Rabbi Ezra Scheinberg named as 'northern rabbi' suspected of sexual offenses

Jerusalem Post
July 19, 2015

http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Rabbi-Ezra-Scheinberg-named-as-northern-rabbi-suspected-of-sexual-offenses-409409

Rabbi Ezra Scheinberg is the rabbi from northern Israel accused of rape and other sexual offenses.

The name of Rabbi Scheinberg, a much respected yeshiva dean who was considered by some to be a mystic, has been released for publication as the rabbi from northern Israel accused of rape and other sexual offenses.

So far 10 separate complaints have been filed against the rabbi who was arrested July 2 at Ben-Gurion Airport and has been held in detention since. He is scheduled to be released to house arrest on Tuesday.

Scheinberg, 46, is married and has eight children. He is the founder of the Orot HaAri yeshiva in Safed, which he established in 1999, and was a respected and prominent figure in the national-religious community, lauded as a particularly spiritual rabbi with even preternatural abilities to see into the future and give advice on that basis.

According to a report on the Kipa national-religious news website, his students threw books he has authored into the garbage when the allegations against him were made public.