Oy vey
The --- just hit the fan!I wonder how many stories real or false will emerge because of this story.
I'm not taking a stand because I don't know the facts

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Stlo | 05.16.06 - 2:52 am | #

I can relate to this story. When I was 10 yrs old in a yeshiva summer camp in the catskills back in the late 60's, I remember one of the rebbeim would come into our bunk on occasion on shabbos afternoons. He would lay one of us broadside across his lap while he would tickle us, working his hand into out underwear. I was too young at the time to realize what he was doing. I just feel bad that I can't remember his name so that I can track him down. but I am sure that he is a rebbe in some respectable yeshiva in NY.
N | 05.16.06 - 3:20 pm | #

G-d help us. i hope the article is the beginning of the positive trend. what was the effect of the sex scandal on Catholic church in the US? i don’t think there was any lasting harm done to the church or the institution of priesthood, aside from humongous financial damage, of course. the positive thing was that the laity assumed more responsibility. why not do the same in the jewish orthodox community. there should be separation of power. the rabbis should be involved with legislative process, while lay members of the community should be more involved with control over institutions. and please don’t give me any of the hillul hashem b.s. molesting kids is hillul hashem, writing about it is not.
faruq | 05.17.06 - 12:26 am | #

Jewish history is cyclical. East Europe was marked by an alliance of wealthy Jews and the clerical class. The children of the wealthy studied in yeshivoth, had leisure time and gained Talmudic acumen. They then married into the rabbinic class and brought money into that class, and YICHUS into the mercantile class.
One reason Chassiduth in its initial incarnation (the first 3-4 generations ) was succesful and spread rapidly was a popular response to the oligarchy in control of Jewish life.
The charedi community today has the same class structure. The rich and the rabbis protect each other and supply each other with what they lack money and YICHUS.
The rest of us are at the mercy of this oligarchy.
Democrocy of any manner has yet to reach the Charedi world. A free press is unknown in that world.
Thus the net and bloggs like this one are very important in breaking this oligarchy. Perhaps the internet is to the Charedi world in 2006 what chassidus was in the 18th and 19th centuries.
schneur | 05.17.06 - 11:50 am | #

ok, that makes me Baal Shem Tov ;) No that makes you Schneur a Baal Shem Tov ;) I am just a cut and paste clerk...
Tzemach Atlas | Homepage | 05.17.06 - 11:55 am | #

Oligarchy? in Boro Park and Williamsburg? You had us believeing that only Chabad in the FSU had oligarchs!
HirshelTzig | Homepage | 05.18.06 - 10:06 pm | #

Anonymous said...
Rabbi Kolko at the end of the day will iyh be vindicated...
he has 2 charges against temimah,
one who wont show his face the other who is in israel...
both cases are VERY old and more than likely untrue...
why after 30 yrs are these stories beinf brought up again??
is it possible that some1 wants to take him down for a different reason?
mabye they dont even want kolko???
mabye its margulis? mabye kolko is the way to margo?? mabye they dont care about either? mabye they want $? mabye its some sort of challenge or game for uoj?

no one knows...
the rebono shel olam does...

this case will go through rabonim and courts and i guess we will all know the outcome... but until then we should let those in charge make press releases NOT us..we dont know and are only spreading lashon hara, motzai shaim ra and stuppidity on these pages... as far as any of us know as a fact is that rabbi kolko has been a rebbe for 30 years with thousands and thousands of talmidim. many of his fellow rebbies and past talmidim only have positive to say,

there is more than meets the eye in this case, being that rabbi kolko served our community for 30+ yrs mabye give him the benifit of the doubt until the story is definitive...
right now i dont know and u dont know whats up, UOJ and others are posting "ifs" and "mabyes" as fact or as close to fact as possible...mabye every1 before hiding behind the web and posting lashan hara and crap should ask their rav if its ok to post negative stuff?
Remember the web offers a fake annomity, god knows what we all do.. Wether or not the accused is guilty or not we have no buisness hurting him..no one made us rabonim, no one made us judges.. Rabbi Yidi Kolko is a rav, and until proven otherwise should be treated as such.
Many people are afraid to write good because they simply dont know..i would bet that 99% of the ppl writing bad on these pages never met rabbi kolko and prob never heard his name b4 UOJ.

If everyone who really knew rabbi yehuda kolko would speak up and voice how they feel about him the positives would outway the negatives many times over...

Remember what goes around comes around... if u use the web to hurt some1 it will come back to hurt u.. if u use it to help some1 it will come back to help u..
u might be in ur bed on a laptop, or at work on ur bosses time reading this right now...but remember god is watching what u do... and speading loshan hara and motzai shaim ra, will come back to haunt you... Regardless of the outcome in this case, the web has so much good to give, but can hurt some1 so much faster... what u post can affect somesones life... remember a person can post as a ghost attacking rabbi kolko today...but tommrw he might be attacking you for something u r completly innocent of...

GOD IS ALWAYS WATCHING...dont write about some1 else what u wouldnt want done to u....

June 06, 2006
former talmud | 06.06.06 - 10:38 pm | #