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09-16-2006 08:06 AM |
Rabbi Kaye, busted by Dateline, is "lonely in jail" (link)
This is the rabbi who was caught trying to have sex with a young boy:
http://www.gfy.com/fucking-around-and-business-discussion/650486-link-video-rabbi-busted-dateline.html
Quote:
http://www.washingtonjewishweek.com/...2 &TM=529.936
Kaye's conviction is the culmination of a "human tragedy," said Rabbi Sid Schwarz, executive director of the Rockville-based teen educational group Panim: The Institute for Jewish Leadership and Values, where Kaye had worked prior to the Dateline report.
Kaye has "contributed to the community in many ways," Schwarz said, but sometimes people "have a piece of their personal lives that sabotages" the work they do.
"It's very sad," he said.
At Congregation Har Shalom in Potomac, where Kaye had been a rabbi for 16 years, people are "still saddened and disturbed by the course of events," said Jodi Susser, president.
She stressed that Kaye had not been a rabbi at the shul for five years, and also said that an investigation uncovered "absolutely nothing" to indicate that Kaye acted inappropriately with children during his tenure with the congregation.
Schwarz also noted that an investigation of Kaye's time at Panim found that there was a "division" between the rabbi's professional behavior and what he did on his own time, and that no one came forward with any evidence of improper conduct by Kaye at Panim.
A Panim staffer, however, testified at the trial that she found two explicit photos of Kaye on his computer after he resigned from the organization.
Washington Board of Rabbis director Rabbi Saul Koss said he knew of a handful of local rabbis who were friends of Kaye and have visited him in jail since his arrest. Among them is Rabbi Jonah Layman of Silver Spring's Congregation Shaare Tefila, who said that Kaye has been "able to find comfort and solace in prayer."
Layman also said that the rabbi is "lonely in jail" and "would welcome letters of support" from friends in the community.
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