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	Rabbi Charged in Brooklyn Federal Court with Sex Abuse Attempted to Resist Arrest Associated Press, carried in Brooklyn Daily Eagle Octiber 8, 2008 http://www.brooklyneagle.com/categories/category.php?category_id=4&id=23662 BROOKLYN (AP) — A rabbi from upstate New York who faces criminal charges in Brooklyn federal court was ordered held without bail on charges of sexually abusing a female relative for nearly a decade. Federal agents arrested Rabbi Israel Weingarten Monday morning after he barricaded himself in his Monsey home. The Daily News reported that Weingarten hid in his bedroom, and agents had to break through two doors to reach him. Weingarten pleaded not guilty in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn to five federal counts of sexual abuse. He is charged with two counts of transporting a minor across international borders for purposes of sexual abuse, and three counts of traveling across international borders to sexually abuse a minor. The 58-year-old rabbi is accused of sexually abusing his daughter beginning when she was nine years old and lasting until she was 18. Prosecutors say he abused the girl on a weekly and sometimes daily basis in Belgium, Israel and the United States. They say he moved her around to avoid being prosecuted. Weingarten's attorney says the accusations against his client are a result of a bitter religious divorce from about three years ago.
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