A look back at the week that was
Leib Tropper is teaching and lecturing in Staten Island
Guma Aguiar, the possibly unstable Israeli sports tycoon!
Allegedly directed boys into a mikvah
Our editor returns fire in the NYT
Today’s rabbinic culture is closing the door to converts, and ignoring its own history in the process
Disgraced rabbi may have avoided formal condemnation
Hoffman discusses Rabbi Leib Tropper
Disgraced rabbi still running yeshiva
Will Monsey’s faithful ever forgive disgraced rabbi?
Cites Tropper revelations broken by Tablet
Reserving judgment on sex scandal reported by Tablet
Leib Tropper spent his way into the rabbinic elite—and, even after his fall, those other rabbis are unwilling to condemn him
Tropper’s powerful ex-sponsor, a ‘Jersey Shore’ haftorah, and more
A look at Guma Aguiar, who with his uncle bankrolled a New York rabbi trying to control the standards for conversion to Judaism
Guma Aguiar is an energy tycoon, sports-team owner
The Tropper sex scandal, from a woman’s side
When Shannon Orand asked Rabbi Leib Tropper to help her study to become a Jew, he asked for sexual favors in return, she says
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