NEW JERSEY
Cliffview Pilot
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A stroke suffered by Teaneck rabbi Uzi Rivlin has put him in the intensive care unit and all but ended his trial on charges of molesting two 13-year-old Israeli boys staying with him as part of a scholarship program.
“Rabbi Rivlin is in the intensive care unit, and cannot walk or speak,” Superior Court Judge Patrick Roma said, reading from a letter written by Rivlin’s treating physician.
Defense attorney Howard Simmons told the judge that Rivlin, 66, is in critical condition in the Intensive Care Unit of Holy Name Medical Center in Teaneck.
Assistant Bergen County Prosecutor Demetra Maurice said one of the alleged victims arrived from Tel Aviv last Wednesday, just as news broke of Rivlin’s illness. The other was due to leave Israel today.
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