sea Palms #3, for a total of $542,000.00. These representations were false. Jack Rabon and Lane Jeffries knew the aforementioned representations were false at the time they were made to the Mitchells and the Probate Court.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Both the corporate resolution drafted by Jefferies and the Consent Motion signed by the Probate Court represented that only $542,000.00 was being paid for the property as opposed to the actual agreed upon price of $777,000.00. Due to the impending loss of the property to BB&T, and the false understanding that no better offer existed, the Mitchells signed the Resolution and the Consent Order on August 25, 2015.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Upon the executed Resolution and Consent Order, the final stages of the conspiracy were set into motion. Biderman formed a new LLC, Atid Properties, LLC, for the sole purpose of taking title to Sea Palms #3 and the Brick House. Jack and Nicole Rabon formed a new company, Daisy<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Ridge, LLC, for the sole purpose of receiving the illicit funds via wire from Biderman. The formation of Daisy Ridge, LLC was suggested by Lane Jefferies who referred the Rabons to Robert Frenz, an attorney in Columbia, for its formation. Jefferies actually provided the fraudulent address for Rabon to use as the office for Daisy Ridge, LLC via text message.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #fcff01;">After the LLCs were formed, the last piece of the conspiracy involved the money. The money from Biderman would be transferred through three wire transfers.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">The First Wire consisted of the legitimate funds under the contracts and transferred to the Emery Law Firm Trust Account from a newly created Bank of America bank account in the name of Atid Properties, LLC. This total of $527,627.77 arrived no later than September 2, 2015.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><b style="background-color: #fcff01;">The Second Wire in the amount of $100,000.00 was wired from Biderman’s account in Austria to a bank account in Chile in the name of Gabby Yosef, Michelle Cohen’s brother.</b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">These funds were withdrawn in cash to be handed to Jack Rabon.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">The Third Wire was in the amount of $135,000.00 and was transferred to a PNC Bank Account in the name of Daisy Ridge, LLC. Due to the anti-money laundering regulations in the U.S., the Third Wire had to go through a clearinghouse in New York and it did not arrive by September 3, 2015.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: white;">This caused a ripple in the plan, resulting in Jack Rabon demanding that additional security be paid for the illicit funds in the amount of $135,000.00. </span><span style="background-color: #fcff01;"><b>Biderman wrote three checks for $45,000.00 each that were given to Lane Jefferies as security for the illicit funds.</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Lane Jefferies signed a receipt for these three checks on September 3, 2015. <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Jefferies asserted that these checks were for “security for the brick house,” but this is false.</span> All funds necessary for the closing of both properties arrived in the trust account of the Emery Law Firm no later than September 2, 2018, the day before the three checks were handed to Lane Jefferies.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">On September 2, 2015, Lane Jefferies engaged in a series of texts with Jack and Nicole Rabon. These texts are the proverbial “smoking gun” with regard to proving Lane Jefferies’ knowing and intentional involvement in the conspiracy.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg8QAWAiTmweJQoTQISnvwpdeLQIokPP7tYH_QMbj3CdKKZ4CuCpq_DgGxWjXNMmtUnw3J06eV6F2OXsyV3yQZBMYb28GFBnmHQoc0vSnSZWvYuRX8DEQRbbntF_89xITvH5FR-YuW3gzzjJ7ytiRjketnG-eeHg-sFkzSnwIY5tq2XgMrEVX8Hb3Xxoug" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="367" data-original-width="324" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg8QAWAiTmweJQoTQISnvwpdeLQIokPP7tYH_QMbj3CdKKZ4CuCpq_DgGxWjXNMmtUnw3J06eV6F2OXsyV3yQZBMYb28GFBnmHQoc0vSnSZWvYuRX8DEQRbbntF_89xITvH5FR-YuW3gzzjJ7ytiRjketnG-eeHg-sFkzSnwIY5tq2XgMrEVX8Hb3Xxoug" width="212" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, "segoe ui", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "open sans", "helvetica neue", sans-serif" style="color: #444444; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; text-align: left;">Former Sea Palms Hotel Owner Jack Rabon participated in alleged fraud with McNair</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #fcff01;">These texts demonstrate his knowledge of both wires involving the illicit monies from Biderman. The single text that conclusively proves Lane Jefferies’ direct involvement reads as follows: <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Damn. Jack, can you get Michelle on the phone and see if gabby got his wire?”</em></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">The only “gabby” involved was Gabby Yosef, the brother of Michelle Cohen. The only way Gabby Yosef was involved with any party in general, or with the real estate transaction on September 3, 2015 in particular, was through the wire of $100,000.00 to his bank account in Chile.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Lane Jefferies knew about and, more importantly, was concerned about Gabby’s wire. This proves he knew about the illicit funds and was an active participant in the conspiracy to defraud the banks, the Mitchells and Rabon & Rabon, Inc.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">*EDITOR’S NOTE – The statements in this legal complaint concerning Shai David were taken as a sworn affidavit by Jack Rabon. Mr. David disputes those statements as factually untrue and not accurate.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Then, in October 2019, this article was published: <a href="https://myrtlebeachsc.com/perjury-charges-filed-against-supreme-court-justices-son-in-law/">https://myrtlebeachsc.com/perjury-charges-filed-against-supreme-court-justices-son-in-law/</a></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Gelasio; font-size: 41px; font-weight: 600;">Perjury charges filed against Supreme Court Justice’s Son-In-Law</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Myrtle Beach area attorney Lane Jeffries has been sued for perjury.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">The <a aria-label="Charlotte Observer (opens in a new tab)" href="https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/state/south-carolina/article227407069.html" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4c4084; pointer-events: auto; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Charlotte Observer</a> first reported on this issue last March</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Allegations of secret payments and a cash-packed envelope being handed off in a parking lot were some of the “illicit” activity that occurred during the 2015 sale of an oceanfront motel.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Those two details highlight the latest filing in the ongoing lawsuit over the sale of hotels and a home near 7th Avenue in Myrtle Beach…</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #fcff01;">Today, perjury charges were filed in the case by plaintiffs Karon Mitchell, Kyle Mitchell, and Rabon & Rabon, Inc., against defendants: Attorney Lane Jeffries, McNair Law Firm, P.A., Atid Properties, Daisy Ridge, LLC, Friends of LBS, LLC, <b>Sarah Ginsburg, Jacob Biderman</b>, Gabriel Yosef, and Michelle Cohen.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #fcff01;">The complaint states: There is no issue of material fact in dispute as to whether the<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"> sale of September 3, 2015 was procured by fraud and that Lane Jefferies, a member of the South Carolina Bar, was an active participant.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Lane Jefferies knowingly provided false testimony in a sworn deposition. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Any additional explanation or affidavits that contradict his sworn deposition testimony must be considered a “sham affidavit” and cannot be considered by this Court in reaching its decision. Without Jefferies’ false alibis about the September Sales, he cannot mount a defense against Plaintiff’s claims, especially considering the admissions he provided in that same deposition.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jeffries is currently the Supervising Litigation Attorney at </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Anastopoulo-Law-Firm/206118233373029?eid=ARCtJ8kZZbduaagVqIDOOUsxMjywyb2FKV5FYQHYNay3WHrUlBH4vjaNLi0T-DhQLHaNYqY3gMxDEx6n&timeline_context_item_type=intro_card_work&timeline_context_item_source=100013818194351&fref=tag" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4c4084; font-weight: 400; pointer-events: auto; text-decoration-line: none;">Anastopoulo Law Firm</a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. During the period when the event occurred Jeffries worked under the supervision of Henrietta Golding at the [then] McNair Law Firm in the Myrtle Beach office.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">For those interested in reading more about </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Source Sans Pro;">Lane Jefferies, click <a href="https://www.fitsnews.com/2019/11/05/lane-jefferies-cases-referred-to-south-carolina-attorney-discipline-panel/" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">However, it appears tensions were mounting even back in 2015 before these court cases came to light. Here is an article from November 2017 describing the altercation between two of the men involved in the alleged fraud.</span></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #222222;"><a href="https://www.wmbfnews.com/story/30542310/suspect-in-main-street-shooting-charged-with-attempted-murder-victim-charged-with-assault-and-battery-3rd-degree/">https://www.wmbfnews.com/story/30542310/suspect-in-main-street-shooting-charged-with-attempted-murder-victim-charged-with-assault-and-battery-3rd-degree/</a></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></p><h4 style="text-align: left;">Victim charged weeks after shooting incident in Myrtle Beach</h4><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgd6IRHl4SloEtFfttVoNBaA3OS75OQv-RPueBchvW-aDoDb7pzWOKH3M9OCjY2Xlly2NkVPg4F5j9Fs78euyx0_2VktP5nhHaL1I_pTgJOYozItBykm4TjmwaaNbef7KJwmFCSmcZHbHvB4rzRKhH1Dedewbv87BHWN-kZ9ljGUeGHL1VIwZqgk9haltQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="367" data-original-width="324" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgd6IRHl4SloEtFfttVoNBaA3OS75OQv-RPueBchvW-aDoDb7pzWOKH3M9OCjY2Xlly2NkVPg4F5j9Fs78euyx0_2VktP5nhHaL1I_pTgJOYozItBykm4TjmwaaNbef7KJwmFCSmcZHbHvB4rzRKhH1Dedewbv87BHWN-kZ9ljGUeGHL1VIwZqgk9haltQ" width="212" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jack Rabon</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh_xrJIo3IuLaDA01FHDWspWHU8hiVadkIZLGY2cx7BG5wkjZpHax2qKjhm1n1PPhew04yN2tksWvYAa4l6qayg61muxvFk_6fTbu4_Z3ebJEhXpGdMxc0AaIPXd1prfsDwhyGZ_j7mgxHpWvBt_BTk-WE02auv60ZNsM2Jvb8htlpUHeFrfHb-kMTqk1Y" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1225" data-original-width="980" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh_xrJIo3IuLaDA01FHDWspWHU8hiVadkIZLGY2cx7BG5wkjZpHax2qKjhm1n1PPhew04yN2tksWvYAa4l6qayg61muxvFk_6fTbu4_Z3ebJEhXpGdMxc0AaIPXd1prfsDwhyGZ_j7mgxHpWvBt_BTk-WE02auv60ZNsM2Jvb8htlpUHeFrfHb-kMTqk1Y" width="192" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"" style="color: #6c757d; font-size: 14.4px; text-align: left;">Shai David</span></td></tr></tbody></table></span></span></span><p></p><p class="text | article-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">MYRTLE BEACH, SC (WMBF) – Weeks after an altercation and shooting between two local business men in Myrtle Beach, the alleged shooting victim from the November 17 incident on Main Street has been charged with third-degree assault and battery for punching the man charged with shooting him.</p><p class="text | article-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #fcff01;">According to Myrtle Beach Police reports, 46-year-old Jack Rabon was charged December 11.</span> The arrest warrants state that Rabon approached the alleged shooter, 42-year-old Shai David, while he was in the doorway of his vehicle, and punched him with his fists. David suffered "minor bodily injury" as a result, and Rabon is now charged with third-degree assault and battery.</p><p class="text | article-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #fcff01;">David, the alleged shooter in the case, was arrested and charged in November for attempted murder</span> after allegedly shooting at Rabon in a parking lot on Main Street. Rabon was transported to the hospital after the shooting. Rabon's wife said Rabon was shot once in the shoulder and chest, and had a punctured lung. She also said Rabon had been previously threatened by David.</p><p class="text | article-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #fcff01;">Court records indicated Rabon had recently filed a lawsuit against David.</span></p><p class="text | article-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">At about 4:45 p.m. November 17, David got into a physical altercation with the shooting victim, 46-year-old Jack Isiah Rabon, in the 800 block of Main Street, and when the altercation ended, Rabon tried to leave in his vehicle, according to David's arrest warrant. David then got a handgun and started shooting at Rabon as he tried to drive off. Rabon wrecked his vehicle, exited out of the passenger side, and hid behind another vehicle.</p><p class="text | article-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">David then walked over and searched for Rabon, the warrant states. Once he saw Rabon, David moved to get a clear firing line at him and fired another shot at him.</p><p class="text | article-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">David has been charged with attempted murder and possession of a weapon during a violent crime, based on the fact that David was not in imminent peril when he shot Rabon, the warrant states.</p><p class="text | article-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">David's bond was set at $100,000 at a hearing, and he must surrender his passport as an additional condition of his release, due to his ties to Israel. He is also ordered not to have contact with the victim or his family. David's attorney claimed he was wearing a body camera during the shooting incident Tuesday afternoon.</p><p class="text | article-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">David is the former owner of the Oasis Motel, located at 704 York Street in Myrtle Beach. WMBF News interviewed David in June 2014 after several Irish exchange students staying at the motel were arrested after several parties drew complaints for noise and public drunkenness.</p><p class="text | article-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">On November 12, a lawsuit concerning real estate was filed by Rabon against David, according to online records from the Horry County Courts. <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The owner of Lovely Law Firm, Justin Lovely, said he's considering moving his business elsewhere due to the ongoing violence in the Five Points area.</p><p class="text | article-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">"Nobody wants crime in your neighborhood, let alone where you conduct business," he said.</p><p class="text | article-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">Lovely heard the gunshots Tuesday afternoon.</p><p class="text | article-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">"Immediately, I got up. At first, I thought it was a car backfiring. Ran outside with my associate, a couple of my staff, heard four more shots fired and then I got everybody back in here," Lovely said. "We saw a guy with a green shirt running over here saying, 'Call the police, call the police.' We knew it was gunfire at that point."</p><p class="text | article-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">Lovely said this is the first time he's heard a shooting during business hours. He said the shootings in Five Points usually happen overnight.</p><p class="text | article-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It would seem that Jack Rabon has other arrests to his name according to this article </span></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: #222222;"><a href="https://wpde.com/news/local/myrtle-beach-man-arrested-for-trying-to-hit-teens-with-shoe-during-road-rage-incident">https://wpde.com/news/local/myrtle-beach-man-arrested-for-trying-to-hit-teens-with-shoe-during-road-rage-incident</a></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">Then in February 2017, this is reported </span><span style="background-color: transparent;"><a href="https://abcnews4.com/will-a-myrtle-beach-businessman-stand-trial-for-attempted-murder">https://abcnews4.com/will-a-myrtle-beach-businessman-stand-trial-for-attempted-murder</a></span></p><h1 class="index-module_storyHeadlineText__Rgpv" style="border: 0px none; color: #121212; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.5px; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Judge says local businessman will stand trial for attempted murder</h1></div></div><div><br /></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg20RHh4iTin7kcdGrobMJrnX97YeQEK-b47b31rOljbAPcn9f1s6uxjZHzJKiQSfmeBkHxJ0YoSizgvMn2Ely4c-N4t5W9z5EuFfYpyv6q2cNpN9nVEdj2JGCaXy-zokS2QP8-bd7e5AHastk3UFpE2ZzYxYQQ1jw_4wCwkr2jlVXG12Asnw7Q-TFFYN0" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="1024" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg20RHh4iTin7kcdGrobMJrnX97YeQEK-b47b31rOljbAPcn9f1s6uxjZHzJKiQSfmeBkHxJ0YoSizgvMn2Ely4c-N4t5W9z5EuFfYpyv6q2cNpN9nVEdj2JGCaXy-zokS2QP8-bd7e5AHastk3UFpE2ZzYxYQQ1jw_4wCwkr2jlVXG12Asnw7Q-TFFYN0" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; text-align: start;">Shai David during an earlier court appearance</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /></div><div><p style="background-color: white; color: #121212; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 18px; margin: 26px 0px;"><span class="dateline">Conway, S.C. (WPDE) — </span>Myrtle Beach businessman Shai David will stand trial for <b>attempted murder</b> after a 2015 shooting, Judge Steven H. John ruled Friday afternoon.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #121212; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 18px; margin: 26px 0px;">John's ruling came after about a day and a half of <a class="themeColorForLinks" href="http://wpde.com/news/local/myrtle-beach-businessman-charged-in-shooting-near-superblock-in-court-today-for-hearing" style="color: #1773c7; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">statements and testimony during a "stand your ground" hearing</a>, which is when a judge determines if a person had a reasonable right to defend themselves where they felt threatened, even with deadly force.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #121212; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 18px; margin: 26px 0px;">John said the request for immunity under the "stand your ground" law was denied and that Shai David will go to trail on attempted murder charges.<br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #121212; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 18px; margin: 26px 0px;">A date for that trial has not yet been set.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #121212; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 18px; margin: 26px 0px;">David's arrest came in <a class="themeColorForLinks" href="http://wpde.com/news/local/shooting-reported-in-downtown-myrtle-beach-potential-suspect-in-custody" style="color: #1773c7; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">November of 2015 after a shooting in the Superblock area of downtown Myrtle Beach</a>. Police say David and another local businessmen, Jack Isaiah Rabon, had a fight, and after that fight, shots were fired and Rabon was hit while trying to leave the area in his car.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #121212; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 18px; margin: 26px 0px;">Rabon was also <a class="themeColorForLinks" href="http://wpde.com/news/local/man-charged-with-assault-after-fight-that-led-to-shooting-in-downtown-myrtle-beach" style="color: #1773c7; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">charged with third degree assault and battery for the fight that proceeded the shooting</a>.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #121212; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 18px; margin: 26px 0px;">During the defense's final address to the judge Friday morning, they said that when David acted he was meeting force with force.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #121212; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 18px; margin: 26px 0px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiEHvqNx4cVJnXFLhNEa57b48qCNY9Nosv7dtAIUqegYPBbqocSuEo4HpCkLjvqxPmMDPjLq7JLCrFfJ9t9l_Yu8gBSklOWBAwTvoawCibdZ6oDFoV9s4fZzWamJRb9FwtR4Q9BImVZEy2bw6ozU9cHGDGr4vJOVIlwGUvsVpAvCwddB45kq8DE-tU2rgI" style="background-color: transparent; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-original-height="302" data-original-width="585" height="199" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiEHvqNx4cVJnXFLhNEa57b48qCNY9Nosv7dtAIUqegYPBbqocSuEo4HpCkLjvqxPmMDPjLq7JLCrFfJ9t9l_Yu8gBSklOWBAwTvoawCibdZ6oDFoV9s4fZzWamJRb9FwtR4Q9BImVZEy2bw6ozU9cHGDGr4vJOVIlwGUvsVpAvCwddB45kq8DE-tU2rgI=w386-h199" width="386" /></a></p><p></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #121212; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 18px; margin: 26px 0px;">They argued that weapons were present during the fight so Rabon was a serious threat to David and that David had the right to fire shots and to continue to shoot until it appeared that any danger had ceased.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #121212; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 18px; margin: 26px 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhZ5D3YMenrUaxl8LmrlyLNfupT4Y_Oz2EYARRlb66iBbeiIkIfOu7qSs5wsFd1ddMs_LgWL0Zodcf4_-kMm4womAclJ8My8mwLCjOAXUk1xiBt08EeegdwCN-ubt-j0-1CkxJ6W1O0YWreiQTywKkX4USds7Yck3tIE8CKwqcugF7LDyh5xi3KlOaxt9U" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="294" data-original-width="571" height="287" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhZ5D3YMenrUaxl8LmrlyLNfupT4Y_Oz2EYARRlb66iBbeiIkIfOu7qSs5wsFd1ddMs_LgWL0Zodcf4_-kMm4womAclJ8My8mwLCjOAXUk1xiBt08EeegdwCN-ubt-j0-1CkxJ6W1O0YWreiQTywKkX4USds7Yck3tIE8CKwqcugF7LDyh5xi3KlOaxt9U=w557-h287" width="557" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #121212; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 18px; margin: 26px 0px;">But the state argued that Rabon had retreated to his truck and ended the assault when David took aim and fired shots.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #121212; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 18px; margin: 26px 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEggwFeCqyAlnDAsiBp8QkXoOpALRLYcwtYpk_ivusUkYXfdU2i0-ajWkW7lkzqdJy4up7qymXtuBffZaWHH0l-bFKrp9gDxXO2V45lM_tJEzxrCoATpIhLcavhGURW3pvG9IP7TmqRR2V7noV2Ytak6uqkGTtNrNVZnBVf1nE9vGyJah48qhGmRWnm6-0g" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="271" data-original-width="568" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEggwFeCqyAlnDAsiBp8QkXoOpALRLYcwtYpk_ivusUkYXfdU2i0-ajWkW7lkzqdJy4up7qymXtuBffZaWHH0l-bFKrp9gDxXO2V45lM_tJEzxrCoATpIhLcavhGURW3pvG9IP7TmqRR2V7noV2Ytak6uqkGTtNrNVZnBVf1nE9vGyJah48qhGmRWnm6-0g=w501-h240" width="501" /></a></div><br />The state said that even if David had the right to shoot at the car at first, he kept shooting and advanced towards Rabon, meaning it was not self defense.<p></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #121212; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 18px; margin: 26px 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjOTe0aGLsd0lG5A6ddQ2d4qLVOdSIA7k-VfxYRcgJh6oSIQs5HL4nXRRO5v-9wsyiV1Flspz5YI1cH9mqZNrXfjC76E6zxPlRf46jspnclKGP1ucY3QwAYv4U0vxVidJyAvIyvYJq8vOyo-AcGyDH8GyMAmnJ8daUyapRXAxW9oYPtt2uj-VacpPcP-Ig" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="268" data-original-width="585" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjOTe0aGLsd0lG5A6ddQ2d4qLVOdSIA7k-VfxYRcgJh6oSIQs5HL4nXRRO5v-9wsyiV1Flspz5YI1cH9mqZNrXfjC76E6zxPlRf46jspnclKGP1ucY3QwAYv4U0vxVidJyAvIyvYJq8vOyo-AcGyDH8GyMAmnJ8daUyapRXAxW9oYPtt2uj-VacpPcP-Ig=w501-h230" width="501" /></a></div><br />During <a class="themeColorForLinks" href="http://wpde.com/news/local/myrtle-beach-businessman-charged-in-shooting-near-superblock-in-court-today-for-hearing" style="color: #1773c7; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">testimony on Thursday</a>, Rabon said he never threatened David with a gun. He said he only had a pocket knife on him at the time of the shooting, though he did have a gun in his car and assumed David knew that.<p></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #121212; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 18px; margin: 26px 0px;">But the defense said since David knew Rabon had a gun, he felt threatened and had to act to protect himself.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #121212; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 18px; margin: 26px 0px;">David's attorney Fran Humphries says the ruling has no impact on the upcoming trial.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #121212; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 18px; margin: 26px 0px;">"It has no real bearing on the trial of the case, it's something that was created by statue in 2006. We took advantage of it. We weren't successful but we look forward to the trial," he said.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #121212; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 18px; margin: 26px 0px;">Humphries even said this hearing may help their case a bit.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #121212; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 18px; margin: 26px 0px;">"This motion allows us to sort of set some parameters for the case. We know now what the alleged victim will say because he didn't provide a statement of law enforcement at the time and so that gives us a little more information about how to better defend the case," he said.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #121212; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 18px; margin: 26px 0px;">According to the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division website, "stand your ground" comes from the Protection of Persons and Property Act:</p><blockquote style="background-color: white; border-left: 5px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); color: #121212; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 20px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 600; letter-spacing: -0.5px; margin: 26px 80px 26px 0px; padding-left: 20px;">The stated intent of the legislation is to codify the common law castle doctrine, which recognizes that a person’s home is his castle, and to extend the doctrine to include an occupied vehicle and the person’s place of business. This bill authorizes the lawful use of deadly force under certain circumstances against an intruder or attacker in a person’s dwelling, residence, or occupied vehicle. The bill provides that there is no duty to retreat if (1) the person is in a place where he has a right to be, including the person’s place of business, (2) the person is not engaged in an unlawful activity, and (3) the use of deadly force is necessary to prevent death, great bodily injury, or the commission of a violent crime. A person who lawfully uses deadly force is immune from criminal prosecution and civil action, unless the person against whom deadly force was used is a law enforcement officer acting in the performance of his official duties and he identifies himself in accordance with applicable law or the person using deadly force knows or reasonably should have known the person is a law enforcement officer.</blockquote><p style="background-color: white; color: #121212; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 18px; margin: 26px 0px;">Martin Spratlin, one of the prosecuting attorney's with the 15th Circuit Solicitor's Office, said the "stand your ground" part of this is an extension from a typical self-defense defense case.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #121212; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 18px; margin: 26px 0px;">"Typically in a self- defense case you have to establish that you had no other opportunity than to do what you did. You couldn't escape, you couldn't run away, you couldn't hide and get away from the situation, you were left with no other choice. What the castle doctrine does is it removes that," he said.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #121212; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 18px; margin: 26px 0px;">Part of the hearing included footage from a body camera that David had on at the time of the fight and shooting. A member of his defense team says that footage will be provided to ABC15 News next week.</p></div><div>Further reading (some links may be behind a paywall)</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/news/local/article227407069.html">https://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/news/local/article227407069.html</a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/news/local/article177488491.html">https://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/news/local/article177488491.html</a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/news/local/crime/article185650398.html">https://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/news/local/crime/article185650398.html</a> : The case against a Myrtle Beach man accused of shooting a former business partner in a fight over money in the superblock two years ago has ended with a dismissal from the court.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://wpde.com/news/local/myrtle-beach-businessman-charged-in-shooting-near-superblock-in-court-today-for-hearing">https://wpde.com/news/local/myrtle-beach-businessman-charged-in-shooting-near-superblock-in-court-today-for-hearing</a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Help Beth Supportershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12509065298654201853noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629447024939731204.post-87331573182536922902022-07-07T06:09:00.005-07:002022-07-07T06:22:12.286-07:00Open Letter To Arie Folger : YOU HAVE FAILED MISERABLY<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigC_00vBMqTxKJxhGbV8U2upUgzhZYtCFAJKk3Fq42DBCpGWtZxmnCFFZOrjRENK0e9V-BwPNNDljc8XBTWDCRe7BAUzbEVbwBqs9iuJHTKUc0oMfyJY-Bwytqn8lTa7CZ49V24KybjZv9JvHXub_sF-Yk1XyF6JFXXvKP3_oELd5XD4QubWEfBzKt/s721/FolgerPointing.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="721" data-original-width="713" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigC_00vBMqTxKJxhGbV8U2upUgzhZYtCFAJKk3Fq42DBCpGWtZxmnCFFZOrjRENK0e9V-BwPNNDljc8XBTWDCRe7BAUzbEVbwBqs9iuJHTKUc0oMfyJY-Bwytqn8lTa7CZ49V24KybjZv9JvHXub_sF-Yk1XyF6JFXXvKP3_oELd5XD4QubWEfBzKt/s320/FolgerPointing.jpg" width="316" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ex-Chief Rabbi of Vienna Arie Folger</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><br />arie.folger@gmail.com</p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">Dear Rabbi Arie Folger,<br /><br />We were in contact some months ago when I readily admit to knowing very little about the case and readily swallowed what you told me.<br /><br />Since then, I have learnt a lot more most of which is horrifying. Yes, Adrian is right, the Austrian Court system is thoroughly corrupt. One judge who is highly prejudiced against Beth was allowed to preside over the case each time it came to court and even on appeal when an independent judge should have been appointed. That would never be allowed in England and shows an unprecented level of corruption in the Austrian court system. I long for the day when both Thau and the vile Gottlicher are brought to book for their crimes. Gottlicher is being investigated and about time. They should both be struck off, hopefully imprisoned for abusing their positions and never be allowed to practise again.<br /><br />The role of IKG and the various rabbis such as yourself, defies belief. What is the point of being so ritualistically religious if you don't act ethically and kindly?<br /><br />And where are the boys? Why did they not have their bnei mitzvah ceremonies? Why have they been allowed to disappear with their abusive and mentally unstable father? Is no-one concerned for the safety of those boys? I ask you again, where are they?<br /><br />No more being economical with the truth. No more telling me I don't know the whole story, how without proof and with false statements from 'friends' Beth was deemed mentally unfit to care for the children. A false psychiatric report dubiously obtained is not evidence.<br /><br />When you stand and are judged by the highest court you and your colleagues will be found doubly wanting. You were supposed to use your position to be a good Jew and make the world a better place. You have failed miserably.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">Yours,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">Ruth Leveson</span><br /></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgchXoD6KOVcCRLIuBGDqOEY6EZpyLAWaicPq6bbnHEm95shsA-ICZB1fjVdSJ0IJBGJAEVItMGii5IsPIR45L4xNhOZ_Z_UESmgvx8QGfwboGs5_ijqEzsEcISVw01dg_sZSOkH8XEUreDKMOTT7gGOvNJolJr0eGS59wNPP82fPA_Eh2Rzh5kJn4j/s761/FolgerAndTwins.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="731" data-original-width="761" height="307" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgchXoD6KOVcCRLIuBGDqOEY6EZpyLAWaicPq6bbnHEm95shsA-ICZB1fjVdSJ0IJBGJAEVItMGii5IsPIR45L4xNhOZ_Z_UESmgvx8QGfwboGs5_ijqEzsEcISVw01dg_sZSOkH8XEUreDKMOTT7gGOvNJolJr0eGS59wNPP82fPA_Eh2Rzh5kJn4j/s320/FolgerAndTwins.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /><br /><br />#OpenLettersToFolger #ReunitingBethWithHerSons</p>Help Beth Supportershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12509065298654201853noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629447024939731204.post-26552952395594470372022-05-31T07:21:00.000-07:002022-05-31T07:21:41.072-07:00A story about Chelm - Part II<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSYgVElM940DzeVzOvEvtGy5uawNENXPna8-GlosdIOwXPDbp69Sx240xtE2qrxBoenL4aBhdvuza9tmRE4WURd-EKXeJyrKH97nLl9fnO0ZgylvW9UmZ0iQmFxW-zNq0LBH7amSDTYzaMzJuNZwTEB3Vjp0QTrpM6sltsuugAVQrPCfrhUmKfYbfn/s822/GatheringOfTheElders.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="704" data-original-width="822" height="274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSYgVElM940DzeVzOvEvtGy5uawNENXPna8-GlosdIOwXPDbp69Sx240xtE2qrxBoenL4aBhdvuza9tmRE4WURd-EKXeJyrKH97nLl9fnO0ZgylvW9UmZ0iQmFxW-zNq0LBH7amSDTYzaMzJuNZwTEB3Vjp0QTrpM6sltsuugAVQrPCfrhUmKfYbfn/s320/GatheringOfTheElders.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p>This is a continuation of the Chelm story. You can read the first part <a href="http://helpbeth.blogspot.com/2021/05/a-story-about-chelm.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><div>...<br /></div><br />Some years later, a gathering was organised for
all the elders of all the different towns across the entire land. It was
a very important gathering where there was lavish food and dignitaries
in attendance. Everyone knew it was an important gathering because the
elders told everyone it was.<br /><br />The inhabitants of all the towns and
cities (other than Chelm) had been pleading with their own elders for
many years about the poor man in Chelm whose house was on fire, but
sadly, the elders had been unable to do anything to help despite being
very important. But, knowing that the elders of Chlem would be attending
the infamous gathering, the elders from other towns were requested by
their townsfolk to confront the elders of Chelm to demand to have the
man's fire put out. After all, this would be easily accomplished given
their closeness with the king of Chelm.<br /><br />At the gathering, the
participants were reminded how important they were and how important the
gathering was. They even sent out messages during the gathering to
villagers far and wide to inform them that the gathering was underway
and that it was very important. Over the next few days, there were many
speeches by many people. Some of the speeches praised Chelm and their
elders for having such an elite fire service, but never mentioned the
man whose house was on fire. Some speeches thanked all elders for
protecting all their respective villagers, but never mentioned the man
whose house was on fire. There were fables told how heroic elders went
to extraordinary lengths to gallantly rescue people in all manner of
situations, but never mentioned the man whose house was on fire.<br /><br />In-between
the speeches, friendships were forged, food and wine was consumed,
ancient legends were reminisced and nostalgic tales were retold.<br /><br />No
one will ever know for sure whether the fire in Chelm, and the man's
suffering, was mentioned at the important gathering, but the fire in
Chelm continues to burn to this very day.<p></p>Help Beth Supportershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12509065298654201853noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629447024939731204.post-22535600520466669072022-05-08T11:14:00.001-07:002022-05-08T11:22:23.633-07:00Muzi-can't or Muzi-won't? EITHER WAY TIME FOR ARIEL MUZICANT TO GO<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFE20krU747GEh1lV1zd6bRjDEGaxoEf92KLAd_uvav949CTCdAm2d3bznEWD3Ifi6AmT1S6uSei-FWrl3ewViDKxl7_YPLGP0rALo6EAnZBU1vpnSSSeML9DCi99Bx5QQeG_cb1b5jxJXEK8QI9HBRGg12Fj2ULb6ay9OpD0k-EO-S2_tPGhWGxlp/s696/Muzicant.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="509" data-original-width="696" height="234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFE20krU747GEh1lV1zd6bRjDEGaxoEf92KLAd_uvav949CTCdAm2d3bznEWD3Ifi6AmT1S6uSei-FWrl3ewViDKxl7_YPLGP0rALo6EAnZBU1vpnSSSeML9DCi99Bx5QQeG_cb1b5jxJXEK8QI9HBRGg12Fj2ULb6ay9OpD0k-EO-S2_tPGhWGxlp/s320/Muzicant.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">ariel.muzicant@colliers.at</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Below are emails sent to Ariel Muzicant, which he has ignored. How can this man stand as <a href="https://eurojewcong.org/who-we-are/dr-ariel-muzicant/" target="_blank">president of the European Jewish Congress</a> and represent European Jewry, as someone who turns his back and buries his head, when his leadership is called upon?<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: courier;"><b>From: Gillian Kaye<br />Date: Wednesday, 20 April 2022<br />To: ariel.muzicant@colliers.at<br />Subject: Ariel Muzicant</b><br /><br />Dear Mr Muzicant,<br /><br />I hope this email finds you in good health.<br /><br />I have seen a <a href="http://helpbeth.blogspot.com/2022/05/ariel-muzicant-claims-it-is-fight.html" target="_blank">couple</a> of <a href="http://helpbeth.blogspot.com/2022/04/ariel-muzicant-responds.html" target="_blank">replies</a> that you have sent to Beth's supporters saying that you tried to help but you were prevented.<br /><br />I contacted you several times in 2015 and you just made other excuses then. I attach an email to me from a mutual friend of ours, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r13OGvfLUJ8" target="_blank">Flo Kaufmann</a>, which is self explanatory.<br /><br />Where there's a will, there's a way, but problems so not go away if they are ignored.<br /><br />It's the boys' barmitzvah in a few weeks and it will be good if you help to bring Shalom to the situation so that Beth is made welcome at this important occasion in their lives.<br /><br />I look forward to hearing from you.<br /><br />Kind regards,<br />Gillian Kaye</span><br /><br />-------------------------------------------<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: courier;"><b>From: Gillian Kaye<br />Date: Sunday, 8 May 2022<br />To: ariel.muzicant@colliers.at<br />Subject: Ariel Muzicant</b><br /><br />Dear Mr Muzicant,<br /><br />I hope you had a lovely Pesach.<br /><br />I refer to my email of the 20th April 2022 to which I still await a reply.<br /><br />Amongst Beth's thousands of supporters, there are many non-Jews. Please give a thought about how more anti-Semitism will be created if this feud is not brought to an end, besides the damage to two young boys and the reputation of the Jewish community in Vienna.<br /><br />Your silence and denial of the situation is not helping.<br /><br />I look forward to hearing from you.<br /><br />Kind regards,<br />Gillian Kaye</span><br /><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghOADzfbjXP2yKBot3ND2w4PhI3fAdC_qnVT-Axjmwkp2L1Gv_1A4VMsu0JRJuQI9oLqj7CNDNNanMkk8wA8zN9ftrRdQC0Cb7i5LBckJbNs87ViT1gl1glZJs3WDtjqdyYMBaSLf5X_8ZpClsjwRfhjVgLEDmwzzKczO27n3o2n8c9lnVS13RhOlb/s570/FloKaufmann.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="428" data-original-width="570" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghOADzfbjXP2yKBot3ND2w4PhI3fAdC_qnVT-Axjmwkp2L1Gv_1A4VMsu0JRJuQI9oLqj7CNDNNanMkk8wA8zN9ftrRdQC0Cb7i5LBckJbNs87ViT1gl1glZJs3WDtjqdyYMBaSLf5X_8ZpClsjwRfhjVgLEDmwzzKczO27n3o2n8c9lnVS13RhOlb/s320/FloKaufmann.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><span style="font-family: courier;"><b>From: Flo Kaufmann<br />Sent: 21 March 2015 19:55<br />To: Gillian Kaye<br />Subject: Muzicant</b><br /><br />Shavua Tov,<br /><br />Hi Gillian - I am in touch with him on another matter and he is OK on that. However, I am making no headway on the matter of the two children. I am also talking about it to others and I am doing my best which at the moment is not producing anything.<br /><br />I’m sorry to be so negative, but all I can say is should the opportunity present itself I will put the case forward.<br /><br />You might like to take it up with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivian_Wineman" target="_blank">Vivian Wineman</a>. He is president of the <a href="https://bod.org.uk/" target="_blank">BoD</a> for a few more weeks, and will probably be at meetings where Muzicant will be present. As Viv’s term of office is coming to an end he might be more inclined to press for some progress as he won’t have to sit at meetings with Muzicant after May.<br /><br />It’s a thought and might be worth a try.<br /><br />Love<br />FLO</span><br /><br /></span></p>Help Beth Supportershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12509065298654201853noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629447024939731204.post-35163896070625167702022-05-06T10:37:00.001-07:002022-05-06T10:37:30.599-07:00Open Letter To Oskar Deutsch : NEVER FORGET? YOU TURN YOUR BACK ON OTHER JEWS!<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXwzNqOC7Qkzzq8uyF1uqfismC-nWn3LCEH64ALlm4pY6bAHOcRINhenIw4YnFYae4T40jCPgS_23aO7Q8NvuQxOQB7YVqrVKPrz3ELhnyr6SUcjHQj17OwQgVxmkw0op3FuOgrUF7NwC-seblixIkQa9bTDlWPfrSoanmRzeI1TRMQLJh2cGIXqjh/s306/image.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="284" data-original-width="306" height="284" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXwzNqOC7Qkzzq8uyF1uqfismC-nWn3LCEH64ALlm4pY6bAHOcRINhenIw4YnFYae4T40jCPgS_23aO7Q8NvuQxOQB7YVqrVKPrz3ELhnyr6SUcjHQj17OwQgVxmkw0op3FuOgrUF7NwC-seblixIkQa9bTDlWPfrSoanmRzeI1TRMQLJh2cGIXqjh/s1600/image.png" width="306" /></a></div><p></p><p><br />o.deutsch@ikg-wien.at<br />office@ikg-wien.at<br /><br /><span style="font-family: courier;">Sehr geehrter Herr Deutsch, <br /><br />I will never forget the time I wrote to you as part of the campaign to reunite Beth Alexander with her sons, Samuel and Benjamin.<br /><br />Your Office's response (quoted below) insinuated that those assisting with the campaign were associating with Holocaust deniers: <br /><br />"...we strongly condemn the participation of Holocaust deniers in this campaign..." <br /><br />You say "Never Forget" and yet you turn your back on other Jews.<br /><br />Never Forget, Asher Harrison J. Bar-Shimon</span><br /><br />#OpenLettersToDeutsch #ReunitingBethWithHerSons<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIlct4gv_yd1Jb0ILHMV-zqvAvI3ZHtJCj8jDah69wsko1dHRq-hupwaIrJUX4X8OKrwyTq9KMRQznLU8OH0FcEfDpPzvCIrncHUR5i53EJL8SJtMu3cSUIXNuGEJTuLECrmoDg0R706Wrq1zPn9CRYXgw7Mb15vEnthUrsYpkrmoVtC9kPlxpRKB6/s284/NeverForget.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="177" data-original-width="284" height="177" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIlct4gv_yd1Jb0ILHMV-zqvAvI3ZHtJCj8jDah69wsko1dHRq-hupwaIrJUX4X8OKrwyTq9KMRQznLU8OH0FcEfDpPzvCIrncHUR5i53EJL8SJtMu3cSUIXNuGEJTuLECrmoDg0R706Wrq1zPn9CRYXgw7Mb15vEnthUrsYpkrmoVtC9kPlxpRKB6/s1600/NeverForget.jpg" width="284" /></a></div><br />Help Beth Supportershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12509065298654201853noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629447024939731204.post-16749723797865051932022-05-06T05:10:00.003-07:002022-05-06T05:10:51.184-07:00Open Letter To Oskar Deutsch : YOU REMEMBER THE PAST WHILE FORGETTING THE PRESENT<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT4ZerW17eARdDgBRkCTXM6wqRkbzaZEFTBeo-Xn3KCQxIpO-v-xidbZpejh_VVn12ed0a4rSIUvS39JXlFaUBcmWbJxtvArppZ1zZABSyZWg4EQWtStdmwz7PHaa8JN9mrEt9gvieR7U1eoXm2qJhZW_8G3OwKHJxVxkwyz87cOAzobdwjwFuUhxC/s306/Deutch.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="284" data-original-width="306" height="284" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT4ZerW17eARdDgBRkCTXM6wqRkbzaZEFTBeo-Xn3KCQxIpO-v-xidbZpejh_VVn12ed0a4rSIUvS39JXlFaUBcmWbJxtvArppZ1zZABSyZWg4EQWtStdmwz7PHaa8JN9mrEt9gvieR7U1eoXm2qJhZW_8G3OwKHJxVxkwyz87cOAzobdwjwFuUhxC/s1600/Deutch.jpg" width="306" /></a></div><p></p><p>o.deutsch@ikg-wien.at<br />office@ikg-wien.at<br /><br /><span style="font-family: courier;">Dear Mr Deutsch,<br /><br />In London we remember the Jewish suffering from the past with Yom Hashoah, but also the more prevalent current suffering of a mother not able to see her children.<br /><br />It is senseless to pour time and money into remembering the past whilst forgetting the present.<br /><br />The Jewish world is waiting for this to change.<br /><br />Kind regards,<br /><br />Daniel Roth<br />London, UK</span><br /><br />#OpenLettersToDeutsch #ReunitingBethWithHerSons<br /><br /></p>Help Beth Supportershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12509065298654201853noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629447024939731204.post-9330859407583302102022-05-01T12:43:00.004-07:002022-05-01T13:23:26.981-07:00OPEN LETTER TO EJC : APPALLING TRAVESTY OF JUSTICE REGARDING BETH ALEXANDER AND HER TWIN SONS BENJI AND SAMMY SCHLESINGER IN VIENNA<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_AxHYoeKCXhFoBNmh0xqW7cXIXLbskiMM5u2r-oflMmvXNDu83uJqwsBgGN1vgKNUaDWojOE6kKUv_FrdsOp5AgNHxVlfAnG0dKYvqpKY4BUOf0bUMxOyvE_xJUXfvdCJU4uJYVmXI3oZNl5hbThxnf6Y_yvmHg6fzDbgwF-34pS5a2kHTvr38OSD/s450/EJC-logo.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="236" data-original-width="450" height="168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_AxHYoeKCXhFoBNmh0xqW7cXIXLbskiMM5u2r-oflMmvXNDu83uJqwsBgGN1vgKNUaDWojOE6kKUv_FrdsOp5AgNHxVlfAnG0dKYvqpKY4BUOf0bUMxOyvE_xJUXfvdCJU4uJYVmXI3oZNl5hbThxnf6Y_yvmHg6fzDbgwF-34pS5a2kHTvr38OSD/s320/EJC-logo.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">[To find out who your local representative of the Board of Deputies is, you should contact your synagogue and/or the <a href="https://bod.org.uk/contact-us/" target="_blank">Board of Deputies office</a> at <a href="mailto:info@bod.org.uk">info@bod.org.uk</a> ]</span><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">From: Sheila Kon<br />Date: Sunday, 1 May 2022<br />To: info@ejcbrussels.com<br />Cc: chiefrabbi, cdunner@europeanbethdin.com, simonround@bod.org.uk, info@bod.org.uk, contactus@wjc.org<br />Subject: Ariel Muzikant<br /><br />I understand that Ariel Muzikant has <a href="https://www.juedische-allgemeine.de/juedische-welt/ariel-muzicant-zum-interimspraesidenten-ernannt/" target="_blank">recently been appointed</a> interim <a href="https://eurojewcong.org/who-we-are/dr-ariel-muzicant/" target="_blank">president of the EJC</a>.<br /><br />As interim head of this important organization I would expect him to serve the interests of the entire European Jewish community.<br /><br />I am thinking specifically of the appalling travesty of justice regarding Beth Alexander and her twin sons Benji and Sammy Schlesinger in Vienna.<br /><br />A campaign spearheaded by <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsH3liDgV9g" target="_blank">UK Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z5xcjYkpoE" target="_blank">Dr Mathew Offord</a>, Beth's Member of Parliament now has thousands of Jews and non Jews from around the world following this case in horror and disbelief that two young boys have been denied the loving care of their mother and all their maternal family for so many years.<br /><br />To date <a href="http://helpbeth.blogspot.com/2022/03/open-letter-to-ariel-muzicant-ikg.html" target="_blank">pleas of help to Ariel Muzikant have fallen on deaf ears</a>. Many around the world are looking at the role of the IKG in this case with alarm and incredulity.<br /><br />If he cannot help resolve an ongoing crisis in his own community I am wondering how he could possibly stand as representative of European Jewish Communities.<br /><br />The <a href="https://www.eureporter.co/world/russia/2022/04/11/moshe-kantor-steps-back-as-president-of-the-european-jewish-congress-after-being-sanctioned-by-the-u-k-and-the-eu/" target="_blank">removal of Moshe Kantor</a> showed the world that the European Jewish community stands proud with morals and ethics.<br /><br />In his new position, I and all the thousands of people around the world following this case would expect Ariel Muzikant to step up to the moral and ethical leadership required by this prestigious position and do everything possible to reunite this family.<br /><br /><br />Awaiting good news<br /><br />Kind regards<br /><br />Sheila Kon</span><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgitxA1emk60avvmDC_rEvtB4cp8cmGMJnhlU52P3SbGVTaipxjjBPl36mtz3IdWlQZ-GzqJaq60s1hvTXy8A8EAbTEJ_QjGJ08Aj8J-1DVzhqEsgNOqzjC5SI_B2W6d_f293BNA8HevTqT0WE6l0ROkiG_cdM-7aBCqLmzz3nNR7NeryqUlwLgJkJe/s696/Muzicant.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="509" data-original-width="696" height="234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgitxA1emk60avvmDC_rEvtB4cp8cmGMJnhlU52P3SbGVTaipxjjBPl36mtz3IdWlQZ-GzqJaq60s1hvTXy8A8EAbTEJ_QjGJ08Aj8J-1DVzhqEsgNOqzjC5SI_B2W6d_f293BNA8HevTqT0WE6l0ROkiG_cdM-7aBCqLmzz3nNR7NeryqUlwLgJkJe/s320/Muzicant.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ariel Muzikant<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br /><br /></p>Help Beth Supportershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12509065298654201853noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629447024939731204.post-83492901657711674692022-05-01T10:12:00.003-07:002022-05-01T13:25:18.597-07:00OPEN LETTER TO ARIEL MUZIKANT - CRASSEST POSSIBLE VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS<p> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAascgJnNiNCrE1zEM9G3P1Q1DO3IYXbAsfyISfvn7RbmDp4dsU6jb2LPgZEwZADsgNlOQyYv4qQejOpr44eg2DZ9b40buHs7tc4jMk8aDwFlkkXyAS48hvyJzmYi6LdK2ICKrx_RhtRB30AW7SXRz1pRqeOWP1z1dHmTMxQJqH2j1bKEhL7QRjgRN/s696/Muzicant.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="509" data-original-width="696" height="234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAascgJnNiNCrE1zEM9G3P1Q1DO3IYXbAsfyISfvn7RbmDp4dsU6jb2LPgZEwZADsgNlOQyYv4qQejOpr44eg2DZ9b40buHs7tc4jMk8aDwFlkkXyAS48hvyJzmYi6LdK2ICKrx_RhtRB30AW7SXRz1pRqeOWP1z1dHmTMxQJqH2j1bKEhL7QRjgRN/s320/Muzicant.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ariel Muzikant<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Here is an open letter written to Mr Muzikant with permission to be published here.<br /><br />ariel.muzicant@colliers.at</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">Dear Mr, President,<br /><br />I have been following for years the tragedy of Beth Alexander, a Mother prevented from seeing her children.<br /><br />Needless to say, this is one of the crassest possible violations of human rights, let alone Jewish values. It reminds us of the darkest times in our history but is, incredibly, happening today in Vienna under the appearance of legality.<br /><br />There is no need to elaborate to which extent this is a stain and a major disgrace on European Jewry and Jewry in general and for Austrian Jewry and Austria in particular.<br /><br />Many eyes of concerned Jews around the world are now on you. I hope that you will seize the chance to demonstrate that <a href="https://www.juedische-allgemeine.de/juedische-welt/ariel-muzicant-zum-interimspraesidenten-ernannt/" target="_blank">the EJC Presidency</a> is not just for the decorum but a position of real Jewish and human leadership.<br /><br />Sincerely,<br /><br />Ilan Weil<br />Geneva, Switzerland</span><br /><br /><br /></p>Help Beth Supportershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12509065298654201853noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629447024939731204.post-86951267677582314882022-05-01T09:33:00.008-07:002022-05-01T10:03:33.682-07:00ARIEL MUZICANT - Over 40 years tenure in Austrian Jewish leadership, claims "he has no function"<p> </p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAascgJnNiNCrE1zEM9G3P1Q1DO3IYXbAsfyISfvn7RbmDp4dsU6jb2LPgZEwZADsgNlOQyYv4qQejOpr44eg2DZ9b40buHs7tc4jMk8aDwFlkkXyAS48hvyJzmYi6LdK2ICKrx_RhtRB30AW7SXRz1pRqeOWP1z1dHmTMxQJqH2j1bKEhL7QRjgRN/s696/Muzicant.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="509" data-original-width="696" height="234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAascgJnNiNCrE1zEM9G3P1Q1DO3IYXbAsfyISfvn7RbmDp4dsU6jb2LPgZEwZADsgNlOQyYv4qQejOpr44eg2DZ9b40buHs7tc4jMk8aDwFlkkXyAS48hvyJzmYi6LdK2ICKrx_RhtRB30AW7SXRz1pRqeOWP1z1dHmTMxQJqH2j1bKEhL7QRjgRN/s320/Muzicant.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ariel Muzikant<br /></td></tr></tbody></table> <p></p><p> According to the <a href="https://eurojewcong.org/who-we-are/dr-ariel-muzicant/" target="_blank">EJC website</a>...</p><p></p><blockquote><i>Dr Ariel Muzicant has been continuously involved in Jewish life in
Vienna, Austria and Europe over the last 43 years, serving in leadership
roles a large number of functions and institutions, such as: President
(1998 – 2012) and Honorary President (2012-) of the Jewish Community of
Vienna (IKG Wien) and the Jewish Communities of Austria, Founder and
President of the Jewish School in Vienna (1979 – 1995), President of the
B’nai B’rith-ZPC Loge (1996 – 1998) and President of Keren
Hayessod/UJA-Austria.</i></blockquote><p></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">On Tuesday, April 19, 2022, 5:58 PM, Muzicant, Ariel <ariel.muzicant@colliers.at> wrote:<br /><br />Dear </span><span style="font-family: courier;">Mrs Bervin,<br /><br />I tried, Vienna rabbis tried, many individuals tried, the leadership of IKG tried, members of the board of deputies tried. And we all failed.<br /><br />From the moment it became a fight against the Austrian Jewish Community, nobody would get involved.<br /><br />I do not know Mr Schlesinger or his family. But as I mentioned before there are laws in Austria. If what you are writing would be true, how come there was no legal persecution?<br /><br />I have no function in Vienna and therefore please stop contacting me on this issue<br /><br />Chag Sameach<br /><br />Ariel Muzicant<br /><br /><br />> Am 19.04.2022 um 17:20 schrieb <br />><br />> Mazaltov on your <a href="https://www.juedische-allgemeine.de/juedische-welt/ariel-muzicant-zum-interimspraesidenten-ernannt/" target="_blank">temporary position</a> in this extremely important organisation.<br />><br />> I read with sadness and disbelief your response <a href="http://helpbeth.blogspot.com/2022/04/ariel-muzicant-responds.html" target="_blank">to someone who had asked for your help</a> in the case of Beth Alexander and her sons. I don’t know if you are aware but Michael Schlesinger’s mother did <a href="http://helpbeth.blogspot.com/p/michael-schlesingers-father.html" target="_blank">exactly the same thing to his father</a> as Michael is doing to Sammy and Benji’s mother. It is well known that Michael abused Beth both physically and emotionally and who knows how he is treating his sons.<br />><br />> As you probably know this case has been ongoing for years. <a href="https://helpbeth.org/british-parliament-14th-january-2014-highlights-and-discussion/" target="_blank">Members of Parliament</a> and <a href="http://helpbeth.blogspot.com/p/open-letter-from-british-chief-rabbi.html">Chief Rabbis in the UK</a> have all been told previously that Beth would be allowed to see and be a part of the boys lives. This was years before Rabbi Friedman became involved, as that was only in January this year. So people shouldn’t be making him the excuse why they won’t get involved in helping a Jewish mother and her sons. No one would have had to let him become involved had the leaders in the Vienna Jewish Community dealt with this humanely and helped a Jewish mother. How can a school <a href="https://helpbeth.org/lauder-chabad-statement-on-facebook-1st-march-2022/" target="_blank">not let a mother know anything about her children’s education, health and welfare</a>? My brothers are both divorced and remarried and all the parents know everything about their children from their ex spouses and see them whenever they want.<br />><br />> My late mother was an Honorary Vice Life President of WIZO U.K. and a member of the committee for Women in the Community, together with the late Lord Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. Her life was dedicated to helping Jewish women and children in domestic situations. I have been in touch with Brenda Katten who is a past President of WIZO UK and who is horrified by this tragedy and the fact that time after time the same Judge is deciding on this case.<br />><br />> Hoping to hear a positive response from you.<br />><br />> Sincerely<br />></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">> Anne Berwin <br /></span></p><br />Help Beth Supportershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12509065298654201853noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629447024939731204.post-16842914448141644982022-04-19T01:55:00.004-07:002022-04-19T01:55:58.504-07:00ARIEL MUZICANT RESPONDS<p>Before reading the email exchange below, it is important to note how Austria has a reputation for high levels of corruption throughout its government and judiciary as reported in these recent news articles.<br /><br /><a href="https://zackzack.at/2022/04/13/menschenrechtsbericht-oesterreichische-regierung-hat-laut-usa-problem-mit-korruption">https://zackzack.at/2022/04/13/menschenrechtsbericht-oesterreichische-regierung-hat-laut-usa-problem-mit-korruption</a><br /><br /><a href="https://kurier.at/politik/ausland/usa-weltweiter-rueckgang-der-demokratie-korruption-in-oesterreich/401971910">https://kurier.at/politik/ausland/usa-weltweiter-rueckgang-der-demokratie-korruption-in-oesterreich/401971910</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.derstandard.de/story/2000134888711/usa-registriert-korruption-in-oesterreich-rueckgang-weltweiter-rueckgang-der-demokratie">https://www.derstandard.de/story/2000134888711/usa-registriert-korruption-in-oesterreich-rueckgang-weltweiter-rueckgang-der-demokratie</a><br /><br /><a href="https://europe-cities.com/2022/04/12/usa-worldwide-decline-of-democracy-corruption-in-austria/">https://europe-cities.com/2022/04/12/usa-worldwide-decline-of-democracy-corruption-in-austria/</a><br /></p><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBCO7EHe3lDbNqBnOVeyGlpXCXrIc3IMoUTMfvBSC8vXebifpC7UK-zETF-SLpAcRfkjJ9GmR0lwb-krNTiCoB99Z2x-XA-dLdlPITxNBAx8I6wxySaDBZLjfcQhRwP1waZqi9W3QteuTns-w2dwWrXRwhWBstQTFLVBR6jWD6Kz6AJt-ymhiFh_Uo/s696/Muzicant.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="509" data-original-width="696" height="234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBCO7EHe3lDbNqBnOVeyGlpXCXrIc3IMoUTMfvBSC8vXebifpC7UK-zETF-SLpAcRfkjJ9GmR0lwb-krNTiCoB99Z2x-XA-dLdlPITxNBAx8I6wxySaDBZLjfcQhRwP1waZqi9W3QteuTns-w2dwWrXRwhWBstQTFLVBR6jWD6Kz6AJt-ymhiFh_Uo/s320/Muzicant.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ariel Muzicant, previous president of the IKG<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><br /><span style="font-family: courier;">From: Muzicant, Ariel <ariel.muzicant@colliers.at><br />Sent: Monday, 18 April 2022, 13:26<br />To: HelpBeth Supporter<br />Subject: AW: Can you help?<br /><br />Dear HelpBeth Supporter,<br /><br />I really tried to help and I failed because both sides are impossible. And then Beth started to attack IKG with Stürmer type Videos and statements.<br /><br />You are talking of “shady”. Please understand that Austria is a state where the rule of law is high and such insinuations are not acceptable.<br /><br />Beth is cooperating with Moshe Arie Friedman, a close friend of Ex Iranian president Achmedinedzad.<br /><br />So please do me a favor and do not contact me any further.<br /><br />Chag Sameach<br /><br />Dr Ariel Muzicant<br /><br /> <br /><br />Von: HelpBeth Supporter<br />Gesendet: Freitag, 15. April 2022 00:32<br />An: Muzicant, Ariel <ariel.muzicant@colliers.at><br />Betreff: Can you help?<br /><br /> <br /><br />Dear Mr Muzicant,<br /><br />I gather at one stage you offered to help Beth Alexander find an amicable solution regarding access to her children. What changed and why weren't you prepared to help?<br /><br />This appalling miscarriage of justice is putting you and so many people in such bad light and at the heart of this are two young boys denied access to their mother. <br /><br />I am one of several thousand of Beth Alexander’s supporters and I sure you know that there is an increasing awareness worldwide of this appalling situation. <br /><br /><br />Something very shady has gone on here with a whiff of corruption at the heart of it. Dr Schlesinger is a known perpetrator of domestic violence, who had been previously legally barred from the household, so he could not have been awarded sole custody of his children without players influencing the courts behind the scenes. Schlesinger could not have acted alone, and it is known that some of his contacts in the IKG (Konstanze Thau and Jacob Biderman) influenced court decisions in Schlesinger’s favour in 2011.<br /><br />I’m sure you’re looking forward to spending seder night with family members which sadly is not the case for Beth. Another year without her precious sons. Can you even begin to imagine what this is like this living nightmare? <br /><br />She has in fact never heard her own children recite ma nishtana, nor has she spent seder night. She is being deliberately and systematically erased by her ex-husband out of her children’s lives.<br /><br />The boys are now 12 and their bar mitzvah is coming up.They need their mother in their lives.<br /><br />As a man with influence you know what needs to be done to resolve this terrible matter for all the family. Please do the right thing. <br /><br /> <br /><br />Thank you<br /><br />HelpBeth Supporter<br /><br />London<br /><br />#ReunitingBethWithHerBoys #HelpBeth</span><br /><br /><br /></p><br /><br />Help Beth Supportershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12509065298654201853noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629447024939731204.post-59399835893188068212022-04-14T03:26:00.006-07:002022-04-19T01:45:19.299-07:00OPEN LETTER TO INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISTS<br /><span style="font-family: courier;">From: Help Beth Supporter<br />Date: April 2022<br />Subject: Russian money in Austria<br />To: Investigative Journalists<br /><br /><br />Dear journalists,<br /><br />Thirteen years ago a young Jewish woman, Beth Alexander, from the UK met a young Jewish doctor, Michael Schlesinger, from Vienna. After a whirlwind romance, they married and moved to Vienna. She soon realised that her new husband was <a href="https://warondomesticterrorism.com/593/" target="_blank">violently abusive</a> but she became pregnant so she stayed and tried to make things work. When twin boys were born things only got worse. She filed for divorce and the husband decided to punish her by taking her boys away from their mother. Ten years ago the boys were taken from her home by armed police and social workers - none of whom could understand why such aggressive force should be necessary to take <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9dkVXKDN9Y" target="_blank">two babies from their obviously loving mother</a>. <br /><br />Schlesinger had convinced the family courts that Beth was mentally unstable (she wasn't) and unable to cope as a mother. A family friend and member of the Jewish community, <a href="https://helpbeth.org/the-corruption-and-collusion-in-case-of-schlesinger-twins/" target="_blank">Judge Konstanze Thau</a>, took it upon herself to call the presiding Judge and urge her to give full custody to Schlesinger. The Jewish community turned their backs on Beth. Even erstwhile friends were instructed by their husbands not to get involved. As time went on Beth was allowed less and less contact with her sons. Eventually she returned to the UK where she retrained as a family lawyer. Her appeals to the Austrian court <a href="https://helpbeth.org/visition-appeal-denied/" target="_blank">have been denied</a> and she is currently <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/fighting-austrian-court-and-heartbreak-uk-mom-renews-decade-long-battle-to-see-kids/" target="_blank">barred from all contact with the boys</a>. Over the years she has engaged a number of eminent Austrian lawyers to represent her, and all have mysteriously pulled out for no apparent reason. <br /><br />Rabbi Jacob Biderman of the Lauder Chabad Campus went out of his way to support Schlesinger by <a href="https://helpbeth.org/lauder-chabad-statement-on-facebook-1st-march-2022/" target="_blank">barring Beth from all school events</a>. He <a href="http://helpbeth.blogspot.com/p/rabbi-bidermans-testimony-regarding.html" target="_blank">testified to the court</a> that the boys were thriving with their father, despite obvious regression in both boys and one of them continuously smashing himself into a concrete wall to try and numb his pain. Biderman <a href="http://helpbeth.blogspot.com/p/court-document-rabbi-biderman-sent.html" target="_blank">forwarded all Beth's pleading emails</a> to Schlesinger and his lawyers and to Judge Konstanze Thau. You have to understand that Biderman is 100% reliant on donations from the community to finance his projects and his lifestyle. Prominent Rabbis from around the world tried to intervene and received assurances from Biderman which were promptly ignored.<br /><br />So what is the hold that a not rich doctor has over the Vienna Jewish Community (The IKG, headed by Oskar Deutsch)? Schlesinger's sister, Tina, is amicably divorced from the Ukrainian-Austrian Oligarch, Maxim Slutski. Judge Konstanze Thau is a family friend of both the Schlesingers and the Slutskis. Slutski basically funds the Jewish community along with the Austrian Government who pay an unaudited amount of guilt money.<br /><br /><a href="https://daattorah.blogspot.com/2022/04/jewish-ukrainian-oligarch-leading-ikg_8.html" target="_blank">Slutski</a>, a Russian speaker, is now overseeing the absorption and care of 500 Jewish Ukrainian refugees hosted by the IKG. Ironically, he could be donating money to the refugees that <a href="https://www.unian.online/biznes/big-laundry-with-alexander-klimenko-maxim-slutsky-and-arthur-zolotarevsky.html" target="_blank">he embezzled from their own tax money</a> in Ukraine. <br /><br />If you want to know more about Beth's story, go to the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/reunitingbeth" target="_blank">Facebook group</a>: Reuniting Beth with her Boys. We are 6.3 thousand supporters who only want to see these innocent boys back with their mother. We do not want to expose the corruption in the Austrian Family Court, or in the IKG, or the Jewish community of Vienna. However, we will do whatever it (legally and non-violently) takes to get justice for two little boys caught up in a web of corruption originating with Russian money in Vienna.<br /><br />Yours Sincerely<br /><br />Help Beth Supporter</span>Help Beth Supportershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12509065298654201853noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629447024939731204.post-45328552886636325242022-03-24T15:36:00.003-07:002022-03-24T15:43:50.606-07:00Open Letter To Ariel Muzicant : THE IKG CONTINUES TO INFLUENCE EACH BIZARRE COURT DECISION TODAY<p> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtM0MXQaRoAr4PZORE8NBUmitqknbvQ-jf6Fy2MMCvXQgZ5XtbyNmifO2V-DrtzF23qS9pX1lXr6wAt8BkaS7szyMM7kvuUab8qoF3VPUh4npVdpuwtNgxqxG8SIdZ0WxG6Pq3-B6PDbF1lqpHf7wrEUA3aPwL8SD7s3oquMFRe4gcclq17chfgqd-/s696/Muzicant.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="509" data-original-width="696" height="234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtM0MXQaRoAr4PZORE8NBUmitqknbvQ-jf6Fy2MMCvXQgZ5XtbyNmifO2V-DrtzF23qS9pX1lXr6wAt8BkaS7szyMM7kvuUab8qoF3VPUh4npVdpuwtNgxqxG8SIdZ0WxG6Pq3-B6PDbF1lqpHf7wrEUA3aPwL8SD7s3oquMFRe4gcclq17chfgqd-/s320/Muzicant.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ariel Muzicant President of the Jewish Community in Vienna from 1998 to 2012<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p><a href="http://helpbeth.blogspot.com/2015/08/where-is-response-from-austria.html" target="_blank">Ariel Muzicant</a> has recently been <a href="https://www.wina-magazin.at/wird-das-ding-eine-muzicant-story-hoffentlich-nicht/" target="_blank">featured in a magazine article</a> to profile his life. Here is the opening paragraph in English and the original German.</p><p><i>Across from his desk in the downtown office, so always in view, hangs a huge photo of his large family. Children, children-in-law and lots of grandchildren. How many is it? "Many, but we don't count," smiles the patriarch. Ariel Muzicant doesn't want to reveal his private life at all and may even ignore his 70s. A new life began for him at 60 and he likes to talk about it.</i><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><i>Gegenüber seinem Schreibtisch im Innenstadtbüro, also immer im Blick,
hängt ein riesiges Foto seiner großen Familie. Kinder, Schwiegerkinder
und jede Menge Enkel. Wie viele es sind? „Viele, aber wir zählen nicht“,
lächelt der Patriarch. Privates will Ariel Muzicant überhaupt nicht
gern preisgeben und auch seinen 70er womöglich ignorieren. Ein neues
Leben, das fing für ihn mit 60 an und davon erzählt er gern.</i></p><p><i> </i></p><p>Here is an open letter written to Mr Muzicant with permission to be published here.<br /></p><p>a.muzicant@colliers.at<br /><br /><span style="font-family: courier;">Dear Mr Muzicant,<br /><br />I have been learning of how the IKG contributed to the appalling miscarriage of justice that I refer to in the title of my email. I am one of several thousand of Beth Alexander’s supporters, and I should inform you that there is an increasing awareness worldwide of the shady activities of the IKG and the extortionate amount being provided to them by the Austrian government. The international community is appalled by what they have learned about the IKG, and is seeking to put a stop to these inflated benefits until justice is restored to Beth Alexander and her extremely vulnerable children. <br /><br />It is obvious to anyone with an ounce of intelligence that a known perpetrator of domestic violence, who had been previously legally barred from the household, could not have been awarded sole custody of his children without players influencing the courts behind the scenes. Schlesinger could not have acted alone, and it is known that some of his contacts in the IKG (<a href="https://helpbeth.blogspot.com/p/konstanze-thau.html" target="_blank">Konstanze Thau</a> and <a href="https://daattorah.blogspot.com/2022/03/chabad-deny-culpability.html" target="_blank">Jacob Biderman</a>) influenced court decisions in Schlesinger’s favour in 2011. It seems highly probable to the international community that the IKG continues to influence each bizarre court decision today.<br /><br />Your <a href="https://www.wina-magazin.at/wird-das-ding-eine-muzicant-story-hoffentlich-nicht/" target="_blank">recent interview in Wina</a> was an interesting read, including the part about your children and countless grandchildren. I’m sure you’re looking forward to spending seder night soon with family members, and hearing a grandchild or two recite ma nishtana. Beth Alexander has never heard her own children recite ma nishtana, nor has she spent seder night, or any other chag or even a birthday with them for over a decade. Can you stop and ponder that for just a moment? She is being deliberately and systematically erased by her ex-husband out of her children’s lives. <br /><br />The boys are now 12 and their bar mitzvah is coming up.They need their mother in their lives. Please will you exercise integrity and compassion, and exert the influence that you say you “naturally” possess as an “Elder Statesman” to try and reverse the terrible situation that stands today. And I think you know fully well how this can be achieved.<br /><br />Yours sincerely </span><br /></p>Help Beth Supportershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12509065298654201853noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629447024939731204.post-8529910189828436892022-03-13T11:23:00.001-07:002022-03-14T01:04:31.069-07:00Letters to the Justice Minister of the Republic of Austria from the Schlesinger Twins' Grandparents Without Any Response<p> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgJ3kPulvJx96PNDZHHxzRC-O8k8I5OAbYjgXXJGMa8d7gTBEXWJruuEWtXahRweRJUoYtBj1m_8hPJRqa47fcMgtXXg5mNwJ1XDbOyKHI0JomoJV5RSqfOT9X1O7jf8ad4YnoDUfjDDqS-zZmVwDxJnejqA62ZS0qAvIA7xb3L_HyTF8TLHioEJRWI=s883" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="819" data-original-width="883" height="297" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgJ3kPulvJx96PNDZHHxzRC-O8k8I5OAbYjgXXJGMa8d7gTBEXWJruuEWtXahRweRJUoYtBj1m_8hPJRqa47fcMgtXXg5mNwJ1XDbOyKHI0JomoJV5RSqfOT9X1O7jf8ad4YnoDUfjDDqS-zZmVwDxJnejqA62ZS0qAvIA7xb3L_HyTF8TLHioEJRWI=s320" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sammy & Benji’s Grandparents</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg_zyonpSX1bZh_8WUw3-Qwbaf6-8wob9TMxfr1pwz-DCru0Oeen3SY4AuQrSK-22DQ_C7ywD6utv8S6yAfLDqiaJqdIOvS_0V7iHZzoUpnUkRdkFYjQ4vXahgs7v6jVKkOJrkhPMAaCkglZHIYICZn2eY6gNKeg2M9tdCDAdw_EjZwylM9JLn_7WCT=s753" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="753" height="202" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg_zyonpSX1bZh_8WUw3-Qwbaf6-8wob9TMxfr1pwz-DCru0Oeen3SY4AuQrSK-22DQ_C7ywD6utv8S6yAfLDqiaJqdIOvS_0V7iHZzoUpnUkRdkFYjQ4vXahgs7v6jVKkOJrkhPMAaCkglZHIYICZn2eY6gNKeg2M9tdCDAdw_EjZwylM9JLn_7WCT=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><br />Kerstin.Grill@bmj.gv.at<br />lll1_bk@bmj.gv.at<br />minister.justiz@bmj.gv.at<br />team.pr@bmj.gv.at<br />team.z@bmj.gv.at<br /><br />16th February 2022<br /><br />Dr Alma Zadic LL.M<br /><br /><b>Re: Beth Schlesinger/Alexander</b><br /><br />You will recall that we had correspondence with you and your department in 2020. In order to remind you we are attaching a copy of our initial letter to you dated 20/02/20 setting out our position. We also attach copies of subsequent exchange of emails ending with our email to you of 27/07/2020.<br /><br />We are writing to you now to give you an update of what has happened since. <br /><br />As you did not provide any useful or practical help to our daughter Beth she was left on her own to try to pursue whatever avenue she could which would lead to having contact with her twin sons Sammy and Benji.<br /><br />As you know, in 2016 she left Vienna after Judge Gottlicher made a order for supervised access only to her sons, and this was only allowed after Beth had had ‘parenting classes’. This was the final humiliation for Beth and she was compelled to return to England. Following this the only form of contact which she could have was by way of telephone calls or skype calls. Her ex husband Michael Schlesinger allowed only very minimal access in this way and only after Beth had tried many many times to call without him answering. As you can appreciate this was very frustrating for Beth also an abrogation of the children’s rights as human beings to have meaningful contact with their mother. Beth was being totally controlled and abused by her ex husband.<br /><br />In an attempt to try and gain better contact Beth applied in December 2020 under the provisions of the Hague Convention for a holiday in England with the twins (later amended to a holiday in Austria) a visit with the children once a month in Austria for a day and weekly telephone calls. The matter was referred again to Judge Gottlicher in the second district court.<br /><br />After several hearings Judge Gottlicher made an extraordinary order on the xx December 2021. She ordered that it was ‘in the best interests<br /><br /> of the children that Beth should have <b>NO CONTACT</b> whatever with the children, ‘that is – no visits, no telephone calls, no skype calls!’<br /><br />From any perspective this decision is inhumane, totally absurd and has no connection with reality. How can it be in the children’s interests not to have contact with a mother who carried them in her own body for 9 months, who gave birth by caesarian section, who had the connecting umbilical cord to them and nourished them with her own breast milk. She has only the greatest love for them and they would for her if only they would be allowed to show it. We are attaching videos of us with Beth and the twins. The love shouts out to you! Can’t Judge Gottlicher see this! There can be no possible justification for this outrageous decision – <b>THE TWINS ALLOWED NO CONTACT WHATSOEVER WITH THEIR MOTHER</b>!!!!!<br /><br />Do you expect a loving mother to just accept this decision and walk away from her children and never speak to or see her children again?<br /><br />Well Beth loves her children too much and so do we! The court decision makes no sense whatsoever! No reasonable person would expect such a decision.<br /><br />Beth wants to have input in the lives of her children and she wants <b>JUSTICE</b>!<br /><br />Beth has therefore taken matters into her own hands and away from the judicial system which from any viewpoint is either incompetent or corrupt.<br /><br />On 30th January 2022 Beth launched an International Campaign to be reunited with her sons, Sammy and Benji. The campaign was launched on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/reunitingbeth" target="_blank">facebook</a> under the banner ‘Reunite Beth with Her Sons’. It was <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsH3liDgV9g" target="_blank">endorsed and supported by the Chief Rabbi</a> of Great Britain and the Commonwealth Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, Beth’s local member of Parliament <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z5xcjYkpoE" target="_blank">Matthew Offord</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICvOapOYDQg" target="_blank">The CEO of Jewish Women’s Aid</a>, the Jewish Telegraph Manchester, and the Jewish Chronicle. Since 30th January the campaign has attracted thousands of supporters for Beth from all over the world who have condemned Judge Gottlicher’s decision.<br /><br />An interview has been given by Beth on an American radio show. We attach a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICvOapOYDQg" target="_blank">link to the show</a>.<br /><br />As all parties to this case are jewish the case has attracted massive attention throughout the jewish world – UK, USA, Israel, Australia, Argentina, Italy and more and has led to many many letters being sent to the President of the IKG, Oskar Deutch condemning him and his jewish community for allowing such a travesty of justice to take place on his watch. You can read all these letters on the facebook website. Many liken the proceedings to the events of the Holocaust, children ripped from their mother’s arms by armed policemen in of all places Austria!!!! What were you thinking!<br />We are attaching a few of the letters just to show you the extent of anger this has caused around the jewish world. It was specifically expressed in each letter independently that the situation had undertones of the holocaust perpetuated by the Austrian Jewish Community (IKG) to Beth who although jewish herself was considered to be an outsider because she is British.<br /><br />Also attached is a copy <a href="https://helpbeth.org/letter-to-oskar-deutsch-from-the-representative-body-of-the-jewish-community-of-greater-manchester-region/" target="_blank">letter from the Manchester Jewish Representative Council</a>, a body which represents the Jewish Community of Manchester.<br /><br />The anger is growing!<br />Do you want another ‘Dreyfus’ affair only this time in your own country Austria?<br /><br />At the same time as running the campaign and as a last resort, and in an attempt to allow your justice system to show that it can be impartial, fair and just, Beth has lodged an application in BG Leopoldstad, the second district court Antrag auf Ubertragung der alleinigen Obsorge, a new application for transfer of sole custody to her.<br /><br />The application has been issued under reference GZ#3Ps/79/14h. This is an opportunity for your country to show that it has a heart and a mind to do the right thing free from any external influences and to show the world, which is watching, that you are an upright, democratic western democracy, upholding civilised values and worthy of respect. <br /><br />Sylvia and Anthony Alexander<br /><p></p><p></p><p>===========================================</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
23<sup>rd</sup> February 2022</p>
<p></p><p></p><p>Dr Alma Zadic LLM<br />Ministry of Justice<br />Palais Trautson<br />Museumstrasse 7<br />1070 Vienna<br />Austria<br /><br /><br />Dear Dr. Zadic<br /><br />We are the parents of Beth Alexander and the grandparents of Benjamin and Samuel Schlesinger. We wrote to you in 2020 about the terrible situation of our daughter and her children caused by your justice system. We were very disappointed that we never received any satisfactory response or proposed satisfactory solution from you. Our daughter and grandchildren continue to suffer.<br /><br />As a result of the latest court decision in December 2021 <b>which denied Beth ALL ACCESS</b> to her children ie <b>NO PHYSICAL CONTACT, NO HOLIDAYS, NO PHONE CALLS, NO SKYPE CALLS</b>, Beth has now launched an international social media campaign to bring the injustice of your system to the notice of a wider global audience. The campaign has attracted many thousands of supporters all condemning either the <b>incompetence and/or the corruption of your justice system</b>.<br /><br />The anger of people towards your country has been growing even louder since the latest Landesgericht decision a few days ago. We think there is no better way to express this anger than to <a href="http://helpbeth.blogspot.com/2022/02/open-letter-to-alma-zadic-blatant.html" target="_blank">link a letter which was emailed to you</a> (and which you may not have seen) from one supporter.<br /><br />We are also enclosing a copy of a post from another supporter on Beth’s Facebook page, which shows how the <a href="https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Fam/2019/2723.html" target="_blank">English courts dealt with a similar situation in England</a>. This decision is completely opposite to your judicial system’s decision. Comparing the two its quite clear which makes the most sense and which is in the child’s best interests.<br /><br />Your court’s decision will lead to further parental alienation when what is needed is help in creating a loving caring relationship between children and both their parents. You are allowing manipulation and destruction of two young vulnerable boys with the sole intention of completely removing a loving mother from their lives.<br /><br />We are further enclosing a copy of a letter which we emailed to you last week (see above) together with copy documents referred to.</p><p>We have seen on your own Facebook page how you <a href="https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=495563885264713&id=100044333176242" target="_blank">welcomed the new U.S. ambassador to Vienna</a>. How you discussed cooperation between your countries and how you would deal with corruption. So it seems that you accept corruption exists in your country. We saw how you celebrated your country’s new initiative to help women who are suffering domestic violence and abuse.<br /><br />We also remind you of an <a href="https://www.infomigrants.net/en/post/22060/alma-zadic-the-refugee-who-became-a-government-minister" target="_blank">interview which you gave</a> to Die Kleine Zeitung, “I want to modernize justice and bring it nearer to the people” You said in an <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/women/alma-zadic-austria-justice-minister-women-in-politics-a9333116.html" target="_blank">interview with The Independent</a>, the English newspaper which was published on 19th February 2020 ‘Being perceived as different makes people vulnerable. It makes them dependent on the impartiality of the rule of law’. <b>Is Beth, because she is English perceived as different to Austrians</b>? Is she therefore vulnerable? She is therefore ‘dependent on the impartiality of the rule of law’. These are your words. Your system has shown no impartiality but the complete opposite – <b>total bias in favour of Beth’s ex husband</b>.<br /><br />These are very fine words and noble sentiments but unless you put your words into action how can you gain justice for the people, or the respect which your office of state expects.<br /><br />You have now been in office for two years. What practical changes have you brought to the system? You are obviously not accountable to us but you are accountable to yourself.<br /><br />Admittedly we are primarily concerned only with our daughter’s case but if this case is representative of your system you have a lot of work to do and the recent court decisions of Judge Gottlicher and the Landesgericht show you have a long way to go.<br /><br />Let the redress of injustice in our daughter’s case be the first light to be seen that you do in fact care for justice and the common man and your transparent action will be a beacon of hope for the sufferers of domestic abuse and violence in your country.<br /><br />You are the head of the judicial system. It is your responsibility to supervise and administer the system so that it is fair and unaffected by corruption or incompetence. Please do not tell us that you cannot interfere in a decision which has been made by the court. Do not tell us that you cannot intervene in a decision of the Supreme Court. If decisions in whichever court are made which are blatantly incorrect or against natural justice or seemingly corrupt you as the ultimate representative of justice must intervene otherwise there is no rule of law in your country. Without the existence of the rule of law you don’t have democracy. Without democracy you have anarchy or dictatorship.<br /><br />You are the head of the judicial system in Austria. You are a highly qualified lawyer as I am (I am a retired lawyer) as is Beth who is a Cambridge Graduate and a practising family lawyer so we are all familiar with judicial systems. It is blatantly obvious to everyone who has read the court documents that all the decisions have absolutely no legal merit and are an insult to Beth’s intelligence as a Cambridge Graduate and her qualifications as a practising family lawyer.<br /><br />You now have the opportunity to show you are strong and a leader not to be manipulated for other people’s purposes. You have an opportunity to help the vulnerable, save the oppressed and disadvantaged. Isn’t that the reason why you entered politics in the first place. Don’t fail in your mission, <b>don’t be controlled by the corruption which is blatantly visible in your country</b>.<br /><br />Yours faithfully<br /><br />ANTHONY ALEXANDER (retired Solicitor) SYLVIA ALEXANDER</p><p></p><p></p><p>===========================================</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Dr Alma Zadic LL.M<br /><br />Dear Dr. Zadic<br /><br /><b>Re: Beth Schlesinger/Alexander</b><br /><br />We are the parents of Beth Alexander and grandparents of Samuel and Benjamin Schlesinger (“the Schlesinger twins”). <br /><br />We had correspondence with you and your office in 2020 drawing your attention to the outrageous miscarriage of justice carried out by your country’s corrupt judicial system. Despite our making it abundantly clear that corruption had taken place in this case you and your office provided no admission of fault or even help in trying to save the souls of two very vulnerable young children. We thought you would be an outsider who would come into the Austrian judicial system as an avenging angel.<br /><br />We have heard your empty platitudes and your hypocrisy about how you are going to ‘<a href="https://www.infomigrants.net/en/post/22060/alma-zadic-the-refugee-who-became-a-government-minister" target="_blank">modernize justice and bring it nearer to the people</a>’!<br /><br />You are trying to <a href="https://www.facebook.com/100044333176242/posts/517851493035952/" target="_blank">show humanity to the oppressed people in Ukraine</a>. How you want to help them? You are a woman! Why can’t you save Ukraine and the Schlesinger Twins at the same time?<br /><br />We sent you an email on 16th February advising of the result of a recent application for visitation which resulted in <b>NO CONTACT</b> whatsoever being given by Judge Gottlicher for Beth to see the twins. <b>YOU DID NOT REPLY</b>! We posted to you on 23rd February another letter describing the twins and our daughter’s terrible situation – a mother to have<b> NO CONTACT</b> with her children and the children to have NO CONTACT with their mother. <b>YOU DID NOT REPLY</b>! <br /><br />Sometimes a situation is too immense or difficult for one person or even one country to resolve.<br /><br />You, on your own, cannot stop the invasion of Ukraine by Russia. You can talk about the humanity and echo all the other empty sentiments but in the case of the Schlesinger twins it is within your power to actually achieve something. You are the Justice Minister for the Republic of Austria. You head the system. This is a manageable objective for you to attain (should you have the will to do so).<br /><br />Bring the clear, apparent injustice to an end. Investigate this case. It is full of perverse ridiculous absurd decisions.<br /><br />Children and their mother to have <b>NO CONTACT WITH EACH OTHER</b>! Think about that for a second. Mothers are being separated from their children permanently in Ukraine because their children are being KILLED by Russian bombs. The Schlesinger twins are thank god still alive but are being damaged by this enforced separation. How does it feel to know you have the power to stop this psychological damage or ignore it and let it continue. It goes against every legislation which your lawmakers have ever made! You are all complicit in the damage you are doing to these children.<br /><br />The twins are 12 years old. They are coming to the end of their childhood. It is not too late for them to be reunited with their mother and begin to repair the huge damage this has already caused them and at the very least they deserve the unconditional love and hugs from the mother who gave birth to them and who have had an enforced separation through the corrupt rulings by your judicial system. And just to remind you there has never been any plausible explanation for this cruelty.<br /><br />Yours faithfully<br /><br />ANTHONY ALEXANDER (retired Solicitor) SYLVIA ALEXANDER<br /><br /><br /><br /></p>Help Beth Supportershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12509065298654201853noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629447024939731204.post-82481102773064791172022-03-07T10:31:00.004-08:002022-03-07T10:59:02.286-08:00AN OPEN LETTER TO HARAV SHRAGA FEIVEL ZIMMERMAN<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg8dxGHHPxfq2EFyYzrxKBlrDTqojHbmdR0YZY-0ziwgsdcS2G3VhOEhsemgSFss6sm8iR_Z4OxVNnAx69Xkq4xo6wNKfbo1Tsn_Fz8_N7eDs6H6xXGZfTzwRrTNH1Jtgr67mFekTPefD7L8mEKlL48I8hrWMEDpQOod1nRj_A4Eqn-0p3TUjL86vDH=s759" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="487" data-original-width="759" height="205" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg8dxGHHPxfq2EFyYzrxKBlrDTqojHbmdR0YZY-0ziwgsdcS2G3VhOEhsemgSFss6sm8iR_Z4OxVNnAx69Xkq4xo6wNKfbo1Tsn_Fz8_N7eDs6H6xXGZfTzwRrTNH1Jtgr67mFekTPefD7L8mEKlL48I8hrWMEDpQOod1nRj_A4Eqn-0p3TUjL86vDH=s320" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rabbi Shraga Feivel Zimmerman<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>officeoftherov@federation.org.uk<br /></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">Dear Rabbi Zimmerman,<br /><br />I saw on the <a href="https://www.federation.org.uk/speaking-out-against-abuse/" target="_blank">Federation website, the video you recorded</a> about the necessity to report abuse and the hilchot that say it’s our duty to prevent a person being harmed from the person who is harming them. There was no contact address for you so I am sending this email to all the Federation communities in the hope that it will find you. This is not a bad thing, as Rabbi Raphy Garson of Ohr Yisrael in Borehamwood says, “Together everyone achieves more.” By the way, I was moved to see that the Congregation of Jacob Synagogue in Commercial Road is part of the Federation. This shul was founded by my two Great Grandfathers – Reb Abraham Schwalbe and Reb Moshe Koenigsberg.<br /><br />Perhaps you have heard of the twins Benjamin and Samuel Schlesinger of Vienna, Austria who attend the Lauder Chabad Campus School? After their parents divorced, the courts awarded custody of the then 2-year-old boys, to their father, Dr Michael Schlesinger, a man with a history of violent domestic abuse resulting in a restraining order against him. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9dkVXKDN9Y" target="_blank">This happened 10 years ago</a>. We can do little about the fact that both he and Rabbi Jacob Biderman, the Principal of the school, lied to the court about the mother, Beth Alexander’s mental state and her ability to raise her children.<br /><br />Since then, Schlesinger has done<a href="https://helpbeth.org/evidence-of-parental-alienation/" target="_blank"> everything he can to deny all contact between Beth </a>and her sons. Unfortunately, he is not a member of your community because the Vienna community has turned a blind eye to the fact that he is more interested in hurting Beth than he is concerned for the welfare of his children. However, Rabbi Biderman is of your profession and also a prominent member of Chabad to which I know many of your Rabbis also belong.<br /><br />You can do something about the abuse that ensued and that has been ongoing for the past 10 years. Contrary to Austrian law, the Principal of the Lauder Chabad School and Chabad Rabbi, Jacob Biderman, <a href="https://daattorah.blogspot.com/2022/03/chabad-deny-culpability.html" target="_blank">has blocked Beth from all contact with the school and her children’s education</a>. She has been barred from every birthday party, <a href="https://daattorah.blogspot.com/2014/05/schlesinger-twins-beth-urgently.html" target="_blank">every celebration and school event</a>, and he refuses to give her any information about her sons’ welfare or progress.<br /><br />Biderman claims that Schlesinger’s lawyers wrote to him and told him to do this. However, the lawyers denied any such letter under oath and no letter has ever been produced. No one made Rabbi Biderman erase their mother from the school lives of two innocent boys. He took it upon himself to go the extra cruel mile and cause 10 years of suffering for the little boys in his “care”. Their mother sent him numerous emails begging him to let her be part of their school lives, emails which he dutifully forwarded to the lawyers of the ex-husband, and then ignored.<br /><br />Now the boys are coming up to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsH3liDgV9g" target="_blank">Barmitzvah in June of this year</a>. It is not too late for them to know that their mother loves them and has never stopped fighting for them. It is not too late to stop this abuse of their human rights to their mother’s love.<br /><br />Chief Rabbis Jonathan Sacks z”l and Ephraim Mirvis, both spoke to Biderman and were assured that changes would be made. He reneged on all his promises. Rabbi Brodie z”l of the Manchester Beth Din <a href="http://daattorah.blogspot.com/2014/02/schlesinger-twins-manchester-beis-din.html" target="_blank">wrote of his incredulity</a> that baby boys could be brutally parted from their mother when she is alive and available to give them all her love. Others have remarked that you would need to be an axe wielding murderer to deserve the punishment inflicted upon Beth. Everything is documented and recorded.<br /><br />In desperation, more than 6,000, mostly Jews, have created a Facebook group – Reuniting Beth With Her Boys - to try to get justice for Benji and Sammy. And for Beth. <a href="http://daattorah.blogspot.com/2015/07/gateshead-rav-on-child-abuse-it-is-time.html" target="_blank">Maybe you, Rabbi Zimmerman, who understands the despicable nature of child abuse,</a> will be the one Rabbi who can finally help them. Chabad are only interested in global tragedies where they can show, in the words of <a href="https://twitter.com/RabbiYYS/status/1500504814148632584" target="_blank">Rabbi Y.Y. Schochet, “The indomitable spirit of Chabad.”</a> Where is their spirit when two young boys are denied their mother and the perpetrator is within their gates? Why is <a href="http://helpbeth.blogspot.com/p/open-letter-to-rabbi-moshe-kotlarsky-in.html" target="_blank">not one Chabad Rabbi</a> willing to stand up for two children who have no voice?<br /><br />You can see more background material, interviews and video footage of the boys with their mother on the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUZniYY5QFc0mshiXDF0d5Q" target="_blank">“Help Beth” You Tube channel</a>.<br /><br />You are 100% correct that we must report abuse and do everything in our power to stop it. 6,000 of us are looking to you Rabbi Zimmerman, to try to get justice at last for Benji and Sammy Schlesinger. I eagerly await your reply.<br /><br />Yours respectfully,<br /><br />Rachel Selby</span><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgYtC3zVPBkNjLH-0BeopEutY_8SvboVc2nem5HJEefPx6zjOSI4t1aU1-QMQZRktyewuRW14hePLcR1EvcAddMdlBuBnSyMXyLsepvA-RkbMSMgbSkV7fn5YRoIgOtjQ-pEaYIir4E_oxwvAqF1Ci_brsrFxh0BBAVthoT-WDenwCdhqwUbTxzbSBs=s1457" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1129" data-original-width="1457" height="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgYtC3zVPBkNjLH-0BeopEutY_8SvboVc2nem5HJEefPx6zjOSI4t1aU1-QMQZRktyewuRW14hePLcR1EvcAddMdlBuBnSyMXyLsepvA-RkbMSMgbSkV7fn5YRoIgOtjQ-pEaYIir4E_oxwvAqF1Ci_brsrFxh0BBAVthoT-WDenwCdhqwUbTxzbSBs=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Help Beth Supportershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12509065298654201853noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629447024939731204.post-58952386514382190672022-03-07T10:03:00.002-08:002022-03-07T10:03:14.614-08:00AN OPEN LETTER TO RABBI Y.Y. SCHOCHET OF MILL HILL SYNAGOGUE LONDON<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhmvwHMZTkwurDNhlkGDGcmPADyCMWMae52ZJ0E5vVVYffqMXJt0icQVwXUhW4BwtUbZ8307zbAzl7qTnQrXaUN5DStfMQvcLJ8Z-H6TZoo07Wm2MbVL3D3g8N2VOpxHn0Nrvi8Rn8OnlIDiEInYF4Sax6Ugx80hybQPmiq5JSMu_JsCUDL4X843PvS=s1088" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1088" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhmvwHMZTkwurDNhlkGDGcmPADyCMWMae52ZJ0E5vVVYffqMXJt0icQVwXUhW4BwtUbZ8307zbAzl7qTnQrXaUN5DStfMQvcLJ8Z-H6TZoo07Wm2MbVL3D3g8N2VOpxHn0Nrvi8Rn8OnlIDiEInYF4Sax6Ugx80hybQPmiq5JSMu_JsCUDL4X843PvS=s320" width="318" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">Dear Rabbi Schochet,<br /><br />I am writing to you after seeing your post on Facebook about the selfless actions of Rabbi Wilhelm of Zhitomir, Ukraine. He is evidently a man truly to be honoured and worthy of public acknowledgement.<br /><br />Then I saw your closing words: The indomitable spirit of Chabad, and my stomach turned. Chabad is not what it one was under the wise guidance of The Rebbe. Chabad seems to have lost its way, caught up in the fact that local politics are intrinsically linked to the financial wellbeing of the Chabad Shuliach’s own family as well as the programs he wishes to implement.<br /><br />I have been campaigning on behalf of Beth Alexander, formerly of Manchester, then as a young bride, of Vienna, Austria, and now living in London, where she practices as a lawyer. You may have heard about Beth and her twin sons, Benji and Sammy Schlesinger. We started a Facebook group (Reuniting Beth With Her Boys) which has more than 6,000 members, in an effort to mobilize the power of community to right a tragic wrong and travesty of Jewish values.<br /><br />In case you are not up to speed on this, 10 years ago, Beth’s two year old babies were taken from her home. The Police who accompanied the social workers were perplexed as why two happy toddlers and their loving mother should be brutally separated in this way. The Austrian, non-Jewish social workers tried to help Beth, not seeing any reason for her to lose her children.<br /><br />The immediate, shocking change of custody followed a court case where the judge ruled Beth was incapable of looking after the day-to-day needs of her boys. This was based on evidence brought by the ex-husband, Dr Michael Schlesinger, a man with a history of violent domestic abuse who previously had a restraining order against him. Astonishingly, the story, which I have read on the court documents, was this: After the boys’ brits Beth, a young and first-time mother, was beside herself with worry when the anaesthetic wore off and both babies woke up in agony. The father, a medical doctor, had gone to a barmitzvah party. In desperation, Beth called him and he tried to instruct her by phone how to medicate the babies with suppositories – not something widely used in the UK. When she couldn’t manage, he became angry. This was the gist of the evidence, that two years prior, a young mother was distressed by her babies’ pain and disturbed her husband while he was enjoying a party.<br /><br />There was also a false psychiatric report stating that Beth had suffered from post-natal depression. She hadn’t, it was anyway two years previous to the case, subsequent [and impartial] psychiatric reports showed that her mental health was perfectly ok, and post-natal depression is no reason to have your children taken from you two years later! You would have to be an axe wielding murderer to be punished as Beth was. Her crime? She married a violent, abusive, and subsequently vindictive man, whose need for revenge outweighs any concerns for his sons’ welfare.<br /><br />I don’t know why a whole community rallied around Michael Schlesinger and helped him spread rumours about Beth’s mental health. He is not a rich man. However, I suspect he knows too much about the dodgy financial goings-on in that community (you can see the video about it on the “Help Beth” You Tube channel) and they could not risk such a loose cannon. (There is also the involvement of a Jewish judge, a friend of Schlesinger, who has been influential in this case.) A look at the some of the other videos will instantly show you that Beth was and is a loving and responsible mother.<br /><br />This is a long introduction to get to my point about Chabad. As you will see from my letter (attached), Rabbi Jacob Biderman abandoned all moral decency in his bid to curry favour within the community. He ignored the confusion, depression and suffering of two little boys in his care by blocking Beth from all contact with her children in his school. He lied that Schlesinger’s lawyers had written to him instructing him to do this but they denied this under oath and no letter could ever be produced. Even as little Benji was ramming himself into a brick wall to numb his pain, as reported by an independent social worker, Biderman told the court that the boys were thriving with their father.<br /><br />For ten years, despite pleading letters from Beth (which Biderman dutifully forwarded to Schlesinger’s lawyers), she has been barred from attending her children’s birthday parties and other celebrations in school, and has been denied all information about their welfare and progress.<br /><br />Many of us have written to our local Chabad Rabbis. The responses have been shocking, as you can see from my letter to Chabad. Since then, other Rabbis have replied that it’s all lies – having taken about half an hour to “thoroughly research the case.” I have been contacted by a former worker at Chabad who told me that the conflict of interests between what is right and the need for the Chabad Shuliach to cover his expenses, including his own mortgage, has led to many unsavoury situations around the globe.<br /><br />However, we are not talking about an extra aliya in shul or a front seat, or other honours that a Rabbi could legitimately and justifiably bestow in return for financial contributions. We are talking about the absolute cruelty of depriving two young boys of all contact with their mother for 10 years! Chief Rabbi Mirvis flew to Vienna to talk to Biderman and got some assurances which Biderman then reneged upon. Other Rabbis have also tried to reason with him to no avail.<br /><br />The situation now is that all appeals to the Austrian courts have been denied – the same judge has been presiding over this case for 10 years so she’s not going to re-examine her own performance – and all contact between Beth and her boys has been stopped. They say it is at the boys’ request but what 12-year-olds want nothing to do with a mother who has only ever loved them unless they are influenced or intimidated into this position? Schlesinger continues to taunt Beth with hateful text messages telling her how much the boys hate her, how they are ashamed of her, and that this is all her own fault.<br /><br />There is little we can do against the corruption of the Austrian Family Courts, although we have not given up trying, but we all know there are ways that Jewish leadership can apply pressure where there is outrageous chillul Hashem. And yet, Chabad do not want to know. They will not rock the boat for the sake of two innocent boys. Chabad have lost their way. Stories of our great Rabbis of yesteryear are not all about the grand gestures of public heroism. Rather it is the humble and private mitzvot that give relief to a suffering soul with no expectation of reward, that we are taught to revere. Where is Chabad when they are called upon to challenge corruption within their gates? Why is the destruction of one Jewish family unimportant among the mitsvot and middot Chabad claim to uphold?<br /><br />I would really like to hear your thoughts on this subject. In the interests of disclosure, I will be sharing this letter openly as we have learned that discreet enquiries and secrets do nothing to help. I hope you will reply, but you should know that your reply will also be shared.<br /><br />Yours respectfully,<br />Rachel Selby, Jerusalem</span><br /><br /><br /></p><h3 style="text-align: left;">Rabbi Schochet's response <br /></h3><p><br /><span style="font-family: courier;">Dear Rachel,<br /><br />Thank you for your letter. I had been in touch with Beth a few weeks back in which she wrote back acknowledging my help as well as previous help in the past as well.<br /><br />Wishing you along with all others involved every success in this endeavour in the hope that indeed a mother can be rightfully reunited with her children.</span><br /><br /><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgko9MVWKY41FQ3F288bZMbcVUEAWiQqRYIw2LRdCfAHbnAnMXfTdcBN_FzSYY4a46V5dkFXot1VpaJE8_71f1jZjAK1MHEeQQRPE1ME5UxRAbLV1sgPK3GO54-tFH5YsKjRKxKDqtfsuNAK2xRHWKM5sJj1RH5sXJ-kRzfkng7nMAPE4uyICoKG1AV=s1024" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="1024" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgko9MVWKY41FQ3F288bZMbcVUEAWiQqRYIw2LRdCfAHbnAnMXfTdcBN_FzSYY4a46V5dkFXot1VpaJE8_71f1jZjAK1MHEeQQRPE1ME5UxRAbLV1sgPK3GO54-tFH5YsKjRKxKDqtfsuNAK2xRHWKM5sJj1RH5sXJ-kRzfkng7nMAPE4uyICoKG1AV=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br />Help Beth Supportershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12509065298654201853noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629447024939731204.post-25970668038619901492022-03-03T12:23:00.005-08:002022-03-03T12:39:24.405-08:00An open letter to Chabad/Lubavitch HQ<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhWwSSIgtkZ304o2MC9JCaKa3MQZgpE3qR_nsBX6C5Mu0r2_bSUFPuOdYeZ6yhzUsztS-qv_UdF4nKc-okUUQIAKYph2Pi9WlN8E9uir8NyipYrMFcyND14x6g-BldfHs5D4NvOvrh76Zu2FI2OL87VIQteQzAu8K-IQ-_-Ua-xLBX2vUL_GSt7nzxB=s667" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="397" data-original-width="667" height="190" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhWwSSIgtkZ304o2MC9JCaKa3MQZgpE3qR_nsBX6C5Mu0r2_bSUFPuOdYeZ6yhzUsztS-qv_UdF4nKc-okUUQIAKYph2Pi9WlN8E9uir8NyipYrMFcyND14x6g-BldfHs5D4NvOvrh76Zu2FI2OL87VIQteQzAu8K-IQ-_-Ua-xLBX2vUL_GSt7nzxB=s320" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p>bsudak@chabad.org.uk<br />msharfstein@lubavitch.com<br />rmk@kinus.com<br />kinus@kinus.com<br />info@lauderchabad.at<br />biderman@lauderchabad.at<br /><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">I am sorry to report that we seem to have uncovered a deep fault in the Chabad/Lubavitch worldwide organization. Many of us grew up hearing amazing stories about the great work that Chabad centres do around the world. How they help Jewish travellers in India, provide communities for Jews who would otherwise have none, rescue and de-program misguided Jewish teenagers from cults, set up orphanages in Eastern Europe, etc… The stories are endless and, until now, have created a glowing picture of Chabad as truly being “Hashem’s Army.”<br /><br />In our campaign to help the twin boys, Benji and Sammy Schlesinger be reunited with their mother, Beth Alexander, after a decade of obstruction by Rabbi Jacob Biderman of the Lauder Chabad Campus in Vienna, Austria, we learned a lot about how the Chabad shlichim (emissaries) work. When we see the massive conferences in New York where the shlichim come together from every corner of the planet, we are encouraged to think of Chabad as one large family under the authority of 770 NYC. Apparently, this is absolutely not the case.<br /><br />We assumed that informing Chabad/Lubavitch HQ, and other Chabad Rabbis in different places, about how Biderman used his position to help erase their mother from the lives of two little boys who were obviously confused, depressed and suffering, would result in at least some interest from Biderman’s fellow Rabbis as to how he could do such an outright chillul Hashem. We are shocked by what ensued.<br /><br />We are a group of more than 6000 supporters of Beth. Ordinary people from all walks of life, mostly Jewish but not all, and from all over the world. We only want two innocent Jewish boys to experience the love of their mother before it’s too late and they grow up thinking she doesn’t care about them. We don’t want revenge or money. We just want justice for two children who have no voice in the corrupt and hostile environment of the Lauder Chabad Campus.<br /><br />We received a number of replies from Chabad Rabbis and/or their wives. We were informed that every Chabad centre is autonomous. Every Chabad Rabbi is responsible for raising his own funds among the community he “serves” and works however he sees fit. Who knew? Many of us learned something we didn’t know before. However, no Rabbi or Rebbetzen wanted to get involved. Not to make a phone call, ask some discrete questions, or interest themselves in any way in the plight of defenceless children.<br /><br />And yet this was not the most shocking part. Not one reply was honest enough to admit that they don’t want to rock the boat and cross a powerful Rabbi in a rich Chabad community. After all, how many of them are as successful as Biderman in Vienna who has his own K-12 school campus? Instead, we got lectures in how we perhaps don’t know the whole story, there are two sides to every coin, etc...<br /><br />Believe me, we know the whole story. And even if there was something we don’t know, what could possibly be so heinous as to bar a mother from attending her children’s birthday parties in school? Refusing her any information about their wellbeing or progress? What could Beth Alexander have done that allowed Rabbi Biderman to lie to the courts on behalf of her ex-husband? What sort of a monster would the mother have to be for a Rabbi to break one of the 10 Commandments? One look at the videos on the You Tube Chanel “Help Beth” would reassure anyone that the extreme measures Biderman took to separate the boys from their mother, was unfounded and downright cruel.<br /><br />Now we know that Rabbi Jacob Biderman decided to follow the money because caring for the welfare of two children in his care above his own personal success, would not get him his school, would not pay his personal expenses, would not provide a house for his family to live in, and – most shockingly – would not necessarily gain him the respect and standing among the other shlichim who can only dream of the resources Biderman has at his disposal. But at what cost? According to Jacob Biderman, destroying the lives of one Jewish family is not a high price for the Jewish world to pay.<br /><br />This is the problem with Chabad/Lubavitch. They hide behind the good name of the organization that is based on the righteous work of some of its members, whilst in reality, it’s every man for himself. And if one Rabbi threatens the good name that brings in the money worldwide, all they want is to hush it up.<br /><br />But perhaps I am being too harsh. Many of us suspect that the reason they harp on about two sides to every story, etc… is that it absolves them from dealing with the uncomfortable thought that some Rabbis among them are corrupt. For some Rabbis, like Jacob Biderman, the money might be their top priority. That their beloved Chabad might be supporting “Rabbis” who are not worthy of the name, may be too hard to contemplate. Better to make excuses and not open that potential Pandora’s box.<br /><br />Now we understand that Chabad is not Hashem’s Army at all. It is a loose collection of communities run by individuals with no accountability to the organization whose erstwhile good name they can exploit should they so wish. From now on it must be known that Chabad just means Jewish, and like, the whole of Am Yisrael, there are good and bad souls among them.<br /><br /><b>As such Chabad no longer means anything. Your Rebbe must be turning in his grave.</b><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">Rachel Selby<br />Jerusalem</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"> </span><br /><br />#ReunitingBethWithHerBoys #HelpBeth<br /><br /><br /></p>Help Beth Supportershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12509065298654201853noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629447024939731204.post-78727735890169953992022-03-03T09:03:00.007-08:002022-03-03T09:03:57.742-08:00FEDERAL MINISTRY REPUBLIC OF AUSTRIA<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgADMXzwqhD5jcJgjyiVBvq2sxdPOwWU1JZj-SE5Epq_OjWv9PJgavTIzx_-vGA2BpDeZ6QmoY7uqMgIEYr40oon4SoLdBFSqgFNtWIal3O58khX1IeisIN3cBm2R4FeeyJ_SMjejdKmBcSNVMIJp0xC6JRFbVzRxBV7It_p_lSrHV_FVYm72QUs767=s780" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="780" data-original-width="596" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgADMXzwqhD5jcJgjyiVBvq2sxdPOwWU1JZj-SE5Epq_OjWv9PJgavTIzx_-vGA2BpDeZ6QmoY7uqMgIEYr40oon4SoLdBFSqgFNtWIal3O58khX1IeisIN3cBm2R4FeeyJ_SMjejdKmBcSNVMIJp0xC6JRFbVzRxBV7It_p_lSrHV_FVYm72QUs767=s16000" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">Good afternoon Ms Schmid,<br /><br />I write in regard to Mag. Botta's letter to a Ms Ruth Leveson dated 24. February 2022.<br /><br />Naturally the details of the case cannot be disclosed to third parties.<br /><br />I respect that the case was conducted by independent courts of law and wanted to bring to your attention some irregularities which may have fallen through the cracks in Austria's otherwise very good justice system.<br /><br />1. There has been no "Serious Case Review" of the whole case by independent judges. An Austrian appeal court in October 2011 upheld the mother's allegation that a senior judge, Mag. Konstanze Thau, interceded irregularly on behalf of the father - a close personal friend and alleged abuser - to prejudice the decision of Mag. Susanne Göttlicher. Your appeal court ordered a new evaluation of the mother and returned the case to the lower court. At present, the lower court has not considered the High-court-ordered evaluation and has not given a reason for this. The most recent appeal decision does not review or revisit the alleged irregularities in the original custody award. In addition, Mag. Gottlicher was allowed to hear the application for a change of judge, whereas this should have been heard by an impartial judge. We are therefore urging a serious case review by the Austrian Judiciary under the United Nations Basic Principles on the Impartiality of the Judiciary.<br /><br />2. The mother has a plausible allegation of domestic violence. Ms Alexander’s case is being supported by Domestic Violence organisation Jewish Women’s Aid: Dozens of expert professionals have considered the mother’s testimony to be truthful. The Austrian state is currently leaving children in the custody of a man whom professionals consider coercively controlling. UK law considers witnessing domestic abuse to be child abuse. If Austrian law is the same, then leaving child victims of alleged abuse in the custody of a man whom expert professionals consider likely to have abused their mother in their presence is an urgent matter for the courts.<br /><br />I would appreciate if you could pass these concerns to Mag. Botta for a determination as to whether a serious case review is indicated.<br /><br />Many thanks</span></p><p><br />#ReunitingBethWithHerBoys #HelpBeth<br /></p><p><br /></p>Help Beth Supportershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12509065298654201853noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629447024939731204.post-13444163176305549752022-03-03T08:26:00.007-08:002022-03-03T08:26:42.039-08:00Open Letter To Alma Zadic : PLEASE CAN ALMA LOOK INTO THIS CASE PERSONALLY<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiNfy9KGuhQ2tMcVz19AgGqIEECmE3KrSWhL_86vuIiQKgTQh4CMEoVz2pV-8Lj0lARYuVfU9GwSIp5rwNmVWJg_m0pFbUTNrz3tTmmDyUcZTrcz00wlstKcvTcyh0AC7-DH26f35CkSfpgCvb1kSoxE3xt6EpUnQ5wS-ONEWfn2YuZkwHYJeDj7A-p=s753" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="753" height="202" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiNfy9KGuhQ2tMcVz19AgGqIEECmE3KrSWhL_86vuIiQKgTQh4CMEoVz2pV-8Lj0lARYuVfU9GwSIp5rwNmVWJg_m0pFbUTNrz3tTmmDyUcZTrcz00wlstKcvTcyh0AC7-DH26f35CkSfpgCvb1kSoxE3xt6EpUnQ5wS-ONEWfn2YuZkwHYJeDj7A-p=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br />Kerstin.Grill@bmj.gv.at<br />lll1_bk@bmj.gv.at<br />minister.justiz@bmj.gv.at<br />team.pr@bmj.gv.at<br />team.z@bmj.gv.at<br /><span style="font-family: courier;"><br />Justice Minister Austria<br /><br />Dear Valentin, Alma and Alexander,<br /><br />I am writing to you as a member of the <a href="https://www.womensequality.org.uk/" target="_blank">Women's Equality Party, UK</a>. We share many of the same aims as the European Greens, especially relating to social justice.<br /><br />Beth Alexander, is a British woman who lived in Vienna, now the UK. On divorce, her 2-year old twins were given to the custody of her ex-husband. More recently, her ex-husband has cut off her contact with them. The Austrian court has repeatedly rubber-stamped the ex-husband's demands. Beth is concerned that this is because he has personal contacts within the court system and she has evidenced this. Beth has a Facebook page - "<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/reunitingbeth" target="_blank">Reuniting Beth with her Sons</a>" with approximately 6000 members. Many women on it, across various countries, have suffered similar experiences. I am concerned that because of the pan-national nature of this phenomenon, there is some reactionary force, orchestrating it.<br /><br />Please can Alma look into this case personally. A member of the group has written to her at the Ministry, but the reply, dismissing Beth's concerns was sent by Martin Botta. We do not know if Alma is aware of the case - or others like it.<br /><br />Kay Lauer</span><br /><br />#OpenLettersToZadic #ReunitingBethWithHerSons<p></p><p> </p><p><img alt="Women's Equality Party" height="262" src="https://assets.nationbuilder.com/womensequality/sites/2/meta_images/original/WE_LOGO_ORIGINAL_RGB.png?1594824831" width="258" /> <br /></p>Help Beth Supportershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12509065298654201853noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629447024939731204.post-15123621547374931122022-03-03T08:17:00.004-08:002022-03-03T12:10:14.616-08:00Open Letter To Jacob Biderman : WE SIMPLY WILL NOT STOP NOR WILL WE GO AWAY<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg0XTPxN3svG6G0fXRhVicQT-2fgaUbbpThJEW3BmJS27qsmTHxy9dmX3iNt0iRa0Fa7zoJGLVhmlwi6NxgDiNM-Z-Jo-SkKKbb6EGMfsTFs7fsW_Bibmm96_9c2k9KpjxIhPZn8Jj5mjQb40W6B5kLUkv4s7DADYPzO_C1wJP4TL1aBnrpRq_zn1WX=s350" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="350" data-original-width="262" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg0XTPxN3svG6G0fXRhVicQT-2fgaUbbpThJEW3BmJS27qsmTHxy9dmX3iNt0iRa0Fa7zoJGLVhmlwi6NxgDiNM-Z-Jo-SkKKbb6EGMfsTFs7fsW_Bibmm96_9c2k9KpjxIhPZn8Jj5mjQb40W6B5kLUkv4s7DADYPzO_C1wJP4TL1aBnrpRq_zn1WX=s320" width="240" /></a></div><p><br /><br />info@lauderchabad.at<br />biderman@lauderchabad.at<br /></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhBbvrKHI3plvYe65DwsfJq0j902qMeTbPnz-2Mq5PlbRZFy0WRrvlSk0Z-He5MdS8UQAMEXhK5XO8nBy-rqakh_eFoD6s13K7sh4MQ6-HDYwSd5Eul55-uQ-7mJgXoWYNF_NtOVGSznIwwnEiVd1ZwxbreRdmYjv0PjRXCjvZCk5eC0cNeTzl_G98M=s964" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="964" data-original-width="850" height="687" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhBbvrKHI3plvYe65DwsfJq0j902qMeTbPnz-2Mq5PlbRZFy0WRrvlSk0Z-He5MdS8UQAMEXhK5XO8nBy-rqakh_eFoD6s13K7sh4MQ6-HDYwSd5Eul55-uQ-7mJgXoWYNF_NtOVGSznIwwnEiVd1ZwxbreRdmYjv0PjRXCjvZCk5eC0cNeTzl_G98M=w605-h687" width="605" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: courier;">Rabbi Biderman,<br /><br /><a href="https://helpbeth.org/lauder-chabad-statement-on-facebook-1st-march-2022/" target="_blank">https://helpbeth.org/lauder-chabad-statement-on-facebook-1st-march-2022/</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/LauderChabadCampus/" target="_blank">Lauder Chabad Campus</a>: “The Perfect harmony between Austrian formal education and Jewish teaching of the heart and spirit” (as written on their Facebook page) I’d like to know, is that the same “heart and spirit” of the twin boys you’ve stripped of seeing their mother for 10 years? <br /><br />Is this the same “heart and spirit” that you’ve blatantly stopped a mother from attending every parents’ evening, every concert and birthday party since they were in the Kindergarten? Is this the same “heart and spirit” that despite a mother recording that one of her children was deliberately ramming himself against a wall in an act of self-harm, Rabbi Biderman testified in Court that both twins were ‘thriving with their father’. Is this the same “heart and spirit” that you wrongfully reported Beth Alexander to be mentally ill – despite knowing full well that this was a lie? <br /><br />You may succeed to continue to pull the wool over the eyes of innocent families who may think by sending their beloved children to your school will be a good choice but we hope they’ll think again once they’ve read and learned what lies beneath your fake veneer ‘to grow up with joy and confidence’. Together with the Austrian courts, you have been culpable in damaging these poor children. <br /><br />One doesn’t need to be a psychologist to know the mental damage these children will have suffered as a direct result of their treatment of which you are in part hugely responsible, having withheld them from being with their mother. The boys have been and continue to be used as pawns throughout this ghastly 10-year episode and I wonder, did anyone stop to think and ask them what they wanted? Granted if you ask them now – I believe they’ve been so heavily brainwashed in favour of their father – but you tell me: which child do you know who would ever elect to be without their mother? <br /><br />A final note to the entire Lauder Chabad establishment: You may think it unnecessary for your names and school to be brandished across social media – but you’ve not seen anything yet! There are several thousands of us from all over the world in support of Beth and we are not going anywhere. In fact, we are just growing in numbers and support. We are fully supported by Chabad in our local communities with whom we’ve all raised your behaviour and coercion. Our local Chabad Rabbis are quite frankly sickened and ashamed by your involvement. <br /><br />I/ we will continue to knock on your door; we shall continue to make so much noise; we simply will NOT stop, nor will we go away until there’s an independent investigation and only once Beth has been reunited with her boys. You may think that it’s a little ‘unnecessary’ for the several thousand of us from all over the world, to have taken to social media – but you just wait. This is only the very beginning. Karma will prevail.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">Sarah Callis</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"><br /></span><br />#ReunitingBethWithHerBoys #helpbeth</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> <br /></p><p></p>Help Beth Supportershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12509065298654201853noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629447024939731204.post-18449284470565555752022-03-02T07:39:00.002-08:002022-03-02T08:00:15.609-08:00Open Letter To Jacob Biderman : LAUDER CHABAD IS GUILTY<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjGkN0Fa2AnVObzrytYogsy-qCy93dy5JUaXpNBxcBcQOk0VZPaw05kATrutp84ZnHThMmbvdjxeCEMSEK8HW5gu5850b8gn0wGlCnOlFGnuEMXBBXxs_T02LrO23JuZR1xyHyUKKn57Ae8SC1F4iGlxNp5rSQKzfoJuTZOm41U9hlQB--Uy7tsTlwt=s350" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="350" data-original-width="262" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjGkN0Fa2AnVObzrytYogsy-qCy93dy5JUaXpNBxcBcQOk0VZPaw05kATrutp84ZnHThMmbvdjxeCEMSEK8HW5gu5850b8gn0wGlCnOlFGnuEMXBBXxs_T02LrO23JuZR1xyHyUKKn57Ae8SC1F4iGlxNp5rSQKzfoJuTZOm41U9hlQB--Uy7tsTlwt=s320" width="240" /></a></div><br />info@lauderchabad.at<br />biderman@lauderchabad.at<br /><br /><span style="font-family: courier;">Rabbi Biderman,<br /><br /><a href="https://helpbeth.org/lauder-chabad-statement-on-facebook-1st-march-2022/">CHABAD DENY CULPABILITY</a><br /><br />I am writing to you, Rabbi Jacob Biderman, because I believe you have a right to know that the <a href="https://helpbeth.org/lauder-chabad-statement-on-facebook-1st-march-2022/" target="_blank">linked document</a> is being sent all over the Jewish world and beyond. We are posting it on all relevant social media platforms and websites. To be clear, this is not a hate campaign against you. Rather it is a justice campaign for Sammy and Benji Schlesinger – two young pupils in your school who have suffered a decade of unimaginable heartbreak as their mother has been erased from their lives.<br /><br />How could you do this to innocent children? You call yourself a Rabbi yet your heart is rock hard. You lied to the courts about their mother. You have no understanding of a mother’s role in the lives of her children. Jewish Law excuses mothers from all the mitzvot that are time constrained. Our great Rabbis and Hashem Himself knows a mother needs to be constantly available to her children. That their mother’s love and guidance is crucial for their wellbeing.<br /><br />Did you miss this lecture in Yeshiva, Rabbi Biderman? Did you also miss the lesson on the 10 Commandments where it says you shall not tell lies against your neighbour? Ten Yom HaKippurim have gone by since you decided to help Michael Schlesinger destroy his wife and inflict as yet unknowable damage on their children. What were you doing on these holiest of days when you should have been atoning for your sins? Did you give one thought to the evil you were perpetuating year after year?<br /><br />Yes, we are telling everyone not to enrol in your school because until you even understand what you have done, it is too risky to allow children to be in your care. You had the audacity to reply that this was a private family matter and that the school did not involve itself. Really?!! Now you are SUDDENLY impartial?!! After you took it upon yourself to block Beth Alexander from all contact with her sons? After you give her no information about their welfare or their education?!! After you barred her from attending their birthday parties in school?!! After you ignored the confusion and depression of two little boys in your care and told the courts they were thriving?!! Or maybe you didn’t notice, which is even more alarming from someone in charge of a school.<br /><br />Call yourself a “Rabbi” if it makes you feel important. You are no Rabbi to us. For now, all we can hope for is that you aim to be a mere mensch. Until you understand what you have done and try to repair some of the damage you have caused, we will continue to fight for justice for Sammy and Benji. Someone has to advocate for them. Sometimes teachers can intervene to help vulnerable children. In this case it was their teacher, Jacob Biderman, who ensured they remain vulnerable.<br /><br />We are more than 6,000 people dedicated to Beth and her children. We are not duplicitous as you were when you forwarded Beth’s pleading and heartfelt emails to her ex-husband’s lawyers. We only deal with the truth, unlike you when you told UK Chief Rabbis Ephraim Mirvis and Jonathan Sacks, of blessed memory, that Beth was mentally ill. We will not go away. Until this is resolved satisfactorily, this truth will follow you for the rest of your life, from job to job, and from community to community.<br /><br />Ask yourself how the name of Rabbi Jacob Biderman will be remembered. What will your legacy be in this world? I can tell you that it will either be the story of how you destroyed the lives of a Jewish family to further your career, or it will be how you repented and ended up on the side of goodness. Your choice. Either way, the Jewish world will know. We all eagerly await your decision for the final chapter of this tragedy that you helped to create. Remember that according to Jewish law, real atonement begins with asking forgiveness from those you have wronged. Although how you can apologise to children for keeping their mother from them for ten years, I cannot imagine.<br /><br />For full disclosure, I am copying this email to Ronald Lauder, Chabad HQ, and Chabad Rabbis around the world. It is also their right to know what is happening in a school that bears their names. Please don’t waste everyone’s time by crying that this is all lies. Everything is officially documented and recorded. Your only honourable course of action is to look inwards, examine your past behaviour, choose a new path of honesty and righteousness, and pray that God will forgive you for what you have done to his children.<br /><br />Rachel Selby<br />Jerusalem</span><br /><br />#OpenLettersToBiderman #ReunitingBethWithHerSons<br /><br /><p></p>Help Beth Supportershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12509065298654201853noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629447024939731204.post-75507329844678306292022-02-28T15:16:00.006-08:002022-02-28T15:16:57.767-08:00Open Letter To Oskar Deutsch : YOUR PRIDE IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE WELFARE OF TWO CHILDREN?<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhNoTpHAQpWjrubYYc-Jf0xe5L-I3j88LpgOSJTzTbzCKb9y9Iefo-scsPVvstzfWJEZi1tVvMoc8dtWl6smvSlj0Fff0ngWdBWhunQDo7eHqmJrLyOInNJbfNewCRB8m_g22WJ11COOrLNccZ16Aygzp5GHuPU_vqgl4r8VwUNbd3DxPWP5eic33Sm=s306" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="284" data-original-width="306" height="284" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhNoTpHAQpWjrubYYc-Jf0xe5L-I3j88LpgOSJTzTbzCKb9y9Iefo-scsPVvstzfWJEZi1tVvMoc8dtWl6smvSlj0Fff0ngWdBWhunQDo7eHqmJrLyOInNJbfNewCRB8m_g22WJ11COOrLNccZ16Aygzp5GHuPU_vqgl4r8VwUNbd3DxPWP5eic33Sm" width="306" /></a></div><br /><br />o.deutsch@ikg-wien.at<br />office@ikg-wien.at<br /><br /><span style="font-family: courier;">Herr Deutsch,<br /><br />When will you admit that you backed the wrong horse? Michael Schlesinger, a man with a history of abandonment and violent domestic abuse, has orchestrated complete estrangement between his sons and their mother. And you and your community helped him towards his goal at every step.<br /><br />You have dug yourselves into a hole of righteous indignation from which your pride will not allow you to emerge. Meanwhile your pride is destroying the lives of two young boys who cannot receive their mother's love. <br /><br />Ask yourself honestly, would you leave your own children in the care of Michael Schlesinger, a man so consumed with hatred that he denies his sons the love of their mother and grandparents? Would you leave your own children or grandchildren in his sole care even for one afternoon? <br /><br />And yet your pride is more important than the welfare of two children under the umbrella of your community on the watch of the upstanding Oskar Deutsch. <br /><br />When you look back on your life's achievements Herr Deutsch, I hope you will be able to live with the knowledge of how you helped Michael Schlesinger to destroy the lives of Sammy and Benji and then you abandoned those two innocent boys. Good job Oskar!<br /><br />We will not stop showing the truth to the world until you finally show some decency, swallow your pride, and help the innocent instead of turning away.<br /><br />Rachel Selby<br />Jerusalem<br /><br /></span>#OpenLettersToDeutsch #ReunitingBethWithHerSons<p></p>Help Beth Supportershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12509065298654201853noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629447024939731204.post-6642777681924715552022-02-25T01:05:00.003-08:002022-02-25T01:05:38.951-08:00Open Letter To Oskar Deutsch : WHAT ARE THE REASONS FOR THIS?<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiYADlnX8en_dM3LpztGqzVu7P9-SWWD-3CzOfQOMX7WttWkYkcoPDLq_gs13idQLtlXDK27qhmNg_xM-GRduS9r-IERiFHLT2KTpBxbR79F--4hakjewrLyPp0tasYxUgE86LU0U0r_wv9Y_UIp3keeWNAiofDacgyCnrBtvsEgLB7VQDaNrIrNnpk=s306" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="284" data-original-width="306" height="284" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiYADlnX8en_dM3LpztGqzVu7P9-SWWD-3CzOfQOMX7WttWkYkcoPDLq_gs13idQLtlXDK27qhmNg_xM-GRduS9r-IERiFHLT2KTpBxbR79F--4hakjewrLyPp0tasYxUgE86LU0U0r_wv9Y_UIp3keeWNAiofDacgyCnrBtvsEgLB7VQDaNrIrNnpk" width="306" /></a></div><br />o.deutsch@ikg-wien.at<br />office@ikg-wien.at<br /><br /><span style="font-family: courier;">Dear Herr Deutsch<br /><br />I learned about the distressing situation of Beth Alexander's custody issues 10 years ago when I was heavily pregnant with my eldest child. I have thought of Beth often since then as I have been able to mark my babies' milestones. Every time that I think her situation cannot get any more upsetting, it does. Before I was a mother I couldn't understand how anyone could be so vindictive to keep a clearly loving mother away from their children. Now that I am a parent I do not know how Beth continues to live with the cruelty that is inflicted upon her. I find it unfathomable how an entire community can ostracise Beth and will not support a clearly intelligent, kind and loving mother to be with her children. Please could you share with me what the reasons are for this?<br /><br />All that it takes for evil to triumph is that good men stand by and watch. I do not wish to be a bystander and I would hope that neither do you. Please do what you can to support Beth to be present in Sammy and Benji's lives.<br /><br />Yours sincerely<br />Helen Cahill<br /></span><br />#OpenLettersToDeutsch #ReunitingBethWithHerSons<br /><br /><p></p>Help Beth Supportershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12509065298654201853noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629447024939731204.post-60306638194048068102022-02-23T05:55:00.003-08:002022-02-25T00:02:21.574-08:00Open Letter To Ronald Lauder : MAUS AND ATROCITIES<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgtQs_t8ivzKBiaLEgOKYH2XQ9hNGwuY8km9CeZ-UWF_OOhS-sUw9K9RXJkR1IAoNqr0sAjq12ThsoNA7ydUkPqu1QxEChO4wQ91xFVuTlcz4FbJwBfGnPbyR1HSGDD6MuH04DOHvQdnFTuy3CeMn5hvZ3WJb_pS4coOlKR3o1RD5kAj0neUlxMv3ma=s1228" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="805" data-original-width="1228" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgtQs_t8ivzKBiaLEgOKYH2XQ9hNGwuY8km9CeZ-UWF_OOhS-sUw9K9RXJkR1IAoNqr0sAjq12ThsoNA7ydUkPqu1QxEChO4wQ91xFVuTlcz4FbJwBfGnPbyR1HSGDD6MuH04DOHvQdnFTuy3CeMn5hvZ3WJb_pS4coOlKR3o1RD5kAj0neUlxMv3ma=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <br /><br />jspinner@lauderfoundation.com<br />info@worldjewishcongress.org <br />wjc@wjc.co.il <br /><span style="font-family: courier;"><br />Dear Mr Lauder,<br /><br />I read with interest of your recent condemnation of McMinn County School’s ban of Art Spiegelman’s graphic Holocaust novel Maus.<br /><br />The Tennessee school’s board members felt that the book’s graphic depictions of violence, murder, nudity, profanity and suicide are unsuitable for children. However, you adamantly disagreed, and condemned the ban “in the strongest possible terms” – alongside your rightful condemnation of Whoopi Goldberg’s woefully ignorant remarks – offering to distribute over fifty-three thousand free copies of Maus to members of McMinn County members and to Whoopi Goldberg.<br /><br />Evidently you are a strong proponent of using graphic and explicit images in order to educate the world, including children, about history’s atrocities.<br /><br />May I suggest an idea for a similar graphic novel that perhaps you could commission? It’s mainly intended for a Jewish community where I believe you have much power and influence; no other medium seems to have been effective in ending an atrocity that is taking place there, and perhaps a graphic novel will send a more powerful message. I’m sure this community and beyond would find it a fascinating, educational and suitably shocking, disturbing and distressing read.<br /><br />Here are some ideas of scenes that could appear in the book; you don’t believe in sparing any detail, so it should be as sinister-looking as possible. It would depict ACTUAL EVENTS alleged to have taken place in 21st-century Vienna over the last 12 years, more or less in chronological order:<br /><br />- A terrified young woman running at night through the streets and railway stations of Vienna, searching for a domestic violence shelter to escape from her violent husband.<br /><br />- The same woman returning home, to be confronted with an entire army comprising her angry husband, his colluding family, a psychiatrist, police and paramedics, all attempting to commit her to a mental institution under false pretences.<br /><br />- Armed police officers and the now-ex-husband, at half an hour’s notice, storming into the home of the mother of healthy, thriving toddler twin boys; the loving mother screaming and protesting as they seize her crying children away from her and carry them out of the house; she has no idea if or when she will ever see them again.<br /><br />- Neighbours frequently hearing screams of children emanating from the ex’s apartment; they report this to the authorities, but their efforts are in vain.<br /><br />- The mother’s horror upon noticing that both two-year-olds are missing front teeth.<br /><br />- One of the twins, now age four, repeatedly ramming his head into a brick wall at school as a means of self-harm.<br /><br />- Several courtroom scenes, spanning years, each judgement more cruel, bizarre, illogical and inhuman than the last.<br /><br />- The bereft mother desperately pleading to a powerful, influential figure to help her bring her children back; he simply turns and walks away from her.<br /><br />- A legal document forbidding her from contacting her children, age 12, who apparently say they do not want her in their lives.<br /><br />I’m sure you realize by now exactly which story I’m referring to. You’re familiar enough with the lies, conspiracy, corruption, and callousness that have taken place within Austria’s court system, and, shamefully, members of the Viennese Jewish Community, leading to this utterly heart-breaking saga that has been ongoing for 12 long years.<br /><br />I could go on and on with more “scenes” but I nothing I write will do justice to the hell that my friend Beth Alexander has gone through.<br /><br />I’ll allow you yourself to come up with dire but not-unrealistic futuristic scenes for this hypothetical book; these would be based on possible catastrophic consequences of childhood trauma and induced parental alienation. One cannot not underestimate the toll the latter form of child abuse can take on a child’s behaviour, future relationships, and mental health as they grow into adulthood. Anxiety, depression, substance abuse, abusive relationships, violence, withdrawal, to name but a few… and you are undoubtedly aware of some of the worst-case scenarios which maybe you don’t like to think about.<br /><br />It would not be a pleasant read.<br /><br />What kind of scenes would you like to see at the end of this story, Mr Lauder? Happy or sad ones? Your influence can determine how this story will play out in the end.<br /><br />I would love to hear from you with ideas of happy endings to this story, and how the aforementioned influential person might have brought them about.<br /><br />But if I don’t hear from you, I’d love to assume it’s because you’re too busy doing everything in your power to reunite Beth, Sammy and Benji once and for all.<br /><br />Yours sincerely<br /></span><br /><br />#OpenLettersToLauder #ReunitingBethWithHerSons<br /><a href="http://daattorah.blogspot.com/2015/03/president-of-world-jewish-congress.html"><br />http://daattorah.blogspot.com/2015/03/president-of-world-jewish-congress.html</a><br /><br /><a href="http://helpbeth.blogspot.com/p/email-to-mr-ronald-lauder-chair-of.html">http://helpbeth.blogspot.com/p/email-to-mr-ronald-lauder-chair-of.html</a><br /><br /><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XUGzPg0Kh8k" width="320" youtube-src-id="XUGzPg0Kh8k"></iframe></div><br />Help Beth Supportershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12509065298654201853noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629447024939731204.post-73940816384683628322022-02-23T05:47:00.002-08:002022-02-23T05:47:45.708-08:00Open Letter To Alma Zadic : BLATANT CORRUPTION AND MANIPULATION OF THE COURTS<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhyjS67g_OoWYtGjfLgoXhvVMjKmNdopAuZjGp-LbgyiBRMu65IZE5MitUOuPvreg2ph8_X9fB-hjkQkJ2MIIJjCZOvHIM_bBdB4Q1BQFQREu9MVXEjZ7_twoIH7JAJn05JkaNk-zSY3g8a8ZLR4Jx0f8JRTwujow6dNpWBWpNtiKktbKcvgg8WF6hz=s753" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="753" height="202" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhyjS67g_OoWYtGjfLgoXhvVMjKmNdopAuZjGp-LbgyiBRMu65IZE5MitUOuPvreg2ph8_X9fB-hjkQkJ2MIIJjCZOvHIM_bBdB4Q1BQFQREu9MVXEjZ7_twoIH7JAJn05JkaNk-zSY3g8a8ZLR4Jx0f8JRTwujow6dNpWBWpNtiKktbKcvgg8WF6hz=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><br />Kerstin.Grill@bmj.gv.at<br />lll1_bk@bmj.gv.at<br />minister.justiz@bmj.gv.at<br />team.pr@bmj.gv.at<br />team.z@bmj.gv.at<br /><br />Justice Minister Austria<br /><br /><span style="font-family: courier;">Dear Dr Zadic,<br /><br />I am writing to you at 3 am because I cannot sleep, burdened by the overt injustice your Family Court has inflicted on Beth Alexander and her sons, Benji and Sammy Schlesinger. The latest appeal to the court has been denied. No access. No visits. No holidays. No phone calls.<br /><br />There are very few valid reasons I can think of for a mother and her children to be denied all contact. <br />1. The mother is an absolute monster. <br />2. She is so mentally or physically sick that any contact would be upsetting for the children. <br />3. The other parent or guardian has manipulated the courts to carry out their will. <br />4. The other parent or guardian has convinced the children that their mother doesn’t care about them. <br />5. The children are too intimidated by the other parent or guardian to say anything that might upset or anger them.<br /><br />Videos of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zp4RqCTBhOs" target="_blank">interviews with Beth</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJb_u1OUpls" target="_blank">footage of Beth and her parents</a> lovingly playing with the boys are posted on a You Tube channel called Help Beth. One look at these videos and it is plain to see reasons 1 and 2 are not the case here.<br /><br />We are left with some combination of the remaining three issues. You have to consider that the other parent, Dr Michael Schlesinger, was himself <a href="https://helpbeth.org/jewish-telegraph-22-11-2013/" target="_blank">estranged from his father</a> from the age of three when his mother denied the father all contact. Despite being a doctor, Schlesinger has grown into an abusive and vindictive father who would rather inflict the most painful revenge on his ex-wife than care about the emotional welfare of his children. All this while <a href="https://helpbeth.org/evidence-of-parental-alienation/" target="_blank">sending taunting text messages to Beth</a>.<br /><br />The boys are 12 years old. It is not too late to repair the relationship with their mother and their warm extended family in England before they become the next generation of angry and emotionally disturbed men in a dysfunctional family.<br /><br />The path to this situation was littered with corruption and characters looking out for their own interests from the start. At the very heart is the Vienna Jewish Community (the IKG) who were eager to support one of their own, a doctor no less, and side with him against the stranger among them. Erstwhile <a href="http://daattorah.blogspot.com/2014/04/schlesinger-twins-beths-friend.html" target="_blank">“friends” of Beth have admitted</a> to her that they spread lies about her mental state, <a href="http://daattorah.blogspot.com/2014/04/schlesinger-twins-why-was-dr.html" target="_blank">colluded to trick her into a phoney psychological examination</a>, and finally turned their backs on her. Some were instructed to do so by their husbands. One has said that she regrets her part in this charade and has apologised to Beth. Too little too late.<br /><br />Rabbi Jacob Biderman, the Chabad Rabbi and Principal of the Lauder Chabad School, where the boys attend, repeatedly <a href="http://daattorah.blogspot.com/2014/03/schlesinger-twins-rabbi-bidermans.html" target="_blank">stated that they were doing well after being taken from their mother</a> by police while she was feeding them their supper. This despite obvious regressions, depression and self-harming (little Benji running into a brick wall to try and numb his pain).<br /><br />Biderman <a href="https://helpbeth.org/child-abuse-the-collusion-and-cover-up-by-lauder-chabad/" target="_blank">blocked Beth from entering the school</a> and wouldn’t give her any information about her sons’ welfare or progress. She was not even allowed to attend their class birthday parties as all parents do. Biderman claimed that he had a letter from Schlesinger’s lawyers telling him to do this. The lawyers denied this in court and no letter has been produced. However, Beth’s pleading emails to Biderman were dutifully forwarded by him, to Schlesinger’s lawyers and a judge in the Jewish community who was supposedly not connected to the case.<br /><br />The fact is that Biderman needs the support of the Jewish community or he loses his job. If two little boys and their innocent mother have to be destroyed in the process he doesn’t care. This is a Rabbi sent by the Chabad organization whose whole raison d’etre is to help Jewish people around the world by spreading love and community values. You couldn’t make it up if you wanted to.<br /><br />You have the policemen who didn’t understand why they had to take the boys. Social workers who tried to help Beth because they saw no reason for this action. A judge from the community who got involved despite being a friend of Schlesinger and it not being her case.<br /><br />You have the same judge residing over this case for the past decade, who would have to admit that she made mistakes in order to change her rulings. What is the point of the right to appeal when the same judge is just reviewing her own performance every time? A judge who went the extra mile for Schlesinger by <a href="https://daattorah.blogspot.com/2022/01/judges-afternoon-tea-party-with-father.html" target="_blank">visiting his home for tea</a> in order to check his suitability as a father and homemaker. At no time did she personally check out Beth’s home – with or without the tea.<br /><br />You have the leader of the IKG, Herr Oskar Deutsch, who, when asked to use his influence to try to remedy this tragic situation, <a href="https://helpbeth.org/president-of-the-jewish-community-in-vienna-responds/" target="_blank">replies with a letter berating Beth for not approaching him in the correct manner</a>. A man who makes speeches on Holocaust Memorial Day saying “Never Forget!” and “Never Again!” whilst keeping silent when two more Jewish babies are torn from their mother’s arms and denied her love. Hollow words indeed.<br /><br />You have the Chief Rabbi of the <a href="https://www.thejc.com/news/news/chief-rabbis-secret-mission-for-mother-in-twins-custody-battle-2ldgLDbeBCSiLqYuHhOZIE" target="_blank">UK flying to Vienna</a> to mediate on Beth’s behalf. You have her <a href="https://helpbeth.org/british-parliament-14th-january-2014-highlights-and-discussion/" target="_blank">local MP speaking about</a> this travesty of justice in the British Houses of Parliament. You have journalists, Rabbis, and 6,000 supporters on a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/reunitingbeth" target="_blank">Facebook group</a>, all doing everything and anything we can. And Herr Deutsch suggests Beth try mediation. Ha!<br /><br />Perhaps the Austrian Jewish community is untouchable due to their victim status after WWll and the residue discomfort of their countrymen? Some people think this might be true. But someone has to stand up to them when there is blatant corruption and manipulation of the courts. We are begging you, Dr Zadic, to be that someone.<br /><br /><br />Yours hopefully,<br /><br />Rachel Selby</span><br /><br />#OpenLettersToZadic #ReunitingBethWithHerSons<br /><br /><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhpcEX-XQU6H08r8IqgTvtwiswl-CRzmKhwfRi5kN9Twe-HH8sFs1yH3m4oOx-jB-J11cNqWwmm0qfMd58R24tNJz4Nrh3lm9k_jyvwoWvAU53DCnmFgJfuhGrmIhIOkM69YnnHD_IoF8VEoHFPV2FZdsMKpSvBnoksVE6wxiYUNr4N_H-bHnEx8FxX=s350" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="350" data-original-width="262" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhpcEX-XQU6H08r8IqgTvtwiswl-CRzmKhwfRi5kN9Twe-HH8sFs1yH3m4oOx-jB-J11cNqWwmm0qfMd58R24tNJz4Nrh3lm9k_jyvwoWvAU53DCnmFgJfuhGrmIhIOkM69YnnHD_IoF8VEoHFPV2FZdsMKpSvBnoksVE6wxiYUNr4N_H-bHnEx8FxX=s320" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chabad Rabbi Jacob Biderman<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br />Help Beth Supportershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12509065298654201853noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629447024939731204.post-67503684738399052152022-02-21T12:05:00.002-08:002022-02-21T12:05:17.534-08:00Open Letter To Oskar Deutsch : DO NOT SIT IDLY BY<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEixk9EQnIAtkbw1JkeJhhF28eP3IWAgUeIuUtVwho9CJBml8IPIR-rSi1AZx40GX1WUTgH4MydEY9vOQA6D2nbvN9XG2Ual1aGfNRPRjOvPROPhciA_wwJgwSaIfTvdcc1JqhHFFkLTYHEPqWsQhWcd9nntXut2_L2zYLz4JVqciCRiBH7jRIwpm7uF=s306" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="284" data-original-width="306" height="284" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEixk9EQnIAtkbw1JkeJhhF28eP3IWAgUeIuUtVwho9CJBml8IPIR-rSi1AZx40GX1WUTgH4MydEY9vOQA6D2nbvN9XG2Ual1aGfNRPRjOvPROPhciA_wwJgwSaIfTvdcc1JqhHFFkLTYHEPqWsQhWcd9nntXut2_L2zYLz4JVqciCRiBH7jRIwpm7uF" width="306" /></a></div><br />o.deutsch@ikg-wien.at<br />office@ikg-wien.at<br /><br /><span style="font-family: courier;">Dear Mr Deutsch,<br /><br />I know by now you have received thousands upon thousands of emails, letters and pleas to help right this gargantuan wrong that has been imposed on Beth, Sammy and Benji. Nothing can change the past, and the precious moments these 3 beautiful souls have missed out on together, but there is most certainly a way to rectify this for their future, and restore normality by reuniting Beth with her twin boys.<br /><br />Having known Beth (and some of her family) for well over a decade now, I have seen first hand the warm, loving, well intentioned and supportive family she comes from. The atrocities Beth and her sons have had to face are just beyond heart-breaking, and beyond disgust. Not only have these two innocent boys been denied their mothers love, care, kindness and affection, during the most influential times of their childhood, but the grandiose misconduct of the Austrian community is perpetuating this malicious injustice and allowing it to continue, real-time, present day. Why, when it is within your power and abilities to put this horrendous and hurtful prejudice to an end – why do you let it continue and furthermore support it going forward? What did Sammy and Benji do to deserve this unfortunate sentence on their lives?<br /><br />The strength and determination Beth has shown throughout this harrowing ordeal, where so many others would have given up by now, is further testament to the undying, constant and consistent love she feels for her sons, and a drive that only a mothers instinctual, innate love can sustain. My heart bleeds for what Beth has had to go through, as well as all she has missed. No amount of time or money could ever furnish Beth or her boys with the lost moments, smiles, bedtime stories and carefree days in the park they’ve been robbed of – however I beg you – please do not let this continue. Please do not let these two boys grow up without their mother in their lives.<br /><br />Please do not let this wonderful mother continue to suffer without her own children, and please do not continue to give the rest of the world another reason to hate the jews. This chillul Hashem from within our own needs to stop now. Please Mr Deutsch, Mr Lauder (and all others that stand idly by) – please take action now so that no further harm/damage comes to this family.<br /><br />People the world over have expressed their complete confusion as to how this ever happened and got this far, and have voiced their amazement at the injustice, misconduct and outright corruption going on within this case. <br /><br />Beth is a warm-hearted, loving, kind and intelligent woman and friend – however as a mother – it goes even further. She aches for her babies (who are now not even babies/toddlers anymore) and as she yearns for her children, even convicted felons in prison get to see theirs. Why is a warm, loving, homely, caring mother being denied access to her own family? Especially when the good it can bring to the children’s lives, the children’s well-being and the children’s future should be the main focus here. The community has robbed them of so much already – please step in, as we all know you can and should.<br /><br />This is the most heart-breaking case of injustice and human suffering that never needed to happen to begin with. Please Mr Deutsch – do not be complicit, please do not be complacent and if you have children of your own – and love and care for them even half as much as Beth loves her boys – please do not sit idly by and allow this situation to continue. Please Mr Deutsch, I beg you – act today and save 3 Jewish lives. Their fates rest in your hands.<br /><br /><br />Regards</span><br /><br />#openletterstodeutsch #reunitingbethwithhersons<p></p>Help Beth Supportershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12509065298654201853noreply@blogger.com0