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Beverly Hills Rabbi Busted for 'Molesting Boys in Brooklyn'

By Natasha Velez
The New York Post
October 30, 2013

http://nypost.com/2013/10/30/beverly-hills-rabbi-busted-for-molesting-boys-in-brooklyn/

Menachem Tewel aka Mendel Tevel

A rabbi accused of sexually molesting boys in Brooklyn has been arrested in Beverly Hills, where he was working at a Jewish community center, authorities said.

Rabbi Mendel Tevel faces extradition after he was arrested Tuesday by authorities acting on a warrant issued in New York charging the rabbi with criminal sexual acts. Tevel was a youth worker in Brooklyn, New York City, at the time.

The indictment against Tevel involves a complaint from a Brooklyn man who accused the rabbi of performing oral sex on him several times in his car when Tevel was 22 and the alleged victim was 14.

The rabbi moved to Los Angeles and had recently been working at the JEM Center, a Jewish youth community center in Beverly Hills.

The JEM Center’s director, Rabbi Hertzel Illulian, is Tevel’s father-in-law.

“No child, no parent, no one has alleged anything against the JEM Center,” Dana Cole, an attorney for the JEM Center, told reporters in Los Angeles. “This involves activities that occurred several years ago in New York City.”

Jewish Community Watch, an organization that focuses on child abuse prevention, said it alerted local rabbis about the allegations against Tevel in August.

Tevel, 30, also goes by the name Menachem Tewel.




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