MARYLAND/OHIO
Failed Messiah
Rabbi Fredrick “Ephraim” Karp and his wife boarded out of town teenagers who came to the Cleveland, Ohio area to attend local yeshivas. Karp was arrested in New York City last week on child sex abuse charges as he was about to board a plane to Israel to attend a conference of Jewish chaplains – or flee the country. Karp is the president of the US national society of Jewish chaplains and is the rabbi at an Orthodox-run nursing home in the Cleveland area.
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