NEW YORK/ISRAEL
The Journal News
Adrienne Sanders and Lee Higgins, lhiggins2@lohud.com August 5, 2016
The Rockland rabbi being sued for tweeting about a child molester’s whereabouts is not the only child advocate the sex offender has attempted to silence using Israeli courts.
Yona Weinberg threatened to sue Rabbi Daniel Eidensohn for defamation in May, spurring the psychologist and anti-abuse activist to immediately remove all mention of the convicted sex offender from his blog. Both are based in Israel.
The action comes a year after Weinberg filed a defamation suit against Monsey’s Rabbi Yakov Horowitz, a case that is set for trial in November.
“This is a classic example of the sex offender as a bully,” Eidensohn told the Journal News/lohud.com in an email. “He didn’t say to remove particular items that he felt were false or misleading — he said everything.”
Meanwhile, Weinberg responded to The Journal News/Lohud story published earlier story this week with declarations that he was not being pursued by law enforcement and that he is being unfairly harassed. Weinberg moved to Israel from Brooklyn as he was being sought on a new assault charge, The Journal News/lohud reported.
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