Sex sting: Rabbi wanted to meet 14-year-old girl, cops say

NEW YORK -- A Brooklyn rabbi is being accused of trying to lure an undercover detective posing as a 14-year-old girl to meet for sex.

The Brooklyn district attorney's office says Nathan David Rabinowich was arrested Wednesday after he showed up at a pre-arranged meeting in Queens.

He's being held pending arraignment on charges of attempted rape, attempted criminal sexual act and attempted endangering the welfare of a child. A telephone message left with his attorney was not immediately returned.

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Authorities say the 59-year-old rabbi, who also operates a tour business, faces up to four years in prison if convicted.

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How long have they been busting people like this? How many times has Dateline publicly exposed these perverts? How stupid do you have to be to attempt it? Some perverts will never learn.

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Reply#27 - Fri Feb 15, 2013 8:39 AM EST

Maybe that's because they've had good luck so far and think getting caught is for the weak minded, it couldn't ever happen to someone as smart as a Rabbi....or a repeat sex offender.

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#27.1 - Fri Feb 15, 2013 10:02 AM EST
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I am amazed that this is the third sex case against orthodox jews in the past couple of years with a Rabbi who was sentenced like 2 weeks ago with raping several young women: and the man who kidnapped, molested and chopped up a child. What is going on in this world?

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Reply#28 - Fri Feb 15, 2013 8:41 AM EST

$#!t like this has been going on as long as there have been people. But for the last few years, our illustrious media has been seeking out and sensationalizing the most scandalous, disgusting crap they can find to "report" on. And the more "reporting" of this crap they do, the more it gives ideas to the sickos who may otherwise never act out on their perversions.

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#28.1 - Fri Feb 15, 2013 9:15 AM EST

jerryb......

So......if it's never reported..... it really didn't happen? And that's because.......nobody could have thought about it? Or read about it? Or seen porno movies about it?

When people get knowledge they can either use it for doing good or doing bad. Probably most do good, but as we see here, maybe not all. Now people know to keep an open eye on the Catholic Priests when there's young boys around, and keep an eye on the Rabbis when there's young girls around.

    #28.2 - Fri Feb 15, 2013 10:00 AM EST

    Gregory -

    It's called EVIL. And it exists in all societies, all cultures, all nations, throughout history.

      #28.3 - Fri Feb 15, 2013 1:07 PM EST
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      I dont think thats kosher.

      Its not religion its human, and some of us are weak and have developed bad habits.

        Reply#29 - Fri Feb 15, 2013 8:42 AM EST

        Wonder how long before this guy shows up in Israel - and safe from American justice?

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        Reply#30 - Fri Feb 15, 2013 8:43 AM EST

        He's probably on a flight as we speak.

          #30.1 - Fri Feb 15, 2013 9:38 AM EST
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          People of the Jewish Faith are known to be Liberal. People who are Liberal are known to be perverts

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          Reply#31 - Fri Feb 15, 2013 8:44 AM EST

          You can't be that ignorant, so you must just be an indoctrinated Conservative?

            #31.1 - Fri Feb 15, 2013 1:09 PM EST
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            swej-kcufDeleted

            The founding fathers were all banging chicks who were 12 years old. The age of consent wasn't raised to 16 until 1920 in America at the behest of some frustrated old hags who also made alcohol illegal.

              Reply#33 - Fri Feb 15, 2013 8:50 AM EST

              You are absolutely correct, the founding fathers like Thomas Jefferson who RAPED 14 year old Sally Hemmings for the first time and more of those scumbags Raping their slaves. F#$k the founding fathers!

                #33.1 - Fri Feb 15, 2013 9:37 AM EST

                Harle, Sally Hemmings' mother taught her and her sister how to attract their masters, because it beat the hell out of picking tobacco.

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                #33.2 - Fri Feb 15, 2013 9:39 AM EST

                Then I guess getting Raped, Sexually humiliated and worse was taught to attractive women in concentration camps, hey it beat the heck out of the gas chambers correct?

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                #33.3 - Fri Feb 15, 2013 9:40 AM EST

                HarleMan....until you've walked in their shoes, I doubt you could possibly know what it took to survive....... and survival is the name of the game.

                  #33.4 - Fri Feb 15, 2013 9:52 AM EST

                  Johnny, I totally understand! I just want to make clear that if it was okay for the slave masters to rape my people then I guess it should be okay for the Nazi's to rape anyone they wanted to...of course it is always about survival. They were all scumbags then and new scumbags now still preying on the weak.

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                  #33.5 - Fri Feb 15, 2013 9:54 AM EST

                  HarleMan....I'm not one for giving advice, but I think while it's always good to keep the memories of past injustices alive so as not to let them happen again, dwelling on injustices that occured many generations ago will do nothing to put those demons to rest and allow a person to get the best life possible for themselves. Those dies were cast, keep vigilant for bad people trying to repeat them, but don't become consumed by the past......ours is to control the present and future.

                    #33.6 - Fri Feb 15, 2013 10:10 AM EST

                    You people know nothing of Sally Hemings or Jefferson.

                    First off, Jefferson inherited his slaves via marriage to his wife. He carried on in Paris with Sally Hemings some years after his wife died. Under French law, she could have stayed in France and been free but chose to go back. He paid her while in France (since slavery was illegal there).

                    His own views on slavery were conflicted; he signed a bill banning the importation of slaves. He was opposed to slavery conceptually but for pragmatic reasons did not push to try to end it in Virginia (or the rest of the US... he figured the issue could/would destroy the Union). He freed all 4 (surviving) children with Sally Hemings when they came of age. When Jefferson died, the rest were freed. For a man of his time and place, his views were relatively enlightened.

                      #33.7 - Fri Feb 15, 2013 10:20 AM EST

                      Hey HarleMan-3167142, johnnyt, paganponderer She was 14. Was he a pedophile?

                        #33.8 - Fri Feb 15, 2013 10:25 AM EST
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                        swej-kcufDeleted

                        Women are more sex freaks then men.Once a man gets his nut it's over for the most part.But a women can Have sex with over 300 men and still keep going. I think the most men one woman has had sex with in one session was over 300.

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                        Reply#35 - Fri Feb 15, 2013 8:59 AM EST
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                        When you break it down to the basics, it's men who are the perverts in the overwhelming majority of cases. I think we ought to have every man wear a monitoring bracelet from the time they hit puberty until death. Please denote sarcasm here, but there is an underlying element of truth ....

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                        Reply#36 - Fri Feb 15, 2013 9:20 AM EST

                        Who do you think taught men to be perverts? The tooth fairy? No way, it was women that taught men sex in most cases. I know everything I learned about sex was learned from women. I wouldn't say I am a pervert but I do know that some are so puritanical they might see some of my knowledge as a perversion.

                        Men do NOT become perverts in a vacuum someone has to teach them....

                          #36.1 - Fri Feb 15, 2013 9:40 AM EST

                          Blakmagick-

                          get help before it's too late.

                          Men who are forced to abstain from sex often do become perverts.

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                          #36.2 - Fri Feb 15, 2013 10:27 AM EST

                          A woman may have tempted and taught a man to have sex, but once he did it, he's been roaring about it ever since and taking it to levels Eve never imagined.

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                          #36.3 - Fri Feb 15, 2013 10:41 AM EST

                          I guess y'all never met the kind of women I have...I have to really stretch to keep up....

                            #36.4 - Fri Feb 15, 2013 4:34 PM EST
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                            What a shmoots ? He probably felt it was not a sin if he goes for little Goy girls. It was one of those urges you get after a broken promise prayer.

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                            Reply#37 - Fri Feb 15, 2013 9:21 AM EST

                            Drago...non-Jewish girls are not goys, they are shiksas.

                              #37.1 - Fri Feb 15, 2013 10:29 AM EST
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                              ...and the next step is to blame all Germans and Americans of German descent for his actions...and demand more reparations!

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                              Reply#38 - Fri Feb 15, 2013 9:24 AM EST

                              Obama should have had him speak at his inauguration....This is not about Jews, catholics or any organization...it is about human behavior and urges. No organization or group can know everything or everyone's behavior at all times. It is foolish and ignorant to lash out at an organization or race just because of a few member's behavior. Filth and immorality is not contained to any one race or organization. These aforementioned things are comprised of people and it cuts across all races and organizations. There is not one race or organization that do not have immorality and deviant behavior among it's members...not one. We have to condemn behavior not the group.

                                Reply#39 - Fri Feb 15, 2013 9:29 AM EST

                                I'm sure he will say that he was going to council her and rid her of her evils ways.

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                                Reply#40 - Fri Feb 15, 2013 9:34 AM EST

                                Perverts come in all shapes, sizes and in all social groups. These bozos need to be stopped. A lesson learned that never is that you must always be wary of most all activity coming out of the internet.

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                                Reply#41 - Fri Feb 15, 2013 9:41 AM EST

                                In the Jewish and Arab worlds, this kind of thing is peachy - totally approved by Big Al(lah). Time for Americans to figure it out - Jews and Arabs are cousins, read the Bible - both trace back to Abraham. And then, ole' Abe wasn't the straightest stick in the woodpile - went down to Egypt, Pharoah had eyes for Sarah, Abe tried to pander and pass her off as his sister, until Al gave Pharoah the sheets - all there, just read it! So with this for a root, is there any wonder the branches are twisted?

                                So when Jews and Arabs are fighting, it's just a family quarrel, best for civilized people to back off and let them have it out.

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                                Reply#42 - Fri Feb 15, 2013 9:41 AM EST

                                Say it ain't so!!

                                  Reply#43 - Fri Feb 15, 2013 9:42 AM EST
                                  swej-kcufDeleted

                                  these clowns think that they are above the law . im glad the police force is coming down hard on these jewish pedophoiles .

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                                  Reply#45 - Fri Feb 15, 2013 9:45 AM EST

                                  About time!

                                    #45.1 - Fri Feb 15, 2013 9:58 AM EST
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                                    Nice to see the Jew's keeping up with the Christians in this field...

                                      Reply#46 - Fri Feb 15, 2013 9:53 AM EST
                                      swej-kcufDeleted

                                      Why do people keep mentioning religions... religions are made up of people, the world is made up of people. Some people are immoral and evil some are not...doesn't matter if you are in church or not..It is like the police force...people assume that someone changes from the person they were when they carry a badge..they are the same person...most people are bereft of common sense and are quick to lash out, this is not a form of higher intelligence that humans are purported to have.

                                      There may be different religions...but there is only ONE God.......this is why man exists and dies.

                                        #46.2 - Fri Feb 15, 2013 10:11 AM EST
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                                        When will all the sheep realize that every religion is a man-made gimmick to control the masses. If you're living for an afterlife, you are wasting your time here on Earth.

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                                        Reply#47 - Fri Feb 15, 2013 10:05 AM EST

                                        will the JDL come out of the woodwork for this one?

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                                        Reply#48 - Fri Feb 15, 2013 10:06 AM EST

                                        Folks the Catholic Church has became nothing more than Pedophile Central, it's time for the Gov. to declare it to be a cult, plain and simple. Close down their cloak of operation. The folks practicing Catholicism, are the blind being led by the blind. Wolves in sheep's clothing. It's the truth. Sometimes in life the hardest thing to face, is the simple truth. I haven't, nor ever will step foot inside a Catholic Church. Let's start putting our children first. We've heard the argument against guns, where's the argument over the Catholic Church abusing hundreds, if not thousands of our children. Obama must of left that part out of his recent speech to the nation.

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                                        Reply#49 - Fri Feb 15, 2013 10:07 AM EST

                                        Obama doesn't give a crap about "the children"; he only cares about what could pose a threat to his agenda.

                                        So far the Catholic Church is off of his radar, as they don't seem to pose a threat.

                                          #49.1 - Fri Feb 15, 2013 10:25 AM EST

                                          Did you bother to read this article? If you didn't notice, it's not about a Catholic at all. In truth, Catholics have taken the heat for pedophiles everywhere, but pedophilia in the church is absolutely no more prevalent in the church than is in Judaism, in Protestant denominations, in any other organized enterprise, or in the general public at large.

                                          Catholics are a convenient, fashionable, PC target, that's all--just as they were back in the days of the apostles.

                                            #49.2 - Fri Feb 15, 2013 2:13 PM EST
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                                            Another?? Well.. sick human beings are sick human beings no matter what religion (hear that, Krotort, you FILTHY BIGOT).

                                            I am sad to hear yet another case of an abusive/pedophile/sex addict Rabbi...just as I was sad to hear of the same of Priests/ministers (Krotort, are you reading this????), doctors, psychologists/psychiatrists/social workers, camp counselors, teachers and many others in 'authority'.

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                                            Reply#50 - Fri Feb 15, 2013 10:16 AM EST

                                            considering that the jewish bat mitzvah occurs at 13 this girl was already a year older than what orthodox jews consider adult age. if america is supposed to be the land of the free, to include freedom of religion and culture, then this rabbi was not breaking the law. besides, the catholics do kinda the same thing;

                                            "The age of discretion, also known as the age of reason, is defined by the Church as: "The name given to that period of human life at which persons are deemed to begin to be morally responsible." Children have always been admitted to the sacraments of Penance and Holy Communion around age seven. But, when it comes to Confirmation, the law gives great latitude to bishops, who are free to determine that a later age is more suitable for the reception of the sacrament. After the Second Vatican Council, the trend has been for Catholics to receive Confirmation later, between the sixth and the tenth grade."

                                            bat mtzvah=13 yrs. vs. confirmation 11-15 yrs.

                                            in all their twisted religious mentalities we can see why the rabbis and the priests have no qualms about having sex with children. the american government is also partially to blame insomuch as they tie the hands of parents by giving "children" certain adult type rights to do as they please while holding the parents responsible for their kids indescretions. kids are kids, they are not adults and the law should recognize that fact on ALL fronts. freedom of religion doesn't mean one can pervert and abuse that freedom by using it to justify sex with kids, be they jew OR catholic.

                                            p.s. every child molestation is a form of sacrifice to MOLECH.

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                                            Reply#51 - Fri Feb 15, 2013 10:17 AM EST

                                            Its a shame there aren't any Muslim commentators willing to go off on a rabbi committing abuse.

                                            Probably because Mohammed married Aisha when she was 6 and did the deed when she was 9.

                                            Ultimately, the Abrahamic religions are just fertility-death cults: control reproduction by controlling women/girls so you can breed an army to murder the group that doesn't want to convert to their cult.

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                                            Reply#52 - Fri Feb 15, 2013 10:28 AM EST

                                            Hey on the page before this one you were apologizing for Thomas Jefferson impregnating his 14 year old slave girl and referring to him as enlightened for his day.

                                            For the greater part of human history it has been thought appropriate to have sex with and marry "girls" right around their first menstruation. Why are you singling out the Arabs for contempt?

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                                            #52.1 - Fri Feb 15, 2013 10:39 AM EST

                                            true. it' all cultural morals and laws. the age of consent is a joke. if a girl is 17yrs, 11 months and 364 days old, she's a child. a day later she's a legal adult. most cultures age of consent is way below 18, or 17.

                                              #52.2 - Fri Feb 15, 2013 10:44 AM EST

                                              wow. you really are a hater aren't you. not all arabs are extremist bent on destroying america and western culture!

                                                #52.3 - Fri Feb 15, 2013 10:46 AM EST

                                                9 years old is generally beyond the pale (child vs adolescent). Line ought to be drawn SOMEWHERE. What, 6 month old babies? I also look at the other behavior, such as whether or not Jefferson was the kind to execute prisoners of war who surrendered (Mohammed did that).

                                                Comparing Jefferson to Mohammed is like comparing Julia Child to Hannibal Lecter. Sure, they're both good cooks, but I don't think I want to eat what Hannibal Lecter is serving.

                                                A fairer comparison would be Mohammed and Gengis Khan.

                                                Correct, most Muslims aren't extremists bent on destroying America and the West. Most are content to simply jump up and down and cheer like the Palestinians and others did when the Twin Towers were brought down by "extremists".

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                                                #52.4 - Fri Feb 15, 2013 11:18 AM EST

                                                Well about +1000 years of civilization separates Thomas Jefferson from Mohammed and +600 for Genghis Khan. But one thing we can be very, very certain of - they were all having sex with girls that would make them pedophiles in our eyes today. Around menstruation has been the norm for most all of human history. The age thing these days is there to help older ladies hold on to their successful husbands. I can almost guarantee you that if the age of consent were what it was in the 19th century there would be a lot more divorced 26 year old women.

                                                  #52.5 - Fri Feb 15, 2013 11:40 AM EST

                                                  If your assertions were correct, then Idaho and Hawaii - where age of consent is 14 - should have more divorced women than other states. They don't.

                                                    #52.6 - Fri Feb 15, 2013 1:30 PM EST

                                                    @mpa-4893349 I checked - 16 both states. Still a felony for anyone over 18 to engage with anyone younger than 18 - consensual or otherwise. The consent law of 16 is for teenagers between the ages of 16-17 to engage with each other. I should have qualified my " hypothetical claim" to reflect that.

                                                      #52.7 - Fri Feb 15, 2013 2:23 PM EST

                                                      My apologies also, I was looking at some old data. It is still a state issue, though, and in some of the 16 age states, that age of consent is total.

                                                      PLEASE don't anyone think that I am condoning pedophiles!!! I think this should be a quick-result capital offense.

                                                        #52.8 - Fri Feb 15, 2013 3:02 PM EST
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                                                        Something does not add up, it should of been "Rabbi arrested for trying to hook up with 14 year old boy, still cops, we all know how the church works!

                                                        If the cop was posing as a boy, could have got a handful of rabbi's or preachers.

                                                          Reply#53 - Fri Feb 15, 2013 10:29 AM EST

                                                          it said girl, the rest of your rambling is uncomprehensable????????????

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                                                          #53.1 - Fri Feb 15, 2013 10:40 AM EST
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                                                          Not Jedi's first anti Semitic remark. Look at the avatar the A.H. chose. ROFL.

                                                            Reply#54 - Fri Feb 15, 2013 10:31 AM EST

                                                            Someday, a Jewish ninja sithlord will take him down with a six-sided throwing star.

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                                                            #54.1 - Fri Feb 15, 2013 10:36 AM EST
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