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This is what real leadership looks like.
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Yesterday, HaRav Hershel Schachter Shlita, Rosh Yeshiva of REITS at Yeshiva University, apologized after learning that his name had been added to a clemency request he never intended to be part of. He asked for his name to be removed and expressed genuine regret to victims who were hurt. At a time when survivors often feel overlooked, his humility and clarity matter. Let this strengthen our commitment to support victims, honor their courage, and build a community rooted in compassion and truth.
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A while ago, I was approached
uh to sign a letter supporting
Mr. Weberman,
and I was misinformed that he is being
uh punished
with a with a prison sentence which
exceeds that that a non-Jewish clergyman
would be punished
for doing the same thing that he did.
that uh so I felt that's scandalous
that's terrible
u and then I found out so they asked me
to lend my support to him which I did
but then when I found out that
everything is not true that all the the
whole version of the story they told me
was not true so the very next day I
contacted the lawyer who wanted me to
lend my report to him. I said, "Please
remove my name. I understand that the
the information is not correct." So he
said, "They already sent the letter to
the governor. They won't be able to
reverse that, but they from now on they
won't have my name. They'll be able to
remove my name from other things.
After hearing part of this story, I
didn't hear the whole story. After
hearing part of the story, I think the
person is a public menace. There's no
it says there's no if a person is a
public manice and and I feel terrible
for all of the victims. We should have
more on the victims. We shouldn't have
any on the perpetrator of the crime. The
Torah has punishments for these people.
If the government here has punishments,
there's no ism here. The government
should punish the people to the same
extent that they would punish such a
clergymen from another religion.
And I apologize sincerely for causing
aggravation
to those victims who think that I
support the criminal who who who
attacked them. I was misled from the
beginning.