The flagship publication of Britain’s jewish community the ‘Jewish Chronicle’ recently published an article by Simon Rocker on yet another rabbinical sex pest who also appears to be a sadistic psychopath.
To wit:
‘A former United Synagogue rabbi who was sacked after being arrested has lost his employment tribunal claim against the organisation for unfair dismissal.
Rabbi Dr Moshe Freedman was dismissed in January 2023 from the New West End Synagogue for gross misconduct by “transgressing appropriate physical boundaries” and “producing and uploading violent and sadistic videos to YouTube”, central London employment tribunal found.
He had believed the sanction “unduly excessive’ and also that the US had failed to take into account his diagnosis on the autism spectrum disorder.
But the tribunal, in a decision published this month, said they were “satisfied that the reason for dismissal related to the claimant’s conduct, which was a potentially fair reason to dismiss. We have not found a discriminatory reason for dismissal.”
They ordered Rabbi Freedman to pay the US £20,000 in costs.
The rabbi, who came to New West End in 2015, was arrested by police on May 18 2022 and released on bail the following day – but was never charged. Because of reporting restrictions, details of the incident have been redacted from the published tribunal decision.
On May 20, he emailed the then chief executive of the US and its director of legal and external services: “There are no words to express the regret that I feel for what I have done and the catastrophic consequences this will have for everyone and everything that is dear to me. I can't say more now.”
The US began disciplinary proceedings after an allegation was upheld by Westminster Council’s LADO (local authority designated officer) committee.
A note from a US official to its investigator reported, “The rabbi admitted to touching [redacted] in a way which caused her to feel violated regardless of his own motivation”.
Professor Andrew Eder, who chaired a US panel which heard Rabbi Freedman’s appeal against his dismissal, “did not find that there was a sexual motive”, the employment tribunal noted.
On July 19 and 20 2022, the rabbi “posted four videos entitled ‘Nursery Crimes’ on YouTube”. He had prepared the cartoons himself, using his own voice as a voiceover.
The videos, the tribunal said, “contained cartoon violence. Each was a take on a classic nursery rhyme with a twist. For example, one video was of ‘Incy Wincy Spider’. The ending of the rhyme was changed so that the spider stabbed a man in the head.”
He had marked the videos as not suitable for children. The tribunal accepted Rabbi Freedman’s evidence that the intended audience was for his older sons.
The children forwarded the videos to at least one friend, the son of a rabbi who then drew them to the attention of other rabbis.
In a statement to the US investigation, the Chief Rabbi had thought the cartoon violence in one video shown to him was dangerous.’ (1)
The interesting thing here is we have a rabbi committing two separate and quite different offences here with Freedman sexually molesting a woman – despite the claim there ‘was not a sexual motive’ sexual molestation of a sort is what they are in fact describing (hence his quoted email to the United Synagogue’s CEO and legal director which wouldn’t be the case if it were just an invasion of personal space as Eder tries to imply) – and also producing and then publishing sadistic videos of children’s nursey rhymes on YouTube.
While I haven’t seen the videos but clearly, they are not simple off-piste stuff or obvious dark humour because the Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis is said to have seen them – and presumably other rabbis and jews saw them as well in order for them to get to Mirvis’ desk – they disturbed him significantly enough to refer to them privately as ‘dangerous’ aka either prone to cause non-jews to see Freedman as a gentile-hating jewish supremacist and/or because it exhibited a level of sadistic enjoyment that scared Mirvis and others enough to do something about it.
I judge the latter situation to be the more likely of the two and as such then with Freedman’s sexual molestation of a woman as well as the fact that he immediately tried to blame his autism – presumably actually diagnosed rather than self-diagnosed – for his actions rather than deal with the problems honestly and forthrightly. Then it goes to suggest what we are dealing with here is something like a jewish psychopath who appears to actually be a threat to society.
References
(1) https://www.thejc.com/news/uk/united-synagogue-minister-sacked-after-arrest-loses-employment-tribunal-claim-rs1ogk5u