A prominent rabbi and educator living in Beit Shemesh has been accused
of misusing his authority and position for his sexual gratification.
An
ad hoc rabbinical court of senior rabbis in Israel and the US issued a
warning instructing women to avoid all contact with Rabbi Meir Pogrow,
the founder of a website and study program called Master Torah,
designed to aid the study of religious texts and retain the knowledge
acquired.
According to the Master Torah website, Pogrow has
rabbinical ordination from several authorities, including from the
Chief Rabbinate, and is qualified as a rabbinical judge.
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Having spoken with Pogrow, the rabbis issued a ruling prohibiting him
from associating with women in any way and for any reason, including
married and unmarried women of any age.
The rabbis also warned
all women against meeting with Pogrow for any reason publicly or
privately, and from contacting him in any way including by phone or
email and any other form of electronic correspondence.
The
rabbis added that a woman in the US has helped Pogrow establish
meetings with other women and said therefore that all women should
avoid all contact with this individual as well.
Rabbis Bass and
Malinowitz, along with Rabbis Yitzhak Berkowitz, Mordechai Willig, and
Elimelech Kornfeld, issued a separate document entitled “Warning to the
Public.”
“It is our obligation to notify and warn women and
girls in the strongest and most urgent terms, to distance themselves
from any interaction from this individual, from his lectures, and from
any area of his influence in any way,” the rabbis wrote.
Prominent rabbi and educator accused of sexual abuse - Israel News - Jerusalem Post
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