NEW YORK
New York Post
By Natasha Velez
October 30, 2013
A rabbi accused of sexually molesting boys in Brooklyn has been arrested in Beverly Hills, where he was working at a Jewish community center, authorities said.
Rabbi Mendel Tevel faces extradition after he was arrested Tuesday by authorities acting on a warrant issued in New York charging the rabbi with criminal sexual acts. Tevel was a youth worker in Brooklyn, New York City, at the time.
The indictment against Tevel involves a complaint from a Brooklyn man who accused the rabbi of performing oral sex on him several times in his car when Tevel was 22 and the alleged victim was 14.
The rabbi moved to Los Angeles and had recently been working at the JEM Center, a Jewish youth community center in Beverly Hills.
The JEM Center’s director, Rabbi Hertzel Illulian, is Tevel’s father-in-law.
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