January 14, 2010
Accused Predator Still Rosh Yeshiva
By Michael OrbachIt's been several weeks since Leib Tropper's recorded voice was made public discussing an illicit physical relationship. Tropper, founder of Eternal Jewish Family (EJF), which advocates a universal conversion standard under its strict control, hasn’t disputed that the voice on the recordings is his, or that he was speaking with a woman whose conversion he was facilitating. Yet he remains a rosh yeshiva in Monsey, of Yeshiva Kol Yaakov, and the head of Horizons, an outreach organization based out of the yeshiva. . . . The woman featured in the Tropper tapes, Shannon Orand, underwent a full Orthodox conversion in Israel last week. She told the Jewish Israel blog that she was vulnerable to Tropper’s advances because he was footing the bill for attorneys in a custody battle with her ex-husband, who she said molested one of her children.
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