Maryland – Rabbis Issue Alert For Baltimore Jewish Community About Registered Sex Offender

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    convicted sex offender Rabbi Stanley Levitt.Maryland – Baltimore’s Orthodox Jewish community may be getting a new member – convicted sex offender Rabbi Stanley Levitt. Levitt, 66, pled guilty last month to molesting three Boston-area boys in the 1970s.

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    The Baltimore Jewish Times (http://bit.ly/RHh0JY) writes that Levitt, who was sentenced to 10 years probation, was directed to wear a GPS monitoring device and was told to abide by the sex offender registry laws wherever he resides.

    Because Levitt has connections in Baltimore, Rabbi Shmuel Silber of the Suburban Orthodox Congregation Toras Chaim has been warning congregants that Levitt may decide to come back to Baltimore. In an email to his members, Rabbi Silber wrote, “We have an obligation to be vigilant and ensure that the shul remains a safe place for our children. . . If you see Mr. Levitt enter our shul, please notify me or one of the shul officers immediately.”

    Rabbi Yaakov Hopfer of Shearith Israel has followed suit. He posted a letter along with Levitt’s photo in his shul with the following warning, “Stanley (Zusia) Levitt…has faced multiple accusations that he molested young children in both Philadelphia and Boston. He recently pled guilty to these charges. This, of course, warrants our being cautious about him.”

    Abuse experts have said that Levitt is a classic pedophile who has never shown remorse or taken responsibility for his behavior, and is, therefore, unlikely to change his ways.

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    ralph1527
    ralph1527
    12 years ago

    I remember that guy from the late 60s ,early 70s…he’s still at it ????

    myownopinion
    myownopinion
    12 years ago

    I’ve been saying for a while that the true jews are in the smaller towns, the bigger jewish town are just pure propaganda.

    12 years ago

    I take issue with your printing his picture when you clearly don’t print the Chassidishe ones. Be fair. Let’s see their faces too.

    mendoza
    mendoza
    12 years ago

    let him move to wiilly bee over there he can get lost …. among ………

    TexasJew
    TexasJew
    12 years ago

    Texas is a big state but we don’t want him here. Let him go to hell.

    Secular
    Secular
    12 years ago

    I could tell there was somthing wrong with this guy…he’s wearing a colored shirt.

    Yechi
    Yechi
    12 years ago

    I love these “Rabbis” who use goyish names,,, i guess if they were in Egypt they would have not been taken out

    The term rabbi worth nothing

    What a time we live in ,

    12 years ago

    Boruch shekemonu v’higianu lazman hazeh! Rabbis are finaly getting it! Moshiachs times, I tell ya…!

    The silent cries, are finaly being heard. Stop protecting molesters, exposing them and their shamefull ways is the only way to fight it! The Only way.

    cynic
    cynic
    12 years ago

    “Abuse experts have said that Levitt is a classic pedophile who has never shown remorse or taken responsibility for his behavior, and is, therefore, unlikely to change his ways.”
    – assuming that he really did these crimes, they occurred (at least the ones referenced in the story) 35 to 40 years ago. If he hasn’t done anything similar in three and a half decades (and again, this is based on the info in the story), then that kind of suggests that just maybe he has changed his ways. Meaning the unnamed “abuse experts” are about as accurate and substantiated as, well, smoke and mirrors.

    12 years ago

    It seems to me very wrong to post his picture. It is kinda a dinei nefoshos quagmire. If he is a rodef, you would need to put up his picture, if he isn’t you probably lost your portion in the world to come. My guess is that halachically he is “NOT” a rodef.

    rikki
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    rikki
    12 years ago

    Why not post his picture? Let us ALL be aware to beware of him..show his picture to everyone, including children, so that they know not to be fooled by his looks and to avoid him at all costs!!!

    shalom36
    shalom36
    12 years ago

    There has to be a double standard. Why arent the Baltimore Rabbis posting pictures and letters of all OrthodoxJewish sex offenders in the Baltimore community? Why only RabbiLevitt? There are a handful of Jewish offenders in Baltimore,that nobody knows or talks about. it must be politics as usual.

    12 years ago

    YASHER KOACH to Rabbi Silber! YASHER KOACH to Rabbi Hopfer! Yasher koach to the Rabbis and Jewish community of Baltimore for their public warning against a molester even though he looks “frum.” YASHER KOACH for worrying more about protecting children than protecting the “frum” image. If only those communities in Brooklyn and Lakewood who protect “holy” looking molesters with yarmulkes, tzitzis and payos would take advantage of the Elul zman to do teshuva on this REAL issue! If only they would have the courage to follow the example of these Baltimore rabbanim. Then our Torah communities could have the satisfaction of knowing that we accomplished something REALLY significant during these Yomim Noraim. May the old year and its curses of protecting molesters end. May a new year of protecting our children begin.

    12 years ago

    I am appalled at some of the stupidity exposed by some of the above comments. Those who are innocent do NOT plead guilty to spare themselves of a trial. Anyone that does so is too stupid to deserve the dignity they just discarded. I don’t care if this guy committed his crimes 50 years ago. His rodef status has never left him. The better question to ask is why is he permitted to live among other humans. The experts are perfectly on target when they do not trust that a pedophile has “reformed”. There is no extent of therapy that can cure one to become risk free. As for the “chassidishe” pedophiles, we have all seen their faces in the media. Lastly, anyone who knows a victim knows that the acts committed were clear murder. Why a perpetrator gets to live altogether is strange. Bringing back the death penalty and applying it would make the world a better place. Until then, life sentences without parole would be all that satisfies me.

    12 years ago

    This is not the yiddshe solution, what is? IDK!
    !המלבין פני חבריו ברבים אין לו חלק בעוה”ב

    Voice-of-Reason
    Voice-of-Reason
    12 years ago

    No statute of limitation?

    PMOinFL
    PMOinFL
    12 years ago

    I don’t understand why these people are allowed to live in ANY community. There are farms that need mashgichim. They could go and live in rural America, away from the things that tempt them. There is no logical reason why an entire community must put the neshamos of their children at risk so that this man doesn’t feel shunned.

    12 years ago

    In this instance Baltimore is light years ahead of Brooklyn. Last week a judge ruled against a registered sex offender who brought his rabbi to Court to ‘VOUCH’ for him so he could end his probation early. The wise female Judge ruled against them, and properly made mince meat of the sex offender and his rabbi.