December 17, 2009
Outreach Rabbi Resigns Amid Cloud Of Scandal
NEW YORK -- An influential ultra-Orthodox rabbi who supervises conversions has stepped down abruptly from the organization he has led for about five years. Rabbi Leib Tropper resigned this week as head of Eternal Jewish Family, the Monsey-based conversion group he founded. In an official EJF press release issued late Monday, two days after Rabbi Tropper’s resignation took effect, the rabbi cited a desire to pursue “a variety of other interests. Rabbi Tropper’s resignation comes amid reports that he was involved in sexual improprieties with a woman whose conversion he was supervising, according to Shmarya Rosenberg of the blog failedmessiah.com. Posters in Orthodox neighborhoods in Jerusalem decried Rabbi Tropper for improper behavior, according to the Da’as Torah blog.Click Here For The Full Story......