Is This Daat Torah?…
Rabbi Daniel Eidensohn on his blog posted a harrowing tale of assault and attempted abduction against Aharon Friedman in a supposed attempt to force him to give his wife a Get. Nevermind that such a Get would be worthless. Nevermind that there is a Lakewood couple already sitting in jail for trying this in another divorce case. So goes the tale, of course by an anonymous guest poster. The tale was then backed up by Daniel Eidensohn’s brother, Dovid Eidensohn who assured us all that this was so severe that even the FBI was getting involved. We were told that this was a conspiracy involving the Tamar Epstein’s family, Rabbi Herschel Schachter and quite possibly a few Philadelphia Rabbis.
This story piqued my interest. It would have been horrible, if true. The problem is, IT’S ALL A LIE!!! Before I get too wound up on this, let me start the chain of events that unraveled this for me. The first red flag was the insistance that the FBI was investigating this. Believe or not the FBI does not jump to investigate every crime that happens across the US. Considering the FBI only employees 35,000 people to police the entire US(NYPD have 34,500 uniformed officers for just one city, as a comparison) they don’t have the resources to track down every assault and attempted abduction. Further it falls outside of their stated purview and jurisdiction. Someone had stated that since he was a Federal Government employee that would put it inside their jurisdiction. However, that is not the case. If he has a high enough G rating(on a scale of 1-20, the the President being 20) he may rate a Secret Service investigation, however, he has to fall into the category of national leader(i.e. a high G rating, over 10, and some assistants are only G-5′s, Monica Lewinksy for instance was a G-6).
Second, it didn’t make any of the local Lower Merion(where the crime is supposed to have happened) news. The Mainline Media News(primary online news outlet for that area) has nothing about it. Likewise the Save Ardmore Coalition, which also reports on events that they view to be a threat to the Mainline way of life has nothing about it(though they do discuss a person being verbally accosted by a dumpster diver).
However, having learned my lesson of solely trusting news outlets, I went to the source(no not the Friedman or Epstein families). I called the Lower Merion Police Department(610.649.1000) and spoke with Public Relations Officer Walsh, from whom I got an official statement, “We have no reports of any assualt, attempted assualt or attempted abduction on the specified day, nor in relation to a Mr. Aharon Friedman. The FBI is not currently conduction an investigation in that direction in Lower Merion.”
So I have to ask, is this Daat Torah? I could appreciate, that a person may be mislead by the media(I have) and thus post a false report based on such an article(I have), but I hope that even in that case one would post a retraction. In this case, we have an anonymous guest post. Yes I have kept Rabbi Daniel Eidensohn up to date on my hunt for the truth, including the denial from the Police Department. I cannot, and will not speculate as to his motivations for continuing to keep this post up, and refusing to apologize for it’s error. So I all that is left to say is, “Rabbi Eidensohn shame on you.”
Michael tzadok has decided that the assault did not happen so he is greater than yehoshua bin Nun in not just stopping the clock but actually moving it back to revise history. he decided it did not happen so it did not happen.
This is the same man who a week earlier announced on his blog that he would no longer be blogging about agunahs because no one believed a word he writes and blasted his falsehoods off to oblivion.
tzadok knows what the FBI does or doesn’t investigate. He has chalomos and dimyonos and is so clueless that he doesn’t realize what everyone thinks of his opinions. I have never met such a clueless individual in my life.
Tzadok go back to being a mekubal and try and make a fake a fake parnossah off being the baba sali’s 8th cousin 64 times removed. You are a joke.
The above barely literate rant is indicative of the group who wants to keep women agunot.
I posted the phone number for the Lower Merion Police Department(610.649.1000). If you don’t believe me I invite you to call. If you are really convinced that it did happen and are welling to waste some of your money to try to prove it, you can request(after paying the appropriate fees) you can try requesting the police report(which doesn’t exist, but if you really think it does) by calling 610.645.6290.
Finally if you think I have misrepresented the FBI or their lack of investigation into this case I invite you to call the FBI’s Philadelphia field office, 215.418.4000.
If you can obtain verifiable official statements on letterhead(sorry Mr anonymous blogger I am not going to take your word for it) that something did in fact happen, I will gladly post it with a retraction.
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“So I all that is left to say is, “Rabbi Eidensohn shame on you.””
Since you identified me as semi-friendly critic, which I am, more or less (I would say well meaning, but not always adequate in tone), I would recommend you to do a few variation exercices on this sentence, trying to bring it to a more diplomatic language level.
“Rabbi Eidensohn, I am quite surprised…”
I’ll consider it. Honestly I used up most of my diplomatic speech in personal correspondence with him. He simply refuses to fact check this stuff, while he willingly posts conspiracy theories.
I only made any of this public after trying to reason with him privately. He has chosen not to believe the Lower Merion Police Spokesman, and has instead chosen to believe his brother and an anonymous guest poster.
Washington jewish week online – your incompetence has been magnified once again.
You want me to trust an online news source that says it took it’s information from Dovid Eidensohn and the DaatTorah blog? Are you joking?
“(i.e. a high G rating, over 10″
Just for the record, over 10 is nowhere close to a “national leader”. A close relative of mine was a G11 in the IRS and he was just in charge of collecting payroll taxes from companies who didn’t file. It just means he had been working there for a long time and had seniority. A G13 is probably fairly high level. Still, I do think this relative of mine would have been investigated by the Secret Service if he did anything wrong, but that’s because the IRS is very uptight about privacy issues.